On Thursday 01 May 2008 21:13:41 John wrote:Thank you Mel and Paul for the suggestions. From what I understand the general query log is more for debugging and the binary log is for point in time recovery and replication. I'll be adding a my.cnf file (using the my-large.cnf as a skeleton) soon. I'm glad the issue was caught earlier on and now I'm the wiser thanks to you guys. I wonder why the default is no. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't find the binary logging beneficial.I can think of a reason for FreeBSD. The binary logs are never deleted and upon every server restart a new one is created. If you're like me, developing on a laptop with a webenvironment including 'Mysql server', shutting down your laptop daily, you quickly find yourself having full /var partition.
That can be alleviated by adding the logs to newsyslog.conf and gzipping and rotating them regularly.
If you don't restart mysql much, something like this would work:/var/db/mysql/[hostname]-bin.* mysql:mysql 660 7 * $W6D0 JBG /var/db/mysql/[FQHN].pid
If you're restarting it daily, something like this should work:/var/db/mysql/[hostname]-bin.* mysql:mysql 660 25 * $D0 JBG /var/db/mysql/[FQHN].pid
Adjust the counts and the rotation schedule to your liking and, of course, use your own hostname and fully qualified hostname.
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