MySQL-5.1

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Revision as of 12:05, 7 November 2009

With MySQL 5.1 package we introduced some changes you may like to know. Most of them will affect you only if you are upgrading from previous version and you did some changes to your configuration.

Plugins

One of the new features in MySQL 5.1 is support for plugins. So some of the storage engines are now shipped like that. You can use following plugins:

• archive
• blackhole
• federated
• example

InnoDB is still compiled as internal part of MySQL. If you are upgrading from version 5.0 or if this is your first installation of MySQL 5.1, all plugins will be enabled by default and you can disable them manually later (see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/uninstall-plugin.html).

With this change you need to remove skip-federated option from your /etc/my.cnf file if you have changed it manually. This option was there by default in previous versions of MySQL.

File locations

There were some changes in files locations. Most of them were made in the default configuration file so if you are experiencing problems and you have made some manual adjustments to your /etc/my.cnf, try to merge this file with /etc/my.cnf.rpmnew.

File locations changes:

• MySQL socket file and pid file were moved from /var/lib/mysql to more reasonable location /var/run/mysql by default.
• MySQL log files are in /var/log/mysql.

BerkeleyDB

MySQL no longer contains BerkeleyDB as storage engine. There is no fix for that and if you used it before, you have to migrate your data to different storage engine before updating. This can be done for example using following command:

ALTER TABLE foo ENGINE = INNODB;

MySQL Upgrade Log

If you missed messages displayed during automatic MySQL database upgrade, you can find them from now on in

/var/log/mysql/mysqld-upgrade.log

For list of runtime incompatibilities see MySQL upgrading documentation