Re: migration of mysql to new server: wired errors

On 1/30/2018 11:23 PM, Julianony M wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 9:46:16 PM UTC-6, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

>> On 1/30/2018 4:55 PM, Julianony M wrote:
>>> I have recently migrated several databases from MySQL-5.0.95 on a RedHat-6 server to MySQL-5.6.39 on a RedHat-7 server, along with their perl applications.
>>>
>>> While everything works just fine on the old server, it encounters problems on the new server when I perform the same database load:
>>>
>>>     ERROR 1071 (42000) at line 383:
>>>     Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes
>>>
>>> although the same data, same scripts works just fine on the old server.
>>>
>>> Could anyone suggest possible causes or spots to look at for a fix?  A simple comparisons of /etc/my.ini from the two servers didn't give me much clue.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> j
>>>
>>>
>>
>> How did you transfer your databases from the old to the new server?
>>
>> To start with I would show the table definitions (SHOW CREATE TABLE ...)
>> from the old and the new databases and compare the two.  If that doesn't
>> help, post both CREATE TABLE statements here along with sample data (2-3
>> rows should be sufficient) here.  The failing SQL statement would also
>> help.  We can then try to duplicate your problem.  It's hard to
>> troubleshoot something like this remotely.

OK, so what does the failing CREATE TABLE statement look like?

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