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From: Georges Toth <georges@××××.lu>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Cc: Luca Longinotti <chtekk@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] mysql upgrade from 4.0.x to 4.1.x or 5.x.x
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:38:54
Message-Id: 200606090029.46405.georges@norm.lu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] mysql upgrade from 4.0.x to 4.1.x or 5.x.x by Luca Longinotti
1 > latin1 works perfectly fine on MySQL 4.1 and 5.0 too, so, if you were
2 > using latin1 before, you should (must) continue to use it for things to
3 > not break, or you will have to convert your databases to utf8 which is
4 > the default for the 4.1/5.0 series on Gentoo. To maintain the latin1
5 > charset as default even when using 4.1/5.0, simply enable the "latin1"
6 > USE flag on the 4.1/5.0 ebuild, et voila: you have a latin1 MySQL install!
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8 The easiest probably is to keep using latin1 in this case.
9 So I will try that soon.
10 If there is no problem when upgrading from 4.0.25 to 5.x, I will probably
11 choose 5.x.
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14 Thanks !
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18 regards,
19 Georges Toth
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