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Re: Question

To: "Abbas, Aamir" <Aamir.Abbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, maria-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Michael Widenius <monty@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:10:48 +0200
In-reply-to: <4C7FDFB16C547C4C95B01D873CBACFAB277C1760@UTDEX22.campus.ad.utdallas.edu>
Reply-to: monty@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi!

First, the MariaDB developers list is the right place to ask questions
like this.

>>>>> "Aamir" == Aamir Abbas <Abbas> writes:

Aamir> Hi Monty,
Aamir> I have researched this question about MySQL without luck and if you cannot answer it then nobody can. On some MySQL servers the version number returns a  "-log" suffixed to the version number. For example, 5.0.45-log. What does the "-log" mean or signify? This is not a standard version number as far as I can tell. Should it not simply return 5.0.45? I have posted the question to a couple of forums but nobody's able to answer.

I have just updated the documentation at
https://kb.askmonty.org/en/version/
to answer this questions in detail.

Here is a copy of the new documentation:

The VERSION() string may have one or more of the following suffixes:
Suffix	Description

-embedded	The server is an embedded server (libmysqld).
-log	General logging, slow logging or binary (replication) logging is enabled.
-debug	The server is compiled for debugging.
-valgrind	 The server is compiled to be instrumented with valgrind.

Regards,
Monty