Database Servers
MySQL
Fedora now provides MySQL 5.0.51a
. For a list of the enhancements provided by this version, refer to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-nutshell.html.
For more information on upgrading databases from previous releases of MySQL, refer to the MySQL website at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/upgrade.html.
DBD Driver
The MySQL DBD driver has been dual-licensed and the related licensing issues have been resolved . The resulting apr-util-mysql package is now included in the Fedora software repositories.
PostgreSQL
This release of Fedora includes PostgreSQL 8.3.0
. For more information on this new version, refer to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3.html.
Admonition("important", "Upgrading Databases", "Before upgrading an existing Fedora system with a PostgreSQL database, check and then follow, if necessary, the procedure described at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/install-upgrading.html. Otherwise the data may be not accessible by the new version of PostgreSQL.")