--abort-slave-event-count

When this option is set to some positive integer value other than 0 (the default) it affects replication behavior as follows: After the slave SQL thread has started, value log events are allowed to be executed; after that, the slave SQL thread does not receive any more events, just as if the network connection from the master were cut. The slave thread continues to run, and the output from SHOW SLAVE STATUS displays Yes in both the Slave_IO_Running and the Slave_SQL_Running columns, but no further events are read from the relay log.

This option is used internally by the MySQL test suite for replication testing and debugging. It is not intended for use in a production setting.

--disconnect-slave-event-count

This option is used internally by the MySQL test suite for replication testing and debugging.

--log-slave-updates

Normally, a slave does not log to its own binary log any updates that are received from a master server. This option tells the slave to log the updates performed by its SQL thread to its own binary log. For this option to have any effect, the slave must also be started with the --log-bin option to enable binary logging. --log-slave-updates is used when you want to chain replication servers. For example, you might want to set up replication servers using this arrangement:

A -> B -> C

Here, A serves as the master for the slave B, and B serves as the master for the slave C. For this to work, B must be both a master and a slave. You must start both A and B with --log-bin to enable binary logging, and B with the --log-slave-updates option so that updates received from A are logged by B to its binary log.

When using MySQL Cluster Replication prior to MySQL Cluster NDB 6.2.16 and MySQL Cluster NDB 6.3.13, records for “empty” epochs—that is, epochs in which no changes to NDBCLUSTER data or tables took place—were inserted into the ndb_apply_status and ndb_binlog_index tables on the slave even when --log-slave-updates was disabled (Bug#37472). Beginning with MySQL Cluster NDB 6.3.33, MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0.14, and MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1.3, it is possible to re-enable the older behavior by using the --ndb-log-empty-epochs option.

--log-slow-slave-statements

When the slow query log is enabled, this option enables logging for queries that have taken more than long_query_time seconds to execute on the slave.

This option was added in MySQL 5.1.21.

--log-warnings[=level]

This option causes a server to print more messages to the error log about what it is doing. With respect to replication, the server generates warnings that it succeeded in reconnecting after a network/connection failure, and informs you as to how each slave thread started. This option is enabled by default; to disable it, use --skip-log-warnings. Aborted connections are not logged to the error log unless the value is greater than 1.

Note that the effects of this option are not limited to replication. It produces warnings across a spectrum of server activities.

--master-connect-retry=seconds

The number of seconds that the slave thread sleeps before trying to reconnect to the master in case the master goes down or the connection is lost. The value in the master.info file takes precedence if it can be read. If not set, the default is 60. Connection retries are not invoked until the slave times out reading data from the master according to the value of --slave-net-timeout. The number of reconnection attempts is limited by the --master-retry-count option.

This option is deprecated as of MySQL 5.1.17 and is removed in MySQL 5.5.

--master-host=host_name

The host name or IP number of the master replication server. The value in master.info takes precedence if it can be read. If no master host is specified, the slave thread does not start.

This option is deprecated as of MySQL 5.1.17 and is removed in MySQL 5.5.

--master-info-file=file_name

The name to use for the file in which the slave records information about the master. The default name is master.info in the data directory.

--master-password=password

The password of the account that the slave thread uses for authentication when it connects to the master. The value in the master.info file takes precedence if it can be read. If not set, an empty password is assumed.

This option is deprecated as of MySQL 5.1.17 and is removed in MySQL 5.5.

--master-port=port_number

The TCP/IP port number that the master is listening on. The value in the master.info file takes precedence if it can be read. If not set, the compiled-in setting is assumed (normally 3306).

This option is deprecated as of MySQL 5.1.17 and is removed in MySQL 5.5.

--master-retry-count=count

The number of times that the slave tries to connect to the master before giving up. Reconnects are attempted at intervals set by --master-connect-retry and reconnects are triggered when data reads by the slave time out according to the --slave-net-timeout option. The default value is 86400.

You can also set the retry count by using the MASTER_CONNECT_RETRY option for the CHANGE MASTER TO statement.

--master-ssl, --master-ssl-ca=file_name, --master-ssl-capath=directory_name, --master-ssl-cert=file_name, --master-ssl-cipher=cipher_list, --master-ssl-key=file_name

These options are used for setting up a secure replication connection to the master server using SSL. Their meanings are the same as the corresponding --ssl, --ssl-ca, --ssl-capath, --ssl-cert, --ssl-cipher, --ssl-key options that are described in Section 5.5.6.3, “SSL Command Options”. The values in the master.info file take precedence if they can be read.

