Ben Willmore wrote:
I need to use mysqldump to back up the wiki. So -- how can I upgrade my mysql4 database to one of the new mysql 5 schemata?
Thanks,
Ben
You can use mysqldump with mysql 4 schema. You just need to avoid mysqld dump 'helpfully' converting the charset. Call it with the option --default-character-set=latin1 (the data is in fact UTF-8 but we make msyql think it's latin1, it's the charset conversions what break it)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki#Character_set