Comments on: MySQL: Purge binary logs

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Downtime this afternoon (Monday, April 27) - BuckeyePlanet Ohio State Forums — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:02:23 +0000

[...] there is a way within SQL to get the logs to expire automatically (and it’s configurable too) Patterns ? Blog Archive ? MySQL: Purge binary logs Hope that helps you C-dawg. [...]

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:38:38 +0000

Actually the “reset master” command is supposed to work in online mode (aka without restarting it) and it does for me. What does your setup look like?

By: Mike Batchelder

Mike Batchelder — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:57:00 +0000

Does the purge only work if mysql is restarted? That seems to be the case but I’m not sure if I’m missing something else, like security on the files or something.