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Server System Variables

The MySQL server maintains many system variables that indicate how it is configured. Each system variable has a default value. System variables can be set at server startup using options on the command line or in an option file. Most of them can be changed dynamically while the server is running by means of the SET statement, which enables you to modify operation of the server without having to stop and restart it. You can refer to system variable values in expressions.

There are several ways to see the names and values of system variables:

To see the values that a server will use based on its compiled-in defaults and any option files that it reads, use this command:
```
mysqld --verbose --help
```
To see the values that a server will use based on its compiled-in defaults, ignoring the settings in any option files, use this command:
```
mysqld --no-defaults --verbose --help
```
To see the current values used by a running server, use the SHOW VARIABLES statement.

This section provides a description of each system variable. Variables with no version indicated are present in all MySQL 5.0 releases. For historical information concerning their implementation, please see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise//4.1/en/.

The following table lists all available system variables:

Table 5.2. System Variable Summary

Name	Cmd-Line	Option file	System Var	Var Scope	Dynamic
auto_increment_increment	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
auto_increment_offset	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
autocommit	Yes	Yes	Yes	Session	Yes
automatic_sp_privileges			Yes	Global	Yes
back_log	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
basedir	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
bdb_cache_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
bdb-home	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: bdb_home			Yes	Global	No
bdb-lock-detect	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: bdb_lock_detect			Yes	Global	No
bdb_log_buffer_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
bdb-logdir	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: bdb_logdir			Yes	Global	No
bdb_max_lock	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
bdb-shared-data	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: bdb_shared_data			Yes	Global	No
bdb-tmpdir	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: bdb_tmpdir			Yes	Global	No
big-tables	Yes	Yes			Yes
- Variable: big_tables			Yes	Session	Yes
bind-address	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
binlog_cache_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
bulk_insert_buffer_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
character_set_client			Yes	Both	Yes
character_set_connection			Yes	Both	Yes
character_set_database^[a]			Yes	Both	Yes
character-set-filesystem	Yes	Yes			Yes
- Variable: character_set_filesystem			Yes	Both	Yes
character_set_results			Yes	Both	Yes
character-set-server	Yes	Yes			Yes
- Variable: character_set_server			Yes	Both	Yes
character_set_system			Yes	Global	No
character-sets-dir	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: character_sets_dir			Yes	Global	No
collation_connection			Yes	Both	Yes
collation_database^[b]			Yes	Both	Yes
collation-server	Yes	Yes			Yes
- Variable: collation_server			Yes	Both	Yes
completion_type	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
concurrent_insert	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
connect_timeout	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
datadir	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
date_format			Yes	Both	No
datetime_format			Yes	Both	No
debug	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
default-storage-engine	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
default_week_format	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
delay-key-write	Yes	Yes			Yes
- Variable: delay_key_write			Yes	Global	Yes
delayed_insert_limit	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
delayed_insert_timeout	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
delayed_queue_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
div_precision_increment	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
engine-condition-pushdown	Yes	Yes			Yes
- Variable: engine_condition_pushdown			Yes	Both	Yes
error_count			Yes	Session	No
expire_logs_days	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
flush	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
flush_time	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
foreign_key_checks			Yes	Session	Yes
ft_boolean_syntax	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
ft_max_word_len	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
ft_min_word_len	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
ft_query_expansion_limit	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
ft_stopword_file	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
group_concat_max_len	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
have_archive			Yes	Global	No
have_bdb			Yes	Global	No
have_blackhole_engine			Yes	Global	No
have_compress			Yes	Global	No
have_crypt			Yes	Global	No
have_csv			Yes	Global	No
have_example_engine			Yes	Global	No
have_federated_engine			Yes	Global	No
have_geometry			Yes	Global	No
have_innodb			Yes	Global	No
have_isam			Yes	Global	No
have_merge_engine			Yes	Global	No
have_ndbcluster			Yes	Global	No
have_openssl			Yes	Global	No
have_query_cache			Yes	Global	No
have_raid			Yes	Global	No
have_rtree_keys			Yes	Global	No
have_ssl			Yes	Global	No
have_symlink			Yes	Global	No
hostname			Yes	Global	No
identity			Yes	Session	Yes
init_connect	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
init-file	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: init_file			Yes	Global	No
init_slave	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
innodb_adaptive_hash_index	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_autoextend_increment	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
innodb_buffer_pool_awe_mem_mb	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_buffer_pool_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_checksums	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_commit_concurrency	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
innodb_concurrency_tickets	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
innodb_data_file_path	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_data_home_dir	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_doublewrite	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_fast_shutdown	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
innodb_file_io_threads	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_file_per_table	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
innodb_flush_method	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_force_recovery	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_lock_wait_timeout	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_log_arch_dir	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_log_archive	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_log_buffer_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_log_file_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_log_files_in_group	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_log_group_home_dir	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
innodb_max_purge_lag	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
innodb_mirrored_log_groups	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_open_files	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_rollback_on_timeout	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
innodb_support_xa	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
innodb_sync_spin_loops	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
innodb_table_locks	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
innodb_thread_concurrency	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
innodb_thread_sleep_delay	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
innodb_use_legacy_cardinality_algorithm	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
insert_id			Yes	Session	Yes
interactive_timeout	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
join_buffer_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
keep_files_on_create	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
key_buffer_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
key_cache_age_threshold	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
key_cache_block_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
key_cache_division_limit	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
language	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
large_files_support			Yes	Global	No
large_page_size			Yes	Global	No
large-pages	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: large_pages			Yes	Global	No
last_insert_id			Yes	Session	Yes
lc_time_names			Yes	Both	Yes
license			Yes	Global	No
local_infile			Yes	Global	Yes
locked_in_memory			Yes	Global	No
log	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
log_bin			Yes	Global	No
log-bin	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
log-bin-trust-function-creators	Yes	Yes			Yes
- Variable: log_bin_trust_function_creators			Yes	Global	Yes
log-bin-trust-routine-creators	Yes	Yes			Yes
- Variable: log_bin_trust_routine_creators			Yes	Global	Yes
log-error	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: log_error			Yes	Global	No
log-queries-not-using-indexes	Yes	Yes			Yes
- Variable: log_queries_not_using_indexes			Yes	Global	Yes
log-slave-updates	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: log_slave_updates			Yes	Global	No
log-slow-queries	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: log_slow_queries			Yes	Global	No
log-warnings	Yes	Yes			Yes
- Variable: log_warnings			Yes	Both	Yes
long_query_time	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
low-priority-updates	Yes	Yes			Yes
- Variable: low_priority_updates			Yes	Both	Yes
lower_case_file_system	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
lower_case_table_names	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
max_allowed_packet	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
max_binlog_cache_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
max_binlog_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
max_connect_errors	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
max_connections	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
max_delayed_threads	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
max_error_count	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
max_heap_table_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
max_insert_delayed_threads			Yes	Both	Yes
max_join_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
max_length_for_sort_data	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
max_prepared_stmt_count	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
max_relay_log_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
max_seeks_for_key	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
max_sort_length	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
max_sp_recursion_depth	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
max_tmp_tables	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
max_user_connections	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
max_write_lock_count	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
memlock	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
multi_range_count	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
myisam_data_pointer_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
myisam_max_sort_file_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
myisam_mmap_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
myisam_recover_options			Yes	Global	No
myisam_repair_threads	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
myisam_sort_buffer_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
myisam_stats_method	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
named_pipe			Yes	Global	No
ndb_autoincrement_prefetch_sz	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
ndb_cache_check_time	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
ndb_force_send	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
ndb_use_exact_count			Yes	Both	Yes
ndb_use_transactions	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
net_buffer_length	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
net_read_timeout	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
net_retry_count	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
net_write_timeout	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
new	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
old-passwords	Yes	Yes			Yes
- Variable: old_passwords			Yes	Both	Yes
open-files-limit	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: open_files_limit			Yes	Global	No
optimizer_prune_level	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
optimizer_search_depth	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
pid-file	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: pid_file			Yes	Global	No
plugin_dir	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
port	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
preload_buffer_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
prepared_stmt_count			Yes	Global	No
profiling			Yes	Session	Yes
profiling_history_size			Yes	Both	Yes
protocol_version			Yes	Global	No
pseudo_thread_id			Yes	Session	Yes
query_alloc_block_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
query_cache_limit	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
query_cache_min_res_unit	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
query_cache_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
query_cache_type	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
query_cache_wlock_invalidate	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
query_prealloc_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
rand_seed1			Yes	Session	Yes
rand_seed2			Yes	Session	Yes
range_alloc_block_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
read_buffer_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
read_only	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
read_rnd_buffer_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
relay-log-index	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: relay_log_index			Yes	Both	No
relay_log_purge	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
relay_log_space_limit	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
report-host	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: report_host			Yes	Global	No
report-password	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: report_password			Yes	Global	No
report-port	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: report_port			Yes	Global	No
report-user	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: report_user			Yes	Global	No
rpl_recovery_rank			Yes	Global	Yes
safe-show-database	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
secure-auth	Yes	Yes			Yes
- Variable: secure_auth			Yes	Global	Yes
secure-file-priv	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: secure_file_priv			Yes	Global	No
server-id	Yes	Yes			Yes
- Variable: server_id			Yes	Global	Yes
shared_memory			Yes	Global	No
shared_memory_base_name			Yes	Global	No
skip-external-locking	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: skip_external_locking			Yes	Global	No
skip-name-resolve	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: skip_name_resolve			Yes	Global	No
skip-networking	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: skip_networking			Yes	Global	No
skip-show-database	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: skip_show_database			Yes	Global	No
skip-sync-bdb-logs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
slave_compressed_protocol	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
slave-load-tmpdir	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: slave_load_tmpdir			Yes	Global	No
slave-net-timeout	Yes	Yes			Yes
- Variable: slave_net_timeout			Yes	Global	Yes
slave-skip-errors	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: slave_skip_errors			Yes	Global	No
slave_transaction_retries	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
slow_launch_time	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
socket	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
sort_buffer_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
sql_auto_is_null			Yes	Session	Yes
sql_big_selects			Yes	Session	Yes
sql_big_tables			Yes	Session	Yes
sql_buffer_result			Yes	Session	Yes
sql_log_bin			Yes	Session	Yes
sql_log_off			Yes	Session	Yes
sql_log_update			Yes	Session	Yes
sql_low_priority_updates			Yes	Both	Yes
sql_max_join_size			Yes	Both	Yes
sql-mode	Yes	Yes			Yes
- Variable: sql_mode			Yes	Both	Yes
sql_notes			Yes	Session	Yes
sql_quote_show_create			Yes	Session	Yes
sql_safe_updates			Yes	Session	Yes
sql_select_limit			Yes	Both	Yes
sql_slave_skip_counter			Yes	Global	Yes
sql_warnings			Yes	Session	Yes
ssl-ca	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: ssl_ca			Yes	Global	No
ssl-capath	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: ssl_capath			Yes	Global	No
ssl-cert	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: ssl_cert			Yes	Global	No
ssl-cipher	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: ssl_cipher			Yes	Global	No
ssl-key	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: ssl_key			Yes	Global	No
storage_engine			Yes	Both	Yes
sync-bdb-logs	Yes	Yes			No
- Variable: sync_bdb_logs			Yes	Global	No
sync_binlog	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
sync_frm	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
system_time_zone			Yes	Global	No
table_cache	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
table_lock_wait_timeout	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
table_type			Yes	Both	Yes
thread_cache_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
thread_concurrency	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
thread_stack	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
time_format			Yes	Both	No
time_zone	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
timed_mutexes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	Yes
timestamp			Yes	Session	Yes
tmp_table_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
tmpdir	Yes	Yes	Yes	Global	No
transaction_alloc_block_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
transaction_prealloc_size	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
tx_isolation			Yes	Both	Yes
unique_checks			Yes	Session	Yes
updatable_views_with_limit	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
version			Yes	Global	No
version_comment			Yes	Global	No
version_compile_machine			Yes	Global	No
version_compile_os			Yes	Global	No
wait_timeout	Yes	Yes	Yes	Both	Yes
warning_count			Yes	Session	No
^[a]This option is dynamic, but only the server should set this information. You should not set the value of this variable manually. ^[b]This option is dynamic, but only the server should set this information. You should not set the value of this variable manually.

For additional system variable information, see these sections:

Section 5.1.4, “Using System Variables”, discusses the syntax for setting and displaying system variable values.
Section 5.1.4.2, “Dynamic System Variables”, lists the variables that can be set at runtime.
Information on tuning system variables can be found in Section 7.9.2, “Tuning Server Parameters”.
Section 13.2.3, “InnoDB Startup Options and System Variables”, lists InnoDB system variables.
Section 17.3.4.3, “MySQL Cluster System Variables”, lists system variables which are specific to MySQL Cluster.
For information on server system variables specific to replication, see Section 16.1.2, “Replication and Binary Logging Options and Variables”.

Note

Some of the following variable descriptions refer to “enabling” or “disabling” a variable. These variables can be enabled with the SET statement by setting them to ON or 1, or disabled by setting them to OFF or 0. However, to set such a variable on the command line or in an option file, you must set it to 1 or 0; setting it to ON or OFF will not work. For example, on the command line, --delay_key_write=1 works but --delay_key_write=ON does not.

Some system variables control the size of buffers or caches. For a given buffer, the server might need to allocate internal data structures. These structures typically are allocated from the total memory allocated to the buffer, and the amount of space required might be platform dependent. This means that when you assign a value to a system variable that controls a buffer size, the amount of space actually available might differ from the value assigned. In some cases, the amount might be less than the value assigned. It is also possible that the server will adjust a value upward. For example, if you assign a value of 0 to a variable for which the minimal value is 1024, the server will set the value to 1024.

Values for buffer sizes, lengths, and stack sizes are given in bytes unless otherwise specified.

