diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5ea239a0d25aca2d3c18f4520fa68a53a5e2512f..b93f14a03b3cf5b75d7ef5d40bb8d8877a5b33ef 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,10 +11,14 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
### Changed
+- New version requirement: MariaDB 11.2 or later.
+
### Deprecated
### Removed
+- MySQL support. See the deprecation in the 7.0.0 release.
+
### Fixed
- [SQL dump migration can now be applied twice](https://gitlab.indiscale.com/caosdb/src/caosdb-mysqlbackend/-/issues/60): Fixed an error in the regex.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7094464dae407a9eff280f2312a7b582f5f29a2b..6b3d3a7c412dfbdb6977b4cb8e7e70266fa2bf37 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
## Welcome
-This is the **LinkAhead MySQL Backend** repository and a part of the
+This is the **LinkAhead MariaDB Backend** repository and a part of the
LinkAhead project.
## Setup
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Conduct](https://gitlab.com/linkahead/linkahead/-/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
* Copyright (C) 2018 Research Group Biomedical Physics, Max Planck Institute
for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen.
-* Copyright (C) 2020-2021 Indiscale GmbH <info@indiscale.com>
+* Copyright (C) 2020-2025 Indiscale GmbH <info@indiscale.com>
All files in this repository are licensed under a [GNU Affero General Public
License](LICENCE.md) (version 3 or later).
diff --git a/README_SETUP.md b/README_SETUP.md
index 94a2e9d121631e0189c0b82557b9280e4621e8aa..a92db35b9cdfb10466516e916b7900a0d7fdbc24 100644
--- a/README_SETUP.md
+++ b/README_SETUP.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-# Setup of the CaosDB SQL back end
+# Setup of the LinkAhead MariaDB back end
## Dependencies
-* `MariaDB Client 10.1` or later, `MySQL Client >=5.5, <=5.7.36`.
+* `MariaDB Client 11.2` or later.
* make
## Create the configuration
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
parameter that you want to change, add a corresponding line in your `.config`
file. You probably want to change the passwords. As the passwords are stored
unencrypted in the `.config` file, make sure nobody else can read it.
- * If there is no `mysql-config-editor` (`MySQL 5.5`. and `MariaDB`) then the
+ * If there is no `mysql-config-editor` program, then the
`MYSQL_USER_PASSWORD` must be provided, that is the password of the
`MYSQL_USER`.
* If you are using MariaDB and the `root` database user uses pam
@@ -102,18 +102,6 @@ caosdb`.
### Troubleshooting
-#### MySQL has failing tests
-
-Our test suite is developed with MariaDB. That is why some tests, those which
-check constraints based on auto-generated names, fail because MySQL generates
-other names.
-
-Also some test fail with the message "Expected: NULL / Was: NULL" which is
-obviously what was expected.
-
-Please look carefully through the tests. If something more serious than that
-comes up, please report a bug.
-
#### Failure to restore a database dump created with an older MariaDB version ####
Have a look into the `dump_updates/README.md`. In cases of version
@@ -121,6 +109,11 @@ incompatibilities, the necessary steps to migrate the dump are
probably described there and scripts for the migrations are provided
in the same directory.
+#### MySQL has failing tests
+
+*Note: Since we switched from MySQL to MariaDB, the two DBMS projects have diverged quite far. As a
+result, we no longer support MySQL.
+
## Documentation #
Build documentation in `build/` with `make doc`.
