RE: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-22 Thread Luc Foisy
easier to use. -Original Message- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:00 PM To: Luc Foisy; MYSQL-List (E-mail) Subject: RE: myisamchk question (important) At 16:32 -0400 8/21/03, Luc Foisy wrote: Thank you Paul. whew! So just checking will not do

Re: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-21 Thread Paul DuBois
At 9:54 -0400 8/19/03, Luc Foisy wrote: Would anything happen to the database if I ran myisamchk --silent /usr/data/mysql/*/*.MYI when I havent run FLUSH TABLES first? Yes, you may have unflushed changes still in the server's buffers. Running myisamchk in that case can make the tables

RE: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-21 Thread Luc Foisy
) Subject: Re: myisamchk question (important) At 9:54 -0400 8/19/03, Luc Foisy wrote: Would anything happen to the database if I ran myisamchk --silent /usr/data/mysql/*/*.MYI when I havent run FLUSH TABLES first? Yes, you may have unflushed changes still in the server's buffers. Running myisamchk

Re: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-21 Thread Rajesh Kumar
Luc Foisy unknowingly asked us: Would anything happen to the database if I ran myisamchk --silent /usr/data/mysql/*/*.MYI when I havent run FLUSH TABLES first? As it states in the documentation: If mysqld is running, you must force a sync/close of all tables with FLUSH TABLES and ensure that no

RE: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-21 Thread Paul DuBois
, August 20, 2003 10:06 PM To: Luc Foisy; MYSQL-List (E-mail) Subject: Re: myisamchk question (important) At 9:54 -0400 8/19/03, Luc Foisy wrote: Would anything happen to the database if I ran myisamchk --silent /usr/data/mysql/*/*.MYI when I havent run FLUSH TABLES first? Yes, you may have unflushed

RE: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-21 Thread Paul DuBois
) Subject: Re: myisamchk question (important) At 9:54 -0400 8/19/03, Luc Foisy wrote: Would anything happen to the database if I ran myisamchk --silent /usr/data/mysql/*/*.MYI when I havent run FLUSH TABLES first? Yes, you may have unflushed changes still in the server's buffers. Running myisamchk

RE: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-21 Thread Luc Foisy
... -Original Message- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 3:08 PM To: Luc Foisy; MYSQL-List (E-mail) Subject: RE: myisamchk question (important) I should qualify my answer, to indicate something that may not apply to the situation you have in mind

RE: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-21 Thread Paul DuBois
:08 PM To: Luc Foisy; MYSQL-List (E-mail) Subject: RE: myisamchk question (important) I should qualify my answer, to indicate something that may not apply to the situation you have in mind. If you're using myisamchk only to *check* tables, it operates in read-only fashion. The problems occur

Re: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-21 Thread Sergei Golubchik
Hi! On Aug 21, Luc Foisy wrote: Thank you Paul. whew! So just checking will not do anything to the database, in an case? yes, but ONLY if you run myisamchk with --read-only flag. I am not really caring if it returns the # users still connected/ or table not closed right warning. I am not

myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-19 Thread Luc Foisy
Would anything happen to the database if I ran myisamchk --silent /usr/data/mysql/*/*.MYI when I havent run FLUSH TABLES first? As it states in the documentation: If mysqld is running, you must force a sync/close of all tables with FLUSH TABLES and ensure that no one is using the tables while