If you’ve been using the Event Scheduler that was introduced in MySQL
5.1.6, there are some changes in the workings of the
event_scheduler server variable. These changes are
fairly simple — but not trivial — and were just
committed to the 5.1 tree a few days ago. They will
definitely be part of the official 5.1.12 release — which should
be out just about any day now — so you’ll want to be aware of
them, and how they’ll affect the behaviour of the Event
Scheduler, before you upgrade.
This variable determines whether the Event Scheduler is available, and whether it’s actually running. In MySQL 5.1.12, it can be used in either of two ways:
- a server option that can be used from the command line
(
--event-scheduler), or in the …