According to MySQL docs, it should still work atomically. Granted, I have only used this particular trick when they are on the same filesystem. Copying across filesystems, I imagine it should still be atomic, but your system may be locked for awhile.
Obviously, a dedicated RENAME DATABASE command would have the same limitations. - michael dykman On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Jim Lyons <jlyons4...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can you use that syntax if the databases are on different file systems? If > you can, and the original table is big, the command would take a while as it > moved data from one file system to another. > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Johan De Meersman <vegiv...@tuxera.be>wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote: >> >> > > rename table oldschema.table to newschema.table; >> > >> > Just to be 100% clear -- I assume you have to first create the >> destination >> > database, and then do this for all the tables in the source database? >> > >> >> Yep. Easily scriptable, though :-) >> > > > > -- > Jim Lyons > Web developer / Database administrator > http://www.weblyons.com > -- - michael dykman - mdyk...@gmail.com "May you live every day of your life." Jonathan Swift Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
