View and upgrade instance versions

You can view the current version of your instance in the following ways:

• You can view it in the console.

  1. Log on to the PolarDB-X console.

  2. In the upper-left corner of the page, select the region where the target instance is located.

  3. On the Instances page, click the PolarDB-X 2.0 tab.

  4. Find the target instance and click the instance ID.

  5. In the Configuration Information section, view the Version.

• View the version using the select version() command.

  Connect to the PolarDB-X database. Then, run the following select version() command to view the current version of the instance:

  select version();
  +-----------------------------+
  | VERSION()                   |
  +-----------------------------+
  | 5.6.29-TDDL-5.4.8-16079964  |
  +-----------------------------+
  1 row in set (0.00 sec)         

  Note

  • In this example, 5.4.8-16079964 is the current version of the instance.

  • For more information about how to connect to a database, see Connect to a database.