RE: RFE: Allow to use version-specific my.cnf files

2012-05-02 Thread Rick James
com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 8:52 AM > To: Honza Horak > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: RFE: Allow to use version-specific my.cnf files > > Reads interesting, but... > > Why would you need that? > > I mean... If I run several databases in the same ha

Re: RFE: Allow to use version-specific my.cnf files

2012-05-02 Thread Honza Horak
On 04/27/2012 03:26 PM, Shawn Green wrote: I frequently need to have multiple versions ready to operate on my machine at any time. I solved the configuration file problems by only setting them up in the basedir of the installed version. For those special occasions when I need to configure multip

Re: RFE: Allow to use version-specific my.cnf files

2012-04-27 Thread Shawn Green
Hello Honza, On 4/27/2012 4:35 AM, Honza Horak wrote: On 04/25/2012 05:52 PM, Andrés Tello wrote: Reads interesting, but... Why would you need that? I mean... If I run several databases in the same hardware, I use completely diferent paths for evertying, so I can have atomic, clean and specif

Re: RFE: Allow to use version-specific my.cnf files

2012-04-27 Thread Honza Horak
On 04/25/2012 05:52 PM, Andrés Tello wrote: Reads interesting, but... Why would you need that? I mean... If I run several databases in the same hardware, I use completely diferent paths for evertying, so I can have atomic, clean and specific files for each instance/version of the database

Re: RFE: Allow to use version-specific my.cnf files

2012-04-25 Thread Andrés Tello
Reads interesting, but... Why would you need that? I mean... If I run several databases in the same hardware, I use completely diferent paths for evertying, so I can have atomic, clean and specific files for each instance/version of the database I think is much more easy to migrato to anoth

RFE: Allow to use version-specific my.cnf files

2012-04-25 Thread Honza Horak
Hi, PostgreSQL allows to use version-specific configuration files, which allows to change some settings only for particular version of DB. I think a similar enhancement would be nice and usable for administrators of MySQL as well. Please, consider the attached patch as a simple proposal. An