MySQL showing different versions

Question

I feel like this question is very stupid, but it has been bothering me so much and I couldn\'t find an answer, so I\'m gonna ask it anyway.

I\'m on a Mac machine. When I

Answer 1

There are two parts here, a client talking to a server.

What you have is:

• a MySQL 8.0.13 client (mysql)
• a MySQL 5.7.24 server (mysqld)

The database is effectively on version 5.7.24.

There is no conflicts, clients and servers from different versions are compatible, as they understand the same communication protocol.