Some system variables take file name values. Unless otherwise specified, the default file location is the data directory if the value is a relative path name. To specify the location explicitly, use an absolute path name. Suppose that the data directory is /var/mysql/data. If a file-valued variable is given as a relative path name, it will be located under /var/mysql/data. If the value is an absolute path name, its location is as given by the path name.

autocommit

Command-Line Format	`--autocommit[=#]`
Option-File Format	`autocommit`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `autocommit`
Variable Name	`autocommit`
Variable Scope	Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`

The autocommit mode. If set to 1, all changes to a table take effect immediately. If set to 0, you must use COMMIT to accept a transaction or ROLLBACK to cancel it. If autocommit is 0 and you change it to 1, MySQL performs an automatic COMMIT of any open transaction. Another way to begin a transaction is to use a START TRANSACTION or BEGIN statement. See Section 12.3.1, “START TRANSACTION, COMMIT, and ROLLBACK Syntax”.

By default, client connections begin with autocommit set to 1. To cause clients to begin with a default of 0, set the server's init_connect system variable:

SET GLOBAL init_connect='SET autocommit=0';

The init_connect variable can also be set on the command line or in an option file. To set the variable as just shown using an option file, include these lines:

[mysqld]
init_connect='SET autocommit=0'

The content of init_connect is not executed for users that have the SUPER privilege.

automatic_sp_privileges

Version Introduced 5.0.3

Variable Name automatic_sp_privileges

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable Yes

Permitted Values

Type boolean

Default TRUE

When this variable has a value of 1 (the default), the server automatically grants the EXECUTE and ALTER ROUTINE privileges to the creator of a stored routine, if the user cannot already execute and alter or drop the routine. (The ALTER ROUTINE privilege is required to drop the routine.) The server also automatically drops those privileges from the creator when the routine is dropped. If automatic_sp_privileges is 0, the server does not automatically add or drop these privileges.

The creator of a routine is the account used to execute the CREATE statement for it. This might not be the same as the account named as the DEFINER in the routine definition.

See also Section 18.2.2, “Stored Routines and MySQL Privileges”.

This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.3.

back_log

Command-Line Format	`--back_log=#`
Option-File Format	`back_log`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `back_log`
Variable Name	`back_log`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`50`
	Range	`1-65535`

The number of outstanding connection requests MySQL can have. This comes into play when the main MySQL thread gets very many connection requests in a very short time. It then takes some time (although very little) for the main thread to check the connection and start a new thread. The back_log value indicates how many requests can be stacked during this short time before MySQL momentarily stops answering new requests. You need to increase this only if you expect a large number of connections in a short period of time.

In other words, this value is the size of the listen queue for incoming TCP/IP connections. Your operating system has its own limit on the size of this queue. The manual page for the Unix listen() system call should have more details. Check your OS documentation for the maximum value for this variable. back_log cannot be set higher than your operating system limit.

basedir

Command-Line Format	`--basedir=path`
	`-b`
Option-File Format	`basedir`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `basedir`
Variable Name	`basedir`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`file name`

The MySQL installation base directory. This variable can be set with the --basedir option. Relative path names for other variables usually are resolved relative to the base directory.

bdb_cache_size

Command-Line Format	`--bdb_cache_size=#`
Option-File Format	`bdb_cache_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `bdb_cache_size`
Variable Name	`bdb_cache_size`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Min Value	`20480`

The size of the buffer that is allocated for caching indexes and rows for BDB tables. If you do not use BDB tables, you should start mysqld with --skip-bdb to not allocate memory for this cache.

bdb_home

Command-Line Format	`--bdb-home=name`
Option-File Format	`bdb-home=name`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `bdb_home`
Variable Name	`bdb_home`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`file name`

The base directory for BDB tables. This should be assigned the same value as the datadir variable.

bdb_log_buffer_size

Command-Line Format	`--bdb_log_buffer_size=#`
Option-File Format	`bdb_log_buffer_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `bdb_log_buffer_size`
Variable Name	`bdb_log_buffer_size`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Range	`262144-4294967295`

The size of the buffer that is allocated for caching indexes and rows for BDB tables. If you do not use BDB tables, you should set this to 0 or start mysqld with --skip-bdb to not allocate memory for this cache.

bdb_logdir

Command-Line Format	`--bdb-logdir=file_name`
Option-File Format	`bdb-logdir=file_name`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `bdb_logdir`
Variable Name	`bdb_logdir`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`file name`

The directory where the BDB storage engine writes its log files. This variable can be set with the --bdb-logdir option.

bdb_max_lock

Command-Line Format	`--bdb_max_lock=#`
Option-File Format	`bdb_max_lock`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `bdb_max_lock`
Variable Name	`bdb_max_lock`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`10000`

The maximum number of locks that can be active for a BDB table (10,000 by default). You should increase this value if errors such as the following occur when you perform long transactions or when mysqld has to examine many rows to calculate a query:

bdb: Lock table is out of available locks
Got error 12 from ...

bdb_shared_data

Command-Line Format	`--bdb-shared-data`
Option-File Format	`bdb-shared-data`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `bdb_shared_data`
Variable Name	`bdb-shared-data`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No

This is ON if you are using --bdb-shared-data to start Berkeley DB in multi-process mode. (Do not use DB_PRIVATE when initializing Berkeley DB.)

bdb_tmpdir

Command-Line Format	`--bdb-tmpdir=path`
Option-File Format	`bdb-tmpdir=path`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `bdb_tmpdir`
Variable Name	`bdb-tmpdir`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`file name`

The BDB temporary file directory.

big_tables

If set to 1, all temporary tables are stored on disk rather than in memory. This is a little slower, but the error The table tbl_name is full does not occur for SELECT operations that require a large temporary table. The default value for a new connection is 0 (use in-memory temporary tables). Normally, you should never need to set this variable, because in-memory tables are automatically converted to disk-based tables as required.

Note

This variable was formerly named sql_big_tables.

binlog_cache_size

Command-Line Format	`--binlog_cache_size=#`
Option-File Format	`binlog_cache_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `binlog_cache_size`
Variable Name	`binlog_cache_size`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`32768`
	Range	`4096-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`32768`
	Range	`4096-18446744073709547520`

The size of the cache to hold the SQL statements for the binary log during a transaction. A binary log cache is allocated for each client if the server supports any transactional storage engines and if the server has the binary log enabled (--log-bin option). If you often use large, multiple-statement transactions, you can increase this cache size to get better performance. The Binlog_cache_use and Binlog_cache_disk_use status variables can be useful for tuning the size of this variable. See Section 5.2.3, “The Binary Log”.

bulk_insert_buffer_size

Command-Line Format	`--bulk_insert_buffer_size=#`
Option-File Format	`bulk_insert_buffer_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `bulk_insert_buffer_size`
Variable Name	`bulk_insert_buffer_size`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`8388608`
	Range	`0-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`8388608`
	Range	`0-18446744073709547520`

MyISAM uses a special tree-like cache to make bulk inserts faster for INSERT ... SELECT, INSERT ... VALUES (...), (...), ..., and LOAD DATA INFILE when adding data to nonempty tables. This variable limits the size of the cache tree in bytes per thread. Setting it to 0 disables this optimization. The default value is 8MB.

character_set_client

Variable Name character_set_client

Variable Scope Global, Session

Dynamic Variable Yes

Permitted Values

Type string

The character set for statements that arrive from the client. The session value of this variable is set using the character set requested by the client when the client connects to the server. (Many clients support a --default-character-set option to enable this character set to be specified explicitly. See also Section 9.1.4, “Connection Character Sets and Collations”.) The global value of the variable is used to set the session value in cases when the client-requested value is unknown or not available, or the server is configured to ignore client requests:
- The client is from a version of MySQL older than MySQL 4.1, and thus does not request a character set.
- The client requests a character set not known to the server. For example, a Japanese-enabled client requests sjis when connecting to a server not configured with sjis support.
- mysqld was started with the --skip-character-set-client-handshake option, which causes it to ignore client character set configuration. This reproduces MySQL 4.0 behavior and is useful should you wish to upgrade the server without upgrading all the clients.
ucs2 cannot be used as a client character set, which means that it also does not work for SET NAMES or SET CHARACTER SET.
character_set_connection

Variable Name character_set_connection

Variable Scope Global, Session

Dynamic Variable Yes

Permitted Values

Type string

The character set used for literals that do not have a character set introducer and for number-to-string conversion.

character_set_database

Variable Name	`character_set_database`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
Footnote	This option is dynamic, but only the server should set this information. You should not set the value of this variable manually.
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`

The character set used by the default database. The server sets this variable whenever the default database changes. If there is no default database, the variable has the same value as character_set_server.

character_set_filesystem

Version Introduced	5.0.19
Command-Line Format	`--character-set-filesystem=name`
Option-File Format	`character-set-filesystem`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `character_set_filesystem`
Variable Name	`character_set_filesystem`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`

The file system character set. This variable is used to interpret string literals that refer to file names, such as in the LOAD DATA INFILE and SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE statements and the LOAD_FILE() function. Such file names are converted from character_set_client to character_set_filesystem before the file opening attempt occurs. The default value is binary, which means that no conversion occurs. For systems on which multi-byte file names are permitted, a different value may be more appropriate. For example, if the system represents file names using UTF-8, set character_set_filesystem to 'utf8'. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.19.

character_set_results

Variable Name character_set_results

Variable Scope Global, Session

Dynamic Variable Yes

Permitted Values

Type string

The character set used for returning query results such as result sets or error messages to the client.

character_set_server

Command-Line Format	`--character-set-server`
Option-File Format	`character-set-server`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `character_set_server`
Variable Name	`character_set_server`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`

The server's default character set.

character_set_system

Variable Name character_set_system

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

Permitted Values

Type string

The character set used by the server for storing identifiers. The value is always utf8.

character_sets_dir

Command-Line Format	`--character-sets-dir=path`
Option-File Format	`character-sets-dir=path`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `character_sets_dir`
Variable Name	`character-sets-dir`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`directory name`

The directory where character sets are installed.

collation_connection

Variable Name collation_connection

Variable Scope Global, Session

Dynamic Variable Yes

Permitted Values

Type string

The collation of the connection character set.

collation_database

Variable Name	`collation_database`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
Footnote	This option is dynamic, but only the server should set this information. You should not set the value of this variable manually.
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`

The collation used by the default database. The server sets this variable whenever the default database changes. If there is no default database, the variable has the same value as collation_server.

collation_server

Command-Line Format	`--collation-server`
Option-File Format	`collation-server`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `collation_server`
Variable Name	`collation_server`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`

The server's default collation.

completion_type

Version Introduced	5.0.3
Command-Line Format	`--completion_type=#`
Option-File Format	`completion_type`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `completion_type`
Variable Name	`competion_type`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes

The transaction completion type. This variable can take the values shown in the following table.

Value	Description
0	`COMMIT` and `ROLLBACK` are unaffected. This is the default value.
1	`COMMIT` and `ROLLBACK` are equivalent to `COMMIT AND CHAIN` and `ROLLBACK AND CHAIN`, respectively. (A new transaction starts immediately with the same isolation level as the just-terminated transaction.)
2	`COMMIT` and `ROLLBACK` are equivalent to `COMMIT RELEASE` and `ROLLBACK RELEASE`, respectively. (The server disconnects after terminating the transaction.)

completion_type affects transactions that begin with START TRANSACTION or BEGIN and end with COMMIT or ROLLBACK. It does not apply to implicit commits resulting from execution of the statements listed in Section 12.3.3, “Statements That Cause an Implicit Commit”. It also does not apply for XA COMMIT, XA ROLLBACK, or when autocommit=1.

This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.3.

concurrent_insert

Command-Line Format	`--concurrent_insert[=#]`
Option-File Format	`concurrent_insert`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `concurrent_insert`
Variable Name	`concurrent_insert`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values (<= 5.0.5)
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`TRUE`

If 1 (the default), MySQL permits INSERT and SELECT statements to run concurrently for MyISAM tables that have no free blocks in the middle of the data file. If you start mysqld with --skip-new, this variable is set to 0.

In MySQL 5.0.6, this variable was changed to take three integer values:

Value	Description
0	Disables concurrent inserts
1	(Default) Enables concurrent insert for `MyISAM` tables that do not have holes
2	Enables concurrent inserts for all `MyISAM` tables, even those that have holes. For a table with a hole, new rows are inserted at the end of the table if it is in use by another thread. Otherwise, MySQL acquires a normal write lock and inserts the row into the hole.

connect_timeout

Command-Line Format	`--connect_timeout=#`
Option-File Format	`connect_timeout`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `connect_timeout`
Variable Name	`connect_timeout`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values (<= 5.0.51)
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`5`
	Min Value	`2`
	Permitted Values (>= 5.0.52)
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`10`

The number of seconds that the mysqld server waits for a connect packet before responding with Bad handshake. The default value is 10 seconds as of MySQL 5.0.52 and 5 seconds before that.

Increasing the connect_timeout value might help if clients frequently encounter errors of the form Lost connection to MySQL server at 'XXX', system error: errno.

datadir

Command-Line Format	`--datadir=path`
	`-h`
Option-File Format	`datadir`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `datadir`
Variable Name	`datadir`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`file name`

The MySQL data directory. This variable can be set with the --datadir option.

date_format

This variable is unused.
datetime_format

This variable is unused.

default_week_format

Command-Line Format	`--default_week_format=#`
Option-File Format	`default_week_format`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `default_week_format`
Variable Name	`default_week_format`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`0`
	Range	`0-7`

The default mode value to use for the WEEK() function. See Section 11.7, “Date and Time Functions”.

delay_key_write

Command-Line Format	`--delay-key-write[=name]`
Option-File Format	`delay-key-write`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `delay_key_write`
Variable Name	`delay-key-write`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`enumeration`
	Default	`ON`
	Valid Values	`ON`, `OFF`, `ALL`

This option applies only to MyISAM tables. It can have one of the following values to affect handling of the DELAY_KEY_WRITE table option that can be used in CREATE TABLE statements.

