RE: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-22 Thread Luc Foisy
k multiple databases with 20 or 30 tables each. myisamchk is a great deal more easier to use. -Original Message- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:00 PM To: Luc Foisy; MYSQL-List (E-mail) Subject: RE: myisamchk question (important) At 16:32 -0

Re: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-21 Thread Sergei Golubchik
Hi! On Aug 21, Luc Foisy wrote: > Thank you Paul. > whew! So just checking will not do anything to the database, in an case? yes, but ONLY if you run myisamchk with --read-only flag. > I am not really caring if it returns the "# users still connected/ or > table not closed right" warning. I am n

RE: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-21 Thread Paul DuBois
ursday, August 21, 2003 3:08 PM To: Luc Foisy; MYSQL-List (E-mail) Subject: RE: myisamchk question (important) I should qualify my answer, to indicate something that may not apply to the situation you have in mind. If you're using myisamchk only to *check* tables, it operates in read-only f

RE: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-21 Thread Luc Foisy
corrupted... -Original Message- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 3:08 PM To: Luc Foisy; MYSQL-List (E-mail) Subject: RE: myisamchk question (important) I should qualify my answer, to indicate something that may not apply to the situation you have in

RE: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-21 Thread Paul DuBois
; MYSQL-List (E-mail) Subject: Re: myisamchk question (important) At 9:54 -0400 8/19/03, Luc Foisy wrote: Would anything happen to the database if I ran "myisamchk --silent /usr/data/mysql/*/*.MYI" when I havent run "FLUSH TABLES" first? Yes, you may have unflushed changes still in th

RE: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-21 Thread Paul DuBois
esday, August 20, 2003 10:06 PM To: Luc Foisy; MYSQL-List (E-mail) Subject: Re: myisamchk question (important) At 9:54 -0400 8/19/03, Luc Foisy wrote: Would anything happen to the database if I ran "myisamchk --silent /usr/data/mysql/*/*.MYI" when I havent run "FLUSH TABLES" first? Ye

Re: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-21 Thread Rajesh Kumar
Luc Foisy unknowingly asked us: Would anything happen to the database if I ran "myisamchk --silent /usr/data/mysql/*/*.MYI" when I havent run "FLUSH TABLES" first? As it states in the documentation: If mysqld is running, you must force a sync/close of all tables with FLUSH TABLES and ensure that n

RE: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-21 Thread Luc Foisy
) Subject: Re: myisamchk question (important) At 9:54 -0400 8/19/03, Luc Foisy wrote: >Would anything happen to the database if I ran "myisamchk --silent >/usr/data/mysql/*/*.MYI" when I havent run "FLUSH TABLES" first? Yes, you may have unflushed changes still in the

Re: myisamchk question (important)

2003-08-20 Thread Paul DuBois
At 9:54 -0400 8/19/03, Luc Foisy wrote: Would anything happen to the database if I ran "myisamchk --silent /usr/data/mysql/*/*.MYI" when I havent run "FLUSH TABLES" first? Yes, you may have unflushed changes still in the server's buffers. Running myisamchk in that case can make the tables *in*cons