Hi!
>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Willis <bwillis@stripped> writes:
Ben> Hi everyone!
Ben> Thanks for all of the interest and guidance on this issue.
Ben> It sounds like I need to recompile MySQL with the necessary
Ben> #defines to enable LFS. Shouldn't the binary distribution already
Ben> be configured this way? When I tried it only supported 2GB tables.
Ben> This was version 3.23.11-alpha-sun-solaris-2.7
Yes, the default binary for 2.7 should use big tables.
How did you verify that MySQL doesn't support big tables.
Try the following:
mysql> create table test (a int, b char(255)) max_rows=1000000000;
mysql> show table status like "test";
What do you get as 'Max_data_length' ?
Ben> I've never compiled MySQL from source, I'm hoping some kind
Ben> soul who knows what to do can do this and post the binary on the MySQL
Ben> download site ;-)
If you have gcc 2.95.2 installed, this is trivial:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql
make
make install
scripts/mysql_install_db
(More about this in the MySQL manual)
Ben> So does MySQL need to be recompiled? Should I attempt it or
Ben> is there a timeframe when a newly compiled version will be available??
As we for moment don't have access to a Solaris 2.7 machine to build
binaries, we can't create a new Solaris 2.7 binary until some kind
sole has given us access to such a machine.
Regards,
Monty
