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[Rich Prohaska <prohaska@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the pointer!


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Rich!
>
> On Apr 05, Rich Prohaska wrote:
> > i am interested in writing upgrade tests.  we fixed a bug in our storage
> > engine that executed some upgrade code for tables created in a prior
> > version of our software.  i would like to test this bug fix by running
> the
> > new software on a data directory from the prior release.  any suggestions
> > on how to approach this?
> > thanks
>
> To run that once, you can use --extern switch of the mtr,
> although I'd expect that many tests wouldn't work with it.
>
> But generally the tests like yours are done in mysql-test by having the
> old data files in the std_data directory and copying them into the
> datadir in the test file. See, for example, the test for BUG#36055 in
> the repair.test file.
>
> Regards,
> Sergei
>
>