MySQL Server supports a HELP
statement that returns online information from the MySQL Reference
manual (see Section 12.8.3, “HELP
Syntax”). The proper operation of this
statement requires that the help tables in the
mysql
database be initialized with help topic
information, which is done by processing the contents of the
fill_help_tables.sql
script.
For a MySQL binary distribution on Unix, help table setup occurs when you run mysql_install_db. For an RPM distribution on Linux or binary distribution on Windows, help table setup occurs as part of the MySQL installation process.
For a MySQL source distribution, you can find the
fill_help_tables.sql
file in the
scripts
directory. To load the file manually,
make sure that you have initialized the mysql
database by running mysql_install_db, and then
process the file with the mysql client as
follows:
shell> mysql -u root mysql < fill_help_tables.sql
If you are working with Bazaar and a MySQL development source
tree, the tree doesn't contain
fill_help_tables.sql
. You can download the
proper file for your version of MySQL from
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/. After downloading and
uncompressing the file, process it with mysql
as just described.
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