[MDEV-20701] "core_file" parameter documentation is unclear Created: 2019-09-30 Updated: 2020-08-25 Resolved: 2019-10-01 |
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | MariaDB Server |
| Component/s: | Documentation |
| Affects Version/s: | None |
| Fix Version/s: | N/A |
| Type: | Bug | Priority: | Trivial |
| Reporter: | Juan | Assignee: | Ian Gilfillan |
| Resolution: | Fixed | Votes: | 0 |
| Labels: | None | ||
| Description |
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The documentation for core_file contains this bullet point:
which implies that there is a default of OFF, and maybe a default of ON for Windows, or that the parameter is available on Windows only since MariaDB 10.4.3. It might be a good idea to show explicitly that this parameter accepts no arguments when specified in .cnf files, and to separate out the information that it's only available on Windows as of 10.4.3. Specifying "core_file=ON" in configuration results in the server failing to start with:
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| Comments |
| Comment by Jon Brightwell [ 2019-10-01 ] |
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With 10.3 with systemd/multi instance, we couldn't see an error anywhere. It was complaining about start limits and exit code 1 in the journal and logs. We had to revert config changes one at a time until it started. |
| Comment by Ian Gilfillan [ 2019-10-01 ] |
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Thanks - the commandline option in the docs always specified no argument, but I agree this is unusual and unclear, especially since the variable indicates OFF and ON values, so have expanded in the text. |