These options are deprecated as of MySQL 5.1.17 and are removed in MySQL 5.5.

--master-user=user_name

The user name of the account that the slave thread uses for authentication when it connects to the master. This account must have the REPLICATION SLAVE privilege. The value in the master.info file takes precedence if it can be read. If the master user name is not set, the name test is assumed.

This option is deprecated as of MySQL 5.1.17 and is removed in MySQL 5.5.

--max-relay-log-size=size

The size at which the server rotates relay log files automatically. For more information, see Section 16.2.2, “Replication Relay and Status Files”. The default size is 1GB.

--read-only

Cause the slave to allow no updates except from slave threads or from users having the SUPER privilege. On a slave server, this can be useful to ensure that the slave accepts updates only from its master server and not from clients. This variable does not apply to TEMPORARY tables.

--relay-log=file_name

The basename for the relay log. The default basename is host_name-relay-bin. The server writes the file in the data directory unless the basename is given with a leading absolute path name to specify a different directory. The server creates relay log files in sequence by adding a numeric suffix to the basename.

Due to the manner in which MySQL parses server options, if you specify this option, you must supply a value; the default basename is used only if the option is not actually specified. If you use the --relay-log option without specifying a value, unexpected behavior is likely to result; this behavior depends on the other options used, the order in which they are specified, and whether they are specified on the command line or in an option file. For more information about how MySQL handles server options, see Section 4.2.3, “Specifying Program Options”.

If you specify this option, the value specified is also used as the basename for the relay log index file. You can override this behavior by specifying a different relay log index file basename using the --relay-log-index option.

You may find the --relay-log option useful in performing the following tasks:

--relay-log-index=file_name

The name to use for the relay log index file. The default name is host_name-relay-bin.index in the data directory, where host_name is the name of the slave server.

Due to the manner in which MySQL parses server options, if you specify this option, you must supply a value; the default basename is used only if the option is not actually specified. If you use the --relay-log-index option without specifying a value, unexpected behavior is likely to result; this behavior depends on the other options used, the order in which they are specified, and whether they are specified on the command line or in an option file. For more information about how MySQL handles server options, see Section 4.2.3, “Specifying Program Options”.

If you specify this option, the value specified is also used as the basename for the relay logs. You can override this behavior by specifying a different relay log file basename using the --relay-log option.

--relay-log-info-file=file_name

The name to use for the file in which the slave records information about the relay logs. The default name is relay-log.info in the data directory.

--relay-log-purge={0|1}

Disable or enable automatic purging of relay logs as soon as they are no longer needed. The default value is 1 (enabled). This is a global variable that can be changed dynamically with SET GLOBAL relay_log_purge = N.

--relay-log-space-limit=size

This option places an upper limit on the total size in bytes of all relay logs on the slave. A value of 0 means “no limit.” This is useful for a slave server host that has limited disk space. When the limit is reached, the I/O thread stops reading binary log events from the master server until the SQL thread has caught up and deleted some unused relay logs. Note that this limit is not absolute: There are cases where the SQL thread needs more events before it can delete relay logs. In that case, the I/O thread exceeds the limit until it becomes possible for the SQL thread to delete some relay logs because not doing so would cause a deadlock. You should not set --relay-log-space-limit to less than twice the value of --max-relay-log-size (or --max-binlog-size if --max-relay-log-size is 0). In that case, there is a chance that the I/O thread waits for free space because --relay-log-space-limit is exceeded, but the SQL thread has no relay log to purge and is unable to satisfy the I/O thread. This forces the I/O thread to ignore --relay-log-space-limit temporarily.

--replicate-do-db=db_name

The effects of this option depend on whether statement-based or row-based replication is in use.

Statement-based replication.  Tell the slave to restrict replication to statements where the default database (that is, the one selected by USE) is db_name. To specify more than one database, use this option multiple times, once for each database; however, doing so does not replicate cross-database statements such as UPDATE some_db.some_table SET foo='bar' while a different database (or no database) is selected.

An example of what does not work as you might expect when using statement-based replication: If the slave is started with --replicate-do-db=sales and you issue the following statements on the master, the UPDATE statement is not replicated:

USE prices;
UPDATE sales.january SET amount=amount+1000;

The main reason for this “check just the default database” behavior is that it is difficult from the statement alone to know whether it should be replicated (for example, if you are using multiple-table DELETE statements or multiple-table UPDATE statements that act across multiple databases). It is also faster to check only the default database rather than all databases if there is no need.

