Separate driver for MariaDB?

[louis77]

MariaDB is diverging significantly from MySQL. For example, it supports the RETURNING clause, MySQL does not. Wouldn't it make sense to clone the mysql package and maintain a separate version as mariadb, so we can add/modify it to accommodate for all the new stuff that MariaDB supports?

[houten11]

That might be too excessive for just one clause. What else does MariaDB now have?