>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Mack <Mack@stripped> writes:
Christian> Michael Widenius wrote:
>>
>> >>>>> "sinisa" == sinisa <sinisa@stripped> writes:
>>
sinisa> Olafur Jakobsson writes:
>> >> I am about to install the commercial version over the shareware
>> >> version.of mySQL on winNT. Any caveats I need to know? Does the new
>> >> version preserve/include the /data/ directory so there will be no
>> >> downtime or must I do some export/import routine?
>> >>
>> >> Regards
>> >> Olafur
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
sinisa> Hi!
>>
sinisa> There are no major caveats and your data will be preserved.
>>
sinisa> But, do carry the ammendments in mysql database, which means two more
sinisa> tables and two more fields in user table.
>>
sinisa> These changes are documented, so you have only to abide by the rules !
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> On windows, you should start by taking a copy of the tables in the
>> 'mysql' database (default: C:\mysql\data\mysql). These are the only
>> files that may be overwritten (they shouldn't)!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Monty
Christian> Hi Olafur
Christian> The mysql database doesn't get overwritten, but this is a problem, because
> the trial/shareware version doesn't provide the full privilege capabilities.
Christian> So you don't have table and column privileges.
Christian> It is better to dump the data out of the old mysql database and reinsert it
> later into the fresh created privilege tables.
Christian> The only drawback with this is:
Christian> You have to set all passwords again, because the length of the passwords did
> change too.
You are right about this. I shall add a mysql_fix_privilege_tables
script to the next Windows version. The password in shareware version
is already in the long format, so this isn't a problem.
Regards,
Monty
