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The MySQL™ software delivers a very fast, multithreaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. MySQL is a trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates, and shall not be used by Customer without Oracle's express written authorization. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
The MySQL software is Dual Licensed. Users can choose to use the MySQL software as an Open Source product under the terms of the GNU General Public License (http://www.fsf.org/licenses/) or can purchase a standard commercial license from Oracle. See http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/ for more information on our licensing policies.
The following list describes some sections of particular interest in this manual:
For a discussion of MySQL Database Server capabilities, see Section 1.2.2, “The Main Features of MySQL”.
For an overview of new MySQL features, see Section 1.3, “What Is New in MySQL 8.0”. For information about the changes in each version, see the Release Notes.
For installation instructions, see Chapter 2, Installing and Upgrading MySQL. For information about upgrading MySQL, see Section 2.11, “Upgrading MySQL”.
For a tutorial introduction to the MySQL Database Server, see Chapter 3, Tutorial.
For information about configuring and administering MySQL Server, see Chapter 5, MySQL Server Administration.
For information about security in MySQL, see Chapter 6, Security.
For information about setting up replication servers, see Chapter 17, Replication.
For information about MySQL Enterprise, the commercial MySQL release with advanced features and management tools, see Chapter 30, MySQL Enterprise Edition.
For answers to a number of questions that are often asked concerning the MySQL Database Server and its capabilities, see Appendix A, MySQL 8.0 Frequently Asked Questions.
For a history of new features and bug fixes, see the Release Notes.
To report problems or bugs, please use the instructions at
Section 1.6, “How to Report Bugs or Problems”. If you find a security bug in MySQL
Server, please let us know immediately by sending an email message
to <secalert_us@oracle.com>
. Exception: Support
customers should report all problems, including security bugs, to
Oracle Support.
This is the Reference Manual for the MySQL Database System,
version 8.0, through release 8.0.25.
Differences between minor versions of MySQL 8.0 are
noted in the present text with reference to release numbers
(8.0.x
). For license
information, see the Legal
Notices.
This manual is not intended for use with older versions of the MySQL software due to the many functional and other differences between MySQL 8.0 and previous versions. If you are using an earlier release of the MySQL software, please refer to the appropriate manual. For example, MySQL 5.7 Reference Manual covers the 5.7 series of MySQL software releases.
Because this manual serves as a reference, it does not provide general instruction on SQL or relational database concepts. It also does not teach you how to use your operating system or command-line interpreter.
The MySQL Database Software is under constant development, and the Reference Manual is updated frequently as well. The most recent version of the manual is available online in searchable form at https://dev.mysql.com/doc/. Other formats also are available there, including downloadable HTML and PDF versions.
The source code for MySQL itself contains internal documentation written using Doxygen. The generated Doxygen content is available https://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-other.html. It is also possible to generate this content locally from a MySQL source distribution using the instructions at Section 2.9.10, “Generating MySQL Doxygen Documentation Content”.
If you have questions about using MySQL, join the MySQL Community Slack, or ask in our forums; see MySQL Community Support at the MySQL Forums. If you have suggestions concerning additions or corrections to the manual itself, please send them to the http://www.mysql.com/company/contact/.
This manual uses certain typographical conventions:
Text in this style
is used for SQL
statements; database, table, and column names; program listings
and source code; and environment variables. Example: “To
reload the grant tables, use the FLUSH
PRIVILEGES
statement.”
Text in this style
indicates input that
you type in examples.
Text in this style indicates the names of executable programs and scripts, examples being mysql (the MySQL command-line client program) and mysqld (the MySQL server executable).
Text in this style
is used for
variable input for which you should substitute a value of your
own choosing.
Text in this style is used for emphasis.
Text in this style is used in table headings and to convey especially strong emphasis.
Text in this style
is used to indicate a
program option that affects how the program is executed, or that
supplies information that is needed for the program to function
in a certain way. Example: “The
--host
option (short form -h
)
tells the mysql client program the hostname
or IP address of the MySQL server that it should connect
to”.
File names and directory names are written like this: “The
global my.cnf
file is located in the
/etc
directory.”
Character sequences are written like this: “To specify a
wildcard, use the ‘%
’
character.”
When commands are shown that are meant to be executed from within a
particular program, the prompt shown preceding the command indicates
which command to use. For example, shell>
indicates a command that you execute from your login shell,
root-shell>
is similar but should be executed
as root
, and mysql>
indicates a statement that you execute from the
mysql client program:
shell>type a shell command here
root-shell>type a shell command as
mysql>root
heretype a mysql statement here
In some areas different systems may be distinguished from each other
to show that commands should be executed in two different
environments. For example, while working with replication the
commands might be prefixed with source
and
replica
:
source>type a mysql command on the replication source here
replica>type a mysql command on the replica here
The “shell” is your command interpreter. On Unix, this is typically a program such as sh, csh, or bash. On Windows, the equivalent program is command.com or cmd.exe, typically run in a console window.
When you enter a command or statement shown in an example, do not type the prompt shown in the example.
Database, table, and column names must often be substituted into
statements. To indicate that such substitution is necessary, this
manual uses db_name
,
tbl_name
, and
col_name
. For example, you might see a
statement like this:
mysql> SELECT col_name
FROM db_name
.tbl_name
;
This means that if you were to enter a similar statement, you would supply your own database, table, and column names, perhaps like this:
mysql> SELECT author_name FROM biblio_db.author_list;
SQL keywords are not case-sensitive and may be written in any lettercase. This manual uses uppercase.
In syntax descriptions, square brackets
(“[
” and
“]
”) indicate optional words or
clauses. For example, in the following statement, IF
EXISTS
is optional:
DROP TABLE [IF EXISTS] tbl_name
When a syntax element consists of a number of alternatives, the
alternatives are separated by vertical bars
(“|
”). When one member from a set of
choices may be chosen, the alternatives are
listed within square brackets (“[
”
and “]
”):
TRIM([[BOTH | LEADING | TRAILING] [remstr
] FROM]str
)
When one member from a set of choices must be
chosen, the alternatives are listed within braces
(“{
” and
“}
”):
{DESCRIBE | DESC}tbl_name
[col_name
|wild
]
An ellipsis (...
) indicates the omission of a
section of a statement, typically to provide a shorter version of
more complex syntax. For example,
SELECT ... INTO
OUTFILE
is shorthand for the form of
SELECT
statement that has an
INTO OUTFILE
clause following other parts of the
statement.
An ellipsis can also indicate that the preceding syntax element of a
statement may be repeated. In the following example, multiple
reset_option
values may be given, with
each of those after the first preceded by commas:
RESETreset_option
[,reset_option
] ...
Commands for setting shell variables are shown using Bourne shell
syntax. For example, the sequence to set the CC
environment variable and run the configure
command looks like this in Bourne shell syntax:
shell> CC=gcc ./configure
If you are using csh or tcsh, you must issue commands somewhat differently:
shell>setenv CC gcc
shell>./configure
The Reference Manual source files are written in DocBook XML format. The HTML version and other formats are produced automatically, primarily using the DocBook XSL stylesheets. For information about DocBook, see http://docbook.org/
This manual was originally written by David Axmark and Michael “Monty” Widenius. It is maintained by the MySQL Documentation Team, consisting of Chris Cole, Paul DuBois, Margaret Fisher, Edward Gilmore, Stefan Hinz, David Moss, Philip Olson, Daniel Price, Daniel So, and Jon Stephens.
MySQL, the most popular Open Source SQL database management system, is developed, distributed, and supported by Oracle Corporation.
The MySQL website (http://www.mysql.com/) provides the latest information about MySQL software.
MySQL is a database management system.
A database is a structured collection of data. It may be anything from a simple shopping list to a picture gallery or the vast amounts of information in a corporate network. To add, access, and process data stored in a computer database, you need a database management system such as MySQL Server. Since computers are very good at handling large amounts of data, database management systems play a central role in computing, as standalone utilities, or as parts of other applications.
MySQL databases are relational.
A relational database stores data in separate tables rather than putting all the data in one big storeroom. The database structures are organized into physical files optimized for speed. The logical model, with objects such as databases, tables, views, rows, and columns, offers a flexible programming environment. You set up rules governing the relationships between different data fields, such as one-to-one, one-to-many, unique, required or optional, and “pointers” between different tables. The database enforces these rules, so that with a well-designed database, your application never sees inconsistent, duplicate, orphan, out-of-date, or missing data.
The SQL part of “MySQL” stands for “Structured Query Language”. SQL is the most common standardized language used to access databases. Depending on your programming environment, you might enter SQL directly (for example, to generate reports), embed SQL statements into code written in another language, or use a language-specific API that hides the SQL syntax.
SQL is defined by the ANSI/ISO SQL Standard. The SQL standard has been evolving since 1986 and several versions exist. In this manual, “SQL-92” refers to the standard released in 1992, “SQL:1999” refers to the standard released in 1999, and “SQL:2003” refers to the current version of the standard. We use the phrase “the SQL standard” to mean the current version of the SQL Standard at any time.
MySQL software is Open Source.
Open Source means that it is possible for anyone to use and modify the software. Anybody can download the MySQL software from the Internet and use it without paying anything. If you wish, you may study the source code and change it to suit your needs. The MySQL software uses the GPL (GNU General Public License), http://www.fsf.org/licenses/, to define what you may and may not do with the software in different situations. If you feel uncomfortable with the GPL or need to embed MySQL code into a commercial application, you can buy a commercially licensed version from us. See the MySQL Licensing Overview for more information (http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/).
The MySQL Database Server is very fast, reliable, scalable, and easy to use.
If that is what you are looking for, you should give it a try. MySQL Server can run comfortably on a desktop or laptop, alongside your other applications, web servers, and so on, requiring little or no attention. If you dedicate an entire machine to MySQL, you can adjust the settings to take advantage of all the memory, CPU power, and I/O capacity available. MySQL can also scale up to clusters of machines, networked together.
MySQL Server was originally developed to handle large databases much faster than existing solutions and has been successfully used in highly demanding production environments for several years. Although under constant development, MySQL Server today offers a rich and useful set of functions. Its connectivity, speed, and security make MySQL Server highly suited for accessing databases on the Internet.
MySQL Server works in client/server or embedded systems.
The MySQL Database Software is a client/server system that consists of a multithreaded SQL server that supports different back ends, several different client programs and libraries, administrative tools, and a wide range of application programming interfaces (APIs).
We also provide MySQL Server as an embedded multithreaded library that you can link into your application to get a smaller, faster, easier-to-manage standalone product.
A large amount of contributed MySQL software is available.
MySQL Server has a practical set of features developed in close cooperation with our users. It is very likely that your favorite application or language supports the MySQL Database Server.
The official way to pronounce “MySQL” is “My Ess Que Ell” (not “my sequel”), but we do not mind if you pronounce it as “my sequel” or in some other localized way.
This section describes some of the important characteristics of the MySQL Database Software. In most respects, the roadmap applies to all versions of MySQL. For information about features as they are introduced into MySQL on a series-specific basis, see the “In a Nutshell” section of the appropriate Manual:
MySQL 8.0: Section 1.3, “What Is New in MySQL 8.0”
MySQL 5.7: What Is New in MySQL 5.7
MySQL 5.6: What Is New in MySQL 5.6
Written in C and C++.
Tested with a broad range of different compilers.
Works on many different platforms. See https://www.mysql.com/support/supportedplatforms/database.html.
For portability, configured using CMake.
Tested with Purify (a commercial memory leakage detector) as well as with Valgrind, a GPL tool (http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/).
Uses multi-layered server design with independent modules.
Designed to be fully multithreaded using kernel threads, to easily use multiple CPUs if they are available.
Provides transactional and nontransactional storage engines.
Uses very fast B-tree disk tables (MyISAM
)
with index compression.
Designed to make it relatively easy to add other storage engines. This is useful if you want to provide an SQL interface for an in-house database.
Uses a very fast thread-based memory allocation system.
Executes very fast joins using an optimized nested-loop join.
Implements in-memory hash tables, which are used as temporary tables.
Implements SQL functions using a highly optimized class library that should be as fast as possible. Usually there is no memory allocation at all after query initialization.
Provides the server as a separate program for use in a client/server networked environment, and as a library that can be embedded (linked) into standalone applications. Such applications can be used in isolation or in environments where no network is available.
Full operator and function support in the
SELECT
list and
WHERE
clause of queries. For example:
mysql>SELECT CONCAT(first_name, ' ', last_name)
->FROM citizen
->WHERE income/dependents > 10000 AND age > 30;
Full support for SQL GROUP BY
and
ORDER BY
clauses. Support for group
functions (COUNT()
,
AVG()
,
STD()
,
SUM()
,
MAX()
,
MIN()
, and
GROUP_CONCAT()
).
Support for LEFT OUTER JOIN
and
RIGHT OUTER JOIN
with both standard SQL and
ODBC syntax.
Support for aliases on tables and columns as required by standard SQL.
Support for DELETE
,
INSERT
,
REPLACE
, and
UPDATE
to return the number of
rows that were changed (affected), or to return the number of
rows matched instead by setting a flag when connecting to the
server.
Support for MySQL-specific SHOW
statements that retrieve information about databases, storage
engines, tables, and indexes. Support for the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA
database, implemented
according to standard SQL.
An EXPLAIN
statement to show
how the optimizer resolves a query.
Independence of function names from table or column names. For
example, ABS
is a valid column name. The
only restriction is that for a function call, no spaces are
permitted between the function name and the
“(
” that follows it. See
Section 9.3, “Keywords and Reserved Words”.
You can refer to tables from different databases in the same statement.
A privilege and password system that is very flexible and secure, and that enables host-based verification.
Password security by encryption of all password traffic when you connect to a server.
Support for large databases. We use MySQL Server with databases that contain 50 million records. We also know of users who use MySQL Server with 200,000 tables and about 5,000,000,000 rows.
Support for up to 64 indexes per table. Each index may consist
of 1 to 16 columns or parts of columns. The maximum index
width for InnoDB
tables is either
767 bytes or 3072 bytes. See Section 15.22, “InnoDB Limits”.
The maximum index width for
MyISAM
tables is 1000 bytes. See
Section 16.2, “The MyISAM Storage Engine”. An index may use a
prefix of a column for CHAR
,
VARCHAR
,
BLOB
, or
TEXT
column types.
Clients can connect to MySQL Server using several protocols:
Clients can connect using TCP/IP sockets on any platform.
On Windows systems, clients can connect using named pipes
if the server is started with the
named_pipe
system
variable enabled. Windows servers also support
shared-memory connections if started with the
shared_memory
system
variable enabled. Clients can connect through shared
memory by using the
--protocol=memory
option.
On Unix systems, clients can connect using Unix domain socket files.
MySQL client programs can be written in many languages. A client library written in C is available for clients written in C or C++, or for any language that provides C bindings.
APIs for C, C++, Eiffel, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl are available, enabling MySQL clients to be written in many languages. See Chapter 29, Connectors and APIs.
The Connector/ODBC (MyODBC) interface provides MySQL support for client programs that use ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) connections. For example, you can use MS Access to connect to your MySQL server. Clients can be run on Windows or Unix. Connector/ODBC source is available. All ODBC 2.5 functions are supported, as are many others. See MySQL Connector/ODBC Developer Guide.
The Connector/J interface provides MySQL support for Java client programs that use JDBC connections. Clients can be run on Windows or Unix. Connector/J source is available. See MySQL Connector/J 5.1 Developer Guide.
MySQL Connector/NET enables developers to easily create .NET applications that require secure, high-performance data connectivity with MySQL. It implements the required ADO.NET interfaces and integrates into ADO.NET aware tools. Developers can build applications using their choice of .NET languages. MySQL Connector/NET is a fully managed ADO.NET driver written in 100% pure C#. See MySQL Connector/NET Developer Guide.
The server can provide error messages to clients in many languages. See Section 10.12, “Setting the Error Message Language”.
Full support for several different character sets, including
latin1
(cp1252), german
,
big5
, ujis
, several
Unicode character sets, and more. For example, the
Scandinavian characters “å
”,
“ä
” and
“ö
” are permitted in table
and column names.
All data is saved in the chosen character set.
Sorting and comparisons are done according to the default character set and collation. is possible to change this when the MySQL server is started (see Section 10.3.2, “Server Character Set and Collation”). To see an example of very advanced sorting, look at the Czech sorting code. MySQL Server supports many different character sets that can be specified at compile time and runtime.
The server time zone can be changed dynamically, and individual clients can specify their own time zone. See Section 5.1.15, “MySQL Server Time Zone Support”.
MySQL includes several client and utility programs. These include both command-line programs such as mysqldump and mysqladmin, and graphical programs such as MySQL Workbench.
MySQL Server has built-in support for SQL statements to check,
optimize, and repair tables. These statements are available
from the command line through the
mysqlcheck client. MySQL also includes
myisamchk, a very fast command-line utility
for performing these operations on MyISAM
tables. See Chapter 4, MySQL Programs.
MySQL programs can be invoked with the --help
or -?
option to obtain online assistance.
We started out with the intention of using the
mSQL
database system to connect to our tables
using our own fast low-level (ISAM) routines. However, after some
testing, we came to the conclusion that mSQL
was not fast enough or flexible enough for our needs. This
resulted in a new SQL interface to our database but with almost
the same API interface as mSQL
. This API was
designed to enable third-party code that was written for use with
mSQL
to be ported easily for use with MySQL.
MySQL is named after co-founder Monty Widenius's daughter, My.
The name of the MySQL Dolphin (our logo) is “Sakila,” which was chosen from a huge list of names suggested by users in our “Name the Dolphin” contest. The winning name was submitted by Ambrose Twebaze, an Open Source software developer from Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Africa. According to Ambrose, the feminine name Sakila has its roots in SiSwati, the local language of Eswatini. Sakila is also the name of a town in Arusha, Tanzania, near Ambrose's country of origin, Uganda.
This section summarizes what has been added to, deprecated in, and removed from MySQL 8.0. A companion section lists MySQL server options and variables that have been added, deprecated, or removed in MySQL 8.0; see Section 1.4, “Server and Status Variables and Options Added, Deprecated, or Removed in MySQL 8.0”.
The following features have been added to MySQL 8.0:
Data dictionary. MySQL now incorporates a transactional data dictionary that stores information about database objects. In previous MySQL releases, dictionary data was stored in metadata files and nontransactional tables. For more information, see Chapter 14, MySQL Data Dictionary.
Atomic data definition statements (Atomic DDL). An atomic DDL statement combines the data dictionary updates, storage engine operations, and binary log writes associated with a DDL operation into a single, atomic transaction. For more information, see Section 13.1.1, “Atomic Data Definition Statement Support”.
Upgrade procedure.
Previously, after installation of a new version of MySQL,
the MySQL server automatically upgrades the data
dictionary tables at the next startup, after which the DBA
is expected to invoke mysql_upgrade
manually to upgrade the system tables in the
mysql
schema, as well as objects in
other schemas such as the sys
schema
and user schemas.
As of MySQL 8.0.16, the server performs the tasks previously
handled by mysql_upgrade. After
installation of a new MySQL version, the server now
automatically performs all necessary upgrade tasks at the
next startup and is not dependent on the DBA invoking
mysql_upgrade. In addition, the server
updates the contents of the help tables (something
mysql_upgrade did not do). A new
--upgrade
server option
provides control over how the server performs automatic data
dictionary and server upgrade operations. For more
information, see
Section 2.11.3, “What the MySQL Upgrade Process Upgrades”.
Security and account management. These enhancements were added to improve security and enable greater DBA flexibility in account management:
The grant tables in the mysql
system
database are now InnoDB
(transactional) tables. Previously, these were
MyISAM
(nontransactional) tables. The
change of grant table storage engine underlies an
accompanying change to the behavior of
account-management statements. Previously, an
account-management statement (such as
CREATE USER
or
DROP USER
) that named
multiple users could succeed for some users and fail for
others. Now, each statement is transactional and either
succeeds for all named users or rolls back and has no
effect if any error occurs. The statement is written to
the binary log if it succeeds, but not if it fails; in
that case, rollback occurs and no changes are made. For
more information, see Section 13.1.1, “Atomic Data Definition Statement Support”.
A new caching_sha2_password
authentication plugin is available. Like the
sha256_password
plugin,
caching_sha2_password
implements
SHA-256 password hashing, but uses caching to address
latency issues at connect time. It also supports more
transport protocols and does not require linking against
OpenSSL for RSA key pair-based password-exchange
capabilities. See
Section 6.4.1.2, “Caching SHA-2 Pluggable Authentication”.
The caching_sha2_password
and
sha256_password
authentication
plugins provide more secure password encryption than the
mysql_native_password
plugin, and
caching_sha2_password
provides better
performance than sha256_password
. Due
to these superior security and performance
characteristics of
caching_sha2_password
, it is now the
preferred authentication plugin, and is also the default
authentication plugin rather than
mysql_native_password
. For
information about the implications of this change of
default plugin for server operation and compatibility of
the server with clients and connectors, see
caching_sha2_password as the Preferred Authentication Plugin.
MySQL now supports roles, which are named collections of privileges. Roles can be created and dropped. Roles can have privileges granted to and revoked from them. Roles can be granted to and revoked from user accounts. The active applicable roles for an account can be selected from among those granted to the account, and can be changed during sessions for that account. For more information, see Section 6.2.10, “Using Roles”.
MySQL now incorporates the concept of user account
categories, with system and regular users distinguished
according to whether they have the
SYSTEM_USER
privilege.
See Section 6.2.11, “Account Categories”.
Previously, it was not possible to grant privileges that
apply globally except for certain schemas. This is now
possible if the
partial_revokes
system
variable is enabled. See
Section 6.2.12, “Privilege Restriction Using Partial Revokes”.
The GRANT
statement has
an AS
clause that specifies additional
information about the privilege context to use for
statement execution. This syntax is visible at the SQL
level, although its primary purpose is to enable uniform
replication across all nodes of grantor privilege
restrictions imposed by partial revokes, by causing
those restrictions to appear in the binary log. See
Section 13.7.1.6, “GRANT Statement”.
user
[WITH
ROLE]
MySQL now maintains information about password history, enabling restrictions on reuse of previous passwords. DBAs can require that new passwords not be selected from previous passwords for some number of password changes or period of time. It is possible to establish password-reuse policy globally as well as on a per-account basis.
It is now possible to require that attempts to change account passwords be verified by specifying the current password to be replaced. This enables DBAs to prevent users from changing password without proving that they know the current password. It is possible to establish password-verification policy globally as well as on a per-account basis.
Accounts are now permitted to have dual passwords, which enables phased password changes to be performed seamlessly in complex multiple-server systems, without downtime.
MySQL now enables administrators to configure user accounts such that too many consecutive login failures due to incorrect passwords cause temporary account locking. The required number of failures and the lock time are configurable per account.
These new capabilities provide DBAs more complete control over password management. For more information, see Section 6.2.15, “Password Management”.
MySQL now supports FIPS mode, if compiled using OpenSSL, and an OpenSSL library and FIPS Object Module are available at runtime. FIPS mode imposes conditions on cryptographic operations such as restrictions on acceptable encryption algorithms or requirements for longer key lengths. See Section 6.8, “FIPS Support”.
The TLS context the server uses for new connections now is reconfigurable at runtime. This capability may be useful, for example, to avoid restarting a MySQL server that has been running so long that its SSL certificate has expired. See Server-Side Runtime Configuration and Monitoring for Encrypted Connections.
OpenSSL 1.1.1 supports the TLS v1.3 protocol for encrypted connections, and MySQL 8.0.16 and higher supports TLS v1.3 as well, if both the server and client are compiled using OpenSSL 1.1.1 or higher. See Section 6.3.2, “Encrypted Connection TLS Protocols and Ciphers”.
MySQL now sets the access control granted to clients on
the named pipe to the minimum necessary for successful
communication on Windows. Newer MySQL client software
can open named pipe connections without any additional
configuration. If older client software cannot be
upgraded immediately, the new
named_pipe_full_access_group
system variable can be used to give a Windows group the
necessary permissions to open a named pipe connection.
Membership in the full-access group should be restricted
and temporary.
Resource management. MySQL now supports creation and management of resource groups, and permits assigning threads running within the server to particular groups so that threads execute according to the resources available to the group. Group attributes enable control over its resources, to enable or restrict resource consumption by threads in the group. DBAs can modify these attributes as appropriate for different workloads. Currently, CPU time is a manageable resource, represented by the concept of “virtual CPU” as a term that includes CPU cores, hyperthreads, hardware threads, and so forth. The server determines at startup how many virtual CPUs are available, and database administrators with appropriate privileges can associate these CPUs with resource groups and assign threads to groups. For more information, see Section 5.1.16, “Resource Groups”.
Table encryption management.
Table encryption can now be managed globally by defining
and enforcing encryption defaults. The
default_table_encryption
variable defines an encryption default for newly created
schemas and general tablespace. The encryption default for
a schema can also be defined using the DEFAULT
ENCRYPTION
clause when creating a schema. By
default, a table inherits the encryption of the schema or
general tablespace it is created in. Encryption defaults
are enforced by enabling the
table_encryption_privilege_check
variable. The privilege check occurs when creating or
altering a schema or general tablespace with an encryption
setting that differs from the
default_table_encryption
setting, or when creating or altering a table with an
encryption setting that differs from the default schema
encryption. The
TABLE_ENCRYPTION_ADMIN
privilege permits overriding default encryption settings
when
table_encryption_privilege_check
is enabled. For more information, see
Defining an Encryption Default for Schemas and General Tablespaces.
InnoDB enhancements.
These InnoDB
enhancements were added:
The current maximum auto-increment counter value is written to the redo log each time the value changes, and saved to an engine-private system table on each checkpoint. These changes make the current maximum auto-increment counter value persistent across server restarts. Additionally:
A server restart no longer cancels the effect of the
AUTO_INCREMENT = N
table option.
If you initialize the auto-increment counter to a
specific value, or if you alter the auto-increment
counter value to a larger value, the new value is
persisted across server restarts.
A server restart immediately following a
ROLLBACK
operation no longer results in the reuse of
auto-increment values that were allocated to the
rolled-back transaction.
If you modify an AUTO_INCREMENT
column value to a value larger than the current
maximum auto-increment value (in an
UPDATE
operation, for
example), the new value is persisted, and subsequent
INSERT
operations
allocate auto-increment values starting from the
new, larger value.
For more information, see Section 15.6.1.6, “AUTO_INCREMENT Handling in InnoDB”, and InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT Counter Initialization.
When encountering index tree corruption,
InnoDB
writes a corruption flag to
the redo log, which makes the corruption flag crash
safe. InnoDB
also writes in-memory
corruption flag data to an engine-private system table
on each checkpoint. During recovery,
InnoDB
reads corruption flags from
both locations and merges results before marking
in-memory table and index objects as corrupt.
The InnoDB
memcached plugin supports multiple
get
operations (fetching multiple
key-value pairs in a single memcached
query) and range queries. See
Section 15.20.4, “InnoDB memcached Multiple get and Range Query Support”.
A new dynamic variable,
innodb_deadlock_detect
,
may be used to disable deadlock detection. On high
concurrency systems, deadlock detection can cause a
slowdown when numerous threads wait for the same lock.
At times, it may be more efficient to disable deadlock
detection and rely on the
innodb_lock_wait_timeout
setting for transaction rollback when a deadlock occurs.
The new
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_CACHED_INDEXES
table reports the number of index pages cached in the
InnoDB
buffer pool for each index.
InnoDB
temporary tables are now
created in the shared temporary tablespace,
ibtmp1
.
The InnoDB
tablespace
encryption feature supports encryption of redo
log and undo log data. See
Redo Log Encryption, and
Undo Log Encryption.
InnoDB
supports
NOWAIT
and SKIP
LOCKED
options with SELECT ... FOR
SHARE
and SELECT ... FOR
UPDATE
locking read statements.
NOWAIT
causes the statement to return
immediately if a requested row is locked by another
transaction. SKIP LOCKED
removes
locked rows from the result set. See
Locking Read Concurrency with NOWAIT and SKIP LOCKED.
SELECT ... FOR SHARE
replaces
SELECT ... LOCK IN SHARE MODE
, but
LOCK IN SHARE MODE
remains available
for backward compatibility. The statements are
equivalent. However, FOR UPDATE
and
FOR SHARE
support
NOWAIT
, SKIP
LOCKED
, and OF
options.
