shell> mysqltest [options] [db_name] < test_file

Display a help message and exit.

The base directory for tests.

The directory where character sets are installed.

Compress all information sent between the client and the server if both support compression.

Use cursors for prepared statements.

The default database to use.

Write a debugging log if MySQL is built with debugging support. The default debug_options value is 'd:t:S:i:O,/tmp/mysqltest.trace'.

Print some debugging information when the program exits.

Print debugging information and memory and CPU usage statistics when the program exits.

Run EXPLAIN EXTENDED on all SELECT, INSERT, REPLACE, UPDATE and DELETE queries.

Connect to the MySQL server on the given host.

Include the contents of the given file before processing the contents of the test file. The included file should have the same format as other mysqltest test files. This option has the same effect as putting a --source file_name command as the first line of the test file.

Run EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON on all SELECT, INSERT, REPLACE, UPDATE and DELETE queries. The json-explain-protocol option is available from MySQL 5.6.

The directory to use for log files.

Write the line number and elapsed time to test_file.progress.

The maximum number of connection attempts when connecting to server.

The maximum number of simultaneous server connections per client (that is, per test). If not set, the maximum is 128. Minimum allowed limit is 8, maximum is 5120.

Do not read default options from any option files. If used, this must be the first option.

The directory in which to look for plugins. It may be necessary to specify this option if the default_auth argument is used for the connect() command to specify an authentication plugin but mysqltest does not find it. This option was added in MySQL 5.5.7.

The password to use when connecting to the server. If you use the short option form (-p), you cannot have a space between the option and the password. If you omit the password value following the --password or -p option on the command line, you are prompted for one.

The TCP/IP port number to use for the connection.

Choose the protocol for communication with the server. SOCKET is default.

The --protocol option is ignored if running with the embedded server.

Use the prepared-statement protocol for communication.

Suppress all normal output. This is a synonym for --silent.

Record the output that results from running the test file into the file named by the --result-file option, if that option is given. It is an error to use this option without also using --result-file.

This option specifies the file for test case expected results. --result-file, together with --record, determines how mysqltest treats the test actual and expected results for a test case:

Pass the argument as an argument to the embedded server. For example, --server-arg=--tmpdir=/tmp or --server-arg=--core. Up to 64 arguments can be given.

Read arguments for the embedded server from the given file. The file should contain one argument per line.

The path name to a file containing the server RSA public key. The file must be in PEM format. The public key is used for RSA encryption of the client password for connections to the server made using accounts that authenticate with the sha256_password plugin. This option is ignored for client accounts that do not authenticate with that plugin. It is also ignored if password encryption is not needed, as is the case when the client connects to the server using an SSL connection.

The server sends the public key to the client as needed, so it is not necessary to use this option for RSA password encryption to occur. It is more efficient to do so because then the server need not send the key.

For additional discussion regarding use of the sha256_password plugin, including how to get the RSA public key, see The SHA-256 Authentication Plugin[1].

This option is available only if MySQL was built using OpenSSL. It was added in MySQL 5.6.6 under the name --server-public-key and renamed in 5.6.7 to --server-public-key-path.

Suppress all normal output.

Do not use memory allocation checking.

Cause all sleep commands in the test case file to sleep num seconds. This option does not affect real_sleep commands.

An option value of 0 can also be used, which effectively disables sleep commands in the test case.

The socket file to use when connecting to localhost (which is the default host).

Execute DML statements within a stored procedure. For every DML statement, mysqltest creates and invokes a stored procedure that executes the statement rather than executing the statement directly.

Specify how many lines of the result to include in the output if the test fails because an SQL statement fails. The default is 0, meaning no lines of result printed.

Read test input from this file. The default is to read from the standard input.

If given, the number of millisecond spent running the test will be written to this file. This is used by mysql-test-run.pl for its reporting.

The protocols permitted by the client for encrypted connections. The value is a comma-separated list containing one or more of these protocols: TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2. (TLSv1.2 is supported only if MySQL was compiled using OpenSSL 1.0.1 or higher. It is not supported if MySQL was compiled using yaSSL.)

This option was added in MySQL 5.7.10.

The temporary directory where socket files are created.

If enabled, this option causes mysqltest to immediately display the output from executed programs to stdout.

This option was added in MySQL 5.8.0.

The MySQL user name to use when connecting to the server.

Verbose mode. Print out more information about what the program does.

Display version information and exit.

Every SELECT statement is wrapped inside a view.