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[Giuseppe Maxia <g.maxia@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Kristian. 
This will get me started.

Cheers

Giuseppe 


On Saturday, July 20, 2013 at 10:33 , Kristian Nielsen wrote:

> Giuseppe Maxia <g.maxia@xxxxxxxxx (mailto:g.maxia@xxxxxxxxx)> writes:
> 
> > Specifically, I would like to know 
> > * what are the differences between binary logs in MariaDB 5.5 and 10.0
> > * what are the differences between binary logs in MariaDB 10.0 and MySQL 5.6.
> > 
> 
> 
> I think the difference is mainly the addition of new events. At least, I
> cannot think of any other major differences off the top of my head.
> 
> Thus, you can check the enum Log_event_type in sql/log_event.h in the
> different versions against each other to see which events are added in which
> version and missing in the other versions.
> 
> At least some of the added events have documentation of the format of the
> event data in the comments in sql/log_event.h at the corresponding class
> definition.
> 
> Unfortunately I am not aware of any systematic documentation for reading
> binlog events or differences between versions. It would certainly be a useful
> addition.
> 
> But you're most welcome to ask if you have any questions, of course.
> 
> - Kristian.