Row-based replication.  Tells the slave to restrict replication to database db_name. Only tables belonging to db_name are changed; the current database has no effect on this. Suppose that the slave is started with --replicate-do-db=sales and row-based replication is in effect, and then the following statements are run on the master:

USE prices;
UPDATE sales.february SET amount=amount+100;

The february table in the sales database on the slave is changed in accordance with the UPDATE statement; this occurs whether or not the USE statement was issued. However, issuing the following statements on the master has no effect on the slave when using row-based replication and --replicate-do-db=sales:

USE prices;
UPDATE prices.march SET amount=amount-25;

Even if the statement USE prices were changed to USE sales, the UPDATE statement's effects would still not be replicated.

Another important difference in how --replicate-do-db is handled in statement-based replication as opposed to row-based replication occurs with regard to statements that refer to multiple databases. Suppose the slave is started with --replicate-do-db=db1, and the following statements are executed on the master:

USE db1;
UPDATE db1.table1 SET col1 = 10, db2.table2 SET col2 = 20;

If you are using statement-based replication, then both tables are updated on the slave. However, when using row-based replication, only table1 is affected on the slave; since table2 is in a different database, table2 on the slave is not changed by the UPDATE. Now suppose that, instead of the USE db1 statement, a USE db4 statement had been used:

USE db4;
UPDATE db1.table1 SET col1 = 10, db2.table2 SET col2 = 20;

In this case, the UPDATE statement would have no effect on the slave when using statement-based replication. However, if you are using row-based replication, the UPDATE would change table1 on the slave, but not table2—in other words, only tables in the database named by --replicate-do-db are changed, and the choice of default database has no effect on this behavior.

If you need cross-database updates to work, use --replicate-wild-do-table=db_name.% instead. See Section 16.2.3, “How Servers Evaluate Replication Filtering Rules”.

--replicate-ignore-db=db_name

As with --replicate-do-db, the effects of this option depend on whether statement-based or row-based replication is in use.

Statement-based replication.  Tells the slave to not replicate any statement where the default database (that is, the one selected by USE) is db_name.

Row-based replication.  Tells the slave not to update any tables in the database db_name. The default database has no effect.

When using statement-based replication, the following example does not work as you might expect. Suppose that the slave is started with --replicate-ignore-db=sales and you issue the following statements on the master:

USE prices;
UPDATE sales.january SET amount=amount+1000;

The UPDATE statement is replicated in such a case because --replicate-ignore-db applies only to the default database (determined by the USE statement). Because the sales database was specified explicitly in the statement, the statement has not been filtered. However, when using row-based replication, the UPDATE statement's effects are not propagated to the slave, and the slave's copy of the sales.january table is unchanged; in this instance, --replicate-ignore-db=sales causes all changes made to tables in the master's copy of the sales database to be ignored by the slave.

To specify more than one database to ignore, use this option multiple times, once for each database. Because database names can contain commas, if you supply a comma separated list then the list will be treated as the name of a single database.

You should not use this option if you are using cross-database updates and you do not want these updates to be replicated. See Section 16.2.3, “How Servers Evaluate Replication Filtering Rules”.

If you need cross-database updates to work, use --replicate-wild-ignore-table=db_name.% instead. See Section 16.2.3, “How Servers Evaluate Replication Filtering Rules”.

--replicate-do-table=db_name.tbl_name

Tells the slave thread to restrict replication to the specified table. To specify more than one table, use this option multiple times, once for each table. This works for both cross-database updates and default database updates, in contrast to --replicate-do-db. See Section 16.2.3, “How Servers Evaluate Replication Filtering Rules”.

This option affects only statements that apply to tables. It does not affect statements that apply only to other database objects, such as stored routines. To filter statements operating on stored routines, use one or more of the --replicate-*-db options.

--replicate-ignore-table=db_name.tbl_name

Tells the slave thread to not replicate any statement that updates the specified table, even if any other tables might be updated by the same statement. To specify more than one table to ignore, use this option multiple times, once for each table. This works for cross-database updates, in contrast to --replicate-ignore-db. See Section 16.2.3, “How Servers Evaluate Replication Filtering Rules”.

This option affects only statements that apply to tables. It does not affect statements that apply only to other database objects, such as stored routines. To filter statements operating on stored routines, use one or more of the --replicate-*-db options.

