Hello,

We're needing to use MySQL-Max because we need the functionality provided by InnoDB.

According to InnoDB's web site, all I have to do is download the tarball and replace 
the /usr/sbin/mysqld with the mysqld in the tarball.

I tried that on SuSE and I had to install a few other things and make a few symlinks 
too, but it did eventually work quite fine. However I was just trying that method on a 
redhat 7.0 production box and it doesn't work because when I call /etc/init.d/mysql 
start it says it can't find /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld which is interesting, 
because I can't find any "libexec" directories associated with mysql on any of my 
linux boxes, no matter what distro.

Anyway (unless someone has an answer to the libexec problem), I think I'm going to 
need to upgrade my whole MySQL version to a full MySQL-Max installation. Currently 
we're running MySQL-3.23.38-1 from an RPM from mysql.com.

Our problem is that we are already using quite a few databases in our current mysql 
and we need to know _before_ we upgrade exactly what's going to happen to the 
databases we already have.

Will MySQL-Max  just start working with them without a hitch, or do we need to go 
through some sort of initialization routine? (note: we're not trying to convert our 
current DBs to InnoDB< that is a whole separate issue. We just want to know what we'll 
need to to be able to continue accessing the data once we install MySQL-Max.

Is it perfectly compatible with MySQL(non-max)? Just backup, install and 
/etc/init.d/mysql start?

Or is there more to it then that?

Thanks a lot.

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Jonathan Wilson
System Administrator

Cedar Creek Software     http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
Central Texas IT     http://www.centraltexasit.com


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