Re: import a dump

[Chris Stubben]

Hi,

You may be trying to load a dump from a 4.1.8 server (listed in the dump output) into an older server version and some of the mysql comments cause a syntax error.

Check this and make sure its version 4.1 also

mysql --version

if it is then mysql < dump.sql should work.

if not, then check the mysqldump options...mysqldump now has a nice feature that will make the dump compatible with older servers..

--compatible=name Change the dump to be compatible with a given mode. By
default tables are dumped in a format optimized for
MySQL. Legal modes are: ansi, mysql323, mysql40,
postgresql, oracle, mssql, db2, maxdb, no_key_options,
no_table_options, no_field_options. One can use several
modes separated by commas. Note: Requires MySQL server
version 4.1.0 or higher. This option is ignored with
earlier server versions.


Also, you can remove the comments from the dump output using --skip-opt to disable the default --create-options and --set-charset which cause the problems.


Chris




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