Option	Description
`OFF`	`DELAY_KEY_WRITE` is ignored.
`ON`	MySQL honors any `DELAY_KEY_WRITE` option specified in `CREATE TABLE` statements. This is the default value.
`ALL`	All new opened tables are treated as if they were created with the `DELAY_KEY_WRITE` option enabled.

If DELAY_KEY_WRITE is enabled for a table, the key buffer is not flushed for the table on every index update, but only when the table is closed. This speeds up writes on keys a lot, but if you use this feature, you should add automatic checking of all MyISAM tables by starting the server with the --myisam-recover option (for example, --myisam-recover=BACKUP,FORCE). See Section 5.1.2, “Server Command Options”, and Section 13.1.1, “MyISAM Startup Options”.

Warning

If you enable external locking with --external-locking, there is no protection against index corruption for tables that use delayed key writes.

delayed_insert_limit

Command-Line Format	`--delayed_insert_limit=#`
Option-File Format	`delayed_insert_limit`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `delayed_insert_limit`
Variable Name	`delayed_insert_limit`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`100`
	Range	`1-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`100`
	Range	`1-18446744073709547520`

After inserting delayed_insert_limit delayed rows, the INSERT DELAYED handler thread checks whether there are any SELECT statements pending. If so, it permits them to execute before continuing to insert delayed rows.

delayed_insert_timeout

Command-Line Format	`--delayed_insert_timeout=#`
Option-File Format	`delayed_insert_timeout`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `delayed_insert_timeout`
Variable Name	`delayed_insert_timeout`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`300`

How many seconds an INSERT DELAYED handler thread should wait for INSERT statements before terminating.

delayed_queue_size

Command-Line Format	`--delayed_queue_size=#`
Option-File Format	`delayed_queue_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `delayed_queue_size`
Variable Name	`delayed_queue_size`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`1000`
	Range	`1-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`1000`
	Range	`1-18446744073709547520`

This is a per-table limit on the number of rows to queue when handling INSERT DELAYED statements. If the queue becomes full, any client that issues an INSERT DELAYED statement waits until there is room in the queue again.

div_precision_increment

Version Introduced	5.0.6
Command-Line Format	`--div_precision_increment=#`
Option-File Format	`div_precision_increment`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `div_precision_increment`
Variable Name	`div_precision_increment`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`4`
	Range	`0-30`

This variable indicates the number of digits by which to increase the scale of the result of division operations performed with the / operator. The default value is 4. The minimum and maximum values are 0 and 30, respectively. The following example illustrates the effect of increasing the default value.

mysql> SELECT 1/7;
+--------+
| 1/7    |
+--------+
| 0.1429 |
+--------+
mysql> SET div_precision_increment = 12;
mysql> SELECT 1/7;
+----------------+
| 1/7            |
+----------------+
| 0.142857142857 |
+----------------+

This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.6.

engine_condition_pushdown

Command-Line Format	`--engine-condition-pushdown`
Option-File Format	`engine-condition-pushdown`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `engine_condition_pushdown`
Variable Name	`engine_condition_pushdown`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
Deprecated	5.5.3, by `optimizer_switch`
	Permitted Values (>= 5.1.0)
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`ON`

The engine condition pushdown optimization enables processing for certain comparisons to be “pushed down” to the storage engine level for more efficient execution. For more information, see Section 7.3.1.5, “Engine Condition Pushdown Optimization”.

Engine condition pushdown is used only by the NDBCLUSTER storage engine. Enabling this optimization on a MySQL Server acting as a MySQL Cluster SQL node causes WHERE conditions on unindexed columns to be evaluated on the cluster's data nodes and only the rows that match to be sent back to the SQL node that issued the query. This greatly reduces the amount of cluster data that must be sent over the network, increasing the efficiency with which results are returned.

The engine_condition_pushdown variable controls whether engine condition pushdown is enabled. By default, this variable is OFF (0). Setting it to ON (1) enables pushdown.

This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.3.

error_count

The number of errors that resulted from the last statement that generated messages. This variable is read only. See Section 12.4.5.14, “SHOW ERRORS Syntax”.

expire_logs_days

Command-Line Format	`--expire_logs_days=#`
Option-File Format	`expire_logs_days`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `expire_logs_days`
Variable Name	`expire_logs_days`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`0`
	Range	`0-99`

The number of days for automatic binary log file removal. The default is 0, which means “no automatic removal.” Possible removals happen at startup and when the binary log is flushed. Log flushing occurs as indicated in Section 5.2, “MySQL Server Logs”.

To remove binary log files manually, use the PURGE BINARY LOGS statement. See Section 12.5.1.1, “PURGE BINARY LOGS Syntax”.

flush

Command-Line Format --flush

Option-File Format flush

Variable Name flush

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable Yes

Permitted Values

Type boolean

Default OFF

If ON, the server flushes (synchronizes) all changes to disk after each SQL statement. Normally, MySQL does a write of all changes to disk only after each SQL statement and lets the operating system handle the synchronizing to disk. See Section C.5.4.2, “What to Do If MySQL Keeps Crashing”. This variable is set to ON if you start mysqld with the --flush option.

flush_time

Command-Line Format	`--flush_time=#`
Option-File Format	`flush_time`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `flush_time`
Variable Name	`flush_time`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`0`
	Min Value	`0`
	Permitted Values
	Type (windows)	`numeric`
	Default	`1800`
	Min Value	`0`

If this is set to a nonzero value, all tables are closed every flush_time seconds to free up resources and synchronize unflushed data to disk. This option is best used only on Windows 9x or Me, or on systems with minimal resources.

foreign_key_checks

If set to 1 (the default), foreign key constraints for InnoDB tables are checked. If set to 0, they are ignored. Disabling foreign key checking can be useful for reloading InnoDB tables in an order different from that required by their parent/child relationships. See Section 13.2.4.4, “FOREIGN KEY Constraints”.

Setting foreign_key_checks to 0 also affects data definition statements: DROP DATABASE drops a database even if it contains tables that have foreign keys that are referred to by tables outside the database, and DROP TABLE drops tables that have foreign keys that are referred to by other tables.

Note

Setting foreign_key_checks to 1 does not trigger a scan of the existing table data. Therefore, rows added to the table while foreign_key_checks = 0 will not be verified for consistency.

ft_boolean_syntax

Command-Line Format	`--ft_boolean_syntax=name`
Option-File Format	`ft_boolean_syntax`
Variable Name	`ft_boolean_syntax`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`
	Default	`+-><()~*:""&`

The list of operators supported by boolean full-text searches performed using IN BOOLEAN MODE. See Section 11.9.2, “Boolean Full-Text Searches”.

The default variable value is '+ -><()~*:""&|'. The rules for changing the value are as follows:

Operator function is determined by position within the string.
The replacement value must be 14 characters.
Each character must be an ASCII nonalphanumeric character.
Either the first or second character must be a space.
No duplicates are permitted except the phrase quoting operators in positions 11 and 12. These two characters are not required to be the same, but they are the only two that may be.
Positions 10, 13, and 14 (which by default are set to “:”, “&”, and “|”) are reserved for future extensions.

ft_max_word_len

Command-Line Format	`--ft_max_word_len=#`
Option-File Format	`ft_max_word_len`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `ft_max_word_len`
Variable Name	`ft_max_word_len`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Min Value	`10`

The maximum length of the word to be included in a FULLTEXT index.

Note

FULLTEXT indexes must be rebuilt after changing this variable. Use REPAIR TABLE tbl_name QUICK.

ft_min_word_len

Command-Line Format	`--ft_min_word_len=#`
Option-File Format	`ft_min_word_len`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `ft_min_word_len`
Variable Name	`ft_min_word_len`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`4`
	Min Value	`1`

The minimum length of the word to be included in a FULLTEXT index.

Note

FULLTEXT indexes must be rebuilt after changing this variable. Use REPAIR TABLE tbl_name QUICK.

ft_query_expansion_limit

Command-Line Format	`--ft_query_expansion_limit=#`
Option-File Format	`ft_query_expansion_limit`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `ft_query_expansion_limit`
Variable Name	`ft_query_expansion_limit`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`20`
	Range	`0-1000`

The number of top matches to use for full-text searches performed using WITH QUERY EXPANSION.

ft_stopword_file

Command-Line Format	`--ft_stopword_file=file_name`
Option-File Format	`ft_stopword_file=file_name`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `ft_stopword_file`
Variable Name	`ft_stopword_file`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`file name`

The file from which to read the list of stopwords for full-text searches. The server looks for the file in the data directory unless an absolute path name is given to specify a different directory. All the words from the file are used; comments are not honored. By default, a built-in list of stopwords is used (as defined in the myisam/ft_static.c file). Setting this variable to the empty string ('') disables stopword filtering. See also Section 11.9.4, “Full-Text Stopwords”.

Note

FULLTEXT indexes must be rebuilt after changing this variable or the contents of the stopword file. Use REPAIR TABLE tbl_name QUICK.

group_concat_max_len

Command-Line Format	`--group_concat_max_len=#`
Option-File Format	`group_concat_max_len`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `group_concat_max_len`
Variable Name	`group_concat_max_len`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`1024`
	Range	`4-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`1024`
	Range	`4-18446744073709547520`

The maximum permitted result length in bytes for the GROUP_CONCAT() function. The default is 1024.

have_archive

YES if mysqld supports ARCHIVE tables, NO if not.
have_bdb

YES if mysqld supports BDB tables. DISABLED if --skip-bdb is used.
have_blackhole_engine

YES if mysqld supports BLACKHOLE tables, NO if not.
have_compress

YES if the zlib compression library is available to the server, NO if not. If not, the COMPRESS() and UNCOMPRESS() functions cannot be used.
have_crypt

YES if the crypt() system call is available to the server, NO if not. If not, the ENCRYPT() function cannot be used.
have_csv

YES if mysqld supports CSV tables, NO if not.
have_example_engine

YES if mysqld supports EXAMPLE tables, NO if not.
have_federated_engine

YES if mysqld supports FEDERATED tables, NO if not. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.3.
have_geometry

YES if the server supports spatial data types, NO if not.
have_innodb

YES if mysqld supports InnoDB tables. DISABLED if --skip-innodb is used.
have_isam

In MySQL 5.0, this variable appears only for reasons of backward compatibility. It is always NO because ISAM tables are no longer supported.
have_merge_engine

YES if mysqld supports MERGE tables. DISABLED if --skip-merge is used. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.24.
have_openssl

YES if mysqld supports SSL connections, NO if not. As of MySQL 5.0.38, this variable is an alias for have_ssl.
have_query_cache

YES if mysqld supports the query cache, NO if not.
have_raid

In MySQL 5.0, this variable appears only for reasons of backward compatibility. It is always NO because RAID tables are no longer supported.
have_rtree_keys

YES if RTREE indexes are available, NO if not. (These are used for spatial indexes in MyISAM tables.)
have_ssl

YES if mysqld supports SSL connections, NO if not. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.38. Before that, use have_openssl.
have_symlink

YES if symbolic link support is enabled, NO if not. This is required on Unix for support of the DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY table options, and on Windows for support of data directory symlinks.
hostname

Version Introduced 5.0.38

Variable Name hostname

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

Permitted Values

Type string

The server sets this variable to the server host name at startup. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.38.
identity

This variable is a synonym for the last_insert_id variable. It exists for compatibility with other database systems. You can read its value with SELECT @@identity, and set it using SET identity.

init_connect

Command-Line Format	`--init-connect=name`
Option-File Format	`init_connect`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `init_connect`
Variable Name	`init_connect`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`

A string to be executed by the server for each client that connects. The string consists of one or more SQL statements, separated by semicolon characters. For example, each client session begins by default with autocommit mode enabled. There is no global autocommit system variable to specify that autocommit should be disabled by default, but init_connect can be used to achieve the same effect:

SET GLOBAL init_connect='SET autocommit=0';

The init_connect variable can also be set on the command line or in an option file. To set the variable as just shown using an option file, include these lines:

[mysqld]
init_connect='SET autocommit=0'

The content of init_connect is not executed for users that have the SUPER privilege. This is done so that an erroneous value for init_connect does not prevent all clients from connecting. For example, the value might contain a statement that has a syntax error, thus causing client connections to fail. Not executing init_connect for users that have the SUPER privilege enables them to open a connection and fix the init_connect value.

init_file

Command-Line Format	`--init-file=file_name`
Option-File Format	`init-file=file_name`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `init_file`
Variable Name	`init_file`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`file name`

The name of the file specified with the --init-file option when you start the server. This should be a file containing SQL statements that you want the server to execute when it starts. Each statement must be on a single line and should not include comments. No statement terminator such as ;, \g, or \G should be given at the end of each statement.

Note that the --init-file option is unavailable if MySQL was configured with the --disable-grant-options option. See Section 2.17.3, “MySQL Source-Configuration Options”.

innodb_xxx

InnoDB system variables are listed in Section 13.2.3, “InnoDB Startup Options and System Variables”.
insert_id

The value to be used by the following INSERT or ALTER TABLE statement when inserting an AUTO_INCREMENT value. This is mainly used with the binary log.

interactive_timeout

Command-Line Format	`--interactive_timeout=#`
Option-File Format	`interactive_timeout`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `interactive_timeout`
Variable Name	`interactive_timeout`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`28800`
	Min Value	`1`

The number of seconds the server waits for activity on an interactive connection before closing it. An interactive client is defined as a client that uses the CLIENT_INTERACTIVE option to mysql_real_connect(). See also wait_timeout.

join_buffer_size

Command-Line Format	`--join_buffer_size=#`
Option-File Format	`join_buffer_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `join_buffer_size`
Variable Name	`join_buffer_size`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes

The minimum size of the buffer that is used for plain index scans, range index scans, and joins that do not use indexes and thus perform full table scans. Normally, the best way to get fast joins is to add indexes. Increase the value of join_buffer_size to get a faster full join when adding indexes is not possible. One join buffer is allocated for each full join between two tables. For a complex join between several tables for which indexes are not used, multiple join buffers might be necessary. There is no gain from setting the buffer larger than required to hold each matching row, and all joins allocate at least the minimum size, so use caution in setting this variable to a large value globally. It is better to keep the global setting small and change to a larger setting only in sessions that are doing large joins. Memory allocation time can cause substantial performance drops if the global size is larger than needed by most queries that use it.

