So I used to have mysql installed on my mac via homebrew. I stared by uninstalling it and then installed maria with brew install mariadb
This shows me this version
> mysql --version
mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.7.3-MariaDB, for osx10.17 (arm64) using EditLine wrapper
and this:
mariadb --version
mariadb Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.7.3-MariaDB, for osx10.17 (arm64) using EditLine wrapper
I can run mariadb and connect to it fine with this command:
mariadb -u root -p
However, I am not able to use the new feature of mariaDB called system versioned tables.
I have followed this guide: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/system-versioned-tables/ and entered this command
MySQL [(none)]> CREATE TABLE t ( x INT ) WITH SYSTEM VERSIONING;
Which gives this error:
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'SYSTEM VERSIONING' at line 1
To test this further, I created a MariaDB instance in aws and connected to it locally with the same command which works fine. The version that RDS supports is 10.6
Question: "Why can't does my local instance of mariadb not recognize the keyword SYSTEM?
I am not sure how to debug this locally and I would like to know why this version of mariadb is unable to recognize these command locally. Looking for some debugging tips.
EDIT: Another thing to check was to select version while in the mariadb console
MySQL [(none)]> select version();
+-----------+
| version() |
+-----------+
| 8.0.28 |
+-----------+
8.0.28 is a MySQL version, which doesn't have System Versioned Tables, only MariaDB does (at the time of this posting anyway).
As noted, mysql --version only shows the version of the MySQL (or MariaDB via compatibility links) client. It doesn't show the server version.