1MYSQLBINLOG(1) MySQL Database System MYSQLBINLOG(1)
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6 mysqlbinlog - utility for processing binary log files
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9 mysqlbinlog [options] log_file ...
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12 The server´s binary log consists of files containing “events” that
13 describe modifications to database contents. The server writes these
14 files in binary format. To display their contents in text format, use
15 the mysqlbinlog utility. You can also use mysqlbinlog to display the
16 contents of relay log files written by a slave server in a replication
17 setup because relay logs have the same format as binary logs. The
18 binary log and relay log are discussed further in Section 5.2.4, “The
19 Binary Log”, and Section 16.2.2, “Replication Relay and Status Files”.
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21 Invoke mysqlbinlog like this:
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23 shell> mysqlbinlog [options] log_file ...
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25 For example, to display the contents of the binary log file named
26 binlog.000003, use this command:
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28 shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.0000003
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30 The output includes events contained in binlog.000003. For
31 statement-based logging, event information includes the SQL statement,
32 the ID of the server on which it was executed, the timestamp when the
33 statement was executed, how much time it took, and so forth. For
34 row-based logging, the event indicates a row change rather than an SQL
35 statement. See Section 16.1.2, “Replication Formats”, for information
36 about logging modes.
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38 Events are preceded by header comments that provide additional
39 information. For example:
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41 # at 141
42 #100309 9:28:36 server id 123 end_log_pos 245
43 Query thread_id=3350 exec_time=11 error_code=0
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45 In the first line, the number following at indicates the starting
46 position of the event in the binary log file.
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48 The second line starts with a date and time indicating when the
49 statement started on the server where the event originated. For
50 replication, this timestamp is propagated to slave servers. server id
51 is the server_id value of the server where the event originated.
52 end_log_pos indicates where the next event starts (that is, it is the
53 end position of the current event + 1). thread_id indicates which
54 thread executed the event. exec_time is the time spent executing the
55 event, on a master server. On a slave, it is the difference of the end
56 execution time on the slave minus the beginning execution time on the
57 master. The difference serves as an indicator of how much replication
58 lags behind the master. error_code indicates the result from executing
59 the event. Zero means that no error occurred.
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61 The output from mysqlbinlog can be re-executed (for example, by using
62 it as input to mysql) to redo the statements in the log. This is useful
63 for recovery operations after a server crash. For other usage examples,
64 see the discussion later in this section and Section 6.5, “Point-in-
65 Time (Incremental) Recovery Using the Binary Log”.
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67 Normally, you use mysqlbinlog to read binary log files directly and
68 apply them to the local MySQL server. It is also possible to read
69 binary logs from a remote server by using the --read-from-remote-server
70 option. To read remote binary logs, the connection parameter options
71 can be given to indicate how to connect to the server. These options
72 are --host, --password, --port, --protocol, --socket, and --user; they
73 are ignored except when you also use the --read-from-remote-server
74 option.
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76 mysqlbinlog supports the following options, which can be specified on
77 the command line or in the [mysqlbinlog] and [client] option file
78 groups. mysqlbinlog also supports the options for processing option
79 files described at Section 4.2.3.3.1, “Command-Line Options that Affect
80 Option-File Handling”.
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82 · --help, -?
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84 Display a help message and exit.
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86 · --base64-output[=value]
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88 This option determines when events should be displayed encoded as
89 base-64 strings using BINLOG statements. The option has these
90 allowable values (not case sensitive):
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92 · AUTO ("automatic") or UNSPEC ("unspecified") displays BINLOG
93 statements automatically when necessary (that is, for format
94 description events and row events). This is the default if no
95 --base64-output option is given.
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97 Note
98 Automatic BINLOG display is the only safe behavior if you
99 intend to use the output of mysqlbinlog to re-execute
100 binary log file contents. The other option values are
101 intended only for debugging or testing purposes because
102 they may produce output that does not include all events in
103 executable form.
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105 · ALWAYS displays BINLOG statements whenever possible. This is
106 the implied value if the option is given as --base64-output
107 without a value.
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109 · NEVER causes BINLOG statements not to be displayed.
110 mysqlbinlog exits with an error if a row event is found that
111 must be displayed using BINLOG.
