Bug #68623 ISAM Log documentation.

• Submitted: 10 Mar 2013 11:52
• Modified: 16 Jul 2015 21:16
• Reporter: Daniël van Eeden (OCA)
• Status: Won't fix
• Category: MySQL Server: Documentation
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 5.6.10
• OS: Any
• Assigned to: Paul DuBois
• CPU Architecture: Any

[10 Mar 2013 11:52] Daniël van Eeden

Description:
Pages: 
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/myisamlog.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/server-system-variables.html

The documenation is not clear about:
- If ISAM logging is still supported
- If ISAM logging is deperecated

The documentation lacks:
- An complete example about the myisamlog utility
- Description for the log-isam variable
- Description on the myisamlog page about how to enable isam logging.

How to repeat:
Read docs.

Suggested fix:
Declare ISAM logging as obsolete and then remove this feature (including myisamlog utility).
If it still serves a purpose: Improve documentation.

[10 Mar 2013 11:54] Daniël van Eeden

The only related bug I could find is Bug #13739
But that bug doesn't have any real documentation attached.

[11 Mar 2013 9:48] Erlend Dahl

Thank you for the bug report.

[11 Mar 2013 11:14] Daniël van Eeden

There is a bit of information available:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/server-options.html#option_mysqld_log-isam
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysqld-version-reference/en/mysqld-version-reference-optvar.html

This however doesn't completely fix this bug.

[22 Apr 2013 18:07] Paul DuBois

Very little-used program. Long term, it will be deprecated.
Therefore, closing this bug.

[12 Jun 2013 20:15] Daniël van Eeden

Shouldn't the options be marked as deprecated in the manual then?

I would love to see the utility and functionality removed in 5.7.

[16 Jul 2015 21:16] Daniël van Eeden

For 5.7.8:
- log-isam is still accepted by mysqld
- the documentation is still present
- myisamlog utility is still present