On Thursday I saw something I’d not seen before. An Empty Innodb Status. Now given the amount of output normally shown it was certainly a first. And it looked like:
mysql> SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS; +--------+------+--------+ | Type | Name | Status | +--------+------+--------+ | InnoDB | | | +--------+------+--------+ 1 row in set (0.03 sec)
To answer some of the most obvious questions.
- Yes it was a working existing MySQL instance, with InnoDB correctly configured. Indeed we had been benchmarking for several hours.
- MySQL Server was running, indeed a command selecting data from the mysql schema worked just fine after seeing this (All other tables were Innodb).
- Absolutely nothing in the host MySQL error log. (This was the second most disappointing aspect)
- The Process List showed two queries that had been running for some time, everything was taking ; 1 second. …