-
automatic_sp_privileges
When this variable has a value of 1 (the default), the server automatically grants the EXECUTE
and ALTER ROUTINE
privileges to the creator of a stored routine, if the user cannot already execute and alter or drop the routine. (The ALTER ROUTINE
privilege is required to drop the routine.) The server also automatically drops those privileges when the creator drops the routine. If automatic_sp_privileges
is 0, the server does not automatically add or drop these privileges.
-
back_log
The number of outstanding connection requests MySQL can have. This comes into play when the main MySQL thread gets very many connection requests in a very short time. It then takes some time (although very little) for the main thread to check the connection and start a new thread. The back_log
value indicates how many requests can be stacked during this short time before MySQL momentarily stops answering new requests. You need to increase this only if you expect a large number of connections in a short period of time.
In other words, this value is the size of the listen queue for incoming TCP/IP connections. Your operating system has its own limit on the size of this queue. The manual page for the Unix listen()
system call should have more details. Check your OS documentation for the maximum value for this variable. back_log
cannot be set higher than your operating system limit.
-
basedir
The MySQL installation base directory. This variable can be set with the --basedir
option. Relative path names for other variables usually are resolved relative to the base directory.
-
bulk_insert_buffer_size
MyISAM
uses a special tree-like cache to make bulk inserts faster for INSERT ... SELECT
, INSERT ... VALUES (...), (...), ...
, and LOAD DATA INFILE
when adding data to non-empty tables. This variable limits the size of the cache tree in bytes per thread. Setting it to 0 disables this optimization. The default value is 8MB.
-
character_set_client
The character set for statements that arrive from the client. The session value of this variable is set using the character set requested by the client when the client connects to the server. (Many clients support a --default-character-set
option to enable this character set to be specified explicitly. See also Section 9.1.4, “Connection Character Sets and Collations”.) The global value of the variable is used to set the session value in cases when the client-requested value is unknown or not available, or the server is configured to ignore client requests:
-
The client is from a version of MySQL older than MySQL 4.1, and thus does not request a character set.
-
The client requests a character set not known to the server. For example, a Japanese-enabled client requests sjis
when connecting to a server not configured with sjis
support.
-
mysqld was started with the --skip-character-set-client-handshake
option, which causes it to ignore client character set configuration. This reproduces MySQL 4.0 behavior and is useful should you wish to upgrade the server without upgrading all the clients.
-
character_set_connection
The character set used for literals that do not have a character set introducer and for number-to-string conversion.
-
character_set_database
The character set used by the default database. The server sets this variable whenever the default database changes. If there is no default database, the variable has the same value as character_set_server
.
-
character_set_filesystem
The file system character set. This variable is used to interpret string literals that refer to file names, such as in the LOAD DATA INFILE
and SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE
statements and the LOAD_FILE()
function. Such file names are converted from character_set_client
to character_set_filesystem
before the file opening attempt occurs. The default value is binary
, which means that no conversion occurs. For systems on which multi-byte file names are allowed, a different value may be more appropriate. For example, if the system represents file names using UTF-8, set character_set_filesystem
to 'utf8'
. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.6.
-
character_set_results
The character set used for returning query results to the client.
-
character_set_server
The server's default character set.
-
character_set_system
The character set used by the server for storing identifiers. The value is always utf8
.
-
character_sets_dir
The directory where character sets are installed.
-
collation_connection
The collation of the connection character set.
-
collation_database
The collation used by the default database. The server sets this variable whenever the default database changes. If there is no default database, the variable has the same value as collation_server
.
-
collation_server
The server's default collation.
-
completion_type
The transaction completion type:
-
If the value is 0 (the default), COMMIT
and ROLLBACK
are unaffected.
-
If the value is 1, COMMIT
and ROLLBACK
are equivalent to COMMIT AND CHAIN
and ROLLBACK AND CHAIN
, respectively. (A new transaction starts immediately with the same isolation level as the just-terminated transaction.)
-
If the value is 2, COMMIT
and ROLLBACK
are equivalent to COMMIT RELEASE
and ROLLBACK RELEASE
, respectively. (The server disconnects after terminating the transaction.)
-
concurrent_insert
If 1 (the default), MySQL allows INSERT
and SELECT
statements to run concurrently for MyISAM
tables that have no free blocks in the middle of the data file. You can turn this option off by starting mysqld with --safe-mode
or --skip-new
.
This variable can take three integer values.
See also Section 7.3.3, “Concurrent Inserts”.
-
connect_timeout
The number of seconds that the mysqld server waits for a connect packet before responding with Bad handshake
. The default value is 10 seconds as of MySQL 5.1.23 and 5 seconds before that.
Increasing the connect_timeout
value might help if clients frequently encounter errors of the form Lost connection to MySQL server at 'XXX
', system error: errno
.
-
datadir
The MySQL data directory. This variable can be set with the --datadir
option.
-
date_format
This variable is unused.
-
datetime_format
This variable is unused.
-
debug
This variable indicates the current debugging settings. It is available only for servers built with debugging support. The initial value comes from the value of instances of the --debug
option given at server startup. The global and session values may be set at runtime; the SUPER
privilege is required, even for the session value.
Assigning a value that begins with +
or -
cause the value to added to or subtracted from the current value:
mysql> SET debug = 'T';
mysql> SELECT @@debug;
+---------+
| @@debug |
+---------+
| T |
+---------+
mysql> SET debug = '+P';
mysql> SELECT @@debug;
+---------+
| @@debug |
+---------+
| P:T |
+---------+
mysql> SET debug = '-P';
mysql> SELECT @@debug;
+---------+
| @@debug |
+---------+
| T |
+---------+
This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.7.
-
default_week_format
The default mode value to use for the WEEK()
function. See Section 11.6, “Date and Time Functions”.
-
delay_key_write
This option applies only to MyISAM
tables. It can have one of the following values to affect handling of the DELAY_KEY_WRITE
table option that can be used in CREATE TABLE
statements.
If DELAY_KEY_WRITE
is enabled for a table, the key buffer is not flushed for the table on every index update, but only when the table is closed. This speeds up writes on keys a lot, but if you use this feature, you should add automatic checking of all MyISAM
tables by starting the server with the --myisam-recover
option (for example, --myisam-recover=BACKUP,FORCE
). See Section 5.1.2, “Server Command Options”, and Section 13.5.1, “MyISAM
Startup Options”.
Warning
If you enable external locking with --external-locking
, there is no protection against index corruption for tables that use delayed key writes.
-
delayed_insert_limit
After inserting delayed_insert_limit
delayed rows, the INSERT DELAYED
handler thread checks whether there are any SELECT
statements pending. If so, it allows them to execute before continuing to insert delayed rows.
-
delayed_insert_timeout
How many seconds an INSERT DELAYED
handler thread should wait for INSERT
statements before terminating.
-
delayed_queue_size
This is a per-table limit on the number of rows to queue when handling INSERT DELAYED
statements. If the queue becomes full, any client that issues an INSERT DELAYED
statement waits until there is room in the queue again.
