I have gone a long time without updating the MySQL driver for Conntects. My hosting service is going to be updating MySQL in the near future.
Worse yet, I have been using Go's build system that goes back before Version 1.0.
Under the old system you put all your Go code under a single directory tree and
the file paths were used as module paths. Go added a more flexible module system
a few years ago and is in the process of deprecating the old system. I cannot
update third party code using Go's
go get
command without moving to the new module system.
Hopefully, all these updates will happen without a glitch, but I have done some serious backing up just in case. And last time I updated the MySQL driver I had trouble with Unicode values. That's why some old posts have funny characters. It was a driver issue.
So, fingers crossed.
I can only do a limited amount of testing locally, as my computer has MariaDb, which is a fork of MySQL by the original creator of MySQL. I would use MariaDb remotely, but my provider does not offer that.
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