Server-Side Help

• MySQL server supports a HELP statement that returns online information from the MySQL reference manual.
  • The proper operation of this statement requires that the help tables in the mysql database be initialized with help topic information.
    • This is done by processing the contents of the fill_help_tables.sql script.
    • On Linux with an RPM installation, help table setup occurs as part of the MySQL installation process.

• For a MySQL source distribution, the fill_help_tables.sql file is in the scripts directory.
  • To load the file manually, first initialize the mysql database by running mysql_install_db
  • Then process the file with the mysql client as follows:

    mysql -u root mysql < fill_help_tables.sql

What is mysqld_safe?

---

---

© 2007 John Michael Pierobon

Notes