How to make sql-mode=“NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION” permanent in MySQL my.cnf

Question

UPDATE FIXED 1/18/15

After we recently updated to MySQL 5.6.27 (from the Ubuntu repo), this option now works. So this appears to have been a problem with the previ

Answer 1

Your server may read a different my.cnf than the one you're editing (unless you specified it when starting mysqld).

From the MySQL Certification Study Guide:

The search order includes two general option files, /etc/my.cnf and $MYSQL_HOME/my.cnf. The second file is used only if the MYSQL_HOME environment variable is set. Typically, you seet it to the MySQL installation directory. (The mysqld_safe script attempts to set MYSQL_HOME if it is not set before starting the server.) The option file search order also includes ~/.my.cnf (that is the home directory). This isn't an especially suitable location for server options. (Normally, you invoke the server as mysql, or as root with a --user=mysql option. The user-specific file read by the server would depend on which login account you invoke it from, possibly leading to inconsistent sets of options being used.)

Another possibility is of course, that your sql-mode option gets overwritten further down in the same file. Multiple options have to be separated by , in the same line.

P.S.: And you need the quotes, IIRC. Now that you've tried it without quotes, I'm pretty sure, you're editing the wrong file, since MySQL doesn't start when there's an error in the option file.

P.P.S.: Had a look at my config files again, there it's

[mysqld]
sql_mode = "NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION"

and it's working.

Answer 2

The solution is pretty easy... Searched for it for a while and it turns out that you just have to edit 2 config-files:

• /usr/my.cnf
• /etc/mysql/my.cnf

in both files you'll have to add:

[mysqld]
...
sql_mode=NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION

At least, that's what's working for 5.6.24-2+deb.sury.org~precise+2

Answer 3

If you're using mariadb, you have to modify the mariadb.cnf file located in /etc/mysql/conf.d/.

I supposed the stuff is the same for any other my-sql based solutions.

Answer 4

It was making me crazy also until I realized that the paragraph where the key must be is [mysqld] not [mysql]

So, for 10.3.22-MariaDB-1ubuntu1, my solution is, in /etc/mysql/conf.d/mysql.cnf

[mysqld]
sql_mode = "ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION"

Answer 5

Just to add my configuration to the mix, I'm using MySQL 5.7.8 which has the same strict sql_mode rules by default.

• I finally figured the following working in my /etc/mysql/my.conf:

  [mysqld]
  sql-mode="STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION"
  

i.e. dash, not underscore and quotes around the value.

• I have NO other my.conf files other than /etc/mysql/my.conf

• There are some extra config includes being loaded from /etc/mysql/conf.d/ but they are blank.

And that seems to work for me.

Answer 6

I am running WHM 10.2.15-MariaDB. To permanently disable strict mode first find out which configuration file our installation prefers. For that, we need the binary’s location:

$ which mysqld
/usr/sbin/mysqld

Then, we use this path to execute the lookup:

$ /usr/sbin/mysqld --verbose --help | grep -A 1 "Default options"

Default options are read from the following files in the given order:
/etc/my.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf ~/.my.cnf

We can see that the first favored configuration file is one in the root of the etc folder but that there is a second .cnf file hidden - ~/.my.cnf. Adding the following to the ~/.my.cnf file permanently disabled strict mode for me (needs to be within the mysqld section):

[mysqld]
sql_mode=NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION

I found that adding the line to /etc/my.cnf had no effect at all apart from sending me crazy.