[gentoo-dev] Re: News item: MySQL 5.1 bump

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Robin H. Johnson posted on Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:26:03 +0000 as excerpted:

> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:11:13AM +0000, Duncan wrote:
>> It's automagic from here.  I just run kde.  What it does, I don't know.
>>  I just don't want it to break!  (And upgrade implications will get
>> worse with kde 4.5 in August, as kmail will be depending on it then,
>> and users tend to get rather cross when their mail store gets hosed! 
>> With 4.4, it's mainly the address book.)
> All of that is under the Akonadi side of KDE. I really don't think
> storing mail inside MySQL is going to be a good idea.

Me neither, but I'm just a user. <shrug>

>> What I was suggesting, between the lines, is to coordinate with the kde
>> project.  They may want to create their own upgrade document [,etc.]
> I announced it 2 weeks ago, on February 1st, Message-Id:
> robbat2-20100201T012126-637073772Z@orbis-terrarum.net

Is there a bug on it for the KDE folks?  Should I open one?

I /am/ going to post a message to the kde lists (where I'm a regular) 
asking about mysql upgrades there.  We'll see what they say.
 
> As soon as the 72 hours on this news announcement are done, I'm going to
> be unmasking it. I do expect most of the breakage to come from the
> client libraries, and NOT any actual data storage issues. If MySQL
> detects that it's not safe to access a table, it does give you a
> suitable error to repair the table.
> 
> mysql_upgrade is actually really just running 'CHECK TABLE ... FOR
> UPGRADE;' && 'REPAIR TABLE ...' on tables with something that needs to
> change. Doing a 'REPAIR TABLE ...' globally will cover you if you don't
> have any other way to issue the check statements manually.
> 
> That is of course me assuming that you have a way to issue 'REPAIR TABLE
> ...', because that's a critical MySQL command for the DBA/user to know
> in managing their data.

I'd think KDE would have mysql upgrade methods documented, if they're 
going to be using the software.  But there's a lot of stuff I'd have 
thought, before the kde4 upgrade mess, that I'm considerably more cynical 
about now...  <shrug>

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