The maximum permissible setting for join_buffer_size is 4GB.

keep_files_on_create

Version Introduced	5.0.48
Command-Line Format	`--keep_files_on_create=#`
Option-File Format	`keep_files_on_create`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `keep_files_on_create`
Variable Name	`keep_files_on_create`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`OFF`

If a MyISAM table is created with no DATA DIRECTORY option, the .MYD file is created in the database directory. By default, if MyISAM finds an existing .MYD file in this case, it overwrites it. The same applies to .MYI files for tables created with no INDEX DIRECTORY option. To suppress this behavior, set the keep_files_on_create variable to ON (1), in which case MyISAM will not overwrite existing files and returns an error instead. The default value is OFF (0).

If a MyISAM table is created with a DATA DIRECTORY or INDEX DIRECTORY option and an existing .MYD or .MYI file is found, MyISAM always returns an error. It will not overwrite a file in the specified directory.

This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.48.

key_buffer_size

Command-Line Format	`--key_buffer_size=#`
Option-File Format	`key_buffer_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `key_buffer_size`
Variable Name	`key_buffer_size`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes

Index blocks for MyISAM tables are buffered and are shared by all threads. key_buffer_size is the size of the buffer used for index blocks. The key buffer is also known as the key cache.

The maximum permissible setting for key_buffer_size is 4GB on 32-bit platforms. As of MySQL 5.0.52, values larger than 4GB are permitted for 64-bit platforms (except 64-bit Windows, for which large values are truncated to 4GB with a warning). The effective maximum size might be less, depending on your available physical RAM and per-process RAM limits imposed by your operating system or hardware platform. The value of this variable indicates the amount of memory requested. Internally, the server allocates as much memory as possible up to this amount, but the actual allocation might be less.

You can increase the value to get better index handling for all reads and multiple writes; on a system whose primary function is to run MySQL using the MyISAM storage engine, 25% of the machine's total memory is an acceptable value for this variable. However, you should be aware that, if you make the value too large (for example, more than 50% of the machine's total memory), your system might start to page and become extremely slow. This is because MySQL relies on the operating system to perform file system caching for data reads, so you must leave some room for the file system cache. You should also consider the memory requirements of any other storage engines that you may be using in addition to MyISAM.

For even more speed when writing many rows at the same time, use LOCK TABLES. See Section 7.3.2.1, “Speed of INSERT Statements”.

You can check the performance of the key buffer by issuing a SHOW STATUS statement and examining the Key_read_requests, Key_reads, Key_write_requests, and Key_writes status variables. (See Section 12.4.5, “SHOW Syntax”.) The Key_reads/Key_read_requests ratio should normally be less than 0.01. The Key_writes/Key_write_requests ratio is usually near 1 if you are using mostly updates and deletes, but might be much smaller if you tend to do updates that affect many rows at the same time or if you are using the DELAY_KEY_WRITE table option.

The fraction of the key buffer in use can be determined using key_buffer_size in conjunction with the Key_blocks_unused status variable and the buffer block size, which is available from the key_cache_block_size system variable:

1 - ((Key_blocks_unused * key_cache_block_size) / key_buffer_size)

This value is an approximation because some space in the key buffer is allocated internally for administrative structures. Factors that influence the amount of overhead for these structures include block size and pointer size. As block size increases, the percentage of the key buffer lost to overhead tends to decrease. Larger blocks results in a smaller number of read operations (because more keys are obtained per read), but conversely an increase in reads of keys that are not examined (if not all keys in a block are relevant to a query).

It is possible to create multiple MyISAM key caches. The size limit of 4GB applies to each cache individually, not as a group. See Section 7.6.1, “The MyISAM Key Cache”.

key_cache_age_threshold

Command-Line Format	`--key_cache_age_threshold=#`
Option-File Format	`key_cache_age_threshold`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `key_cache_age_threshold`
Variable Name	`key_cache_age_threshold`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`300`
	Range	`100-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`300`
	Range	`100-18446744073709547520`

This value controls the demotion of buffers from the hot sublist of a key cache to the warm sublist. Lower values cause demotion to happen more quickly. The minimum value is 100. The default value is 300. See Section 7.6.1, “The MyISAM Key Cache”.

key_cache_block_size

Command-Line Format	`--key_cache_block_size=#`
Option-File Format	`key_cache_block_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `key_cache_block_size`
Variable Name	`key_cache_block_size`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`1024`
	Range	`512-16384`

The size in bytes of blocks in the key cache. The default value is 1024. See Section 7.6.1, “The MyISAM Key Cache”.

key_cache_division_limit

Command-Line Format	`--key_cache_division_limit=#`
Option-File Format	`key_cache_division_limit`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `key_cache_division_limit`
Variable Name	`key_cache_division_limit`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`100`
	Range	`1-100`

The division point between the hot and warm sublists of the key cache buffer list. The value is the percentage of the buffer list to use for the warm sublist. Permissible values range from 1 to 100. The default value is 100. See Section 7.6.1, “The MyISAM Key Cache”.

language

Command-Line Format	`--language=name`
	`-L`
Option-File Format	`language`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `language`
Variable Name	`language`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
Deprecated	5.5.0, by `lc-messages-dir`
	Permitted Values
	Type	`directory name`
	Default	`/usr/local/mysql/share/mysql/english/`

The directory where error messages are located. See Section 9.2, “Setting the Error Message Language”.

large_files_support

Variable Name large_files_support

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

Whether mysqld was compiled with options for large file support.

large_pages

Version Introduced	5.0.3
Command-Line Format	`--large-pages`
Option-File Format	`large-pages`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `large_pages`
Variable Name	`large_pages`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
Platform Specific	linux
	Permitted Values
	Type (linux)	`boolean`
	Default	`FALSE`

Whether large page support is enabled (via the --large-pages option). See Section 7.9.7, “Enabling Large Page Support”. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.3.

For more information, see the entry for the --large-pages server option.

large_page_size

Version Introduced 5.0.3

Variable Name large_page_size

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

Permitted Values

Type (linux) numeric

Default 0

If large page support is enabled, this shows the size of memory pages. Currently, large memory pages are supported only on Linux; on other platforms, the value of this variable is always 0. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.3.

For more information, see the entry for the --large-pages server option.
last_insert_id

The value to be returned from LAST_INSERT_ID(). This is stored in the binary log when you use LAST_INSERT_ID() in a statement that updates a table. Setting this variable does not update the value returned by the mysql_insert_id() C API function.
lc_time_names

Version Introduced 5.0.25

Variable Name lc_time_names

Variable Scope Global, Session

Dynamic Variable Yes

Permitted Values

Type string

This variable specifies the locale that controls the language used to display day and month names and abbreviations. This variable affects the output from the DATE_FORMAT(), DAYNAME() and MONTHNAME() functions. Locale names are POSIX-style values such as 'ja_JP' or 'pt_BR'. The default value is 'en_US' regardless of your system's locale setting. For further information, see Section 9.7, “MySQL Server Locale Support”. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.25.
license

Variable Name license

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

Permitted Values

Type string

Default GPL

The type of license the server has.
local_infile

Variable Name local_infile

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable Yes

Permitted Values

Type boolean

Whether LOCAL is supported for LOAD DATA INFILE statements. See Section 5.3.5, “Security Issues with LOAD DATA LOCAL”.
locked_in_memory

Variable Name locked_in_memory

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

Whether mysqld was locked in memory with --memlock.
log

Whether logging of all statements to the general query log is enabled. See Section 5.2.2, “The General Query Log”.
log_bin

Variable Name log_bin

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

Whether the binary log is enabled. If the --log-bin option is used, then the value of this variable is ON; otherwise it is OFF. This variable reports only on the status of binary logging (enabled or disabled); it does not actually report the value to which --log-bin is set.

See Section 5.2.3, “The Binary Log”.

log_bin_trust_function_creators

Version Introduced	5.0.16
Command-Line Format	`--log-bin-trust-function-creators`
Option-File Format	`log-bin-trust-function-creators`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `log_bin_trust_function_creators`
Variable Name	`log_bin_trust_function_creators`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`FALSE`

This variable applies when binary logging is enabled. It controls whether stored function creators can be trusted not to create stored functions that will cause unsafe events to be written to the binary log. If set to 0 (the default), users are not permitted to create or alter stored functions unless they have the SUPER privilege in addition to the CREATE ROUTINE or ALTER ROUTINE privilege. A setting of 0 also enforces the restriction that a function must be declared with the DETERMINISTIC characteristic, or with the READS SQL DATA or NO SQL characteristic. If the variable is set to 1, MySQL does not enforce these restrictions on stored function creation. This variable also applies to trigger creation. See Section 18.6, “Binary Logging of Stored Programs”.

This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.16.

log_bin_trust_routine_creators

This is the old name for log_bin_trust_function_creators. Before MySQL 5.0.16, it also applies to stored procedures, not just stored functions. As of 5.0.16, this variable is deprecated. It is recognized for backward compatibility but its use results in a warning.

This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.6. It is removed in MySQL 5.5.

log_error

Command-Line Format	`--log-error[=name]`
Option-File Format	`log-error`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `log_error`
Variable Name	`log_error`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`file name`

The location of the error log.

log_queries_not_using_indexes

Command-Line Format	`--log-queries-not-using-indexes`
Option-File Format	`log-queries-not-using-indexes`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `log_queries_not_using_indexes`
Variable Name	`log_queries_not_using_indexes`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`

Whether queries that do not use indexes are logged to the slow query log. See Section 5.2.4, “The Slow Query Log”. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.23.

log_slow_queries

Command-Line Format	`--log-slow-queries[=name]`
Option-File Format	`log-slow-queries`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `log_slow_queries`
Variable Name	`log_slow_queries`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
Deprecated	5.1.29, by `slow-query-log`
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`

Whether slow queries should be logged. “Slow” is determined by the value of the long_query_time variable. See Section 5.2.4, “The Slow Query Log”.

log_warnings

Command-Line Format	`--log-warnings[=#]`
	`-W [#]`
Option-File Format	`log-warnings`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `log_warnings`
Variable Name	`log_warnings`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
Disabled by	`skip-log-warnings`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`1`
	Range	`0-18446744073709547520`

Whether to produce additional warning messages. It is enabled (1) by default and can be disabled by setting it to 0. Aborted connections are not logged to the error log unless the value is greater than 1.

long_query_time

Command-Line Format	`--long_query_time=#`
Option-File Format	`long_query_time`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `long_query_time`
Variable Name	`long_query_time`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values (<= 5.0.20)
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`10`
	Min Value	`1`

If a query takes longer than this many seconds, the server increments the Slow_queries status variable. If you are using the --log-slow-queries option, the query is logged to the slow query log file. This value is measured in real time, not CPU time, so a query that is under the threshold on a lightly loaded system might be above the threshold on a heavily loaded one. The minimum value is 1. The default is 10. See Section 5.2.4, “The Slow Query Log”.

low_priority_updates

Command-Line Format	`--low-priority-updates`
Option-File Format	`low-priority-updates`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `low_priority_updates`
Variable Name	`low_priority_updates`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`FALSE`

If set to 1, all INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and LOCK TABLE WRITE statements wait until there is no pending SELECT or LOCK TABLE READ on the affected table. This affects only storage engines that use only table-level locking (such as MyISAM, MEMORY, and MERGE). This variable previously was named sql_low_priority_updates.

lower_case_file_system

Command-Line Format	`--lower_case_file_system[=#]`
Option-File Format	`lower_case_file_system`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `lower_case_file_system`
Variable Name	`lower_case_file_system`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`

This variable describes the case sensitivity of file names on the file system where the data directory is located. OFF means file names are case sensitive, ON means they are not case sensitive. This variable is read only because it reflects a file system attribute and setting it would have no effect on the file system.

lower_case_table_names

Command-Line Format	`--lower_case_table_names[=#]`
Option-File Format	`lower_case_table_names`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `lower_case_table_names`
Variable Name	`lower_case_table_names`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`0`
	Range	`0-2`

If set to 0, table names are stored as specified and comparisons are case sensitive. If set to 1, table names are stored in lowercase on disk and comparisons are not case sensitive. If set to 2, table names are stored as given but compared in lowercase. This option also applies to database names and table aliases. For additional information, see Section 8.2.2, “Identifier Case Sensitivity”.

You should not set this variable to 0 if you are running MySQL on a system that has case-insensitive file names (such as Windows or Mac OS X). If you set this variable to 0 on such a system and access MyISAM tablenames using different lettercases, index corruption may result. On Windows the default value is 1. On Mac OS X, the default value is 2.

If you are using InnoDB or MySQL Cluster (NDB) tables, you should set this variable to 1 on all platforms to force names to be converted to lowercase.

The setting of this variable has no effect on replication filtering options. See Section 16.2.3, “How Servers Evaluate Replication Filtering Rules”, for more information.

You should not use different settings for lower_case_table_names on replication masters and slaves. In particular, you should not do this when the slave uses a case-sensitive file system, as this can cause replication to fail. For more information, see Section 16.4.1.27, “Replication and Variables”.

max_allowed_packet

Command-Line Format	`--max_allowed_packet=#`
Option-File Format	`max_allowed_packet`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `max_allowed_packet`
Variable Name	`max_allowed_packet`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`1048576`
	Range	`1024-1073741824`

The maximum size of one packet or any generated/intermediate string.

The packet message buffer is initialized to net_buffer_length bytes, but can grow up to max_allowed_packet bytes when needed. This value by default is small, to catch large (possibly incorrect) packets.

You must increase this value if you are using large BLOB columns or long strings. It should be as big as the largest BLOB you want to use. The protocol limit for max_allowed_packet is 1GB. The value should be a multiple of 1024; nonmultiples are rounded down to the nearest multiple.

