Hi!
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul DuBois <paul@stripped> writes:
Paul> Does this mean that all the documentation that currently indicates
Paul> that the default service name for the server is "MySql" becomes
Paul> incorrect with the change described below?
When thinking about this, yes. :(
The reason for this change come from the fact that I wanted to add the
service name as one of the tags that MySQL would read from the
mysql.cnf files. This would allow you to use one my.cnf file for a
windows computer where you are running many mysqld servers.
Using 'MySQL' would not work good as we already have a client named
'mysql' and thus we can't let the server read the [MySQL] section.
Miguel pointed this out for me and suggested that I should change the
default service name to MySQL because of this. I thought it was a good
idea but didn't think about the implications.
Paul> Or does the change to the default service of "mysqld" apply only
Paul> to the case that you say mysqld --install mysql --defaults-file=xxx ?
It applies to the case where you install mysqld as follows:
mysqld --install
but of course not if you do
mysqld --install MySQL-service-name
I agree that it's probably best to change back the service name to
MySQL and add a test that if the service name is MySQL then we should
not read the config section [mysql].
I agree that it would be confusing to old users that they would have
to, for new installations have to do 'net start mysqld' instead of
'net start MySQL'
Regards,
Monty