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113 · DECODE-ROWS specifies to mysqlbinlog that you intend for row
114 events to be decoded and displayed as commented SQL statements
115 by also specifying the --verbose option. Like NEVER,
116 DECODE-ROWS suppresses display of BINLOG statements, but unlike
117 NEVER, it does not exit with an error if a row event is found.
118 The --base64-output option was introduced in MySQL 5.1.5, to be
119 given as --base64-output or --skip-base64-output (with the
120 sense of AUTO or NEVER). The option values described in the
121 preceding list may be used as of MySQL 5.1.24, with the
122 exception of UNSPEC and DECODE-ROWS, which are available as of
123 MySQL 5.1.28.
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125 For examples that show the effect of --base64-output and
126 --verbose on row event output, see the section called
127 “MYSQLBINLOG ROW EVENT DISPLAY”.
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129 · --character-sets-dir=path
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131 The directory where character sets are installed. See
132 Section 9.5, “Character Set Configuration”.
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134 · --database=db_name, -d db_name
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136 This option causes mysqlbinlog to output entries from the
137 binary log (local log only) that occur while db_name is been
138 selected as the default database by USE.
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140 The --database option for mysqlbinlog is similar to the
141 --binlog-do-db option for mysqld, but can be used to specify
142 only one database. If --database is given multiple times, only
143 the last instance is used.
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145 The effects of this option depend on whether the
146 statement-based or row-based logging format is in use, in the
147 same way that the effects of --binlog-do-db depend on whether
148 statement-based or row-based logging is in use.
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150 Statement-based logging. The --database option works as
151 follows:
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153 · While db_name is the default database, statements are
154 output whether they modify tables in db_name or a different
155 database.
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157 · Unless db_name is selected as the default database,
158 statements are not output, even if they modify tables in
159 db_name.
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161 · There is an exception for CREATE DATABASE, ALTER DATABASE,
162 and DROP DATABASE. The database being created, altered, or
163 dropped is considered to be the default database when
164 determining whether to output the statement.
165 Suppose that the binary log was created by executing these
166 statements using statement-based-logging:
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168 INSERT INTO test.t1 (i) VALUES(100);
169 INSERT INTO db2.t2 (j) VALUES(200);
170 USE test;
171 INSERT INTO test.t1 (i) VALUES(101);
172 INSERT INTO t1 (i) VALUES(102);
173 INSERT INTO db2.t2 (j) VALUES(201);
174 USE db2;
175 INSERT INTO test.t1 (i) VALUES(103);
176 INSERT INTO db2.t2 (j) VALUES(202);
177 INSERT INTO t2 (j) VALUES(203);
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179 mysqlbinlog --database=test does not output the first two
180 INSERT statements because there is no default database. It
181 outputs the three INSERT statements following USE test, but
182 not the three INSERT statements following USE db2.
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184 mysqlbinlog --database=db2 does not output the first two
185 INSERT statements because there is no default database. It
186 does not output the three INSERT statements following USE
187 test, but does output the three INSERT statements following
188 USE db2.
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190 Row-based logging. mysqlbinlog outputs only entries that
191 change tables belonging to db_name. The default database
192 has no effect on this. Suppose that the binary log just
193 described was created using row-based logging rather than
194 statement-based logging. mysqlbinlog --database=test
195 outputs only those entries that modify t1 in the test
196 database, regardless of whether USE was issued or what the
197 default database is. If a server is running with
198 binlog_format set to MIXED and you want it to be possible
199 to use mysqlbinlog with the --database option, you must
200 ensure that tables that are modified are in the database
201 selected by USE. (In particular, no cross-database updates
202 should be used.)
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205 This option did not work correctly for mysqlbinlog with
206 row-based logging prior to MySQL 5.1.37. (Bug#42941[1])
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208 · --debug[=debug_options], -# [debug_options]
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210 Write a debugging log. A typical debug_options string is
211 ´d:t:o,file_name´. The default is
212 ´d:t:o,/tmp/mysqlbinlog.trace´.
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214 · --debug-check
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216 Print some debugging information when the program exits.
217 This option was added in MySQL 5.1.21.
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219 · --debug-info
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221 Print debugging information and memory and CPU usage
222 statistics when the program exits. This option was added in
223 MySQL 5.1.21.
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225 · --disable-log-bin, -D
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227 Disable binary logging. This is useful for avoiding an
228 endless loop if you use the --to-last-log option and are
229 sending the output to the same MySQL server. This option
230 also is useful when restoring after a crash to avoid
231 duplication of the statements you have logged.