When you change the message buffer size by changing the value of the max_allowed_packet variable, you should also change the buffer size on the client side if your client program permits it. On the client side, max_allowed_packet has a default of 1GB. Some programs such as mysql and mysqldump enable you to change the client-side value by setting max_allowed_packet on the command line or in an option file.

As of MySQL 5.0.84, the session value of this variable is read only. Before 5.0.84, setting the session value is permitted but has no effect.

max_connect_errors

Command-Line Format	`--max_connect_errors=#`
Option-File Format	`max_connect_errors`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `max_connect_errors`
Variable Name	`max_connect_errors`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`10`
	Range	`1-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`10`
	Range	`1-18446744073709547520`

If there are more than this number of interrupted connections from a host, that host is blocked from further connections. You can unblock blocked hosts with the FLUSH HOSTS statement. If a connection is established successfully within fewer than max_connect_errors attempts after a previous connection was interrupted, the error count for the host is cleared to zero. However, once a host is blocked, the FLUSH HOSTS statement is the only way to unblock it.

max_connections

Command-Line Format	`--max_connections=#`
Option-File Format	`max_connections`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `max_connections`
Variable Name	`max_connections`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes

The maximum permitted number of simultaneous client connections. By default, this is 100. See Section C.5.2.7, “Too many connections”, for more information.

Increasing this value increases the number of file descriptors that mysqld requires. See Section 7.8.2, “How MySQL Opens and Closes Tables”, for comments on file descriptor limits.

max_delayed_threads

Command-Line Format	`--max_delayed_threads=#`
Option-File Format	`max_delayed_threads`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `max_delayed_threads`
Variable Name	`max_delayed_threads`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`20`
	Range	`0-16384`

Do not start more than this number of threads to handle INSERT DELAYED statements. If you try to insert data into a new table after all INSERT DELAYED threads are in use, the row is inserted as if the DELAYED attribute was not specified. If you set this to 0, MySQL never creates a thread to handle DELAYED rows; in effect, this disables DELAYED entirely.

For the SESSION value of this variable, the only valid values are 0 or the GLOBAL value.

max_error_count

Command-Line Format	`--max_error_count=#`
Option-File Format	`max_error_count`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `max_error_count`
Variable Name	`max_error_count`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`64`
	Range	`0-65535`

The maximum number of error, warning, and note messages to be stored for display by the SHOW ERRORS and SHOW WARNINGS statements.

max_heap_table_size

Command-Line Format	`--max_heap_table_size=#`
Option-File Format	`max_heap_table_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `max_heap_table_size`
Variable Name	`max_heap_table_size`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`16777216`
	Range	`16384-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`16777216`
	Range	`16384-1844674407370954752`

This variable sets the maximum size to which user-created MEMORY tables are permitted to grow. The value of the variable is used to calculate MEMORY table MAX_ROWS values. Setting this variable has no effect on any existing MEMORY table, unless the table is re-created with a statement such as CREATE TABLE or altered with ALTER TABLE or TRUNCATE TABLE. A server restart also sets the maximum size of existing MEMORY tables to the global max_heap_table_size value.

This variable is also used in conjunction with tmp_table_size to limit the size of internal in-memory tables. See Section 7.8.4, “How MySQL Uses Internal Temporary Tables”.

max_insert_delayed_threads

Variable Name max_insert_delayed_threads

Variable Scope Global, Session

Dynamic Variable Yes

Permitted Values

Type numeric

This variable is a synonym for max_delayed_threads.

max_join_size

Command-Line Format	`--max_join_size=#`
Option-File Format	`max_join_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `max_join_size`
Variable Name	`max_join_size`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`4294967295`
	Range	`1-4294967295`

Do not permit SELECT statements that probably need to examine more than max_join_size rows (for single-table statements) or row combinations (for multiple-table statements) or that are likely to do more than max_join_size disk seeks. By setting this value, you can catch SELECT statements where keys are not used properly and that would probably take a long time. Set it if your users tend to perform joins that lack a WHERE clause, that take a long time, or that return millions of rows.

Setting this variable to a value other than DEFAULT resets the value of sql_big_selects to 0. If you set the sql_big_selects value again, the max_join_size variable is ignored.

If a query result is in the query cache, no result size check is performed, because the result has previously been computed and it does not burden the server to send it to the client.

This variable previously was named sql_max_join_size.

max_length_for_sort_data

Command-Line Format	`--max_length_for_sort_data=#`
Option-File Format	`max_length_for_sort_data`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `max_length_for_sort_data`
Variable Name	`max_length_for_sort_data`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`1024`
	Range	`4-8388608`

The cutoff on the size of index values that determines which filesort algorithm to use. See Section 7.3.1.11, “ORDER BY Optimization”.

max_prepared_stmt_count

Version Introduced	5.0.21
Command-Line Format	`--max_prepared_stmt_count=#`
Option-File Format	`max_prepared_stmt_count`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `max_prepared_stmt_count`
Variable Name	`max_prepared_stmt_count`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`16382`
	Range	`0-1048576`

This variable limits the total number of prepared statements in the server. It can be used in environments where there is the potential for denial-of-service attacks based on running the server out of memory by preparing huge numbers of statements. If the value is set lower than the current number of prepared statements, existing statements are not affected and can be used, but no new statements can be prepared until the current number drops below the limit. The default value is 16,382. The permissible range of values is from 0 to 1 million. Setting the value to 0 disables prepared statements. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.21.

max_relay_log_size

Command-Line Format	`--max_relay_log_size=#`
Option-File Format	`max_relay_log_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `max_relay_log_size`
Variable Name	`max_relay_log_size`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`0`
	Range	`0-1073741824`

If a write by a replication slave to its relay log causes the current log file size to exceed the value of this variable, the slave rotates the relay logs (closes the current file and opens the next one). If max_relay_log_size is 0, the server uses max_binlog_size for both the binary log and the relay log. If max_relay_log_size is greater than 0, it constrains the size of the relay log, which enables you to have different sizes for the two logs. You must set max_relay_log_size to between 4096 bytes and 1GB (inclusive), or to 0. The default value is 0. See Section 16.2.1, “Replication Implementation Details”.

max_seeks_for_key

Command-Line Format	`--max_seeks_for_key=#`
Option-File Format	`max_seeks_for_key`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `max_seeks_for_key`
Variable Name	`max_seeks_for_key`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`4294967295`
	Range	`1-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`18446744073709547520`
	Range	`1-18446744073709547520`

Limit the assumed maximum number of seeks when looking up rows based on a key. The MySQL optimizer assumes that no more than this number of key seeks are required when searching for matching rows in a table by scanning an index, regardless of the actual cardinality of the index (see Section 12.4.5.18, “SHOW INDEX Syntax”). By setting this to a low value (say, 100), you can force MySQL to prefer indexes instead of table scans.

max_sort_length

Command-Line Format	`--max_sort_length=#`
Option-File Format	`max_sort_length`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `max_sort_length`
Variable Name	`max_sort_length`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`1024`
	Range	`4-8388608`

The number of bytes to use when sorting BLOB or TEXT values. Only the first max_sort_length bytes of each value are used; the rest are ignored.

max_sp_recursion_depth

Version Introduced	5.0.17
Command-Line Format	`--max_sp_recursion_depth[=#]`
Option-File Format	`max_sp_recursion_depth`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `max_sp_recursion_depth`
Variable Name	`max_sp_recursion_depth`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`0`
	Max Value	`255`

The number of times that any given stored procedure may be called recursively. The default value for this option is 0, which completely disables recursion in stored procedures. The maximum value is 255.

Stored procedure recursion increases the demand on thread stack space. If you increase the value of max_sp_recursion_depth, it may be necessary to increase thread stack size by increasing the value of thread_stack at server startup.

This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.17.

max_tmp_tables

Command-Line Format	`--max_tmp_tables=#`
Option-File Format	`max_tmp_tables`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `max_tmp_tables`
Variable Name	`max_tmp_tables`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`32`
	Range	`1-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`32`
	Range	`1-18446744073709547520`

The maximum number of temporary tables a client can keep open at the same time. (This variable does not yet do anything.)

max_user_connections

Command-Line Format	`--max_user_connections=#`
Option-File Format	`max_user_connections`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `max_user_connections`
Variable Name	`max_user_connections`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`0`
	Range	`0-4294967295`

The maximum number of simultaneous connections permitted to any given MySQL user account. A value of 0 (the default) means “no limit.”

Before MySQL 5.0.3, this variable has only a global value that can be set at server startup or runtime. As of MySQL 5.0.3, it also has a read-only session value that indicates the effective simultaneous-connection limit that applies to the account associated with the current session. The session value is initialized as follows:

If the user account has a nonzero MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS resource limit, the session max_user_connections value is set to that limit.
Otherwise, the session max_user_connections value is set to the global value.

Account resource limits are specified using the GRANT statement. See Section 5.5.4, “Setting Account Resource Limits”, and Section 12.4.1.3, “GRANT Syntax”.

max_write_lock_count

Command-Line Format	`--max_write_lock_count=#`
Option-File Format	`max_write_lock_count`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `max_write_lock_count`
Variable Name	`max_write_lock_count`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`4294967295`
	Range	`1-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`18446744073709547520`
	Range	`1-18446744073709547520`

After this many write locks, permit some pending read lock requests to be processed in between.

myisam_data_pointer_size

Command-Line Format	`--myisam_data_pointer_size=#`
Option-File Format	`myisam_data_pointer_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `myisam_data_pointer_size`
Variable Name	`myisam_data_pointer_size`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values (<= 5.0.5)
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`4`
	Range	`2-8`
	Permitted Values (>= 5.0.6)
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`6`
	Range	`2-7`

The default pointer size in bytes, to be used by CREATE TABLE for MyISAM tables when no MAX_ROWS option is specified. This variable cannot be less than 2 or larger than 7. The default value is 6 (4 before MySQL 5.0.6). See Section C.5.2.12, “The table is full”.

myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size (DEPRECATED)

This variable is unused as of MySQL 5.0.6.

myisam_max_sort_file_size

Command-Line Format	`--myisam_max_sort_file_size=#`
Option-File Format	`myisam_max_sort_file_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `myisam_max_sort_file_size`
Variable Name	`myisam_max_sort_file_size`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`2147483648`

The maximum size of the temporary file that MySQL is permitted to use while re-creating a MyISAM index (during REPAIR TABLE, ALTER TABLE, or LOAD DATA INFILE). If the file size would be larger than this value, the index is created using the key cache instead, which is slower. The value is given in bytes.

The default value is 2GB. If MyISAM index files exceed this size and disk space is available, increasing the value may help performance. The space must be available in the file system containing the directory where the original index file is located.

myisam_mmap_size

Version Introduced	5.0.90
Command-Line Format	`--myisam_mmap_size=#`
Option-File Format	`myisam_mmap_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `myisam_mmap_size`
Variable Name	`myisam_mmap_size`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`4294967295`
	Range	`7-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`18446744073709547520`
	Range	`7-18446744073709547520`

The maximum amount of memory to use for memory mapping compressed MyISAM files. If many compressed MyISAM tables are used, the value can be decreased to reduce the likelihood of memory-swapping problems. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.90.

myisam_recover_options

Variable Name myisam_recover_options

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

The value of the --myisam-recover option. See Section 5.1.2, “Server Command Options”.

myisam_repair_threads

Command-Line Format	`--myisam_repair_threads=#`
Option-File Format	`myisam_repair_threads`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `myisam_repair_threads`
Variable Name	`myisam_repair_threads`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`1`
	Range	`1-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`1`
	Range	`1-18446744073709547520`

If this value is greater than 1, MyISAM table indexes are created in parallel (each index in its own thread) during the Repair by sorting process. The default value is 1.

Note

Multi-threaded repair is still beta-quality code.

myisam_sort_buffer_size

Command-Line Format	`--myisam_sort_buffer_size=#`
Option-File Format	`myisam_sort_buffer_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `myisam_sort_buffer_size`
Variable Name	`myisam_sort_buffer_size`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`8388608`
	Range	`4-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`8388608`
	Range	`4-18446744073709547520`

The size of the buffer that is allocated when sorting MyISAM indexes during a REPAIR TABLE or when creating indexes with CREATE INDEX or ALTER TABLE.

The maximum permissible setting for myisam_sort_buffer_size is 4GB.

myisam_stats_method

Version Introduced	5.0.14
Command-Line Format	`--myisam_stats_method=name`
Option-File Format	`myisam_stats_method`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `myisam_stats_method`
Variable Name	`myisam_stats_method`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values (>= 5.0)
	Type	`enumeration`
	Valid Values	`nulls_equal`, `nulls_unequal`, `nulls_ignored`

How the server treats NULL values when collecting statistics about the distribution of index values for MyISAM tables. This variable has three possible values, nulls_equal, nulls_unequal, and nulls_ignored. For nulls_equal, all NULL index values are considered equal and form a single value group that has a size equal to the number of NULL values. For nulls_unequal, NULL values are considered unequal, and each NULL forms a distinct value group of size 1. For nulls_ignored, NULL values are ignored.

The method that is used for generating table statistics influences how the optimizer chooses indexes for query execution, as described in Section 7.5.4, “MyISAM Index Statistics Collection”.

Any unique prefix of a valid value may be used to set the value of this variable.

This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.14. For older versions, the statistics collection method is equivalent to nulls_equal.

named_pipe

Variable Name named_pipe

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

Platform Specific windows

Permitted Values

Type (windows) boolean

Default OFF

(Windows only.) Indicates whether the server supports connections over named pipes.

net_buffer_length

Command-Line Format	`--net_buffer_length=#`
Option-File Format	`net_buffer_length`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `net_buffer_length`
Variable Name	`net_buffer_length`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`16384`
	Range	`1024-1048576`

Each client thread is associated with a connection buffer and result buffer. Both begin with a size given by net_buffer_length but are dynamically enlarged up to max_allowed_packet bytes as needed. The result buffer shrinks to net_buffer_length after each SQL statement.