See Section 13.2.10, “SELECT Statement”.
tbl_name
OF
applies
locking queries to named tables.
tbl_name
ADD PARTITION
, DROP
PARTITION
, COALESCE
PARTITION
, REORGANIZE
PARTITION
, and REBUILD
PARTITION
ALTER
TABLE
options are supported by native
partitioning in-place APIs and may be used with
ALGORITHM={COPY|INPLACE}
and
LOCK
clauses.
DROP PARTITION
with
ALGORITHM=INPLACE
deletes data stored
in the partition and drops the partition. However,
DROP PARTITION
with
ALGORITHM=COPY
or
old_alter_table=ON
rebuilds the partitioned table and attempts to move data
from the dropped partition to another partition with a
compatible PARTITION ... VALUES
definition. Data that cannot be moved to another
partition is deleted.
The InnoDB
storage engine now uses
the MySQL data dictionary rather than its own storage
engine-specific data dictionary. For information about
the data dictionary, see
Chapter 14, MySQL Data Dictionary.
mysql
system tables and data
dictionary tables are now created in a single
InnoDB
tablespace file named
mysql.ibd
in the MySQL data
directory. Previously, these tables were created in
individual InnoDB
tablespace files in
the mysql
database directory.
The following undo tablespace changes are introduced in MySQL 8.0:
By default, undo logs now reside in two undo tablespaces that are created when the MySQL instance is initialized. Undo logs are no longer created in the system tablespace.
As of MySQL 8.0.14, additional undo tablespaces can
be created in a chosen location at runtime using
CREATE
UNDO TABLESPACE
syntax.
CREATE UNDO TABLESPACEtablespace_name
ADD DATAFILE 'file_name
.ibu';
Undo tablespaces created using
CREATE
UNDO TABLESPACE
syntax can be dropped at
runtime using
DROP
UNDO TABLESPACE
syntax.
DROP UNDO TABLESPACE tablespace_name
;
ALTER
UNDO TABLESPACE
syntax can be used to mark
an undo tablespace as active or inactive.
ALTER UNDO TABLESPACE tablespace_name
SET {ACTIVE|INACTIVE};
A STATE
column that shows the
state of a tablespace was added to the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_TABLESPACES
table. An undo tablespace must be in an
empty
state before it can be
dropped.
The
innodb_undo_log_truncate
variable is enabled by default.
The
innodb_rollback_segments
variable defines the number of rollback segments per
undo tablespace. Previously,
innodb_rollback_segments
specified the total number of rollback segments for
the MySQL instance. This change increases the number
of rollback segments available for concurrent
transactions. More rollback segments increases the
likelihood that concurrent transactions use separate
rollback segments for undo logs, resulting in less
resource contention.
Default values for variables that affect buffer pool preflushing and flushing behavior were modified:
The
innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct_lwm
default value is now 10. The previous default value
of 0 disables buffer pool preflushing. A value of 10
enables preflushing when the percentage of dirty
pages in the buffer pool exceeds 10%. Enabling
preflushing improves performance consistency.
The
innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct
default value was increased from 75 to 90.
InnoDB
attempts to flush data
from the buffer pool so that the percentage of dirty
pages does not exceed this value. The increased
default value permits a greater percentage of dirty
pages in the buffer pool.
The default
innodb_autoinc_lock_mode
setting is now 2 (interleaved). Interleaved lock mode
permits the execution of multi-row inserts in parallel,
which improves concurrency and scalability. The new
innodb_autoinc_lock_mode
default setting reflects the change from statement-based
replication to row based replication as the default
replication type in MySQL 5.7.
Statement-based replication requires the consecutive
auto-increment lock mode (the previous default) to
ensure that auto-increment values are assigned in a
predictable and repeatable order for a given sequence of
SQL statements, whereas row-based replication is not
sensitive to the execution order of SQL statements. For
more information, see
InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT Lock Modes.
For systems that use statement-based replication, the
new
innodb_autoinc_lock_mode
default setting may break applications that depend on
sequential auto-increment values. To restore the
previous default, set
innodb_autoinc_lock_mode
to 1.
Renaming a general tablespace is supported by
ALTER
TABLESPACE ... RENAME TO
syntax.
The new
innodb_dedicated_server
variable, which is disabled by default, can be used to
have InnoDB
automatically configure
the following options according to the amount of memory
detected on the server:
This option is intended for MySQL server instances that run on a dedicated server. For more information, see Section 15.8.12, “Enabling Automatic Configuration for a Dedicated MySQL Server”.
The new
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_TABLESPACES_BRIEF
view provides space, name, path, flag, and space type
data for InnoDB
tablespaces.
The zlib library version bundled with MySQL was raised from version 1.2.3 to version 1.2.11. MySQL implements compression with the help of the zlib library.
If you use InnoDB
compressed tables,
see Section 2.11.4, “Changes in MySQL 8.0” for
related upgrade implications.
Serialized dictionary information (SDI) is present in
all InnoDB
tablespace files except
for global temporary tablespace and undo tablespace
files. SDI is serialized metadata for table and
tablespace objects. The presence of SDI data provides
metadata redundancy. For example, dictionary object
metadata may be extracted from tablespace files if the
data dictionary becomes unavailable. SDI extraction is
performed using the ibd2sdi tool. SDI
data is stored in JSON
format.
The inclusion of SDI data in tablespace files increases tablespace file size. An SDI record requires a single index page, which is 16KB in size by default. However, SDI data is compressed when it is stored to reduce the storage footprint.
The InnoDB
storage engine now
supports atomic DDL, which ensures that DDL operations
are either fully committed or rolled back, even if the
server halts during the operation. For more information,
see Section 13.1.1, “Atomic Data Definition Statement Support”.
Tablespace files can be moved or restored to a new
location while the server is offline using the
innodb_directories
option. For more information, see
Section 15.6.3.6, “Moving Tablespace Files While the Server is Offline”.
The following redo logging optimizations were implemented:
User threads can now write concurrently to the log buffer without synchronizing writes.
User threads can now add dirty pages to the flush list in a relaxed order.
A dedicated log thread is now responsible for writing the log buffer to the system buffers, flushing system buffers to disk, notifying user threads about written and flushed redo, maintaining the lag required for the relaxed flush list order, and write checkpoints.
System variables were added for configuring the use of spin delay by user threads waiting for flushed redo:
innodb_log_wait_for_flush_spin_hwm
:
Defines the maximum average log flush time
beyond which user threads no longer spin while
waiting for flushed redo.
innodb_log_spin_cpu_abs_lwm
:
Defines the minimum amount of CPU usage below
which user threads no longer spin while waiting
for flushed redo.
innodb_log_spin_cpu_pct_hwm
:
Defines the maximum amount of CPU usage above
which user threads no longer spin while waiting
for flushed redo.
The
innodb_log_buffer_size
variable is now dynamic, which permits resizing of
the log buffer while the server is running.
For more information, see Section 8.5.4, “Optimizing InnoDB Redo Logging”.
As of MySQL 8.0.12, undo logging is supported for small updates to large object (LOB) data, which improves performance of LOB updates that are 100 bytes in size or less. Previously, LOB updates were a minimum of one LOB page in size, which is less than optimal for updates that might only modify a few bytes. This enhancement builds upon support added in MySQL 8.0.4 for partial update of LOB data.
As of MySQL 8.0.12, ALGORITHM=INSTANT
is supported for the following
ALTER TABLE
operations:
Adding a column. This feature is also referred to as
“Instant ADD
COLUMN
”. Limitations apply. See
Section 15.12.1, “Online DDL Operations”.
Adding or dropping a virtual column.
Adding or dropping a column default value.
Changing the index type.
Renaming a table.
Operations that support
ALGORITHM=INSTANT
only modify
metadata in the data dictionary. No metadata locks are
taken on the table, and table data is unaffected, making
the operations instantaneous. If not specified
explicitly, ALGORITHM=INSTANT
is used
by default by operations that support it. If
ALGORITHM=INSTANT
is specified but
not supported, the operation fails immediately with an
error.
For more information about operations that support
ALGORITHM=INSTANT
, see
Section 15.12.1, “Online DDL Operations”.
As of MySQL 8.0.13, the TempTable
storage engine supports storage of binary large object
(BLOB) type columns. This enhancement improves
performance for queries that use temporary tables
containing BLOB data. Previously, temporary tables that
contained BLOB data were stored in the on-disk storage
engine defined by
internal_tmp_disk_storage_engine
.
For more information, see
Section 8.4.4, “Internal Temporary Table Use in MySQL”.
As of MySQL 8.0.13, the InnoDB
data-at-rest encryption feature supports general
tablespaces. Previously, only file-per-table tablespaces
could be encrypted. To support encryption of general
tablespaces, CREATE
TABLESPACE
and ALTER
TABLESPACE
syntax was extended to include an
ENCRYPTION
clause.
The
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_TABLESPACES
table now includes an ENCRYPTION
column that indicates whether or not a tablespace is
encrypted.
The stage/innodb/alter tablespace
(encryption)
Performance Schema stage
instrument was added to permit monitoring of general
tablespace encryption operations.
Disabling the
innodb_buffer_pool_in_core_file
variable reduces the size of core files by excluding
InnoDB
buffer pool pages. To use this
variable, the core_file
variable must be enabled and the operating system must
support the MADV_DONTDUMP
non-POSIX
extension to madvise()
, which is
supported in Linux 3.4 and later. For more information,
see Section 15.8.3.7, “Excluding Buffer Pool Pages from Core Files”.
As of MySQL 8.0.13, user-created temporary tables and
internal temporary tables created by the optimizer are
stored in session temporary tablespaces that are
allocated to a session from a pool of temporary
tablespaces. When a session disconnects, its temporary
tablespaces are truncated and released back to the pool.
In previous releases, temporary tables were created in
the global temporary tablespace
(ibtmp1
), which did not return disk
space to the operating system after temporary tables
were dropped.
The
innodb_temp_tablespaces_dir
variable defines the location where session temporary
tablespaces are created. The default location is the
#innodb_temp
directory in the data
directory.
The
INNODB_SESSION_TEMP_TABLESPACES
table provides metadata about session temporary
tablespaces.
The global temporary tablespace
(ibtmp1
) now stores rollback
segments for changes made to user-created temporary
tables.
As of MySQL 8.0.14, InnoDB
supports
parallel clustered index reads, which can improve
CHECK TABLE
performance.
This feature does not apply to secondary index scans.
The
innodb_parallel_read_threads
session variable must be set to a value greater than 1
for parallel clustered index reads to occur. The default
value is 4. The actual number of threads used to perform
a parallel clustered index read is determined by the
innodb_parallel_read_threads
setting or the number of index subtrees to scan,
whichever is smaller.
As of 8.0.14, when the
innodb_dedicated_server
variable is enabled, the size and number of log files
are configured according to the automatically configured
buffer pool size. Previously, log file size was
configured according to the amount of memory detected on
the server, and the number of log files was not
configured automatically.
As of 8.0.14, the ADD DATAFILE
clause
of the CREATE TABLESPACE
statement is optional, which permits users without the
FILE
privilege to create
tablespaces. A CREATE
TABLESPACE
statement executed without an
ADD DATAFILE
clause implicitly
creates a tablespace data file with a unique file name.
By default, when the amount of memory occupied by the
TempTable storage engine exceeds the memory limit
defined by the
temptable_max_ram
variable, the TempTable storage engine begins allocating
memory-mapped temporary files from disk. As of MySQL
8.0.16, this behavior is controlled by the
temptable_use_mmap
variable. Disabling
temptable_use_mmap
causes the TempTable storage engine to use
InnoDB
on-disk internal temporary
tables instead of memory-mapped files as its overflow
mechanism. For more information, see
Internal Temporary Table Storage Engine.
As of MySQL 8.0.16, the InnoDB
data-at-rest encryption feature supports encryption of
the mysql
system tablespace. The
mysql
system tablespace contains the
mysql
system database and the MySQL
data dictionary tables. For more information, see
Section 15.13, “InnoDB Data-at-Rest Encryption”.
The
innodb_spin_wait_pause_multiplier
variable, introduced in MySQL 8.0.16, provides greater
control over the duration of spin-lock polling delays
that occur when a thread waits to acquire a mutex or
rw-lock. Delays can be tuned more finely to account for
differences in PAUSE instruction duration on different
processor architectures. For more information, see
Section 15.8.8, “Configuring Spin Lock Polling”.
InnoDB
parallel read thread
performance for large data sets was improved in MySQL
8.0.17 through better utilization of read threads,
through a reduction in read thread I/O for prefetch
activity that occurs during parallel scans, and through
support for parallel scanning of partitions.
The parallel read thread feature is controlled by the
innodb_parallel_read_threads
variable. The maximum setting is now 256, which is the
total number of threads for all client connections. If
the thread limit is reached, connections fall back to
using a single thread.
The
innodb_idle_flush_pct
variable, introduced in MySQL 8.0.18, permits placing a
limit on page flushing during idle periods, which can
help extend the life of solid state storage devices. See
Limiting Buffer Flushing During Idle Periods.
Efficient sampling of InnoDB
data for
the purpose of generating histogram statistics is
supported as of MySQL 8.0.19. See
Histogram Statistics Analysis.
As of MySQL 8.0.20, the doublewrite buffer storage area resides in doublewrite files. In previous releases, the storage area resided in the system tablespace. Moving the storage area out of the system tablespace reduces write latency, increases throughput, and provides flexibility with respect to placement of doublewrite buffer pages. The following system variables were introduced for advanced doublewrite buffer configuration:
Defines the doublewrite buffer file directory.
Defines the number of doublewrite files.
Defines the maximum number of doublewrite pages per thread for a batch write.
Defines the number of doublewrite pages to write in a batch.
For more information, see Section 15.6.4, “Doublewrite Buffer”.
The Contention-Aware Transaction Scheduling (CATS) algorithm, which prioritizes transactions that are waiting for locks, was improved in MySQL 8.0.20. Transaction scheduling weight computation is now performed a separate thread entirely, which improves computation performance and accuracy.
The First In First Out (FIFO) algorithm, which had also been used for transaction scheduling, was removed. The FIFO algorithm was rendered redundant by CATS algorithm enhancements. Transaction scheduling previously performed by the FIFO algorithm is now performed by the CATS algorithm.
A TRX_SCHEDULE_WEIGHT
column was
added to the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_TRX
table,
which permits querying transaction scheduling weights
assigned by the CATS algorithm.
The following INNODB_METRICS
counters
were added for monitoring code-level transaction
scheduling events:
lock_rec_release_attempts
The number of attempts to release record locks.
lock_rec_grant_attempts
The number of attempts to grant record locks.
lock_schedule_refreshes
The number of times the wait-for graph was analyzed to update transaction schedule weights.
For more information, see Section 15.7.6, “Transaction Scheduling”.
As of MySQL 8.0.21, to improve concurrency for
operations that require access to lock queues for table
and row resources, the lock system mutex
(lock_sys->mutex
) was replaced in by
sharded latches, and lock queues were grouped into table
and page lock queue shards, with
each shard protected by a dedicated mutex. Previously,
the single lock system mutex protected all lock queues,
which was a point of contention on high-concurrency
systems. The new sharded implementation permits more
granular access to lock queues.
The lock system mutex
(lock_sys->mutex
) was replaced by the
following sharded latches:
A global latch
(lock_sys->latches.global_latch
)
consisting of 64 read-write lock objects
(rw_lock_t
). Access to an
individual lock queue requires a shared global latch
and a latch on the lock queue shard. Operations that
require access to all lock queues take an exclusive
global latch, which latches all table and page lock
queue shards.
Table shard latches
(lock_sys->latches.table_shards.mutexes
),
implemented as an array of 512 mutexes, with each
mutex dedicated to one of 512 table lock queue
shards.
Page shard latches
(lock_sys->latches.page_shards.mutexes
),
implemented as an array of 512 mutexes, with each
mutex dedicated to one of 512 page lock queue
shards.
The Performance Schema
wait/synch/mutex/innodb/lock_mutex
instrument for monitoring the single lock system mutex
was replaced by instruments for monitoring the new
global, table shard, and page shard latches:
wait/synch/sxlock/innodb/lock_sys_global_rw_lock
wait/synch/mutex/innodb/lock_sys_table_mutex
wait/synch/mutex/innodb/lock_sys_page_mutex
As of MySQL 8.0.21, table and table partition data files
created outside of the data directory using the
DATA DIRECTORY
clause are restricted
to directories known to InnoDB
. This
change permits database administrators to control where
tablespace data files are created and ensures that the
data files can be found during recovery.
General and file-per-table tablespaces data files
(.ibd
files) can no longer be
created in the undo tablespace directory
(innodb_undo_directory
)
unless that directly is known to
InnoDB
.
Known directories are those defined by the
datadir
,
innodb_data_home_dir
,
and innodb_directories
variables.
Truncating an InnoDB
table that
resides in a file-per-table tablespace drops the
existing tablespace and creates a new one. As of MySQL
8.0.21, InnoDB
creates the new
tablespace in the default location and writes a warning
to the error log if the current tablespace directory is
unknown. To have TRUNCATE
TABLE
create the tablespace in its current
location, add the directory to the
innodb_directories
setting before running TRUNCATE
TABLE
.
As of MySQL 8.0.21, redo logging can be enabled and
disabled using
ALTER
INSTANCE {ENABLE|DISABLE} INNODB REDO_LOG
syntax. This functionality is intended for loading data
into a new MySQL instance. Disabling redo logging helps
speed up data loading by avoiding redo log writes.
The new
INNODB_REDO_LOG_ENABLE
privilege permits enabling and disabling redo logging.
The new
Innodb_redo_log_enabled
status variable permits monitoring redo logging status.
At startup, InnoDB
validates the
paths of known tablespace files against tablespace file
paths stored in the data dictionary in case tablespace
files have been moved to a different location. The new
innodb_validate_tablespace_paths
variable, introduced in MySQL 8.0.21, permits disabling
tablespace path validation. This feature is intended for
environments where tablespaces files are not moved.
Disabling tablespace path validation improves startup
time on systems with a large number of tablespace files.
For more information, see Section 15.6.3.7, “Disabling Tablespace Path Validation”.
As of MySQL 8.0.21, on storage engines that support
atomic DDL, the
CREATE
TABLE ... SELECT
statement is logged as one
transaction in the binary log when row-based replication
is in use. Previously, it was logged as two
transactions, one to create the table, and the other to
insert data. With this change,
CREATE
TABLE ... SELECT
statements are now safe for
row-based replication and permitted for use with
GTID-based replication. For more information, see
Section 13.1.1, “Atomic Data Definition Statement Support”.
Truncating an undo tablespace on a busy system could affect performance due to associated flushing operations that remove old undo tablespace pages from the buffer pool and flush the initial pages of the new undo tablespace to disk. To address this issue, the flushing operations are removed as of MySQL 8.0.21.
Old undo tablespace pages are released passively as they become least recently used, or are removed at the next full checkpoint. The initial pages of the new undo tablespace are now redo logged instead of flushed to disk during the truncate operation, which also improves durability of the undo tablespace truncate operation.
To prevent potential issues caused by an excessive number of undo tablespace truncate operations, truncate operations on the same undo tablespace between checkpoints are now limited to 64. If the limit is exceeded, an undo tablespace can still be made inactive, but it is not truncated until after the next checkpoint.
INNODB_METRICS
counters
associated with defunct undo truncate flushing
operations were removed. Removed counters include:
undo_truncate_sweep_count
,
undo_truncate_sweep_usec
,
undo_truncate_flush_count
, and
undo_truncate_flush_usec
.
As of MySQL 8.0.22, the new
innodb_extend_and_initialize
variable permits configuring how
InnoDB
allocates space to
file-per-table and general tablespaces on Linux. By
default, when an operation requires additional space in
a tablespace, InnoDB
allocates pages
to the tablespace and physically writes NULLs to those
pages. This behavior affects performance if new pages
are allocated frequently. You can disable
innodb_extend_and_initialize
on Linux systems to avoid physically writing NULLs to
newly allocated tablespace pages. When
innodb_extend_and_initialize
is disabled, space is allocated using
posix_fallocate()
calls, which
reserve space without physically writing NULLs.
A posix_fallocate()
operation is not
atomic, which makes it possible for a failure to occur
between allocating space to a tablespace file and
updating the file metadata. Such a failure can leave
newly allocated pages in an uninitialized state,
resulting in a failure when InnoDB
attempts to access those pages. To prevent this
scenario, InnoDB
writes a redo log
record before allocating a new tablespace page. If a
page allocation operation is interrupted, the operation
is replayed from the redo log record during recovery.
As of MySQL 8.0.23, InnoDB
supports
encryption of doublewrite file pages belonging to
encrypted tablespaces. The pages are encrypted using the
encryption key of the associated tablespace. For more
information, see
Section 15.13, “InnoDB Data-at-Rest Encryption”.
The temptable_max_mmap
variable, introduced in MySQL 8.0.23, defines the
maximum amount of memory the TempTable storage engine is
permitted to allocate from memory-mapped (MMAP) files
before it starts storing internal temporary table data
on disk. A setting of 0 disables allocation from MMAP
files. For more information, see
Section 8.4.4, “Internal Temporary Table Use in MySQL”.
The AUTOEXTEND_SIZE
option,
introduced in MySQL 8.0.23, defines the amount by which
InnoDB
extends the size of a
tablespace when it becomes full, making it possible to
extend tablespace size in larger increments. The
AUTOEXTEND_SIZE
option is supported
with the CREATE TABLE
,
ALTER TABLE
,
CREATE TABLESPACE
, and
ALTER TABLESPACE
statements. For more information, see
Section 15.6.3.9, “Tablespace AUTOEXTEND_SIZE Configuration”.
An AUTOEXTEND_SIZE
size column was
added to the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_TABLESPACES
table.
Character set support.
The default character set has changed from
latin1
to utf8mb4
.
The utf8mb4
character set has several
new collations, including
utf8mb4_ja_0900_as_cs
, the first
Japanese language-specific collation available for Unicode
in MySQL. For more information, see
Section 10.10.1, “Unicode Character Sets”.
JSON enhancements. The following enhancements or additions were made to MySQL's JSON functionality:
Added the
->>
(inline path) operator, which is equivalent to calling
JSON_UNQUOTE()
on the
result of JSON_EXTRACT()
.
This is a refinement of the column path operator
->
introduced in MySQL 5.7;
col->>"$.path"
is equivalent to
JSON_UNQUOTE(col->"$.path")
. The
inline path operator can be used wherever you can use
JSON_UNQUOTE(JSON_EXTRACT())
, such
SELECT
column lists,
WHERE
and HAVING
clauses, and ORDER BY
and
GROUP BY
clauses. For more
information, see the description of the operator, as
well as JSON Path Syntax.
Added two JSON aggregation functions
JSON_ARRAYAGG()
and
JSON_OBJECTAGG()
.
JSON_ARRAYAGG()
takes a column or
expression as its argument, and aggregates the result as
a single JSON
array. The
expression can evaluate to any MySQL data type; this
does not have to be a JSON
value.
JSON_OBJECTAGG()
takes two columns or
expressions which it interprets as a key and a value; it
returns the result as a single JSON
object. For more information and examples, see
Section 12.20, “Aggregate Functions”.
Added the JSON utility function
JSON_PRETTY()
, which
outputs an existing JSON
value in an easy-to-read format; each JSON object member
or array value is printed on a separate line, and a
child object or array is intended 2 spaces with respect
to its parent.
This function also works with a string that can be parsed as a JSON value.
For more detailed information and examples, see Section 12.18.8, “JSON Utility Functions”.
When sorting JSON
values
in a query using ORDER BY
, each value
is now represented by a variable-length part of the sort
key, rather than a part of a fixed 1K in size. In many
cases this can reduce excessive usage. For example, a
scalar INT
or even
BIGINT
value actually requires very
few bytes, so that the remainder of this space (up to
90% or more) was taken up by padding. This change has
the following benefits for performance:
Sort buffer space is now used more effectively, so that filesorts need not flush to disk as early or often as with fixed-length sort keys. This means that more data can be sorted in memory, avoiding unnecessary disk access.
Shorter keys can be compared more quickly than longer ones, providing a noticeable improvement in performance. This is true for sorts performed entirely in memory as well as for sorts that require writing to and reading from disk.
Added support in MySQL 8.0.2 for partial, in-place
updates of JSON
column values, which
is more efficient than completely removing an existing
JSON value and writing a new one in its place, as was
done previously when updating any
JSON
column. For this optimization to
be applied, the update must be applied using
JSON_SET()
,
JSON_REPLACE()
, or
JSON_REMOVE()
. New
elements cannot be added to the JSON document being
updated; values within the document cannot take more
space than they did before the update. See
Partial Updates of JSON Values, for a detailed
discussion of the requirements.
Partial updates of JSON documents can be written to the
binary log, taking up less space than logging complete
JSON documents. Partial updates are always logged as
such when statement-based replication is in use. For
this to work with row-based replication, you must first
set
binlog_row_value_options=PARTIAL_JSON
;
see this variable's description for more
information.
Added the JSON utility functions
JSON_STORAGE_SIZE()
and
JSON_STORAGE_FREE()
.
JSON_STORAGE_SIZE()
returns the
storage space in bytes used for the binary
representation of a JSON document prior to any partial
update (see previous item).
JSON_STORAGE_FREE()
shows the amount
of space remaining in a table column of type
JSON
after it has been
partially updated using JSON_SET()
or
JSON_REPLACE()
; this is greater than
zero if the binary representation of the new value is
less than that of the previous value.
Each of these functions also accepts a valid string
representation of a JSON document. For such a value,
JSON_STORAGE_SIZE()
returns the space
used by its binary representation following its
conversion to a JSON document. For a variable containing
the string representation of a JSON document,
JSON_STORAGE_FREE()
returns zero.
Either function produces an error if its (non-null)
argument cannot be parsed as a valid JSON document, and
NULL
if the argument is
NULL
.
For more information and examples, see Section 12.18.8, “JSON Utility Functions”.
JSON_STORAGE_SIZE()
and
JSON_STORAGE_FREE()
were implemented
in MySQL 8.0.2.
Added support in MySQL 8.0.2 for ranges such as
$[1 to 5]
in XPath expressions. Also
added support in this version for the
last
keyword and relative addressing,
such that $[last]
always selects the
last (highest-numbered) element in the array and
$[last-1]
the next to last element.
last
and expressions using it can
also be included in range definitions. For example,
$[last-2 to last-1]
returns the last
two elements but one from an array. See
Searching and Modifying JSON Values, for additional information
and examples.
Added a JSON merge function intended to conform to
RFC
7396.
JSON_MERGE_PATCH()
, when
used on 2 JSON objects, merges them into a single JSON
object that has as members a union of the following
sets:
Each member of the first object for which there is no member with the same key in the second object.
Each member of the second object for which there is
no member having the same key in the first object,
and whose value is not the JSON
null
literal.
Each member having a key that exists in both
objects, and whose value in the second object is not
the JSON null
literal.
As part of this work, the
JSON_MERGE()
function has
been renamed
JSON_MERGE_PRESERVE()
.
JSON_MERGE()
continues to be
recognized as an alias for
JSON_MERGE_PRESERVE()
in MySQL
8.0, but is now deprecated and is subject
to removal in a future version of MySQL.
For more information and examples, see Section 12.18.4, “Functions That Modify JSON Values”.
Implemented “last duplicate key wins”
normalization of duplicate keys, consistent with
RFC
7159 and most JavaScript parsers. An example of
this behavior is shown here, where only the rightmost
member having the key x
is preserved:
mysql> SELECTJSON_OBJECT('x', '32', 'y', '[true, false]',
>'x', '"abc"', 'x', '100') AS Result;
+------------------------------------+ | Result | +------------------------------------+ | {"x": "100", "y": "[true, false]"} | +------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Values inserted into MySQL
JSON
columns are also
normalized in this way, as shown in this example:
mysql>CREATE TABLE t1 (c1 JSON);
mysql>INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ('{"x": 17, "x": "red", "x": [3, 5, 7]}');
mysql>SELECT c1 FROM t1;
+------------------+ | c1 | +------------------+ | {"x": [3, 5, 7]} | +------------------+
This is an incompatible change from previous versions of MySQL, where a “first duplicate key wins” algorithm was used in such cases.
See Normalization, Merging, and Autowrapping of JSON Values, for more information and examples.
Added the JSON_TABLE()
function in MySQL 8.0.4. This function accepts JSON data
and returns it as a relational table having the
specified columns.
