From 06eaf7232e9a920468c0f8d74dcf2fe8b555501c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 14:24:36 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 1:10.11.6. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- man/aria_chk.1 | 244 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 244 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man/aria_chk.1 (limited to 'man/aria_chk.1') diff --git a/man/aria_chk.1 b/man/aria_chk.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..435dac75 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/aria_chk.1 @@ -0,0 +1,244 @@ +.TH ARIA_CHK "1" "May 2014" "aria_chk Ver 1.2" "User Commands" +.SH NAME +aria_chk \- Aria table\-maintenance utility +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B aria_chk +[\fIOPTIONS\fR] \fItables\fR[\fI.MAI\fR] +.SH DESCRIPTION +Describe, check and repair of Aria tables. +Used without options all tables on the command will be checked for errors +.SS "Global options" +.TP +\fB\-#\fR, \fB\-\-debug=\fR... +Output debug log. Often this is 'd:t:o,filename'. +.TP +\fB\-H\fR, \fB\-\-HELP\fR +Print all argument options sorted alphabetically. +.TP +\fB\-?\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR +Print all options by groups +.TP +\fB\-\-datadir\fR=\fIpath\fR +Path for control file (and logs if \fB\-\-logdir\fR not used) +.TP +\fB\-\-logdir\fR=\fIpath\fR +Path for log files +.TP +\fB\-\-ignore\-control\-file\fR +Don't open the control file. Only use this if you +are sure the tables are not in use by another +program! +.TP +\fB\-\-require\-control\-file\fR +Abort if we can't find/read the maria_log_control +file +.TP +\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR +Only print errors. One can use two \fB\-s\fR to make +maria_chk very silent. +.TP +\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-tmpdir\fR=\fIpath\fR +Path for temporary files. Multiple paths can be +specified, separated by colon (:), they will be used +in a round\-robin fashion. +.TP +\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR +Print more information. This can be used with +\fB\-\-description\fR and \fB\-\-check\fR. Use many \fB\-v\fR for more verbosity. +.TP +\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR +Print version and exit. +.TP +\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-wait\fR +Wait if table is locked. +.SS "Check options (check is the default action for aria_chk)" +.TP +\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-check\fR +Check table for errors. +.TP +\fB\-e\fR, \fB\-\-extend\-check\fR +Check the table VERY thoroughly. Only use this in +extreme cases as aria_chk should normally be able to +find out if the table is ok even without this switch. +.TP +\fB\-F\fR, \fB\-\-fast\fR +Check only tables that haven't been closed properly. +.TP +\fB\-C\fR, \fB\-\-check\-only\-changed\fR +Check only tables that have changed since last check. +.TP +\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-force\fR +Restart with '\-r' if there are any errors in the table. +States will be updated as with '\-\-update\-state'. +.TP +\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-information\fR +Print statistics information about table that is checked. +.TP +\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-medium\-check\fR +Faster than extend\-check, but only finds 99.99% of +all errors. Should be good enough for most cases. +.TP +\fB\-T\fR, \fB\-\-read\-only\fR +Don't mark table as checked. +.TP +\fB\-U\fR, \fB\-\-update\-state\fR +Mark tables as crashed if any errors were found and +clean if check didn't find any errors but table was +marked as 'not clean' before. This allows one to get +rid of warnings like 'table not properly closed'. If +table was updated, update also the timestamp for when +the check was made. This option is on by default! +Use \fB\-\-skip\-update\-state\fR to disable. +.HP +\fB\-\-warning\-for\-wrong\-transaction\-id\fR +.IP +Give a warning if we find a transaction id in the table that is bigger +than what exists in the control file. Use \fB\-\-skip\-\fR... to disable warning +.SS "Recover (repair)/ options (When using '--recover' or '--safe-recover')" +.TP +\fB\-B\fR, \fB\-\-backup\fR +Make a backup of the .MAD file as 'filename\-time.BAK'. +.TP +\fB\-\-correct\-checksum\fR +Correct checksum information for table. +.TP +\fB\-D\fR, \fB\-\-data\-file\-length=\fR# +Max length of data file (when recreating data +file when it's full). +.TP +\fB\-e\fR, \fB\-\-extend\-check\fR +Try to recover every possible row from the data file +Normally this will also find a lot of garbage rows; +Don't use this option if you are not