-
div_precision_increment
This variable indicates the number of digits by which to increase the scale of the result of division operations performed with the /
operator. The default value is 4. The minimum and maximum values are 0 and 30, respectively. The following example illustrates the effect of increasing the default value.
mysql> SELECT 1/7;
+--------+
| 1/7 |
+--------+
| 0.1429 |
+--------+
mysql> SET div_precision_increment = 12;
mysql> SELECT 1/7;
+----------------+
| 1/7 |
+----------------+
| 0.142857142857 |
+----------------+
-
engine_condition_pushdown
When the value of this variable is 0 (OFF
), a query such as SELECT * FROM t WHERE mycol = 42
, where mycol
is a non-indexed column, is executed as a full table scan. The storage engine sends every row to the MySQL server, which applies the WHERE
condition. If engine_condition_pushdown
is set to 1 (ON
), the condition is “pushed down” to the storage engine, which uses the condition to perform the scan, and sends back to the MySQL server only those rows that match the condition. By default, this variable is OFF
.
In MySQL 5.1, this variable is useful only with the NDBCLUSTER
storage engine. However, we intend to implement it for additional storage engines in future MySQL releases.
Setting this variable to ON
on a MySQL Server acting as a MySQL Cluster SQL node causes WHERE
conditions on unindexed columns to be evaluated on the cluster's data nodes and only the rows that match to be sent back to the SQL node that issued the query. This means the amount of cluster data that must be sent over the network is greatly reduced, increasing the efficiency with which results are returned.
For more information, see Section 7.2.7, “Condition Pushdown Optimization”.
-
event_scheduler
This variable indicates the status of the Event Scheduler; as of MySQL 5.1.12, possible values are ON
, OFF
, and DISABLED
, with the default being OFF
. This variable and its effects on the Event Scheduler's operation are discussed in greater detail in the Overview section of the Events chapter.
This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.6.
-
expire_logs_days
The number of days for automatic binary log removal. The default is 0, which means “no automatic removal.” Possible removals happen at startup and at binary log rotation.
-
flush
If ON
, the server flushes (synchronizes) all changes to disk after each SQL statement. Normally, MySQL does a write of all changes to disk only after each SQL statement and lets the operating system handle the synchronizing to disk. See Section B.1.4.2, “What to Do If MySQL Keeps Crashing”. This variable is set to ON
if you start mysqld with the --flush
option.
-
flush_time
If this is set to a non-zero value, all tables are closed every flush_time
seconds to free up resources and synchronize unflushed data to disk. We recommend that this option be used only on Windows 9x or Me, or on systems with minimal resources.
-
ft_boolean_syntax
The list of operators supported by boolean full-text searches performed using IN BOOLEAN MODE
. See Section 11.8.2, “Boolean Full-Text Searches”.
The default variable value is '+ -><()~*:""&|'
. The rules for changing the value are as follows:
-
Operator function is determined by position within the string.
-
The replacement value must be 14 characters.
-
Each character must be an ASCII non-alphanumeric character.
-
Either the first or second character must be a space.
-
No duplicates are allowed except the phrase quoting operators in positions 11 and 12. These two characters are not required to be the same, but they are the only two that may be.
-
Positions 10, 13, and 14 (which by default are set to “:
”, “&
”, and “|
”) are reserved for future extensions.
-
ft_max_word_len
The maximum length of the word to be included in a FULLTEXT
index.
Note
FULLTEXT
indexes must be rebuilt after changing this variable. Use REPAIR TABLE tbl_name
QUICK
.
-
ft_min_word_len
The minimum length of the word to be included in a FULLTEXT
index.
Note
FULLTEXT
indexes must be rebuilt after changing this variable. Use REPAIR TABLE tbl_name
QUICK
.
-
ft_query_expansion_limit
The number of top matches to use for full-text searches performed using WITH QUERY EXPANSION
.
-
ft_stopword_file
The file from which to read the list of stopwords for full-text searches. All the words from the file are used; comments are not honored. By default, a built-in list of stopwords is used (as defined in the storage/myisam/ft_static.c
file). Setting this variable to the empty string (''
) disables stopword filtering.
Note
FULLTEXT
indexes must be rebuilt after changing this variable or the contents of the stopword file. Use REPAIR TABLE tbl_name
QUICK
.
-
general_log
Whether the general query log is enabled. The value can be 0 (or OFF
) to disable the log or 1 (or ON
) to enable the log. The default value depends on whether the --general_log
option is given (--log
before MySQL 5.1.29). The destination for log output is controlled by the log_output
system variable; if that value is NONE
, no log entries are written even if the log is enabled. The general_log
variable was added in MySQL 5.1.12.
-
general_log_file
The name of the general query log file. The default value is host_name
.log
, but the initial value can be changed with the --general_log_file
option (--log
before MySQL 5.1.29). This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.12.
-
group_concat_max_len
The maximum allowed result length in bytes for the GROUP_CONCAT()
function. The default is 1024.
-
have_archive
YES
if mysqld supports ARCHIVE
tables, NO
if not. This variable was removed in MySQL 5.1.14.
-
have_blackhole_engine
YES
if mysqld supports BLACKHOLE
tables, NO
if not. This variable was removed in MySQL 5.1.14.
-
have_compress
YES
if the zlib
compression library is available to the server, NO
if not. If not, the COMPRESS()
and UNCOMPRESS()
functions cannot be used.
-
have_crypt
YES
if the crypt()
system call is available to the server, NO
if not. If not, the ENCRYPT()
function cannot be used.
-
have_csv
YES
if mysqld supports ARCHIVE
tables, NO
if not.
-
have_dynamic_loading
YES
if mysqld supports dynamic loading of plugins, NO
if not. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.10.
-
have_example_engine
YES
if mysqld supports EXAMPLE
tables, NO
if not. This variable was removed in MySQL 5.1.14.
-
have_federated_engine
YES
if mysqld supports FEDERATED
tables, NO
if not. This variable was removed in MySQL 5.1.14.
-
have_geometry
YES
if the server supports spatial data types, NO
if not.
-
have_innodb
YES
if mysqld supports InnoDB
tables. DISABLED
if --skip-innodb
is used.
-
have_isam
In MySQL 5.1, this variable appears only for reasons of backward compatibility. It is always NO
because ISAM
tables are no longer supported. This variable was removed in MySQL 5.1.7.
-
have_merge_engine
YES
if mysqld supports MERGE
tables. DISABLED
if --skip-merge
is used. This variable was removed in MySQL 5.1.3.
-
have_openssl
YES
if mysqld supports SSL connections, NO
if not. As of MySQL 5.1.17, this variable is an alias for have_ssl
.
-
have_partitioning
YES
if mysqld supports partitioning. Added in MySQL 5.1.1 as have_partition_engine
and renamed to have_partioning
in 5.1.6.
-
have_query_cache
YES
if mysqld supports the query cache, NO
if not.
-
have_row_based_replication
YES
if the server can perform replication using row-based binary logging. If the value is NO
, the server can use only statement-based logging. See Section 16.1.2, “Replication Formats”. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.5 and removed in 5.1.15.