This function has the syntax
JSON_TABLE(
, where
expr
,
path
COLUMNS
column_list
) [AS]
alias
)expr
is an expression that
returns JSON data, path
is a
JSON path applied to the source, and
column_list
is a list of
column definitions. An example is shown here:
mysql>SELECT *
->FROM
->JSON_TABLE(
->'[{"a":3,"b":"0"},{"a":"3","b":"1"},{"a":2,"b":1},{"a":0},{"b":[1,2]}]',
->"$[*]" COLUMNS(
->rowid FOR ORDINALITY,
-> ->xa INT EXISTS PATH "$.a",
->xb INT EXISTS PATH "$.b",
-> ->sa VARCHAR(100) PATH "$.a",
->sb VARCHAR(100) PATH "$.b",
-> ->ja JSON PATH "$.a",
->jb JSON PATH "$.b"
->)
->) AS jt1;
+-------+------+------+------+------+------+--------+ | rowid | xa | xb | sa | sb | ja | jb | +-------+------+------+------+------+------+--------+ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | "0" | | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | "3" | "1" | | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | NULL | 0 | NULL | | 5 | 0 | 1 | NULL | NULL | NULL | [1, 2] | +-------+------+------+------+------+------+--------+
The JSON source expression can be any expression that
yields a valid JSON document, including a JSON literal,
a table column, or a function call that returns JSON
such as JSON_EXTRACT(t1, data,
'$.post.comments')
. For more information, see
Section 12.18.6, “JSON Table Functions”.
Data type support.
MySQL now supports use of expressions as default values in
data type specifications. This includes the use of
expressions as default values for the
BLOB
,
TEXT
,
GEOMETRY
, and
JSON
data types, which
previously could not be assigned default values at all.
For details, see Section 11.6, “Data Type Default Values”.
Optimizer. These optimizer enhancements were added:
MySQL now supports invisible indexes. An invisible index is not used by the optimizer at all, but is otherwise maintained normally. Indexes are visible by default. Invisible indexes make it possible to test the effect of removing an index on query performance, without making a destructive change that must be undone should the index turn out to be required. See Section 8.3.12, “Invisible Indexes”.
MySQL now supports descending indexes:
DESC
in an index definition is no
longer ignored but causes storage of key values in
descending order. Previously, indexes could be scanned
in reverse order but at a performance penalty. A
descending index can be scanned in forward order, which
is more efficient. Descending indexes also make it
possible for the optimizer to use multiple-column
indexes when the most efficient scan order mixes
ascending order for some columns and descending order
for others. See Section 8.3.13, “Descending Indexes”.
MySQL now supports creation of functional index key
parts that index expression values rather than column
values. Functional key parts enable indexing of values
that cannot be indexed otherwise, such as
JSON
values. For details,
see Section 13.1.15, “CREATE INDEX Statement”.
In MySQL 8.0.14 and later, trivial
WHERE
conditions arising from
constant literal expressions are removed during
preparation, rather than later on during optimization.
Removal of the condition earlier in the process makes it
possible to simplify joins for queries with outer joins
having trivial conditions, such as this one:
SELECT * FROM t1 LEFT JOIN t2 ONcondition_1
WHEREcondition_2
OR 0 = 1
The optimizer now sees during preparation that 0 = 1 is
always false, making OR 0 = 1
redundant, and removes it, leaving this:
SELECT * FROM t1 LEFT JOIN t2 ONcondition_1
wherecondition_2
Now the optimizer can rewrite the query as an inner join, like this:
SELECT * FROM t1 LEFT JOIN t2 WHEREcondition_1
ANDcondition_2
For more information, see Section 8.2.1.9, “Outer Join Optimization”.
In MySQL 8.0.16 and later, MySQL can use constant
folding at optimization time to handle comparisons
between a column and a constant value where the constant
is out of range or on a range boundary with respect to
the type of the column, rather than doing so for each
row at execution time. For example, given a table
t
with a TINYINT
UNSIGNED
column c
, the
optimizer can rewrite a condition such as WHERE
c < 256
to WHERE 1
(and
optimize the condition away altogether), or
WHERE c >= 255
to WHERE c
= 255
.
See Section 8.2.1.14, “Constant-Folding Optimization”, for more information.
Beginning with MySQL 8.0.16, the semijoin optimizations
used with IN
subqueries can now be
applied to EXISTS
subqueries as well.
In addition, the optimizer now decorrelates
trivially-correlated equality predicates in the
WHERE
condition attached to the
subquery, so that they can be treated similarly to
expressions in IN
subqueries; this
applies to both EXISTS
and
IN
subqueries.
For more information, see Section 8.2.2.1, “Optimizing IN and EXISTS Subquery Predicates with Semijoin Transformations”.
As of MySQL 8.0.17, the server rewrites any incomplete
SQL predicates (that is, predicates having the form
WHERE
, in which
value
value
is a column name or
constant expression and no comparison operator is used)
internally as WHERE
during the contextualization phase, so that the query
resolver, query optimizer, and query executor need work
only with complete predicates.
value
<> 0
One visible effect of this change is that, for Boolean
values, EXPLAIN
output
now shows true
and
false
, rather than
1
and 0
.
Another effect of this change is that evaluation of a JSON value in an SQL boolean context performs an implicit comparison against JSON integer 0. Consider the table created and populated as shown here:
mysql>CREATE TABLE test (id INT, col JSON);
mysql>INSERT INTO test VALUES (1, '{"val":true}'), (2, '{"val":false}');
Previously, the server attempted to convert an extracted
true
or false
value to an SQL boolean when comparing it in an SQL
boolean context, as shown by the following query using
IS TRUE
:
mysql> SELECT id, col, col->"$.val" FROM test WHERE col->"$.val" IS TRUE;
+------+---------------+--------------+
| id | col | col->"$.val" |
+------+---------------+--------------+
| 1 | {"val": true} | true |
+------+---------------+--------------+
In MySQL 8.0.17 and later, the implicit copmparison of the extracted value with JSON integer 0 leads to a different result:
mysql> SELECT id, col, col->"$.val" FROM test WHERE col->"$.val" IS TRUE;
+------+----------------+--------------+
| id | col | col->"$.val" |
+------+----------------+--------------+
| 1 | {"val": true} | true |
| 2 | {"val": false} | false |
+------+----------------+--------------+
Beginning with MySQL 8.0.21, you can use
JSON_VALUE()
on the
extracted value to perform type conversion prior to
performing the test, as shown here:
mysql>SELECT id, col, col->"$.val" FROM test
->WHERE JSON_VALUE(col, "$.val" RETURNING UNSIGNED) IS TRUE;
+------+---------------+--------------+ | id | col | col->"$.val" | +------+---------------+--------------+ | 1 | {"val": true} | true | +------+---------------+--------------+
Also beginning with MySQL 8.0.21, the server provides the warning Evaluating a JSON value in SQL boolean context does an implicit comparison against JSON integer 0; if this is not what you want, consider converting JSON to an SQL numeric type with JSON_VALUE RETURNING when comparing extracted values in an SQL boolean context in this manner.
In MySQL 8.0.17 and later a WHERE
condition having NOT IN
(
or
subquery
)NOT EXISTS
(
is
transformed internally into an antijoin. (An antijoin
returns all rows from the table for which there is no
row in the table to which it is joined matching the join
condition.) This removes the subquery which can result
in faster query execution since the subquery's
tables are now handled on the top level.
subquery
)
This is similar to, and reuses, the existing IS
NULL
(Not exists
)
optimization for outer joins; see
EXPLAIN Extra Information.
Beginning with MySQL 8.0.21, a single-table
UPDATE
or
DELETE
statement can now
in many cases make use of a semijoin transformation or
subquery materialization. This applies to statements of
the forms shown here:
UPDATE t1 SET
t1.a=
value
WHERE t1.a IN
(SELECT t2.a FROM t2)
DELETE FROM t1 WHERE t1.a IN (SELECT t2.a
FROM t2)
This can be done for a single-table
UPDATE
or DELETE
meeting the following conditions:
The UPDATE
or
DELETE
statement uses a subquery
having a [NOT] IN
or
[NOT] EXISTS
predicate.
The statement has no ORDER BY
clause, and has no LIMIT
clause.
(The multi-table versions of
UPDATE
and
DELETE
do not support
ORDER BY
or
LIMIT
.)
The target table does not support read-before-write
removal (relevant only for
NDB
tables).
Semijoin or subquery materialization is allowed,
based on any hints contained in the subquery and the
value of
optimizer_switch
.
When the semijoin optimization is used for an eligible
single-table DELETE
or
UPDATE
, this is visible in the
optimizer trace: for a multi-table statement there is a
join_optimization
object in the
trace, while there is none for a single-table statement.
The conversion is also visible in the output of
EXPLAIN FORMAT=TREE
or
EXPLAIN ANALYZE
; a
single-table statement shows <not executable
by iterator executor>
, while a multi-table
statement reports a full plan.
Alo beginning with MySQL 8.0.21, semi-consistent reads
are supported by multi-table UPDATE
statements using InnoDB
tables, for transaction isolation levels weaker than
REPEATABLE READ
.
Improved hash join performance.
MySQL 8.0.23 reimplements the hash table used for hash
joins, resulting in several improvements in hash join
performance. This work includes a fix for an issue
(Bug #31516149, Bug #99933) whereby only roughly 2/3
of the memory allocated for the join buffer
(join_buffer_size
)
could actually be used by a hash join.
The new hash table is generally faster than the old one, and uses less memory for alignment, keys/values, and in scenarios where there are many equal keys. In addition, the server can now free old memory when the size of the hash table increases.
Common table expressions.
MySQL now supports common table expressions, both
nonrecursive and recursive. Common table expressions
enable use of named temporary result sets, implemented by
permitting a WITH
clause
preceding SELECT
statements
and certain other statements. For more information, see
Section 13.2.15, “WITH (Common Table Expressions)”.
As of MySQL 8.0.19, the recursive
SELECT
part of a recursive
common table expression (CTE) supports a
LIMIT
clause. LIMIT
with OFFSET
is also supported. See
Recursive Common Table Expressions, for
more information.
Window functions.
MySQL now supports window functions that, for each row
from a query, perform a calculation using rows related to
that row. These include functions such as
RANK()
,
LAG()
, and
NTILE()
. In addition,
several existing aggregate functions now can be used as
window functions (for example,
SUM()
and
AVG()
). For more
information, see Section 12.21, “Window Functions”.
Lateral derived tables.
A derived table now may be preceded by the
LATERAL
keyword to specify that it is
permitted to refer to (depend on) columns of preceding
tables in the same FROM
clause. Lateral
derived tables make possible certain SQL operations that
cannot be done with nonlateral derived tables or that
require less-efficient workarounds. See
Section 13.2.11.9, “Lateral Derived Tables”.
Aliases in single-table DELETE statements.
In MySQL 8.0.16 and later, single-table
DELETE
statements support
the use of table aliases.
Regular expression support.
Previously, MySQL used the Henry Spencer regular
expression library to support regular expression operators
(REGEXP
,
RLIKE
).
Regular expression support has been reimplemented using
International Components for Unicode (ICU), which provides
full Unicode support and is multibyte safe. The
REGEXP_LIKE()
function
performs regular expression matching in the manner of the
REGEXP
and
RLIKE
operators, which now are synonyms for that function. In
addition, the
REGEXP_INSTR()
,
REGEXP_REPLACE()
, and
REGEXP_SUBSTR()
functions
are available to find match positions and perform
substring substitution and extraction, respectively. The
regexp_stack_limit
and
regexp_time_limit
system
variables provide control over resource consumption by the
match engine. For more information, see
Section 12.8.2, “Regular Expressions”. For information about ways in
which applications that use regular expressions may be
affected by the implementation change, see
Regular Expression Compatibility Considerations.
Internal temporary tables.
The TempTable
storage engine replaces
the MEMORY
storage engine as the
default engine for in-memory internal temporary tables.
The TempTable
storage engine provides
efficient storage for
VARCHAR
and
VARBINARY
columns. The
internal_tmp_mem_storage_engine
session variable defines the storage engine for in-memory
internal temporary tables. Permitted values are
TempTable
(the default) and
MEMORY
. The
temptable_max_ram
variable defines the maximum amount of memory that the
TempTable
storage engine can use before
data is stored to disk.
Logging.
Error logging was rewritten to use the MySQL component
architecture. Traditional error logging is implemented
using built-in components, and logging using the system
log is implemented as a loadable component. In addition, a
loadable JSON log writer is available. To control which
log components to enable, use the
log_error_services
system
variable. For more information, see
Section 5.4.2, “The Error Log”.
Backup lock.
A new type of backup lock permits DML during an online
backup while preventing operations that could result in an
inconsistent snapshot. The new backup lock is supported by
LOCK INSTANCE FOR BACKUP
and
UNLOCK
INSTANCE
syntax. The
BACKUP_ADMIN
privilege is
required to use these statements.
Replication. The following enhancements have been made to MySQL Replication:
MySQL Replication now supports binary logging of partial
updates to JSON documents using a compact binary format,
saving space in the log over logging complete JSON
documents. Such compact logging is done automatically
when statement-based logging is in use, and can be
enabled by setting the new
binlog_row_value_options
system
variable to PARTIAL_JSON
. For more
information, see Partial Updates of JSON Values,
as well as the description of
binlog_row_value_options
.
Connection management.
MySQL Server now permits a TCP/IP port to be configured
specifically for administrative connections. This provides
an alternative to the single administrative connection
that is permitted on the network interfaces used for
ordinary connections even when
max_connections
connections are already established. See
Section 5.1.12.1, “Connection Interfaces”.
MySQL now provides more control over the use of compression
to minimize the number of bytes sent over connections to the
server. Previously, a given connection was either
uncompressed or used the zlib
compression
algorithm. Now, it is also possible to use the
zstd
algorithm, and to select a
compression level for zstd
connections.
The permitted compression algorithms can be configured on
the server side, as well as on the connection-origination
side for connections by client programs and by servers
participating in source/replica replication or Group
Replication. For more information, see
Section 4.2.8, “Connection Compression Control”.
Configuration.
The maximum permitted length of host names throughout
MySQL has been raised to 255 ASCII characters, up from the
previous limit of 60 characters. This applies to, for
example, host name-related columns in the data dictionary,
mysql
system schema, Performance
Schema, INFORMATION_SCHEMA
, and
sys
schema; the
MASTER_HOST
value for the
CHANGE MASTER TO
statement;
the Host
column in
SHOW PROCESSLIST
statement
output; host names in account names (such as used in
account-management statements and in
DEFINER
attributes); and host
name-related command options and system variables.
Caveats:
The increase in permitted host name length can affect
tables with indexes on host name columns. For example,
tables in the mysql
system schema
that index host names now have an explicit
ROW_FORMAT
attribute of
DYNAMIC
to accommodate longer index
values.
Some file name-valued configuration settings might be
constructed based on the server host name. The permitted
values are constrained by the underlying operating
system, which may not permit file names long enough to
include 255-character host names. This affects the
general_log_file
,
log_error
,
pid_file
,
relay_log
, and
slow_query_log_file
system variables and corresponding options. If host
name-based values are too long for the OS, explicit
shorter values must be provided.
Although the server now supports 255-character host
names, connections to the server established using the
--ssl-mode=VERIFY_IDENTITY
option are constrained by maximum host name length
supported by OpenSSL. Host name matches pertain to two
fields of SSL certificates, which have maximum lengths
as follows: Common Name: maximum length 64; Subject
Alternative Name: maximum length as per RFC#1034.
Plugins. Previously, MySQL plugins could be written in C or C++. MySQL header files used by plugins now contain C++ code, which means that plugins must be written in C++, not C.
C API. The MySQL C API now supports asynchronous functions for nonblocking communication with the MySQL server. Each function is the asynchronous counterpart to an existing synchronous function. The synchronous functions block if reads from or writes to the server connection must wait. The asynchronous functions enable an application to check whether work on the server connection is ready to proceed. If not, the application can perform other work before checking again later. See C API Asynchronous Interface.
Additional target types for casts.
The functions CAST()
and
CONVERT()
now support
conversions to types
DOUBLE
,
FLOAT
, and
REAL
. Added in MySQL
8.0.17. See Section 12.11, “Cast Functions and Operators”.
JSON schema validation.
MySQL 8.0.17 adds two functions
JSON_SCHEMA_VALID()
and
JSON_SCHEMA_VALIDATION_REPORT()
for validating JSON documents again JSON schemas.
JSON_SCHEMA_VALID()
returns TRUE (1) if
the document validates against the schema and FALSE (0) if
it does not.
JSON_SCHEMA_VALIDATION_REPORT()
returns
a JSON document containing detailed information about the
results of the validation. The following statements apply
to both of these functions:
The schema must conform to Draft 4 of the JSON Schema specification.
required
attributes are supported.
External resources and the $ref
keyword are not supported.
Regular expression patterns are supported; invalid patterns are silently ignored.
See Section 12.18.7, “JSON Schema Validation Functions”, for more information and examples.
Multi-valued indexes.
Beginning with MySQL 8.0.17,
InnoDB
supports the creation
of a multi-valued index, which is a secondary index
defined on a JSON
column
that stores an array of values and which can have multiple
index records for a single data record. Such an index uses
a key part definition such as
CAST(data->'$.zipcode' AS UNSIGNED
ARRAY)
. A multi-valued index is used
automatically by the MySQL optimizer for suitable queries,
as can be viewed in the output of
EXPLAIN
.
As part of this work, MySQL adds a new function
JSON_OVERLAPS()
and a new
MEMBER OF()
operator for
working with JSON
documents,
additionally extending the
CAST()
function with a new
ARRAY
keyword, as described in the
following list:
JSON_OVERLAPS()
compares two
JSON
documents. If they
contain any key-value pairs or array elements in common,
the function returns TRUE (1); otherwise it returns
FALSE (0). If both values are scalars, the function
performs a simple test for equality. If one argument is
a JSON array and the other is a scalar, the scalar is
treated as an array element. Thus,
JSON_OVERLAPS()
acts as a complement
to JSON_CONTAINS()
.
MEMBER OF()
tests whether the first
operand (a scalar or JSON document) is a member of the
JSON array passed as the second operand, returning TRUE
(1) if it is, and FALSE (0) if it is not. No type
conversion of the operand is performed.
CAST(
permits
creation of a functional index by casting the JSON array
found in a JSON document at
expression
AS
type
ARRAY)json_path
to an SQL array.
Type specifiers are limited to those already supported
by CAST()
, with the exception of
BINARY
(not supported). This usage of
CAST()
(and the
ARRAY
keyword) is supported only by
InnoDB
, and only for the
creation of a multi-valued index.
For detailed information about multi-valued indexes,
including examples, see
Multi-Valued Indexes.
Section 12.18.3, “Functions That Search JSON Values”, provides
information about JSON_OVERLAPS()
and
MEMBER OF()
, along with examples of use.
Hintable time_zone.
As of MySQL 8.0.17, the
time_zone
session
variable is hintable using
SET_VAR
.
Redo Log Archiving.
As of MySQL 8.0.17, InnoDB
supports
redo log archiving. Backup utilities that copy redo log
records may sometimes fail to keep pace with redo log
generation while a backup operation is in progress,
resulting in lost redo log records due to those records
being overwritten. The redo log archiving feature
addresses this issue by sequentially writing redo log
records to an archive file. Backup utilities can copy redo
log records from the archive file as necessary, thereby
avoiding the potential loss of data. For more information,
see Redo Log Archiving.
The Clone Plugin.
As of MySQL 8.0.17, MySQL provides a clone plugin that
permits cloning InnoDB
data locally or
from a remote MySQL server instance. A local cloning
operation stores cloned data on the same server or node
where the MySQL instance runs. A remote cloning operation
transfers cloned data over the network from a donor MySQL
server instance to the recipient server or node where the
cloning operation was initiated.
The clone plugin supports replication. In addition to cloning data, a cloning operation extracts and transfers replication coordinates from the donor and applies them on the recipient, which enables using the clone plugin for provisioning Group Replication members and replicas. Using the clone plugin for provisioning is considerably faster and more efficient than replicating a large number of transactions. Group Replication members can also be configured to use the clone plugin as an alternative method of recovery, so that members automatically choose the most efficient way to retrieve group data from seed members.
For more information, see Section 5.6.7, “The Clone Plugin”, and Section 18.4.3.2, “Cloning for Distributed Recovery”.
Hash Join Optimization. Beginning with MySQL 8.0.18, a hash join is used whenever each pair of tables in a join includes at least one equi-join condition, and no indexes apply to any join condition. A hash join does not require indexes, although it can be used with indexes applying to single-table predicates only. A hash join is more efficient in most cases than the block-nested loop algorithm. Joins such as those shown here can be optimized in this manner:
SELECT * FROM t1 JOIN t2 ON t1.c1=t2.c1; SELECT * FROM t1 JOIN t2 ON (t1.c1 = t2.c1 AND t1.c2 < t2.c2) JOIN t3 ON (t2.c1 = t3.c1)
Hash joins can also be used for Cartesian products—that is, when no join condition is specified.
You can see when the hash join optimization is being used
for a particular query using
EXPLAIN
FORMAT=TREE
or EXPLAIN
ANALYZE
. (In MySQL 8.0.20 and later, you can also
use EXPLAIN
, omitting
FORMAT=TREE
.)
The amount of memory available to a hash join is limited by
the value of
join_buffer_size
. A hash
join that requires more than this much memory is executed on
disk; the number of disk files that can be used by an
on-disk hash join is limited by
open_files_limit
.
As of MySQL 8.0.19, the
hash_join
optimizer switch
which was introduced in MySQL 8.0.18 no longer supported
(hash_join=on still appears as part of the value of
optimizer_switch, but setting it no longer has any effect).
The HASH_JOIN
and
NO_HASH_JOIN
optimizer hints are also no
longer supported. The switch and the hint are both now
deprecated; expect them to be removed in a future MySQL
release. In MySQL 8.0.18 and later, hash joins can be
disabled using the NO_BNL
optimizer switch.
In MySQL 8.0.20 and later, block nested loop is no longer
used in the MySQL server, and a hash join is employed any
time a block nested loop would have been used previously,
even when the query contains no equi-join conditions. This
applies to inner non-equijoins, semijoins, antijoins, left
outer joins, and right outer joins. TThe
block_nested_loop
flag for
the optimizer_switch
system
variable as well as the
BNL
and
NO_BNL
optimizer hints are still
supported, but henceforth control use of hash joins only. In
addition, both inner and outer joins (including semijoins
and antijoins) can now employ batched key access (BKA),
which allocates join buffer memory incrementally so that
individual queries need not use up large amounts of
resources that they do not actually require for resolution.
BKA for inner joins only is supported starting with MySQL
8.0.18.
MySQL 8.0.20 also replaces the executor used in previous
versions of MySQL with the iterator executor. This work
includes replacement of the old index subquery engines that
governed queries of the form WHERE
for
those value
IN (SELECT
column
FROM
table
WHERE ...)IN
queries which have not been
optimized as semijoins, as well as queries materialized in
the same form, which formerly depended on the old executor.
For more information and examples, see Section 8.2.1.4, “Hash Join Optimization”. See also Batched Key Access Joins.
EXPLAIN ANALYZE Statement.
A new form of the EXPLAIN
statement, EXPLAIN ANALYZE
,
is implemented in MySQL 8.0.18, providing expanded
information about the execution of
SELECT
statements in
TREE
format for each iterator used in
processing the query, and making it possible to compare
estimated cost with the actual cost of the query. This
information includes startup cost, total cost, number of
rows returned by this iterator, and the number of loops
executed.
In MySQL 8.0.21 and later, this statement also supports a
FORMAT=TREE
specifier.
TREE
is the only supported format.
See Obtaining Information with EXPLAIN ANALYZE, for more information.
Query cast injection. In version 8.0.18 and later, MySQL injects cast operations into the query item tree inside expressions and conditions in which the data type of the argument and the expected data type do not match. This has no effect on query results or speed of execution, but makes the query as executed equivalent to one which is compliant with the SQL standard while maintaining backwards compatibility with previous releases of MySQL.
Such implicit casts are now performed between temporal types
(DATE
,
DATETIME
,
TIMESTAMP
,
TIME
) and numeric types
(SMALLINT
,
TINYINT
,
MEDIUMINT
,
INT
/INTEGER
,
BIGINT
;
DECIMAL
/NUMERIC
;
FLOAT
,
DOUBLE
,
REAL
;
BIT
) whenever they are
compared using any of the standard numeric comparison
operators
(=
,
>=
,
>
,
<
,
<=
,
<>
/!=
,
or
<=>
).
In this case, any value that is not already a
DOUBLE
is cast as one. Cast injection is
also now performed for comparisons between
DATE
or
TIME
values and
DATETIME
values, where the
arguments are cast whenever necessary as
DATETIME
.
Beginning with MySQL 8.0.21, such casts are also performed
when comparing string types with other types. String types
that are cast include CHAR
,
VARCHAR
,
BINARY
,
VARBINARY
,
BLOB
,
TEXT
,
ENUM
, and
SET
. When comparing a value
of a string type with a numeric type or
YEAR
, the string cast is to
DOUBLE
; if the type of the other argument
is not FLOAT
, DOUBLE
,
or REAL
, it is also cast to
DOUBLE
. When comparing a string type to a
DATETIME
or TIMESTAMP
value, the string is cast is to DATETIME
;
when comparing a string type with DATE
,
the string is cast to DATE
.
It is possible to see when casts are injected into a given
query by viewing the output of EXPLAIN
ANALYZE
, EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON
,
or, as shown here, EXPLAIN FORMAT=TREE
:
mysql>CREATE TABLE d (dt DATETIME, d DATE, t TIME);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.62 sec) mysql>CREATE TABLE n (i INT, d DECIMAL, f FLOAT, dc DECIMAL);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.51 sec) mysql>CREATE TABLE s (c CHAR(25), vc VARCHAR(25),
->bn BINARY(50), vb VARBINARY(50), b BLOB, t TEXT,
->e ENUM('a', 'b', 'c'), se SET('x' ,'y', 'z'));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.50 sec) mysql>EXPLAIN FORMAT=TREE SELECT * from d JOIN n ON d.dt = n.i\G
*************************** 1. row *************************** EXPLAIN: -> Inner hash join (cast(d.dt as double) = cast(n.i as double)) (cost=0.70 rows=1) -> Table scan on n (cost=0.35 rows=1) -> Hash -> Table scan on d (cost=0.35 rows=1) mysql>EXPLAIN FORMAT=TREE SELECT * from s JOIN d ON d.dt = s.c\G
*************************** 1. row *************************** EXPLAIN: -> Inner hash join (d.dt = cast(s.c as datetime(6))) (cost=0.72 rows=1) -> Table scan on d (cost=0.37 rows=1) -> Hash -> Table scan on s (cost=0.35 rows=1) 1 row in set (0.01 sec) mysql>EXPLAIN FORMAT=TREE SELECT * from n JOIN s ON n.d = s.c\G
*************************** 1. row *************************** EXPLAIN: -> Inner hash join (cast(n.d as double) = cast(s.c as double)) (cost=0.70 rows=1) -> Table scan on s (cost=0.35 rows=1) -> Hash -> Table scan on n (cost=0.35 rows=1) 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Such casts can also be seen by executing EXPLAIN
[FORMAT=TRADITIONAL]
, in which case it is also
necessary to issue SHOW
WARNINGS
after executing the
EXPLAIN
statement.
Time zone support for TIMESTAMP and DATETIME.
As of MySQL 8.0.19, the server accepts a time zone offset
with inserted datetime
(TIMESTAMP
and
DATETIME
) values. This
offset uses the same format as that employed when setting
the time_zone
system
variable, except that a leading zero is required when the
hours portion of the offset is less than 10, and
'-00:00'
is not allowed. Examples of
datetime literals that include time zone offsets are
'2019-12-11 10:40:30-05:00'
,
'2003-04-14 03:30:00+10:00'
, and
'2020-01-01 15:35:45+05:30'
.
Time zone offsets are not displayed when selecting datetime values.
Datetime literals incorporating time zone offsets can be used as prepared statement parameter values.
As part of this work, the value used to set the
time_zone
system variable
is now also restricted to the range
-14:00
to +14:00
,
inclusive. (It remains possible to assign name values to
time_zone
such as
'EST'
,
'Posix/Australia/Brisbane'
, and
'Europe/Stockholm'
to this variable,
provided that the MySQL time zone tables are loaded; see
Populating the Time Zone Tables).
For more information and examples, see Section 5.1.15, “MySQL Server Time Zone Support”, as well as Section 11.2.2, “The DATE, DATETIME, and TIMESTAMP Types”.
Precise information for JSON schema CHECK constraint failures.
When using
JSON_SCHEMA_VALID()
to
specify a CHECK
constraint, MySQL
8.0.19 and later provides precise information about the
reasons for failures of such constraints.
