Re: Is MySQL 5.0 MyISAM table format backward compatible with 4.1?

2006-08-07 Thread mos
At 05:00 PM 8/7/2006, you wrote: Mike, if this data is at all important to you, I'd highly recommend doing your testing on copies of your data files, rather than your originals. If it's not important, then I'd go ahead and try it. The MyISAM storage engine is pretty mature and stable. For safe

Re: Is MySQL 5.0 MyISAM table format backward compatible with 4.1?

2006-08-07 Thread Dan Buettner
Mike, if this data is at all important to you, I'd highly recommend doing your testing on copies of your data files, rather than your originals. If it's not important, then I'd go ahead and try it. The MyISAM storage engine is pretty mature and stable. For safety's sake once you get it back to

Is MySQL 5.0 MyISAM table format backward compatible with 4.1?

2006-08-07 Thread mos
I'm planning on installing MySQL 5.0 today and will try rebuilding some of the indexes for one of my tables to conduct some benchmarks. I will probably reboot back to MySQL 4.10 and continue using the database. Have the table formats changed from 4.10 to 5.0? Or can I create/modify tables in 5.