-
have_raid
In MySQL 5.1, this variable appears only for reasons of backward compatibility. It is always NO
because RAID
tables are no longer supported. This variable was removed in MySQL 5.1.7.
-
have_rtree_keys
YES
if RTREE
indexes are available, NO
if not. (These are used for spatial indexes in MyISAM
tables.)
-
have_ssl
YES
if mysqld supports SSL connections, NO
if not. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.17. Before that, use have_openssl
.
-
have_symlink
YES
if symbolic link support is enabled, NO
if not. This is required on Unix for support of the DATA DIRECTORY
and INDEX DIRECTORY
table options, and on Windows for support of data directory symlinks.
-
hostname
The server sets this variable to the server host name at startup. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.17.
-
init_connect
A string to be executed by the server for each client that connects. The string consists of one or more SQL statements. To specify multiple statements, separate them by semicolon characters. For example, each client begins by default with autocommit mode enabled. There is no global system variable to specify that autocommit should be disabled by default, but init_connect
can be used to achieve the same effect:
SET GLOBAL init_connect='SET autocommit=0';
This variable can also be set on the command line or in an option file. To set the variable as just shown using an option file, include these lines:
[mysqld]
init_connect='SET autocommit=0'
Note that the content of init_connect
is not executed for users that have the SUPER
privilege. This is done so that an erroneous value for init_connect
does not prevent all clients from connecting. For example, the value might contain a statement that has a syntax error, thus causing client connections to fail. Not executing init_connect
for users that have the SUPER
privilege enables them to open a connection and fix the init_connect
value.
-
init_file
The name of the file specified with the --init-file
option when you start the server. This should be a file containing SQL statements that you want the server to execute when it starts. Each statement must be on a single line and should not include comments.
Note that the --init-file
option is unavailable if MySQL was configured with the --disable-grant-options
option. See Section 2.10.2, “Typical configure Options”.
-
innodb_xxx
InnoDB
system variables are listed in Section 13.6.3, “InnoDB
Startup Options and System Variables”.
-
interactive_timeout
The number of seconds the server waits for activity on an interactive connection before closing it. An interactive client is defined as a client that uses the CLIENT_INTERACTIVE
option to mysql_real_connect()
. See also wait_timeout
.
-
join_buffer_size
The size of the buffer that is used for plain index scans, range index scans, and joins that do not use indexes and thus perform full table scans. Normally, the best way to get fast joins is to add indexes. Increase the value of join_buffer_size
to get a faster full join when adding indexes is not possible. One join buffer is allocated for each full join between two tables. For a complex join between several tables for which indexes are not used, multiple join buffers might be necessary.
The maximum allowable setting for join_buffer_size
is 4GB. As of MySQL 5.1.23, values larger than 4GB are allowed for 64-bit platforms (except 64-bit Windows, for which large values are truncated to 4GB with a warning).
-
keep_files_on_create
If a MyISAM
table is created with no DATA DIRECTORY
option, the .MYD
file is created in the database directory. By default, if MyISAM
finds an existing .MYD
file in this case, it overwrites it. The same applies to .MYI
files for tables created with no INDEX DIRECTORY
option. To suppress this behavior, set the keep_files_on_create
variable to ON
(1), in which case MyISAM
will not overwrite existing files and returns an error instead. The default value is OFF
(0).
If a MyISAM
table is created with a DATA DIRECTORY
or INDEX DIRECTORY
option and an existing .MYD
or .MYI
file is found, MyISAM always returns an error. It will not overwrite a file in the specified directory.
This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.23.
-
key_buffer_size
Index blocks for MyISAM
tables are buffered and are shared by all threads. key_buffer_size
is the size of the buffer used for index blocks. The key buffer is also known as the key cache.
The maximum allowable setting for key_buffer_size
is 4GB on 32-bit platforms. As of MySQL 5.1.23, values larger than 4GB are allowed for 64-bit platforms, except 64-bit Windows prior to MySQL 5.1.31, for which large values are truncated to 4GB with a warning. As of MySQL 5.1.31, values larger than 4GB are also allowed for 64-bit Windows. The effective maximum size might be less, depending on your available physical RAM and per-process RAM limits imposed by your operating system or hardware platform. The value of this variable indicates the amount of memory requested. Internally, the server allocates as much memory as possible up to this amount, but the actual allocation might be less.
Increase the value to get better index handling (for all reads and multiple writes) to as much as you can afford. Using a value that is 25% of total memory on a machine that mainly runs MySQL is quite common. However, if you make the value too large (for example, more than 50% of your total memory) your system might start to page and become extremely slow. MySQL relies on the operating system to perform file system caching for data reads, so you must leave some room for the file system cache. Consider also the memory requirements of other storage engines.
For even more speed when writing many rows at the same time, use LOCK TABLES
. See Section 7.2.21, “Speed of INSERT
Statements”.
You can check the performance of the key buffer by issuing a SHOW STATUS
statement and examining the Key_read_requests
, Key_reads
, Key_write_requests
, and Key_writes
status variables. (See Section 12.5.5, “SHOW
Syntax”.) The Key_reads/Key_read_requests
ratio should normally be less than 0.01. The Key_writes/Key_write_requests
ratio is usually near 1 if you are using mostly updates and deletes, but might be much smaller if you tend to do updates that affect many rows at the same time or if you are using the DELAY_KEY_WRITE
table option.
The fraction of the key buffer in use can be determined using key_buffer_size
in conjunction with the Key_blocks_unused
status variable and the buffer block size, which is available from the key_cache_block_size
system variable:
1 - ((Key_blocks_unused × key_cache_block_size) / key_buffer_size)
This value is an approximation because some space in the key buffer may be allocated internally for administrative structures.
It is possible to create multiple MyISAM
key caches. The size limit of 4GB applies to each cache individually, not as a group. See Section 7.4.5, “The MyISAM
Key Cache”.
-
key_cache_age_threshold
This value controls the demotion of buffers from the hot sub-chain of a key cache to the warm sub-chain. Lower values cause demotion to happen more quickly. The minimum value is 100. The default value is 300. See Section 7.4.5, “The MyISAM
Key Cache”.
-
key_cache_block_size
The size in bytes of blocks in the key cache. The default value is 1024. See Section 7.4.5, “The MyISAM
Key Cache”.
-
key_cache_division_limit
The division point between the hot and warm sub-chains of the key cache buffer chain. The value is the percentage of the buffer chain to use for the warm sub-chain. Allowable values range from 1 to 100. The default value is 100. See Section 7.4.5, “The MyISAM
Key Cache”.
-
language
The language used for error messages.
-
large_files_support
Whether mysqld was compiled with options for large file support.
-
large_pages
Whether large page support is enabled (via the --large-pages
option). See Section 7.5.9, “Enabling Large Page Support”.
-
large_page_size
If large page support is enabled, this shows the size of memory pages. Currently, large memory pages are supported only on Linux; on other platforms, the value of this variable is always 0. See Section 7.5.9, “Enabling Large Page Support”.
