MySQL Bugs: #52632: update docs for changes to mysql-test-run in 5.1

Bug #52632	update docs for changes to mysql-test-run in 5.1
Submitted:	6 Apr 2010 19:55	Modified:	7 Apr 2010 12:24
Reporter:	Mark Callaghan	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Documentation	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.1.45, 5.1.47-bzr	OS:	Any
Assigned to:	Bjørn Munch	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	mtr

Description:
mysql-test-run had --script-debug in 5.0. Now it has '--verbose' and '--verbose --verbose'. This should be documented. To get a log of all processes started, --verbose --verbose should be used.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysqltest/en/mysql-test-run-pl.html

How to repeat:
na

Suggested fix:
na

The docs for --mysqld are also wrong. It does not take a comma separated string. Each string must be specified via a separate --mysqld. This does not work:
--mysqld=--foo,--bar
This does work:
--mysqld=--foo --mysqld=-bar

Indeed, --script-debug does not work any more, so documentation should be updated.

As for comma-separated list of options, it is accepted at least in some cases:

77-52-28-202:mysql-test openxs$ ./mysql-test-run.pl --mysqld=--skip-innodb,--key_buffer_size=16384
Logging: ./mysql-test-run.pl  --mysqld=--skip-innodb,--key_buffer_size=16384
100407  7:57:26 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /var/folders/dX/dXCzvuSlHX4Op1g-o1jIWk+++TI/-Tmp-/4A374LsT1B/ is case insensitive
100407  7:57:26 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
100407  7:57:26 [Note] Plugin 'ndbcluster' is disabled.
MySQL Version 5.1.47
Checking supported features...
 - using ndbcluster when necessary, mysqld supports it
 - SSL connections supported
 - binaries are debug compiled
Collecting tests...
...

Comma separation did not work for me in this case:
--mysqld=--innodb,--plugin-load=innodb=ha_innodb_plugin.so

If you do: mysql-test-run.pl --verbose --verbose ...
then you can see that it doesn't split the arguments as needed when starting the mysqld process

Moving this to the Docs team, they handle the documentation for MTR.

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been addressed in the documentation. The updated documentation will appear on our website shortly, and will be included in the next release of the relevant products.

Addedndum: note URL for new docs is here:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysqltest/2.0/en/index.html

(The link without version number still points to 1.0 but will be redirected soon)