mysqlbinlog

NAME

mysqlbinlog - utility for processing binary log files

SYNOPSIS

mysqlbinlog [options] log_file ...

DESCRIPTION

The server's binary log consists of files containing "events" that describe modifications to database contents. The server writes these files in binary format. To display their contents in text format, use the mysqlbinlog utility. You can also use mysqlbinlog to display the contents of relay log files written by a slave server in a replication setup because relay logs have the same format as binary logs. The binary log and relay log are discussed further in Section 2.4, "The Binary Log", and Section 4.2, "Replication Relay and Status Files".

Invoke mysqlbinlog like this:

 shell> mysqlbinlog [options] log_file ...
 

For example, to display the contents of the binary log file named binlog.000003, use this command:

 shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.0000003
 

The output includes events contained in binlog.000003. Event information includes the statement, the ID of the server on which it was executed, the timestamp when the statement was executed, how much time it took, and so forth.

The output from mysqlbinlog can be re-executed (for example, by using it as input to mysql) to reapply the statements in the log. This is useful for recovery operations after a server crash. For other usage examples, see the discussion later in this section.

Normally, you use mysqlbinlog to read binary log files directly and apply them to the local MySQL server. It is also possible to read binary logs from a remote server by using the --read-from-remote-server option. When you read remote binary logs, the connection parameter options can be given to indicate how to connect to the server. These options are --host, --password, --port, --protocol, --socket, and --user; they are ignored except when you also use the --read-from-remote-server option.

mysqlbinlog supports the following options:

--help, -?

Display a help message and exit.

--base64-output[=value]

This option determines when events should be displayed encoded as base-64 strings using BINLOG statements. The option has these allowable values (not case sensitive):

AUTO ("automatic") or UNSPEC ("unspecified") displays BINLOG statements automatically when necessary (that is, for format description events and row events). This is the default if no --base64-output option is given.


Note Automatic BINLOG display is the only safe behavior if you intend to use the output of mysqlbinlog to re-execute binary log file contents. The other option values are intended only for debugging or testing purposes because they may produce output that does not include all events in executable form.

ALWAYS displays BINLOG statements whenever possible. This is the implied value if the option is given as --base64-output without a value.
NEVER causes BINLOG statements not to be displayed. mysqlbinlog exits with an error if a row event is found that must be displayed using BINLOG.
DECODE-ROWS specifies to mysqlbinlog that you intend for row events to be decoded and displayed as commented SQL statements by also specifying the --verbose option. Like NEVER, DECODE-ROWS suppresses display of BINLOG statements, but unlike NEVER, it does not exit with an error if a row event is found.
The --base64-output option was introduced in MySQL 5.1.5, to be given as --base64-output or --skip-base64-output (with the sense of AUTO or NEVER). The option values described in the preceding list may be used as of MySQL 5.1.24, with the exception of UNSPEC and DECODE-ROWS, which are available as of MySQL 5.1.28.
For examples that show the effect of --base64-output and --verbose on row event output, see the section called "MYSQLBINLOG ROW EVENT DISPLAY".
--character-sets-dir=path

The directory where character sets are installed. See Section 2, "The Character Set Used for Data and Sorting".

--database=db_name, -d db_name

List entries for just this database (local log only). You can only specify one database with this option - if you specify multiple --database options, only the last one is used. This option forces mysqlbinlog to output entries from the binary log where the default database (that is, the one selected by USE) is db_name. Note that this does not replicate cross-database statements such as UPDATE some_db.some_table SET foo='bar' while having selected a different database or no database.

--debug[=debug_options], -# [debug_options]

Write a debugging log. A typical debug_options string is often 'd:t:o,file_name'.

--debug-check

Print some debugging information when the program exits. This option was added in MySQL 5.1.21.

--debug-info

Print debugging information and memory and CPU usage statistics when the program exits. This option was added in MySQL 5.1.21.

--disable-log-bin, -D

Disable binary logging. This is useful for avoiding an endless loop if you use the --to-last-log option and are sending the output to the same MySQL server. This option also is useful when restoring after a crash to avoid duplication of the statements you have logged.

