Christian Hammers wrote:
Hello Olaf
On 2005-06-19 Olaf van der Spek wrote:
Would it be possible to support multiple MySQL instances on a single
system? >I'd be nice (for example) to be able to install and run 3, 4, 4.1
...
How easy is it to install both 4 and 4.1?
Never tried it...
Since the packages conflict with each other, I don't think it's easy to
install (not to talk about keeping up to date).
/etc/init.d/mysql to provide an alternative /etc/mysql/my.cnf config file
which points to totally different socket and database paths but given the
small number of people that benefit from this, I consider it too much work
for the standard distribution.
But would you consider it a desirable/valuable feature to have (not
considering the amount of work needed)?
Hm, no. Most people have only one database they connect to with
I'm sure you know Linux is a multi-user OS. ;->
Multiple users may like multiple different database version.
After all, there's a good reason why both 4.0 and 4.1 are in Sarge,
isn't there?
their scripts and thus only use one server.
If they want a devel or test environment they probably have a separate
server with copies of all scripts anyway.
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