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233 This option requires that you have the SUPER privilege. It
234 causes mysqlbinlog to include a SET sql_log_bin = 0
235 statement in its output to disable binary logging of the
236 remaining output. The SET statement is ineffective unless
237 you have the SUPER privilege.
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239 · --force-read, -f
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241 With this option, if mysqlbinlog reads a binary log event
242 that it does not recognize, it prints a warning, ignores
243 the event, and continues. Without this option, mysqlbinlog
244 stops if it reads such an event.
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246 · --hexdump, -H
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248 Display a hex dump of the log in comments, as described in
249 the section called “MYSQLBINLOG HEX DUMP FORMAT”. The hex
250 output can be helpful for replication debugging. This
251 option was added in MySQL 5.1.2.
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253 · --host=host_name, -h host_name
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255 Get the binary log from the MySQL server on the given host.
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257 · --local-load=path, -l path
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259 Prepare local temporary files for LOAD DATA INFILE in the
260 specified directory.
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262 · --offset=N, -o N
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264 Skip the first N entries in the log.
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266 · --password[=password], -p[password]
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268 The password to use when connecting to the server. If you
269 use the short option form (-p), you cannot have a space
270 between the option and the password. If you omit the
271 password value following the --password or -p option on the
272 command line, mysqlbinlog prompts for one.
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274 Specifying a password on the command line should be
275 considered insecure. See Section 5.3.2.2, “End-User
276 Guidelines for Password Security”. You can use an option
277 file to avoid giving the password on the command line.
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279 · --port=port_num, -P port_num
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281 The TCP/IP port number to use for connecting to a remote
282 server.
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284 · --position=N
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286 Deprecated. Use --start-position instead. --position is
287 removed in MySQL 5.5.
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289 · --protocol={TCP|SOCKET|PIPE|MEMORY}
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291 The connection protocol to use for connecting to the
292 server. It is useful when the other connection parameters
293 normally would cause a protocol to be used other than the
294 one you want. For details on the allowable values, see
295 Section 4.2.2, “Connecting to the MySQL Server”.
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297 · --open-files-limit=NUM
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299 Sets the open_files_limit variable, which is used to
300 reserve file descriptors for mysqlbinlog.
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302 · --read-from-remote-server, -R
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304 Read the binary log from a MySQL server rather than reading
305 a local log file. Any connection parameter options are
306 ignored unless this option is given as well. These options
307 are --host, --password, --port, --protocol, --socket, and
308 --user.
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310 This option requires that the remote server be running. It
311 works only for binary log files on the remote server, not
312 relay log files.
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314 · --result-file=name, -r name
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316 Direct output to the given file.
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318 · --server-id=id
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320 Display only those events created by the server having the
321 given server ID. This option is available as of MySQL
322 5.1.4.
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324 · --set-charset=charset_name
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326 Add a SET NAMES charset_name statement to the output to
327 specify the character set to be used for processing log
328 files. This option was added in MySQL 5.1.12.
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330 · --short-form, -s
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332 Display only the statements contained in the log, without
333 any extra information.
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335 · --socket=path, -S path
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337 For connections to localhost, the Unix socket file to use,
338 or, on Windows, the name of the named pipe to use.
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340 · --start-datetime=datetime
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342 Start reading the binary log at the first event having a
343 timestamp equal to or later than the datetime argument. The
344 datetime value is relative to the local time zone on the
345 machine where you run mysqlbinlog. The value should be in a
346 format accepted for the DATETIME or TIMESTAMP data types.
347 For example:
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349 shell> mysqlbinlog --start-datetime="2005-12-25 11:25:56" binlog.000003
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351 This option is useful for point-in-time recovery. See
352 Section 6.3, “Example Backup and Recovery Strategy”.
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354 · --start-position=N, -j N
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356 Start reading the binary log at the first event having a
357 position equal to or greater than N. This option applies to
358 the first log file named on the command line.
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360 This option is useful for point-in-time recovery. See
361 Section 6.3, “Example Backup and Recovery Strategy”.
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363 · --stop-datetime=datetime
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365 Stop reading the binary log at the first event having a
366 timestamp equal to or later than the datetime argument.
367 This option is useful for point-in-time recovery. See the
368 description of the --start-datetime option for information
369 about the datetime value.
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371 This option is useful for point-in-time recovery. See
372 Section 6.3, “Example Backup and Recovery Strategy”.
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374 · --stop-position=N
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376 Stop reading the binary log at the first event having a
377 position equal to or greater than N. This option applies to
378 the last log file named on the command line.