This option requires that you have the SUPER privilege. It causes mysqlbinlog to include a SET sql_log_bin = 0 statement in its output to disable binary logging of the remaining output. The SET statement is ineffective unless you have the SUPER privilege.

--force-read, -f

With this option, if mysqlbinlog reads a binary log event that it does not recognize, it prints a warning, ignores the event, and continues. Without this option, mysqlbinlog stops if it reads such an event.

--hexdump, -H

Display a hex dump of the log in comments, as described in the section called "MYSQLBINLOG HEX DUMP FORMAT". This output can be helpful for replication debugging. This option was added in MySQL 5.1.2.

--host=host_name, -h host_name

Get the binary log from the MySQL server on the given host.

--local-load=path, -l path

Prepare local temporary files for LOAD DATA INFILE in the specified directory.

--offset=N, -o N

Skip the first N entries in the log.

--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.

Specifying a password on the command line should be considered insecure. See Section 5.6, "Keeping Passwords Secure".

--port=port_num, -P port_num

The TCP/IP port number to use for connecting to a remote server.

--position=N, -j N

Deprecated. Use --start-position instead.

--protocol={TCP|SOCKET|PIPE|MEMORY}

The connection protocol to use for connecting to the server. It is useful when the other connection parameters normally would cause a protocol to be used other than the one you want. For details on the allowable values, see Section 2.2, "Connecting to the MySQL Server".

--read-from-remote-server, -R

Read the binary log from a MySQL server rather than reading a local log file. Any connection parameter options are ignored unless this option is given as well. These options are --host, --password, --port, --protocol, --socket, and --user.

This option requires that the remote server be running. It works only for binary log files on the remote server, not relay log files.

--result-file=name, -r name

Direct output to the given file.

--server-id=id

Extract only those events created by the server having the given server ID. This option is available as of MySQL 5.1.4.

--set-charset=charset_name

Add a SET NAMES charset_name statement to the output to specify the character set to be used for processing log files. This option was added in MySQL 5.1.12.

--short-form, -s

Display only the statements contained in the log, without any extra information.

--socket=path, -S path

For connections to localhost, the Unix socket file to use, or, on Windows, the name of the named pipe to use.

--start-datetime=datetime

Start reading the binary log at the first event having a timestamp equal to or later than the datetime argument. The datetime value is relative to the local time zone on the machine where you run mysqlbinlog. The value should be in a format accepted for the DATETIME or TIMESTAMP data types. For example:

 shell> mysqlbinlog --start-datetime="2005-12-25 11:25:56" binlog.000003
 
This option is useful for point-in-time recovery. See Section 2, "Example Backup and Recovery Strategy".
--start-position=N

Start reading the binary log at the first event having a position equal to or greater than N. This option applies to the first log file named on the command line.

--stop-datetime=datetime

Stop reading the binary log at the first event having a timestamp equal to or later than the datetime argument. This option is useful for point-in-time recovery. See the description of the --start-datetime option for information about the datetime value.

--stop-position=N

Stop reading the binary log at the first event having a position equal to or greater than N. This option applies to the last log file named on the command line.

--to-last-log, -t

Do not stop at the end of the requested binary log from a MySQL server, but rather continue printing until the end of the last binary log. If you send the output to the same MySQL server, this may lead to an endless loop. This option requires --read-from-remote-server.

--user=user_name, -u user_name

The MySQL user name to use when connecting to a remote server.

--verbose, -v

Reconstruct row events and display them as commented SQL statements. If given twice, the output includes comments to indicate column data types and some metadata. This option was added in MySQL 5.1.28.

For examples that show the effect of --base64-output and --verbose on row event output, see the section called "MYSQLBINLOG ROW EVENT DISPLAY".

--version, -V

Display version information and exit.

--write-binlog

This option is enabled by default, so that ANALYZE TABLE, OPTIMIZE TABLE, and REPAIR TABLE statements generated by mysqlcheck are written to the binary log. Use --skip-write-binlog to cause NO_WRITE_TO_BINLOG to be added to the statements so that they are not logged. Use the --skip-write-binlog when these statements should not be sent to replication slaves or run when using the binary logs for recovery from backup. This option was added in MySQL 5.1.18.

