MySQL Bugs: #38406: Default Federated engine avaliability change

Bug #38406	Default Federated engine avaliability change
Submitted:	28 Jul 2008 14:44	Modified:	29 Jul 2008 11:36
Reporter:	Anton Avramov	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed
Category:	Server: Docs	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.0, 5.1, 6.0	OS:	Any
Assigned to:	Jon Stephens	Target Version:
Tags:	5.1.25, 5.1.26, federated, engine
Triage:	D4 (Minor)

Description:
In build 5.1.26 the default behavior for federated engine was changed from enabled by
default to disabled by default as per:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-26.html 

However the section for federated tables in the doc:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/federated-storage-engine.html 
states that the only think you need to do is compile the code with option for federated.

Since the change was very sudden to me, when I've upgraded from 5.1.25 to 5.1.26, it
would be nice to have a warning in the doc about this change and to extend the doc about
the new parameter in my.ini or the command line, about enabling the federated engine.

How to repeat:
Just have a look in the doc

Reassigning to Jon. Thanks, Jon.

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been addressed in the documentation. The
updated documentation will appear on our website shortly, and will be included in the
next release of the relevant products.