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380 This option is useful for point-in-time recovery. See
381 Section 6.3, “Example Backup and Recovery Strategy”.
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383 · --to-last-log, -t
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385 Do not stop at the end of the requested binary log from a
386 MySQL server, but rather continue printing until the end of
387 the last binary log. If you send the output to the same
388 MySQL server, this may lead to an endless loop. This option
389 requires --read-from-remote-server.
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391 · --user=user_name, -u user_name
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393 The MySQL user name to use when connecting to a remote
394 server.
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396 · --verbose, -v
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398 Reconstruct row events and display them as commented SQL
399 statements. If this option is given twice, the output
400 includes comments to indicate column data types and some
401 metadata. This option was added in MySQL 5.1.28.
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403 For examples that show the effect of --base64-output and
404 --verbose on row event output, see the section called
405 “MYSQLBINLOG ROW EVENT DISPLAY”.
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407 · --version, -V
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409 Display version information and exit.
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411 You can also set the following variable by using
412 --var_name=value syntax:
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414 · open_files_limit
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416 Specify the number of open file descriptors to reserve.
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418 You can pipe the output of mysqlbinlog into the mysql client to
419 execute the events contained in the binary log. This technique
420 is used to recover from a crash when you have an old backup
421 (see Section 6.5, “Point-in-Time (Incremental) Recovery Using
422 the Binary Log”). For example:
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424 shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000001 | mysql -u root -p
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428 shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.[0-9]* | mysql -u root -p
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430 You can also redirect the output of mysqlbinlog to a text file
431 instead, if you need to modify the statement log first (for
432 example, to remove statements that you do not want to execute
433 for some reason). After editing the file, execute the
434 statements that it contains by using it as input to the mysql
435 program:
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437 shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000001 > tmpfile
438 shell> ... edit tmpfile ...
439 shell> mysql -u root -p < tmpfile
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441 When mysqlbinlog is invoked with the --start-position option,
442 it displays only those events with an offset in the binary log
443 greater than or equal to a given position (the given position
444 must match the start of one event). It also has options to stop
445 and start when it sees an event with a given date and time.
446 This enables you to perform point-in-time recovery using the
447 --stop-datetime option (to be able to say, for example, “roll
448 forward my databases to how they were today at 10:30 a.m.”).
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450 If you have more than one binary log to execute on the MySQL
451 server, the safe method is to process them all using a single
452 connection to the server. Here is an example that demonstrates
453 what may be unsafe:
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455 shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000001 | mysql -u root -p # DANGER!!
456 shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000002 | mysql -u root -p # DANGER!!
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458 Processing binary logs this way using different connections to
459 the server causes problems if the first log file contains a
460 CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE statement and the second log contains a
461 statement that uses the temporary table. When the first mysql
462 process terminates, the server drops the temporary table. When
463 the second mysql process attempts to use the table, the server
464 reports “unknown table.”
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466 To avoid problems like this, use a single mysql process to
467 execute the contents of all binary logs that you want to
468 process. Here is one way to do so:
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470 shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000001 binlog.000002 | mysql -u root -p
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472 Another approach is to write all the logs to a single file and
473 then process the file:
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475 shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000001 > /tmp/statements.sql
476 shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000002 >> /tmp/statements.sql
477 shell> mysql -u root -p -e "source /tmp/statements.sql"
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479 mysqlbinlog can produce output that reproduces a LOAD DATA
480 INFILE operation without the original data file. mysqlbinlog
481 copies the data to a temporary file and writes a LOAD DATA
482 LOCAL INFILE statement that refers to the file. The default
483 location of the directory where these files are written is
484 system-specific. To specify a directory explicitly, use the
485 --local-load option.
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487 Because mysqlbinlog converts LOAD DATA INFILE statements to
488 LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE statements (that is, it adds LOCAL),
489 both the client and the server that you use to process the
490 statements must be configured with the LOCAL capability
491 enabled. See Section 5.3.5, “Security Issues with LOAD DATA
492 LOCAL”.
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494 Warning
495 The temporary files created for LOAD DATA LOCAL statements
496 are not automatically deleted because they are needed until
497 you actually execute those statements. You should delete
498 the temporary files yourself after you no longer need the
499 statement log. The files can be found in the temporary file
500 directory and have names like original_file_name-#-#.