-
lc_time_names
This variable specifies the locale that controls the language used to display day and month names and abbreviations. This variable affects the output from the DATE_FORMAT()
, DAYNAME()
and MONTHNAME()
functions. Locale names are POSIX-style values such as 'ja_JP'
or 'pt_BR'
. The default value is 'en_US'
regardless of your system's locale setting. For further information, see Section 9.8, “MySQL Server Locale Support”. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.12.
-
license
The type of license the server has.
-
local_infile
Whether LOCAL
is supported for LOAD DATA INFILE
statements. See Section 5.3.4, “Security Issues with LOAD DATA LOCAL
”.
-
locked_in_memory
Whether mysqld was locked in memory with --memlock
.
-
log
Whether logging of all statements to the general query log is enabled. See Section 5.2.3, “The General Query Log”.
This variable is deprecated as of MySQL 5.1.29; use general_log
instead.
-
log_bin
Whether the binary log is enabled. See Section 5.2.4, “The Binary Log”.
-
log_bin_trust_function_creators
This variable applies when binary logging is enabled. It controls whether stored function creators can be trusted not to create stored functions that will cause unsafe events to be written to the binary log. If set to 0 (the default), users are not allowed to create or alter stored functions unless they have the SUPER
privilege in addition to the CREATE ROUTINE
or ALTER ROUTINE
privilege. A setting of 0 also enforces the restriction that a function must be declared with the DETERMINISTIC
characteristic, or with the READS SQL DATA
or NO SQL
characteristic. If the variable is set to 1, MySQL does not enforce these restrictions on stored function creation. This variable also applies to trigger creation. See Section 19.6, “Binary Logging of Stored Programs”.
-
log_error
The location of the error log.
-
log_output
The destination for general query log and slow query log output. The value can be a comma-separated list of one or more of the words TABLE
(log to tables), FILE
(log to files), or NONE
(do not log to tables or files). The default value is TABLE
. NONE
, if present, takes precedence over any other specifiers. If the value is NONE
log entries are not written even if the logs are enabled. If the logs are not enabled, no logging occurs even if the value of log_output
is not NONE
. For more information, see Section 5.2.1, “Selecting General Query and Slow Query Log Output Destinations”. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.6.
-
log_queries_not_using_indexes
Whether queries that do not use indexes are logged to the slow query log. See Section 5.2.5, “The Slow Query Log”. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.11.
-
log_slave_updates
Whether updates received by a slave server from a master server should be logged to the slave's own binary log. Binary logging must be enabled on the slave for this variable to have any effect. See Section 16.1.3, “Replication and Binary Logging Options and Variables”.
-
log_slow_queries
Whether slow queries should be logged. “Slow” is determined by the value of the long_query_time
variable. See Section 5.2.5, “The Slow Query Log”.
This variable is deprecated as of MySQL 5.1.29; use slow_query_log
instead.
-
log_warnings
Whether to produce additional warning messages. It is enabled (1) by default and can be disabled by setting it to 0. Aborted connections are not logged to the error log unless the value is greater than 1.
-
long_query_time
If a query takes longer than this many seconds, the server increments the Slow_queries
status variable. If the slow query log is enabled, the query is logged to the slow query log file. This value is measured in real time, not CPU time, so a query that is under the threshold on a lightly loaded system might be above the threshold on a heavily loaded one. Prior to MySQL 5.1.21, the minimum value is 1, and the value for this variable must be an integer. Beginning with MySQL 5.1.21, the minimum is 0, and a resolution of microseconds is supported when logging to a file. However, the microseconds part is ignored and only integer values are written when logging to tables. The default value is 10. See Section 5.2.5, “The Slow Query Log”.
-
low_priority_updates
If set to 1
, all INSERT
, UPDATE
, DELETE
, and LOCK TABLE WRITE
statements wait until there is no pending SELECT
or LOCK TABLE READ
on the affected table. This affects only storage engines that use only table-level locking (MyISAM
, MEMORY
, MERGE
). This variable previously was named sql_low_priority_updates
.
-
lower_case_file_system
This variable describes the case sensitivity of file names on the file system where the data directory is located. OFF
means file names are case sensitive, ON
means they are not case sensitive.
-
lower_case_table_names
If set to 1, table names are stored in lowercase on disk and table name comparisons are not case sensitive. If set to 2 table names are stored as given but compared in lowercase. This option also applies to database names and table aliases. See Section 8.2.2, “Identifier Case Sensitivity”.
If you are using InnoDB
tables, you should set this variable to 1 on all platforms to force names to be converted to lowercase.
You should not set this variable to 0 if you are running MySQL on a system that does not have case-sensitive file names (such as Windows or Mac OS X). If this variable is not set at startup and the file system on which the data directory is located does not have case-sensitive file names, MySQL automatically sets lower_case_table_names
to 2.
-
max_allowed_packet
The maximum size of one packet or any generated/intermediate string.
The packet message buffer is initialized to net_buffer_length
bytes, but can grow up to max_allowed_packet
bytes when needed. This value by default is small, to catch large (possibly incorrect) packets.
You must increase this value if you are using large BLOB
columns or long strings. It should be as big as the largest BLOB
you want to use. The protocol limit for max_allowed_packet
is 1GB. The value should be a multiple of 1024; non-multiples are rounded down to the nearest multiple.
When you change the message buffer size by changing the value of the max_allowed_packet
variable, you should also change the buffer size on the client side if your client program allows it. On the client side, max_allowed_packet
has a default of 1GB. Some programs such as mysql and mysqldump enable you to change the client-side value by setting max_allowed_packet
on the command line or in an option file.
As of MySQL 5.1.31, the session value of this variable is read only. Before 5.1.31, setting the session value is allowed but has no effect.
-
max_connect_errors
If there are more than this number of interrupted connections from a host, that host is blocked from further connections. You can unblock blocked hosts with the FLUSH HOSTS
statement.
-
max_connections
The number of simultaneous client connections allowed. By default, this is 151, beginning with MySQL 5.1.15. (Previously, the default was 100.) See Section B.1.2.7, “Too many connections
”, for more information.
MySQL Enterprise. For notification that the maximum number of connections is getting dangerously high and for advice on setting the optimum value for max_connections
subscribe to the MySQL Enterprise Monitor. For more information, see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/advisors.html.
Increasing this value increases the number of file descriptors that mysqld requires. See Section 7.4.7, “How MySQL Opens and Closes Tables”, for comments on file descriptor limits.
-
max_delayed_threads
Do not start more than this number of threads to handle INSERT DELAYED
statements. If you try to insert data into a new table after all INSERT DELAYED
threads are in use, the row is inserted as if the DELAYED
attribute wasn't specified. If you set this to 0, MySQL never creates a thread to handle DELAYED
rows; in effect, this disables DELAYED
entirely.
For the SESSION
value of this variable, the only valid values are 0 or the GLOBAL
value.
-
max_error_count
The maximum number of error, warning, and note messages to be stored for display by the SHOW ERRORS
and SHOW WARNINGS
statements.
-
max_heap_table_size
This variable sets the maximum size to which MEMORY
tables are allowed to grow. The value of the variable is used to calculate MEMORY
table MAX_ROWS
values. Setting this variable has no effect on any existing MEMORY
table, unless the table is re-created with a statement such as CREATE TABLE
or altered with ALTER TABLE
or TRUNCATE TABLE
. A server restart also sets the maximum size of existing MEMORY
tables to the global max_heap_table_size
value.
