Activity log for bug #719580

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2011-02-15 20:34:54 shinguz bug added bug
2011-02-15 20:36:03 shinguz description When running: SHOW ENGINE PBXT STATUS\G Type: PBXT Name: Status: 110215 20:25:41 PBXT 1.0.11-7 Pre-GA STATUS OUTPUT --> not similar you can find the version of the PBXT SE. The output of SHOW ENGINE is difficult to parse for applications. IMHO thus this way to expose information should be avoided. Further MySQL and InnoDB/XtraDB are exposing this information with the following commmand: SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE '%version%'; +-------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +-------------------------+---------------------------------+ | innodb_version | 1.0.13-11.6 | | version | 5.2.4-MariaDB-log | +-------------------------+---------------------------------+ Thus I would like to have it similar to those: SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE '%version%'; +-------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +-------------------------+---------------------------------+ | pbxt_version | 1.0.11-7 | +-------------------------+---------------------------------+ When running: SHOW ENGINE PBXT STATUS\G   Type: PBXT   Name: Status: 110215 20:25:41 PBXT 1.0.11-7 Pre-GA STATUS OUTPUT you can find the version of the PBXT SE. The output of SHOW ENGINE is difficult to parse for applications. IMHO thus this way of exposing information should be avoided. Further MySQL and InnoDB/XtraDB are exposing this information with the following command: SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE '%version%'; +-------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +-------------------------+---------------------------------+ | innodb_version | 1.0.13-11.6 | | version | 5.2.4-MariaDB-log | +-------------------------+---------------------------------+ Thus I would like to have it similar to those: SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE '%version%'; +-------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +-------------------------+---------------------------------+ | pbxt_version | 1.0.11-7 | +-------------------------+---------------------------------+