I was wondering why an upgrade was not an option. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > It is possible to do this but is is not as easy as you may think it > will be. You will have to apply the insert query's from the dump one > at a time by hand and see what fails and make corrections. Even then I > would just back it all up and run mysql-upgrade. > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Alex Dean wrote: >> >> On Jul 27, 2010, at 12:46 AM, Eric Cope wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> I am upgrading my MySQL test server from 5.0.41 to 5.1.44. Is there any >>> reason I can't just dump all databases in phpmyadmin including mysql and >>> information_schema and import them into the new database?  Copying the other >>> databases is easy, I just don't want to have to go and re-grant all the >>> different users to all the different databases. >> >> I don't think you can import information_schema.  IIRC, it's like the /proc >> filesystem, created by the system to give you a convenient way to access >> data.  I think you can just let the upgraded server create this data. >> >> For the 'mysql' database, new tables & columns may have been added in 5.1. >>  There were new things added in 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0, and you don't want to miss >> those.  But you can run a post-upgrade script which will check your 'mysql' >> database and create any missing priv columns. >> >> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-upgrade.html >> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/upgrading.html >> >> The docs are good.  Use 'em! >> >> alex >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss