February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
16h 10m
English
An in-place downgrade means shutting down the new version of MySQL 8, replacing its binaries or packages with the old version of MySQL. Restarting the old version means MySQL 5.7 on the existing data directory. This downgrade method is supported between GA versions within the same series. Perform the following steps for an in-place downgrade:
rm ib_logfile*
mysqld_safe --user=mysql --datadir=/path/to/existing-datadir ...
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