Hi Daniel, Ian, I have implemented a new system variable for global transaction ID and pushed it into 10.0-base (so it should appear in 10.0.5 I suppose). I have written some text for documenting the new variable, appended below. Can one of you help me get this text into the Knowledgebase with proper formatting and cross-referencing across relevant pages? - Kristian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Variable: gtid_binlog_state Scope: global Dynamic: Yes Type: String The variable gtid_binlog_state holds the internal state of the binlog. The state consists of the last GTID ever logged to the binary log for every combination of domain_id and server_id. This information is used by the master to determine whether a given GTID has been logged to the binlog in the past, even if it has later been deleted due to binlog purge. For each domain_id, the last entry in @@gtid_binlog_state is the last GTID logged into binlog, ie. this is the value that appears in @@gtid_binlog_pos. Normally this internal state is not needed by users, as @@gtid_binlog_pos is more useful in most cases. The main usage of @@gtid_binlog_state is to restore the state of the binlog after RESET MASTER (or equivalently if the binlog files are lost). If the value of @@gtid_binlog_state is saved before RESET MASTER and restored afterwards, the master will retain information about past history, same as if PURGE BINARY LOGS had been used (of course the actual events in the binary logs are still deleted). Note that to set the value of @@gtid_binlog_state, the binary log must be empty, that is it must not contain any GTID events and the previous value of @@gtid_binlog_state must be the empty string. If not, then RESET MASTER must be used first to erase the binary log first. For completeness, note that setting @@gtid_binlog_state internally executes a RESET MASTER. This is normally not noticable as it can only be changed when the binlog is empty of GTID events. However, if executed eg. immediately after upgrading to MariaDB 10, it is possible that the binlog is non-empty but without any GTID events, in which case all such events will be deleted, just as if RESET MASTER had been run.