Details
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Bug
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Status: Confirmed (View Workflow)
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Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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10.3.37, 10.4.27, 10.5.18, 10.6.11, 10.3(EOL), 10.4(EOL), 10.5, 10.6, 10.7(EOL), 10.8(EOL), 10.9(EOL), 10.10(EOL), 10.11
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Description
System variables can be defined with NO_CMD_LINE, which means that they technically do not support being set in configuration files or on the command-line. However, there are several cases like this, where a command-line option is separately defined with the same name that is tied to the system variable. From a user's perspective, these system variables can be set in configuration files and on the command-line.
autocommit is a system variable that falls into this category:
- The sysvar is defined as NO_CMD_LINE here - https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blob/mariadb-10.6.11/sql/sys_vars.cc#L4425
- The command-line option is defined here - https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blob/mariadb-10.6.11/sql/mysqld.cc#L6336
In these scenarios, the information_schema.SYSTEM_VARIABLES table can give bad information about the system variable. As the test below shows, this does apply to autocommit in particular, but it also probably impacts other system variables that are defined similarly, such as slave_parallel_mode.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of system variables that are likely impacted:
- autocommit
- default_storage_engine
- slave_parallel_mode
If more are discovered, feel free to add them to the above list.
Steps to reproduce
1. Set autocommit=0 in a configuration file, such as /etc/my.cnf.d/z-server-no-autocommit.cnf:
[mariadb]
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autocommit=0
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2. Restart the server:
$ sudo systemctl restart mariadb
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3. Connect to the server:
$ sudo mariadb
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4. Query information_schema.SYSTEM_VARIABLES for details about the system variable:
SELECT * FROM information_schema.SYSTEM_VARIABLES WHERE VARIABLE_NAME='autocommit'\G |
Actual results
Here are the results:
MariaDB [(none)]> SELECT * FROM information_schema.SYSTEM_VARIABLES WHERE VARIABLE_NAME='autocommit'\G
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*************************** 1. row ***************************
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VARIABLE_NAME: AUTOCOMMIT
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SESSION_VALUE: OFF
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GLOBAL_VALUE: OFF
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GLOBAL_VALUE_ORIGIN: COMPILE-TIME
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DEFAULT_VALUE: ON
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VARIABLE_SCOPE: SESSION
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VARIABLE_TYPE: BOOLEAN
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VARIABLE_COMMENT: If set to 1, the default, all queries are committed immediately. If set to 0, they are only committed upon a COMMIT statement, or rolled back with a ROLLBACK statement. If autocommit is set to 0, and then changed to 1, all open transactions are immediately committed.
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NUMERIC_MIN_VALUE: NULL
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NUMERIC_MAX_VALUE: NULL
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NUMERIC_BLOCK_SIZE: NULL
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ENUM_VALUE_LIST: OFF,ON
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READ_ONLY: NO
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COMMAND_LINE_ARGUMENT: NULL
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GLOBAL_VALUE_PATH: NULL
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1 row in set (0.002 sec)
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Expected results
There are a few things incorrect about the results:
- GLOBAL_VALUE_ORIGIN should not be COMPILE-TIME, because that is incorrect
- COMMAND_LINE_ARGUMENT should not be NULL
- GLOBAL_VALUE_PATH should be /etc/my.cnf.d/z-server-no-autocommit.cnf instead of NULL
For comparison, here are the results for a system variable that is handled properly:
MariaDB [(none)]> SELECT * FROM information_schema.SYSTEM_VARIABLES WHERE VARIABLE_NAME='server_id'\G
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*************************** 1. row ***************************
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VARIABLE_NAME: SERVER_ID
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SESSION_VALUE: 1
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GLOBAL_VALUE: 1
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GLOBAL_VALUE_ORIGIN: CONFIG
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DEFAULT_VALUE: 1
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VARIABLE_SCOPE: SESSION
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VARIABLE_TYPE: BIGINT UNSIGNED
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VARIABLE_COMMENT: Uniquely identifies the server instance in the community of replication partners
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NUMERIC_MIN_VALUE: 1
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NUMERIC_MAX_VALUE: 4294967295
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NUMERIC_BLOCK_SIZE: 1
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ENUM_VALUE_LIST: NULL
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READ_ONLY: NO
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COMMAND_LINE_ARGUMENT: REQUIRED
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GLOBAL_VALUE_PATH: /etc/my.cnf.d/z-my.cnf
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1 row in set (0.002 sec
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