Oracle fixed it in 5.1.66 and 5.5.28. Closing. percona-server/5.1$ bzr log -r 0.15786.4 ------------------------------------------------------------ revno: 0.15786.4 committer: Venkata Sidagam <venkata.sida...@oracle.com> branch nick: mysql-5.1-13955256 timestamp: Thu 2012-07-19 13:52:34 +0530 message: Bug #12615411 - server side help doesn't work as first statement Problem description: Giving "help 'contents'" in the mysql client as a first statement gives error Analysis: In com_server_help() function the "server_cmd" variable was initialised with buffer->ptr(). And the "server_cmd" variable is not updated since we are passing "'contents'"(with single quote) so the buffer->ptr() consists of the previous buffer values and it was sent to the mysql_real_query() hence we are getting error. Fix: We are not initialising the "server_cmd" variable and we are updating the variable with "server_cmd= cmd_buf" in any of the case i.e with single quote or without single quote for the contents. As part of error message improvement, added new error message in case of "help 'contents'".
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