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[Nirbhay Choubey <nirbhay@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Felipe Gasper <felipe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>         I’m seeing a version string like this from the server in the
> initial handshake:
>
> 5.5.5-10.1.16-MariaDB
>
>         Why does MariaDB negotiate with a different-format version string
> than MySQL? Is this documented somewhere?
>

Its the fake version prepended to server version in greeting packet to
facilitate replication to old clients.

https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-4088

- Nirbhay


>
> -FG
>
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