I think it's a good idea, as a decades long user of InnoDB. I hope that the work can be shared with other forks of MySQL
replyyeah but it's Oracle. You want MariaDB now.
replyI prefer PostgreSQL. Don't see any advantage of MySQL/Maria.
replyI mean great, but there are 0 commits in 2026 Github for MySQL. I think pretty much everyone is planning a transition to MariaDB or Postgres.
replyMySQL is a beloved OSS product and project. Losing influence over that would be a massive mistake by Oracle.
Citation: https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commits/trunk/
https://www.percona.com/blog/separating-fud-and-reality-has-...
replyThis has been debunked, they've never used Github as their main development area
>It's because MySQL apparently does development in-house in a git repository and only occasionally pushes it to GitHub
replyhttps://optimizedbyotto.com/post/reasons-to-stop-using-mysql...
I saw that page, but interestingly enough I don't see that quote on there
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