On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:03:22PM -0700, Brian Mansell wrote: > From http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Upgrading-from-4.0.html : > > "# Important note: MySQL 4.1 stores table names and column names in > UTF8. If you have table names or column names that use characters > outside of the range from `A' to `Z', you may have to do a mysqldump > of your tables in MySQL 4.0 and restore them after upgrading to MySQL > 4.1. The symptom for this problem is that you get a table not found > error when trying to access your tables. In this case, you should be > able to downgrade back to MySQL 4.0 and access your data." > > In our MySQL 4.0 databases today, we have log tables with names like > 'system_log_day_20041026'. Based upon the `A` to `Z` conditional in > the above statement, are we in any way at risk of not being able to > access our tables?
No. (The actual risk is with table or database names that have characters outside of the standard US-ASCII range.) Jim Winstead MySQL Inc. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
