On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:31:44AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > I've recently had some very unpleasant experiences trying to install > test versions of MySQL on machines that already had older versions > installed normally. It seems that MySQL *will* read /etc/my.cnf if it > exists, whether it's appropriate or not, and so it's impossible to have > a truly independent test installation, even though you can configure it > to build/install into nonstandard directories. Let's not emulate that > bit of brain damage.
A counterexample of Apache shows that you can easily use -f or another command line option to point the server to alternate master config file (which I believe is the same with MySQL). From that config files, another files can be included, making it easy to share pieces of configuration, or separate them in any way. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Honza Pazdziora | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.fi.muni.cz/~adelton/ .project: Perl, mod_perl, DBI, Oracle, large Web systems, XML/XSL, ... Only self-confident people can be simple. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