You can also set the following variable by using --var_name=value syntax:

open_files_limit

Specify the number of open file descriptors to reserve.

You can pipe the output of mysqlbinlog into the mysql client to execute the statements contained in the binary log. This is used to recover from a crash when you have an old backup (see Section 1, "Database Backups"). For example:

 shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000001 | mysql
 

Or:

 shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.[0-9]* | mysql
 

You can also redirect the output of mysqlbinlog to a text file instead, if you need to modify the statement log first (for example, to remove statements that you do not want to execute for some reason). After editing the file, execute the statements that it contains by using it as input to the mysql program.

mysqlbinlog has the --start-position option, which prints only those statements with an offset in the binary log greater than or equal to a given position (the given position must match the start of one event). It also has options to stop and start when it sees an event with a given date and time. This enables you to perform point-in-time recovery using the --stop-datetime option (to be able to say, for example, "roll forward my databases to how they were today at 10:30 a.m.").

If you have more than one binary log to execute on the MySQL server, the safe method is to process them all using a single connection to the server. Here is an example that demonstrates what may be unsafe:

 shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000001 | mysql # DANGER!!
 shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000002 | mysql # DANGER!!
 

Processing binary logs this way using different connections to the server causes problems if the first log file contains a CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE statement and the second log contains a statement that uses the temporary table. When the first mysql process terminates, the server drops the temporary table. When the second mysql process attempts to use the table, the server reports "unknown table."

To avoid problems like this, use a single connection to execute the contents of all binary logs that you want to process. Here is one way to do so:

 shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000001 binlog.000002 | mysql
 

Another approach is to write all the logs to a single file and then process the file:

 shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000001 >  /tmp/statements.sql
 shell> mysqlbinlog binlog.000002 >> /tmp/statements.sql
 shell> mysql -e "source /tmp/statements.sql"
 

mysqlbinlog can produce output that reproduces a LOAD DATA INFILE operation without the original data file. mysqlbinlog copies the data to a temporary file and writes a LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE statement that refers to the file. The default location of the directory where these files are written is system-specific. To specify a directory explicitly, use the --local-load option.

Because mysqlbinlog converts LOAD DATA INFILE statements to LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE statements (that is, it adds LOCAL), both the client and the server that you use to process the statements must be configured to allow LOCAL capability. See Section 3.4, "Security Issues with LOAD DATA LOCAL".


Warning

The temporary files created for LOAD DATA LOCAL statements are not automatically deleted because they are needed until you actually execute those statements. You should delete the temporary files yourself after you no longer need the statement log. The files can be found in the temporary file directory and have names like original_file_name-#-#.

MYSQLBINLOG HEX DUMP FORMAT

The --hexdump option produces a hex dump of the log contents:

 shell> mysqlbinlog --hexdump master-bin.000001
 

The hex output consists of comment lines beginning with #, so the output might look like this for the preceding command:

 /*!40019 SET @@session.max_insert_delayed_threads=0*/;
 /*!50003 SET @OLD_COMPLETION_TYPE=@@COMPLETION_TYPE,COMPLETION_TYPE=0*/;
 # at 4
 #051024 17:24:13 server id 1  end_log_pos 98
 # Position  Timestamp   Type   Master ID        Size      Master Pos    Flags
 # 00000004 9d fc 5c 43   0f   01 00 00 00   5e 00 00 00   62 00 00 00   00 00
 # 00000017 04 00 35 2e 30 2e 31 35  2d 64 65 62 75 67 2d 6c |..5.0.15.debug.l|
 # 00000027 6f 67 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |og..............|
 # 00000037 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
 # 00000047 00 00 00 00 9d fc 5c 43  13 38 0d 00 08 00 12 00 |.......C.8......|
 # 00000057 04 04 04 04 12 00 00 4b  00 04 1a                |.......K...|
 #       Start: binlog v 4, server v 5.0.15-debug-log created 051024 17:24:13
 #       at startup
 ROLLBACK;
 

Hex dump output currently contains the following elements. This format is subject to change.

