On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:55:35 +0200, Pierre Schmitz
Hi all,
there is a new FluxBB release (1.4.2: http://fluxbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=4504) I have tested the update locally (with innodb this time). They have enlarged the post.message column from text to mediumtext. Unfortunately this means rewriting the whole table for innodb; so their web update script cannot be used. (yes, I already complained and will open a bug report)
My plan is to issue the following command manually before the update:
alter table posts change message message mediumtext
This takes about 10 minutes here and it seems the DB is not locked during that time. (So, is it correct that we can keep the forums online then?) If nobody objects I'll do the update tonight. (about now + 13h)
Greetings,
Pierre
and done...this time it took even less than expected. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre