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Message #05306
Re: Updating user's max_connections without restart
I wonder if the new value in the `user` table will take effect if you FLUSH
PRIVELEGES. This may be a workaround.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018, 2:39 PM Staffan <solsson@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I've found a simple repro case so I reported
> https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-17852
>
> /Staffan
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> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 9:14 PM Staffan <solsson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've tried to change a user's max_connections after the limit has been
>> reached (connection attempts return "has exceeded the
>> 'max_connections_per_hour' resource").
>>
>> With MariaDB 10.2.18, running using the official docker image, we have
>> "select @@max_connections;" returning 100.
>>
>> We have a user created "WITH MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 50".
>>
>> Now if we bump in to this limit I fail to allow more connections by
>> increasing it. I've tried the following methods (using both 0 and a high
>> value):
>>
>> ALTER USER 'site_devkit_live_index'@'%' WITH MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 0;
>>
>> UPDATE mysql.user SET max_connections = 0 WHERE
>> user='site_devkit_live_index';
>> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
>>
>> GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'site_devkit_live_index'@'%'
>> WITH MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 0;
>>
>> The following indicates that the updates work:
>>
>> USE mysql;
>> SELECT host, user, max_user_connections, max_connections FROM user;
>>
>> I've also tried deleting and re-creating the user.
>>
>> What would it take to make these updates affect the current instance?
>> We'd like to avoid restarts.
>>
>> regards
>> /Staffan
>>
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