Position: The byte position within the log file.
Timestamp: The event timestamp. In the example shown, '9d fc 5c 43' is the representation of '051024 17:24:13' in hexadecimal.
Type: The event type code. In the example shown, '0f' indicates a FORMAT_DESCRIPTION_EVENT. The following table lists the possible type codes.
Type Name Meaning
08 CREATE_FILE_EVENT Used for LOAD DATA
                    INFILE statements. This indicates the
                    start of execution of such a statement. A temporary
                    file is created on the slave. Used in MySQL 4 only.
09 APPEND_BLOCK_EVENT Contains data for use in a
                    LOAD DATA
                    INFILE statement. The data is stored in
                    the temporary file on the slave.
0a EXEC_LOAD_EVENT Used for LOAD DATA
                    INFILE statements. The contents of the
                    temporary file is stored in the table on the slave.
                    Used in MySQL 4 only.
0b DELETE_FILE_EVENT Rollback of a LOAD DATA
                    INFILE statement. The temporary file
                    should be deleted on the slave.
0c NEW_LOAD_EVENT Used for LOAD DATA
                    INFILE in MySQL 4 and earlier.
0d RAND_EVENT Used to send information about random values if the
                    RAND() function is
                    used in the statement.
0e USER_VAR_EVENT Used to replicate user variables.
0f FORMAT_DESCRIPTION_EVENT This indicates the start of a log file written by MySQL 5 or later.
10 XID_EVENT Event indicating commit of an XA transaction.
11 BEGIN_LOAD_QUERY_EVENT Used for LOAD DATA
                    INFILE statements in MySQL 5 and later.
00 UNKNOWN_EVENT This event should never be present in the log.
12 EXECUTE_LOAD_QUERY_EVENT Used for LOAD DATA
                    INFILE statements in MySQL 5 and later.
13 TABLE_MAP_EVENT Information about a table definition. Used in MySQL 5.1.5 and later.
14 PRE_GA_WRITE_ROWS_EVENT Row data for a single table that should be created. Used in MySQL 5.1.5
                    to 5.1.17.
15 PRE_GA_UPDATE_ROWS_EVENT Row data for a single table that needs to be updated. Used in MySQL
                    5.1.5 to 5.1.17.
16 PRE_GA_DELETE_ROWS_EVENT Row data for a single table that should be deleted. Used in MySQL 5.1.5
                    to 5.1.17.
17 WRITE_ROWS_EVENT Row data for a single table that should be created. Used in MySQL 5.1.18
                    and later.
18 UPDATE_ROWS_EVENT Row data for a single table that needs to be updated. Used in MySQL
                    5.1.18 and later.
19 DELETE_ROWS_EVENT Row data for a single table that should be deleted. Used in MySQL 5.1.18
                    and later.
1a INCIDENT_EVENT Something out of the ordinary happened. Added in MySQL 5.1.18.
01 START_EVENT_V3 This indicates the start of a log file written by MySQL 4 or earlier.
02 QUERY_EVENT The most common type of events. These contain statements executed on the
                    master.
03 STOP_EVENT Indicates that master has stopped.
04 ROTATE_EVENT Written when the master switches to a new log file.
05 INTVAR_EVENT Used for AUTO_INCREMENT values or when the
                    LAST_INSERT_ID()
                    function is used in the statement.
06 LOAD_EVENT Used for LOAD DATA
                    INFILE in MySQL 3.23.
07 SLAVE_EVENT Reserved for future use.
Master ID: The server ID of the master that created the event.
Size: The size in bytes of the event.
Master Pos: The position of the next event in the original master log file.
Flags: 16 flags. Currently, the following flags are used. The others are reserved for future use.
Flag Name Meaning
01 LOG_EVENT_BINLOG_IN_USE_F Log file correctly closed. (Used only in
                    FORMAT_DESCRIPTION_EVENT.) If
                    this flag is set (if the flags are, for example,
                    '01 00') in a
                    FORMAT_DESCRIPTION_EVENT, the log
                    file has not been properly closed. Most probably
                    this is because of a master crash (for example, due
                    to power failure).
02   Reserved for future use.
04 LOG_EVENT_THREAD_SPECIFIC_F Set if the event is dependent on the connection it was executed in (for
                    example, '04 00'), for example,
                    if the event uses temporary tables.
08 LOG_EVENT_SUPPRESS_USE_F Set in some circumstances when the event is not dependent on the default
                    database.

