Patching Oracle GoldenGate MySQL with DDL Replication Enabled

For patching Oracle GoldenGate MySQL with DDL replication enabled , user requires additional steps:

  1. Stop the metadata server by executing the DDL install script with stop option.
    ./ddl_install.sh stop user-id  password  port-number
  2. Replace the metadata_server executable in the installation directory.

  3. Start the metadata server running currently by running ddl install script with start option:
    ./ddl_install.sh start user-id  password  port-number

Note:

The DDL operations issued in between starting and stopping the metadata_server would be lost.