Whenever we do upgrades for our clients from one major version of MySQL to another we strongly recommend to test in two forms.
First, it would be a performance test between the old version and the new version to make sure there aren’t going to be any unexpected issues with the query processing rates. Secondly, do a functional test to ensure all queries that are running on the old version will not have syntactic errors or problems with reserved words in the new version that we’re upgrading to.
If a client doesn’t have an appropriate testing platform to perform these types of tests, we will leverage available tools to test to the best of our ability. More often than not this includes using pt-upgrade after capturing slow logs with …
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