Bug #71447 Manual for MySQL 5.5 mentions 5.6 feature and has useless page about it

• Submitted: 21 Jan 2014 16:47
• Modified: 22 Jan 2014 18:43
• Reporter: Valeriy Kravchuk
• Status: Closed
• Category: MySQL Server: Documentation
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 5.5
• OS: Any
• Assigned to: Daniel Price
• CPU Architecture: Any
• Tags: innodb, innodb_undo_*

[21 Jan 2014 16:47] Valeriy Kravchuk

Description:
This manual page, http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/innodb-tablespace.html, lists the following item among others:

...
14.3.8.5. Moving the Undo Log out of the System Tablespace
...

That link leads to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/tablespace-splitting-undo.html (note 5.5 in the URL still) that is the same as http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/tablespace-splitting-undo.html (but without a number generated for a subsection that, surely, just does not exist in the manual for 5.5)

Last time I checked this was a new feature of MySQL 5.6...

How to repeat:
Try to move undo log(s) out of the system tablespace on MySQL 5.5, as manual suggests...

Suggested fix:
Remove link to 5.6 feature from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/innodb-tablespace.html and remove useless page http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/tablespace-splitting-undo.html

[21 Jan 2014 18:02] Sveta Smirnova

Thank you for the report.

Verified as described.

[22 Jan 2014 18:42] Daniel Price

Posted by developer:
 
The section has been removed. The update will appear in the next documentation build.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/innodb-tablespace.html

Thank you for the bug report.