For examples and more information, see JSON_SCHEMA_VALID() and CHECK constraints. See also Section 13.1.20.6, “CHECK Constraints”.
Row and column aliases with ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE.
Beginning with MySQL 8.0.19, it is possible to reference
the row to be inserted, and, optionally, its columns,
using aliases. Consider the following
INSERT
statement on a table
t
having columns a
and b
:
INSERT INTO t SET a=9,b=5 ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE a=VALUES(a)+VALUES(b);
Using the alias new
for the new row, and,
in some cases, the aliases m
and
n
for this row's columns, the
INSERT
statement can be rewritten in many
different ways, some examples of which are shown here:
INSERT INTO t SET a=9,b=5 AS new ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE a=new.a+new.b; INSERT INTO t VALUES(9,5) AS new ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE a=new.a+new.b; INSERT INTO t SET a=9,b=5 AS new(m,n) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE a=m+n; INSERT INTO t VALUES(9,5) AS new(m,n) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE a=m+n;
For more information and examples, see Section 13.2.6.2, “INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE Statement”.
SQL standard explicit table clause and table value constructor.
Added table value constructors and explicit table clauses
according to the SQL standard. These are implemented in
MySQL 8.0.19, respectively, as the
TABLE
statement and the
VALUES
statement.
The TABLE
statement has the
format TABLE
, and is
equivalent to table_name
SELECT * FROM
. It supports
table_name
ORDER BY
and LIMIT
clauses ( the latter with optional
OFFSET
), but does not allow for the
selection of individual table columns.
TABLE
can be used anywhere that you would
employ the equivalent SELECT
statement; this includes joins, unions,
INSERT ...
SELECT
, REPLACE
,
CREATE
TABLE ... SELECT
statements, and subqueries. For
example:
TABLE t1 UNION TABLE t2
is equivalent
to SELECT * FROM t1 UNION SELECT * FROM
t2
CREATE TABLE t2 TABLE t1
is
equivalent to CREATE TABLE t2 SELECT * FROM
t1
SELECT a FROM t1 WHERE b > ANY (TABLE
t2)
is equivalent to SELECT a FROM t1
WHERE b > ANY (SELECT * FROM t2)
.
VALUES
can be used to supply
a table value to an INSERT
,
REPLACE
, or
SELECT
statement, and
consists of the VALUES
keyword followed
by a series of row constructors (ROW()
)
separated by commas. For example, the statement
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ROW(1,2,3), ROW(4,5,6),
ROW(7,8,9)
provides an SQL-compliant equivalent to
the MySQL-specific INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1,2,3),
(4,5,6), (7,8,9)
. You can also select from a
VALUES
table value
constructor just as you would a table, bearing in mind that
you must supply a table alias when doing so, and use this
SELECT
just as you would any
other; this includes joins, unions, and subqueries.
For more information about TABLE
and
VALUES
, and for examples of their use,
see the following sections of this documentation:
Optimizer hints for FORCE INDEX, IGNORE INDEX.
MySQL 8.0 introduces index-level optimizer hints which
serve as analogs to the traditional index hints as
described in Section 8.9.4, “Index Hints”. The new hints
are listed here, along with their FORCE
INDEX
or IGNORE INDEX
equivalents:
GROUP_INDEX
:
Equivalent to FORCE INDEX FOR GROUP
BY
NO_GROUP_INDEX
:
Equivalent to IGNORE INDEX FOR GROUP
BY
JOIN_INDEX
: Equivalent
to FORCE INDEX FOR JOIN
NO_JOIN_INDEX
:
Equivalent to IGNORE INDEX FOR JOIN
ORDER_INDEX
:
Equivalent to FORCE INDEX FOR ORDER
BY
NO_ORDER_INDEX
:
Equivalent to IGNORE INDEX FOR ORDER
BY
INDEX
: Same as
GROUP_INDEX
plus
JOIN_INDEX
plus
ORDER_INDEX
;
equivalent to FORCE INDEX
with no
modifier
NO_INDEX
: Same as
NO_GROUP_INDEX
plus
NO_JOIN_INDEX
plus
NO_ORDER_INDEX
;
equivalent to IGNORE INDEX
with no
modifier
For example, the following two queries are equivalent:
SELECT a FROM t1 FORCE INDEX (i_a) FOR JOIN WHERE a=1 AND b=2; SELECT /*+ JOIN_INDEX(t1 i_a) */ a FROM t1 WHERE a=1 AND b=2;
The optimizer hints listed previously follow the same basic rules for syntax and usage as existing index-level optimizer hints.
These optimizer hints are intended to replace FORCE
INDEX
and IGNORE INDEX
, which
we plan to deprecate in a future MySQL release, and
subsequently to remove from MySQL. They do not implement a
single exact equivalent for USE INDEX
;
instead, you can employ one or more of
NO_INDEX
,
NO_JOIN_INDEX
,
NO_GROUP_INDEX
, or
NO_ORDER_INDEX
to achieve
the same effect.
For further information and examples of use, see Index-Level Optimizer Hints.
JSON_VALUE() function.
MySQL 8.0.21 implements a new function
JSON_VALUE()
intended to
simplify indexing of JSON
columns. In its most basic form, it takes as arguments a
JSON document and a JSON path pointing to a single value
in that document, as well as (optionally) allowing you to
specify a return type with the
RETURNING
keyword.
JSON_VALUE(
is equivalent
to this:
json_doc
,
path
RETURNING
type
)
CAST( JSON_UNQUOTE( JSON_EXTRACT(json_doc
,path
) ) AStype
);
You can also specify ON EMPTY
,
ON ERROR
, or both clauses, similar to
those employed with
JSON_TABLE()
.
You can use JSON_VALUE()
to create an
index on an expression on a JSON
column
like this:
CREATE TABLE t1( j JSON, INDEX i1 ( (JSON_VALUE(j, '$.id' RETURNING UNSIGNED)) ) ); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ROW('{"id": "123", "name": "shoes", "price": "49.95"}');
A query using this expression, such as that shown here, can make use of the index:
SELECT name, price FROM t1 WHERE JSON_VALUE(j, '$.id' RETURNING UNSIGNED) = 123;
In many cases, this is simpler than creating a generated
column from the JSON
column and then
creating an index on the generated column.
For more information and examples, see the description of
JSON_VALUE()
.
User comments and user attributes.
MySQL 8.0.21 introduces the ability to set user comments
and user attributes when creating or updating user
accounts. A user comment consists of arbitrary text passed
as the argument to a COMMENT
clause
used with a CREATE USER
or
ALTER USER
statement. A
user attribute consists of data in the form of a JSON
object passed as the argument to an
ATTRIBUTE
clause used with either of
these two statements. The attribute can contain any valid
key-value pairs in JSON object notation. Only one of
COMMENT
or ATTRIBUTE
can be used in a single CREATE USER
or
ALTER USER
statement.
User comments and user attributes are stored together
internally as a JSON object, the comment text as the value
of an element having comment
as its key.
This information can be retrieved from the
ATTRIBUTE
column of the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.USER_ATTRIBUTES
table; since it is in JSON format, you can use MySQL's
JSON function and operators to parse its contents (see
Section 12.18, “JSON Functions”). Successive changes to the
user attribute are merged with its current value as when
using the JSON_MERGE_PATCH()
function.
Example:
mysql>CREATE USER 'mary'@'localhost' COMMENT 'This is Mary Smith\'s account';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.33 sec) mysql>ALTER USER 'mary'@'localhost'
-≫ATTRIBUTE '{"fname":"Mary", "lname":"Smith"}';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.14 sec) mysql>ALTER USER 'mary'@'localhost'
-≫ATTRIBUTE '{"email":"mary.smith@example.com"}';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.12 sec) mysql>SELECT
->USER,
->HOST,
->ATTRIBUTE->>"$.fname" AS 'First Name',
->ATTRIBUTE->>"$.lname" AS 'Last Name',
->ATTRIBUTE->>"$.email" AS 'Email',
->ATTRIBUTE->>"$.comment" AS 'Comment'
->FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.USER_ATTRIBUTES
->WHERE USER='mary' AND HOST='localhost'\G
*************************** 1. row *************************** USER: mary HOST: localhost First Name: Mary Last Name: Smith Email: mary.smith@example.com Comment: This is Mary Smith's account 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
For more information and examples, see Section 13.7.1.3, “CREATE USER Statement”, Section 13.7.1.1, “ALTER USER Statement”, and Section 26.46, “The INFORMATION_SCHEMA USER_ATTRIBUTES Table”.
New optimizer_switch flags.
MySQL 8.0.21 adds two new flags for the
optimizer_switch
system
variable, as described in the following list:
By default, MySQL attempts to use an ordered index for
any ORDER BY
or GROUP
BY
query that has a LIMIT
clause, whenever the optimizer determines that this
would result in faster execution. Because it is possible
in some cases that choosing a different optimization for
such queries actually performs better, it is now
possible to disable this optimization by setting the
prefer_ordering_index
flag to off
.
The default value for this flag is
on
.
subquery_to_derived
flag
When this flag is set to on
, the
optimizer transforms eligible scalar subqueries into
joins on derived tables. For example, the query
SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE t1.a > (SELECT
COUNT(a) FROM t2)
is rewritten as
SELECT t1.a FROM t1 JOIN ( SELECT COUNT(t2.a)
AS c FROM t2 ) AS d WHERE t1.a > d.c
.
This optimization can be applied to a subquery which is
part of a SELECT
,
WHERE
, JOIN
, or
HAVING
clause; contains one or more
aggregate functions but no GROUP BY
clause; is not correlated; and does not use any
nondeterministic functions.
The optimization can also be applied to a table subquery
which is the argument to IN
,
NOT IN
, EXISTS
, or
NOT EXISTS
, and which does not
contain a GROUP BY
. For example, the
query SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE t1.b < 0 OR
t1.a IN (SELECT t2.a + 1 FROM t2)
is rewritten
as SELECT a, b FROM t1 LEFT JOIN (SELECT
DISTINCT 1 AS e1, t2.a AS e2 FROM t2) d ON t1.a + 1 =
d.e2 WHERE t1.b < 0 OR d.e1 IS NOT NULL
.
Starting with MySQL 8.0.24, this optimization can also
be applied to a correlated scalar subquery by applying
an extra grouping to it, and then an outer join on the
lifted predicate. For example, a query such as
SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE (SELECT a FROM t2 WHERE
t2.a=t1.a) > 0
can be rewritten as
SELECT t1.* FROM t1 LEFT OUTER JOIN (SELECT a,
COUNT(*) AS ct FROM t2 GROUP BY a) AS derived ON t1.a =
derived.a WHERE derived.a > 0
. MySQL
performs a cardinality check to make sure that the
subquery does not return more than one row
(ER_SUBQUERY_NO_1_ROW
).
See Section 13.2.11.7, “Correlated Subqueries”, for more
information.
This optimization is normally disabled, since it does
not yield a noticeable performance benefit in most
cases; the flag is set to off
by
default.
For more information, see Section 8.9.2, “Switchable Optimizations”. See also Section 8.2.1.19, “LIMIT Query Optimization”, Section 8.2.2.1, “Optimizing IN and EXISTS Subquery Predicates with Semijoin Transformations”, and Section 8.2.2.4, “Optimizing Derived Tables, View References, and Common Table Expressions with Merging or Materialization”.
XML enhancements.
As of MySQL 8.0.21, the LOAD
XML
statement now supports
CDATA
sections in the XML to be
imported.
Casting to the YEAR type now supported.
Beginning with MySQL 8.0.22, the server allows casting to
YEAR
. Both the
CAST()
and
CONVERT()
functions support
single-digit, two-digit, and four-digit
YEAR
values. For one-digit and
two-digit values, the allowed range is 0-99. Four-digit
values must be in the range 1901-2155.
YEAR
can also be used as the return
type for the JSON_VALUE()
function; this function supports four-digit years only.
String, time-and-date, and floating-point values can all be
cast to YEAR
. Casting of
GEOMETRY
values to
YEAR
is not supported.
For more information, including conversion rules, see the
description of the CONVERT()
function.
Retrieval of TIMESTAMP values as UTC.
MySQL 8.0.22 and later supports conversion of a
TIMESTAMP
column value from
the system time zone to a UTC
DATETIME
on retrieval,
using CAST(
, where the specifier is one of
value
AT
TIME ZONE specifier
AS
DATETIME)[INTERVAL] '+00:00'
or
'UTC'
. The precision of the
DATETIME
value returned by the cast can
be specified up to 6 decimal places, if desired. The
ARRAY
keyword is not supported with
this construct.
TIMESTAMP
values inserted into a table
using a timezone offset are also supported. Use of
AT TIME ZONE
is not supported for
CONVERT()
or any other MySQL
function or construct.
For further information and examples, see the description of
the CAST()
function.
Dump file output synchronization.
MySQL 8.0.22 and later supports periodic synchronization
when writing to files by
SELECT INTO
DUMPFILE
and SELECT INTO
OUTFILE
statements. This can be enabled by
setting the
select_into_disk_sync
system variable to ON
; the size of the
write buffer is determined by the value set for
select_into_buffer_size
;
the default is 131072 (217)
bytes.
In addition, an optional delay following synchronization to
disk can be set using
select_into_disk_sync_delay
;
the default is no delay (0 milliseconds).
For more information, see the descriptions of the variables referenced previously in this item.
Single preparation of statements.
As of MySQL 8.0.22, a prepared statement is prepared a
single time, rather than once each time it is executed.
This is done when executing
PREPARE
. This is also true
for any statement inside a stored procedure; the statement
is prepared once, when the stored procedure is first
executed.
One result of this change is that the fashion in which dynamic parameters used in prepared statements are resolved is also changed in the ways listed here:
A prepared statement parameter is assigned a data type when the statement is prepared; the type persists for each subsequent execution of the statement (unless the statement is reprepared; see following).
Using a different data type for a given parameter or user variable within a prepared statement for executions of the statement subsequent to the first execution may cause the statement to be reprepared; for this reason, it is advisable to use the same data type for a given parameter when re-executing a prepared statement.
The following constructs employing window functions are no longer accepted, in order to align with the SQL standard:
LEAD(
and
expr
,
nn
)LAG(
, where
expr
,
nn
)nn
is a negative number
This facilitates greater compliance with the SQL standard. See the individual function descriptions for further details.
A user variable referenced within a prepared statement now has its data type determined when the statement is prepared; the type persists for each subsequent execution of the statement.
A user variable referenced by a statement occurring within a stored procedure now has its data type determined the first time the statement is executed; the type persists for any subsequent invocation of the containing stored procedure.
When executing a prepared statement of the form
SELECT
,
passing an integer value expr1
,
expr2
, ... FROM
table
ORDER BY ?N
for the parameter no longer causes ordering of the
results by the
N
th
expression in the select list; the results are no longer
ordered, as is expected with ORDER BY
.
constant
Preparing a statement used as a prepared statement or within a stored procedure only once enhances the performance of the statement, since it negates the added cost of repeated preparation. Doing so also avoids possible multiple rollbacks of preparation structures, which has been the source of numerous issues in MySQL.
For more information, see Section 13.5.1, “PREPARE Statement”.
RIGHT JOIN as LEFT JOIN handling.
As of MySQL 8.0.22, the server handles all instances of
RIGHT JOIN
internally as LEFT
JOIN
, eliminating a number of special cases in
which a complete conversion was not performed at parse
time.
Derived condition pushdown optimization.
MySQL 8.0.22 (and later) implements derived condition
pushdown for queries having materialized derived tables.
For a query such as SELECT * FROM (SELECT i, j
FROM t1) AS dt WHERE i >
, it is now
possible in many cases to push the the outer
constant
WHERE
condition down to the derived
table, in this case resulting in SELECT * FROM
(SELECT i, j FROM t1 WHERE i >
.
constant
) AS dt
Previously, if the derived table was materialized and not
merged, MySQL materialized the entire table, then qualified
the rows with the WHERE
condition. Moving
the WHERE
condition into the subquery
using the derived condition pushdown optimization can often
reduce the number of rows must be be processed, which can
decrease the time needed to execute the query.
An outer WHERE
condition can be pushed
down directly to a materialized derived table when the
derived table does not use any aggregate or window
functions. When the derived table has a GROUP
BY
and does not use any window functions, the
outer WHERE
condition can be pushed down
to the derived table as a HAVING
condition. The WHERE
condition can also
be pushed down when the derived table uses a window function
and the outer WHERE
references columns
used in the window function's
PARTITION
clause.
Derived condition pushdown is enabled by default, as
indicated by the
optimizer_switch
system
variable's
derived_condition_pushdown
flag. The flag, added in MySQL 8.0.22, is set to
on
by default; to disable the
optimization for a specific query, you can use the
NO_DERIVED_CONDITION_PUSHDOWN
optimizer hint (also added in MySQL 8.0.22). If the
optimization is disabled due to
derived_condition_pushdown
being set to off
, you can enable it for a
given query using
DERIVED_CONDITION_PUSHDOWN
.
The derived condition pushdown optimization cannot be
employed for a derived table that contains a
UNION
or
LIMIT
clause. In addition, a condition
that itself uses a subquery cannot be pushed down, and a
WHERE
condition cannot be pushed down to
a derived table that is also an inner table of an outer
join. For additional information and examples, see
Section 8.2.2.5, “Derived Condition Pushdown Optimization”.
Non-locking reads on MySQL grant tables. As of MySQL 8.0.22, to permit concurrent DML and DDL operations on MySQL grant tables, read operations that previously acquired row locks on MySQL grant tables are executed as non-locking reads.
The operations that are now performed as non-locking reads on MySQL grant tables include:
SELECT
statements and
other read-only statements that read data from grant
tables through join lists and subqueries, including
SELECT
... FOR SHARE
statements, using any
transaction isolation level.
DML operations that read data from grant tables (through join lists or subqueries) but do not modify them, using any transaction isolation level.
For additional information, see Grant Table Concurrency.
The following features are deprecated in MySQL 8.0 and may be removed in a future series. Where alternatives are shown, applications should be updated to use them.
For applications that use features deprecated in MySQL 8.0 that have been removed in a higher MySQL series, statements may fail when replicated from a MySQL 8.0 source to a higher-series replica, or may have different effects on source and replica. To avoid such problems, applications that use features deprecated in 8.0 should be revised to avoid them and use alternatives when possible.
The utf8mb3
character set is deprecated.
Please use utf8mb4
instead.
Because caching_sha2_password
is the
default authentication plugin in MySQL 8.0 and provides a
superset of the capabilities of the
sha256_password
authentication plugin,
sha256_password
is deprecated; expect it
to be removed in a future version of MySQL. MySQL accounts
that authenticate using sha256_password
should be migrated to use
caching_sha2_password
instead.
The validate_password
plugin has been
reimplemented to use the component infrastructure. The
plugin form of validate_password
is still
available but is now deprecated; expect it to be removed in
a future version of MySQL. MySQL installations that use the
plugin should make the transition to using the component
instead. See
Section 6.4.3.3, “Transitioning to the Password Validation Component”.
The ENGINE
clause for the
ALTER TABLESPACE
and
DROP TABLESPACE
statements is
deprecated.
The
PAD_CHAR_TO_FULL_LENGTH
SQL mode is deprecated.
AUTO_INCREMENT
support is deprecated for
columns of type FLOAT
and
DOUBLE
(and any synonyms).
Consider removing the AUTO_INCREMENT
attribute from such columns, or convert them to an integer
type.
The UNSIGNED
attribute is deprecated for
columns of type FLOAT
,
DOUBLE
, and
DECIMAL
(and any synonyms).
Consider using a simple CHECK
constraint
instead for such columns.
FLOAT(
and
M
,D
)DOUBLE(
syntax to specify the number of digits for columns of type
M
,D
)FLOAT
and
DOUBLE
(and any synonyms) is
a nonstandard MySQL extension. This syntax is deprecated.
The ZEROFILL
attribute is deprecated for
numeric data types, as is the display width attribute for
integer data types. Consider using an alternative means of
producing the effect of these attributes. For example,
applications could use the
LPAD()
function to zero-pad
numbers up to the desired width, or they could store the
formatted numbers in CHAR
columns.
For string data types, the BINARY
attribute is a nonstandard MySQL extension that is shorthand
for specifying the binary (_bin
)
collation of the column character set (or of the table
default character set if no column character set is
specified). In MySQL 8.0, this nonstandard use of
BINARY
is ambiguous because the
utf8mb4
character set has multiple
_bin
collations, so the
BINARY
attribute is deprecated; expect
support for it to be removed in a future version of MySQL.
Applications should be adjusted to use an explicit
_bin
collation instead.
The use of BINARY
to specify a data type
or character set remains unchanged.
The nonstandard C-style
&&
,
||
, and
!
operators
that are synonyms for the standard SQL
AND
,
OR
, and
NOT
operators, respectively,
are deprecated. Applications that use the nonstandard
operators should be adjusted to use the standard operators.
Use of ||
is
deprecated unless the
PIPES_AS_CONCAT
SQL mode
is enabled. In that case, ||
signifies
the SQL-standard string concatenation operator).
The JSON_MERGE()
function is
deprecated. Use
JSON_MERGE_PRESERVE()
instead.
The SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS
query modifier
and accompanying FOUND_ROWS()
function are deprecated. See the
FOUND_ROWS()
description for
information about an alternative strategy.
Support for TABLESPACE =
innodb_file_per_table
and TABLESPACE =
innodb_temporary
clauses with
CREATE
TEMPORARY TABLE
is deprecated as of MySQL 8.0.13.
For SELECT
statements, use of
an INTO
clause after
FROM
but not at the end of the
SELECT
is deprecated as of
MySQL 8.0.20. It is preferred to place the
INTO
at the end of the statement.
For UNION
statements, these
two variants containing INTO
are
deprecated as of MySQL 8.0.20:
In the trailing query block of a query expression, use
of INTO
before
FROM
.
In a parenthesized trailing block of a query expression,
use of INTO
, regardless of its
position relative to FROM
.
See Section 13.2.10.1, “SELECT ... INTO Statement”, and Section 13.2.10.3, “UNION Clause”.
FLUSH HOSTS
is deprecated as
of MySQL 8.0.23. Instead, truncate the Performance Schema
host_cache
table:
TRUNCATE TABLE performance_schema.host_cache;
The TRUNCATE TABLE
operation
requires the DROP
privilege
for the table.
The mysql_upgrade client is deprecated
because its capabilities for upgrading the system tables in
the mysql
system schema and objects in
other schemas have been moved into the MySQL server. See
Section 2.11.3, “What the MySQL Upgrade Process Upgrades”.
The --no-dd-upgrade
server
option is deprecated. It is superseded by the
--upgrade
option, which
provides finer control over data dictionary and server
upgrade behavior.
The mysql_upgrade_info
file, which is
created data directory and used to store the MySQL version
number, is deprecated; expect it to be removed in a future
version of MySQL.
The relay_log_info_file
system variable
and --master-info-file
option are
deprecated. Previously, these were used to specify the name
of the relay log info log and source info log when
relay_log_info_repository=FILE
and
master_info_repository=FILE
were set, but those settings have been deprecated. The use
of files for the relay log info log and source info log has
been superseded by crash-safe replica tables, which are the
default in MySQL 8.0.
The
max_length_for_sort_data
system variable is now deprecated due to optimizer changes
that make it obsolete and of no effect.
These legacy parameters for compression of connections to
the server are deprecated: The
--compress
client
command-line option; the
MYSQL_OPT_COMPRESS
option for the
mysql_options()
C API
function; the
slave_compressed_protocol
system variable. For information about parameters to use
instead, see
Section 4.2.8, “Connection Compression Control”.
Use of the MYSQL_PWD
environment variable
to specify a MySQL password is deprecated.
Use of VALUES()
to access new
row values in
INSERT
... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE
is deprecated as of
MySQL 8.0.20. Use aliases for the new row and columns,
instead.
Because specifying ON ERROR
before
ON EMPTY
when invoking
JSON_TABLE()
is counter to
the SQL standard, this syntax is now deprecated in MySQL.
Beginning with MySQL 8.0.20, the server prints a warning
whenever you attempt to do so. When specifying both of these
clauses in a single JSON_TABLE()
invocation, make sure that ON EMPTY
is
used first.
Columns with index prefixes have never been supported as
part of a table's partitioning key; previously, these
were allowed when creating, altering, or upgrading
partitioned tables but were excluded by the table's
partitioning function, and no warning that this had occurred
was issued by the server. This permissive behavior is now
deprecated, and subject to removal in a future version of
MySQL in which using any such columns in the partitioning
key causes the CREATE TABLE
or ALTER TABLE
statement in
they occur to be rejected.
As of MySQL 8.0.21, whenever columns using index prefixes
are specified as part of the partitioning key, a warning is
generated for each such column. Whenever a
CREATE TABLE
or
ALTER TABLE
statement is
rejected because all columns in the proposed partitioning
key would have index prefixes, the resulting error now
provides the exact reason for the rejection. In either
instance, this includes cases in which the columns used in
the partitioning function are defined implicitly as those in
the table's primary key by employing an empty
PARTITION BY KEY()
clause.
For more information and examples, see Column index prefixes not supported for key partitioning.
The InnoDB memcached plugin is deprecated as of MySQL 8.0.22; expect support for it to be removed in a future version of MySQL.
The following items are obsolete and have been removed in MySQL 8.0. Where alternatives are shown, applications should be updated to use them.
For MySQL 5.7 applications that use features removed in MySQL 8.0, statements may fail when replicated from a MySQL 5.7 source to a MySQL 8.0 replica, or may have different effects on source and replica. To avoid such problems, applications that use features removed in MySQL 8.0 should be revised to avoid them and use alternatives when possible.
The innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog
system
variable was removed. The READ
COMMITTED
isolation level provides similar
functionality.
The information_schema_stats
variable,
introduced in MySQL 8.0.0, was removed and replaced by
information_schema_stats_expiry
in MySQL 8.0.3.
information_schema_stats_expiry
defines
an expiration setting for cached
INFORMATION_SCHEMA
table
statistics. For more information, see
Section 8.2.3, “Optimizing INFORMATION_SCHEMA Queries”.
Code related to obsoleted InnoDB
system
tables was removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
INFORMATION_SCHEMA
views based
on InnoDB
system tables were replaced by
internal system views on data dictionary tables. Affected
InnoDB
INFORMATION_SCHEMA
views were
renamed:
Table 1.1 Renamed InnoDB Information Schema Views
Old Name | New Name |
---|---|
INNODB_SYS_COLUMNS |
INNODB_COLUMNS |
INNODB_SYS_DATAFILES |
INNODB_DATAFILES |
INNODB_SYS_FIELDS |
INNODB_FIELDS |
INNODB_SYS_FOREIGN |
INNODB_FOREIGN |
INNODB_SYS_FOREIGN_COLS |
INNODB_FOREIGN_COLS |
INNODB_SYS_INDEXES |
INNODB_INDEXES |
INNODB_SYS_TABLES |
INNODB_TABLES |
INNODB_SYS_TABLESPACES |
INNODB_TABLESPACES |
INNODB_SYS_TABLESTATS |
INNODB_TABLESTATS |
INNODB_SYS_VIRTUAL |
INNODB_VIRTUAL |
After upgrading to MySQL 8.0.3 or later, update any scripts
that reference previous InnoDB
INFORMATION_SCHEMA
view names.
The following features related to account management are removed:
Using GRANT
to create
users. Instead, use CREATE
USER
. Following this practice makes the
NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER
SQL mode
immaterial for GRANT
statements, so it too is removed, and an error now is
written to the server log when the presence of this
value for the sql_mode
option in the
options file prevents mysqld from
starting.
Using GRANT
to modify
account properties other than privilege assignments.
This includes authentication, SSL, and resource-limit
properties. Instead, establish such properties at
account-creation time with CREATE
USER
or modify them afterward with
ALTER USER
.
IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD
'
syntax for auth_string
'CREATE USER
and GRANT
. Instead, use
IDENTIFIED WITH
for
auth_plugin
AS
'auth_string
'CREATE USER
and
ALTER USER
, where the
'
value is in a format compatible with the named plugin.
auth_string
'
Additionally, because IDENTIFIED BY
PASSWORD
syntax was removed, the
log_builtin_as_identified_by_password
system variable is superfluous and was removed.
The PASSWORD()
function.
Additionally, PASSWORD()
removal
means that
SET
PASSWORD ... =
PASSWORD('
syntax is no longer available.
auth_string
')
The old_passwords
system variable.