--replicate-rewrite-db=from_name->to_name

Tells the slave to translate the default database (that is, the one selected by USE) to to_name if it was from_name on the master. Only statements involving tables are affected (not statements such as CREATE DATABASE, DROP DATABASE, and ALTER DATABASE), and only if from_name is the default database on the master. This does not work for cross-database updates. To specify multiple rewrites, use this option multiple times. The server uses the first one with a from_name value that matches. The database name translation is done before the --replicate-* rules are tested.

If you use this option on the command line and the “>” character is special to your command interpreter, quote the option value. For example:

shell> mysqld --replicate-rewrite-db="olddb->newdb"

--replicate-same-server-id

To be used on slave servers. Usually you should use the default setting of 0, to prevent infinite loops caused by circular replication. If set to 1, the slave does not skip events having its own server ID. Normally, this is useful only in rare configurations. Cannot be set to 1 if --log-slave-updates is used. By default, the slave I/O thread does not write binary log events to the relay log if they have the slave's server ID (this optimization helps save disk usage). If you want to use --replicate-same-server-id, be sure to start the slave with this option before you make the slave read its own events that you want the slave SQL thread to execute.

--replicate-wild-do-table=db_name.tbl_name

Tells the slave thread to restrict replication to statements where any of the updated tables match the specified database and table name patterns. Patterns can contain the “%” and “_” wildcard characters, which have the same meaning as for the LIKE pattern-matching operator. To specify more than one table, use this option multiple times, once for each table. This works for cross-database updates. See Section 16.2.3, “How Servers Evaluate Replication Filtering Rules”.

This option applies to tables, views, and triggers. It does not apply to stored procedures and functions, or events. To filter statements operating on the latter objects, use one or more of the --replicate-*-db options.

Example: --replicate-wild-do-table=foo%.bar% replicates only updates that use a table where the database name starts with foo and the table name starts with bar.

If the table name pattern is %, it matches any table name and the option also applies to database-level statements (CREATE DATABASE, DROP DATABASE, and ALTER DATABASE). For example, if you use --replicate-wild-do-table=foo%.%, database-level statements are replicated if the database name matches the pattern foo%.

To include literal wildcard characters in the database or table name patterns, escape them with a backslash. For example, to replicate all tables of a database that is named my_own%db, but not replicate tables from the my1ownAABCdb database, you should escape the “_” and “%” characters like this: --replicate-wild-do-table=my\_own\%db. If you use the option on the command line, you might need to double the backslashes or quote the option value, depending on your command interpreter. For example, with the bash shell, you would need to type --replicate-wild-do-table=my\\_own\\%db.

--replicate-wild-ignore-table=db_name.tbl_name

Tells the slave thread not to replicate a statement where any table matches the given wildcard pattern. To specify more than one table to ignore, use this option multiple times, once for each table. This works for cross-database updates. See Section 16.2.3, “How Servers Evaluate Replication Filtering Rules”.

Example: --replicate-wild-ignore-table=foo%.bar% does not replicate updates that use a table where the database name starts with foo and the table name starts with bar.

For information about how matching works, see the description of the --replicate-wild-do-table option. The rules for including literal wildcard characters in the option value are the same as for --replicate-wild-ignore-table as well.

--report-host=host_name

The host name or IP number of the slave to be reported to the master during slave registration. This value appears in the output of SHOW SLAVE HOSTS on the master server. Leave the value unset if you do not want the slave to register itself with the master. Note that it is not sufficient for the master to simply read the IP number of the slave from the TCP/IP socket after the slave connects. Due to NAT and other routing issues, that IP may not be valid for connecting to the slave from the master or other hosts.

--report-password=password

The account password of the slave to be reported to the master during slave registration. This value appears in the output of SHOW SLAVE HOSTS on the master server if the --show-slave-auth-info option is given.

--report-port=slave_port_num

The TCP/IP port number for connecting to the slave, to be reported to the master during slave registration. Set this only if the slave is listening on a nondefault port or if you have a special tunnel from the master or other clients to the slave. If you are not sure, do not use this option.

--report-user=user_name

The account user name of the slave to be reported to the master during slave registration. This value appears in the output of SHOW SLAVE HOSTS on the master server if the --show-slave-auth-info option is given.

--show-slave-auth-info

Display slave user names and passwords in the output of SHOW SLAVE HOSTS on the master server for slaves started with the --report-user and --report-password options.

--skip-slave-start

Tells the slave server not to start the slave threads when the server starts. To start the threads later, use a START SLAVE statement.

--slave_compressed_protocol={0|1}

If this option is set to 1, use compression for the slave/master protocol if both the slave and the master support it. The default is 0 (no compression).

