Will this work in 5.0? If I'm reading this right, it seems like this is some kind of trick or loophole then right? If it works and solves my dilemna, I'm fine with that, but I'm just curious.
How fast is this? I mean, if I have an 80GB database, is it like a real unix 'mv' command where it simply changing pointers or is it a full on copy/rm? (Assume same filesystem/directory) > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dykman [mailto:mdyk...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 6:08 AM > To: MySql > Subject: Re: Are you serious? mySQL 5.0 does NOT have a > RENAME DATABASE? > > If you want to move the database atomically, a RENAME TABLE statement > may have multiple clauses. > > RENAME TABLE > olddb.foo to newdb.foo, > olddb.bar to newdb.bar; > > Here, I hot-swap a new lookup table 'active.geo' into a live system > confident that, at any given point, some version of this table always > exists: > > RENAME TABLE > active.geo to archive.geo, > standby.geo to active geo; > > - michael dykman > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:58 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 :-) > > > > > > -- > - 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=dae...@daevid.com > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
