[Zope] transactions not supported by this server?

[Greg Conway]

Thanks Matthew, that's done the trick. Okay, with that panic out of the
way...

Apologies for posting immediately instead of looking, but somebody is
working on the Server at present, and will leave when I've run out of things
for him to fix!

Anyway, he's upgraded MySQL-3.23.33 (a tarball) to MySQL-3.23.47-1 (RPM).

I wasn't expecting one of the features of such an upgrade to be the
ommission of transaction support!!???!!

He knows nothing of Zope (I'm working on him!!), and MySQL is working fine
with my (previous) PHP apps, and now (with a - specified in the db
connection string) with Zope...

So, my next questions are...

(1) what has happened? Where has transaction support gone? Is it an
additional RPM I can install or something?
(2) do I need it? my previous readings and your answer seem to suggest
yes...!!

Many thanks!

Regards,

Greg.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew T. Kromer [mailto:matt@zope.com]
> Sent: 30 January 2002 20:55
> To: Greg Conway
> Cc: Zope@Zope. Org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] transactions not supported by this server?
>
>
> Greg Conway wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I've just reinstalled MySQL, hopefully upping it to a later version, as I
> >had some library problems (I have previously posted these, but have just
> >managed to get it sorted!)
> >
> >Now, my Zope site (previously working) comes up with the following:
> >
> >Error Type: NotSupportedError
> >Error Value: transactions not supported by this server
> >
> >Can anybody please tell me what this means so I can fixed what
> worked five
> >mins ago!!!!
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >Greg Conway.
> >
>
> If I recall, the MySQL connect string is prefixed by an optional + or -
> to denote whether or not to connect to the server in transaction -
> enabled mode.  Try putting a '-' in front of your connection string.
>
> Note that this doesn't mean I recommend using a database without
> transaction support -- but you'll be working again.
>

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