This variable should not normally be changed, but if you have very little memory, you can set it to the expected length of statements sent by clients. If statements exceed this length, the connection buffer is automatically enlarged. The maximum value to which net_buffer_length can be set is 1MB.

As of MySQL 5.0.84, the session value of this variable is read only. Before 5.0.84, setting the session value is permitted but has no effect.

net_read_timeout

Command-Line Format	`--net_read_timeout=#`
Option-File Format	`net_read_timeout`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `net_read_timeout`
Variable Name	`net_read_timeout`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`30`
	Min Value	`1`

The number of seconds to wait for more data from a connection before aborting the read. This timeout applies only to TCP/IP connections, not to connections made through Unix socket files, named pipes, or shared memory. When the server is reading from the client, net_read_timeout is the timeout value controlling when to abort. When the server is writing to the client, net_write_timeout is the timeout value controlling when to abort. See also slave_net_timeout.

net_retry_count

Command-Line Format	`--net_retry_count=#`
Option-File Format	`net_retry_count`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `net_retry_count`
Variable Name	`net_retry_count`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`10`
	Range	`1-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`10`
	Range	`1-18446744073709547520`

If a read on a communication port is interrupted, retry this many times before giving up. This value should be set quite high on FreeBSD because internal interrupts are sent to all threads.

net_write_timeout

Command-Line Format	`--net_write_timeout=#`
Option-File Format	`net_write_timeout`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `net_write_timeout`
Variable Name	`net_write_timeout`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`60`
	Min Value	`1`

The number of seconds to wait for a block to be written to a connection before aborting the write. This timeout applies only to TCP/IP connections, not to connections made using Unix socket files, named pipes, or shared memory. See also net_read_timeout.

new

Command-Line Format	`--new`
	`-n`
Option-File Format	`new`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `new`
Variable Name	`new`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
Disabled by	`skip-new`
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`FALSE`

This variable was used in MySQL 4.0 to turn on some 4.1 behaviors, and is retained for backward compatibility. In MySQL 5.0, its value is always OFF.

old_passwords

Command-Line Format	`--old_passwords`
Option-File Format	`old-passwords`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `old_passwords`
Variable Name	`old_passwords`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`FALSE`

Whether the server should use pre-4.1-style passwords for MySQL user accounts. See Section C.5.2.4, “Client does not support authentication protocol”.

one_shot

This is not a variable, but it can be used when setting some variables. It is described in Section 12.4.4, “SET Syntax”.

open_files_limit

Command-Line Format	`--open-files-limit=#`
Option-File Format	`open-files-limit`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `open_files_limit`
Variable Name	`open_files_limit`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`0`
	Range	`0-65535`

The number of files that the operating system permits mysqld to open. This is the real value permitted by the system and might be different from the value you gave using the --open-files-limit option to mysqld or mysqld_safe. The value is 0 on systems where MySQL cannot change the number of open files.

optimizer_prune_level

Version Introduced	5.0.1
Command-Line Format	`--optimizer_prune_level[=#]`
Option-File Format	`optimizer_prune_level`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `optimizer_prune_level`
Variable Name	`optimizer_prune_level`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`1`

Controls the heuristics applied during query optimization to prune less-promising partial plans from the optimizer search space. A value of 0 disables heuristics so that the optimizer performs an exhaustive search. A value of 1 causes the optimizer to prune plans based on the number of rows retrieved by intermediate plans. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.1.

optimizer_search_depth

Version Introduced	5.0.1
Command-Line Format	`--optimizer_search_depth[=#]`
Option-File Format	`optimizer_search_depth`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `optimizer_search_depth`
Variable Name	`optimizer_search_depth`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`62`

The maximum depth of search performed by the query optimizer. Values larger than the number of relations in a query result in better query plans, but take longer to generate an execution plan for a query. Values smaller than the number of relations in a query return an execution plan quicker, but the resulting plan may be far from being optimal. If set to 0, the system automatically picks a reasonable value. If set to 63, the optimizer switches to the algorithm used in MySQL 5.0.0 (and previous versions) for performing searches. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.1.

pid_file

Command-Line Format	`--pid-file=file_name`
Option-File Format	`pid-file=file_name`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `pid_file`
Variable Name	`pid_file`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`file name`

The path name of the process ID (PID) file. This variable can be set with the --pid-file option.

plugin_dir

Version Introduced	5.0.67
Command-Line Format	`--plugin_dir=path`
Option-File Format	`plugin_dir`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `plugin_dir`
Variable Name	`plugin_dir`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No

The path name of the plugin directory. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.67. If the value is nonempty, user-defined function object files must be located in this directory. If the value is empty, the behavior that is used before 5.0.67 applies: The UDF object files must be located in a directory that is searched by your system's dynamic linker.

If the plugin directory is writable by the server, it may be possible for a user to write executable code to a file in the directory using SELECT ... INTO DUMPFILE. This can be prevented by making plugin_dir read only to the server or by setting --secure-file-priv to a directory where SELECT writes can be made safely.

port

Command-Line Format	`--port=#`
	`-P`
Option-File Format	`port`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `port`
Variable Name	`port`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`3306`

The number of the port on which the server listens for TCP/IP connections. This variable can be set with the --port option.

preload_buffer_size

Command-Line Format	`--preload_buffer_size=#`
Option-File Format	`preload_buffer_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `preload_buffer_size`
Variable Name	`preload_buffer_size`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`32768`
	Range	`1024-1073741824`

The size of the buffer that is allocated when preloading indexes.

prepared_stmt_count

Version Introduced 5.0.21

Version Removed 5.0.31

Variable Name prepared_stmt_count

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

Permitted Values

Type numeric

The current number of prepared statements. (The maximum number of statements is given by the max_prepared_stmt_count system variable.) This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.21. In MySQL 5.0.32, it was converted to the global Prepared_stmt_count status variable.
profiling

If set to 0 (the default), statement profiling is disabled. If set to 1, statement profiling is enabled and the SHOW PROFILES and SHOW PROFILE statements provide access to profiling information. See Section 12.4.5.29, “SHOW PROFILES Syntax”. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.37. Note: This option does not apply to MySQL Enterprise Server users.
profiling_history_size

The number of statements for which to maintain profiling information if profiling is enabled. The default value is 15. The maximum value is 100. Setting the value to 0 effectively disables profiling. See Section 12.4.5.29, “SHOW PROFILES Syntax”. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.37. Note: This option does not apply to MySQL Enterprise Server users.
protocol_version

Variable Name protocol_version

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

Permitted Values

Type numeric

The version of the client/server protocol used by the MySQL server.
pseudo_thread_id

Variable Name pseudo_thread_id

Variable Scope Session

Dynamic Variable Yes

Permitted Values

Type numeric

This variable is for internal server use.

query_alloc_block_size

Command-Line Format	`--query_alloc_block_size=#`
Option-File Format	`query_alloc_block_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `query_alloc_block_size`
Variable Name	`query_alloc_block_size`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`8192`
	Range	`1024-4294967295`
	Block Size	`1024`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`8192`
	Range	`1024-18446744073709547520`
	Block Size	`1024`

The allocation size of memory blocks that are allocated for objects created during statement parsing and execution. If you have problems with memory fragmentation, it might help to increase this parameter.

query_cache_limit

Command-Line Format	`--query_cache_limit=#`
Option-File Format	`query_cache_limit`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `query_cache_limit`
Variable Name	`query_cache_limit`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`1048576`
	Range	`0-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`1048576`
	Range	`0-18446744073709547520`

Do not cache results that are larger than this number of bytes. The default value is 1MB.

query_cache_min_res_unit

Command-Line Format	`--query_cache_min_res_unit=#`
Option-File Format	`query_cache_min_res_unit`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `query_cache_min_res_unit`
Variable Name	`query_cache_min_res_unit`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`4096`
	Range	`512-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`4096`
	Range	`512-18446744073709547520`

The minimum size (in bytes) for blocks allocated by the query cache. The default value is 4096 (4KB). Tuning information for this variable is given in Section 7.6.3.3, “Query Cache Configuration”.

query_cache_size

Command-Line Format	`--query_cache_size=#`
Option-File Format	`query_cache_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `query_cache_size`
Variable Name	`query_cache_size`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`0`
	Range	`0-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`0`
	Range	`0-18446744073709547520`

The amount of memory allocated for caching query results. The default value is 0, which disables the query cache. The permissible values are multiples of 1024; other values are rounded down to the nearest multiple. Note that query_cache_size bytes of memory are allocated even if query_cache_type is set to 0. See Section 7.6.3.3, “Query Cache Configuration”, for more information.

The query cache needs a minimum size of about 40KB to allocate its structures. (The exact size depends on system architecture.) If you set the value of query_cache_size too small, a warning will occur, as described in Section 7.6.3.3, “Query Cache Configuration”.

query_cache_type

Command-Line Format	`--query_cache_type=#`
Option-File Format	`query_cache_type`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `query_cache_type`
Variable Name	`query_cache_type`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`enumeration`
	Default	`1`
	Valid Values	`0`, `1`, `2`

Set the query cache type. Setting the GLOBAL value sets the type for all clients that connect thereafter. Individual clients can set the SESSION value to affect their own use of the query cache. Possible values are shown in the following table.

Option	Description
`0` or `OFF`	Do not cache results in or retrieve results from the query cache. Note that this does not deallocate the query cache buffer. To do that, you should set `query_cache_size` to 0.
`1` or `ON`	Cache all cacheable query results except for those that begin with `SELECT SQL_NO_CACHE`.
`2` or `DEMAND`	Cache results only for cacheable queries that begin with `SELECT SQL_CACHE`.

This variable defaults to ON.

Any unique prefix of a valid value may be used to set the value of this variable.

query_cache_wlock_invalidate

Command-Line Format	`--query_cache_wlock_invalidate`
Option-File Format	`query_cache_wlock_invalidate`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `query_cache_wlock_invalidate`
Variable Name	`query_cache_wlock_invalidate`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`FALSE`

Normally, when one client acquires a WRITE lock on a MyISAM table, other clients are not blocked from issuing statements that read from the table if the query results are present in the query cache. Setting this variable to 1 causes acquisition of a WRITE lock for a table to invalidate any queries in the query cache that refer to the table. This forces other clients that attempt to access the table to wait while the lock is in effect.

query_prealloc_size

Command-Line Format	`--query_prealloc_size=#`
Option-File Format	`query_prealloc_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `query_prealloc_size`
Variable Name	`query_prealloc_size`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`8192`
	Range	`8192-4294967295`
	Block Size	`1024`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`8192`
	Range	`8192-18446744073709547520`
	Block Size	`1024`

The size of the persistent buffer used for statement parsing and execution. This buffer is not freed between statements. If you are running complex queries, a larger query_prealloc_size value might be helpful in improving performance, because it can reduce the need for the server to perform memory allocation during query execution operations.

rand_seed1

The rand_seed1 and rand_seed2 variables exist as session variables only, and can be set but not read. They are not shown in the output of SHOW VARIABLES.

The purpose of these variables is to support replication of the RAND() function. For statements that invoke RAND(), the master passes two values to the slave, where they are used to seed the random number generator. The slave uses these values to set the session variables rand_seed1 and rand_seed2 so that RAND() on the slave generates the same value as on the master.
rand_seed2

See the description for rand_seed1.

range_alloc_block_size

Command-Line Format	`--range_alloc_block_size=#`
Option-File Format	`range_alloc_block_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `range_alloc_block_size`
Variable Name	`range_alloc_block_size`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values (>= 5.0.54)
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`4096`
	Range	`4096-4294967295`
	Block Size	`1024`
	Permitted Values (>= 5.0.54)
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`4096`
	Range	`4096-18446744073709547520`
	Block Size	`1024`

The size of blocks that are allocated when doing range optimization.

read_buffer_size

Command-Line Format	`--read_buffer_size=#`
Option-File Format	`read_buffer_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `read_buffer_size`
Variable Name	`read_buffer_size`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`131072`
	Range	`8200-2147479552`

Each thread that does a sequential scan allocates a buffer of this size (in bytes) for each table it scans. If you do many sequential scans, you might want to increase this value, which defaults to 131072. The value of this variable should be a multiple of 4KB. If it is set to a value that is not a multiple of 4KB, its value will be rounded down to the nearest multiple of 4KB.

The maximum permissible setting for read_buffer_size is 2GB.

read_buffer_size and read_rnd_buffer_size are not specific to any storage engine and apply in a general manner for optimization. See Section 7.9.4, “How MySQL Uses Memory”, for example.

read_only

Command-Line Format	`--read-only`
Option-File Format	`read_only`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `read_only`
Variable Name	`read_only`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`0`

This variable is off by default. When it is enabled, the server permits no updates except from users that have the SUPER privilege or (on a slave server) from updates performed by slave threads. In replication setups, it can be useful to enable read_only on slave servers to ensure that slaves accept updates only from the master server and not from clients.

read_only does not apply to TEMPORARY tables as of MySQL 5.0.16. This variable does not prevent the use of ANALYZE TABLE or OPTIMIZE TABLE statements because its purpose is to prevent changes to table structure or contents. Analysis and optimization do not qualify as such changes. This means, for example, that consistency checks on read-only slaves can be performed with mysqlcheck --all-databases --analyze.

read_only exists only as a GLOBAL variable, so changes to its value require the SUPER privilege. Changes to read_only on a master server are not replicated to slave servers. The value can be set on a slave server independent of the setting on the master.

Important

In MySQL 5.0, enabling read_only does not prevent the use of the SET PASSWORD statement. This is not necessarily the case for all MySQL release series. When replicating from one MySQL release series to another (for example, from a MySQL 5.0 master to a MySQL 5.1 slave), you should check the documentation for the versions running on both master and slave to determine whether the behavior of read_only in this regard is or is not the same, and, if it is different, whether this has an impact on your applications.

read_rnd_buffer_size

Command-Line Format	`--read_rnd_buffer_size=#`
Option-File Format	`read_rnd_buffer_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `read_rnd_buffer_size`
Variable Name	`read_rnd_buffer_size`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`262144`
	Range	`8200-4294967295`

When reading rows in sorted order following a key-sorting operation, the rows are read through this buffer to avoid disk seeks. See Section 7.3.1.11, “ORDER BY Optimization”. Setting the variable to a large value can improve ORDER BY performance by a lot. However, this is a buffer allocated for each client, so you should not set the global variable to a large value. Instead, change the session variable only from within those clients that need to run large queries.