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503 The --hexdump option causes mysqlbinlog to produce a hex dump of the
504 binary log contents:
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506 shell> mysqlbinlog --hexdump master-bin.000001
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508 The hex output consists of comment lines beginning with #, so the
509 output might look like this for the preceding command:
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511 /*!40019 SET @@session.max_insert_delayed_threads=0*/;
512 /*!50003 SET @OLD_COMPLETION_TYPE=@@COMPLETION_TYPE,COMPLETION_TYPE=0*/;
513 # at 4
514 #051024 17:24:13 server id 1 end_log_pos 98
515 # Position Timestamp Type Master ID Size Master Pos Flags
516 # 00000004 9d fc 5c 43 0f 01 00 00 00 5e 00 00 00 62 00 00 00 00 00
517 # 00000017 04 00 35 2e 30 2e 31 35 2d 64 65 62 75 67 2d 6c |..5.0.15.debug.l|
518 # 00000027 6f 67 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |og..............|
519 # 00000037 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
520 # 00000047 00 00 00 00 9d fc 5c 43 13 38 0d 00 08 00 12 00 |.......C.8......|
521 # 00000057 04 04 04 04 12 00 00 4b 00 04 1a |.......K...|
522 # Start: binlog v 4, server v 5.0.15-debug-log created 051024 17:24:13
523 # at startup
524 ROLLBACK;
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526 Hex dump output currently contains the elements in the following list.
527 This format is subject to change. (For more information about binary
528 log format, see
529 http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Internals_Binary_Log.)
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531 · Position: The byte position within the log file.
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533 · Timestamp: The event timestamp. In the example shown, ´9d fc 5c 43´
534 is the representation of ´051024 17:24:13´ in hexadecimal.
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536 · Type: The event type code. In the example shown, ´0f´ indicates a
537 FORMAT_DESCRIPTION_EVENT. The following table lists the possible
538 type codes.
539
540 ┌─────┬──────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
541 │Type │ Name │ Meaning │
542 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
543 │00 │ UNKNOWN_EVENT │ This event should never be │
544 │ │ │ present in the log. │
545 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
546 │01 │ START_EVENT_V3 │ This indicates the start of a │
547 │ │ │ log file written by MySQL 4 or │
548 │ │ │ earlier. │
549 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
550 │02 │ QUERY_EVENT │ The most common type of events. │
551 │ │ │ These contain statements │
552 │ │ │ executed on the master. │
553 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
554 │03 │ STOP_EVENT │ Indicates that master has │
555 │ │ │ stopped. │
556 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
557 │04 │ ROTATE_EVENT │ Written when the master │
558 │ │ │ switches to a new log file. │
559 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
560 │05 │ INTVAR_EVENT │ Used for AUTO_INCREMENT values │
561 │ │ │ or when the LAST_INSERT_ID() │
562 │ │ │ function is used in the │
563 │ │ │ statement. │
564 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
565 │06 │ LOAD_EVENT │ Used for LOAD DATA INFILE in │
566 │ │ │ MySQL 3.23. │
567 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
568 │07 │ SLAVE_EVENT │ Reserved for future use. │
569 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
570 │08 │ CREATE_FILE_EVENT │ Used for LOAD DATA INFILE │
571 │ │ │ statements. This indicates the │
572 │ │ │ start of execution of such a │
573 │ │ │ statement. A temporary file is │
574 │ │ │ created on the slave. Used in │
575 │ │ │ MySQL 4 only. │
576 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
577 │09 │ APPEND_BLOCK_EVENT │ Contains data for use in a LOAD │
578 │ │ │ DATA INFILE statement. The data │
579 │ │ │ is stored in the temporary file │
580 │ │ │ on the slave. │
581 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
582 │0a │ EXEC_LOAD_EVENT │ Used for LOAD DATA INFILE │
583 │ │ │ statements. The contents of the │
584 │ │ │ temporary file is stored in the │
585 │ │ │ table on the slave. Used in │
586 │ │ │ MySQL 4 only. │
587 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
588 │0b │ DELETE_FILE_EVENT │ Rollback of a LOAD DATA INFILE │
589 │ │ │ statement. The temporary file │
590 │ │ │ should be deleted on the slave. │
591 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
592 │0c │ NEW_LOAD_EVENT │ Used for LOAD DATA INFILE in │
593 │ │ │ MySQL 4 and earlier. │
