(see comment inline) On 7/16/08, Monty Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Lately to check the status of a server I find myself using mostly the > > mysql utility w/ --html option. It's extremely easy then to document > > 'in pretty' format what's going on in the server. My favorite command > > lines look like: > > > > mysql --html -e "SHOW VARIABLES LIKE <someting>" > > > I can _totally_ see this... however, if we shipped a utility that did > this sort of thing, but was optimized to pull status and/or variables > out and make HTML... would that satisfy your need? (good use case, btw) > > I'm hoping if we can make the library more sensible to work with > consistently, we can make a whole bunch of little utilities without > having to put the features all in the same place...
I like this idea. I think it's trivially easy to make, say, a perl script that takes text formatted a certain way (horizontal or vertical, tab delimited or table formatted, with or without column headings) and make html (or xml) for it. Then you can even just do something like drizzle-client -e "show variables like <something>" | dzformat.pl > niceoutput.txt Oh, and with drizzle can we stop the insanity that is calling everything "mysql"? Call the client "dzclient" or something, because "mysql" the client vs. "mysqld" the server daemon vs "MySQL" the suite of tools is really a pain. (mostly 'cause I'm writing a book on MySQL right now, but in general it's a pain). -Sheeri
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