Bug #77207 Documentation about client attribute names is missing

• Submitted: 1 Jun 2015 11:13
• Modified: 14 Oct 2015 21:46
• Reporter: Daniël van Eeden (OCA)
• Status: Closed
• Category: MySQL Server: Documentation
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 5.7.7
• OS: Any
• CPU Architecture: Any

[1 Jun 2015 11:13] Daniël van Eeden

Description:
libmysql sends _client_name, _client_version, _os, _pid, etc. as connection attribute and many tools send program_name. However the 'standard' list of attributes is not in the documentation.

Reading the code it looks like _thread is also send on Windows.

Documenting this should also make it easier to keep these more or less in sync for different official and unofficial connectors.

How to repeat:
Read docs and compare with sourcecode and connection attributes send by different connectors

[5 Jun 2015 11:00] Chiranjeevi Battula

Hello Daniël van Eeden,

Thank you for the bug report.

Thanks,
Chiranjeevi.

[8 Jun 2015 8:35] Stefan Hinz

Posted by developer:
 
Hi Daniel, which part of the docs are you referring to? URL?

[8 Jun 2015 20:32] Daniël van Eeden

I used this google search to try and find documentation about which connection attributes are sent
site:dev.mysql.com/doc/refman "_client_name" 

Some URLs where I might expect this information:
- https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-options4.html
- https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/session-account-connect-attrs-table.html

[14 Oct 2015 21:46] Paul DuBois

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been addressed in the documentation. The updated documentation will appear on our website shortly.

Connection attributes now listed here:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/performance-schema-connection-attribute-tables.html
and cross referenced to there from the connection-attribute table sections and mysql_options{,4}()
sections.