594 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
595 │0d │ RAND_EVENT │ Used to send information about │
596 │ │ │ random values if the RAND() │
597 │ │ │ function is used in the │
598 │ │ │ statement. │
599 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
600 │0e │ USER_VAR_EVENT │ Used to replicate user │
601 │ │ │ variables. │
602 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
603 │0f │ FORMAT_DESCRIPTION_EVENT │ This indicates the start of a │
604 │ │ │ log file written by MySQL 5 or │
605 │ │ │ later. │
606 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
607 │10 │ XID_EVENT │ Event indicating commit of an │
608 │ │ │ XA transaction. │
609 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
610 │11 │ BEGIN_LOAD_QUERY_EVENT │ Used for LOAD DATA INFILE │
611 │ │ │ statements in MySQL 5 and │
612 │ │ │ later. │
613 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
614 │12 │ EXECUTE_LOAD_QUERY_EVENT │ Used for LOAD DATA INFILE │
615 │ │ │ statements in MySQL 5 and │
616 │ │ │ later. │
617 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
618 │13 │ TABLE_MAP_EVENT │ Information about a table │
619 │ │ │ definition. Used in MySQL 5.1.5 │
620 │ │ │ and later. │
621 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
622 │14 │ PRE_GA_WRITE_ROWS_EVENT │ Row data for a single table │
623 │ │ │ that should be created. Used in │
624 │ │ │ MySQL 5.1.5 to 5.1.17. │
625 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
626 │15 │ PRE_GA_UPDATE_ROWS_EVENT │ Row data for a single table │
627 │ │ │ that needs to be updated. Used │
628 │ │ │ in MySQL 5.1.5 to 5.1.17. │
629 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
630 │16 │ PRE_GA_DELETE_ROWS_EVENT │ Row data for a single table │
631 │ │ │ that should be deleted. Used in │
632 │ │ │ MySQL 5.1.5 to 5.1.17. │
633 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
634 │17 │ WRITE_ROWS_EVENT │ Row data for a single table │
635 │ │ │ that should be created. Used in │
636 │ │ │ MySQL 5.1.18 and later. │
637 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
638 │18 │ UPDATE_ROWS_EVENT │ Row data for a single table │
639 │ │ │ that needs to be updated. Used │
640 │ │ │ in MySQL 5.1.18 and later. │
641 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
642 │19 │ DELETE_ROWS_EVENT │ Row data for a single table │
643 │ │ │ that should be deleted. Used in │
644 │ │ │ MySQL 5.1.18 and later. │
645 ├─────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
646 │1a │ INCIDENT_EVENT │ Something out of the ordinary │
647 │ │ │ happened. Added in MySQL │
648 │ │ │ 5.1.18. │
649 └─────┴──────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘
650
651 · Master ID: The server ID of the master that created the event.
652
653 · Size: The size in bytes of the event.
654
655 · Master Pos: The position of the next event in the original master
656 log file.
657
658 · Flags: 16 flags. Currently, the following flags are used. The
659 others are reserved for future use.
660
661 ┌─────┬─────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
662 │Flag │ Name │ Meaning │
663 ├─────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
664 │01 │ LOG_EVENT_BINLOG_IN_USE_F │ Log file correctly closed. │
665 │ │ │ (Used only in │
666 │ │ │ FORMAT_DESCRIPTION_EVENT.) │
667 │ │ │ If this flag is set (if the │
668 │ │ │ flags are, for example, ´01 │
669 │ │ │ 00´) in a │
670 │ │ │ FORMAT_DESCRIPTION_EVENT, │
671 │ │ │ the log file has not been │
672 │ │ │ properly closed. Most │
673 │ │ │ probably this is because of │
674 │ │ │ a master crash (for example, │
675 │ │ │ due to power failure). │
676 ├─────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
677 │02 │ │ Reserved for future use. │
678 ├─────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
679 │04 │ LOG_EVENT_THREAD_SPECIFIC_F │ Set if the event is │
680 │ │ │ dependent on the connection │
681 │ │ │ it was executed in (for │
682 │ │ │ example, ´04 00´), for │
683 │ │ │ example, if the event uses │
684 │ │ │ temporary tables. │
685 ├─────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
686 │08 │ LOG_EVENT_SUPPRESS_USE_F │ Set in some circumstances │
687 │ │ │ when the event is not │
688 │ │ │ dependent on the default │
689 │ │ │ database. │
690 └─────┴─────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
691
693 The following examples illustrate how mysqlbinlog displays row events
694 that specify data modifications. These correspond to events with the
695 WRITE_ROWS_EVENT, UPDATE_ROWS_EVENT, and DELETE_ROWS_EVENT type codes.
696 The --base64-output=DECODE-ROWS and --verbose options may be used to
697 affect row event output. These options are available as of MySQL
698 5.1.28.
