phpBB Discussion • Re: Who is running MySQL 8?

Guys, you mix up server and client:

• nd is "native driver", and i is "improved" - both are just clients=drivers whose version is unbound to the version of the actual running DBMS. ACP > System > General Tasks > PHP information lists all modules active with PHP, thus only SQL clients.
• ACP > General > Board statistics > Database server tells you both: phpBB's client variant which connects to the DBMS, followed by the actual SQL daemon=server version (can be as quirky as "5.5.54-0+deb8u1").
• MariaDB is not MySQL - those are not synonyms. Both have crucial differences in licenses, features, and in their names.

So far nobody in this topic runs MySQL 8. If you have PHP 8 then (of course) your MySQL driver's version is 8, too. But that doesn't mean the DBMS magically becomes version 8, too - a version 8 driver can still use MySQL 5 and/or MariaDB 10.

Statistics: Posted by AmigoJack — Fri Dec 22, 2023 11:09 pm

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