The query cache was removed. Removal includes these items:
The FLUSH QUERY CACHE
and
RESET QUERY CACHE
statements.
These system variables:
query_cache_limit
,
query_cache_min_res_unit
,
query_cache_size
,
query_cache_type
,
query_cache_wlock_invalidate
.
These status variables:
Qcache_free_blocks
,
Qcache_free_memory
,
Qcache_hits
,
Qcache_inserts
,
Qcache_lowmem_prunes
,
Qcache_not_cached
,
Qcache_queries_in_cache
,
Qcache_total_blocks
.
These thread states: checking privileges on
cached query
, checking query cache
for query
, invalidating query cache
entries
, sending cached result to
client
, storing result in query
cache
, Waiting for query cache
lock
.
The SQL_CACHE
SELECT
modifier.
These deprecated query cache items remain deprecated, but have no effect; expect them to be removed in a future MySQL release:
The SQL_NO_CACHE
SELECT
modifier.
The ndb_cache_check_time
system
variable.
The have_query_cache
system variable
remains deprecated, and always has a value of
NO
; expect it to be removed in a future
MySQL release.
The data dictionary provides information about database
objects, so the server no longer checks directory names in
the data directory to find databases. Consequently, the
--ignore-db-dir
option and
ignore_db_dirs
system variables are
extraneous and are removed.
The DDL log, also known as the metadata log, has been
removed. Beginning with MySQL 8.0.3, this functionality is
handled by the data dictionary
innodb_ddl_log
table. See
Viewing DDL Logs.
The tx_isolation
and
tx_read_only
system variables have been
removed. Use transaction_isolation
and
transaction_read_only
instead.
The sync_frm
system variable has been
removed because .frm
files have become
obsolete.
The secure_auth
system variable and
--secure-auth
client option have been
removed. The MYSQL_SECURE_AUTH
option for
the mysql_options()
C API
function was removed.
The multi_range_count
system variable is
removed.
The log_warnings
system variable and
--log-warnings
server option have been
removed. Use the
log_error_verbosity
system
variable instead.
The global scope for the
sql_log_bin
system variable
was removed. sql_log_bin
has session
scope only, and applications that rely on accessing
@@GLOBAL.sql_log_bin
should be adjusted.
The metadata_locks_cache_size
and
metadata_locks_hash_instances
system
variables are removed.
The unused date_format
,
datetime_format
,
time_format
, and
max_tmp_tables
system variables are
removed.
These deprecated compatibility SQL modes are removed:
DB2
, MAXDB
,
MSSQL
, MYSQL323
,
MYSQL40
, ORACLE
,
POSTGRESQL
,
NO_FIELD_OPTIONS
,
NO_KEY_OPTIONS
,
NO_TABLE_OPTIONS
. They can no longer be
assigned to the sql_mode
system variable
or used as permitted values for the
mysqldump
--compatible
option.
Removal of MAXDB
means that the
TIMESTAMP
data type for
CREATE TABLE
or
ALTER TABLE
is treated as
TIMESTAMP
, and is no longer
treated as DATETIME
.
The deprecated ASC
or
DESC
qualifiers for GROUP
BY
clauses are removed. Queries that previously
relied on GROUP BY
sorting may produce
results that differ from previous MySQL versions. To produce
a given sort order, provide an ORDER BY
clause.
The EXTENDED
and
PARTITIONS
keywords for the
EXPLAIN
statement have been
removed. These keywords are unnecessary because their effect
is always enabled.
These encryption-related items are removed:
The ENCODE()
and
DECODE()
functions.
The ENCRYPT()
function.
The DES_ENCRYPT()
, and
DES_DECRYPT()
functions, the
--des-key-file
option, the
have_crypt
system variable, the
DES_KEY_FILE
option for the
FLUSH
statement, and the
HAVE_CRYPT
CMake
option.
In place of the removed encryption functions: For
ENCRYPT()
, consider using
SHA2()
instead for one-way
hashing. For the others, consider using
AES_ENCRYPT()
and
AES_DECRYPT()
instead.
In MySQL 5.7, several spatial functions
available under multiple names were deprecated to move in
the direction of making the spatial function namespace more
consistent, the goal being that each spatial function name
begin with ST_
if it performs an exact
operation, or with MBR
if it performs an
operation based on minimum bounding rectangles. In MySQL
8.0, the deprecated functions are removed to
leave only the corresponding ST_
and
MBR
functions:
These functions are removed in favor of the
MBR
names:
Contains()
,
Disjoint()
,
Equals()
,
Intersects()
,
Overlaps()
,
Within()
.
These functions are removed in favor of the
ST_
names: Area()
,
AsBinary()
,
AsText()
, AsWKB()
,
AsWKT()
, Buffer()
,
Centroid()
,
ConvexHull()
,
Crosses()
,
Dimension()
,
Distance()
,
EndPoint()
,
Envelope()
,
ExteriorRing()
,
GeomCollFromText()
,
GeomCollFromWKB()
,
GeomFromText()
,
GeomFromWKB()
,
GeometryCollectionFromText()
,
GeometryCollectionFromWKB()
,
GeometryFromText()
,
GeometryFromWKB()
,
GeometryN()
,
GeometryType()
,
InteriorRingN()
,
IsClosed()
,
IsEmpty()
,
IsSimple()
,
LineFromText()
,
LineFromWKB()
,
LineStringFromText()
,
LineStringFromWKB()
,
MLineFromText()
,
MLineFromWKB()
,
MPointFromText()
,
MPointFromWKB()
,
MPolyFromText()
,
MPolyFromWKB()
,
MultiLineStringFromText()
,
MultiLineStringFromWKB()
,
MultiPointFromText()
,
MultiPointFromWKB()
,
MultiPolygonFromText()
,
MultiPolygonFromWKB()
,
NumGeometries()
,
NumInteriorRings()
,
NumPoints()
,
PointFromText()
,
PointFromWKB()
,
PointN()
,
PolyFromText()
,
PolyFromWKB()
,
PolygonFromText()
,
PolygonFromWKB()
,
SRID()
,
StartPoint()
,
Touches()
, X()
,
Y()
.
GLength()
is removed in favor of
ST_Length()
.
The functions described in Section 12.17.4, “Functions That Create Geometry Values from WKB Values” previously accepted either WKB strings or geometry arguments. Geometry arguments are no longer permitted and produce an error. See that section for guidelines for migrating queries away from using geometry arguments.
The parser no longer treats \N
as a
synonym for NULL
in SQL statements. Use
NULL
instead.
This change does not affect text file import or export
operations performed with LOAD
DATA
or
SELECT ... INTO
OUTFILE
, for which NULL
continues to be represented by \N
. See
Section 13.2.7, “LOAD DATA Statement”.
PROCEDURE ANALYSE()
syntax is removed.
The client-side --ssl
and
--ssl-verify-server-cert
options have been
removed. Use
--ssl-mode=REQUIRED
instead
of --ssl=1
or
--enable-ssl
. Use
--ssl-mode=DISABLED
instead
of --ssl=0
, --skip-ssl
, or
--disable-ssl
. Use
--ssl-mode=VERIFY_IDENTITY
instead of --ssl-verify-server-cert
options. (The server-side
--ssl
option is still
available, but is deprecated as of MySQL 8.0.25 and subject
to removal in a future MySQL version.)
For the C API, MYSQL_OPT_SSL_ENFORCE
and
MYSQL_OPT_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT
options
for mysql_options()
correspond to the client-side --ssl
and
--ssl-verify-server-cert
options and are
removed. Use MYSQL_OPT_SSL_MODE
with an
option value of SSL_MODE_REQUIRED
or
SSL_MODE_VERIFY_IDENTITY
instead.
The --temp-pool
server option was removed.
The ignore_builtin_innodb
system variable
is removed.
The server no longer performs conversion of pre-MySQL 5.1
database names containing special characters to 5.1 format
with the addition of a #mysql50#
prefix.
Because these conversions are no longer performed, the
--fix-db-names
and
--fix-table-names
options for
mysqlcheck, the UPGRADE DATA
DIRECTORY NAME
clause for the
ALTER DATABASE
statement, and
the Com_alter_db_upgrade
status variable
are removed.
Upgrades are supported only from one major version to another (for example, 5.0 to 5.1, or 5.1 to 5.5), so there should be little remaining need for conversion of older 5.0 database names to current versions of MySQL. As a workaround, upgrade a MySQL 5.0 installation to MySQL 5.1 before upgrading to a more recent release.
The mysql_install_db program has been
removed from MySQL distributions. Data directory
initialization should be performed by invoking
mysqld with the
--initialize
or
--initialize-insecure
option
instead. In addition, the --bootstrap
option for mysqld that was used by
mysql_install_db was removed, and the
INSTALL_SCRIPTDIR
CMake
option that controlled the installation location for
mysql_install_db was removed.
The generic partitioning handler was removed from the MySQL
server. In order to support partitioning of a given table,
the storage engine used for the table must now provide its
own (“native”) partitioning handler. The
--partition
and
--skip-partition
options are removed from
the MySQL Server, and partitioning-related entries are no
longer shown in the output of SHOW
PLUGINS
or in the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PLUGINS
table.
Two MySQL storage engines currently provide native
partitioning support: InnoDB
and NDB
. Of these, only
InnoDB
is supported in MySQL
8.0. Any attempt to create partitioned tables
in MySQL 8.0 using any other storage engine
fails.
Ramifications for upgrades.
The direct upgrade of a partitioned table using a storage
engine other than InnoDB
(such as
MyISAM
) from MySQL
5.7 (or earlier) to MySQL 8.0
is not supported. There are two options for handling such
a table:
Remove the table's partitioning, using
ALTER
TABLE ... REMOVE PARTITIONING
.
Change the storage engine used for the table to
InnoDB
, with
ALTER TABLE
... ENGINE=INNODB
.
At least one of the two operations just listed must be
performed for each partitioned non-InnoDB
table prior to upgrading the server to MySQL
8.0. Otherwise, such a table cannot be used
following the upgrade.
Due to the fact that table creation statements that would
result in a partitioned table using a storage engine without
partitioning support now fail with an error
(ER_CHECK_NOT_IMPLEMENTED), you must
make sure that any statements in a dump file (such as that
written by mysqldump) from an older
version of MySQL that you wish to import into a MySQL
8.0 server that create partitioned tables do
not also specify a storage engine such as
MyISAM
that has no native partitioning
handler. You can do this by performing either of the
following:
Remove any references to partitioning from
CREATE TABLE
statements that use a
value for the STORAGE ENGINE
option
other than InnoDB
.
Specifying the storage engine as
InnoDB
, or allow
InnoDB
to be used as the table's
storage engine by default.
For more information, see Section 24.6.2, “Partitioning Limitations Relating to Storage Engines”.
System and status variable information is no longer
maintained in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA
.
These tables are removed:
GLOBAL_VARIABLES
,
SESSION_VARIABLES
,
GLOBAL_STATUS
,
SESSION_STATUS
. Use the corresponding
Performance Schema tables instead. See
Section 27.12.14, “Performance Schema System Variable Tables”,
and
Section 27.12.15, “Performance Schema Status Variable Tables”.
In addition, the show_compatibility_56
system variable was removed. It was used in the transition
period during which system and status variable information
in INFORMATION_SCHEMA
tables was moved to
Performance Schema tables, and is no longer needed. These
status variables are removed:
Slave_heartbeat_period
,
Slave_last_heartbeat
,
Slave_received_heartbeats
,
Slave_retried_transactions
,
Slave_running
. The information they
provided is available in Performance Schema tables; see
Migrating to Performance Schema System and Status Variable Tables.
The Performance Schema setup_timers
table
was removed, as was the TICK
row in the
performance_timers
table.
The libmysqld
embedded server library is
removed, along with:
The mysql_options()
MYSQL_OPT_GUESS_CONNECTION
,
MYSQL_OPT_USE_EMBEDDED_CONNECTION
,
MYSQL_OPT_USE_REMOTE_CONNECTION
, and
MYSQL_SET_CLIENT_IP
options
The mysql_config
--libmysqld-libs
,
--embedded-libs
, and
--embedded
options
The CMake
WITH_EMBEDDED_SERVER
,
WITH_EMBEDDED_SHARED_LIBRARY
, and
INSTALL_SECURE_FILE_PRIV_EMBEDDEDDIR
options
The (undocumented) mysql
--server-arg
option
The mysqltest
--embedded-server
,
--server-arg
, and
--server-file
options
The mysqltest_embedded and mysql_client_test_embedded test programs
The mysql_plugin utility was removed.
Alternatives include loading plugins at server startup using
the --plugin-load
or
--plugin-load-add
option, or
at runtime using the INSTALL
PLUGIN
statement.
The resolveip utility is removed. nslookup, host, or dig can be used instead.
The resolve_stack_dump utility is removed. Stack traces from official MySQL builds are always symbolized, so there is no need to use resolve_stack_dump.
The following server error codes are not used and have been removed. Applications that test specifically for any of these errors should be updated.
ER_BINLOG_READ_EVENT_CHECKSUM_FAILURE ER_BINLOG_ROW_RBR_TO_SBR ER_BINLOG_ROW_WRONG_TABLE_DEF ER_CANT_ACTIVATE_LOG ER_CANT_CHANGE_GTID_NEXT_IN_TRANSACTION ER_CANT_CREATE_FEDERATED_TABLE ER_CANT_CREATE_SROUTINE ER_CANT_DELETE_FILE ER_CANT_GET_WD ER_CANT_SET_GTID_PURGED_WHEN_GTID_MODE_IS_OFF ER_CANT_SET_WD ER_CANT_WRITE_LOCK_LOG_TABLE ER_CREATE_DB_WITH_READ_LOCK ER_CYCLIC_REFERENCE ER_DB_DROP_DELETE ER_DELAYED_NOT_SUPPORTED ER_DIFF_GROUPS_PROC ER_DISK_FULL ER_DROP_DB_WITH_READ_LOCK ER_DROP_USER ER_DUMP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED ER_ERROR_DURING_CHECKPOINT ER_ERROR_ON_CLOSE ER_EVENTS_DB_ERROR ER_EVENT_CANNOT_DELETE ER_EVENT_CANT_ALTER ER_EVENT_COMPILE_ERROR ER_EVENT_DATA_TOO_LONG ER_EVENT_DROP_FAILED ER_EVENT_MODIFY_QUEUE_ERROR ER_EVENT_NEITHER_M_EXPR_NOR_M_AT ER_EVENT_OPEN_TABLE_FAILED ER_EVENT_STORE_FAILED ER_EXEC_STMT_WITH_OPEN_CURSOR ER_FAILED_ROUTINE_BREAK_BINLOG ER_FLUSH_MASTER_BINLOG_CLOSED ER_FORM_NOT_FOUND ER_FOUND_GTID_EVENT_WHEN_GTID_MODE_IS_OFF__UNUSED ER_FRM_UNKNOWN_TYPE ER_GOT_SIGNAL ER_GRANT_PLUGIN_USER_EXISTS ER_GTID_MODE_REQUIRES_BINLOG ER_GTID_NEXT_IS_NOT_IN_GTID_NEXT_LIST ER_HASHCHK ER_INDEX_REBUILD ER_INNODB_NO_FT_USES_PARSER ER_LIST_OF_FIELDS_ONLY_IN_HASH_ERROR ER_LOAD_DATA_INVALID_COLUMN_UNUSED ER_LOGGING_PROHIBIT_CHANGING_OF ER_MALFORMED_DEFINER ER_MASTER_KEY_ROTATION_ERROR_BY_SE ER_NDB_CANT_SWITCH_BINLOG_FORMAT ER_NEVER_USED ER_NISAMCHK ER_NO_CONST_EXPR_IN_RANGE_OR_LIST_ERROR ER_NO_FILE_MAPPING ER_NO_GROUP_FOR_PROC ER_NO_RAID_COMPILED ER_NO_SUCH_KEY_VALUE ER_NO_SUCH_PARTITION__UNUSED ER_OBSOLETE_CANNOT_LOAD_FROM_TABLE ER_OBSOLETE_COL_COUNT_DOESNT_MATCH_CORRUPTED ER_ORDER_WITH_PROC ER_PARTITION_SUBPARTITION_ERROR ER_PARTITION_SUBPART_MIX_ERROR ER_PART_STATE_ERROR ER_PASSWD_LENGTH ER_QUERY_ON_MASTER ER_RBR_NOT_AVAILABLE ER_SKIPPING_LOGGED_TRANSACTION ER_SLAVE_CHANNEL_DELETE ER_SLAVE_MULTIPLE_CHANNELS_HOST_PORT ER_SLAVE_MUST_STOP ER_SLAVE_WAS_NOT_RUNNING ER_SLAVE_WAS_RUNNING ER_SP_GOTO_IN_HNDLR ER_SP_PROC_TABLE_CORRUPT ER_SQL_MODE_NO_EFFECT ER_SR_INVALID_CREATION_CTX ER_TABLE_NEEDS_UPG_PART ER_TOO_MUCH_AUTO_TIMESTAMP_COLS ER_UNEXPECTED_EOF ER_UNION_TABLES_IN_DIFFERENT_DIR ER_UNSUPPORTED_BY_REPLICATION_THREAD ER_UNUSED1 ER_UNUSED2 ER_UNUSED3 ER_UNUSED4 ER_UNUSED5 ER_UNUSED6 ER_VIEW_SELECT_DERIVED_UNUSED ER_WRONG_MAGIC ER_WSAS_FAILED
The deprecated INFORMATION_SCHEMA
INNODB_LOCKS
and
INNODB_LOCK_WAITS
tables are
removed. Use the Performance Schema
data_locks
and
data_lock_waits
tables instead.
In MySQL 5.7, the LOCK_TABLE
column in
the INNODB_LOCKS
table and
the locked_table
column in the
sys
schema
innodb_lock_waits
and
x$innodb_lock_waits
views
contain combined schema/table name values. In MySQL 8.0,
the data_locks
table and the
sys
schema views contain separate
schema name and table name columns. See
Section 28.4.3.9, “The innodb_lock_waits and x$innodb_lock_waits Views”.
InnoDB
no longer supports compressed
temporary tables. When
innodb_strict_mode
is
enabled (the default),
CREATE
TEMPORARY TABLE
returns an error if
ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED
or
KEY_BLOCK_SIZE
is specified. If
innodb_strict_mode
is
disabled, warnings are issued and the temporary table is
created using a non-compressed row format.
InnoDB
no longer creates
.isl
files (InnoDB
Symbolic Link files) when creating tablespace data files
outside of the MySQL data directory. The
innodb_directories
option
now supports locating tablespace files created outside of
the data directory.
With this change, moving a remote tablespace while the
server is offline by manually modifying an
.isl
file is no longer supported.
Moving remote tablespace files is now supported by the
innodb_directories
option.
See Section 15.6.3.6, “Moving Tablespace Files While the Server is Offline”.
The following InnoDB
file format
variables were removed:
File format variables were necessary for creating tables
compatible with earlier versions of
InnoDB
in MySQL 5.1. Now that MySQL 5.1
has reached the end of its product lifecycle, these options
are no longer required.
The FILE_FORMAT
column was removed from
the INNODB_TABLES
and
INNODB_TABLESPACES
Information
Schema tables.
The innodb_support_xa
system variable,
which enables support for two-phase commit in XA
transactions, was removed. InnoDB
support
for two-phase commit in XA transactions is always enabled.
Support for DTrace was removed.
The JSON_APPEND()
function was removed.
Use JSON_ARRAY_APPEND()
instead.
Support for placing table partitions in shared
InnoDB
tablespaces was removed in MySQL
8.0.13. Shared tablespaces include the
InnoDB
system tablespace and general
tablespaces. For information about identifying partitions in
shared tablespaces and moving them to file-per-table
tablespaces, see Section 2.11.5, “Preparing Your Installation for Upgrade”.
Support for setting user variables in statements other than
SET
was deprecated in MySQL 8.0.13. This functionality is
subject to removal in MySQL 9.0.
The --ndb
perror option
was removed. Use the ndb_perror utility
instead.
The innodb_undo_logs
variable was
removed. The
innodb_rollback_segments
variables performs the same function and should be used
instead.
The Innodb_available_undo_logs
status
variable was removed. The number of available rollback
segments per tablespace may be retrieved using SHOW
VARIABLES LIKE 'innodb_rollback_segments';
As of MySQL 8.0.14, the previously deprecated
innodb_undo_tablespaces
variable is no longer configurable. For more information,
see Section 15.6.3.4, “Undo Tablespaces”.
Support for the ALTER TABLE ... UPGRADE
PARTITIONING
statement has been removed.
As of MySQL 8.0.16, support for the
internal_tmp_disk_storage_engine
system variable has been removed; internal temporary tables
on disk now always use the
InnoDB
storage engine. See
Storage Engine for On-Disk Internal Temporary Tables,for
more information.
The DISABLE_SHARED
CMake option was unused and has been
removed.
This section lists server variables, status variables, and options that were added for the first time, have been deprecated, or have been removed in MySQL 8.0.
The following system variables, status variables, and server options have been added in MySQL 8.0.
Acl_cache_items_count
:
Number of cached privilege objects. Added in MySQL 8.0.0.
Audit_log_current_size
:
Audit log file current size. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
Audit_log_event_max_drop_size
:
Size of largest dropped audited event. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
Audit_log_events
:
Number of handled audited events. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
Audit_log_events_filtered
:
Number of filtered audited events. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
Audit_log_events_lost
:
Number of dropped audited events. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
Audit_log_events_written
:
Number of written audited events. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
Audit_log_total_size
:
Combined size of written audited events. Added in MySQL
8.0.11.
Audit_log_write_waits
:
Number of write-delayed audited events. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
Authentication_ldap_sasl_supported_methods
:
Supported authentication methods for SASL LDAP authentication.
Added in MySQL 8.0.21.
Caching_sha2_password_rsa_public_key
:
caching_sha2_password authentication plugin RSA public key
value. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
Com_alter_resource_group
:
Count of ALTER RESOURCE GROUP statements. Added in MySQL
8.0.3.
Com_alter_user_default_role
:
Count of ALTER USER ... DEFAULT ROLE statements. Added in
MySQL 8.0.0.
Com_clone
:
Count of CLONE statements. Added in MySQL 8.0.2.
Com_create_resource_group
:
Count of CREATE RESOURCE GROUP statements. Added in MySQL
8.0.3.
Com_create_role
:
Count of CREATE ROLE statements. Added in MySQL 8.0.0.
Com_drop_resource_group
:
Count of DROP RESOURCE GROUP statements. Added in MySQL 8.0.3.
Com_drop_role
:
Count of DROP ROLE statements. Added in MySQL 8.0.0.
Com_grant_roles
:
Count of GRANT ROLE statements. Added in MySQL 8.0.0.
Com_install_component
:
Count of INSTALL COMPONENT statements. Added in MySQL 8.0.0.
Com_replica_start
:
Count of START REPLICA and START SLAVE statements. Added in
MySQL 8.0.22.
Com_replica_stop
:
Count of STOP REPLICA and STOP SLAVE statements. Added in
MySQL 8.0.22.
Com_restart
:
Count of RESTART statements. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
Com_revoke_roles
:
Count of REVOKE ROLES statements. Added in MySQL 8.0.0.
Com_set_resource_group
:
Count of SET RESOURCE GROUP statements. Added in MySQL 8.0.3.
Com_set_role
:
Count of SET ROLE statements. Added in MySQL 8.0.0.
Com_show_replica_status
:
Count of SHOW REPLICA STATUS and SHOW SLAVE STATUS statements.
Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
Com_show_replicas
:
Count of SHOW REPLICAS and SHOW SLAVE HOSTS statements. Added
in MySQL 8.0.22.
Com_uninstall_component
:
Count of UINSTALL COMPONENT statements. Added in MySQL 8.0.0.
Compression_algorithm
:
Compression algorithm for current connection. Added in MySQL
8.0.18.
Compression_level
:
Compression level for current connection. Added in MySQL
8.0.18.
Connection_control_delay_generated
:
How many times server delayed connection request. Added in
MySQL 8.0.1.
Current_tls_ca
:
Current value of ssl_ca system variable. Added in MySQL
8.0.16.
Current_tls_capath
:
Current value of ssl_capath system variable. Added in MySQL
8.0.16.
Current_tls_cert
:
Current value of ssl_cert system variable. Added in MySQL
8.0.16.
Current_tls_cipher
:
Current value of ssl_cipher system variable. Added in MySQL
8.0.16.
Current_tls_ciphersuites
:
Current value of tsl_ciphersuites system variable. Added in
MySQL 8.0.16.
Current_tls_crl
:
Current value of ssl_crl system variable. Added in MySQL
8.0.16.
Current_tls_crlpath
:
Current value of ssl_crlpath system variable. Added in MySQL
8.0.16.
Current_tls_key
:
Current value of ssl_key system variable. Added in MySQL
8.0.16.
Current_tls_version
:
Current value of tls_version system variable. Added in MySQL
8.0.16.
Error_log_buffered_bytes
:
Number of bytes used in error_log table. Added in MySQL
8.0.22.
Error_log_buffered_events
:
Number of events in error_log table. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
Error_log_expired_events
:
Number of events discarded from error_log table. Added in
MySQL 8.0.22.
Error_log_latest_write
:
Time of last write to error_log table. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
Firewall_access_denied
:
Number of statements rejected by MySQL Enterprise Firewall.
Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
Firewall_access_granted
:
Number of statements accepted by MySQL Enterprise Firewall.
Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
Firewall_cached_entries
:
Number of statements recorded by MySQL Enterprise Firewall.
Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
Innodb_redo_log_enabled
:
InnoDB redo log status. Added in MySQL 8.0.21.
Innodb_system_rows_deleted
:
Number of rows deleted from system schema tables. Added in
MySQL 8.0.19.
Innodb_system_rows_inserted
:
Number of rows inserted into system schema tables. Added in
MySQL 8.0.19.
Innodb_system_rows_read
:
Number of rows read from system schema tables. Added in MySQL
8.0.19.
Innodb_undo_tablespaces_active
:
Number of active undo tablespaces. Added in MySQL 8.0.14.
Innodb_undo_tablespaces_explicit
:
Number of user-created undo tablespaces. Added in MySQL
8.0.14.
Innodb_undo_tablespaces_implicit
:
Number of undo tablespaces created by InnoDB. Added in MySQL
8.0.14.
Innodb_undo_tablespaces_total
:
Total number of undo tablespaces. Added in MySQL 8.0.14.
Mysqlx_bytes_received_compressed_payload
:
Number of bytes received as compressed message payloads,
measured before decompression. Added in MySQL 8.0.19.
Mysqlx_bytes_received_uncompressed_frame
:
Number of bytes received as compressed message payloads,
measured after decompression. Added in MySQL 8.0.19.
Mysqlx_bytes_sent_compressed_payload
:
Number of bytes sent as compressed message payloads, measured
after compression. Added in MySQL 8.0.19.
Mysqlx_bytes_sent_uncompressed_frame
:
Number of bytes sent as compressed message payloads, measured
before compression. Added in MySQL 8.0.19.
Mysqlx_compression_algorithm
:
Compression algorithm in use for X Protocol connection for
this session. Added in MySQL 8.0.20.
Mysqlx_compression_level
:
Compression level in use for X Protocol connection for this
session. Added in MySQL 8.0.20.
Secondary_engine_execution_count
:
Number of queries offloaded to a secondary engine.. Added in
MySQL 8.0.13.
activate_all_roles_on_login
:
Whether to activate all user roles at connect time. Added in
MySQL 8.0.2.
admin-ssl
:
Enable connection encryption. Added in MySQL 8.0.21.
admin_address
:
IP address to bind to for connections on administrative
interface. Added in MySQL 8.0.14.
admin_port
:
TCP/IP number to use for connections on administrative
interface. Added in MySQL 8.0.14.
admin_ssl_ca
:
File that contains list of trusted SSL Certificate
Authorities. Added in MySQL 8.0.21.
admin_ssl_capath
:
Directory that contains trusted SSL Certificate Authority
certificate files. Added in MySQL 8.0.21.
admin_ssl_cert
:
File that contains X.509 certificate. Added in MySQL 8.0.21.
admin_ssl_cipher
:
Permissible ciphers for connection encryption. Added in MySQL
8.0.21.
admin_ssl_crl
:
File that contains certificate revocation lists. Added in
MySQL 8.0.21.
admin_ssl_crlpath
:
Directory that contains certificate revocation list files.
Added in MySQL 8.0.21.
admin_ssl_key
:
File that contains X.509 key. Added in MySQL 8.0.21.
admin_tls_ciphersuites
:
Permissible TLSv1.3 ciphersuites for encrypted connections.