Note
On 64-bit platforms, the maximum value for this variable is 1844674407370954752.
MySQL Enterprise. Subscribers to the MySQL Enterprise Monitor receive recommendations for the optimum setting for max_heap_table_size
. For more information, see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/advisors.html.
-
max_insert_delayed_threads
This variable is a synonym for max_delayed_threads
.
-
max_join_size
Do not allow SELECT
statements that probably need to examine more than max_join_size
rows (for single-table statements) or row combinations (for multiple-table statements) or that are likely to do more than max_join_size
disk seeks. By setting this value, you can catch SELECT
statements where keys are not used properly and that would probably take a long time. Set it if your users tend to perform joins that lack a WHERE
clause, that take a long time, or that return millions of rows.
Setting this variable to a value other than DEFAULT
resets the value of sql_big_selects
to 0
. If you set the sql_big_selects
value again, the max_join_size
variable is ignored.
If a query result is in the query cache, no result size check is performed, because the result has previously been computed and it does not burden the server to send it to the client.
This variable previously was named sql_max_join_size
.
-
max_length_for_sort_data
The cutoff on the size of index values that determines which filesort
algorithm to use. See Section 7.2.13, “ORDER BY
Optimization”.
-
max_prepared_stmt_count
This variable limits the total number of prepared statements in the server. It can be used in environments where there is the potential for denial-of-service attacks based on running the server out of memory by preparing huge numbers of statements. If the value is set lower than the current number of prepared statements, existing statements are not affected and can be used, but no new statements can be prepared until the current number drops below the limit. The default value is 16,382. The allowable range of values is from 0 to 1 million. Setting the value to 0 disables prepared statements. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.10.
-
max_relay_log_size
If a write by a replication slave to its relay log causes the current log file size to exceed the value of this variable, the slave rotates the relay logs (closes the current file and opens the next one). If max_relay_log_size
is 0, the server uses max_binlog_size
for both the binary log and the relay log. If max_relay_log_size
is greater than 0, it constrains the size of the relay log, which enables you to have different sizes for the two logs. You must set max_relay_log_size
to between 4096 bytes and 1GB (inclusive), or to 0. The default value is 0. See Section 16.4.1, “Replication Implementation Details”.
-
max_seeks_for_key
Limit the assumed maximum number of seeks when looking up rows based on a key. The MySQL optimizer assumes that no more than this number of key seeks are required when searching for matching rows in a table by scanning an index, regardless of the actual cardinality of the index (see Section 12.5.5.23, “SHOW INDEX
Syntax”). By setting this to a low value (say, 100), you can force MySQL to prefer indexes instead of table scans.
-
max_sort_length
The number of bytes to use when sorting BLOB
or TEXT
values. Only the first max_sort_length
bytes of each value are used; the rest are ignored.
-
max_sp_recursion_depth
The number of times that any given stored procedure may be called recursively. The default value for this option is 0, which completely disallows recursion in stored procedures. The maximum value is 255.
Stored procedure recursion increases the demand on thread stack space. If you increase the value of max_sp_recursion_depth
, it may be necessary to increase thread stack size by increasing the value of thread_stack
at server startup.
-
max_tmp_tables
The maximum number of temporary tables a client can keep open at the same time. (This option does not yet do anything.)
-
max_user_connections
The maximum number of simultaneous connections allowed to any given MySQL account. A value of 0 means “no limit.”
This variable has both a global scope and a (read-only) session scope. The session variable has the same value as the global variable unless the current account has a non-zero MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS
resource limit. In that case, the session value reflects the account limit.
-
max_write_lock_count
After this many write locks, allow some pending read lock requests to be processed in between.
-
min_examined_row_limit
Queries that examine fewer than this number of rows are not logged to the slow query log. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.21.
-
myisam_data_pointer_size
The default pointer size in bytes, to be used by CREATE TABLE
for MyISAM
tables when no MAX_ROWS
option is specified. This variable cannot be less than 2 or larger than 7. The default value is 6. See Section B.1.2.12, “The table is full
”.
-
myisam_max_sort_file_size
The maximum size of the temporary file that MySQL is allowed to use while re-creating a MyISAM
index (during REPAIR TABLE
, ALTER TABLE
, or LOAD DATA INFILE
). If the file size would be larger than this value, the index is created using the key cache instead, which is slower. The value is given in bytes.
The default value is 2GB. If MyISAM
index files exceed this size and disk space is available, increasing the value may help performance.
-
myisam_recover_options
The value of the --myisam-recover
option. See Section 5.1.2, “Server Command Options”.
-
myisam_repair_threads
If this value is greater than 1, MyISAM
table indexes are created in parallel (each index in its own thread) during the Repair by sorting
process. The default value is 1.
Note
Multi-threaded repair is still beta-quality code.
-
myisam_sort_buffer_size
The size of the buffer that is allocated when sorting MyISAM
indexes during a REPAIR TABLE
or when creating indexes with CREATE INDEX
or ALTER TABLE
.
The maximum allowable setting for myisam_sort_buffer_size
is 4GB. As of MySQL 5.1.23, values larger than 4GB are allowed for 64-bit platforms (except 64-bit Windows, for which large values are truncated to 4GB with a warning).
-
myisam_stats_method
How the server treats NULL
values when collecting statistics about the distribution of index values for MyISAM
tables. This variable has three possible values, nulls_equal
, nulls_unequal
, and nulls_ignored
. For nulls_equal
, all NULL
index values are considered equal and form a single value group that has a size equal to the number of NULL
values. For nulls_unequal
, NULL
values are considered unequal, and each NULL
forms a distinct value group of size 1. For nulls_ignored
, NULL
values are ignored.
The method that is used for generating table statistics influences how the optimizer chooses indexes for query execution, as described in Section 7.4.6, “MyISAM
Index Statistics Collection”.
Any unique prefix of a valid value may be used to set the value of this variable.
-
myisam_use_mmap
Use memory mapping for reading and writing MyISAM
tables. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.4.
-
named_pipe
(Windows only.) Indicates whether the server supports connections over named pipes.
-
net_buffer_length
Each client thread is associated with a connection buffer and result buffer. Both begin with a size given by net_buffer_length
but are dynamically enlarged up to max_allowed_packet
bytes as needed. The result buffer shrinks to net_buffer_length
after each SQL statement.
This variable should not normally be changed, but if you have very little memory, you can set it to the expected length of statements sent by clients. If statements exceed this length, the connection buffer is automatically enlarged. The maximum value to which net_buffer_length
can be set is 1MB.
As of MySQL 5.1.31, the session value of this variable is read only. Before 5.1.31, setting the session value is allowed but has no effect.
-
net_read_timeout
The number of seconds to wait for more data from a connection before aborting the read. This timeout applies only to TCP/IP connections, not to connections made via Unix socket files, named pipes, or shared memory. When the server is reading from the client, net_read_timeout
is the timeout value controlling when to abort. When the server is writing to the client, net_write_timeout
is the timeout value controlling when to abort. See also slave_net_timeout
.
