Sorry, a bit too hasty -- It seems to work fine in the command line client!
Has the wire protocol changed somehow? Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL, NexusDB, Oracle & MS SQL Server Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com My thoughts: http://blog.upscene.com/martijn/ Database development questions? Check the forum! http://www.databasedevelopmentforum.com > Hi, > > It seems that SHOW ENGINES fails on MySQL 5.0.51a (community edition > checked). > > Instead of returning the full data, the first two columns are cut off at 3 > characters, > while the "comment" column is cut off at 26 characters. > > Sample output: > # | Engine| Support| Comment > --+-------+--------+--------------------------- > 1| MyI | YES | Default engine as of MySQL > 2| MEM | YES | Hash based, stored in memo > 3| Inn | DEF | Supports transactions, row > --+-------+--------+--------------------------- > 4| Ber | NO | Supports transactions and > 5| BLA | YES | /dev/null storage engine ( > 6| EXA | YES | Example storage engine > --+-------+--------+--------------------------- > 7| ARC | YES | Archive storage engine > 8| CSV | NO | CSV storage engine > 9| ndb | NO | Clustered, fault-tolerant, > --+-------+--------+--------------------------- > 10| FED | YES | Federated MySQL storage en > 11| MRG | YES | Collection of identical My > 12| ISA | NO | Obsolete storage engine > > As you can see, this is wrong and my application fails properly > fetching info about the available storage engines. > > Martijn Tonies > Database Workbench - tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL, NexusDB, Oracle & > MS SQL Server > Upscene Productions > http://www.upscene.com > My thoughts: > http://blog.upscene.com/martijn/ > Database development questions? Check the forum! > http://www.databasedevelopmentforum.com > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]