Bug #30334 Is expire_logs_days really a session variable?
Submitted: 9 Aug 2007 14:58 Modified: 21 Aug 2007 17:23
Reporter: Baron Schwartz (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version: OS:Any
Assigned to: Peter Lavin CPU Architecture:Any

[9 Aug 2007 14:58] Baron Schwartz 
Description:
According to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqld-option-tables.html, expire_logs_days has both global and session scope, which seems odd to me.  What effect would a session-scoped expire_logs_days have?

How to repeat:
Doc bug.
[9 Aug 2007 15:23] MySQL Verification Team 
Thank you for the bug report.
[10 Aug 2007 13:21] Baron Schwartz 
A related note: Exec_Master_Log_Pos, Read_Master_Log_Pos, and some other similar variables on http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/server-status-variables.html are shown with dual status scope.
[10 Aug 2007 13:55] Baron Schwartz 
In fact, I'm running a MySQL 6.0 Alpha sandbox, and in the output of SHOW STATUS I don't see a bunch of the status variables in http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/server-status-variables.html:

- Anything to do with slave status
- Any of the have_% variables -- I think these are from SHOW VARIABLES

I had assumed these were added to 5.1 and hence 6.0, so I didn't comment on this before, but now I don't see them.

Apologies if this is too many things in one bug report, but I have a feeling these tables might all be generated from some include files that got a little mixed up.
[21 Aug 2007 17:23] Peter Lavin 
Scope corrected by Paul -- see previous comment.

Removed %_Log_pos variables.