SHOW WARNINGS
Syntax
SHOW WARNINGS
shows information about the conditions (errors, warnings, and notes) that resulted from the last statement in the current session that generated messages. It shows nothing if the last statement used a table and generated no messages. (That is, a statement that uses a table but generates no messages clears the message list.) Statements that do not use tables and do not generate messages have no effect on the message list.
Warnings are generated for DML statements such as INSERT
, UPDATE
, and LOAD DATA INFILE
as well as DDL statements such as CREATE TABLE
and ALTER TABLE
.
The LIMIT
clause has the same syntax as for the SELECT
statement. See , "SELECT
Syntax".
A related statement, SHOW ERRORS
, shows only the error conditions (it excludes warnings and notes). See , "SHOW ERRORS
Syntax". GET DIAGNOSTICS
can be used to examine information for individual conditions. See , "GET DIAGNOSTICS
Syntax".
The SHOW COUNT(*) WARNINGS
statement displays the total number of errors, warnings, and notes. You can also retrieve this number from the warning_count
system variable:
SHOW COUNT(*) WARNINGS; SELECT @@warning_count;
Here is a simple example that shows a syntax warning for CREATE TABLE
and conversion warnings for INSERT
:
mysql>CREATE TABLE t1
>(a TINYINT NOT NULL, b CHAR(4))
>TYPE=MyISAM;
Query OK, 0 rows affected, 1 warning (0.00 sec) mysql>SHOW WARNINGS\G
*************************** 1. row *************************** Level: Warning Code: 1287 Message: 'TYPE=storage_engine' is deprecated, use 'ENGINE=storage_engine' instead 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql>INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(10,'mysql'),
->(NULL,'test'), (300,'Open Source');
Query OK, 3 rows affected, 4 warnings (0.01 sec) Records: 3 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 4 mysql>SHOW WARNINGS\G
*************************** 1. row *************************** Level: Warning Code: 1265 Message: Data truncated for column 'b' at row 1 *************************** 2. row *************************** Level: Warning Code: 1263 Message: Data truncated, NULL supplied to NOT NULL column 'a' at row 2 *************************** 3. row *************************** Level: Warning Code: 1264 Message: Data truncated, out of range for column 'a' at row 3 *************************** 4. row *************************** Level: Warning Code: 1265 Message: Data truncated for column 'b' at row 3 4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
The max_error_count
system variable controls the maximum number of error, warning, and note messages for which the server stores information, and thus the number of messages that SHOW WARNINGS
displays. By default, max_error_count
is 64. To change the number of messages the server can store, change the value of max_error_count
.
The value of warning-count
is not limited by max_error_count
if the number of messages generated exceeds max_error_count
.
In the following example, the ALTER TABLE
statement produces three warning messages (as shown by the value of warning_count
), but only one is stored because max_error_count
has been set to 1:
mysql>SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'max_error_count';
+-----------------+-------+ | Variable_name | Value | +-----------------+-------+ | max_error_count | 64 | +-----------------+-------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql>SET max_error_count=1;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql>ALTER TABLE t1 MODIFY b CHAR;
Query OK, 3 rows affected, 3 warnings (0.00 sec) Records: 3 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 3 mysql>SELECT @@warning_count;
+-----------------+ | @@warning_count | +-----------------+ | 3 | +-----------------+ 1 row in set (0.01 sec) mysql>SHOW WARNINGS;
+---------+------+----------------------------------------+ | Level | Code | Message | +---------+------+----------------------------------------+ | Warning | 1263 | Data truncated for column 'b' at row 1 | +---------+------+----------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
To disable warnings, set max-error-count
to 0. In this case, warning_count
still indicates how many warnings have occurred, but none of the messages are stored.
The following DROP TABLE
statement results in a note:
mysql>DROP TABLE IF EXISTS test.no_such_table;
Query OK, 0 rows affected, 1 warning (0.01 sec) mysql>SHOW WARNINGS;
+-------+------+------------------------------------+ | Level | Code | Message | +-------+------+------------------------------------+ | Note | 1051 | Unknown table 'test.no_such_table' | +-------+------+------------------------------------+
If the sql-notes
system variable is set to 0, notes do not increment warning_count
and the server does not record them.
The MariaDB server sends back a count indicating the total number of errors, warnings, and notes resulting from the last statement. From the C API, this value can be obtained by calling mysql_warning_count()
. See , "mysql_warning_count()
".