The maximum permissible setting for read_rnd_buffer_size is 2GB.

read_buffer_size and read_rnd_buffer_size are not specific to any storage engine and apply in a general manner for optimization. See Section 7.9.4, “How MySQL Uses Memory”, for example.

relay_log_purge

Command-Line Format	`--relay_log_purge`
Option-File Format	`relay_log_purge`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `relay_log_purge`
Variable Name	`relay_log_purge`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`TRUE`

Disables or enables automatic purging of relay log files as soon as they are not needed any more. The default value is 1 (ON).

relay_log_space_limit

Command-Line Format	`--relay_log_space_limit=#`
Option-File Format	`relay_log_space_limit`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `relay_log_space_limit`
Variable Name	`relay_log_space_limit`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`0`
	Range	`0-4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`0`
	Range	`0-18446744073709547520`

The maximum amount of space to use for all relay logs.

secure_auth

Command-Line Format	`--secure-auth`
Option-File Format	`secure-auth`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `secure_auth`
Variable Name	`secure_auth`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`FALSE`

If the MySQL server has been started with the --secure-auth option, it blocks connections from all accounts that have passwords stored in the old (pre-4.1) format. In that case, the value of this variable is ON, otherwise it is OFF.

You should enable this option if you want to prevent all use of passwords employing the old format (and hence insecure communication over the network).

Server startup fails with an error if this option is enabled and the privilege tables are in pre-4.1 format. See Section C.5.2.4, “Client does not support authentication protocol”.

secure_file_priv

Version Introduced	5.0.38
Command-Line Format	`--secure-file-priv=path`
Option-File Format	`secure-file-priv=path`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `secure_file_priv`
Variable Name	`secure-file-priv`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`

By default, this variable is empty. If set to the name of a directory, it limits the effect of the LOAD_FILE() function and the LOAD DATA and SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE statements to work only with files in that directory.

This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.38.

server_id

Command-Line Format	`--server-id=#`
Option-File Format	`server-id`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `server_id`
Variable Name	`server_id`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`0`
	Range	`0-4294967295`

The server ID, used in replication to give each master and slave a unique identity. This variable is set by the --server-id option. For each server participating in replication, you should pick a positive integer in the range from 1 to 2³² – 1 to act as that server's ID.

shared_memory

Variable Name shared_memory

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

Platform Specific windows

(Windows only.) Whether the server permits shared-memory connections.
shared_memory_base_name

Variable Name shared_memory_base_name

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

Platform Specific windows

(Windows only.) The name of shared memory to use for shared-memory connections. This is useful when running multiple MySQL instances on a single physical machine. The default name is MYSQL. The name is case sensitive.
skip_external_locking

This is OFF if mysqld uses external locking, ON if external locking is disabled. This affects only MyISAM table access.
skip_networking

This is ON if the server permits only local (non-TCP/IP) connections. On Unix, local connections use a Unix socket file. On Windows, local connections use a named pipe or shared memory. On NetWare, only TCP/IP connections are supported, so do not set this variable to ON. This variable can be set to ON with the --skip-networking option.
skip_show_database

This prevents people from using the SHOW DATABASES statement if they do not have the SHOW DATABASES privilege. This can improve security if you have concerns about users being able to see databases belonging to other users. Its effect depends on the SHOW DATABASES privilege: If the variable value is ON, the SHOW DATABASES statement is permitted only to users who have the SHOW DATABASES privilege, and the statement displays all database names. If the value is OFF, SHOW DATABASES is permitted to all users, but displays the names of only those databases for which the user has the SHOW DATABASES or other privilege.

slow_launch_time

Command-Line Format	`--slow_launch_time=#`
Option-File Format	`slow_launch_time`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `slow_launch_time`
Variable Name	`slow_launch_time`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`2`

If creating a thread takes longer than this many seconds, the server increments the Slow_launch_threads status variable.

socket

Command-Line Format	`--socket=name`
Option-File Format	`socket`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `socket`
Variable Name	`socket`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`file name`
	Default	`/tmp/mysql.sock`

On Unix platforms, this variable is the name of the socket file that is used for local client connections. The default is /tmp/mysql.sock. (For some distribution formats, the directory might be different, such as /var/lib/mysql for RPMs.)

On Windows, this variable is the name of the named pipe that is used for local client connections. The default value is MySQL (not case sensitive).

sort_buffer_size

Command-Line Format	`--sort_buffer_size=#`
Option-File Format	`sort_buffer_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `sort_buffer_size`
Variable Name	`sort_buffer_size`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`2097144`
	Max Value	`4294967295`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`2097144`
	Max Value	`18446744073709547520`

Each session that needs to do a sort allocates a buffer of this size. sort_buffer_size is not specific to any storage engine and applies in a general manner for optimization. See Section 7.3.1.11, “ORDER BY Optimization”, for example.

If you see many Sort_merge_passes per second in SHOW GLOBAL STATUS output, you can consider increasing the sort_buffer_size value to speed up ORDER BY or GROUP BY operations that cannot be improved with query optimization or improved indexing. The entire buffer is allocated even if it is not all needed, so setting it larger than required globally will slow down most queries that sort. It is best to increase it as a session setting, and only for the sessions that need a larger size. On Linux, there are thresholds of 256KB and 2MB where larger values may significantly slow down memory allocation, so you should consider staying below one of those values. Experiment to find the best value for your workload. See Section C.5.4.4, “Where MySQL Stores Temporary Files”.

The maximum permissible setting for sort_buffer_size is 4GB.

sql_auto_is_null

Variable Name sql_auto_is_null

Variable Scope Session

Dynamic Variable Yes

If this variable is set to 1 (the default), then after a statement that successfully inserts an automatically generated AUTO_INCREMENT value, you can find that value by issuing a statement of the following form:
```
SELECT * FROM tbl_name WHERE auto_col IS NULL
```
If the statement returns a row, the value returned is the same as if you invoked the LAST_INSERT_ID() function. For details, including the return value after a multiple-row insert, see Section 11.13, “Information Functions”. If no AUTO_INCREMENT value was successfully inserted, the SELECT statement returns no row.

The behavior of retrieving an AUTO_INCREMENT value by using an IS NULL comparison is used by some ODBC programs, such as Access. See Section 20.1.7.1.1, “Obtaining Auto-Increment Values”. This behavior can be disabled by setting sql_auto_is_null to 0.
sql_big_selects

Variable Name sql_big_selects

Variable Scope Session

Dynamic Variable Yes

Permitted Values

Type boolean

Default 1

If set to 0, MySQL aborts SELECT statements that are likely to take a very long time to execute (that is, statements for which the optimizer estimates that the number of examined rows exceeds the value of max_join_size). This is useful when an inadvisable WHERE statement has been issued. The default value for a new connection is 1, which permits all SELECT statements.

If you set the max_join_size system variable to a value other than DEFAULT, sql_big_selects is set to 0.
sql_buffer_result

Variable Name sql_buffer_result

Variable Scope Session

Dynamic Variable Yes

Permitted Values

Type boolean

Default 0

If set to 1, sql_buffer_result forces results from SELECT statements to be put into temporary tables. This helps MySQL free the table locks early and can be beneficial in cases where it takes a long time to send results to the client. The default value is 0.
sql_log_bin

Variable Name sql_log_bin

Variable Scope Session

Dynamic Variable Yes

Permitted Values

Type boolean

If set to 0, no logging is done to the binary log for the client. The client must have the SUPER privilege to set this option. The default value is 1.
sql_log_off

Variable Name sql_log_off

Variable Scope Session

Dynamic Variable Yes

Permitted Values

Type boolean

Default 0

If set to 1, no logging is done to the general query log for this client. The client must have the SUPER privilege to set this option. The default value is 0.
sql_log_update

Version Deprecated 5.0

Variable Name sql_log_update

Variable Scope Session

Dynamic Variable Yes

Deprecated 5.0, by sql_log_bin

Permitted Values

Type boolean

This variable is deprecated, and is mapped to sql_log_bin. It is removed in MySQL 5.5.

sql_mode

Command-Line Format	`--sql-mode=name`
Option-File Format	`sql-mode`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `sql_mode`
Variable Name	`sql_mode`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`set`
	Default	`''`
	Valid Values	`ALLOW_INVALID_DATES`, `ANSI_QUOTES`, `ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO`, `HIGH_NOT_PRECEDENCE`, `IGNORE_SPACE`, `NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER`, `NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO`, `NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES`, `NO_DIR_IN_CREATE`, `NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION`, `NO_FIELD_OPTIONS`, `NO_KEY_OPTIONS`, `NO_TABLE_OPTIONS`, `NO_UNSIGNED_SUBTRACTION`, `NO_ZERO_DATE`, `NO_ZERO_IN_DATE`, `ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY`, `PAD_CHAR_TO_FULL_LENGTH`, `PIPES_AS_CONCAT`, `REAL_AS_FLOAT`, `STRICT_ALL_TABLES`, `STRICT_TRANS_TABLES`

The current server SQL mode, which can be set dynamically. See Section 5.1.6, “Server SQL Modes”.

sql_notes

If set to 1 (the default), warnings of Note level are recorded. If set to 0, Note warnings are suppressed. mysqldump includes output to set this variable to 0 so that reloading the dump file does not produce warnings for events that do not affect the integrity of the reload operation. sql_notes was added in MySQL 5.0.3.
sql_quote_show_create

If set to 1 (the default), the server quotes identifiers for SHOW CREATE TABLE and SHOW CREATE DATABASE statements. If set to 0, quoting is disabled. This option is enabled by default so that replication works for identifiers that require quoting. See Section 12.4.5.9, “SHOW CREATE TABLE Syntax”, and Section 12.4.5.6, “SHOW CREATE DATABASE Syntax”.
sql_safe_updates

If set to 1, MySQL aborts UPDATE or DELETE statements that do not use a key in the WHERE clause or a LIMIT clause. This makes it possible to catch UPDATE or DELETE statements where keys are not used properly and that would probably change or delete a large number of rows. The default value is 0.
sql_select_limit

Variable Name sql_select_limit

Variable Scope Global, Session

Dynamic Variable Yes

Permitted Values

Type numeric

The maximum number of rows to return from SELECT statements. The default value for a new connection is the maximum number of rows that the server permits per table, which depends on the server configuration and may be affected if the server build was configured with --with-big-tables. Typical default values are (2³²)–1 or (2⁶⁴)–1. If you have changed the limit, the default value can be restored by assigning a value of DEFAULT.

If a SELECT has a LIMIT clause, the LIMIT takes precedence over the value of sql_select_limit.

sql_select_limit does not apply to SELECT statements executed within stored routines. It also does not apply to SELECT statements that do not produce a result set to be returned to the client. These include SELECT statements in subqueries, CREATE TABLE ... SELECT, and INSERT INTO ... SELECT.
sql_warnings

This variable controls whether single-row INSERT statements produce an information string if warnings occur. The default is 0. Set the value to 1 to produce an information string.

ssl_ca

Version Introduced	5.0.23
Command-Line Format	`--ssl-ca=name`
Option-File Format	`ssl-ca`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `ssl_ca`
Variable Name	`ssl_ca`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`file name`

The path to a file with a list of trusted SSL CAs. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.23.

ssl_capath

Version Introduced	5.0.23
Command-Line Format	`--ssl-capath=name`
Option-File Format	`ssl-capath`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `ssl_capath`
Variable Name	`ssl_capath`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`file name`

The path to a directory that contains trusted SSL CA certificates in PEM format. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.23.

ssl_cert

Version Introduced	5.0.23
Command-Line Format	`--ssl-cert=name`
Option-File Format	`ssl-cert`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `ssl_cert`
Variable Name	`ssl_cert`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`file name`

The name of the SSL certificate file to use for establishing a secure connection. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.23.

ssl_cipher

Version Introduced	5.0.23
Command-Line Format	`--ssl-cipher=name`
Option-File Format	`ssl-cipher`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `ssl_cipher`
Variable Name	`ssl_cipher`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`file name`

A list of permissible ciphers to use for SSL encryption. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.23.

ssl_key

Version Introduced	5.0.23
Command-Line Format	`--ssl-key=name`
Option-File Format	`ssl-key`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `ssl_key`
Variable Name	`ssl_key`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`

The name of the SSL key file to use for establishing a secure connection. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.23.

storage_engine

Variable Name storage_engine

Variable Scope Global, Session

Dynamic Variable Yes

The default storage engine (table type). To set the storage engine at server startup, use the --default-storage-engine option. See Section 5.1.2, “Server Command Options”.

sync_frm

Command-Line Format	`--sync-frm`
Option-File Format	`sync_frm`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `sync_frm`
Variable Name	`sync_frm`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`TRUE`

If this variable is set to 1, when any nontemporary table is created its .frm file is synchronized to disk (using fdatasync()). This is slower but safer in case of a crash. The default is 1.

system_time_zone

Variable Name system_time_zone

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

Permitted Values

Type string

The server system time zone. When the server begins executing, it inherits a time zone setting from the machine defaults, possibly modified by the environment of the account used for running the server or the startup script. The value is used to set system_time_zone. Typically the time zone is specified by the TZ environment variable. It also can be specified using the --timezone option of the mysqld_safe script.

