At 14:31, 19990825, sinisa@stripped wrote:
>Atul Ohri writes:
> > When attempting to connect to my database by running the mysql client, it
> > freezes after printing the statement:
> > ---
> > Reading table information for completion of table and column names
> > You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
> > ---
> >
> > I am starting it with "mysql -u user -p db"
>
>Simply, let mysql finish hashing tables and columns.
If your mysqld is in debugging mode, it might take a lot longer than
normal for mysql to read the table information. The solution is to
use the -A flag, or use a non-debugging mysqld for normal use.
Tim