--slave-load-tmpdir=file_name

The name of the directory where the slave creates temporary files. This option is by default equal to the value of the tmpdir system variable. When the slave SQL thread replicates a LOAD DATA INFILE statement, it extracts the file to be loaded from the relay log into temporary files, and then loads these into the table. If the file loaded on the master is huge, the temporary files on the slave are huge, too. Therefore, it might be advisable to use this option to tell the slave to put temporary files in a directory located in some file system that has a lot of available space. In that case, the relay logs are huge as well, so you might also want to use the --relay-log option to place the relay logs in that file system.

The directory specified by this option should be located in a disk-based file system (not a memory-based file system) because the temporary files used to replicate LOAD DATA INFILE must survive machine restarts. The directory also should not be one that is cleared by the operating system during the system startup process.

--slave-net-timeout=seconds

The number of seconds to wait for more data from the master before the slave considers the connection broken, aborts the read, and tries to reconnect. The first retry occurs immediately after the timeout. The interval between retries is controlled by the MASTER_CONNECT_RETRY option for the CHANGE MASTER TO statement or --master-connect-retry option, and the number of reconnection attempts is limited by the --master-retry-count option. The default is 3600 seconds (one hour).

--slave-skip-errors=[err_code1,err_code2,...|all]

Normally, replication stops when an error occurs on the slave. This gives you the opportunity to resolve the inconsistency in the data manually. This option tells the slave SQL thread to continue replication when a statement returns any of the errors listed in the option value.

Do not use this option unless you fully understand why you are getting errors. If there are no bugs in your replication setup and client programs, and no bugs in MySQL itself, an error that stops replication should never occur. Indiscriminate use of this option results in slaves becoming hopelessly out of synchrony with the master, with you having no idea why this has occurred.

For error codes, you should use the numbers provided by the error message in your slave error log and in the output of SHOW SLAVE STATUS. Appendix B, Errors, Error Codes, and Common Problems, lists server error codes.

You can also (but should not) use the very nonrecommended value of all to cause the slave to ignore all error messages and keeps going regardless of what happens. Needless to say, if you use all, there are no guarantees regarding the integrity of your data. Please do not complain (or file bug reports) in this case if the slave's data is not anywhere close to what it is on the master. You have been warned.

Examples:

--slave-skip-errors=1062,1053
--slave-skip-errors=all

init_slave

This variable is similar to init_connect, but is a string to be executed by a slave server each time the SQL thread starts. The format of the string is the same as for the init_connect variable.

rpl_recovery_rank

This variable is unused.

slave_compressed_protocol

Whether to use compression of the slave/master protocol if both the slave and the master support it.

slave_exec_mode

Controls whether IDEMPOTENT or STRICT mode is used in replication conflict resolution and error checking. IDEMPOTENT mode causes suppression of duplicate-key and no-key-found errors. Beginning with MySQL 5.1.23-ndb-6.2.14 and MySQL 5.1.24, this mode should be employed in multi-master replication, circular replication, and some other special replication scenarios. STRICT mode is the default, and is suitable for most other cases.

slave_load_tmpdir

The name of the directory where the slave creates temporary files for replicating LOAD DATA INFILE statements.

slave_net_timeout

The number of seconds to wait for more data from a master/slave connection before aborting the read. This timeout applies only to TCP/IP connections, not to connections made via Unix socket files, named pipes, or shared memory.

slave_skip_errors

Normally, replication stops when an error occurs on the slave. This gives you the opportunity to resolve the inconsistency in the data manually. This variable tells the slave SQL thread to continue replication when a statement returns any of the errors listed in the variable value.

slave_transaction_retries

If a replication slave SQL thread fails to execute a transaction because of an InnoDB deadlock or because the transaction's execution time exceeded InnoDB's innodb_lock_wait_timeout or NDBCLUSTER's TransactionDeadlockDetectionTimeout or TransactionInactiveTimeout, it automatically retries slave_transaction_retries times before stopping with an error. The default value is 10.

slave_type_conversions

Controls the type conversion mode in effect on the slave when using MySQL Cluster Replication. Its value is a comma-delimited set of zero or more elements from the list: ALL_LOSSY, ALL_NON_LOSSY. Set this variable to an empty string to disallow type conversions between the master and the slave. Changes require a restart of the slave to take effect.

For additional information on type conversion modes applicable to MySQL Cluster replication attribute promotion and demotion, see Attribute promotion and demotion (MySQL Cluster).

This variable was added in MySQL Cluster NDB 6.3.33, 7.0.14, and 7.1.3.

sql_slave_skip_counter

The number of events from the master that a slave server should skip.