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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 => 4.1 upgrade
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:05:34
Message-Id: 200509120102.26848.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 => 4.1 upgrade by Francesco R
1 On Monday 12 September 2005 00:05, Francesco R wrote:
2 > http://dev.gentoo.org/~vivo/doc/mysql-update.html
3
4 With step 2, you should probably mention the issues that can arise with
5 non-ASCII data in char fields. The character set really needs to specified
6 in the dump. After the upgrade to 4.1, the default charset of the server
7 should be set to something compatible and then the charset of the data
8 should be specified to mysql when re-importing the backup.
9
10 Just another one of the many gotchas...
11
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13 Jason Stubbs

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Re: [gentoo-dev] MySQL 4.0 => 4.1 upgrade Francesco R <vivo@g.o>