[wp-hackers] Re: Changing MySQL minimum version

[Matt Mullenweg]

Austin Matzko wrote:
> With the sub-query functionality introduced in MySQL 4.1, we could
> easily use a sub-query to define what we're excluding.

Sub-queries are pretty rough in 4.1, they're really not fast until 
5.0/5.1. It's just blog software, we don't really need anything that fancy.

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