[wp-testers] Can't Add Custom Field

[Austin Matzko]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Chris Jean <gaarai at gaarai.com> wrote:
> The problem was that the postmeta table had a modified schema in
> addition to a broken index. The MySQL version running was 3.1.22, which
> did have a bug that could cause failed inserts/updates due to a flaw in
> the indexes. This was patched in version 3.1.23. So, I'm unsure if the
> problem derived from the purely the version bug or if the schema
> modification affected it as well.

For the benefit of anyone who comes across this thread (I'm sure
Nathan and Chris are well aware), the minimum version of MySQL
required for WordPress 2.8 and newer is 4.0:
<http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/>