mysqltest - Unix, Linux Command
NAME
mysqltest - program to run test cases
mysqltest_embedded - program to run embedded test cases
SYNOPSIS
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mysqltest [options] [db_name]
mysqltest_embedded [options] [db_name]
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DESCRIPTION
The
mysqltest
program runs a test case against a MySQL server and optionally compares the output with a result file. This program reads input written in a special test language. Typically, you invoke
mysqltest
using
mysql-test-run.pl
rather than invoking it directly.
mysqltest_embedded
is similar but is built with support for the
libmysqld
embedded server.
Features of
mysqltest:
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Can send SQL statements to MySQL servers for execution
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Can execute external shell commands
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Can test whether the result from an SQL statement or shell command is as expected
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Can connect to one or more standalone
mysqld
servers and switch between connections
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Can connect to an embedded server (libmysqld), if MySQL is compiled with support for
libmysqld. (In this case, the executable is named
mysqltest_embedded
rather than
mysqltest.)
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By default,
mysqltest
reads the test case on the standard input. To run
mysqltest
this way, you normally invoke it like this:
shell> mysqltest [options] [db_name] < test_file
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You can also name the test case file with a
--test-file=file_name
option.
The exit value from
mysqltest
is 0 for success, 1 for failure, and 62 if it skips the test case (for example, if after checking some preconditions it decides not to run the test).
mysqltest
supports the following options:
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--help,
-?
Display a help message and exit.
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--basedir=dir_name,
-b dir_name
The base directory for tests.
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--character-sets-dir=path
The directory where character sets are installed.
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--compress,
-C
Compress all information sent between the client and the server if both support compression.
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--cursor-protocol
Use cursors for prepared statements.
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--database=db_name,
-D db_name
The default database to use.
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--debug[=debug_options],
-#[debug_options]
Write a debugging log if MySQL is built with debugging support. The default
debug_options
value is
'd:t:S:i:O,/tmp/mysqltest.trace'.
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--debug-check
Print some debugging information when the program exits.
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--debug-info
Print debugging information and memory and CPU usage statistics when the program exits.
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--host=host_name,
-h host_name
Connect to the MySQL server on the given host.
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--include=file_name,
-i file_name
Include the contents of the given file before processing the contents of the test file. The included file should have the same format as other
mysqltest
test files. This option has the same effect as putting a
--source file_name
command as the first line of the test file.
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--logdir=dir_name
The directory to use for log files.
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--mark-progress
Write the line number and elapsed time to
test_file.progress.
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--max-connect-retries=num
The maximum number of connection attempts when connecting to server.
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--max-connections=num
The maximum number of simultaneous server connections per client (that is, per test). If not set, the maximum is 128. Minimum allowed limit is 8, maximum is 5120.
This option is available from MySQL 5.1.45.
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--no-defaults
Do not read default options from any option files. If used, this must be the first option.
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--plugin-dir=path
The directory in which to look for plugins. It may be necessary to specify this option if the
default_auth
argument is used for the
connect()
command to specify an authentication plugin but
mysqltest
does not find it. This option was added in MySQL 5.5.7.
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--password[=password],
-p[password]
The password to use when connecting to the server. If you use the short option form (-p), you
cannot
have a space between the option and the password. If you omit the
password
value following the
--password
or
-p
option on the command line, you are prompted for one.
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--port=port_num,
-P port_num
The TCP/IP port number to use for the connection.
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--protocol={TCP|SOCKET|PIPE|MEMORY}
Choose the protocol for communication with the server.
SOCKET
is default.
The
--protocol
option is available from MySQL 5.1.51. It is ignored if running with the embedded server.
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--ps-protocol
Use the prepared-statement protocol for communication.
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--quiet
Suppress all normal output. This is a synonym for
--silent.
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--record,
-r
Record the output that results from running the test file into the file named by the
--result-file
option, if that option is given. It is an error to use this option without also using
--result-file.
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--result-file=file_name,
-R file_name
This option specifies the file for test case expected results.
--result-file, together with
--record, determines how
mysqltest
treats the test actual and expected results for a test case:
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If the test produces no results,
mysqltest
exits with an error message to that effect, unless
--result-file
is given and the named file is an empty file.
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Otherwise, if
--result-file
is not given,
mysqltest
sends test results to the standard output.
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With
--result-file
but not
--record,
mysqltest
reads the expected results from the given file and compares them with the actual results. If the results do not match,
mysqltest
writes a
.reject
file in the same directory as the result file, outputs a diff of the two files, and exits with an error.
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With both
--result-file
and
--record,
mysqltest
updates the given file by writing the actual test results to it.
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--server-arg=value,
-A value
Pass the argument as an argument to the embedded server. For example,
--server-arg=--tmpdir=/tmp
or
--server-arg=--core. Up to 64 arguments can be given.
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--server-file=file_name,
-F file_name
Read arguments for the embedded server from the given file. The file should contain one argument per line.
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--silent,
-s
Suppress all normal output.
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--skip-safemalloc
Do not use memory allocation checking.
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--sleep=num,
-T num
Cause all
sleep
commands in the test case file to sleep
num
seconds. This option does not affect
real_sleep
commands.
As of MySQL 5.0.23, an option value of 0 can be used, which effectively disables
sleep
commands in the test case.
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--socket=path,
-S path
The socket file to use when connecting to
localhost
(which is the default host).
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--sp-protocol
Execute DML statements within a stored procedure. For every DML statement,
mysqltest
creates and invokes a stored procedure that executes the statement rather than executing the statement directly.
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--tail-lines=nn
Specify how many lines of the result to include in the output if the test fails because an SQL statement fails. The default is 0, meaning no lines of result printed.
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--test-file=file_name,
-x file_name
Read test input from this file. The default is to read from the standard input.
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--timer-file=file_name,
-m file_name
If given, the number of millisecond spent running the test will be written to this file. This is used by
mysql-test-run.pl
for its reporting.
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--tmpdir=dir_name,
-t dir_name
The temporary directory where socket files are created.
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--user=user_name,
-u user_name
The MySQL user name to use when connecting to the server.
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--verbose,
-v
Verbose mode. Print out more information about what the program does.
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--version,
-V
Display version information and exit.
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--view-protocol
Every
SELECT
statement is wrapped inside a view. This option was added in MySQL 5.0.19.
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2007, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
SEE ALSO
which may already be installed locally and which is also available
online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.
AUTHOR
Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/).
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