[MariaDB developers] Re: Proposal: mariadbd should automatically upgrade system tables and data directory on startup

Sergei Golubchik via developers <developers@lists.mariadb.org> writes:

There's a compromise approach - mariadb-upgrade is required (and thus downgrade does not work) between major versions, but mariadb-upgrade is not needed (and downgrade works) between minor versions.

I agree with this approach. - Kristian.