MYSQLBINLOG ROW EVENT DISPLAY

The following examples illustrate how mysqlbinlog displays row events that specify data modifications. These correspond to events with the WRITE_ROWS_EVENT, UPDATE_ROWS_EVENT, and DELETE_ROWS_EVENT type codes. The --base64-output=DECODE-ROWS and --verbose options may be used to affect row event output. These options are available as of MySQL 5.1.28.

Suppose that the server is using row-based binary logging and that you execute the following sequence of statements:

 CREATE TABLE t
 (
   id   INT NOT NULL,
   name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
   date DATE NULL
 ) ENGINE = InnoDB;
 START TRANSACTION;
 INSERT INTO t VALUES(1, 'apple', NULL);
 UPDATE t SET name = 'pear', date = '2009-01-01' WHERE id = 1;
 DELETE FROM t WHERE id = 1;
 COMMIT;
 

By default, mysqlbinlog displays row events encoded as base-64 strings using BINLOG statements. Omitting extraneous lines, the output for the row events produced by the preceding statement sequence looks like this:

 shell> mysqlbinlog log_file
 # at 218
 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1  end_log_pos 258   Write_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
 BINLOG '
 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAANoAAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
 fAS3SBcBAAAAKAAAAAIBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA//8AQAAAAVhcHBsZQ==
 '/*!*/;
 # at 302
 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1  end_log_pos 356   Update_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
 BINLOG '
 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAAC4BAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
 fAS3SBgBAAAANgAAAGQBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA////AEAAAAFYXBwbGX4AQAAAARwZWFyIbIP
 '/*!*/;
 # at 400
 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1  end_log_pos 442   Delete_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
 BINLOG '
 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAAJABAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
 fAS3SBkBAAAAKgAAALoBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA//4AQAAAARwZWFyIbIP
 '/*!*/;
 

To see the row events as comments in the form of "pseudo-SQL" statements, run mysqlbinlog with the --verbose or -v option. The output will contain lines beginning with ###:

 shell> mysqlbinlog -v log_file
 # at 218
 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1  end_log_pos 258   Write_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
 BINLOG '
 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAANoAAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
 fAS3SBcBAAAAKAAAAAIBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA//8AQAAAAVhcHBsZQ==
 '/*!*/;
 ### INSERT INTO test.t
 ### SET
 ###   @1=1
 ###   @2='apple'
 ###   @3=NULL
 # at 302
 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1  end_log_pos 356   Update_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
 BINLOG '
 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAAC4BAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
 fAS3SBgBAAAANgAAAGQBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA////AEAAAAFYXBwbGX4AQAAAARwZWFyIbIP
 '/*!*/;
 ### UPDATE test.t
 ### WHERE
 ###   @1=1
 ###   @2='apple'
 ###   @3=NULL
 ### SET
 ###   @1=1
 ###   @2='pear'
 ###   @3='2009:01:01'
 # at 400
 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1  end_log_pos 442   Delete_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
 BINLOG '
 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAAJABAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
 fAS3SBkBAAAAKgAAALoBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA//4AQAAAARwZWFyIbIP
 '/*!*/;
 ### DELETE FROM test.t
 ### WHERE
 ###   @1=1
 ###   @2='pear'
 ###   @3='2009:01:01'
 

