DB problems again
Andreas Heinz
andi at a80.net
Fri Nov 24 16:36:21 UTC 2006
upgrading mysql would end in an handmade mysql which i would like to avoid.
the header files against which amarok has been build are mysql4. so
there is a difference too.
changing the structure in the database doesnt look that horrible, so i
would like to try that out. hopefully this helps.
Rich wrote:
> Andreas Heinz wrote:
>> mysql is 5.0.22 ubuntu version
>
> or was that 5.0.22... can you try upgrading mysql ?
>
>> amarok is 1.4.4
>>
>> and no, mysql wasn't upgraded. i had made an mysql 4 dump and then put
>> it clean into mysql 5
>
> yeah, seems to be the same issue, even though it was supposed to be
> worked around in 1.4.4.
>
> if upgrading mysql is not possible, you can try changing varchars to
> varbinarys. i have lost full list of places where this change has been
> necessary, but you can try to start with statistics table.
>
> replace url varchar in there (in a backup copy of your db dump :) ) with
> : `url` varbinary(255) NOT NULL default '',
>
> there might be other places wher such a change is necessary, look for
> varchars with keyword binary or so and change them to vabinarys.
>
> if this does not help at all, that probably is a different problem
> (especially as this one is supposed to be fixed in 1.4.4 _and_ appeared
> only in mysql 5.0.24 - or unreleased 5.0.23).
>
> btw, are your mysql versions for client libs & server identical ?
> that also can cause weird problems sometimes.
>
>> so mysql 4 should be an alternative? or is this completly out of the
>> possibilities?
>>
>> Rich wrote:
>>> migrated to mysql5 from mysql4 and using mysql version 5.0.24 ?
>>> though this should not be a problem with latest amarok, i think...
>>> there is a workaround for the problem i am thinking of that involves
>>> modifying the db, but if your mysql version is 5.0.24 and your amarok is
>>> not the latest version (1.4.4), try upgrading both of them.
> ...
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