Upgrading mysql myisam 5.1 to mysql 5.6: force innodb on restore?

Question

I inherited a DB using myisam on mysql 5.1 because of the need for fulltext search. I now read that fulltext search is available on mysql 5.6 innodb. Doing this would solve a lot of problems, as long as it works.

I'm abou to try it on an experimental db, but here's a puzzle: I have a mysqldump from the production database, which naturally wants to recreate the tables as myisam.

Several options present themselves:

1. edit the dump file -- which is an 8 GiB file so editing might be a tad difficult.
2. just load the dump and convert the engine afterward -- but sourcing in the file seems to take a long time.
3. Find some magic that will force the new DB engine to be innodb no matter what the dump says.

Is there another option? Which option should I choose?

I'll cheerfully admit DBA is not my primary skill.

Answer 1

I am going to answer based on option #3.

You can dump all databases except the following:

• information_schema
• performance_schema
• mysql

You should dump it like this:

MYSQL_USER=root
MYSQL_PASS=rootpassword
MYSQL_CONN="-u${MYSQL_USER} -p${MYSQL_PASS}"
SQL="select group_concat(schema_name) from information_schema.schemata"
SQL="${SQL} where schema_name not in ('information_schema','mysql','performance_schema')"
DBLIST=`mysql -ANe"${SQL}" | sed 's/,/ /g'`
mysqldump --databases ${DBLIST} | sed 's/ENGINE=MyISAM/ENGINE=InnoDB/g'  > AllMyData.sql

You can just load that and you are all set.

If you want to move the MySQL Users and Passwords, do this:

MYSQL_CONN="-uroot -ppassword"
SQLSTMT="SELECT CONCAT('SHOW GRANTS FOR ',"
SQLSTMT="${SQLSTMT} QUOTE(user),'@',QUOTE(host),';') "
SQLSTMT="${SQLSTMT} FROM mysql.user WHERE user<>''"
mysql ${MYSQL_CONN} -ANe"${SQLSTMT}" > GetGrants.sql
echo "SET sql_log_bin = 0;" > MySQLUserGrants.sql
mysql ${MYSQL_CONN} -AN < GetGrants.sql | sed 's/$/;/g' >> MySQLUserGrants.sql
rm -f GetGrants.sql

Then, just import MySQLUserGrants.sql into the MySQL 5.6 instance.

Give it a Try !!!