MySQL Bugs: #7853: mysqlbinlog does not accept input from stdin

Bug #7853	mysqlbinlog does not accept input from stdin
Submitted:	12 Jan 2005 23:45	Modified:	11 Feb 2005 9:47
Reporter:	Stewart Smith	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Command-line Clients	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.0 bk	OS:	Linux (Linux)
Assigned to:	Mats Kindahl	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
mysqlbinlog cannot read from stdin.

This would be useful to fix as then you could zcat/bzcat old binlogs to view them.

How to repeat:
$ /usr/local/mysql5-port/bin/mysqlbinlog - < kennedy-bin.000001
/*!40019 SET @@session.max_insert_delayed_threads=0*/;

mysqlbinlog will now just sit there waiting for input.

Suggested fix:
There is the following comment in client/mysqlbinlog.cc (about line 1119)
" // reading from stdin; TODO: check that it works"
It doesn't.

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Additional info:

Fixed in 5.0.3

ChangeSet 1.1816 05/02/04 14:29:54 mats@mysql.com
  Bug#7853 (mysqlbinlog does not accept input from stdin)
    The utility 'mysqlbinlog' now accepts input from stdin. It can 
    now be used to read the output from, e.g., 'zcat' or other utility.