Added in MySQL 8.0.21.
admin_tls_version
:
Permissible TLS protocols for encrypted connections. Added in
MySQL 8.0.21.
audit-log
:
Whether to activate audit log plugin. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
audit_log_buffer_size
:
Size of audit log buffer. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
audit_log_compression
:
Audit log file compression method. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
audit_log_connection_policy
:
Audit logging policy for connection-related events. Added in
MySQL 8.0.11.
audit_log_current_session
:
Whether to audit current session. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
audit_log_encryption
:
Audit log file encryption method. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
audit_log_exclude_accounts
:
Accounts not to audit. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
audit_log_file
:
Name of audit log file. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
audit_log_filter_id
:
ID of current audit log filter. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
audit_log_flush
:
Close and reopen audit log file. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
audit_log_format
:
Audit log file format. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
audit_log_include_accounts
:
Accounts to audit. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
audit_log_password_history_keep_days
:
Number of days to keep archived audit log encryption
passwords. Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
audit_log_policy
:
Audit logging policy. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
audit_log_prune_seconds
:
The number of seconds after which audit log files become
subject to pruning. Added in MySQL 8.0.24.
audit_log_read_buffer_size
:
Audit log file read buffer size. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
audit_log_rotate_on_size
:
Close and reopen audit log file at this size. Added in MySQL
8.0.11.
audit_log_statement_policy
:
Audit logging policy for statement-related events. Added in
MySQL 8.0.11.
audit_log_strategy
:
Audit logging strategy. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_sasl_auth_method_name
:
Authentication method name. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_sasl_bind_base_dn
:
LDAP server base distinguished name. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_sasl_bind_root_dn
:
LDAP server root distinguished name. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_sasl_bind_root_pwd
:
LDAP server root bind password. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_sasl_ca_path
:
LDAP server certificate authority file name. Added in MySQL
8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_sasl_group_search_attr
:
LDAP server group search attribute. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_sasl_group_search_filter
:
LDAP custom group search filter. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_sasl_init_pool_size
:
LDAP server initial connection pool size. Added in MySQL
8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_sasl_log_status
:
LDAP server log level. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_sasl_max_pool_size
:
LDAP server maximum connection pool size. Added in MySQL
8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_sasl_referral
:
Whether to enable LDAP search referral. Added in MySQL 8.0.20.
authentication_ldap_sasl_server_host
:
LDAP server host name or IP address. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_sasl_server_port
:
LDAP server port number. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_sasl_tls
:
Whether to use encrypted connections to LDAP server. Added in
MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_sasl_user_search_attr
:
LDAP server user search attribute. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_simple_auth_method_name
:
Authentication method name. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_simple_bind_base_dn
:
LDAP server base distinguished name. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_simple_bind_root_dn
:
LDAP server root distinguished name. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_simple_bind_root_pwd
:
LDAP server root bind password. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_simple_ca_path
:
LDAP server certificate authority file name. Added in MySQL
8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_simple_group_search_attr
:
LDAP server group search attribute. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_simple_group_search_filter
:
LDAP custom group search filter. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_simple_init_pool_size
:
LDAP server initial connection pool size. Added in MySQL
8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_simple_log_status
:
LDAP server log level. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_simple_max_pool_size
:
LDAP server maximum connection pool size. Added in MySQL
8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_simple_referral
:
Whether to enable LDAP search referral. Added in MySQL 8.0.20.
authentication_ldap_simple_server_host
:
LDAP server host name or IP address. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_simple_server_port
:
LDAP server port number. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_simple_tls
:
Whether to use encrypted connections to LDAP server. Added in
MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_ldap_simple_user_search_attr
:
LDAP server user search attribute. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
authentication_windows_log_level
:
Windows authentication plugin logging level. Added in MySQL
8.0.11.
authentication_windows_use_principal_name
:
Whether to use Windows authentication plugin principal name.
Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
binlog_encryption
:
Enable encryption for binary log files and relay log files on
this server. Added in MySQL 8.0.14.
binlog_expire_logs_seconds
:
Purge binary logs after this many seconds. Added in MySQL
8.0.1.
binlog_rotate_encryption_master_key_at_startup
:
Rotate binary log master key at server startup. Added in MySQL
8.0.14.
binlog_row_metadata
:
Whether to record all or only minimal table related metadata
to binary log when using row-based logging. Added in MySQL
8.0.1.
binlog_row_value_options
:
Enables binary logging of partial JSON updates for row-based
replication. Added in MySQL 8.0.3.
binlog_transaction_compression
:
Enable compression for transaction payloads in binary log
files. Added in MySQL 8.0.20.
binlog_transaction_compression_level_zstd
:
Compression level for transaction payloads in binary log
files. Added in MySQL 8.0.20.
binlog_transaction_dependency_history_size
:
Number of row hashes kept for looking up transaction that last
updated some row. Added in MySQL 8.0.1.
binlog_transaction_dependency_tracking
:
Source of dependency information (commit timestamps or
transaction write sets) from which to assess which
transactions can be executed in parallel by replica's
multithreaded applier. Added in MySQL 8.0.1.
caching_sha2_password_auto_generate_rsa_keys
:
Whether to autogenerate RSA key-pair files. Added in MySQL
8.0.4.
caching_sha2_password_digest_rounds
:
Number of hash rounds for caching_sha2_password authentication
plugin. Added in MySQL 8.0.24.
caching_sha2_password_private_key_path
:
SHA2 authentication plugin private key path name. Added in
MySQL 8.0.3.
caching_sha2_password_public_key_path
:
SHA2 authentication plugin public key path name. Added in
MySQL 8.0.3.
clone_autotune_concurrency
:
Enables dynamic spawning of threads for remote cloning
operations. Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
clone_buffer_size
:
Defines size of intermediate buffer on donor MySQL server
instance. Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
clone_ddl_timeout
:
Number of seconds cloning operation waits for backup lock.
Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
clone_donor_timeout_after_network_failure
:
The time allowed to restart a cloning operation after a
network failure. Added in MySQL 8.0.24.
clone_enable_compression
:
Enables compression of data at network layer during cloning.
Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
clone_max_concurrency
:
Maximum number of concurrent threads used to perform cloning
operation. Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
clone_max_data_bandwidth
:
Maximum data transfer rate in MiB per second for remote
cloning operation. Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
clone_max_network_bandwidth
:
Maximum network transfer rate in MiB per second for remote
cloning operation. Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
clone_ssl_ca
:
Specifies path to certificate authority (CA) file. Added in
MySQL 8.0.14.
clone_ssl_cert
:
Specifies path to public key certificate file. Added in MySQL
8.0.14.
clone_ssl_key
:
Specifies path to private key file. Added in MySQL 8.0.14.
clone_valid_donor_list
:
Defines donor host addresses for remote cloning operations.
Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
connection_control_failed_connections_threshold
:
Consecutive failed connection attempts before delays occur.
Added in MySQL 8.0.1.
connection_control_max_connection_delay
:
Maximum delay (milliseconds) for server response to failed
connection attempts. Added in MySQL 8.0.1.
connection_control_min_connection_delay
:
Minimum delay (milliseconds) for server response to failed
connection attempts. Added in MySQL 8.0.1.
create_admin_listener_thread
:
Whether to use dedicated listening thread for connections on
administrative interface. Added in MySQL 8.0.14.
cte_max_recursion_depth
:
Common table expression maximum recursion depth. Added in
MySQL 8.0.3.
ddl-rewriter
:
Whether to activate ddl_rewriter plugin. Added in MySQL
8.0.16.
default_collation_for_utf8mb4
:
Default collation for utf8mb4 character set. Added in MySQL
8.0.11.
default_table_encryption
:
Default schema and tablespace encryption setting. Added in
MySQL 8.0.16.
dragnet.Status
:
Result of most recent assignment to
dragnet.log_error_filter_rules. Added in MySQL 8.0.12.
dragnet.log_error_filter_rules
:
Filter rules for error logging. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
early-plugin-load
:
Specify plugins to load before loading mandatory built-in
plugins and before storage engine initialization. Added in
MySQL 8.0.0.
generated_random_password_length
:
Maximum length of generated passwords. Added in MySQL 8.0.18.
group_replication_advertise_recovery_endpoints
:
Connections offered for distributed recovery. Added in MySQL
8.0.21.
group_replication_autorejoin_tries
:
Number of tries that member makes to rejoin group
automatically. Added in MySQL 8.0.16.
group_replication_clone_threshold
:
Transaction number gap between donor and recipient above which
remote cloning operation is used for state transfer. Added in
MySQL 8.0.17.
group_replication_communication_debug_options
:
Level of debugging messages for Group Replication components.
Added in MySQL 8.0.3.
group_replication_communication_max_message_size
:
Maximum message size for Group Replication communications,
larger messages are fragmented. Added in MySQL 8.0.16.
group_replication_consistency
:
Type of transaction consistency guarantee which group
provides. Added in MySQL 8.0.14.
group_replication_exit_state_action
:
How instance behaves when it leaves group involuntarily. Added
in MySQL 8.0.12.
group_replication_flow_control_hold_percent
:
Percentage of group quota to remain unused. Added in MySQL
8.0.2.
group_replication_flow_control_max_commit_quota
:
Maximum flow control quota for group. Added in MySQL 8.0.2.
group_replication_flow_control_member_quota_percent
:
Percentage of quota which member should assume is available
for itself when calculating quotas. Added in MySQL 8.0.2.
group_replication_flow_control_min_quota
:
Lowest flow control quota which can be assigned per member.
Added in MySQL 8.0.2.
group_replication_flow_control_min_recovery_quota
:
Lowest quota which can be assigned per member because another
group member is recovering. Added in MySQL 8.0.2.
group_replication_flow_control_period
:
Defines how many seconds to wait between flow control
iterations. Added in MySQL 8.0.2.
group_replication_flow_control_release_percent
:
How group quota should be released when flow control no longer
needs to throttle writer members. Added in MySQL 8.0.2.
group_replication_ip_allowlist
:
List of hosts permitted to connect to group (MySQL 8.0.22 and
later). Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
group_replication_member_expel_timeout
:
Time between suspected failure of group member and expelling
it from group, causing group membership reconfiguration. Added
in MySQL 8.0.13.
group_replication_member_weight
:
Chance of this member being elected as primary. Added in MySQL
8.0.2.
group_replication_message_cache_size
:
Maximum memory for group communication engine message cache
(XCom). Added in MySQL 8.0.16.
group_replication_recovery_compression_algorithm
:
Permitted compression algorithms for outgoing recovery
connections. Added in MySQL 8.0.18.
group_replication_recovery_get_public_key
:
Whether to accept preference about fetching public key from
donor. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
group_replication_recovery_public_key_path
:
To accept public key information. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
group_replication_recovery_tls_ciphersuites
:
Permitted cipher suites when TLSv1.3 is used for connection
encryption with this instance as client (joining member).
Added in MySQL 8.0.19.
group_replication_recovery_tls_version
:
Permitted TLS protocols for connection encryption as client
(joining member). Added in MySQL 8.0.19.
group_replication_recovery_zstd_compression_level
:
Compression level for recovery connections that use zstd
compression. Added in MySQL 8.0.18.
group_replication_tls_source
:
Source of TLS material for Group Replication. Added in MySQL
8.0.21.
group_replication_unreachable_majority_timeout
:
How long to wait for network partitions that result in
minority to leave group. Added in MySQL 8.0.2.
histogram_generation_max_mem_size
:
Maximum memory for creating histogram statistics. Added in
MySQL 8.0.2.
immediate_server_version
:
MySQL Server release number of server which is immediate
replication source. Added in MySQL 8.0.14.
information_schema_stats_expiry
:
Expiration setting for cached table statistics. Added in MySQL
8.0.3.
innodb_buffer_pool_debug
:
Permits multiple buffer pool instances when buffer pool is
less than 1GB in size. Added in MySQL 8.0.0.
innodb_buffer_pool_in_core_file
:
Controls writing of buffer pool pages to core files. Added in
MySQL 8.0.14.
innodb_checkpoint_disabled
:
Disables checkpoints so that deliberate server exit always
initiates recovery. Added in MySQL 8.0.2.
innodb_ddl_log_crash_reset_debug
:
Debug option that resets DDL log crash injection counters.
Added in MySQL 8.0.3.
innodb_deadlock_detect
:
Enables or disables deadlock detection. Added in MySQL 8.0.0.
innodb_dedicated_server
:
Enables automatic configuration of buffer pool size, log file
size, and flush method. Added in MySQL 8.0.3.
innodb_directories
:
Defines directories to scan at startup for tablespace data
files. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
innodb_doublewrite_batch_size
:
Number of doublewrite pages to write per batch. Added in MySQL
8.0.20.
innodb_doublewrite_dir
:
Doublewrite buffer file directory. Added in MySQL 8.0.20.
innodb_doublewrite_files
:
Number of doublewrite files. Added in MySQL 8.0.20.
innodb_doublewrite_pages
:
Number of doublewrite pages per thread. Added in MySQL 8.0.20.
innodb_extend_and_initialize
:
Controls how new tablespace pages are allocated on Linux.
Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
innodb_fsync_threshold
:
Controls how often InnoDB calls fsync when creating new file.
Added in MySQL 8.0.13.
innodb_idle_flush_pct
:
Limits I/0 operations when InnoDB is idle. Added in MySQL
8.0.18.
innodb_log_checkpoint_fuzzy_now
:
Debug option that forces InnoDB to write fuzzy checkpoint.
Added in MySQL 8.0.13.
innodb_log_spin_cpu_abs_lwm
:
Minimum amount of CPU usage below which user threads no longer
spin while waiting for flushed redo. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
innodb_log_spin_cpu_pct_hwm
:
Maximum amount of CPU usage above which user threads no longer
spin while waiting for flushed redo. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
innodb_log_wait_for_flush_spin_hwm
:
Maximum average log flush time beyond which user threads no
longer spin while waiting for flushed redo. Added in MySQL
8.0.11.
innodb_log_writer_threads
:
Enables dedicated log writer threads for writing and flushing
redo logs. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
innodb_parallel_read_threads
:
Number of threads for parallel index reads. Added in MySQL
8.0.14.
innodb_print_ddl_logs
:
Whether or not to print DDL logs to error log. Added in MySQL
8.0.3.
innodb_redo_log_archive_dirs
:
Labeled redo log archive directories. Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
innodb_redo_log_encrypt
:
Controls encryption of redo log data for encrypted
tablespaces. Added in MySQL 8.0.1.
innodb_scan_directories
: Defines
directories to scan for tablespace files during InnoDB
recovery. Added in MySQL 8.0.2.
innodb_spin_wait_pause_multiplier
:
Multiplier value used to determine number of PAUSE
instructions in spin-wait loops. Added in MySQL 8.0.16.
innodb_stats_include_delete_marked
:
Include delete-marked records when calculating persistent
InnoDB statistics. Added in MySQL 8.0.1.
innodb_temp_tablespaces_dir
:
Session temporary tablespaces path. Added in MySQL 8.0.13.
innodb_tmpdir
:
Directory location for temporary table files created during
online ALTER TABLE operations. Added in MySQL 8.0.0.
innodb_undo_log_encrypt
:
Controls encryption of undo log data for encrypted
tablespaces. Added in MySQL 8.0.1.
innodb_use_fdatasync
:
Whether InnoDB uses fdatasync() instead of fsync() when
flushing data to the operating system. Added in MySQL 8.0.25.
innodb_validate_tablespace_paths
:
Enables tablespace path validation at startup. Added in MySQL
8.0.21.
internal_tmp_mem_storage_engine
:
Storage engine to use for internal in-memory temporary tables.
Added in MySQL 8.0.2.
keyring-migration-destination
:
Key migration destination keyring plugin. Added in MySQL
8.0.4.
keyring-migration-host
:
Host name for connecting to running server for key migration.
Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
keyring-migration-password
:
Password for connecting to running server for key migration.
Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
keyring-migration-port
:
TCP/IP port number for connecting to running server for key
migration. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
keyring-migration-socket
:
Unix socket file or Windows named pipe for connecting to
running server for key migration. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
keyring-migration-source
:
Key migration source keyring plugin. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
keyring-migration-user
:
User name for connecting to running server for key migration.
Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
keyring_aws_cmk_id
:
AWS keyring plugin customer master key ID value. Added in
MySQL 8.0.11.
keyring_aws_conf_file
:
AWS keyring plugin configuration file location. Added in MySQL
8.0.11.
keyring_aws_data_file
:
AWS keyring plugin storage file location. Added in MySQL
8.0.11.
keyring_aws_region
:
AWS keyring plugin region. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
keyring_encrypted_file_data
:
keyring_encrypted_file plugin data file. Added in MySQL
8.0.11.
keyring_encrypted_file_password
:
keyring_encrypted_file plugin password. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
keyring_hashicorp_auth_path
:
HashiCorp Vault AppRole authentication path. Added in MySQL
8.0.18.
keyring_hashicorp_ca_path
:
Path to keyring_hashicorp CA file. Added in MySQL 8.0.18.
keyring_hashicorp_caching
:
Whether to enable keyring_hashicorp caching. Added in MySQL
8.0.18.
keyring_hashicorp_commit_auth_path
:
keyring_hashicorp_auth_path value in use. Added in MySQL
8.0.18.
keyring_hashicorp_commit_ca_path
:
keyring_hashicorp_ca_path value in use. Added in MySQL 8.0.18.
keyring_hashicorp_commit_caching
:
keyring_hashicorp_caching value in use. Added in MySQL 8.0.18.
keyring_hashicorp_commit_role_id
:
keyring_hashicorp_role_id value in use. Added in MySQL 8.0.18.
keyring_hashicorp_commit_server_url
:
keyring_hashicorp_server_url value in use. Added in MySQL
8.0.18.
keyring_hashicorp_commit_store_path
:
keyring_hashicorp_store_path value in use. Added in MySQL
8.0.18.
keyring_hashicorp_role_id
:
HashiCorp Vault AppRole authentication role ID. Added in MySQL
8.0.18.
keyring_hashicorp_secret_id
:
HashiCorp Vault AppRole authentication secret ID. Added in
MySQL 8.0.18.
keyring_hashicorp_server_url
:
HashiCorp Vault server URL. Added in MySQL 8.0.18.
keyring_hashicorp_store_path
:
HashiCorp Vault store path. Added in MySQL 8.0.18.
keyring_oci_ca_certificate
:
CA certificate file for peer authentication. Added in MySQL
8.0.22.
keyring_oci_compartment
:
OCI compartment OCID. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
keyring_oci_encryption_endpoint
:
OCI encryption server endpoint. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
keyring_oci_key_file
:
OCI RSA private key file. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
keyring_oci_key_fingerprint
:
OCI RSA private key file fingerprint. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
keyring_oci_management_endpoint
:
OCI management server endpoint. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
keyring_oci_master_key
:
OCI master key OCID. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
keyring_oci_secrets_endpoint
:
OCI secrets server endpoint. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
keyring_oci_tenancy
:
OCI tenancy OCID. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
keyring_oci_user
:
OCI user OCID. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
keyring_oci_vaults_endpoint
:
OCI vaults server endpoint. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
keyring_oci_virtual_vault
:
OCI vault OCID. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
keyring_okv_conf_dir
:
Oracle Key Vault keyring plugin configuration directory. Added
in MySQL 8.0.11.
keyring_operations
:
Whether keyring operations are enabled. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
lock_order
:
Whether to enable LOCK_ORDER tool at runtime. Added in MySQL
8.0.17.
lock_order_debug_loop
:
Whether to cause debug assert when LOCK_ORDER tool encounters
dependency flagged as loop. Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
lock_order_debug_missing_arc
:
Whether to cause debug assert when LOCK_ORDER tool encounters
undeclared dependency. Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
lock_order_debug_missing_key
:
Whether to cause debug assert when LOCK_ORDER tool encounters
object not properly instrumented with Performance Schema.
Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
lock_order_debug_missing_unlock
:
Whether to cause debug assert when LOCK_ORDER tool encounters
lock that is destroyed while still held. Added in MySQL
8.0.17.
lock_order_dependencies
:
Path to lock_order_dependencies.txt file. Added in MySQL
8.0.17.
lock_order_extra_dependencies
:
Path to second dependency file. Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
lock_order_output_directory
:
Directory where LOCK_ORDER tool writes logs. Added in MySQL
8.0.17.
lock_order_print_txt
:
Whether to perform lock-order graph analysis and print textual
report. Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
lock_order_trace_loop
:
Whether to print log file trace when LOCK_ORDER tool
encounters dependency flagged as loop. Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
lock_order_trace_missing_arc
:
Whether to print log file trace when LOCK_ORDER tool
encounters undeclared dependency. Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
lock_order_trace_missing_key
:
Whether to print log file trace when LOCK_ORDER tool
encounters object not properly instrumented with Performance
Schema. Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
lock_order_trace_missing_unlock
:
Whether to print log file trace when LOCK_ORDER tool
encounters lock that is destroyed while still held. Added in
MySQL 8.0.17.
log_error_filter_rules
: Filter rules for
error logging. Added in MySQL 8.0.2.
log_error_services
:
Components to use for error logging. Added in MySQL 8.0.2.
log_error_suppression_list
:
Warning/information error log messages to suppress. Added in
MySQL 8.0.13.
log_slow_extra
:
Whether to write extra information to slow query log file.
Added in MySQL 8.0.14.
mandatory_roles
:
Automatically granted roles for all users. Added in MySQL
8.0.2.
mysql_firewall_mode
:
Whether MySQL Enterprise Firewall is operational. Added in
MySQL 8.0.11.
mysql_firewall_trace
:
Whether to enable firewall trace. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
mysqlx
:
Whether X Plugin is initialized. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
mysqlx_compression_algorithms
:
Compression algorithms permitted for X Protocol connections.
Added in MySQL 8.0.19.
mysqlx_deflate_default_compression_level
:
Default compression level for Deflate algorithm on X Protocol
connections. Added in MySQL 8.0.20.
mysqlx_deflate_max_client_compression_level
:
Maximum permitted compression level for Deflate algorithm on X
Protocol connections. Added in MySQL 8.0.20.
mysqlx_interactive_timeout
:
Number of seconds to wait for interactive clients to timeout.
Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
mysqlx_lz4_default_compression_level
:
Default compression level for LZ4 algorithm on X Protocol
connections. Added in MySQL 8.0.20.
mysqlx_lz4_max_client_compression_level
:
Maximum permitted compression level for LZ4 algorithm on X
Protocol connections. Added in MySQL 8.0.20.
mysqlx_read_timeout
:
Number of seconds to wait for blocking read operations to
complete. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
mysqlx_wait_timeout
:
Number of seconds to wait for activity from connection. Added
in MySQL 8.0.4.
mysqlx_write_timeout
:
Number of seconds to wait for blocking write operations to
complete. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
mysqlx_zstd_default_compression_level
:
Default compression level for zstd algorithm on X Protocol
connections. Added in MySQL 8.0.20.
mysqlx_zstd_max_client_compression_level
:
Maximum permitted compression level for zstd algorithm on X
Protocol connections. Added in MySQL 8.0.20.
named_pipe_full_access_group
:
Name of Windows group granted full access to named pipe. Added
in MySQL 8.0.14.
no-dd-upgrade
:
Prevent automatic upgrade of data dictionary tables at
startup. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
no-monitor
:
Do not fork monitor process required for RESTART. Added in
MySQL 8.0.12.
original_commit_timestamp
:
Time when transaction was committed on original source. Added
in MySQL 8.0.1.
original_server_version
:
MySQL Server release number of server on which transaction was
originally committed. Added in MySQL 8.0.14.
partial_revokes
:
Whether partial revocation is enabled. Added in MySQL 8.0.16.
password_history
:
Number of password changes required before password reuse.
Added in MySQL 8.0.3.
password_require_current
:
Whether password changes require current password
verification. Added in MySQL 8.0.13.
password_reuse_interval
:
Number of days elapsed required before password reuse. Added
in MySQL 8.0.3.
performance_schema_max_digest_sample_age
:
Query resample age in seconds. Added in MySQL 8.0.3.
performance_schema_show_processlist
:
Select SHOW PROCESSLIST implementation. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
persist_only_admin_x509_subject
:
SSL certificate X.509 Subject that enables persisting
persist-restricted system variables. Added in MySQL 8.0.14.
persisted_globals_load
:
Whether to load persisted configuration settings. Added in
MySQL 8.0.0.
print_identified_with_as_hex
:
For SHOW CREATE USER, print hash values containing unprintable
characters in hex. Added in MySQL 8.0.17.
protocol_compression_algorithms
:
Permitted compression algorithms for incoming connections.
Added in MySQL 8.0.18.
regexp_stack_limit
:
Regular expression match stack size limit. Added in MySQL
8.0.4.
regexp_time_limit
:
Regular expression match timeout. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
replication_optimize_for_static_plugin_config
:
Shared locks for semisynchronous replication. Added in MySQL
8.0.23.
replication_sender_observe_commit_only
:
Limited callbacks for semisynchronous replication. Added in
MySQL 8.0.23.
require_row_format
:
For internal server use. Added in MySQL 8.0.19.
resultset_metadata
:
Whether server returns result set metadata. Added in MySQL
8.0.3.
rpl_read_size
:
Set minimum amount of data in bytes which is read from binary
log files and relay log files. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
secondary_engine_cost_threshold
:
Optimizer cost threshold for query offload to a secondary
engine.. Added in MySQL 8.0.16.
select_into_buffer_size
:
Size of buffer used for OUTFILE or DUMPFILE export file;
overrides read_buffer_size. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
select_into_disk_sync
:
Synchronize data with storage device after flushing buffer for
OUTFILE or DUMPFILE export file; OFF disables synchronization
and is default value. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
select_into_disk_sync_delay
:
When select_into_sync_disk = ON, sets delay in milliseconds
after each synchronization of OUTFILE or DUMPFILE export file
buffer, no effect otherwise. Added in MySQL 8.0.22.
show_create_table_skip_secondary_engine
:
Whether to exclude the SECONDARY ENGINE clause from SHOW
CREATE TABLE output. Added in MySQL 8.0.18.
show_create_table_verbosity
:
Whether to display ROW_FORMAT in SHOW CREATE TABLE even if it
has default value. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
sql_require_primary_key
:
Whether tables must have primary key. Added in MySQL 8.0.13.
ssl_fips_mode
:
Whether to enable FIPS mode on server side. Added in MySQL
8.0.11.
syseventlog.facility
:
Facility for syslog messages. Added in MySQL 8.0.13.
syseventlog.include_pid
:
Whether to include server PID in syslog messages. Added in
MySQL 8.0.13.
syseventlog.tag
:
Tag for server identifier in syslog messages. Added in MySQL
8.0.13.
table_encryption_privilege_check
:
Enables TABLE_ENCRYPTION_ADMIN privilege check. Added in MySQL
8.0.16.
temptable_max_mmap
:
The maximum amount of memory the TempTable storage engine can
allocate from memory-mapped temporary files. Added in MySQL
8.0.23.
temptable_max_ram
:
Defines maximum amount of memory that can occupied by
TempTable storage engine before data is stored on disk. Added
in MySQL 8.0.2.
temptable_use_mmap
:
Defines whether TempTable storage engine allocates
memory-mapped files when the temptable_max_ram threshold is
reached. Added in MySQL 8.0.16.
thread_pool_algorithm
:
Thread pool algorithm. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
thread_pool_high_priority_connection
:
Whether current session is high priority. Added in MySQL
8.0.11.
thread_pool_max_active_query_threads
:
Maximum permissible number of active query threads per group.
Added in MySQL 8.0.19.
thread_pool_max_unused_threads
:
Maximum permissible number of unused threads. Added in MySQL
8.0.11.
thread_pool_prio_kickup_timer
:
How long before statement is moved to high-priority execution.
Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
thread_pool_size
:
Number of thread groups in thread pool. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
thread_pool_stall_limit
:
How long before statement is defined as stalled. Added in
MySQL 8.0.11.
tls_ciphersuites
:
Permissible TLSv1.3 ciphersuites for encrypted connections.
