THis is probably a question that Gerog Richter (or possibly Wlad) could reply to.

I came across this bug report:

.. files by former MySQL/Sun/Oracle supporter Veleriuy Kravtchuk

We have a 64 bit C-application compiled with MariaDB C-API (on and for Windows 64 bit). I connect to MySQL 5.6.15 and execute

SELECT * FROM `session_connect_attrs`;

/*
PROCESSLIST_ID ATTR_NAME ATTR_VALUE ORDINAL_POSITION
-------------- --------------- ---------- ------------------
2 _os Windows 0
2 _client_name libmariadb 1
2 _pid 5012 2
2 _thread 4640 3
2 _platform x86 4
2 _client_version 1.1.2 5
*/

With the MySQL CLI 5.6.15, you will get

/*
PROCESSLIST_ID ATTR_NAME ATTR_VALUE ORDINAL_POSITION
-------------- --------------- ---------- ------------------
4 _os Win64 0
4 _client_name libmysql 1
4 _pid 4888 2
4 _thread 4320 3
4 _platform x86_64 4
4 program_name mysql 5
4 _client_version 5.6.15 6
*/

The differences I notice are

* Our application populates P_S with "Windows" - not "Win64" as the 5.6.15 CLI

* Our application populates 'P_S with "x86" and not "x86_64".

* Our application does not populate P_S with a "program_name". But it has a name of course!

MySQL 5.6 docs at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/performance-schema-connection-attribute-tables.html lists (as far as I can understand) that the client should use mysql_options() and mysql_options4() C API functions to populate P_S with all information.

I have two questions:

Will the first 2 differences listed require a patch in our code or in libmariadb?

Obviosuly the lacking program name in the P_S tables is something that we will neeed to take care of ourselves. However I think that mysql_options4() was added in MySQL 5.6 and the MariaDB API does not supprot it currently (it is targeted to be compatible with Oracle 5.5 API, I think). And to populate the program name we may need to use mysql_options4(). Am I right?