Solaris How To: MySQL

2010-03

cswmysql5 startup file, /etc/opt/csw/init.d/cswmysql5: change

 MYSQL_VAR=/var/opt/csw/mysql5

 MYSQL_VAR=/local/mysql

2008-12

installing Perl 5.8.9, to hook up mysql, to cope with

 gcc: language strconst not recognized
 gcc: language strconst not recognized

edit the Makefile and remove -xstrconst and -mt

2021-05-30

Upgrade from 10.1 to 10.3

Following directions from https://mariadb.com/docs/deploy/upgrade-community-server-cs103-debian9/

  create data/backup/preupgrade_backup
  mariabackup --backup -uroot --target-dir=/data/backup/preupgrade_backup
  mariabackup --prepare --target-dir=/data/backup/preupgrade_backup