From: Ed Carp
Date: March 27 1999 10:21am
Subject: Re: Length of Database name field inconsistent
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>BUT...  The mysql database itself didn't get changed.  The database name
>field is still 32 characters, not 64.  Do I need to uninstall MySQL and
then
>reinstall it to really upgrade?  If so, what is the easiest way to preserve
>the users/hosts/databases in the mysql tables?  Should I just alter the
>tables manually?  Or are there other field definitions that have changed
>too?


Isn't there a post-install script that gets run to upgrade the tables that
gets run when you do a make install?  You also might want to kill and
restart mysql to see if that fixes it.