Bug #71354 What "InnoDB system table" manual means?
Submitted: 12 Jan 2014 17:07 Modified: 29 Jan 2014 23:42
Reporter: Valeriy Kravchuk Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.6 OS:Any
Assigned to: Daniel Price CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: information_schema, innodb_sys_foreign

[12 Jan 2014 17:07] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Description:
Manual page about I_S.INNODB_SYS_FOREIGN table, http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-sys-foreign-table.html, says:

"Since the INFORMATION_SCHEMA is a general-purpose way to monitor the MySQL server, use this table rather than the corresponding InnoDB system table for any new monitoring application you develop."

I wonder what exact "InnoDB system table" it means and how one could access it in old monitoring applications?

How to repeat:
Read the manual and try to guess or find out what exact "InnoDB system table" (that could be used in the past to get information about foreign keys) it means.

Suggested fix:
Try to be more specific or remove this phrase entirely as meaningless in context of MySQL server.
[13 Jan 2014 5:16] MySQL Verification Team 
Hello Valeriy,

Thank you for the bug report. 

Thanks,
Umesh
[29 Jan 2014 23:42] Daniel Price 
The content in question has been removed. The update will appear soon, with the next published documentation build.

Thank you for the bug report.