On Thu, 18 May 2000, Thomas Charron wrote:
> My end solution was to do the first step for all of the databases, then
> rpm -e the mysql packages. I then pulled the rpm's from mysql.com directly,
> which they conviently supply. After I installed those, I found I actually
> didn;t even need to restore the DB's, becouse the -e left all of the ones it
> didn't install where they where. All up and running with 3.22 now, but I
> just might start messing with 3.23 to play with the replication support..
>
> How good is it? I know Andover.net is throwing money at mysql.com to
> bring transactional capabilities to MySQL. I wonder if that is some of the
> fallout from that arangment..
>
Perhaps... it's pretty basic at this point, (master-> slave(s)) but it's
better than what I was doing before (tail -f the update log and pipe it
through to another server <g>)
The 3.23 series has been extremely stable, with vast speed improvements
and some neat little features. If you do upgrade, make sure you convert
your tables over to the new format (they'll work fine as is, but to get
some of the performance boosts you need the new format)
BLOB and text fields are now index-able too.
If you're interested, sign up for an account on my website and mark
"mysql" as one of your "interests" in the configuration area. Sometime
this weekend I'm turning on my "email headlines" feature... it'll send you
off an email daily/weekly with all the headlines I posted for that
particular "interest". I monitor the mysql releases pretty closely. Might
be some other stuff that interests you too. ;)
Regarding the "Redhat pure" reasoning for using RPMs... I hear that. What
I've been doing is configuring/building mysql on one machine in such a way
that it's easy for me to install on others. I just install it all in
/var/mysql or /opt/mysql and when I need a new installation, tar the whole
thing up. I link everything statically too, which also gives me a bit of a
performance kick.
--
Niall Kavanagh, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
News, articles, and resources for web professionals and developers:
http://www.kst.com
**********************************************************
To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the
*body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter:
unsubscribe gnhlug
**********************************************************
