[TYPO3-dev] Mysql 4.0

[Martin Kutschker]

Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> ries van Twisk wrote:
>> can the install tool not simply upgrade an existing site like how all 
>> other tools are doing it?
> 
> How do you expect to upgrade latin1 database with serialized PHP arrays 
> into full utf-8 database? :) There is no solution for it so far. It 
> requires going over each table, looking into data and converting it 
> manually. And what if it concerns several thousand records?

You need a sricpt to do it. In theory it you could extend the TCA to flag 
serliazed arrays and possible XML columns. Then you can make an in-place 
conversation with Mysql.

Masi