totally desperate. +.TP +\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-force\fR +Overwrite old temporary files. +.TP +\fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-keys\-used=\fR# +Tell Aria to update only some specific keys. # is a +bit mask of which keys to use. This can be used to +get faster inserts. +.TP +\fB\-\-max\-record\-length=\fR# +Skip rows bigger than this if aria_chk can't allocate +memory to hold it. +.TP +\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-recover\fR +Can fix almost anything except unique keys that aren't +unique. +.TP +\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-sort\-recover\fR +Forces recovering with sorting even if the temporary +file would be very big. +.TP +\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-parallel\-recover\fR +Uses the same technique as '\-r' and '\-n', but creates +all the keys in parallel, in different threads. +.TP +\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-safe\-recover\fR +Uses old recovery method; Slower than '\-r' but can +handle a couple of cases where '\-r' reports that it +can't fix the data file. +.TP +\fB\-\-transaction\-log\fR +Log repair command to transaction log. This is needed +if one wants to use the aria_read_log to repeat the +repair +.TP +\fB\-\-character\-sets\-dir=\fR... +Directory where character sets are. +.TP +\fB\-\-set\-collation\fR=\fIname\fR +Change the collation used by the index. +.TP +\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quick\fR +Faster repair by not modifying the data file. +One can give a second '\-q' to force aria_chk to +modify the original datafile in case of duplicate keys. +NOTE: Tables where the data file is corrupted can't be +fixed with this option. +.TP +\fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-unpack\fR +Unpack file packed with ariapack. +.SS "Other actions" +.TP +\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-analyze\fR +Analyze distribution of keys. Will make some joins in +MariaDB faster. You can check the calculated distribution +by using '\-\-description \fB\-\-verbose\fR table_name'. +.TP +\fB\-\-stats_method\fR=\fIname\fR +Specifies how index statistics collection code should +treat NULLs. Possible values of name are "nulls_unequal" +(default for 4.1/5.0), "nulls_equal" (emulate 4.0), and +"nulls_ignored". +.TP +\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-description\fR +Prints some information about table. +.TP +\fB\-A\fR, \fB\-\-set\-auto\-increment\fR[=\fIvalue\fR] +Force auto_increment to start at this or higher value +If no value is given, then sets the next auto_increment +value to the highest used value for the auto key + 1. +.TP +\fB\-S\fR, \fB\-\-sort\-index\fR +Sort index blocks. This speeds up 'read\-next' in +applications. +.TP +\fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-sort\-records=\fR# +Sort records according to an index. This makes your +data much more localized and may speed up things +(It may be VERY slow to do a sort the first time!). +.TP +\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-block\-search=\fR# +Find a record, a block at given offset belongs to. +.TP +\fB\-z\fR, \fB\-\-zerofill\fR +Fill empty space in data and index files with zeroes. +This makes the data file movable between different +servers. +.TP +\fB\-\-zerofill\-keep\-lsn\fR +Like \fB\-\-zerofill\fR but does not zero out LSN of +data/index pages. +.PP +.SS "Variables" +.TP +\fB\-\-page_buffer_size=\fR# +Size of page buffer. Used by \fB\-\-safe\-repair\fR +.TP +\fB\-\-read_buffer_size=\fR# +Read buffer size for sequential reads during scanning +.TP +\fB\-\-sort_buffer_size=\fR# +Size of sort buffer. Used by \fB\-\-recover\fR +.TP +\fB\-\-sort_key_blocks=\fR# +Internal buffer for sorting keys; Don't touch. +.TP +\fB\-\-write_buffer_size=\fR# +Write buffer size for sequential writes during repair +.PP +Default options are read from the following files in the given order: +\fB/etc/my.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf ~/.my.cnf\fR +.PP +The following groups are read: \fBaria_chk\fR +.PP +The following options may be given as the first argument: +.TP +\fB\-\-print\-defaults\fR +Print the program argument list and exit. +.TP +\fB\-\-no\-defaults\fR +Don't read default options from any option file. +.TP +\fB\-\-defaults\-file=\fR# +Only read default options from the given file #. +.TP +\fB\-\-defaults\-extra\-file=\fR# +Read this file after the global files are read. +.PP +.SH "SEE ALSO" +\fBmyisamchk(1)\fR +.PP +For more information, please refer to the MariaDB Knowledge Base, available online at https://mariadb.com/kb/ -- cgit v1.2.3