Added in MySQL 8.0.16.
upgrade
:
Control automatic upgrade at startup. Added in MySQL 8.0.16.
use_secondary_engine
:
Whether to execute queries using a secondary engine. Added in
MySQL 8.0.13.
validate-config
:
Validate server configuration. Added in MySQL 8.0.16.
validate_password.check_user_name
:
Whether to check passwords against user name. Added in MySQL
8.0.4.
validate_password.dictionary_file
:
validate_password dictionary file. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
validate_password.dictionary_file_last_parsed
:
When dictionary file was last parsed. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
validate_password.dictionary_file_words_count
:
Number of words in dictionary file. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
validate_password.length
:
validate_password required password length. Added in MySQL
8.0.4.
validate_password.mixed_case_count
:
validate_password required number of uppercase/lowercase
characters. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
validate_password.number_count
:
validate_password required number of digit characters. Added
in MySQL 8.0.4.
validate_password.policy
:
validate_password password policy. Added in MySQL 8.0.4.
validate_password.special_char_count
:
validate_password required number of special characters. Added
in MySQL 8.0.4.
version_compile_zlib
:
Version of compiled-in zlib library. Added in MySQL 8.0.11.
windowing_use_high_precision
:
Whether to compute window functions to high precision. Added
in MySQL 8.0.2.
The following system variables, status variables, and options have been deprecated in MySQL 8.0.
Compression
:
Whether client connection uses compression in client/server
protocol. Deprecated in MySQL 8.0.18.
admin-ssl
:
Enable connection encryption. Deprecated in MySQL 8.0.25.
expire_logs_days
:
Purge binary logs after this many days. Deprecated in MySQL
8.0.3.
group_replication_ip_whitelist
:
List of hosts permitted to connect to group. Deprecated in
MySQL 8.0.22.
have_openssl
:
Whether mysqld supports SSL connections. Deprecated in MySQL
8.0.25.
have_ssl
:
Whether mysqld supports SSL connections. Deprecated in MySQL
8.0.25.
innodb_undo_tablespaces
:
Number of tablespace files that rollback segments are divided
between. Deprecated in MySQL 8.0.4.
log_bin_use_v1_row_events
:
Whether server is using version 1 binary log row events.
Deprecated in MySQL 8.0.18.
log_syslog
:
Whether to write error log to syslog. Deprecated in MySQL
8.0.2.
master-info-file
:
Location and name of file that remembers source and where I/O
replication thread is in source's binary log. Deprecated in
MySQL 8.0.18.
master_info_repository
:
Whether to write connection metadata repository, containing
source information and replication I/O thread location in
source's binary log, to file or table. Deprecated in MySQL
8.0.23.
max_length_for_sort_data
:
Max number of bytes in sorted records. Deprecated in MySQL
8.0.20.
no-dd-upgrade
:
Prevent automatic upgrade of data dictionary tables at
startup. Deprecated in MySQL 8.0.16.
relay_log_info_file
:
File name for applier metadata repository in which replica
records information about relay logs. Deprecated in MySQL
8.0.18.
relay_log_info_repository
:
Whether to write location of replication SQL thread in relay
logs to file or table. Deprecated in MySQL 8.0.23.
slave_compressed_protocol
:
Use compression of source/replica protocol. Deprecated in
MySQL 8.0.18.
slave_rows_search_algorithms
:
Determines search algorithms used for replica update batching.
Any 2 or 3 from this list: INDEX_SEARCH, TABLE_SCAN,
HASH_SCAN. Deprecated in MySQL 8.0.18.
ssl
:
Enable connection encryption. Deprecated in MySQL 8.0.25.
symbolic-links
:
Permit symbolic links for MyISAM tables. Deprecated in MySQL
8.0.2.
The following system variables, status variables, and options have been removed in MySQL 8.0.
Com_alter_db_upgrade
: Count of ALTER
DATABASE ... UPGRADE DATA DIRECTORY NAME statements. Removed
in MySQL 8.0.0.
Innodb_available_undo_logs
: Total number of
InnoDB rollback segments; different from
innodb_rollback_segments, which displays number of active
rollback segments. Removed in MySQL 8.0.2.
Qcache_free_blocks
: Number of free memory
blocks in query cache. Removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
Qcache_free_memory
: Amount of free memory
for query cache. Removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
Qcache_hits
: Number of query cache hits.
Removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
Qcache_inserts
: Number of query cache
inserts. Removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
Qcache_lowmem_prunes
: Number of queries
which were deleted from query cache due to lack of free memory
in cache. Removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
Qcache_not_cached
: Number of noncached
queries (not cacheable, or not cached due to query_cache_type
setting). Removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
Qcache_queries_in_cache
: Number of queries
registered in query cache. Removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
Qcache_total_blocks
: Total number of blocks
in query cache. Removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
Slave_heartbeat_period
: Replica's
replication heartbeat interval, in seconds. Removed in MySQL
8.0.1.
Slave_last_heartbeat
: Shows when latest
heartbeat signal was received, in TIMESTAMP format. Removed in
MySQL 8.0.1.
Slave_received_heartbeats
: Number of
heartbeats received by replica since previous reset. Removed
in MySQL 8.0.1.
Slave_retried_transactions
: Total number of
times since startup that replication SQL thread has retried
transactions. Removed in MySQL 8.0.1.
Slave_running
: State of this server as
replica (replication I/O thread status). Removed in MySQL
8.0.1.
bootstrap
: Used by mysql installation
scripts. Removed in MySQL 8.0.0.
date_format
: DATE format (unused). Removed
in MySQL 8.0.3.
datetime_format
: DATETIME/TIMESTAMP format
(unused). Removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
des-key-file
: Load keys for des_encrypt()
and des_encrypt from given file. Removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
group_replication_allow_local_disjoint_gtids_join
:
Allow current server to join group even if it has transactions
not present in group. Removed in MySQL 8.0.4.
have_crypt
: Availability of crypt() system
call. Removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
ignore-db-dir
: Treat directory as
nondatabase directory. Removed in MySQL 8.0.0.
ignore_builtin_innodb
: Ignore built-in
InnoDB. Removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
ignore_db_dirs
: Directories treated as
nondatabase directories. Removed in MySQL 8.0.0.
innodb_checksums
: Enable InnoDB checksums
validation. Removed in MySQL 8.0.0.
innodb_disable_resize_buffer_pool_debug
:
Disables resizing of InnoDB buffer pool. Removed in MySQL
8.0.0.
innodb_file_format
: Format for new InnoDB
tables. Removed in MySQL 8.0.0.
innodb_file_format_check
: Whether InnoDB
performs file format compatibility checking. Removed in MySQL
8.0.0.
innodb_file_format_max
: File format tag in
shared tablespace. Removed in MySQL 8.0.0.
innodb_large_prefix
: Enables longer keys
for column prefix indexes. Removed in MySQL 8.0.0.
innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog
: Force
InnoDB not to use next-key locking. Instead use only row-level
locking. Removed in MySQL 8.0.0.
innodb_scan_directories
: Defines
directories to scan for tablespace files during InnoDB
recovery. Removed in MySQL 8.0.4.
innodb_stats_sample_pages
: Number of index
pages to sample for index distribution statistics. Removed in
MySQL 8.0.0.
innodb_support_xa
: Enable InnoDB support
for XA two-phase commit. Removed in MySQL 8.0.0.
innodb_undo_logs
: Number of undo logs
(rollback segments) used by InnoDB; alias for
innodb_rollback_segments. Removed in MySQL 8.0.2.
internal_tmp_disk_storage_engine
:
Storage engine for internal temporary tables. Removed in MySQL
8.0.16.
log-warnings
: Write some noncritical
warnings to log file. Removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
log_builtin_as_identified_by_password
:
Whether to log CREATE/ALTER USER, GRANT in backward-compatible
fashion. Removed in MySQL 8.0.11.
log_error_filter_rules
: Filter rules for
error logging. Removed in MySQL 8.0.4.
log_syslog
:
Whether to write error log to syslog. Removed in MySQL 8.0.13.
log_syslog_facility
:
Facility for syslog messages. Removed in MySQL 8.0.13.
log_syslog_include_pid
:
Whether to include server PID in syslog messages. Removed in
MySQL 8.0.13.
log_syslog_tag
:
Tag for server identifier in syslog messages. Removed in MySQL
8.0.13.
max_tmp_tables
: Unused. Removed in MySQL
8.0.3.
metadata_locks_cache_size
:
Size of metadata locks cache. Removed in MySQL 8.0.13.
metadata_locks_hash_instances
:
Number of metadata lock hashes. Removed in MySQL 8.0.13.
multi_range_count
: Maximum number of ranges
to send to table handler at once during range selects. Removed
in MySQL 8.0.3.
old_passwords
: Selects password hashing
method for PASSWORD(). Removed in MySQL 8.0.11.
partition
: Enable (or disable) partitioning
support. Removed in MySQL 8.0.0.
query_cache_limit
: Do not cache results
that are bigger than this. Removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
query_cache_min_res_unit
: Minimal size of
unit in which space for results is allocated (last unit is
trimmed after writing all result data). Removed in MySQL
8.0.3.
query_cache_size
: Memory allocated to store
results from old queries. Removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
query_cache_type
: Query cache type. Removed
in MySQL 8.0.3.
query_cache_wlock_invalidate
: Invalidate
queries in query cache on LOCK for write. Removed in MySQL
8.0.3.
secure_auth
: Disallow authentication for
accounts that have old (pre-4.1) passwords. Removed in MySQL
8.0.3.
show_compatibility_56
: Compatibility for
SHOW STATUS/VARIABLES. Removed in MySQL 8.0.1.
skip-partition
: Do not enable user-defined
partitioning. Removed in MySQL 8.0.0.
sync_frm
: Sync .frm to disk on create.
Enabled by default. Removed in MySQL 8.0.0.
temp-pool
: Using this option causes most
temporary files created to use small set of names, rather than
unique name for each new file. Removed in MySQL 8.0.1.
time_format
: TIME format (unused). Removed
in MySQL 8.0.3.
tx_isolation
: Default transaction isolation
level. Removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
tx_read_only
: Default transaction access
mode. Removed in MySQL 8.0.3.
This section lists sources of additional information that you may find helpful, such as MySQL websites, mailing lists, user forums, and Internet Relay Chat.
The primary website for MySQL documentation is https://dev.mysql.com/doc/. Online and downloadable documentation formats are available for the MySQL Reference Manual, MySQL Connectors, and more.
The MySQL developers provide information about new and upcoming features as the MySQL Server Blog.
The forums at http://forums.mysql.com are an important community resource. Many forums are available, grouped into these general categories:
Migration
MySQL Usage
MySQL Connectors
Programming Languages
Tools
3rd-Party Applications
Storage Engines
MySQL Technology
SQL Standards
Business
Oracle offers technical support in the form of MySQL Enterprise. For organizations that rely on the MySQL DBMS for business-critical production applications, MySQL Enterprise is a commercial subscription offering which includes:
MySQL Enterprise Server
MySQL Enterprise Monitor
Monthly Rapid Updates and Quarterly Service Packs
MySQL Knowledge Base
24x7 Technical and Consultative Support
MySQL Enterprise is available in multiple tiers, giving you the flexibility to choose the level of service that best matches your needs. For more information, see MySQL Enterprise.
Before posting a bug report about a problem, please try to verify that it is a bug and that it has not been reported already:
Start by searching the MySQL online manual at https://dev.mysql.com/doc/. We try to keep the manual up to date by updating it frequently with solutions to newly found problems. In addition, the release notes accompanying the manual can be particularly useful since it is quite possible that a newer version contains a solution to your problem. The release notes are available at the location just given for the manual.
If you get a parse error for an SQL statement, please check your syntax closely. If you cannot find something wrong with it, it is extremely likely that your current version of MySQL Server doesn't support the syntax you are using. If you are using the current version and the manual doesn't cover the syntax that you are using, MySQL Server doesn't support your statement.
If the manual covers the syntax you are using, but you have an older version of MySQL Server, you should check the MySQL change history to see when the syntax was implemented. In this case, you have the option of upgrading to a newer version of MySQL Server.
For solutions to some common problems, see Section B.3, “Problems and Common Errors”.
Search the bugs database at http://bugs.mysql.com/ to see whether the bug has been reported and fixed.
You can also use http://www.mysql.com/search/ to search all the Web pages (including the manual) that are located at the MySQL website.
If you cannot find an answer in the manual, the bugs database, or the mailing list archives, check with your local MySQL expert. If you still cannot find an answer to your question, please use the following guidelines for reporting the bug.
The normal way to report bugs is to visit http://bugs.mysql.com/, which is the address for our bugs database. This database is public and can be browsed and searched by anyone. If you log in to the system, you can enter new reports.
Bugs posted in the bugs database at http://bugs.mysql.com/ that are corrected for a given release are noted in the release notes.
If you find a security bug in MySQL Server, please let us know
immediately by sending an email message to
<secalert_us@oracle.com>
. Exception: Support customers
should report all problems, including security bugs, to Oracle
Support at http://support.oracle.com/.
To discuss problems with other users, you can use the MySQL Community Slack.
Writing a good bug report takes patience, but doing it right the first time saves time both for us and for yourself. A good bug report, containing a full test case for the bug, makes it very likely that we will fix the bug in the next release. This section helps you write your report correctly so that you do not waste your time doing things that may not help us much or at all. Please read this section carefully and make sure that all the information described here is included in your report.
Preferably, you should test the problem using the latest production
or development version of MySQL Server before posting. Anyone should
be able to repeat the bug by just using mysql test <
script_file
on your test case or by running the shell or
Perl script that you include in the bug report. Any bug that we are
able to repeat has a high chance of being fixed in the next MySQL
release.
It is most helpful when a good description of the problem is included in the bug report. That is, give a good example of everything you did that led to the problem and describe, in exact detail, the problem itself. The best reports are those that include a full example showing how to reproduce the bug or problem. See Section 5.9, “Debugging MySQL”.
Remember that it is possible for us to respond to a report containing too much information, but not to one containing too little. People often omit facts because they think they know the cause of a problem and assume that some details do not matter. A good principle to follow is that if you are in doubt about stating something, state it. It is faster and less troublesome to write a couple more lines in your report than to wait longer for the answer if we must ask you to provide information that was missing from the initial report.
The most common errors made in bug reports are (a) not including the version number of the MySQL distribution that you use, and (b) not fully describing the platform on which the MySQL server is installed (including the platform type and version number). These are highly relevant pieces of information, and in 99 cases out of 100, the bug report is useless without them. Very often we get questions like, “Why doesn't this work for me?” Then we find that the feature requested wasn't implemented in that MySQL version, or that a bug described in a report has been fixed in newer MySQL versions. Errors often are platform-dependent. In such cases, it is next to impossible for us to fix anything without knowing the operating system and the version number of the platform.
If you compiled MySQL from source, remember also to provide information about your compiler if it is related to the problem. Often people find bugs in compilers and think the problem is MySQL-related. Most compilers are under development all the time and become better version by version. To determine whether your problem depends on your compiler, we need to know what compiler you used. Note that every compiling problem should be regarded as a bug and reported accordingly.
If a program produces an error message, it is very important to include the message in your report. If we try to search for something from the archives, it is better that the error message reported exactly matches the one that the program produces. (Even the lettercase should be observed.) It is best to copy and paste the entire error message into your report. You should never try to reproduce the message from memory.
If you have a problem with Connector/ODBC (MyODBC), please try to generate a trace file and send it with your report. See How to Report Connector/ODBC Problems or Bugs.
If your report includes long query output lines from test cases that
you run with the mysql command-line tool, you can
make the output more readable by using the
--vertical
option or the
\G
statement terminator. The
EXPLAIN SELECT
example later in this section demonstrates the use of
\G
.
Please include the following information in your report:
The version number of the MySQL distribution you are using (for
example, MySQL 5.7.10). You can find out which version you are
running by executing mysqladmin version. The
mysqladmin program can be found in the
bin
directory under your MySQL installation
directory.
The manufacturer and model of the machine on which you experience the problem.
The operating system name and version. If you work with Windows,
you can usually get the name and version number by
double-clicking your My Computer icon and pulling down the
“Help/About Windows” menu. For most Unix-like
operating systems, you can get this information by executing the
command uname -a
.
Sometimes the amount of memory (real and virtual) is relevant. If in doubt, include these values.
The contents of the docs/INFO_BIN
file from
your MySQL installation. This file contains information about
how MySQL was configured and compiled.
If you are using a source distribution of the MySQL software, include the name and version number of the compiler that you used. If you have a binary distribution, include the distribution name.
If the problem occurs during compilation, include the exact error messages and also a few lines of context around the offending code in the file where the error occurs.
If mysqld died, you should also report the statement that caused mysqld to unexpectedly exit. You can usually get this information by running mysqld with query logging enabled, and then looking in the log after mysqld exits. See Section 5.9, “Debugging MySQL”.
If a database table is related to the problem, include the
output from the SHOW CREATE TABLE
statement in the bug report. This is a very easy way to get the
definition of any table in a database. The information helps us
create a situation matching the one that you have experienced.
db_name
.tbl_name
The SQL mode in effect when the problem occurred can be
significant, so please report the value of the
sql_mode
system variable. For
stored procedure, stored function, and trigger objects, the
relevant sql_mode
value is the
one in effect when the object was created. For a stored
procedure or function, the SHOW CREATE
PROCEDURE
or SHOW CREATE
FUNCTION
statement shows the relevant SQL mode, or you
can query INFORMATION_SCHEMA
for the
information:
SELECT ROUTINE_SCHEMA, ROUTINE_NAME, SQL_MODE FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES;
For triggers, you can use this statement:
SELECT EVENT_OBJECT_SCHEMA, EVENT_OBJECT_TABLE, TRIGGER_NAME, SQL_MODE FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TRIGGERS;
For performance-related bugs or problems with
SELECT
statements, you should
always include the output of EXPLAIN SELECT
...
, and at least the number of rows that the
SELECT
statement produces. You
should also include the output from SHOW CREATE TABLE
for each table
that is involved. The more information you provide about your
situation, the more likely it is that someone can help you.
tbl_name
The following is an example of a very good bug report. The
statements are run using the mysql
command-line tool. Note the use of the \G
statement terminator for statements that would otherwise provide
very long output lines that are difficult to read.
mysql>SHOW VARIABLES;
mysql>SHOW COLUMNS FROM ...\G
<output from SHOW COLUMNS>
mysql>EXPLAIN SELECT ...\G
<output from EXPLAIN>
mysql>FLUSH STATUS;
mysql>SELECT ...;
<A short version of the output from SELECT, including the time taken to run the query>
mysql>SHOW STATUS;
<output from SHOW STATUS>
If a bug or problem occurs while running mysqld, try to provide an input script that reproduces the anomaly. This script should include any necessary source files. The more closely the script can reproduce your situation, the better. If you can make a reproducible test case, you should upload it to be attached to the bug report.
If you cannot provide a script, you should at least include the output from mysqladmin variables extended-status processlist in your report to provide some information on how your system is performing.
If you cannot produce a test case with only a few rows, or if
the test table is too big to be included in the bug report (more
than 10 rows), you should dump your tables using
mysqldump and create a
README
file that describes your problem.
Create a compressed archive of your files using
tar and gzip or
zip. After you initiate a bug report for our
bugs database at http://bugs.mysql.com/, click
the Files tab in the bug report for instructions on uploading
the archive to the bugs database.
If you believe that the MySQL server produces a strange result from a statement, include not only the result, but also your opinion of what the result should be, and an explanation describing the basis for your opinion.
When you provide an example of the problem, it is better to use the table names, variable names, and so forth that exist in your actual situation than to come up with new names. The problem could be related to the name of a table or variable. These cases are rare, perhaps, but it is better to be safe than sorry. After all, it should be easier for you to provide an example that uses your actual situation, and it is by all means better for us. If you have data that you do not want to be visible to others in the bug report, you can upload it using the Files tab as previously described. If the information is really top secret and you do not want to show it even to us, go ahead and provide an example using other names, but please regard this as the last choice.
Include all the options given to the relevant programs, if
possible. For example, indicate the options that you use when
you start the mysqld server, as well as the
options that you use to run any MySQL client programs. The
options to programs such as mysqld and
mysql, and to the
configure script, are often key to resolving
problems and are very relevant. It is never a bad idea to
include them. If your problem involves a program written in a
language such as Perl or PHP, please include the language
processor's version number, as well as the version for any
modules that the program uses. For example, if you have a Perl
script that uses the DBI
and
DBD::mysql
modules, include the version
numbers for Perl, DBI
, and
DBD::mysql
.
If your question is related to the privilege system, please include the output of mysqladmin reload, and all the error messages you get when trying to connect. When you test your privileges, you should execute mysqladmin reload version and try to connect with the program that gives you trouble.
If you have a patch for a bug, do include it. But do not assume that the patch is all we need, or that we can use it, if you do not provide some necessary information such as test cases showing the bug that your patch fixes. We might find problems with your patch or we might not understand it at all. If so, we cannot use it.
If we cannot verify the exact purpose of the patch, we will not use it. Test cases help us here. Show that the patch handles all the situations that may occur. If we find a borderline case (even a rare one) where the patch will not work, it may be useless.
Guesses about what the bug is, why it occurs, or what it depends on are usually wrong. Even the MySQL team cannot guess such things without first using a debugger to determine the real cause of a bug.
Indicate in your bug report that you have checked the reference manual and mail archive so that others know you have tried to solve the problem yourself.
If your data appears corrupt or you get errors when you access a
particular table, first check your tables with
CHECK TABLE
. If that statement
reports any errors:
The InnoDB
crash recovery mechanism
handles cleanup when the server is restarted after being
killed, so in typical operation there is no need to
“repair” tables. If you encounter an error with
InnoDB
tables, restart the server and see
whether the problem persists, or whether the error affected
only cached data in memory. If data is corrupted on disk,
consider restarting with the
innodb_force_recovery
option enabled so that you can dump the affected tables.
For non-transactional tables, try to repair them with
REPAIR TABLE
or with
myisamchk. See
Chapter 5, MySQL Server Administration.
If you are running Windows, please verify the value of
lower_case_table_names
using
the SHOW VARIABLES LIKE
'lower_case_table_names'
statement. This variable
affects how the server handles lettercase of database and table
names. Its effect for a given value should be as described in
Section 9.2.3, “Identifier Case Sensitivity”.
If you often get corrupted tables, you should try to find out
when and why this happens. In this case, the error log in the
MySQL data directory may contain some information about what
happened. (This is the file with the .err
suffix in the name.) See Section 5.4.2, “The Error Log”. Please
include any relevant information from this file in your bug
report. Normally mysqld should
never corrupt a table if nothing killed it
in the middle of an update. If you can find the cause of
mysqld dying, it is much easier for us to
provide you with a fix for the problem. See
Section B.3.1, “How to Determine What Is Causing a Problem”.
If possible, download and install the most recent version of MySQL Server and check whether it solves your problem. All versions of the MySQL software are thoroughly tested and should work without problems. We believe in making everything as backward-compatible as possible, and you should be able to switch MySQL versions without difficulty. See Section 2.1.2, “Which MySQL Version and Distribution to Install”.
This section describes how MySQL relates to the ANSI/ISO SQL standards. MySQL Server has many extensions to the SQL standard, and here you can find out what they are and how to use them. You can also find information about functionality missing from MySQL Server, and how to work around some of the differences.
The SQL standard has been evolving since 1986 and several versions exist. In this manual, “SQL-92” refers to the standard released in 1992. “SQL:1999”, “SQL:2003”, “SQL:2008”, and “SQL:2011” refer to the versions of the standard released in the corresponding years, with the last being the most recent version. We use the phrase “the SQL standard” or “standard SQL” to mean the current version of the SQL Standard at any time.
One of our main goals with the product is to continue to work
toward compliance with the SQL standard, but without sacrificing
speed or reliability. We are not afraid to add extensions to SQL
or support for non-SQL features if this greatly increases the
usability of MySQL Server for a large segment of our user base.
The HANDLER
interface is an example
of this strategy. See Section 13.2.4, “HANDLER Statement”.
We continue to support transactional and nontransactional databases to satisfy both mission-critical 24/7 usage and heavy Web or logging usage.
MySQL Server was originally designed to work with medium-sized databases (10-100 million rows, or about 100MB per table) on small computer systems. Today MySQL Server handles terabyte-sized databases.
We are not targeting real-time support, although MySQL replication capabilities offer significant functionality.
MySQL supports ODBC levels 0 to 3.51.
MySQL supports high-availability database clustering using the
NDBCLUSTER
storage engine. See
Chapter 23, MySQL NDB Cluster 8.0.
We implement XML functionality which supports most of the W3C XPath standard. See Section 12.12, “XML Functions”.
MySQL supports a native JSON data type as defined by RFC 7159, and based on the ECMAScript standard (ECMA-262). See Section 11.5, “The JSON Data Type”. MySQL also implements a subset of the SQL/JSON functions specified by a pre-publication draft of the SQL:2016 standard; see Section 12.18, “JSON Functions”, for more information.
The MySQL server can operate in different SQL modes, and can apply
these modes differently for different clients, depending on the
value of the sql_mode
system
variable. DBAs can set the global SQL mode to match site server
operating requirements, and each application can set its session
SQL mode to its own requirements.
Modes affect the SQL syntax MySQL supports and the data validation checks it performs. This makes it easier to use MySQL in different environments and to use MySQL together with other database servers.
For more information on setting the SQL mode, see Section 5.1.11, “Server SQL Modes”.
To run MySQL Server in ANSI mode, start mysqld
with the --ansi
option. Running the
server in ANSI mode is the same as starting it with the following
options:
--transaction-isolation=SERIALIZABLE --sql-mode=ANSI
To achieve the same effect at runtime, execute these two statements:
SET GLOBAL TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE; SET GLOBAL sql_mode = 'ANSI';
You can see that setting the
sql_mode
system variable to
'ANSI'
enables all SQL mode options that are
relevant for ANSI mode as follows:
mysql>SET GLOBAL sql_mode='ANSI';
mysql>SELECT @@GLOBAL.sql_mode;
-> 'REAL_AS_FLOAT,PIPES_AS_CONCAT,ANSI_QUOTES,IGNORE_SPACE,ANSI'
Running the server in ANSI mode with
--ansi
is not quite the same as
setting the SQL mode to 'ANSI'
because the
--ansi
option also sets the
transaction isolation level.
See Section 5.1.7, “Server Command Options”.
MySQL Server supports some extensions that you are not likely to find in other SQL DBMSs. Be warned that if you use them, your code is most likely not portable to other SQL servers. In some cases, you can write code that includes MySQL extensions, but is still portable, by using comments of the following form:
/*! MySQL-specific code
*/
In this case, MySQL Server parses and executes the code within
the comment as it would any other SQL statement, but other SQL
servers should ignore the extensions. For example, MySQL Server
recognizes the STRAIGHT_JOIN
keyword in the
following statement, but other servers should not:
SELECT /*! STRAIGHT_JOIN */ col1 FROM table1,table2 WHERE ...
If you add a version number after the !
character, the syntax within the comment is executed only if the
MySQL version is greater than or equal to the specified version
number. The KEY_BLOCK_SIZE
clause in the
following comment is executed only by servers from MySQL 5.1.10
or higher:
CREATE TABLE t1(a INT, KEY (a)) /*!50110 KEY_BLOCK_SIZE=1024 */;
The following descriptions list MySQL extensions, organized by category.
Organization of data on disk
MySQL Server maps each database to a directory under the MySQL data directory, and maps tables within a database to file names in the database directory. Consequently, database and table names are case-sensitive in MySQL Server on operating systems that have case-sensitive file names (such as most Unix systems). See Section 9.2.3, “Identifier Case Sensitivity”.
General language syntax
By default, strings can be enclosed by
"
as well as '
. If
the ANSI_QUOTES
SQL
mode is enabled, strings can be enclosed only by
'
and the server interprets strings
enclosed by "
as identifiers.
\
is the escape character in strings.
In SQL statements, you can access tables from different
databases with the
db_name.tbl_name
syntax. Some
SQL servers provide the same functionality but call this
User space
. MySQL Server doesn't
support tablespaces such as used in statements like
this: CREATE TABLE ralph.my_table ... IN
my_tablespace
.
SQL statement syntax
The ANALYZE TABLE
,
CHECK TABLE
,
OPTIMIZE TABLE
, and
REPAIR TABLE
statements.
The CREATE DATABASE
,
DROP DATABASE
, and
ALTER DATABASE
statements. See Section 13.1.12, “CREATE DATABASE Statement”,
Section 13.1.24, “DROP DATABASE Statement”, and
Section 13.1.2, “ALTER DATABASE Statement”.
The DO
statement.
EXPLAIN
SELECT
to obtain a description of how tables
are processed by the query optimizer.
The
SET
statement. See Section 13.7.6.1, “SET Syntax for Variable Assignment”.
The SHOW
statement. See
Section 13.7.7, “SHOW Statements”. The information produced by many
of the MySQL-specific
SHOW
statements can be
obtained in more standard fashion by using
SELECT
to query
INFORMATION_SCHEMA
. See
Chapter 26, INFORMATION_SCHEMA Tables.
