Re: How to migrate from MySQL 3 to MySQL 5 (installed from sources)

2007-11-07 Thread mark carson
Never tried it with version 3 only 4.1 but it has a --compatible switch with a version 3.23 switch see command line --help so I assume the mysql guys are allowing you to dump 3.23. Try dumping it without the switch as you will be restoring to 5.0. The idea is to make sure the restore is done us

Re: How to migrate from MySQL 3 to MySQL 5 (installed from sources)

2007-11-07 Thread thomas Armstrong
> Make sure you use the mysqldump from version 5 and not version 3. Also > recheck all your application queries once you have restored the data the > list of changes SQL syntax might haunt you. But can I use '/usr/local/mysql5/bin/mysqldump' to dump data of MySQL 3? -- MySQL General Mailing List

Re: How to migrate from MySQL 3 to MySQL 5 (installed from sources)

2007-11-07 Thread mark carson
Hi All Make sure you use the mysqldump from version 5 and not version 3. Also recheck all your application queries once you have restored the data the list of changes SQL syntax might haunt you. Mark thomas Armstrong wrote: Hi Tiago. Thank you very much for your answer. I decided to mi

Re: How to migrate from MySQL 3 to MySQL 5 (installed from sources)

2007-11-07 Thread thomas Armstrong
Hi Tiago. Thank you very much for your answer. > > I decided to migrate to MySQL 5.0, and I've got some questions: > > - I installed MySQL from sources on '/usr/local/mysql'. Is it as easy > > as installing it again on '/usr/local/mysql5'? > > Yep. Just change the '--prefix' com './configure' time

Re: How to migrate from MySQL 3 to MySQL 5 (installed from sources)

2007-11-07 Thread Tiago Cruz
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 10:22 +0100, thomas Armstrong wrote: > Hi. Hello, > Working on Linux, I've got installed MySQL 3.23.58, but I'm > experiencing some problems. For instance, I suffer "too many > connections" error but I cann't set 'max_connections' parameter to a > value bigger than 250. ..