Hi all,
I am about to move from FreeBSD 6 to FreeBSD 8. With that, the mysql server
version will be changed from 4 to 5.
I am assuming I can load all the users tables, and the mysql database (grant
tables and all) to the new server, then run mysqlupdate, and everything that
needs to be updated
Tim,
What you have described is really a queue, although you are not seeing
it from that angle. This is a very common pattern in this kind of
usage. It's also tricky to make it correct (as you have discovered),
and both performance and scalability are problems in most
implementations.
A general