The system_time_zone variable differs from time_zone. Although they might have the same value, the latter variable is used to initialize the time zone for each client that connects. See Section 9.6, “MySQL Server Time Zone Support”.

table_cache

Command-Line Format	`--table_cache=#`
Option-File Format	`table_cache`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `table_cache`
Variable Name	`table_cache`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
Deprecated	5.1.3, by `table_open_cache`
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`64`
	Range	`1-524288`

The number of open tables for all threads. Increasing this value increases the number of file descriptors that mysqld requires. You can check whether you need to increase the table cache by checking the Opened_tables status variable. See Section 5.1.5, “Server Status Variables”. If the value of Opened_tables is large and you do not use FLUSH TABLES often (which just forces all tables to be closed and reopened), then you should increase the value of the table_cache variable. For more information about the table cache, see Section 7.8.2, “How MySQL Opens and Closes Tables”.

table_lock_wait_timeout

Version Introduced	5.0.10
Command-Line Format	`--table_lock_wait_timeout=#`
Option-File Format	`table_lock_wait_timeout`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `table_lock_wait_timeout`
Variable Name	`table_lock_wait_timeout`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`50`
	Range	`1-1073741824`

This variable is unused.

table_type

Variable Name table_type

Variable Scope Global, Session

Dynamic Variable Yes

Deprecated 5.2.5, by storage_engine

Permitted Values

Type enumeration

This variable is a synonym for storage_engine. In MySQL 5.0, storage_engine is the preferred name; table_type is deprecated and is removed in MySQL 5.5.

thread_cache_size

Command-Line Format	`--thread_cache_size=#`
Option-File Format	`thread_cache_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `thread_cache_size`
Variable Name	`thread_cache_size`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`0`
	Range	`0-16384`

How many threads the server should cache for reuse. When a client disconnects, the client's threads are put in the cache if there are fewer than thread_cache_size threads there. Requests for threads are satisfied by reusing threads taken from the cache if possible, and only when the cache is empty is a new thread created. This variable can be increased to improve performance if you have a lot of new connections. Normally, this does not provide a notable performance improvement if you have a good thread implementation. However, if your server sees hundreds of connections per second you should normally set thread_cache_size high enough so that most new connections use cached threads. By examining the difference between the Connections and Threads_created status variables, you can see how efficient the thread cache is. For details, see Section 5.1.5, “Server Status Variables”.

thread_concurrency

Command-Line Format	`--thread_concurrency=#`
Option-File Format	`thread_concurrency`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `thread_concurrency`
Variable Name	`thread_concurrency`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`10`
	Range	`1-512`

This variable is specific to Solaris systems, for which mysqld invokes the thr_setconcurrency() with the variable value. This function enables applications to give the threads system a hint about the desired number of threads that should be run at the same time.

thread_stack

Command-Line Format	`--thread_stack=#`
Option-File Format	`thread_stack`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `thread_stack`
Variable Name	`thread_stack`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`196608`
	Range	`131072-4294967295`
	Block Size	`1024`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`262144`
	Range	`131072-18446744073709547520`
	Block Size	`1024`

The stack size for each thread. Many of the limits detected by the crash-me test are dependent on this value. See Section 7.1.3, “The MySQL Benchmark Suite”. The default of 192KB (256KB for 64-bit systems) is large enough for normal operation. If the thread stack size is too small, it limits the complexity of the SQL statements that the server can handle, the recursion depth of stored procedures, and other memory-consuming actions.

time_format

This variable is unused.

time_zone

Command-Line Format	`--default_time_zone=string`
Option-File Format	`default_time_zone`
Variable Name	`time_zone`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`

The current time zone. This variable is used to initialize the time zone for each client that connects. By default, the initial value of this is 'SYSTEM' (which means, “use the value of system_time_zone”). The value can be specified explicitly at server startup with the --default-time-zone option. See Section 9.6, “MySQL Server Time Zone Support”.

timed_mutexes

Version Introduced	5.0.3
Command-Line Format	`--timed_mutexes`
Option-File Format	`timed_mutexes`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `timed_mutexes`
Variable Name	`timed_mutexes`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`OFF`

This variable controls whether InnoDB mutexes are timed. If this variable is set to 0 or OFF (the default), mutex timing is disabled. If the variable is set to 1 or ON, mutex timing is enabled. With timing enabled, the os_wait_times value in the output from SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX indicates the amount of time (in ms) spent in operating system waits. Otherwise, the value is 0. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.3.

timestamp = {timestamp_value | DEFAULT}

Set the time for this client. This is used to get the original timestamp if you use the binary log to restore rows. timestamp_value should be a Unix epoch timestamp, not a MySQL timestamp.

SET timestamp affects the value returned by NOW() but not by SYSDATE(). This means that timestamp settings in the binary log have no effect on invocations of SYSDATE(). The server can be started with the --sysdate-is-now option to cause SYSDATE() to be an alias for NOW(), in which case SET timestamp affects both functions.

tmp_table_size

Command-Line Format	`--tmp_table_size=#`
Option-File Format	`tmp_table_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `tmp_table_size`
Variable Name	`tmp_table_size`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`system dependent`
	Range	`1024-4294967295`

The maximum size of internal in-memory temporary tables. (The actual limit is determined as the minimum of tmp_table_size and max_heap_table_size.) If an in-memory temporary table exceeds the limit, MySQL automatically converts it to an on-disk MyISAM table. Increase the value of tmp_table_size (and max_heap_table_size if necessary) if you do many advanced GROUP BY queries and you have lots of memory. This variable does not apply to user-created MEMORY tables.

You can compare the number of internal on-disk temporary tables created to the total number of internal temporary tables created by comparing the values of the Created_tmp_disk_tables and Created_tmp_tables variables.

tmpdir

Command-Line Format	`--tmpdir=path`
	`-t`
Option-File Format	`tmpdir`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `tmpdir`
Variable Name	`tmpdir`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`file name`

The directory used for temporary files and temporary tables. This variable can be set to a list of several paths that are used in round-robin fashion. Paths should be separated by colon characters (“:”) on Unix and semicolon characters (“;”) on Windows, NetWare, and OS/2.

The multiple-directory feature can be used to spread the load between several physical disks. If the MySQL server is acting as a replication slave, you should not set tmpdir to point to a directory on a memory-based file system or to a directory that is cleared when the server host restarts. A replication slave needs some of its temporary files to survive a machine restart so that it can replicate temporary tables or LOAD DATA INFILE operations. If files in the temporary file directory are lost when the server restarts, replication fails. You can set the slave's temporary directory using the slave_load_tmpdir variable. In that case, the slave will not use the general tmpdir value and you can set tmpdir to a nonpermanent location.

transaction_alloc_block_size

Command-Line Format	`--transaction_alloc_block_size=#`
Option-File Format	`transaction_alloc_block_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `transaction_alloc_block_size`
Variable Name	`transaction_alloc_block_size`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`8192`
	Range	`1024-4294967295`
	Block Size	`1024`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`8192`
	Range	`1024-18446744073709547520`
	Block Size	`1024`

The amount in bytes by which to increase a per-transaction memory pool which needs memory. See the description of transaction_prealloc_size.

transaction_prealloc_size

Command-Line Format	`--transaction_prealloc_size=#`
Option-File Format	`transaction_prealloc_size`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `transaction_prealloc_size`
Variable Name	`transaction_prealloc_size`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`32`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`4096`
	Range	`1024-4294967295`
	Block Size	`1024`
	Permitted Values
	Platform Bit Size	`64`
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`4096`
	Range	`1024-18446744073709547520`
	Block Size	`1024`

There is a per-transaction memory pool from which various transaction-related allocations take memory. The initial size of the pool in bytes is transaction_prealloc_size. For every allocation that cannot be satisfied from the pool because it has insufficient memory available, the pool is increased by transaction_alloc_block_size bytes. When the transaction ends, the pool is truncated to transaction_prealloc_size bytes.

By making transaction_prealloc_size sufficiently large to contain all statements within a single transaction, you can avoid many malloc() calls.

tx_isolation

Variable Name	`tx_isolation`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`enumeration`
	Default	`REPEATABLE-READ`
	Valid Values	`READ-UNCOMMITTED`, `READ-COMMITTED`, `REPEATABLE-READ`, `SERIALIZABLE`

The default transaction isolation level. Defaults to REPEATABLE-READ.

This variable is set by the SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL statement. See Section 12.3.6, “SET TRANSACTION Syntax”. If you set tx_isolation directly to an isolation level name that contains a space, the name should be enclosed within quotation marks, with the space replaced by a dash. For example:

SET tx_isolation = 'READ-COMMITTED';

Any unique prefix of a valid value may be used to set the value of this variable.

The default transactional isolation level can also be set at startup using the --transaction-isolation server option.

unique_checks

Variable Name unique_checks

Variable Scope Session

Dynamic Variable Yes

Permitted Values

Type boolean

Default 1

If set to 1 (the default), uniqueness checks for secondary indexes in InnoDB tables are performed. If set to 0, storage engines are permitted to assume that duplicate keys are not present in input data. If you know for certain that your data does not contain uniqueness violations, you can set this to 0 to speed up large table imports to InnoDB.

Note that setting this variable to 0 does not require storage engines to ignore duplicate keys. An engine is still permitted to check for them and issue duplicate-key errors if it detects them.

updatable_views_with_limit

Version Introduced	5.0.2
Command-Line Format	`--updatable_views_with_limit=#`
Option-File Format	`updatable_views_with_limit`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `updatable_views_with_limit`
Variable Name	`updatable_views_with_limit`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`1`

This variable controls whether updates to a view can be made when the view does not contain all columns of the primary key defined in the underlying table, if the update statement contains a LIMIT clause. (Such updates often are generated by GUI tools.) An update is an UPDATE or DELETE statement. Primary key here means a PRIMARY KEY, or a UNIQUE index in which no column can contain NULL.

The variable can have two values:

1 or YES: Issue a warning only (not an error message). This is the default value.
0 or NO: Prohibit the update.

This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.2.

version

Variable Name version

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

The version number for the server. The value might also include a suffix indicating server build or configuration information. -log indicates that one or more of the general log, slow query log, or binary log are enabled. -debug indicates that the server was built with debugging support enabled.

Variable Name version

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

Starting with MySQL 5.0.24, the version number will also indicate whether the server is a standard release (Community) or Enterprise release (for example, 5.0.28-enterprise-gpl-nt).
version_bdb

The BDB storage engine version.
version_comment

Variable Name version_comment

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

Permitted Values

Type string

The configure script has a --with-comment option that permits a comment to be specified when building MySQL. This variable contains the value of that comment.

For precompiled binaries, this variable will hold the server version and license information. Starting with MySQL 5.0.24, version_comment will include the full server type and license. For community users this will appear as MySQL Community Edition - Standard (GPL). For Enterprise users, the version might be displayed as MySQL Enterprise Server (GPL). The corresponding license for your MySQL binary is shown in parentheses. For server compiled from source, the default value will be the same as that for Community releases.
version_compile_machine

Variable Name version_compile_machine

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

Permitted Values

Type string

The type of machine or architecture on which MySQL was built.
version_compile_os

Variable Name version_compile_os

Variable Scope Global

Dynamic Variable No

Permitted Values

Type string

The type of operating system on which MySQL was built.

wait_timeout

Command-Line Format	`--wait_timeout=#`
Option-File Format	`wait_timeout`
Option Sets Variable	Yes, `wait_timeout`
Variable Name	`wait_timeout`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`
	Default	`28800`
	Range	`1-31536000`
	Permitted Values
	Type (windows)	`numeric`
	Default	`28800`
	Range	`1-2147483`

The number of seconds the server waits for activity on a noninteractive connection before closing it. This timeout applies only to TCP/IP and Unix socket file connections, not to connections made using named pipes, or shared memory.

On thread startup, the session wait_timeout value is initialized from the global wait_timeout value or from the global interactive_timeout value, depending on the type of client (as defined by the CLIENT_INTERACTIVE connect option to mysql_real_connect()). See also interactive_timeout.

warning_count

The number of errors, warnings, and notes that resulted from the last statement that generated messages. This variable is read only. See Section 12.4.5.37, “SHOW WARNINGS Syntax”.

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MySQL Server System Variables

Server System Variables

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ผู้ติดตาม

Variable Name	`character_set_client`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`

Variable Name	`character_set_connection`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`

Variable Name	`character_set_results`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`

Variable Name	`character_set_system`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`

Variable Name	`collation_connection`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`

Command-Line Format	`--flush`
Option-File Format	`flush`
Variable Name	`flush`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`OFF`

Variable Name	`large_files_support`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No

Version Introduced	5.0.25
Variable Name	`lc_time_names`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`

Variable Name	`license`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`
	Default	`GPL`

Variable Name	`local_infile`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`

Variable Name	`locked_in_memory`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No

Variable Name	`log_bin`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No

Variable Name	`max_insert_delayed_threads`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`

Variable Name	`myisam_recover_options`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No

Variable Name	`named_pipe`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
Platform Specific	windows
	Permitted Values
	Type (windows)	`boolean`
	Default	`OFF`

Version Introduced	5.0.21
Version Removed	5.0.31
Variable Name	`prepared_stmt_count`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`

Variable Name	`protocol_version`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`

Variable Name	`pseudo_thread_id`
Variable Scope	Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`

Variable Name	`shared_memory`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
Platform Specific	windows

Variable Name	`shared_memory_base_name`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
Platform Specific	windows

Variable Name	`sql_auto_is_null`
Variable Scope	Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes

Variable Name	`sql_big_selects`
Variable Scope	Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`1`

Variable Name	`sql_buffer_result`
Variable Scope	Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`0`

Variable Name	`sql_log_bin`
Variable Scope	Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`

Variable Name	`sql_log_off`
Variable Scope	Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`
	Default	`0`

Version Deprecated	5.0
Variable Name	`sql_log_update`
Variable Scope	Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
Deprecated	5.0, by `sql_log_bin`
	Permitted Values
	Type	`boolean`

Variable Name	`sql_select_limit`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
	Permitted Values
	Type	`numeric`

Variable Name	`storage_engine`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes

Variable Name	`system_time_zone`
Variable Scope	Global
Dynamic Variable	No
	Permitted Values
	Type	`string`

Variable Name	`table_type`
Variable Scope	Global, Session
Dynamic Variable	Yes
Deprecated	5.2.5, by `storage_engine`
	Permitted Values
	Type	`enumeration`