Re: upgrade from version 5.0.45

2010-04-05 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Walter Heck - OlinData.com
li...@olindata.com wrote:
 Depending on the seriousness of your environment you can read the
 changelogs and upgrade if you don't see any showstoppers. I have
 hardly ever seen any problems with minor version upgrades of mysql.
 Of course what Rob says is true, and it is a good idea to test things
 out in a test environment first. But I know many environment where it
 is okay to just run the upgrade, as long as it is a minor version
 upgrade. I guess it depends on the type of production environment you
 are running in.

 be careful though!

 Walter


Not everything that gets changed is in the change log. In particular
there was a memory leak that I had (...still have...) to deal with
that got fixed without any note in the change log.

http://www.maatkit.org/doc/mk-upgrade.html is your friend.


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Re: upgrade from version 5.0.45

2010-04-04 Thread Rob Wultsch
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Marco Baiguera
marco.baigu...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello everyone,
 i am quite new to mysql and i recently begin to work with a company
 who is using mysql 5.0.45 in production.
 i think this version is too old and would like to upgrade to the most
 recent 5.0.xx

 my os is CentOS release 5.3.

 is it safe to simply use yum upgrade mysql ?

 are there any important differences i should be aware of between
 5.0.45 and 5.0.77 ?
 any diffferences in password encoding etc. ?

 the db is properly backed up and replicated on two 5.0.77 slaves.

 thank you
 Marco

I would not simply upgrade. I would upgrade the test environment first
and have the development team sign off that there were no bad effects
caused by the upgrade.

The first version of 5.0 that I think is particularly useable and not
buggy is 5.0.67.  I suggest that this is worth the upgrade.

In theory there are not significant differences between 5.0 versions
after GA other that bug fixes. I *do not* trust this.



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Re: upgrade from version 5.0.45

2010-04-04 Thread Walter Heck - OlinData.com
Depending on the seriousness of your environment you can read the
changelogs and upgrade if you don't see any showstoppers. I have
hardly ever seen any problems with minor version upgrades of mysql.
Of course what Rob says is true, and it is a good idea to test things
out in a test environment first. But I know many environment where it
is okay to just run the upgrade, as long as it is a minor version
upgrade. I guess it depends on the type of production environment you
are running in.

be careful though!

Walter

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:17, Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Marco Baiguera
 marco.baigu...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello everyone,
 i am quite new to mysql and i recently begin to work with a company
 who is using mysql 5.0.45 in production.
 i think this version is too old and would like to upgrade to the most
 recent 5.0.xx

 my os is CentOS release 5.3.

 is it safe to simply use yum upgrade mysql ?

 are there any important differences i should be aware of between
 5.0.45 and 5.0.77 ?
 any diffferences in password encoding etc. ?

 the db is properly backed up and replicated on two 5.0.77 slaves.

 thank you
 Marco

 I would not simply upgrade. I would upgrade the test environment first
 and have the development team sign off that there were no bad effects
 caused by the upgrade.

 The first version of 5.0 that I think is particularly useable and not
 buggy is 5.0.67.  I suggest that this is worth the upgrade.

 In theory there are not significant differences between 5.0 versions
 after GA other that bug fixes. I *do not* trust this.



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Re: upgrade from version 5.0.45

2010-04-04 Thread Jesper Wisborg Krogh
Be aware that if it is an unpatched version of 5.0.77, then there is  
a bug related to name_const (http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=42014)  
that can cause serious problems (infinite server crashes if it  
happens in a replication thread). Redhat/CentOS have applied the  
patch, but other sources might still have that bug.


Jesper

On 05/04/2010, at 2:29 PM, Walter Heck - OlinData.com wrote:


Depending on the seriousness of your environment you can read the
changelogs and upgrade if you don't see any showstoppers. I have
hardly ever seen any problems with minor version upgrades of mysql.
Of course what Rob says is true, and it is a good idea to test things
out in a test environment first. But I know many environment where it
is okay to just run the upgrade, as long as it is a minor version
upgrade. I guess it depends on the type of production environment you
are running in.

be careful though!

Walter

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:17, Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com wrote:

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Marco Baiguera
marco.baigu...@gmail.com wrote:

Hello everyone,
i am quite new to mysql and i recently begin to work with a company
who is using mysql 5.0.45 in production.
i think this version is too old and would like to upgrade to the  
most

recent 5.0.xx

my os is CentOS release 5.3.

is it safe to simply use yum upgrade mysql ?

are there any important differences i should be aware of between
5.0.45 and 5.0.77 ?
any diffferences in password encoding etc. ?

the db is properly backed up and replicated on two 5.0.77 slaves.

thank you
Marco

I would not simply upgrade. I would upgrade the test environment  
first

and have the development team sign off that there were no bad effects
caused by the upgrade.

The first version of 5.0 that I think is particularly useable and not
buggy is 5.0.67.  I suggest that this is worth the upgrade.

In theory there are not significant differences between 5.0 versions
after GA other that bug fixes. I *do not* trust this.



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RE: upgrade from version 5.0.45

2010-04-01 Thread Parikh, Dilip Kumar
Hey if you are using any archive engines in your existing database then
please use (5.0.8x) if not then u can upgrade to 5.1.45 (stable).

Thanks,
Dilipkumar

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Subject: upgrade from version 5.0.45

Hello everyone,
i am quite new to mysql and i recently begin to work with a company
who is using mysql 5.0.45 in production.
i think this version is too old and would like to upgrade to the most
recent 5.0.xx

my os is CentOS release 5.3.

is it safe to simply use yum upgrade mysql ?

are there any important differences i should be aware of between
5.0.45 and 5.0.77 ?
any diffferences in password encoding etc. ?

the db is properly backed up and replicated on two 5.0.77 slaves.

thank you
Marco

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upgrade from version 5.0.45

2010-03-31 Thread Marco Baiguera
Hello everyone,
i am quite new to mysql and i recently begin to work with a company
who is using mysql 5.0.45 in production.
i think this version is too old and would like to upgrade to the most
recent 5.0.xx

my os is CentOS release 5.3.

is it safe to simply use yum upgrade mysql ?

are there any important differences i should be aware of between
5.0.45 and 5.0.77 ?
any diffferences in password encoding etc. ?

the db is properly backed up and replicated on two 5.0.77 slaves.

thank you
Marco

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