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MARIADB-UPGRADE(1)                           MariaDB Database System                          MARIADB-UPGRADE(1)

NAME

       mariadb-upgrade - check tables for MariaDB upgrade (mariadb-upgrade is now a symlink to mariadb-upgrade)

SYNOPSIS


       mariadb-upgrade [options]

DESCRIPTION

mariadb-upgrade examines all tables in all databases for incompatibilities with the current version of
the MariaDB Server. mariadb-upgrade also upgrades the system tables so that you can take advantage of
new privileges or capabilities that might have been added.

mariadb-upgrade should be executed each time you upgrade MariaDB.

If a table is found to have a possible incompatibility, mariadb-upgrade performs a table check. If any
problems are found, a table repair is attempted.

Note

On Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, you must run mariadb-upgrade with administrator privileges.
You can do this by running a Command Prompt as Administrator and running the command. Failure to do
so may result in the upgrade failing to execute correctly.

Caution

You should always back up your current MariaDB installation before performing an upgrade.

To use mariadb-upgrade, make sure that the server is running, and then invoke it like this:

shell> mariadb-upgrade [options]

After running mariadb-upgrade, stop the server and restart it so that any changes made to the system
tables take effect.

mariadb-upgrade executes the following commands to check and repair tables and to upgrade the system
tables:

mariadb-check --all-databases --check-upgrade --auto-repair
mariadb < fix_priv_tables
mariadb-check --all-databases --check-upgrade --fix-db-names --fix-table-names

Notes about the preceding commands:

• Because mariadb-upgrade invokes mariadb-check with the --all-databases option, it processes all
tables in all databases, which might take a long time to complete. Each table is locked and therefore
unavailable to other sessions while it is being processed. Check and repair operations can be
time-consuming, particularly for large tables.

• For details about what checks the --check-upgrade option entails, see the description of the FOR
UPGRADE option of the CHECK TABLE statement.

• fix_priv_tables represents a script generated internally by mariadb-upgrade that contains SQL
statements to upgrade the tables in the mysql database.

All checked and repaired tables are marked with the current MariaDB version number. This ensures that
next time you run mariadb-upgrade with the same version of the server, it can tell whether there is any
need to check or repair the table again.

mariadb-upgrade also saves the MariaDB version number in a file named mariadb-upgrade_info in the data
directory. This is used to quickly check whether all tables have been checked for this release so that
table-checking can be skipped. To ignore this file and perform the check regardless, use the --force
option.

For this reason, mariadb-upgrade needs to be run as a user with write access to the data directory.

If you install MariaDB from RPM packages on Linux, you must install the server and client RPMs. mariadb-
upgrade is included in the server RPM but requires the client RPM because the latter includes mariadb-
check.

mariadb-upgrade supports the following options, which can be specified on the command line or in the
[mariadb-upgrade] and [client] option file groups. Other options are passed to mariadb-check. For
example, it might be necessary to specify the --password[=password] option. mariadb-upgrade also
supports the options for processing option files.

• --help, -?

Display a short help message and exit.

• --basedir=path

Old option accepted for backward compatibility but ignored.

• --character-sets-dir=path

Old option accepted for backward compatibility but ignored.

• --check-if-upgrade-is-needed

Exit with a status code indicating if an upgrade is needed. Returns 0 if upgrade needed or current
version couldn't be determined, 1 when no action required.

• --datadir=path

Old option accepted for backward compatibility but ignored.

• --debug=path, -# path

For debug builds, output debug log.

• --debug-check

Print some debugging information when the program exits.

• --debug-info, -T

Print debugging information and memory and CPU usage statistics when the program exits.

• --default-character-set=name

Old option accepted for backward compatibility but ignored.

• --force

Ignore the mariadb-upgrade_info file and force execution of mariadb-check even if mariadb-upgrade has
already been executed for the current version of MariaDB.

• --host

Connect to MariaDB on the given host.

• --password[=password], -p[password]

The password to use when connecting to the server. If you use the short option form (-p), you cannot
have a space between the option and the password. If you omit the password value following the
--password or -p option on the command line, mariadb-upgrade prompts for one.

Specifying a password on the command line should be considered insecure. You can use an option file
to avoid giving the password on the command line.

• --port=port_num, -P port_num

The TCP/IP port number to use for the connection.

• --protocol={TCP|SOCKET|PIPE|MEMORY}

The connection protocol to use for connecting to the server. It is useful when the other connection
parameters normally would cause a protocol to be used other than the one you want.

• --silent

Print less information.

• --socket=path, -S path

For connections to localhost, the Unix socket file to use, or, on Windows, the name of the named pipe
to use.

• --ssl

Enable SSL for connection (automatically enabled with other flags). Disable with --skip-ssl.

• --ssl-ca=name

CA file in PEM format (check OpenSSL docs, implies --ssl).

• --ssl-capath=name

CA directory (check OpenSSL docs, implies --ssl).

• --ssl-cert=name

X509 cert in PEM format (check OpenSSL docs, implies --ssl).

• --ssl-cipher=name

SSL cipher to use (check OpenSSL docs, implies --ssl).

• --ssl-key=name

X509 key in PEM format (check OpenSSL docs, implies --ssl).

• --ssl-crl=name

Certificate revocation list (check OpenSSL docs, implies --ssl).

• --ssl-crlpath=name

Certificate revocation list path (check OpenSSL docs, implies --ssl).

• --ssl-verify-server-cert

Verify server's "Common Name" in its cert against hostname used when connecting. This option is
disabled by default.

• --tmpdir=path, -t path

The path name of the directory to use for creating temporary files.

• --upgrade-system-tables, -s

Only upgrade the system tables in the mysql database. Tables in other databases are not checked or
touched.

• --user=user_name, -u user_name

The MariaDB user name to use when connecting to the server and not using the current login.

• --verbose

Display more output about the process. Using it twice will print connection arguments; using it 3
times will print out all CHECK, RENAME and ALTER TABLE commands used during the check phase; using it
4 times (added in MariaDB 10.0.14) will also write out all mariadb-check commands used; using it 5
times will print all the mariadb commands used and their results while running mariadb-fix-privilege-
tables script.

• --version, -V

Output version information and exit.

• --version-check, -k

Run this program only if its 'server version' matches the version of the server to which it's
connecting. Note: the 'server version' of the program is the version of the MariaDB server with which
it was built/distributed. Defaults to on; use --skip-version-check to disable.

• --write-binlog

Cause binary logging to be enabled while mariadb-upgrade runs.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2007-2008 MySQL AB, 2008-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2010-2024 MariaDB Foundation

       This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it only under the terms of the
       GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.

       This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
       even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
       Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the program; if not, write
       to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1335 USA or see
       http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

AUTHOR

       MariaDB Foundation (http://www.mariadb.org/).

MariaDB 11.4                                    3 September 2024                              MARIADB-UPGRADE(1)

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