diff --git a/RELEASE_GUIDELINES.md b/RELEASE_GUIDELINES.md
index c1d73359114379b74baf19e2bdf35e74be11077f..72f45342fd493ed78c4ac32e17b934f391c07fcc 100644
--- a/RELEASE_GUIDELINES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_GUIDELINES.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Release Guidelines for the CaosDB MySQL Backend
+# Release Guidelines for the LinkAhead MariaDB Backend
This document specifies release guidelines in addition to the general release
guidelines of the CaosDB Project
diff --git a/utils/sanity_check.sql b/utils/sanity_check.sql
index c29e7c8a82f238f5836e519159fa48d63933a609..5e3d580cc386feb44b5e97269ac384c050d6cf84 100644
--- a/utils/sanity_check.sql
+++ b/utils/sanity_check.sql
@@ -55,9 +55,29 @@ sanityCheckBody: BEGIN
("user_roles")
;
-SELECT COUNT(WRONG) INTO @count_wrong FROM ( SELECT l.table_name AS MATCHED, r.table_name AS WRONG FROM expected_tables AS l RIGHT OUTER JOIN information_schema.tables AS r ON (r.table_name COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci = l.table_name) WHERE r.table_schema = database()) AS temp WHERE temp.MATCHED IS NULL;
+SELECT COUNT(WRONG) INTO @count_wrong FROM (
+ SELECT l.table_name AS MATCHED,
+ r.table_name AS WRONG
+ FROM
+ expected_tables AS l
+ RIGHT OUTER JOIN
+ information_schema.tables AS r
+ ON (r.table_name COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci = l.table_name)
+ WHERE r.table_schema = database() AND r.table_type != 'TEMPORARY'
+ )
+ AS temp WHERE temp.MATCHED IS NULL;
-SELECT COUNT(MISSING) INTO @count_missing FROM ( SELECT l.table_name AS MISSING, r.table_name AS MATCHED FROM expected_tables AS l LEFT OUTER JOIN information_schema.tables AS r ON (r.table_name COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci = l.table_name) WHERE r.table_schema = database() OR r.table_schema IS NULL) AS temp WHERE temp.MATCHED IS NULL;
+SELECT COUNT(MISSING) INTO @count_missing FROM (
+ SELECT l.table_name AS MISSING,
+ r.table_name AS MATCHED
+ FROM
+ expected_tables AS l
+ LEFT OUTER JOIN
+ information_schema.tables AS r
+ ON (r.table_name COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci = l.table_name)
+ WHERE r.table_schema = database() OR r.table_schema IS NULL
+ )
+ AS temp WHERE temp.MATCHED IS NULL;
IF @count_missing = 0 AND @count_wrong = 0 THEN
LEAVE sanityCheckBody;
@@ -66,12 +86,28 @@ END IF;
SELECT "--------------";
SELECT @count_missing AS "Number of missing tables";
-SELECT MISSING AS "Missing tables" FROM ( SELECT l.table_name AS MISSING, r.table_name AS MATCHED FROM expected_tables AS l LEFT OUTER JOIN information_schema.tables AS r ON (r.table_name COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci = l.table_name) WHERE r.table_schema = database() OR r.table_schema IS NULL) AS temp WHERE temp.MATCHED IS NULL;
+SELECT MISSING AS "Missing tables" FROM (
+ SELECT l.table_name AS MISSING, r.table_name AS MATCHED FROM
+ expected_tables AS l
+ LEFT OUTER JOIN
+ information_schema.tables AS r
+ ON (r.table_name COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci = l.table_name)
+ WHERE r.table_schema = database() OR r.table_schema IS NULL
+ )
+ AS temp WHERE temp.MATCHED IS NULL;
SELECT "--------------";
SELECT @count_wrong AS "Number of tables which should not exist";
-SELECT WRONG AS "Tables which should not exist" FROM ( SELECT l.table_name AS MATCHED, r.table_name AS WRONG FROM expected_tables AS l RIGHT OUTER JOIN information_schema.tables AS r ON (r.table_name COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci = l.table_name) WHERE r.table_schema = database()) AS temp WHERE temp.MATCHED IS NULL;
+SELECT WRONG AS "Tables which should not exist" FROM (
+ SELECT expec.table_name AS MATCHED, info.table_name AS WRONG FROM
+ expected_tables AS expec
+ RIGHT OUTER JOIN
+ information_schema.tables AS info
+ ON (info.table_name COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci = expec.table_name)
+ WHERE info.table_schema = database() and info.table_type != 'TEMPORARY'
+ )
+ AS temp WHERE temp.MATCHED IS NULL;
SELECT "--------------";
SELECT "ERROR" from sanity_check_failed;