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From: Francesco Riosa <vivo@g.o>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] MySQL upgrade guide
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 01:01:54
Message-Id: 4578B8E1.8070004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] MySQL upgrade guide by Alex Efros
1 Alex Efros ha scritto:
2 > Hi!
3 >
4 > I notice you are one of authors for Gentoo's MySQL upgrade guide
5 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml
6 > and I've few questions about it.
7 >
8 > # MYSQL --execute="FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK;"
9 > ...
10 > # MYSQL --execute="UNLOCK TABLES;"
11 >
12 > AFAIK MySQL drop any locks when connection closes, so you probably need to
13 > open MySQL client in another console and run FLUSH TABLES/UNLOCK TABLES
14 > there while executing tar in first console between these commands.
15 >
16 > # mysql_upgrade_shell --user=root --password='your_password' \
17 > --protocol=tcp --datadir="${DATADIR}"
18 >
19 Verified, docs need to be updated, I'm planning to do a bunch of things
20 next three days on mysql this will be one.
21 > In original MySQL upgrade documentation they recommend to run mysql_upgrade
22 > program and there is nothing about mysql_upgrade_shell script.
23 > AFAIK mysql_upgrade_shell is older version of this program (mysql_upgrade
24 > program was added because there no bash to execute mysql_upgrade_shell
25 > script on Win32).
26 > So, what's better to run - mysql_upgrade_shell or mysql_upgrade? Or there
27 > no difference between them now?
28 >
29 mysql_upgrade_shell has survived better to my test but I should redo
30 those now probably mysql_upgrade is better maintained.
31
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