MySQL Bugs: #44924: slave_exec_mode missing from variable descriptions

Bug #44924	slave_exec_mode missing from variable descriptions
Submitted:	18 May 2009 4:46	Modified:	28 May 2009 5:31
Reporter:	Arjen Lentz	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed
Category:	Server: Docs	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.1+	OS:	Any
Assigned to:	Jon Stephens	Target Version:
Tags:	slave-exec-mode
Triage:	Needs Triage: D4 (Minor)

Description:
The slave-exec-mode option shows up in SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES and also
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/server-parameters.html but does not appear to be
described in for instance http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/server-options.html

How to repeat:
see referred docs pages

Suggested fix:
document existing options. thanks!

This option is described on a separate page, with other replication-related options. Check
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/replication-options-slave.html#sysvar_slave_exec_mo...,
please.

Thanks for your response Valeriy. But look, it's not clear from the server variables page.
And the page you refer to does not show up in a search for the variable, either. So how is
a user to know?

Also, the description is incomplete: "IDEMPOTENT mode causes suppression of some errors,
including duplicate-key and no-key-found errors."
"some errors" ?  We need to *exactly* which errors are suppressed. Obviously.
Thanks.

All mysqld options are listed in the big table at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysqld-option-tables.html (substitute release
series number in the URL as necessary). mysqld options relating to Replication and MySQL
Cluster are actually described in full elsewhere, but the full descriptions are linked
from that table.

Changed wording so as not to raise questions.