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Diffstat (limited to 'client')
| -rw-r--r-- | client/mysql.cc | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/client/mysql.cc b/client/mysql.cc index 21060013c75..31b56441f23 100644 --- a/client/mysql.cc +++ b/client/mysql.cc @@ -1683,11 +1683,14 @@ static struct my_option my_long_options[] = &opt_default_auth, &opt_default_auth, 0, GET_STR, REQUIRED_ARG, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {"binary-mode", 0, - "By default, ASCII '\\0' is disallowed and '\\r\\n' is translated to '\\n'. " - "This switch turns off both features, and also turns off parsing of all client" - "commands except \\C and DELIMITER, in non-interactive mode (for input " - "piped to mysql or loaded using the 'source' command). This is necessary " - "when processing output from mysqlbinlog that may contain blobs.", + "Binary mode allows certain character sequences to be processed as data " + "that would otherwise be treated with a special meaning by the parser. " + "Specifically, this switch turns off parsing of all client commands except " + "\\C and DELIMITER in non-interactive mode (i.e., when binary mode is " + "combined with either 1) piped input, 2) the --batch mysql option, or 3) " + "the 'source' command). Also, in binary mode, occurrences of '\\r\\n' and " + "ASCII '\\0' are preserved within strings, whereas by default, '\\r\\n' is " + "translated to '\\n' and '\\0' is disallowed in user input.", &opt_binary_mode, &opt_binary_mode, 0, GET_BOOL, NO_ARG, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, GET_NO_ARG, NO_ARG, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0} }; |