MySQL Bugs: #13750: Add instance_name variable to [mysqld]

Bug #13750	Add instance_name variable to [mysqld]
Submitted:	4 Oct 2005 17:17	Modified:	14 Jun 2013 17:28
Reporter:	Sharif Alexandre	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	5.0.13	OS:	Linux (Linux (RHEL 3 U1))
Assigned to:	Matthew Lord	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Is it possible to add a config variable (e.g. instance_name) that will allow each instance to be more descriptively named than mysqld1, mysqld2, etc.?  This would be especially useful when managing multiple instances on multiple nodes using mysqlmanager.

How to repeat:
Running "show instances" from within mysqlmanager simply gives mysqld, mysqld1, etc. under instance_name.  It would be more useful if it returned a configurable instance name.

Hi Sharif,

Thank you for the feature request, and for your help in making MySQL even better!

I'm closing this feature request for now, as mysqlmanager is deprecated and is being replaced with new utilities. These new utilities will have a much more rich feature set, including the use of more logical names, so I will close this for now.

Thanks again!