Specify --verbose or -v twice to also display data types and some metadata for each column. The output will contain an additional comment following each column change:

 shell> mysqlbinlog -vv log_file
 # at 218
 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1  end_log_pos 258   Write_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
 BINLOG '
 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAANoAAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
 fAS3SBcBAAAAKAAAAAIBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA//8AQAAAAVhcHBsZQ==
 '/*!*/;
 ### INSERT INTO test.t
 ### SET
 ###   @1=1 /* INT meta=0 nullable=0 is_null=0 */
 ###   @2='apple' /* VARSTRING(20) meta=20 nullable=0 is_null=0 */
 ###   @3=NULL /* VARSTRING(20) meta=0 nullable=1 is_null=1 */
 # at 302
 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1  end_log_pos 356   Update_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
 BINLOG '
 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAAC4BAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
 fAS3SBgBAAAANgAAAGQBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA////AEAAAAFYXBwbGX4AQAAAARwZWFyIbIP
 '/*!*/;
 ### UPDATE test.t
 ### WHERE
 ###   @1=1 /* INT meta=0 nullable=0 is_null=0 */
 ###   @2='apple' /* VARSTRING(20) meta=20 nullable=0 is_null=0 */
 ###   @3=NULL /* VARSTRING(20) meta=0 nullable=1 is_null=1 */
 ### SET
 ###   @1=1 /* INT meta=0 nullable=0 is_null=0 */
 ###   @2='pear' /* VARSTRING(20) meta=20 nullable=0 is_null=0 */
 ###   @3='2009:01:01' /* DATE meta=0 nullable=1 is_null=0 */
 # at 400
 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1  end_log_pos 442   Delete_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
 BINLOG '
 fAS3SBMBAAAALAAAAJABAAAAABEAAAAAAAAABHRlc3QAAXQAAwMPCgIUAAQ=
 fAS3SBkBAAAAKgAAALoBAAAQABEAAAAAAAEAA//4AQAAAARwZWFyIbIP
 '/*!*/;
 ### DELETE FROM test.t
 ### WHERE
 ###   @1=1 /* INT meta=0 nullable=0 is_null=0 */
 ###   @2='pear' /* VARSTRING(20) meta=20 nullable=0 is_null=0 */
 ###   @3='2009:01:01' /* DATE meta=0 nullable=1 is_null=0 */
 

You can tell mysqlbinlog to suppress the BINLOG statements for row events by using the --base64-output=DECODE-ROWS option. This is similar to --base64-output=NEVER but does not exit with an error if a row event is found. The combination of --base64-output=DECODE-ROWS and --verbose provides a convenient way to see row events only as SQL statements:

 shell> mysqlbinlog -v --base64-output=DECODE-ROWS log_file
 # at 218
 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1  end_log_pos 258   Write_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
 ### INSERT INTO test.t
 ### SET
 ###   @1=1
 ###   @2='apple'
 ###   @3=NULL
 # at 302
 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1  end_log_pos 356   Update_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
 ### UPDATE test.t
 ### WHERE
 ###   @1=1
 ###   @2='apple'
 ###   @3=NULL
 ### SET
 ###   @1=1
 ###   @2='pear'
 ###   @3='2009:01:01'
 # at 400
 #080828 15:03:08 server id 1  end_log_pos 442   Delete_rows: table id 17 flags: STMT_END_F
 ### DELETE FROM test.t
 ### WHERE
 ###   @1=1
 ###   @2='pear'
 ###   @3='2009:01:01'
 


Note

You should not suppress BINLOG statements if you intend to re-execute mysqlbinlog output.

The SQL statements produced by --verbose for row events are much more readable than the corresponding BINLOG statements. However, they do not correspond exactly to the original SQL statements that generated the events. The following limitations apply:

The original column names are lost and replace by @N, where N is a column number.
Character set information is not available in the binary log, which affects string column display:
There is no distinction made between corresponding binary and non-binary string types (BINARY and CHAR, VARBINARY and VARCHAR, BLOB and TEXT). The output uses a data type of STRING for fixed-length strings and VARSTRING for variable-length strings.
For multi-byte character sets, the maximum number of bytes per character is not present in the binary log, so the length for string types is displayed in bytes rather than in characters. For example, STRING(4) will be used as the data type for values from either of these column types:
 CHAR(4) CHARACTER SET latin1
 CHAR(2) CHARACTER SET ucs2
 
Due to the storage format for events of type UPDATE_ROWS_EVENT, UPDATE statements are displayed with the WHERE clause preceding the SET clause.

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SEE ALSO

For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which may already be installed locally and which is also available online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.

AUTHOR

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