Today's MySQL Suckage

[Jonathan Stowe]

2009/1/23 Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com>:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Andy Wardley <abw at wardley.org> wrote:
>>
>> I have a file which defines a MySQL database schema.  It looks a bit
>> like this:
>>
>>   /*
>>   This table defines users of the
>>   system who are Buffy fans.
>>   */
>>
>>   CREATE TABLE buffy_fans (
>>       ..etc...
>>   );
>>
>> I feed it in thusly:
>>
>>   $ mysql < my_db_schema.sql
>>
>> And it says:
>>
>>   usage: who [-abdHlmpqrstTu] [am I] [file]
>
> I for one can't replicate this.
>
> MySQL 5.0.51a
>

Ah that old "the mysql suckage is fixed in the very next version" gambit.

Let's test this.

Another thing that sucks about MySQL is its name.

/J\
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