[wp-hackers] Will upgrading 1.2 DB to 1.3 break it for 1.2?

[Dennis Williamson]

You're talking about using 1.3 and 1.2 side-by-side? Or being able to 
revert to 1.2 if you have problems with 1.3?

If the former, I've got 1.2, 1.2.1 and 1.3 test installations running in 
different tables in the same db using different prefixes without upgrading 
the db. Granted, they're not getting heavy or thorough testing right now, 
but I haven't seen any db problems so far. You could dup the tables with 
different prefixes and upgrade just the new ones (after a backup) if you 
want to start the test with some data in place, but you don't want users 
confusing the two. Would that work (duplicate and upgrade)? Anyone?

If you want to be able to revert to 1.2 (or have some other data/software 
setup <shudder>), I don't know.

In any case, backup, backup, backup!

Dennis

At Saturday 10/16/2004 05:18 AM, you wrote:
>Oy oy, you lucky people!
>
>I'm slowly making my way towards upgrading Binary Bonsai 
>(http://binarybonsai.com/) to 1.3a, and so far it's all on my local server.
>
>And since I would like to put it online for testing, I'm wondering if 
>upgrading my current 1.2 database to 1.3, so as to work with the 1.3a test 
>setup, will break it for use with the current installation of 1.2 on the 
>server?
>
>Any thought?
>
>Aloha, Mike
>http://binarybonsai.com
>
>
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