699
700 Suppose that the server is using row-based binary logging and that you
701 execute the following sequence of statements:
702
703 CREATE TABLE t
704 (
705 id INT NOT NULL,
706 name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
707 date DATE NULL
708 ) ENGINE = InnoDB;
709 START TRANSACTION;
710 INSERT INTO t VALUES(1, ´apple´, NULL);
711 UPDATE t SET name = ´pear´, date = ´2009-01-01´ WHERE id = 1;
712 DELETE FROM t WHERE id = 1;
713 COMMIT;
714
715 By default, mysqlbinlog displays row events encoded as base-64 strings
716 using BINLOG statements. Omitting extraneous lines, the output for the
717 row events produced by the preceding statement sequence looks like
718 this:
719
720 shell> mysqlbinlog log_file
721 ...
722 # at 218
723 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1 end_log_pos 258 Write_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
724 BINLOG ´
725 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAANoAAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
726 fAS3SBcBAAAAKAAAAAIBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA//8AQAAAAVhcHBsZQ==
727 ´/*!*/;
728 ...
729 # at 302
730 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1 end_log_pos 356 Update_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
731 BINLOG ´
732 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAAC4BAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
733 fAS3SBgBAAAANgAAAGQBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA////AEAAAAFYXBwbGX4AQAAAARwZWFyIbIP
734 ´/*!*/;
735 ...
736 # at 400
737 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1 end_log_pos 442 Delete_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
738 BINLOG ´
739 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAAJABAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
740 fAS3SBkBAAAAKgAAALoBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA//4AQAAAARwZWFyIbIP
741 ´/*!*/;
742
743 To see the row events as comments in the form of “pseudo-SQL”
744 statements, run mysqlbinlog with the --verbose or -v option. The output
745 will contain lines beginning with ###:
746
747 shell> mysqlbinlog -v log_file
748 ...
749 # at 218
750 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1 end_log_pos 258 Write_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
751 BINLOG ´
752 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAANoAAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
753 fAS3SBcBAAAAKAAAAAIBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA//8AQAAAAVhcHBsZQ==
754 ´/*!*/;
755 ### INSERT INTO test.t
756 ### SET
757 ### @1=1
758 ### @2=´apple´
759 ### @3=NULL
760 ...
761 # at 302
762 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1 end_log_pos 356 Update_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
763 BINLOG ´
764 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAAC4BAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
765 fAS3SBgBAAAANgAAAGQBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA////AEAAAAFYXBwbGX4AQAAAARwZWFyIbIP
766 ´/*!*/;
767 ### UPDATE test.t
768 ### WHERE
769 ### @1=1
770 ### @2=´apple´
771 ### @3=NULL
772 ### SET
773 ### @1=1
774 ### @2=´pear´
775 ### @3=´2009:01:01´
776 ...
777 # at 400
778 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1 end_log_pos 442 Delete_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
779 BINLOG ´
780 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAAJABAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
781 fAS3SBkBAAAAKgAAALoBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA//4AQAAAARwZWFyIbIP
782 ´/*!*/;
783 ### DELETE FROM test.t
784 ### WHERE
785 ### @1=1
786 ### @2=´pear´
787 ### @3=´2009:01:01´
788
789 Specify --verbose or -v twice to also display data types and some
790 metadata for each column. The output will contain an additional comment
791 following each column change:
792
793 shell> mysqlbinlog -vv log_file
794 ...
795 # at 218
796 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1 end_log_pos 258 Write_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
797 BINLOG ´
798 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAANoAAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
799 fAS3SBcBAAAAKAAAAAIBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA//8AQAAAAVhcHBsZQ==
800 ´/*!*/;
801 ### INSERT INTO test.t
802 ### SET
803 ### @1=1 /* INT meta=0 nullable=0 is_null=0 */
804 ### @2=´apple´ /* VARSTRING(20) meta=20 nullable=0 is_null=0 */
805 ### @3=NULL /* VARSTRING(20) meta=0 nullable=1 is_null=1 */
806 ...
