As part of Percona Remote DBA for MySQL service we recognize that reliable backups are one of the most important things we can bring to the table. In my experience handling emergencies, the single worst thing that can happen is finding out you don’t have backups available when some sort of data loss or catastrophic [...]
More on MySQL Error Messages
April 6, 2011 By 9 Comments
I wrote about MySQL Error Messages before and as you might guess I’m not very happy with quality for error messages it produces. Now I’m revisiting this subject with couple of more annoying examples I ran into during last couple of days.
1 2 | mysql> drop database test; ERROR 1010 (HY000): Error dropping database (can't rmdir './test/', errno: 17) |
MySQL Error Message Nonsenses
March 16, 2008 By 7 Comments
What MySQL honestly was never good at is giving good helpful error messages. Start with basics for example – The error message in case of syntax error gives you information about tokens near by but little details:
1 2 | mysql> select * from user oder by pwd; ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'by pwd' at line 1 |
It would be much better if MySQL would give error give exact position of error (with complex [...]
