Re: [tlug] MySQL 4.1.15, or MySQL 5.0?

[Walter Hansen <gandalf@example.com>]

Godwin Stewart wrote:
> On Sat, 06 May 2006 22:09:08 +0900, Dave M G <martin@example.com> wrote:
>
> > Unless someone steps in right now and says something like "Dude, you 
> > don't want to go to version 5 if you have ___ data in your database!"
>
> What I'd do is make a backup of my mysql DB directory, upgrade, and see
> what blows up (if anything).
>
> If anything *does* blow up, I'd restore the backup I'd made previously and
> revert to MySQL-4.1.x.
>
> Trial and error.

Yes I very much agree. It's easy to backup, the databases are generally 
in /var/lib/mysql/. I would just copy the whole directory to 
/var/lib/mysqlback/ or something like that. Make sure that's were they 
are first.

As to the disagreement on php I thought it was rather pointless myself. 
I figured I could post back about it and then you'd post back about and 
so on and so fort, but with nothing really helpful happening. So I just 
left the discussion.