MySQL Bugs: #39209: Federated Engine not bundled in 5.1.26

Bug #39209	Federated Engine not bundled in 5.1.26
Submitted:	3 Sep 2008 10:23	Modified:	3 Sep 2008 15:40
Reporter:	Gary Jessop	Email Updates:
Status:	Can't repeat	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Federated storage engine	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.1.26	OS:	Linux
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	--federated, 5.1.26, federated

Description:
The federated storage engine was disabled as of 5.1.26, but the online manual explains that this can be enabled using --federated.

So far, I have tried to start the x86 and AMD64 RPM versions with the following ommand:-

/etc/init.d/./mysql start --federated 

This command still worked on versions prior to this, but the error log is showing:-

/usr/sbin/mysqld: unknown option '--federated' 

How to repeat:
Install generic RPM as in description and start the server with the option '--federated'

Thank you for a problem report. I can not repeat it with 5.1.30 built from current sources, so the bug is fixed already, it seems:

openxs@suse:/home2/openxs/dbs/5.1> bin/mysqld_safe --federated &
[1] 6666
openxs@suse:/home2/openxs/dbs/5.1> 080809 02:32:43 mysqld_safe Logging to '/home2/openxs/dbs/5.1/var/suse.err'.
080809 02:32:43 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /home2/openxs/dbs/5.1/var

openxs@suse:/home2/openxs/dbs/5.1> bin/mysql -uroot test
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1
Server version: 5.1.30-debug Source distribution

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> show engines;
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+-----+------------+
| Engine     | Support | Comment                                                        | Transactions | XA  | Savepoints |
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+-----+------------+
| InnoDB     | YES     | Supports transactions, row-level locking, and foreign keys     | YES          | YES | YES        |
| MRG_MYISAM | YES     | Collection of identical MyISAM tables                          | NO           | NO  | NO         |
| BLACKHOLE  | YES     | /dev/null storage engine (anything you write to it disappears) | NO           | NO  | NO         |
| CSV        | YES     | CSV storage engine                                             | NO           | NO  | NO         |
| MEMORY     | YES     | Hash based, stored in memory, useful for temporary tables      | NO           | NO  | NO         |
| FEDERATED  | YES     | Federated MySQL storage engine                                 | NO           | NO  | NO         |
| ARCHIVE    | YES     | Archive storage engine                                         | NO           | NO  | NO         |
| MyISAM     | DEFAULT | Default engine as of MySQL 3.23 with great performance         | NO           | NO  | NO         |
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+-----+------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)