I see what you an Jeremy mean now. Actually, this wouldn't be too much
trouble. In the code, the global and session variables are actually
mostly separate anyway (there's a bit of merge variable foo that
happens, but it's not too complicated). Really, what you are asking for
is when *displaying* the variable name, to include global and session
and a dot, right?
-jay
Baron Schwartz wrote:
Hi Tim,
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Tim Soderstrom
<[email protected]> wrote:
If I can further hijack the thread, the whole session -vs- global
thing is horrible. The only real use I've seen is for things like
per-thread buffers -- and if anything, those should be implemented as
query hints embedded in the SQL itself. The same comment applies to
global -vs- session status counters -- having a mixture of them come
back from SHOW STATUS is, um, horrible. Maybe Drizzle already
un-borked this, dunno.
I have to disagree with you there, Baron. I use per session counters quite
often as part of troubleshooting bad performance. How else do I know if a query
creates a temporary table on disk or is going a sort merge pass? It's cake with
session variables. I'd like to see these left around myself,
I want them to stay -- in fact I want MUCH more instrumentation. I'm
not advocating for less. But having them be named the same thing in
two scopes, with no way to know what you're getting, is a disaster.
Even something this simple would be wonderful:
scope name value
--------- ---------- --------------
| session | Questions | 100 |
| global | Questions | 1000 |
Jeremy Cole had a good blog post (and bug report) on this too.
Baron
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