Bug #71742 SHOW CONTRIBUTORS gone from MySQL 5.6, still shows up in HELP SHOW

• Submitted: 16 Feb 2014 23:14
• Modified: 16 Feb 2014 23:16
• Reporter: Sheeri Cabral (Candidate Quality Contributor)
• Status: Not a Bug
• Category: MySQL Server: Command-line Clients
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 5.6
• OS: Any
• CPU Architecture: Any

[16 Feb 2014 23:14] Sheeri Cabral

Description:
While SHOW CONTRIBUTORS was deprecated in MySQL 5.6, HELP SHOW still shows it as valid.

How to repeat:
mysql> help show
Name: 'SHOW'
Description:
SHOW has many forms that provide information about databases, tables,
columns, or status information about the server. This section describes
those following:

SHOW AUTHORS
SHOW {BINARY | MASTER} LOGS
SHOW BINLOG EVENTS [IN 'log_name'] [FROM pos] [LIMIT [offset,] row_count]
SHOW CHARACTER SET [like_or_where]
SHOW COLLATION [like_or_where]
SHOW [FULL] COLUMNS FROM tbl_name [FROM db_name] [like_or_where]
SHOW CONTRIBUTORS
SHOW CREATE DATABASE db_name
....

mysql> SHOW CONTRIBUTORS;
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'CONTRIBUTORS' at line 1

Suggested fix:
Remove "SHOW CONTRIBUTORS" from the help text.

[16 Feb 2014 23:16] Sheeri Cabral

5.6.9 rc still had the text in HELP SHOW, but on further reflection, 5.6.12 does not have it in the HELP SHOW Test.