[wp-testers] Can't Add Custom Field

Dave Jones dave at technicacreative.co.uk
Thu Oct 29 22:19:06 UTC 2009


Hi All.

The Codex has minimum requirement for Mysql down as follows for  
Wordpress 2.9.  Is this confirmed?
Highlights
Requires MySQL 4.1.2 or greater (old requirement was 4.0).


Dave Jones
Technica Creative
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On 29 Oct 2009, at 19:09, Gray Stockton wrote:

> Yes. That is the issue, you need to make sure when you set up
> wordpress on your site, you have your server running all the right
> versions, and that you meet the system requirements. I would also
> include making sure that you are not missing any of the necessary
> components for your installation of Wordpress. Sadly I have beem asked
> noumourus times, and it has ended up all too often that someone
> deleted a vital file through FTP when they actually intended to delete
> an image or what not.
>
> Ant by the way. I am new to Wp-Testers. I have been working with
> wordpress for the past 2 years, and this is seems to be a great way to
> solve current Wordpress problems, and also work on future versions.
>
> Thanks,
> Grey Stockton
> (http://greystockton.tumblr.com)
> (http://twitter.com/greystockton/)
>
> On 10/29/2009, Austin Matzko <if.website at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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/>
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