have_symlink

If symbolic link support is enabled, will be set to YES, otherwise will be set to NO. Required for the INDEX DIRECTORY and DATA DIRECTORY table options (see CREATE TABLE) and Windows symlink support. Will be set to DISABLED if the server is started with the --skip-symbolic-links option.

This page is part of MariaDB's Enterprise Documentation.

The parent of this page is: System Variables for MariaDB Enterprise Server

Topics on this page:

DETAILS
- PARAMETERS
- SKYSQL
CHANGE HISTORY
EXTERNAL REFERENCES

DETAILS

PARAMETERS

Command-line	Not Supported
Configuration file	Not Supported
Dynamic	No
Scope	Global
Data Type	VARCHAR
Default Value	NULL

SKYSQL

Cloud	SkySQL Topology	ES Ver	Default
AWS	HA (Primary/Replica)	10.4	DISABLED
AWS	HA (Primary/Replica)	10.5	DISABLED
AWS	Transactional Standalone	10.4	DISABLED
AWS	Transactional Standalone	10.5	DISABLED
AWS	Distributed Transactions	10.5	Not present
GCP	ColumnStore	10.5	YES
GCP	ColumnStore Multi	10.5	YES
GCP	Galera	10.4	DISABLED
GCP	Galera	10.5	DISABLED
GCP	HA (Primary/Replica)	10.4	DISABLED
GCP	HA (Primary/Replica)	10.5	DISABLED
GCP	HTAP	10.5	YES
GCP	Transactional Standalone	10.4	DISABLED
GCP	Transactional Standalone	10.5	DISABLED
GCP	Distributed Transactions	10.5	Not present

See MariaDB SkySQL documentation to learn more about the MariaDB SkySQL database as a service.

CHANGE HISTORY

Release Series	History
10.6 Enterprise	Present starting in MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.6.4-1.
10.6 Community	Present starting in MariaDB Community Server 10.6.0.
10.5 Enterprise	Present starting in MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5.3-1.
10.5 Community	Present starting in MariaDB Community Server 10.5.0.
10.4 Enterprise	Present starting in MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.4.6-1.
10.4 Community	Present starting in MariaDB Community Server 10.4.0.
10.3 Enterprise	Present starting in MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.3.16-1.
10.3 Community	Present starting in MariaDB Community Server 10.3.0.
10.2 Enterprise	Present starting in MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.2.25-1.
10.2 Community	Present starting in MariaDB Community Server 10.2.0.

EXTERNAL REFERENCES

Additional information on this topic may be found in the MariaDB Public Knowledge Base.

Information specific to MariaDB SkySQL can be found on the have_symlink page in the SkySQL Documentation.