Note to self: don’t mess with upgrades not pertinent to project at hand.
I was in the middle of creating a simple web database app when I fancied I should upgrade my MySQL a step up from what I had. It turns out that the upgrade didn’t go so smoothly so I was forced to initialize the database server, causing me to lose all my data stored in my databases. Now I’m finding that in order to move forward I need to install the Perl DBI module, which I’m sure will come in handy for future projects, but will more likely now lead to another set of cascading steps of upgrading other things, which is not what I want to do right now. I just want to get back to working on my database app! Aaarrghh…
Update: I avoided having to do all of that by just deleting the MySQL install and repeating the install process. So now I’ve got MySQL up and running (yay!), but now I have to repopulate my databases (boo).