From: Rick James
Date: May 2 2012 3:18pm
Subject: RE: RFE: Allow to use version-specific my.cnf files
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I think you need deal with only these:
  * Diff my.cnf (set as a parameter to mysqld)
  * Diff tree for all the data (and reflect this in my.cnf)
  * Diff port (3306 can't be shared between the instances)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andr=E9s Tello [mailto:mr.criptos@stripped]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 8:52 AM
> To: Honza Horak
> Cc: mysql@stripped
> Subject: Re: RFE: Allow to use version-specific my.cnf files
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> Reads interesting, but...
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> Why would you need that?
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> I mean... If I run several databases in the same hardware, I use
> completely diferent paths for evertying, so I can have atomic, clean
> and specific files for each instance/version of the database....
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> I think is much more easy to migrato to another hardware that way, just
> copy the instance and you are set...
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> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Honza Horak <hhorak@stripped> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > PostgreSQL allows to use version-specific configuration files, which
> > allows to change some settings only for particular version of DB.
> >
> > I think a similar enhancement would be nice and usable for
> > administrators of MySQL as well.
> >
> > Please, consider the attached patch as a simple proposal. Any
> comments
> > are welcome.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Honza
> >
> >
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