Bug #121230 Storage engine help is broken/useless

• Submitted: 4 Sep 8:25
• Reporter: Daniël van Eeden (OCA)
• Status: Open
• Category: MySQL Server: Documentation
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 26.7, 8.4
• OS: Any
• CPU Architecture: Any
• Tags: Help, help content, storage engine

[4 Sep 8:25] Daniël van Eeden

Description:
The Storage Engine help doesn't list anything useful and seems to have broken output.

How to repeat:
mysql-26.7.1 [(none)]> HELP 'contents'
You asked for help about help category: "Contents"
For more information, type 'help <item>', where <item> is one of the following
categories:
   Account Management
   Administration
   Components
   Compound Statements
   Contents
   Data Definition
   Data Manipulation
   Data Types
   Functions
   Geographic Features
   Help Metadata
   Language Structure
   Loadable Functions
   Plugins
   Prepared Statements
   Replication Statements
   Storage Engines
   Table Maintenance
   Transactions
   Utility

mysql-26.7.1 [(none)]> HELP 'Storage Engines'
Name: 'Storage Engines'
Description:
MERGEExamples:
N
mysql-26.7.1 [(none)]> HELP 'HELP_VERSION'
Name: 'HELP_VERSION'
Description:
This help information was generated from the MySQL 9.1 Reference Manual
on: 2024-09-13 (revision: 79684)

This information applies to MySQL 9.1 through 9.1.0.

mysql-26.7.1 [(none)]> 

Suggested fix:
Correct the Storage Engines information