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

Sebastian Herp newsletter at scytheman.net
Sun Oct 17 00:03:07 UTC 2004


Nick Parker wrote:

> Arthur Jennings wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:34:29 -0400, Nick Parker <nickbp at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In moving my site to 1.3, I made a duplicate of the database except 
>>> with
>>> a different prefix (in my case, I had "wp_" and "wp13_") and then
>>> installed 1.3 in a separate directory from 1.2.
>>>
>>
>>
>> That sounds like a good plan. How do you do that?
>>
>
> There's probably an easier way to go about doing this, but this is how 
> I did it using phpMyAdmin:
>
> .....

Or if you have a recent enough mysql-installation:

"CREATE TABLE wp13_tablename SELECT * FROM wp_tablename;" in the sql-textbox (phpmyadmin) does the job equally well :-)






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