From: David Johnson
Date: March 25 1999 10:00pm
Subject: RE: mysqladmin shutdown
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3.22.15-gamma on BSD 3.1.



-----Original Message-----
From:	Karl Pielorz [mailto:kpielorz@stripped]
Sent:	Thursday, March 25, 1999 11:49 AM
To:	davej@stripped
Cc:	mysql@stripped
Subject:	Re: mysqladmin shutdown

David Johnson wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> While one of our engineers was testing shutdown/startup scripts for our
> database, the database got horribly corrupted.  We ran isamchk and it
> "fixed" the problem, but hundreds of our rows got deleted.  The engineer
> ran:
>
> mysqladmin shutdown
>
> Did the problem occur because he didn't flush the tables first?  Any other
> ideas?

What version of Mysql & What operating system were you using? - I've only
seen
the above once, which was caused by a known 'problem' and the O/S's native
Threads implementation (and this was a while ago)...

-Kp