Awful installer experience - what to do?

[Paul Fowler]

So, 8.0.11 breaks several Oracle software installs, such as Oracle Policy Automation. The JDBC driver is bad, the new encryption stuff is unsupported, etc, etc...

The problem is that I installed 5.7 on Windows server over a month ago and got everything working.

Then, I needed to install another MySQL server for another OPA deployment. The installer automatically installed 8.0.11 as I forgot about the issues. This occurred, even though the installer I ran was from the 5.7 msi!!! OUCH!

I uninstalled everything I could (I didn't want to uninstall the MySQL server), but I couldn't get any version of the installer to allow a 5.7 installs anymore. The installers insisted on 8.0.11... Worse, was trying to downgrade the JDBC stuff to get past some 'query_cache_size' errors.

Really? In the end, it was export everything. Clean the server, etc... Reinstall, import everything. Hours, upon hours of work.

If I run a 5.7 installer, then I expect a 5.7 install.

I can't tell you what a pain it was that you upgrade to 8.0.11 without warning and by default. Then, you guys don't make it easy to revert back on such things as the JDBC driver.