MySQL 5.6 Reference Manual Including MySQL NDB Cluster 7.3-7.4 Reference Guide
You should keep the following issues and notes in mind:
As of MySQL server 5.6.26, the DMG bundles a launchd daemon instead of the deprecated startup item. Startup items do not function as of OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), so using launchd is preferred. The available MySQL preference pane under OS X System Preferences was also updated to use launchd.
You may need (or want) to create a specific
mysql
user to own the MySQL directory and
data. You can do this through the Directory
Utility, and the mysql
user
should already exist. For use in single user mode, an entry
for _mysql
(note the underscore prefix)
should already exist within the system
/etc/passwd
file.
Because the MySQL package installer installs the MySQL
contents into a version and platform specific directory, you
can use this to upgrade and migrate your database between
versions. You must either copy the data
directory from the old version to the new version, or
alternatively specify an alternative datadir
value to set location of the data directory. By default, the
MySQL directories are installed under
/usr/local/
.
You might want to add aliases to your shell's resource file to make it easier to access commonly used programs such as mysql and mysqladmin from the command line. The syntax for bash is:
alias mysql=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql alias mysqladmin=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin
For tcsh, use:
alias mysql /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql alias mysqladmin /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin
Even better, add /usr/local/mysql/bin
to
your PATH
environment variable. You can do
this by modifying the appropriate startup file for your shell.
For more information, see Section 4.2.1, “Invoking MySQL Programs”.
After you have copied over the MySQL database files from the
previous installation and have successfully started the new
server, you should consider removing the old installation
files to save disk space. Additionally, you should also remove
older versions of the Package Receipt directories located in
/Library/Receipts/mysql-
.
VERSION
.pkg
Prior to OS X 10.7, MySQL server was bundled with OS X Server.