-
net_retry_count
If a read on a communication port is interrupted, retry this many times before giving up. This value should be set quite high on FreeBSD because internal interrupts are sent to all threads.
-
net_write_timeout
The number of seconds to wait for a block to be written to a connection before aborting the write. This timeout applies only to TCP/IP connections, not to connections made via Unix socket files, named pipes, or shared memory. See also net_read_timeout
.
-
new
This variable was used in MySQL 4.0 to turn on some 4.1 behaviors, and is retained for backward compatibility. In MySQL 5.1, its value is always OFF
.
-
old
old
is a compatibility variable. It is disabled by default, but can be enabled at startup to revert the server to behaviors present in older versions.
Currently, when old
is enabled, it changes the default scope of index hints to that used prior to MySQL 5.1.17. That is, index hints with no FOR
clause apply only to how indexes are used for row retrieval and not to resolution of ORDER BY
or GROUP BY
clauses. (See Section 12.2.8.2, “Index Hint Syntax”.) Take care about enabling this in a replication setup. With statement-based binary logging, having different modes for the master and slaves might lead to replication errors.
This variable was added as old_mode
in MySQL 5.1.17 and renamed to old
in MySQL 5.1.18.
-
old_passwords
Whether the server should use pre-4.1-style passwords for MySQL user accounts. See Section B.1.2.4, “Client does not support authentication protocol
”.
-
one_shot
This is not a variable, but it can be used when setting some variables. It is described in Section 12.5.4, “SET
Syntax”.
-
open_files_limit
The number of files that the operating system allows mysqld to open. This is the real value allowed by the system and might be different from the value you gave using the --open-files-limit
option to mysqld or mysqld_safe. The value is 0 on systems where MySQL can't change the number of open files.
-
optimizer_prune_level
Controls the heuristics applied during query optimization to prune less-promising partial plans from the optimizer search space. A value of 0 disables heuristics so that the optimizer performs an exhaustive search. A value of 1 causes the optimizer to prune plans based on the number of rows retrieved by intermediate plans.
-
optimizer_search_depth
The maximum depth of search performed by the query optimizer. Values larger than the number of relations in a query result in better query plans, but take longer to generate an execution plan for a query. Values smaller than the number of relations in a query return an execution plan quicker, but the resulting plan may be far from being optimal. If set to 0, the system automatically picks a reasonable value. If set to the maximum number of tables used in a query plus 2, the optimizer switches to the algorithm used in MySQL 5.0.0 (and previous versions) for performing searches.
-
optimizer_switch
The optimizer_switch
system variable enables control over optimizer behaviors. The value of this variable is a set of flags, each of which has a value of on
or off
to indicate whether the corresponding optimizer behavior is enabled or disabled. This variable has global and session values and be changed at runtime. The global default can be set at server startup.
To see the current set of optimizer flags, select the variable value:
mysql> SELECT @@optimizer_switch\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
@@optimizer_switch: index_merge=on,index_merge_union=on,
index_merge_sort_union=on,index_merge_intersection=on
For more information about the syntax of this variable and the optimizer behaviors that it controls, see Section 7.2.18, “Using optimizer_switch
to Control the Optimizer”.
-
pid_file
The path name of the process ID (PID) file. This variable can be set with the --pid-file
option.
-
plugin_dir
The path name of the plugin directory. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.2.
-
port
The number of the port on which the server listens for TCP/IP connections. This variable can be set with the --port
option.
-
preload_buffer_size
The size of the buffer that is allocated when preloading indexes.
-
prepared_stmt_count
The current number of prepared statements. (The maximum number of statements is given by the max_prepared_stmt_count
system variable.) This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.10. In MySQL 5.1.14, it was converted to the global Prepared_stmt_count
status variable.
-
protocol_version
The version of the client/server protocol used by the MySQL server.
-
query_alloc_block_size
The allocation size of memory blocks that are allocated for objects created during statement parsing and execution. If you have problems with memory fragmentation, it might help to increase this a bit.
-
query_cache_limit
Don't cache results that are larger than this number of bytes. The default value is 1MB.
-
query_cache_min_res_unit
The minimum size (in bytes) for blocks allocated by the query cache. The default value is 4096 (4KB). Tuning information for this variable is given in Section 7.5.5.3, “Query Cache Configuration”.
-
query_cache_size
The amount of memory allocated for caching query results. The default value is 0, which disables the query cache. The allowable values are multiples of 1024; other values are rounded down to the nearest multiple. Note that query_cache_size
bytes of memory are allocated even if query_cache_type
is set to 0. See Section 7.5.5.3, “Query Cache Configuration”, for more information.
The query cache needs a minimum size of about 40KB to allocate its structures. (The exact size depends on system architecture.) If you set the value of query_cache_size
too small, you'll get a warning, as described in Section 7.5.5.3, “Query Cache Configuration”.
-
query_cache_type
Set the query cache type. Setting the GLOBAL
value sets the type for all clients that connect thereafter. Individual clients can set the SESSION
value to affect their own use of the query cache. Possible values are shown in the following table.
This variable defaults to ON
.
Any unique prefix of a valid value may be used to set the value of this variable.
-
query_cache_wlock_invalidate
Normally, when one client acquires a WRITE
lock on a MyISAM
table, other clients are not blocked from issuing statements that read from the table if the query results are present in the query cache. Setting this variable to 1 causes acquisition of a WRITE
lock for a table to invalidate any queries in the query cache that refer to the table. This forces other clients that attempt to access the table to wait while the lock is in effect.
-
query_prealloc_size
The size of the persistent buffer used for statement parsing and execution. This buffer is not freed between statements. If you are running complex queries, a larger query_prealloc_size
value might be helpful in improving performance, because it can reduce the need for the server to perform memory allocation during query execution operations.
-
range_alloc_block_size
The size of blocks that are allocated when doing range optimization.
-
read_buffer_size
Each thread that does a sequential scan allocates a buffer of this size (in bytes) for each table it scans. If you do many sequential scans, you might want to increase this value, which defaults to 131072. The value of this variable should be a multiple of 4KB. If it is set to a value that is not a multiple of 4KB, its value will be rounded down to the nearest multiple of 4KB.
The maximum allowable setting for read_buffer_size
is 2GB.
read_buffer_size
and read_rnd_buffer_size
are not specific to any storage engine and apply in a general manner for optimization. See Section 7.5.8, “How MySQL Uses Memory”, for example.
-
read_only
This variable is off by default. When it is enabled, the server allows no updates except from users that have the SUPER
privilege or (on a slave server) from updates performed by slave threads. On a slave server, this can be useful to ensure that the slave accepts updates only from its master server and not from clients. This variable does not apply to TEMPORARY
tables, nor does it prevent the server from inserting rows into the log tables (see Section 5.2.1, “Selecting General Query and Slow Query Log Output Destinations”).
read_only
exists only as a GLOBAL
variable, so changes to its value require the SUPER
privilege. Changes to read_only
on a master server are not replicated to slave servers. The value can be set on a slave server independent of the setting on the master.
