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Commit 498a4e6b0c8b7cc9266f71dd3337669a9442934d

Authored by esmail
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Exists in spb-stable and in 3 other branches 6-8-stable, 7-0-stable, 7-0-stable-spb

Database doc changes to address #2412 and #6451.

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doc/install/database_mysql.md
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7 7 # Install the database packages
8 8 sudo apt-get install -y mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev
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  10 + # Ensure you have MySQL version 5.5.14 or later
  11 + mysql --version
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10 13 # Pick a database root password (can be anything), type it and press enter
11 14 # Retype the database root password and press enter
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23 26 # change $password in the command below to a real password you pick
24 27 mysql> CREATE USER 'git'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '$password';
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  29 + # Ensure you can use the InnoDB engine which is necessary to support long indexes.
  30 + # If this fails, check your MySQL config files (e.g. `/etc/mysql/*.cnf`, `/etc/mysql/conf.d/*`) for the setting "innodb = off"
  31 + mysql> SET storage_engine=INNODB;
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26 33 # Create the GitLab production database
27 34 mysql> CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `gitlabhq_production` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET `utf8` COLLATE `utf8_unicode_ci`;
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