Comments on: I apparently have_community_features

By: Henrik Ingo

Henrik Ingo — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:16:37 +0000

@Giuseppe: I guessed that much. It is like the community only ever provided 1 feature to MySQL. But in 5.4 for example, suppose this variable says “NO”, does it mean the google patches were excluded and I can now enjoy less performance?

I’m just saying, taken literally it’s easy to see situations where this is not a meaningful variable.

By: Sheeri Cabral

Sheeri Cabral — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:28:38 +0000

Giuseppe — thanx, this is good to know!

By: Giuseppe Maxia

Giuseppe Maxia — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:06:58 +0000

Hi Sheeri,
“have_community_features” should definitely be documented. It was introduced in MySQL 5.0.37 (IIRC) to allow the inclusion of SHOW PROFILES when compiling the server.
It is used for the same purpose on 5.1 and 6.0.
Getting a YES or a NO depends on how the server was compiled. If your copy of 6.0 says “NO”, probably SHOW PROFILES was not included.

Hope this helps, pending documentation fixes.

Cheers

Giuseppe