Wednesday, July 05, 2006

A first taste of logs on demand

From time to time I install MySQL from the development tree, to see what's new, and in the latest one I found a pleasant surprise:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 3 to server version: 5.1.12-beta

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql [localhost] {datacharmer} ((none)) > show variables like "%log";
+--------------------------------+-------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------------+-------+
| back_log | 50 |
| general_log | OFF |
| innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog | OFF |
| log | OFF |
| slow_query_log | OFF |
| sync_binlog | 0 |
+--------------------------------+-------+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql [localhost] {datacharmer} ((none)) > select * from mysql.general_log;
Empty set (0.01 sec)

mysql [localhost] {datacharmer} ((none)) > set global general_log=1;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql [localhost] {datacharmer} ((none)) > select * from mysql.general_log;
+---------------------+-----------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+--------------+---------------------------------+
| event_time | user_host | thread_id | server_id | command_type | argument |
+---------------------+-----------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+--------------+---------------------------------+
| 2006-07-05 17:26:56 | datacharmer[datacharmer] @ localhost [] | 3 | 0 | Query | select * from mysql.general_log |
+---------------------+-----------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+--------------+---------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.04 sec)

mysql [localhost] {datacharmer} ((none)) > select * from mysql.general_log;
+---------------------+-----------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+--------------+---------------------------------+
| event_time | user_host | thread_id | server_id | command_type | argument |
+---------------------+-----------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+--------------+---------------------------------+
| 2006-07-05 17:26:56 | datacharmer[datacharmer] @ localhost [] | 3 | 0 | Query | select * from mysql.general_log |
| 2006-07-05 17:27:08 | datacharmer[datacharmer] @ localhost [] | 3 | 0 | Query | select * from mysql.general_log |
+---------------------+-----------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+--------------+---------------------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql [localhost] {datacharmer} ((none)) > set global general_log=0;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql [localhost] {datacharmer} ((none)) > select * from mysql.general_log;
+---------------------+-----------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+--------------+---------------------------------+
| event_time | user_host | thread_id | server_id | command_type | argument |
+---------------------+-----------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+--------------+---------------------------------+
| 2006-07-05 17:26:56 | datacharmer[datacharmer] @ localhost [] | 3 | 0 | Query | select * from mysql.general_log |
| 2006-07-05 17:27:08 | datacharmer[datacharmer] @ localhost [] | 3 | 0 | Query | select * from mysql.general_log |
| 2006-07-05 17:27:11 | datacharmer[datacharmer] @ localhost [] | 3 | 0 | Query | set global general_log=0 |
+---------------------+-----------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+--------------+---------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
As you can see, the promised logs on demand are there.
This feature was long overdue. Well done!

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