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MYSQL_TABLEINFO(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation MYSQL_TABLEINFO(1)
NAME
mysql_tableinfo - creates and populates information tables with the output of SHOW DATA‐
BASES, SHOW TABLES (or SHOW TABLE STATUS), SHOW COLUMNS and SHOW INDEX.
This is version 1.1.
SYNOPSIS
mysql_tableinfo [OPTIONS] database_to_write [database_like_wild] [table_like_wild]
Do not backquote (``) database_to_write,
and do not quote ('') database_like_wild or table_like_wild
Examples:
mysql_tableinfo info
mysql_tableinfo info this_db
mysql_tableinfo info %a% b%
mysql_tableinfo info --clear-only
mysql_tableinfo info --col --idx --table-status
DESCRIPTION
mysql_tableinfo asks a MySQL server information about its databases, tables, table columns
and index, and stores this in tables called `db`, `tbl` (or `tbl_status`), `col`, `idx`
(with an optional prefix specified with --prefix). After that, you can query these infor‐
mation tables, for example to build your admin scripts with SQL queries, like
SELECT CONCAT("CHECK TABLE ",`database`,".",`table`," EXTENDED;") FROM info.tbl WHERE ...
;
as people usually do with some other RDBMS (note: to increase the speed of your queries on
the info tables, you may add some index on them).
The database_like_wild and table_like_wild instructs the program to gather information
only about databases and tables whose names match these patterns. If the info tables
already exist, their rows matching the patterns are simply deleted and replaced by the new
ones. That is, old rows not matching the patterns are not touched. If the data‐
base_like_wild and table_like_wild arguments are not specified on the command-line they
default to "%".
The program :
- does CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS database_to_write where database_to_write is the
database name specified on the command-line.
- does CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS database_to_write.`db`
- fills database_to_write.`db` with the output of SHOW DATABASES LIKE database_like_wild
- does CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS database_to_write.`tbl` (respectively data‐
base_to_write.`tbl_status` if the --tbl-status option is on)
- for every found database, fills database_to_write.`tbl` (respectively data‐
base_to_write.`tbl_status`) with the output of SHOW TABLES FROM found_db LIKE ta‐
ble_like_wild (respectively SHOW TABLE STATUS FROM found_db LIKE table_like_wild)
- if the --col option is on,
* does CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS database_to_write.`col`
* for every found table,
fills database_to_write.`col` with the output of
SHOW COLUMNS FROM found_tbl FROM found_db
- if the --idx option is on,
* does CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS database_to_write.`idx`
* for every found table,
fills database_to_write.`idx` with the output of
SHOW INDEX FROM found_tbl FROM found_db
Some options may modify this general scheme (see below).
As mentioned, the contents of the info tables are the output of SHOW commands. In fact the
contents are slightly more complete :
- the `tbl` (or `tbl_status`) info table
has an extra column which contains the database name,
- the `col` info table
has an extra column which contains the table name,
and an extra column which contains, for each described column,
the number of this column in the table owning it (this extra column
is called `Seq_in_table`). `Seq_in_table` makes it possible for you
to retrieve your columns in sorted order, when you are querying
the `col` table.
- the `index` info table
has an extra column which contains the database name.
Caution: info tables contain certain columns (e.g. Database, Table, Null...) whose names,
as they are MySQL reserved words, need to be backquoted (`...`) when used in SQL state‐
ments.
Caution: as information fetching and info tables filling happen at the same time, info
tables may contain inaccurate information about themselves.
OPTIONS
--clear
Does DROP TABLE on the info tables (only those that the program is going to fill, for
example if you do not use --col it won't drop the `col` table) and processes normally.
Does not drop database_to_write.
--clear-only
Same as --clear but exits after the DROPs.
--col
Adds columns information (into table `col`).
--idx
Adds index information (into table `idx`).
--prefix prefix
The info tables are named from the concatenation of prefix and, respectively, db, tbl
(or tbl_status), col, idx. Do not quote ('') or backquote (``) prefix.
-q, --quiet
Does not warn you about what the script is going to do (DROP TABLE etc) and does not
ask for a confirmation before starting.
--tbl-status
Instead of using SHOW TABLES, uses SHOW TABLE STATUS (much more complete information,
but slower).
--help
Display helpscreen and exit
-u, --user=#
user for database login if not current user. Give a user who has sufficient privileges
(CREATE, ...).
-p, --password=# (INSECURE)
password to use when connecting to server. WARNING: Providing a password on command
line is insecure as it is visible through /proc to anyone for a short time.
-h, --host=#
host to connect to
-P, --port=#
port to use when connecting to server
-S, --socket=#
UNIX domain socket to use when connecting to server
WARRANTY
This software is free and comes without warranty of any kind. You should never trust
backup software without studying the code yourself. Study the code inside this script and
only rely on it if you believe that it does the right thing for you.
Patches adding bug fixes, documentation and new features are welcome.
TO DO
Use extended inserts to be faster (for servers with many databases or tables). But to do
that, must care about net-buffer-length.
AUTHOR
2002-06-18 Guilhem Bichot (guilhem.bichot AT mines-paris.org)
And all the authors of mysqlhotcopy, which served as a model for the structure of the pro‐
gram.
perl v5.8.0 2003-04-05 MYSQL_TABLEINFO(1)
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