Testing Wordpress 2.3 RC 1 … without getting any error message ?

I guess most of you already heard that Wordpress is going to have another major release which is Wordpress 2.3, and so that’s why yesterday i’ve decided to try out the Release Candidate 1 of Wordpress 2.3 / Wordpress 2.3 RC1 that’s just released yesterday (19 September 2007) .. because i want a smooth transition when upgrading into Wordpress 2.3 when the final version gets released to the public … and it’s all thanks to the new database schema changes

The first thing i noticed when opening my local test server is … i get various MySQL related error message which is basically saying that some table can’t be found (obviously) because of the recent database schema changes. And of course the next step would be running the upgrade script in order to fix that error message (simple isn’t it ?) … and everything seems to be okay again, i didn’t see any mysql error message get displayed on my test server … which is quite strange (at least for me)

Based from what i’ve read so far from Spencerp.net, Wordpress 2.3 are going to drop some of tables that’s used previously like post2cat, link2cat as example. Beside i confirmed this myself because after upgrading to 2.3 RC1 i didn’t see those tables listed in the database. And from what i’ve read that any plugins that use those tables are going to fail, and in my case i’m using one plugin that’s using post2cat and that’s the Wordpress Category Tagging plugin and listed as incompatible with Wordpress 2.3 from the Wordpress 2.3 Plugin Compatibility page

But … in my case … i didn’t see any problem or whatsoever, because it works just fine :(

Well … i guess it’d be better for me to wait for the Final version of Wordpress 2.3