22 Feb
2007
22 Feb
'07
1:25 p.m.
On 2/22/07, John Hinton webmaster@ew3d.com wrote:
Are there any gotchas with doing a MySQL5 upgrade from the centosplus repostitory? Can this be done as an update via yum or do I need to uninstall and the install? There wasn't anything on this in the readme.txt file.
I've been using mysql5 in production for quite a while now. It works fine, and I've done many direct upgrades from mysql4 to mysql5 with yum. However if you already have a fair amount of data in the database, I'd still take a fresh backup just in case. It's always the time you aren't prepared that you get bitten :-P
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