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Notes about MySQL 5.1 package:
==============================

With MySQL 5.1 package we introduced some changes you may like to know. Most of
them will affect you only if you are  upgrading from previous version and you
did some changes to your configuration, but I'll try to explain most notable
changes.

1) Plugins:
===========

One of the new features in MySQL 5.1 is support for plugins. So some of the
storage engines are now shipped like that. You can use following plugins:

- archive
 - blackhole
 - federated
 - example

As you see, InnoDB is still compiled as internal part of MySQL. If you are
upgrading from version 5.0 or if this is your first installation of MySQL 5.1,
all plugins will be enabled by default and you can disable them manually later
(see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/uninstall-plugin.html).

With this change you need to remove skip-federated option from your my.cnf file
if you have changed it manually. This option was there by default in previous
versions of MySQL.

2) File locations:
==================

There were some changes in files locations. Most of them was made in default
configuration file so if you are experiencing problems and you have made some
manual adjustments to your /etc/my.cnf, try to merge this file with
/etc/my.cnf.rpmnew.

First of them is that MySQL socket file and pid file were moved from
/var/lib/mysql to more reasonable location ( /var/run/mysql ) by default.
Second change is that MySQL log files are in /var/log/mysql.

3) BerkeleyDB:
==============

Other important change is that MySQL no longer contains BerkeleyDB as storage
engine. There is no fix for that and if you used it before, you have to migrate
your data to different storage engine BEFORE updating. This can be done for
example using following command:
	ALTER TABLE foo ENGINE = INNODB;

4) MySQL Upgrade Log
====================

Last thing you may find useful is that if you missed messages displayed during
automatic MySQL database upgrade, you can find them from now on in
	/var/log/mysql/mysql_upgrade.log

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