Details
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New Feature
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Status: Open (View Workflow)
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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None
Description
A user just had a case where they were getting
[ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: unknown variable 'innobdb_lock_wait_timeout=1000'
due to the rather hard to spot extra b in innobdb.
Many other tools check such unknown values against a list of known one, e.g. comparing them via metrics like the Levenshtein distance, to add suggestions like:
unknown variable 'innobdb_lock_wait_timeout', did you mean 'innodb_lock_wait_timeout'?
I think this would be a great help and easy win.
(PS: I'm a bit biased about the Levenshtein distance as it was a key part of my original diploma thesis, and as I'm also responsible for having it in the PHP core)