MySQL didn’t escape the Sun acquisition unscathed… hopefully Oracle doesn’t make the same dumb mistakes.
I took (what I thought would be) a few minutes this afternoon to upgrade a group of production MySQL servers at Applied Trust. I started by following the same process I have followed for at least four or five years: browse to mysql.com, click on “Download”, and follow the links to the latest RPMs for my Linux distributions.
The download went as expected, with the consistent MySQL branding lulling me in to a false sense of ease – this was something I’ve done dozens of times. I shouted down the hall that I’d be ready to start grilling dinner in a few minutes. Next, I scheduled downtime, did the necessary change documentation, and brought one of the slave MySQL servers down – I was ready to upgrade the database. I typed sudo rpm -Uvh MySQL-*-5.1.34-0.rhel5 and my pleasant ride through upgrade-land came to a screeching halt: