Patching Oracle GoldenGate MySQL 5.7 with DDL Replication Enabled

To patch Oracle GoldenGate MySQL 5.7 with DDL replication enabled:

  1. Stop the metadata server using the following DDL install script stop option.
    ./ddl_install.sh stop user-id  password  port-number
  2. Replace the metadata_server executable in the installation directory.

  3. Start the metadata server running currently using ddl install script start option:
    ./ddl_install.sh start user-id  password  port-number

Note:

The DDL operations issued in between starting and stopping the metadata_server would be lost.