Bug #6014 Manual doesn't warn about changing character sets of system tables
Submitted: 11 Oct 2004 9:31 Modified: 23 Oct 2004 12:36
Reporter: Victor Vagin Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:4.1.5 OS:
Assigned to: Paul DuBois CPU Architecture:Any

[11 Oct 2004 9:31] Victor Vagin 
Description:
mysql-4.1 changed characterset of system tables to utf8 recently 
it caused bugs in the client applications 
(
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=5675
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=5957
)
But manual doesn't contain any notes about such an important changes!

How to repeat:
Add note to the manual
[11 Oct 2004 16:19] Paul DuBois 
Nor will the manual contain any notes about this, until someone
indicates to docs what it should say. This change may well have
caused bugs, but what should the user do about it? Thanks.
[23 Oct 2004 12:36] Paul DuBois 
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been addressed in the
documentation. The updated documentation will appear on our website
shortly, and will be included in the next release of the relevant
product(s).

Additional info:

There's a note about this in the 4.1 upgrading section
now (symptom and cure):

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Upgrading-from-4.0.html