807 # at 302
808 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1 end_log_pos 356 Update_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
809 BINLOG ´
810 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAAC4BAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
811 fAS3SBgBAAAANgAAAGQBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA////AEAAAAFYXBwbGX4AQAAAARwZWFyIbIP
812 ´/*!*/;
813 ### UPDATE test.t
814 ### WHERE
815 ### @1=1 /* INT meta=0 nullable=0 is_null=0 */
816 ### @2=´apple´ /* VARSTRING(20) meta=20 nullable=0 is_null=0 */
817 ### @3=NULL /* VARSTRING(20) meta=0 nullable=1 is_null=1 */
818 ### SET
819 ### @1=1 /* INT meta=0 nullable=0 is_null=0 */
820 ### @2=´pear´ /* VARSTRING(20) meta=20 nullable=0 is_null=0 */
821 ### @3=´2009:01:01´ /* DATE meta=0 nullable=1 is_null=0 */
822 ...
823 # at 400
824 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1 end_log_pos 442 Delete_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
825 BINLOG ´
826 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAAJABAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
827 fAS3SBkBAAAAKgAAALoBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA//4AQAAAARwZWFyIbIP
828 ´/*!*/;
829 ### DELETE FROM test.t
830 ### WHERE
831 ### @1=1 /* INT meta=0 nullable=0 is_null=0 */
832 ### @2=´pear´ /* VARSTRING(20) meta=20 nullable=0 is_null=0 */
833 ### @3=´2009:01:01´ /* DATE meta=0 nullable=1 is_null=0 */
834
835 You can tell mysqlbinlog to suppress the BINLOG statements for row
836 events by using the --base64-output=DECODE-ROWS option. This is similar
837 to --base64-output=NEVER but does not exit with an error if a row event
838 is found. The combination of --base64-output=DECODE-ROWS and --verbose
839 provides a convenient way to see row events only as SQL statements:
840
841 shell> mysqlbinlog -v --base64-output=DECODE-ROWS log_file
842 ...
843 # at 218
844 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1 end_log_pos 258 Write_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
845 ### INSERT INTO test.t
846 ### SET
847 ### @1=1
848 ### @2=´apple´
849 ### @3=NULL
850 ...
851 # at 302
852 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1 end_log_pos 356 Update_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
853 ### UPDATE test.t
854 ### WHERE
855 ### @1=1
856 ### @2=´apple´
857 ### @3=NULL
858 ### SET
859 ### @1=1
860 ### @2=´pear´
861 ### @3=´2009:01:01´
862 ...
863 # at 400
864 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1 end_log_pos 442 Delete_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
865 ### DELETE FROM test.t
866 ### WHERE
867 ### @1=1
868 ### @2=´pear´
869 ### @3=´2009:01:01´
870
871
872 Note
873 You should not suppress BINLOG statements if you intend to
874 re-execute mysqlbinlog output.
875
876 The SQL statements produced by --verbose for row events are much more
877 readable than the corresponding BINLOG statements. However, they do not
878 correspond exactly to the original SQL statements that generated the
879 events. The following limitations apply:
880
881 · The original column names are lost and replaced by @N, where N is a
882 column number.
883
884 · Character set information is not available in the binary log, which
885 affects string column display:
886
887 · There is no distinction made between corresponding binary and
888 nonbinary string types (BINARY and CHAR, VARBINARY and VARCHAR,
889 BLOB and TEXT). The output uses a data type of STRING for
890 fixed-length strings and VARSTRING for variable-length strings.
891
892 · For multi-byte character sets, the maximum number of bytes per
893 character is not present in the binary log, so the length for
894 string types is displayed in bytes rather than in characters.
895 For example, STRING(4) will be used as the data type for values
896 from either of these column types:
897
898 CHAR(4) CHARACTER SET latin1
899 CHAR(2) CHARACTER SET ucs2
900
901 · Due to the storage format for events of type UPDATE_ROWS_EVENT,
902 UPDATE statements are displayed with the WHERE clause preceding
903 the SET clause.
904
905 Proper interpretation of row events requires the information from the
906 format description event at the beginning of the binary log. Because
907 mysqlbinlog does not know in advance whether the rest of the log
908 contains row events, by default it displays the format description
909 event using a BINLOG statement in the initial part of the output.
910
911 If the binary log is known not to contain any events requiring a BINLOG
912 statement (that is, no row events), the --base64-output=NEVER option
913 can be used to prevent this header from being written.
914
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917
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930 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
931
932
934 1. Bug#42941
935 http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=42941
936
938 For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which
939 may already be installed locally and which is also available online at
940 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.
941
943 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (http://www.mysql.com/).
944
945
946
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