21.5.27 ndb_show_tables — Display List of NDB Tables (original) (raw)

21.5.27 ndb_show_tables — Display List of NDB Tables

ndb_show_tables displays a list of allNDB database objects in the cluster. By default, this includes not only both user-created tables and NDB system tables, butNDB-specific indexes, internal triggers, and NDB Cluster Disk Data objects as well.

Options that can be used with ndb_show_tables are shown in the following table. Additional descriptions follow the table.

Table 21.43 Command-line options used with the program ndb_show_tables

Usage

ndb_show_tables [-c connection_string]

• --character-sets-dir

  Command-Line Format	--character-sets-dir=path
  Directory containing character sets.

• --connect-retries

  Command-Line Format	--connect-retries=#
  Type	Integer
  Default Value	12
  Minimum Value	0
  Maximum Value	12
  Number of times to retry connection before giving up.

• --connect-retry-delay

  Command-Line Format	--connect-retry-delay=#
  Type	Integer
  Default Value	5
  Minimum Value	0
  Maximum Value	5
  Number of seconds to wait between attempts to contact management server.

• --connect-string

  Command-Line Format	--connect-string=connection_string
  Type	String
  Default Value	[none]
  Same as--ndb-connectstring.

• --core-file

  Command-Line Format	--core-file
  Write core file on error; used in debugging.

• --database, -d
  Specifies the name of the database in which the desired table is found. If this option is given, the name of a table must follow the database name.
  If this option has not been specified, and no tables are found in the TEST_DB database,ndb_show_tables issues a warning.
• --defaults-extra-file

  Command-Line Format	--defaults-extra-file=path
  Type	String
  Default Value	[none]
  Read given file after global files are read.

• --defaults-file

  Command-Line Format	--defaults-file=path
  Type	String
  Default Value	[none]
  Read default options from given file only.

• --defaults-group-suffix

  Command-Line Format	--defaults-group-suffix=string
  Type	String
  Default Value	[none]
  Also read groups with concat(group, suffix).

• --help

  Command-Line Format	--help
  Display help text and exit.

• --login-path

  Command-Line Format	--login-path=path
  Type	String
  Default Value	[none]
  Read given path from login file.

• --loops, -l
  Specifies the number of times the utility should execute. This is 1 when this option is not specified, but if you do use the option, you must supply an integer argument for it.
• --ndb-connectstring

  Command-Line Format	--ndb-connectstring=connection_string
  Type	String
  Default Value	[none]
  Set connect string for connecting to ndb_mgmd. Syntax: "[nodeid=id;][host=]hostname[:port]". Overrides entries in NDB_CONNECTSTRING and my.cnf.

• --ndb-mgmd-host

  Command-Line Format	--ndb-mgmd-host=connection_string
  Type	String
  Default Value	[none]
  Same as--ndb-connectstring.

• --ndb-nodeid

  Command-Line Format	--ndb-nodeid=#
  Type	Integer
  Default Value	[none]
  Set node ID for this node, overriding any ID set by--ndb-connectstring.

• --ndb-optimized-node-selection

  Command-Line Format	--ndb-optimized-node-selection
  Enable optimizations for selection of nodes for transactions. Enabled by default; use--skip-ndb-optimized-node-selection to disable.

• --no-defaults

  Command-Line Format	--no-defaults
  Do not read default options from any option file other than login file.

• --parsable, -p
  Using this option causes the output to be in a format suitable for use with LOAD DATA.
• --print-defaults

  Command-Line Format	--print-defaults
  Print program argument list and exit.

• --show-temp-status
  If specified, this causes temporary tables to be displayed.
• --type, -t
  Can be used to restrict the output to one type of object, specified by an integer type code as shown here:
  • 1: System table
  • 2: User-created table
  • 3: Unique hash index
    Any other value causes all NDB database objects to be listed (the default).
• --unqualified, -u
  If specified, this causes unqualified object names to be displayed.
• --usage

  Command-Line Format	--usage
  Display help text and exit; same as--help.

• --version

  Command-Line Format	--version
  Display version information and exit.

Prior to NDB 7.5.18 and 7.6.14, this program printedNDBT_ProgramExit -_`status`_ upon completion of its run, due to an unnecessary dependency on theNDBT testing library. This dependency is has now been removed, eliminating the extraneous output.