From b06570a940a705988360553446daa8ea52e60f27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabriel Filion Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:25:58 -0400 Subject: Document the new define in the README Signed-off-by: Gabriel Filion --- README | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index a454dbd..b92dd23 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -46,6 +46,36 @@ grant tables. The my.cnf file will installed from one of many possible places, see manifests/server/base.pp for possible locations for managing this. +Configuration snippets +---------------------- + +To make managing mysql configuration easier, you can use the define +mysql::conf. Note, though that there currently is only the Debian default +configuration file that includes files in /etc/mysql/conf.d/. + +For example: + +mysql::conf { 'test': + ensure => present, + section => 'mysqld', + config => { + table_cache => '15000', + skip_slave => '', + something => '""', + } +} + +The above example shows two possibilities for empty values. + + * If a value only has an empty value in the hash passed to the config + parameter, that will define a boolean option in mysql by simply mentioning + the option name with no equal sign. So in the above, you'd have a line that + contains only "skip_slave". + + * If you need to declare a variable with an empty value (e.g. with the equal + sign), you can use two quotes as the option's value. In the above example, + you'd have a line that looks like "something=". + Backups ------- -- cgit v1.2.3