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Original Comment:

Database Ponies

Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 12:39 PM

If you were hitting the site in the last half hour or so, you may have noticed it wasn't there. We had some database wackiness last week, and I figured it was time to finally upgrade to MySQL 4.1 from 4.0. Now that they're saying that 5.0 is the production version, I figured it was safe to upgrade to the release before it.

I'm hoping the upgrade will make the errors magically not recur, but at least if they do I have a better basis for tracking them down. I'm also hoping that the upgrade will make the site perform at superluminal speeds faster than its physical hardware will actually allow, and that it will magically generate ponies for all our readers, but we'll see. Due to the update, keep an eye out for anything more weird than usual (either here or at MegaGamerz, fleen, or even Oh No Robot)...or do what you usually do, and use this post as a referendum on all the other outstanding bugs I haven't fixed yet.


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