As of MySQL 5.1.15, the following conditions apply:
-
If you attempt to enable read_only
while you have any explicit locks (acquired with LOCK TABLES
) or have a pending transaction, an error occurs.
-
If you attempt to enable read_only
while other clients hold explicit table locks or have pending transactions, the attempt blocks until the locks are released and the transactions end. While the attempt to enable read_only
is pending, requests by other clients for table locks or to begin transactions also block until read_only
has been set.
-
read_only
can be enabled while you hold a global read lock (acquired with FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK
) because that does not involve table locks.
-
read_rnd_buffer_size
When reading rows in sorted order following a key-sorting operation, the rows are read through this buffer to avoid disk seeks. See Section 7.2.13, “ORDER BY
Optimization”. Setting the variable to a large value can improve ORDER BY
performance by a lot. However, this is a buffer allocated for each client, so you should not set the global variable to a large value. Instead, change the session variable only from within those clients that need to run large queries.
The maximum allowable setting for read_rnd_buffer_size
is 2GB.
read_buffer_size
and read_rnd_buffer_size
are not specific to any storage engine and apply in a general manner for optimization. See Section 7.5.8, “How MySQL Uses Memory”, for example.
-
relay_log_purge
Disables or enables automatic purging of relay log files as soon as they are not needed any more. The default value is 1 (ON
).
-
relay_log_space_limit
The maximum amount of space to use for all relay logs.
-
report_host
The value of the --report-host
option. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.24.
-
report_password
The value of the --report-password
option. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.24.
-
report_port
The value of the --report-port
option. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.24.
-
report_user
The value of the --report-user
option. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.24.
-
secure_auth
If the MySQL server has been started with the --secure-auth
option, it blocks connections from all accounts that have passwords stored in the old (pre-4.1) format. In that case, the value of this variable is ON
, otherwise it is OFF
.
You should enable this option if you want to prevent all use of passwords employing the old format (and hence insecure communication over the network).
Server startup fails with an error if this option is enabled and the privilege tables are in pre-4.1 format. See Section B.1.2.4, “Client does not support authentication protocol
”.
-
secure_file_priv
By default, this variable is empty. If set to the name of a directory, it limits the effect of the LOAD_FILE()
function and the LOAD DATA
and SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE
statements to work only with files in that directory.
This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.17.
-
server_id
The server ID, used in replication to give each master and slave a unique identity. This variable is set by the --server-id
option. For each server participating in replication, you should pick a positive integer in the range from 1 to 232 – 1 to act as that server's ID.
-
shared_memory
(Windows only.) Whether the server allows shared-memory connections.
-
shared_memory_base_name
(Windows only.) The name of shared memory to use for shared-memory connections. This is useful when running multiple MySQL instances on a single physical machine. The default name is MYSQL
. The name is case sensitive.
-
skip_external_locking
This is OFF
if mysqld uses external locking, ON
if external locking is disabled.
-
skip_networking
This is ON
if the server allows only local (non-TCP/IP) connections. On Unix, local connections use a Unix socket file. On Windows, local connections use a named pipe or shared memory. On NetWare, only TCP/IP connections are supported, so do not set this variable to ON
. This variable can be set to ON
with the --skip-networking
option.
-
skip_show_database
This prevents people from using the SHOW DATABASES
statement if they do not have the SHOW DATABASES
privilege. This can improve security if you have concerns about users being able to see databases belonging to other users. Its effect depends on the SHOW DATABASES
privilege: If the variable value is ON
, the SHOW DATABASES
statement is allowed only to users who have the SHOW DATABASES
privilege, and the statement displays all database names. If the value is OFF
, SHOW DATABASES
is allowed to all users, but displays the names of only those databases for which the user has the SHOW DATABASES
or other privilege.
-
slow_launch_time
If creating a thread takes longer than this many seconds, the server increments the Slow_launch_threads
status variable.
-
slow_query_log
Whether the slow query log is enabled. The value can be 0 (or OFF
) to disable the log or 1 (or ON
) to enable the log. The default value depends on whether the --slow_query_log
option is given (--log-slow-queries
before MySQL 5.1.29). The destination for log output is controlled by the log_output
system variable; if that value is NONE
, no log entries are written even if the log is enabled. The slow_query_log
variable was added in MySQL 5.1.12.
-
slow_query_log_file
The name of the slow query log file. The default value is host_name
-slow.log
, but the initial value can be changed with the --slow_query_log_file
option (--log-slow-queries
before MySQL 5.1.29). This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.12.
-
socket
On Unix platforms, this variable is the name of the socket file that is used for local client connections. The default is /tmp/mysql.sock
. (For some distribution formats, the directory might be different, such as /var/lib/mysql
for RPMs.)
On Windows, this variable is the name of the named pipe that is used for local client connections. The default value is MySQL
(not case sensitive).
-
sort_buffer_size
Each thread that needs to do a sort allocates a buffer of this size. Increase this value for faster ORDER BY
or GROUP BY
operations. See Section B.1.4.4, “Where MySQL Stores Temporary Files”.
The maximum allowable setting for sort_buffer_size
is 4GB. As of MySQL 5.1.23, values larger than 4GB are allowed for 64-bit platforms (except 64-bit Windows, for which large values are truncated to 4GB with a warning).
-
sql_mode
The current server SQL mode, which can be set dynamically. See Section 5.1.7, “Server SQL Modes”.
-
sql_select_limit
The maximum number of rows to return from SELECT
statements. The default value for a new connection is the maximum number of rows that the server allows per table, which depends on the server configuration and may be affected if the server build was configured with --with-big-tables
. Typical default values are (232)–1 or (264)–1. If you have changed the limit, the default value can be restored by assigning a value of DEFAULT
.
If a SELECT
has a LIMIT
clause, the LIMIT
takes precedence over the value of sql_select_limit
.
sql_select_limit
does not apply to SELECT
statements executed within stored routines. It also does not apply to SELECT
statements that do not produce a result set to be returned to the client. These include SELECT
statements in subqueries, CREATE TABLE ... SELECT
, and INSERT INTO ... SELECT
.
-
ssl_ca
The path to a file with a list of trusted SSL CAs. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.11.
-
ssl_capath
The path to a directory that contains trusted SSL CA certificates in PEM format. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.11.
-
ssl_cert
The name of the SSL certificate file to use for establishing a secure connection. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.11.
-
ssl_cipher
A list of allowable ciphers to use for SSL encryption. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.11.
-
ssl_key
The name of the SSL key file to use for establishing a secure connection. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.11.
-
storage_engine
The default storage engine (table type). To set the storage engine at server startup, use the --default-storage-engine
option. See Section 5.1.2, “Server Command Options”.
-
sync_frm
If this variable is set to 1, when any non-temporary table is created its .frm
file is synchronized to disk (using fdatasync()
). This is slower but safer in case of a crash. The default is 1.
-
system_time_zone
The server system time zone. When the server begins executing, it inherits a time zone setting from the machine defaults, possibly modified by the environment of the account used for running the server or the startup script. The value is used to set system_time_zone
. Typically the time zone is specified by the TZ
environment variable. It also can be specified using the --timezone
option of the mysqld_safe script.
