We found, to our chagrin, that a dump of an encoded field does not restore properly in all cases.
Specifically, we use encode() to code credit card numbers before inserting them in the database. We did a mysqldump to produce a transport file from version 3 of mysql to insert the data into version 4 of mysql. The encoded numbers were munged, presumably because they were binary data in the dump. We used to rebuild databases with this technique often in version 3 of mysql. In a nutshell if you are used to doing this: mysqldump > tmpfile mysql < tmpfile you may be unpleasantly surprised! Our solution, restore the dating by putting the version 3 isam file into the version 4 directory. Todd Merriman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
