It appears that the change in 5.1.31 (to make this setting read only) was backported to 5.0, and affects 5.0.84 onwards.
SVN has been updated, so that MySQL 5.0 users will now get a suitable error message, instead of a silent failure.
It appears that the change in 5.1.31 (to make this setting read only) was backported to 5.0, and affects 5.0.84 onwards.
SVN has been updated, so that MySQL 5.0 users will now get a suitable error message, instead of a silent failure.