While doing a standard audit for a new client, I recommended a few changes to get better performance. Because I had several changes, I used the documentation at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-system-variables.html
and found that innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit is a
dynamic variable. I was surprised, because most operations
dealing with file sizes and operations are not dynamic. But the
client proceeded with:
set global innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 2;
and got:
ERROR 1193 (HY000): Unknown system variable 'innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit'
So I searched for others who may have had the same error, and ended up getting an unintentional googlewhack. Well, it’s not a real Googlewhack, because it has more than 2 …
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