The system_time_zone
variable differs from time_zone
. Although they might have the same value, the latter variable is used to initialize the time zone for each client that connects. See Section 9.7, “MySQL Server Time Zone Support”.
-
table_cache
This is the old name of table_open_cache
before MySQL 5.1.3. From 5.1.3 on, use table_open_cache
instead.
-
table_definition_cache
The number of table definitions that can be stored in the definition cache. If you use a large number of tables, you can create a large table definition cache to speed up opening of tables. The table definition cache takes less space and does not use file descriptors, unlike the normal table cache. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.3. The minimum and default values are 1 and 128 before MySQL 5.1.25. The minimum and default are both 256 as of MySQL 5.1.25.
-
table_lock_wait_timeout
This variable currently is unused.
-
table_open_cache
The number of open tables for all threads. Increasing this value increases the number of file descriptors that mysqld requires. You can check whether you need to increase the table cache by checking the Opened_tables
status variable. See Section 5.1.6, “Server Status Variables”. If the value of Opened_tables
is large and you don't do FLUSH TABLES
often (which just forces all tables to be closed and reopened), then you should increase the value of the table_open_cache
variable. For more information about the table cache, see Section 7.4.7, “How MySQL Opens and Closes Tables”. Before MySQL 5.1.3, this variable is called table_cache
.
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table_type
This variable is a synonym for storage_engine
. In MySQL 5.1, storage_engine
is the preferred name. In MySQL 6.0, table_type
will be removed.
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thread_cache_size
How many threads the server should cache for reuse. When a client disconnects, the client's threads are put in the cache if there are fewer than thread_cache_size
threads there. Requests for threads are satisfied by reusing threads taken from the cache if possible, and only when the cache is empty is a new thread created. This variable can be increased to improve performance if you have a lot of new connections. (Normally, this doesn't provide a notable performance improvement if you have a good thread implementation.) By examining the difference between the Connections
and Threads_created
status variables, you can see how efficient the thread cache is. For details, see Section 5.1.6, “Server Status Variables”.
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thread_concurrency
This variable is specific to Solaris systems, for which mysqld invokes the thr_setconcurrency()
with the variable value. This function enables applications to give the threads system a hint about the desired number of threads that should be run at the same time.
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thread_handling
The thread-handling model. The allowable values are one-thread
(the server uses one thread) and one-thread-per-connection
(the server uses one thread to handle each client connection). one-thread
is useful for debugging under Linux; see MySQL Internals: Porting. This variable was added in MySQL 5.1.17
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thread_stack
The stack size for each thread. Many of the limits detected by the crash-me
test are dependent on this value. See Section 7.1.4, “The MySQL Benchmark Suite”. The default (192KB) is large enough for normal operation. If the thread stack size is too small, it limits the complexity of the SQL statements that the server can handle, the recursion depth of stored procedures, and other memory-consuming actions.
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time_format
This variable is unused.
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time_zone
The current time zone. This variable is used to initialize the time zone for each client that connects. By default, the initial value of this is 'SYSTEM'
(which means, “use the value of system_time_zone
”). The value can be specified explicitly at server startup with the --default-time-zone
option. See Section 9.7, “MySQL Server Time Zone Support”.
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timed_mutexes
This variable controls whether InnoDB
mutexes are timed. If this variable is set to 0 or OFF
(the default), mutex timing is disabled. If the variable is set to 1 or ON
, mutex timing is enabled. With timing enabled, the os_wait_times
value in the output from SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX
indicates the amount of time (in ms) spent in operating system waits. Otherwise, the value is 0.
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tmp_table_size
The maximum size of internal in-memory temporary tables. (The actual limit is determined as the smaller of max_heap_table_size
and tmp_table_size
.) If an in-memory temporary table exceeds the limit, MySQL automatically converts it to an on-disk MyISAM
table. Increase the value of tmp_table_size
(and max_heap_table_size
if necessary) if you do many advanced GROUP BY
queries and you have lots of memory. This variable does not apply to user-created MEMORY
tables.
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tmpdir
The directory used for temporary files and temporary tables. This variable can be set to a list of several paths that are used in round-robin fashion. Paths should be separated by colon characters (“:
”) on Unix and semicolon characters (“;
”) on Windows, NetWare, and OS/2.
The multiple-directory feature can be used to spread the load between several physical disks. If the MySQL server is acting as a replication slave, you should not set tmpdir
to point to a directory on a memory-based file system or to a directory that is cleared when the server host restarts. A replication slave needs some of its temporary files to survive a machine restart so that it can replicate temporary tables or LOAD DATA INFILE
operations. If files in the temporary file directory are lost when the server restarts, replication fails. However, if you are using MySQL 4.0.0 or later, you can set the slave's temporary directory using the slave_load_tmpdir
variable. In that case, the slave won't use the general tmpdir
value and you can set tmpdir
to a non-permanent location.
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transaction_alloc_block_size
The amount in bytes by which to increase a per-transaction memory pool which needs memory. See the description of transaction_prealloc_size
.
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transaction_prealloc_size
There is a per-transaction memory pool from which various transaction-related allocations take memory. The initial size of the pool in bytes is transaction_prealloc_size
. For every allocation that cannot be satisfied from the pool because it has insufficient memory available, the pool is increased by transaction_alloc_block_size
bytes. When the transaction ends, the pool is truncated to transaction_prealloc_size
bytes.
By making transaction_prealloc_size
sufficiently large to contain all statements within a single transaction, you can avoid many malloc()
calls.
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tx_isolation
The default transaction isolation level. Defaults to REPEATABLE-READ
.
This variable is set by the SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL
statement. See Section 12.4.6, “SET TRANSACTION
Syntax”. If you set tx_isolation
directly to an isolation level name that contains a space, the name should be enclosed within quotes, with the space replaced by a dash. For example:
SET tx_isolation = 'READ-COMMITTED';
Any unique prefix of a valid value may be used to set the value of this variable.
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updatable_views_with_limit
This variable controls whether updates to a view can be made when the view does not contain all columns of the primary key defined in the underlying table, if the update statement contains a LIMIT
clause. (Such updates often are generated by GUI tools.) An update is an UPDATE
or DELETE
statement. Primary key here means a PRIMARY KEY
, or a UNIQUE
index in which no column can contain NULL
.
The variable can have two values:
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version
The version number for the server.
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version_comment
The configure script has a --with-comment
option that allows a comment to be specified when building MySQL. This variable contains the value of that comment.
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version_compile_machine
The type of machine or architecture on which MySQL was built.
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version_compile_os
The type of operating system on which MySQL was built.
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wait_timeout
The number of seconds the server waits for activity on a non-interactive connection before closing it. This timeout applies only to TCP/IP and Unix socket file connections, not to connections made via named pipes, or shared memory.
On thread startup, the session wait_timeout
value is initialized from the global wait_timeout
value or from the global interactive_timeout
value, depending on the type of client (as defined by the CLIENT_INTERACTIVE
connect option to mysql_real_connect()
). See also interactive_timeout
.