Re: Questions about replicating different versions

Mark McCray wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a mysql database that is a slightly modified version of 4.1 from
> a vendor. They have no plans of moving to version 5.
>
> So we were interested in being able to replicate this 4.1 database into
> a 5 database.
> The reason why is because we'd like to be able to take advantage of
> stored procedures in 5.
>
> We're basically looking to make a search index on top of the data that
> works in a certain way, but which is built up by stored procedures.
>
> My question is two-fold:
> 1. Is it possible to replicate a v4.1 server to v5.0 and above?

Slaves on later versions tend to work better than masters on newer versions - Personally I haven't tried this for a while, nor would I want to again.

Dave

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