[Koha-devel] mysql version

[Andrés Tarallo]

I Think that you can have both instaled the OLD and the newer version. 
Can be tricky, but you will have less downtime and nearly seamless 
migration.

Andres


Paul POULAIN wrote:

> Joshua Ferraro a écrit :
>
>> I think 4.0 is a minimum for sure. For example, 3.23 doesn't include
>> query_cache so everything runs _very_ slowly. I've not tried out 4.1
>> but I'm not against it as a minimum. Since MySQL AB releases official
>> RPMs for all version of MySQL, it's not too hard to install a newer
>> version on RPM-based systems. 
>
> Not so easy : binary format of mysql databases differs from another 
> version to another one.
> So, once you've installed a version X & have some DB, it's quite not 
> so easy to update, because you have to dump everything, delete 
> everything, install mysql X+1, and reload databases.