MySQL Bugs: #68784: Provide option to define connection attributes for standard MySQL clients

Bug #68784	Provide option to define connection attributes for standard MySQL clients
Submitted:	26 Mar 2013 18:59
Reporter:	Todd Farmer (OCA)	Email Updates:
Status:	Verified	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Command-line Clients	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	5.6.10	OS:	Any
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

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Description:
The standard MySQL command-line clients (mysql, mysqldump, mysqladmin, etc.) leverage libmysql's capabilities to set connection attributes as of 5.6.  However, there is no option to allow users to pass custom key:value pairs that would be useful in their environment.  For example, letting a nightly batch job include --connection_attributes=job:nightly_billing

How to repeat:
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Suggested fix:
Implement a common command-line option that accepts user-specified connection attributes.