Bug #57628 remove the useless -log suffix from server version

• Submitted: 21 Oct 2010 12:47
• Modified: 14 Feb 2018 12:22
• Reporter: Shane Bester (Platinum Quality Contributor)
• Status: Duplicate
• Category: MySQL Server: General
• Severity: S4 (Feature request)
• Version: 5.5
• OS: Any
• CPU Architecture: Any

[21 Oct 2010 12:47] Shane Bester

Description:
in the function static void set_server_version(void)
we add a "-log" to the server's version.

this is useless because it's still not possible to tell anything from it.
all you can say is at least one of the following are enabled, but not which:
slow log, binary log, general query log, update log.

How to repeat:
try determine for sure if binary logging or general query logging is enabled
by looking at "select version();" output.  you cannot.

Suggested fix:
remove "-log" in the version.
for now, update the docs.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/information-functions.html#function_version

[4 Feb 2013 19:15] MySQL Verification Team

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2013/02/03/why-does-mysqls-version-comment-change-when-logging-i...

[14 Feb 2018 12:22] Erlend Dahl

Fixed in 8.0.5, Bug#89626 remove -log from the server version string. Mark this as a duplicate.

[19 Mar 2018 18:22] Paul DuBois

Bug#89626 was fixed in 8.0.11.