By Radboy on

hi.

i am not familiar enough with MySQL to know if there's a difference between:

a. installing drupal 5.1 to mysql 4.x and then upgrading the database to 5.x, or

b. installing drupal 5.1 to mysql 5.x

in other words, if i just installed drupal 5.1 to mysql 4.x and then my web host upgrades to mysql 5.x, would there be any benefit to re-installing drupal 5.1 with mysql 5.x?

i have done very little drupal deveopment so far, so a re-installation would be no problem.\

(you know how easily drupal installs)

what say ye?

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Comments

vivek.puri’s picture

vivek.puri commented

I dont think it will matter either way but personally if I would prefer to do install on MySQL 5.x as it would be cleaner solution.

Radboy’s picture

Radboy commented

"cleaner"?

how so?

vivek.puri’s picture

vivek.puri commented

with "cleaner" solution I meant I would not have to worry about data migration. Although there should not be an issue but its a good practice to test after upgrading the database. In case you start with 5.x you avoid any potential problems that might arise due to data migration.