Starting MySQL in Maintenance mode

2009-05-20 Thread TETTERTON George
How do I start MySQL in maintenance/single user mode so I can create indexes on a table that is being updated often? I prefer for the update transactions to fail immediately with a connection error rather than to wait for a lock to be released. In Oracle you can startup nomount. What is the

RE: Starting MySQL in Maintenance mode

2009-05-20 Thread Rolando Edwards
Subject: Starting MySQL in Maintenance mode How do I start MySQL in maintenance/single user mode so I can create indexes on a table that is being updated often? I prefer for the update transactions to fail immediately with a connection error rather than to wait for a lock to be released

RE: Starting MySQL in Maintenance mode

2009-05-20 Thread TETTERTON George
...@logicworks.net] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:13 PM To: TETTERTON George; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: RE: Starting MySQL in Maintenance mode Do 'service mysql restart --skip-networking' This prevents all TCP/IP connections You can login as r...@localhost and the client program will use the socket file