Re: Major upgrade on MySQL (5.0.xx to 5.1.xx)

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like they have fixed part of the problem Pete - at least now  
you get a specific error message telling you it will not work.  It  
used to be that it just ran to completion with no error message but it  
did nothing.

If you look at the various MySQL boards it seems to be accepted  
knowledge that you cannot perform upgrades from one major release to  
another - which of course is what you are doing. I don't think that  
there is anything special about doing it on i - it is the same as on  
any other MySQL install.  Maybe Tim can comment on this - we did it  
some time ago so I'm afraid I can't recall if we did anything special.


Jon Paris

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www.SystemiDeveloper.com



On Jan 6, 2010, at 1:00 PM, web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Back in September there were some posts regarding this and some  
> promises
> to update documentation but I don't see any i5/OS specific  
> instructions
> on the links in the post.  I am using the SAVF method for upgrading  
> and
> got the "Major upgrades are not allowed using the upgrade installer"
> error indicating that you can't upgrade.