Use of LOAD DATA
. In many
cases, this syntax is compatible with Oracle
LOAD DATA
. See
Section 13.2.7, “LOAD DATA Statement”.
Use of RENAME TABLE
. See
Section 13.1.36, “RENAME TABLE Statement”.
Use of REPLACE
instead of
DELETE
plus
INSERT
. See
Section 13.2.9, “REPLACE Statement”.
Use of CHANGE
,
col_name
DROP
, or
col_name
DROP INDEX
,
IGNORE
or RENAME
in ALTER TABLE
statements. Use of multiple ADD
,
ALTER
, DROP
, or
CHANGE
clauses in an
ALTER TABLE
statement.
See Section 13.1.9, “ALTER TABLE Statement”.
Use of index names, indexes on a prefix of a column, and
use of INDEX
or
KEY
in CREATE
TABLE
statements. See
Section 13.1.20, “CREATE TABLE Statement”.
Use of TEMPORARY
or IF NOT
EXISTS
with CREATE
TABLE
.
Use of IF EXISTS
with
DROP TABLE
and
DROP DATABASE
.
The capability of dropping multiple tables with a single
DROP TABLE
statement.
The ORDER BY
and
LIMIT
clauses of the
UPDATE
and
DELETE
statements.
INSERT INTO
syntax.
tbl_name
SET col_name
= ...
The LOW_PRIORITY
clause of the
INSERT
,
REPLACE
,
DELETE
, and
UPDATE
statements.
Use of INTO OUTFILE
or INTO
DUMPFILE
in
SELECT
statements. See
Section 13.2.10, “SELECT Statement”.
Options such as STRAIGHT_JOIN
or
SQL_SMALL_RESULT
in
SELECT
statements.
You don't need to name all selected columns in the
GROUP BY
clause. This gives better
performance for some very specific, but quite normal
queries. See
Section 12.20, “Aggregate Functions”.
You can specify ASC
and
DESC
with GROUP
BY
, not just with ORDER BY
.
The ability to set variables in a statement with the
:=
assignment operator. See
Section 9.4, “User-Defined Variables”.
Data types
Functions and operators
To make it easier for users who migrate from other SQL environments, MySQL Server supports aliases for many functions. For example, all string functions support both standard SQL syntax and ODBC syntax.
MySQL Server understands the
||
and
&&
operators to mean logical OR and AND, as in the C
programming language. In MySQL Server,
||
and
OR
are
synonyms, as are
&&
and AND
.
Because of this nice syntax, MySQL Server doesn't
support the standard SQL
||
operator
for string concatenation; use
CONCAT()
instead. Because
CONCAT()
takes any number
of arguments, it is easy to convert use of the
||
operator
to MySQL Server.
Use of COUNT(DISTINCT
where
value_list
)value_list
has more than one
element.
String comparisons are case-insensitive by default, with
sort ordering determined by the collation of the current
character set, which is utf8mb4
by
default. To perform case-sensitive comparisons instead,
you should declare your columns with the
BINARY
attribute or use the
BINARY
cast, which causes comparisons
to be done using the underlying character code values
rather than a lexical ordering.
The %
operator is a synonym for
MOD()
. That is,
is equivalent to
N
%
M
MOD(
.
N
,M
)%
is
supported for C programmers and for compatibility with
PostgreSQL.
The =
,
<>
,
<=
,
<
,
>=
,
>
,
<<
,
>>
,
<=>
,
AND
,
OR
, or
LIKE
operators may be used in expressions in the output
column list (to the left of the FROM
)
in SELECT
statements. For
example:
mysql> SELECT col1=1 AND col2=2 FROM my_table;
The LAST_INSERT_ID()
function returns the most recent
AUTO_INCREMENT
value. See
Section 12.16, “Information Functions”.
LIKE
is permitted on
numeric values.
The REGEXP
and
NOT REGEXP
extended regular
expression operators.
CONCAT()
or
CHAR()
with one argument
or more than two arguments. (In MySQL Server, these
functions can take a variable number of arguments.)
The BIT_COUNT()
,
CASE
,
ELT()
,
FROM_DAYS()
,
FORMAT()
,
IF()
,
MD5()
,
PERIOD_ADD()
,
PERIOD_DIFF()
,
TO_DAYS()
, and
WEEKDAY()
functions.
Use of TRIM()
to trim
substrings. Standard SQL supports removal of single
characters only.
The GROUP BY
functions
STD()
,
BIT_OR()
,
BIT_AND()
,
BIT_XOR()
, and
GROUP_CONCAT()
. See
Section 12.20, “Aggregate Functions”.
We try to make MySQL Server follow the ANSI SQL standard and the ODBC SQL standard, but MySQL Server performs operations differently in some cases:
There are several differences between the MySQL and standard
SQL privilege systems. For example, in MySQL, privileges for
a table are not automatically revoked when you delete a
table. You must explicitly issue a
REVOKE
statement to revoke
privileges for a table. For more information, see
Section 13.7.1.8, “REVOKE Statement”.
The CAST()
function does not
support cast to REAL
or
BIGINT
. See
Section 12.11, “Cast Functions and Operators”.
MySQL Server doesn't support the SELECT ... INTO
TABLE
Sybase SQL extension. Instead, MySQL Server
supports the
INSERT INTO ...
SELECT
standard SQL syntax, which is basically the
same thing. See Section 13.2.6.1, “INSERT ... SELECT Statement”. For example:
INSERT INTO tbl_temp2 (fld_id) SELECT tbl_temp1.fld_order_id FROM tbl_temp1 WHERE tbl_temp1.fld_order_id > 100;
Alternatively, you can use
SELECT ... INTO
OUTFILE
or
CREATE TABLE ...
SELECT
.
You can use SELECT ...
INTO
with user-defined variables. The same syntax
can also be used inside stored routines using cursors and
local variables. See Section 13.2.10.1, “SELECT ... INTO Statement”.
If you access a column from the table to be updated in an
expression, UPDATE
uses the
current value of the column. The second assignment in the
following statement sets col2
to the
current (updated) col1
value, not the
original col1
value. The result is that
col1
and col2
have the
same value. This behavior differs from standard SQL.
UPDATE t1 SET col1 = col1 + 1, col2 = col1;
The MySQL implementation of foreign key constraints differs from the SQL standard in the following key respects:
If there are several rows in the parent table with the
same referenced key value,
InnoDB
performs a foreign key
check as if the other parent rows with the same key value
do not exist. For example, if you define a
RESTRICT
type constraint, and there is
a child row with several parent rows,
InnoDB
does not permit the deletion of
any of the parent rows.
If ON UPDATE CASCADE
or ON
UPDATE SET NULL
recurses to update the
same table it has previously updated
during the same cascade, it acts like
RESTRICT
. This means that you cannot
use self-referential ON UPDATE CASCADE
or ON UPDATE SET NULL
operations. This
is to prevent infinite loops resulting from cascaded
updates. A self-referential ON DELETE SET
NULL
, on the other hand, is possible, as is a
self-referential ON DELETE CASCADE
.
Cascading operations may not be nested more than 15 levels
deep.
In an SQL statement that inserts, deletes, or updates many
rows, foreign key constraints (like unique constraints)
are checked row-by-row. When performing foreign key
checks, InnoDB
sets shared
row-level locks on child or parent records that it must
examine. MySQL checks foreign key constraints immediately;
the check is not deferred to transaction commit. According
to the SQL standard, the default behavior should be
deferred checking. That is, constraints are only checked
after the entire SQL statement has
been processed. This means that it is not possible to
delete a row that refers to itself using a foreign key.
No storage engine, including InnoDB
,
recognizes or enforces the MATCH
clause
used in referential-integrity constraint definitions. Use
of an explicit MATCH
clause does not
have the specified effect, and it causes ON
DELETE
and ON UPDATE
clauses
to be ignored. Specifying the MATCH
should be avoided.
The MATCH
clause in the SQL standard
controls how NULL
values in a composite
(multiple-column) foreign key are handled when comparing
to a primary key in the referenced table. MySQL
essentially implements the semantics defined by
MATCH SIMPLE
, which permits a foreign
key to be all or partially NULL
. In
that case, a (child table) row containing such a foreign
key can be inserted even though it does not match any row
in the referenced (parent) table. (It is possible to
implement other semantics using triggers.)
MySQL requires that the referenced columns be indexed for
performance reasons. However, MySQL does not enforce a
requirement that the referenced columns be
UNIQUE
or be declared NOT
NULL
.
A FOREIGN KEY
constraint that
references a non-UNIQUE
key is not
standard SQL but rather an
InnoDB
extension. The
NDB
storage engine, on the
other hand, requires an explicit unique key (or primary
key) on any column referenced as a foreign key.
The handling of foreign key references to nonunique keys
or keys that contain NULL
values is not
well defined for operations such as
UPDATE
or DELETE
CASCADE
. You are advised to use foreign keys
that reference only UNIQUE
(including
PRIMARY
) and NOT
NULL
keys.
MySQL parses but ignores “inline
REFERENCES
specifications” (as
defined in the SQL standard) where the references are
defined as part of the column specification. MySQL accepts
REFERENCES
clauses only when specified
as part of a separate FOREIGN KEY
specification. For storage engines that do not support
foreign keys (such as
MyISAM
), MySQL Server parses
and ignores foreign key specifications.
For information about foreign key constraints, see Section 13.1.20.5, “FOREIGN KEY Constraints”.
Standard SQL uses the C syntax /* this is a comment
*/
for comments, and MySQL Server supports this
syntax as well. MySQL also support extensions to this syntax
that enable MySQL-specific SQL to be embedded in the comment,
as described in Section 9.7, “Comments”.
Standard SQL uses “--
” as a
start-comment sequence. MySQL Server uses #
as the start comment character. MySQL Server also supports a
variant of the --
comment style. That is,
the --
start-comment sequence must be
followed by a space (or by a control character such as a
newline). The space is required to prevent problems with
automatically generated SQL queries that use constructs such
as the following, where we automatically insert the value of
the payment for payment
:
UPDATE account SET credit=credit-payment
Consider about what happens if payment
has
a negative value such as -1
:
UPDATE account SET credit=credit--1
credit--1
is a valid expression in SQL, but
--
is interpreted as the start of a
comment, part of the expression is discarded. The result is a
statement that has a completely different meaning than
intended:
UPDATE account SET credit=credit
The statement produces no change in value at all. This
illustrates that permitting comments to start with
--
can have serious consequences.
Using our implementation requires a space following the
--
for it to be recognized as a
start-comment sequence in MySQL Server. Therefore,
credit--1
is safe to use.
Another safe feature is that the mysql
command-line client ignores lines that start with
--
.
MySQL enables you to work both with transactional tables that permit rollback and with nontransactional tables that do not. Because of this, constraint handling is a bit different in MySQL than in other DBMSs. We must handle the case when you have inserted or updated a lot of rows in a nontransactional table for which changes cannot be rolled back when an error occurs.
The basic philosophy is that MySQL Server tries to produce an error for anything that it can detect while parsing a statement to be executed, and tries to recover from any errors that occur while executing the statement. We do this in most cases, but not yet for all.
The options MySQL has when an error occurs are to stop the statement in the middle or to recover as well as possible from the problem and continue. By default, the server follows the latter course. This means, for example, that the server may coerce invalid values to the closest valid values.
Several SQL mode options are available to provide greater control over handling of bad data values and whether to continue statement execution or abort when errors occur. Using these options, you can configure MySQL Server to act in a more traditional fashion that is like other DBMSs that reject improper input. The SQL mode can be set globally at server startup to affect all clients. Individual clients can set the SQL mode at runtime, which enables each client to select the behavior most appropriate for its requirements. See Section 5.1.11, “Server SQL Modes”.
The following sections describe how MySQL Server handles different types of constraints.
Normally, errors occur for data-change statements (such as
INSERT
or
UPDATE
) that would violate
primary-key, unique-key, or foreign-key constraints. If you
are using a transactional storage engine such as
InnoDB
, MySQL automatically rolls back the
statement. If you are using a nontransactional storage engine,
MySQL stops processing the statement at the row for which the
error occurred and leaves any remaining rows unprocessed.
MySQL supports an IGNORE
keyword for
INSERT
,
UPDATE
, and so forth. If you
use it, MySQL ignores primary-key or unique-key violations and
continues processing with the next row. See the section for
the statement that you are using (Section 13.2.6, “INSERT Statement”,
Section 13.2.13, “UPDATE Statement”, and so forth).
You can get information about the number of rows actually
inserted or updated with the
mysql_info()
C API function.
You can also use the SHOW
WARNINGS
statement. See
mysql_info(), and
Section 13.7.7.42, “SHOW WARNINGS Statement”.
InnoDB
and NDB
tables
support foreign keys. See
Section 1.7.3.2, “FOREIGN KEY Constraints”.
Foreign keys let you cross-reference related data across tables, and foreign key constraints help keep this spread-out data consistent.
MySQL supports ON UPDATE
and ON
DELETE
foreign key references in
CREATE TABLE
and
ALTER TABLE
statements. The
available referential actions are RESTRICT
,
CASCADE
, SET NULL
, and
NO ACTION
(the default).
SET DEFAULT
is also supported by the MySQL
Server but is currently rejected as invalid by
InnoDB
. Since MySQL does not
support deferred constraint checking, NO
ACTION
is treated as RESTRICT
.
For the exact syntax supported by MySQL for foreign keys, see
Section 13.1.20.5, “FOREIGN KEY Constraints”.
MATCH FULL
, MATCH
PARTIAL
, and MATCH SIMPLE
are
allowed, but their use should be avoided, as they cause the
MySQL Server to ignore any ON DELETE
or
ON UPDATE
clause used in the same
statement. MATCH
options do not have any
other effect in MySQL, which in effect enforces MATCH
SIMPLE
semantics full-time.
MySQL requires that foreign key columns be indexed; if you create a table with a foreign key constraint but no index on a given column, an index is created.
You can obtain information about foreign keys from the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE
table. An example of a query against this table is shown here:
mysql>SELECT TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME, CONSTRAINT_NAME
>FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE
>WHERE REFERENCED_TABLE_SCHEMA IS NOT NULL;
+--------------+---------------+-------------+-----------------+ | TABLE_SCHEMA | TABLE_NAME | COLUMN_NAME | CONSTRAINT_NAME | +--------------+---------------+-------------+-----------------+ | fk1 | myuser | myuser_id | f | | fk1 | product_order | customer_id | f2 | | fk1 | product_order | product_id | f1 | +--------------+---------------+-------------+-----------------+ 3 rows in set (0.01 sec)
Information about foreign keys on InnoDB
tables can also be found in the
INNODB_FOREIGN
and
INNODB_FOREIGN_COLS
tables, in
the INFORMATION_SCHEMA
database.
InnoDB
and NDB
tables
support foreign keys.
By default, MySQL 8.0 rejects invalid or improper data values and aborts the statement in which they occur. It is possible to alter this behavior to be more forgiving of invalid values, such that the server coerces them to valid ones for data entry, by disabling strict SQL mode (see Section 5.1.11, “Server SQL Modes”), but this is not recommended.
Older versions of MySQL employed the forgiving behavior by default; for a description of this behavior, see Constraints on Invalid Data.
ENUM
and
SET
columns provide an
efficient way to define columns that can contain only a given
set of values. See Section 11.3.5, “The ENUM Type”, and
Section 11.3.6, “The SET Type”.
Unless strict mode is disabled (not recommended, but see
Section 5.1.11, “Server SQL Modes”), the definition of a
ENUM
or
SET
column acts as a constraint
on values entered into the column. An error occurs for values
that do not satisfy these conditions:
An ENUM
value must be one
of those listed in the column definition, or the internal
numeric equivalent thereof. The value cannot be the error
value (that is, 0 or the empty string). For a column
defined as
ENUM('a','b','c')
, values
such as ''
, 'd'
, or
'ax'
are invalid and are rejected.
A SET
value must be the
empty string or a value consisting only of the values
listed in the column definition separated by commas. For a
column defined as
SET('a','b','c')
, values
such as 'd'
or
'a,b,c,d'
are invalid and are rejected.
Errors for invalid values can be suppressed in strict mode if
you use INSERT
IGNORE
or UPDATE IGNORE
. In this
case, a warning is generated rather than an error. For
ENUM
, the value is inserted as
the error member (0
). For
SET
, the value is inserted as
given except that any invalid substrings are deleted. For
example, 'a,x,b,y'
results in a value of
'a,b'
.
The following sections list developers, contributors, and supporters that have helped to make MySQL what it is today.
Although Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates own all
copyrights in the MySQL server
and the
MySQL manual
, we wish to recognize those who
have made contributions of one kind or another to the
MySQL distribution
. Contributors are listed
here, in somewhat random order:
Gianmassimo Vigazzola <qwerg@mbox.vol.it>
or
<qwerg@tin.it>
The initial port to Win32/NT.
Per Eric Olsson
For constructive criticism and real testing of the dynamic record format.
Irena Pancirov <irena@mail.yacc.it>
Win32 port with Borland compiler.
mysqlshutdown.exe
and
mysqlwatch.exe
.
David J. Hughes
For the effort to make a shareware SQL database. At TcX, the
predecessor of MySQL AB, we started with
mSQL
, but found that it couldn't satisfy
our purposes so instead we wrote an SQL interface to our
application builder Unireg. mysqladmin and
mysql client are programs that were largely
influenced by their mSQL
counterparts. We
have put a lot of effort into making the MySQL syntax a
superset of mSQL
. Many of the API's ideas
are borrowed from mSQL
to make it easy to
port free mSQL
programs to the MySQL API.
The MySQL software doesn't contain any code from
mSQL
. Two files in the distribution
(client/insert_test.c
and
client/select_test.c
) are based on the
corresponding (noncopyrighted) files in the
mSQL
distribution, but are modified as
examples showing the changes necessary to convert code from
mSQL
to MySQL Server.
(mSQL
is copyrighted David J. Hughes.)
Patrick Lynch
For helping us acquire http://www.mysql.com/.
Fred Lindberg
For setting up qmail to handle the MySQL mailing list and for the incredible help we got in managing the MySQL mailing lists.
Igor Romanenko <igor@frog.kiev.ua>
mysqldump (previously
msqldump
, but ported and enhanced by
Monty).
Yuri Dario
For keeping up and extending the MySQL OS/2 port.
Tim Bunce
Author of mysqlhotcopy.
Zarko Mocnik <zarko.mocnik@dem.si>
Sorting for Slovenian language.
"TAMITO" <tommy@valley.ne.jp>
The _MB
character set macros and the ujis
and sjis character sets.
Joshua Chamas <joshua@chamas.com>
Base for concurrent insert, extended date syntax, debugging on NT, and answering on the MySQL mailing list.
Yves Carlier <Yves.Carlier@rug.ac.be>
mysqlaccess, a program to show the access rights for a user.
Rhys Jones <rhys@wales.com>
(And GWE Technologies
Limited)
For one of the early JDBC drivers.
Dr Xiaokun Kelvin ZHU <X.Zhu@brad.ac.uk>
Further development of one of the early JDBC drivers and other MySQL-related Java tools.
James Cooper <pixel@organic.com>
For setting up a searchable mailing list archive at his site.
Rick Mehalick <Rick_Mehalick@i-o.com>
For xmysql
, a graphical X client for MySQL
Server.
Doug Sisk <sisk@wix.com>
For providing RPM packages of MySQL for Red Hat Linux.
Diemand Alexander V. <axeld@vial.ethz.ch>
For providing RPM packages of MySQL for Red Hat Linux-Alpha.
Antoni Pamies Olive <toni@readysoft.es>
For providing RPM versions of a lot of MySQL clients for Intel and SPARC.
Jay Bloodworth <jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us>
For providing RPM versions for MySQL 3.21.
David Sacerdote <davids@secnet.com>
Ideas for secure checking of DNS host names.
Wei-Jou Chen <jou@nematic.ieo.nctu.edu.tw>
Some support for Chinese(BIG5) characters.
Wei He <hewei@mail.ied.ac.cn>
A lot of functionality for the Chinese(GBK) character set.
Jan Pazdziora <adelton@fi.muni.cz>
Czech sorting order.
Zeev Suraski <bourbon@netvision.net.il>
FROM_UNIXTIME()
time formatting,
ENCRYPT()
functions, and
bison advisor. Active mailing list member.
Luuk de Boer <luuk@wxs.nl>
Ported (and extended) the benchmark suite to
DBI
/DBD
. Have been of
great help with crash-me
and running
benchmarks. Some new date functions. The
mysql_setpermission script.
Alexis Mikhailov <root@medinf.chuvashia.su>
User-defined functions (UDFs); CREATE
FUNCTION
and DROP
FUNCTION
.
Andreas F. Bobak <bobak@relog.ch>
The AGGREGATE
extension to user-defined
functions.
Ross Wakelin <R.Wakelin@march.co.uk>
Help to set up InstallShield for MySQL-Win32.
Jethro Wright III <jetman@li.net>
The libmysql.dll
library.
James Pereria <jpereira@iafrica.com>
Mysqlmanager, a Win32 GUI tool for administering MySQL Servers.
Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
Porting of MIT-pthreads to NetBSD/Alpha and NetBSD 1.3/i386.
Martin Ramsch <m.ramsch@computer.org>
Examples in the MySQL Tutorial.
Steve Harvey
For making mysqlaccess more secure.
Konark IA-64 Centre of Persistent Systems Private Limited
Help with the Win64 port of the MySQL server.
Albert Chin-A-Young.
Configure updates for Tru64, large file support and better TCP wrappers support.
John Birrell
Emulation of pthread_mutex()
for OS/2.
Benjamin Pflugmann
Extended MERGE
tables to handle
INSERTS
. Active member on the MySQL mailing
lists.
Jocelyn Fournier
Excellent spotting and reporting innumerable bugs (especially in the MySQL 4.1 subquery code).
Marc Liyanage
Maintaining the OS X packages and providing invaluable feedback on how to create OS X packages.
Robert Rutherford
Providing invaluable information and feedback about the QNX port.
Previous developers of NDB Cluster
Lots of people were involved in various ways summer students, master thesis students, employees. In total more than 100 people so too many to mention here. Notable name is Ataullah Dabaghi who up until 1999 contributed around a third of the code base. A special thanks also to developers of the AXE system which provided much of the architectural foundations for NDB Cluster with blocks, signals and crash tracing functionality. Also credit should be given to those who believed in the ideas enough to allocate of their budgets for its development from 1992 to present time.
Google Inc.
We wish to recognize Google Inc. for contributions to the MySQL distribution: Mark Callaghan's SMP Performance patches and other patches.
Other contributors, bugfinders, and testers: James H. Thompson,
Maurizio Menghini, Wojciech Tryc, Luca Berra, Zarko Mocnik, Wim
Bonis, Elmar Haneke, <jehamby@lightside>
,
<psmith@BayNetworks.com>
,
<duane@connect.com.au>
, Ted Deppner
<ted@psyber.com>
, Mike Simons, Jaakko Hyvatti.
And lots of bug report/patches from the folks on the mailing list.
A big tribute goes to those that help us answer questions on the MySQL mailing lists:
Daniel Koch <dkoch@amcity.com>
Irix setup.
Luuk de Boer <luuk@wxs.nl>
Benchmark questions.
Tim Sailer <tps@users.buoy.com>
DBD::mysql
questions.
Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>
SCO-related questions.
Richard Mehalick <RM186061@shellus.com>
xmysql
-related questions and basic
installation questions.
Zeev Suraski <bourbon@netvision.net.il>
Apache module configuration questions (log & auth), PHP-related questions, SQL syntax-related questions and other general questions.
Francesc Guasch <frankie@citel.upc.es>
General questions.
Jonathan J Smith <jsmith@wtp.net>
Questions pertaining to OS-specifics with Linux, SQL syntax, and other things that might need some work.
David Sklar <sklar@student.net>
Using MySQL from PHP and Perl.
Alistair MacDonald <A.MacDonald@uel.ac.uk>
Is flexible and can handle Linux and perhaps HP-UX.
John Lyon <jlyon@imag.net>
Questions about installing MySQL on Linux systems, using
either .rpm
files or compiling from
source.
Lorvid Ltd. <lorvid@WOLFENET.com>
Simple billing/license/support/copyright issues.
Patrick Sherrill <patrick@coconet.com>
ODBC and VisualC++ interface questions.
Randy Harmon <rjharmon@uptimecomputers.com>
DBD
, Linux, some SQL syntax questions.
The following people have helped us with writing the MySQL documentation and translating the documentation or error messages in MySQL.
Kim Aldale
Helped to rewrite Monty's and David's early attempts at English into English.
Michael J. Miller Jr.
<mke@terrapin.turbolift.com>
For the first MySQL manual. And a lot of spelling/language fixes for the FAQ (that turned into the MySQL manual a long time ago).
Yan Cailin
First translator of the MySQL Reference Manual into simplified Chinese in early 2000 on which the Big5 and HK coded versions were based.
Jay Flaherty <fty@mediapulse.com>
Big parts of the Perl
DBI
/DBD
section in the
manual.
Paul Southworth <pauls@etext.org>
, Ray Loyzaga
<yar@cs.su.oz.au>
Proof-reading of the Reference Manual.
Therrien Gilbert <gilbert@ican.net>
, Jean-Marc
Pouyot <jmp@scalaire.fr>
French error messages.
Petr Snajdr, <snajdr@pvt.net>
Czech error messages.
Jaroslaw Lewandowski <jotel@itnet.com.pl>
Polish error messages.
Miguel Angel Fernandez Roiz
Spanish error messages.
Roy-Magne Mo <rmo@www.hivolda.no>
Norwegian error messages and testing of MySQL 3.21.xx.
Timur I. Bakeyev <root@timur.tatarstan.ru>
Russian error messages.
<brenno@dewinter.com>
& Filippo Grassilli
<phil@hyppo.com>
Italian error messages.
Dirk Munzinger <dirk@trinity.saar.de>
German error messages.
Billik Stefan <billik@sun.uniag.sk>
Slovak error messages.
Stefan Saroiu <tzoompy@cs.washington.edu>
Romanian error messages.
Peter Feher
Hungarian error messages.
Roberto M. Serqueira
Portuguese error messages.
Carsten H. Pedersen
Danish error messages.
Arjen Lentz
Dutch error messages, completing earlier partial translation (also work on consistency and spelling).
The following is a list of creators/maintainers of some of the most important API/packages/applications that a lot of people use with MySQL.
We cannot list every possible package here because the list would then be way to hard to maintain. For other packages, please refer to the software portal at http://solutions.mysql.com/software/.
Tim Bunce, Alligator Descartes
For the DBD
(Perl) interface.
Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
For the Perl interface for MySQL Server.
Jochen Wiedmann <wiedmann@neckar-alb.de>
For maintaining the Perl DBD::mysql
module.
Eugene Chan <eugene@acenet.com.sg>
For porting PHP for MySQL Server.
Georg Richter
MySQL 4.1 testing and bug hunting. New PHP 5.0
mysqli
extension (API) for use with MySQL
4.1 and up.
Giovanni Maruzzelli <maruzz@matrice.it>
For porting iODBC (Unix ODBC).
Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
The author of LinuxThreads (used by the MySQL Server on Linux).
The following is a list of some of the tools we have used to create MySQL. We use this to express our thanks to those that has created them as without these we could not have made MySQL what it is today.
Free Software Foundation
From whom we got an excellent compiler
(gcc), an excellent debugger
(gdb and the libc
library (from which we have borrowed
strto.c
to get some code working in
Linux).
Free Software Foundation & The XEmacs development team
For a really great editor/environment.
Julian Seward
Author of valgrind
, an excellent memory
checker tool that has helped us find a lot of otherwise hard
to find bugs in MySQL.
Dorothea Lütkehaus and Andreas Zeller
For DDD
(The Data Display Debugger) which
is an excellent graphical front end to
gdb).
Although Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates own all
copyrights in the MySQL server
and the
MySQL manual
, we wish to recognize the
following companies, which helped us finance the development of
the MySQL server
, such as by paying us for
developing a new feature or giving us hardware for development of
the MySQL server
.
VA Linux / Andover.net
Funded replication.
NuSphere
Editing of the MySQL manual.
Stork Design studio
The MySQL website in use between 1998-2000.
Intel
Contributed to development on Windows and Linux platforms.
Compaq
Contributed to Development on Linux/Alpha.
SWSoft
Development on the embedded mysqld version.
FutureQuest
The --skip-show-database
option.