TiDB Configuration File Description

The TiDB configuration file supports more options than command line options. You can find the default configuration file in config/config.toml.example and rename it to config.toml.

This document describes the options that are not involved in command line options. For command line options, see here.

split-table

• To create a separate Region for each table
• Default: true
• It is recommended to set it to false if you need to create a large number of tables

oom-action

• To specify the operation when out-of-memory occurs in TiDB
• Default: “log”
• The valid options are “log” and “cancel”; “log” only prints the log, without actual processing; “cancel” cancels the operation and outputs the log

enable-streaming

• To enable the data fetch mode of streaming in Coprocessor
• Default: false

lower-case-table-names

• To configure the value of the lower_case_table_names system variable
• Default: 2
• For details, you can see the MySQL description of this variable
• Currently, TiDB only supports setting the value of this option to 2. This means it is case-sensitive when you save a table name, but case-insensitive when you compare table names. The comparison is based on the lower case.

Log

Configuration about log.

format

• To specify the log output format
• The valid options are “json”, “text” and “console”
• Default: “text”

disable-timestamp

• Whether to disable outputting timestamp in the log
• Default: false
• If you set the value to true, the log does not output timestamp

slow-query-file

• The file name of the slow query log
• Default: “”
• After you set it, the slow query log is output to this file separately

slow-threshold

• To output the threshold value of consumed time in the slow log
• Default: 300ms
• If the value in a query is larger than the default value, it is a slow query and is output to the slow log

expensive-threshold

• To output the threshold value of the number of rows for the expensive operation
• Default: 10000
• When the number of query rows (including the intermediate results based on statistics) is larger than this value, it is an expensive operation and outputs log with the [EXPENSIVE_QUERY] prefix.

query-log-max-len

• The maximum length of SQL output
• Default: 2048
• When the length of the statement is longer than query-log-max-len, the statement is truncated to output

log.file

filename

• The file name of the general log file
• Default: “”
• If you set it, the log is output to this file

max-size

• The size limit of the log file
• Default: 300MB
• The maximum size is 4GB

max-days

• The maximum number of days that the log is retained
• Default: 0
• The log is retained by default; if you set the value, the expired log is cleaned up after max-days

max-backups

• The maximum number of retained logs
• Default: 0
• All the log files are retained by default; if you set it to 7, 7 log files are retained at maximum

log-rotate

• Whether to create a new log file every day
• Default: true
• If you set it to true, a new log file is created every day; if you set it to false, the log is output to a single log file

Security

Configuration about security.

ssl-ca

• The file path of the trusted CA certificate in the PEM format
• Default: “”
• If you set this option and --ssl-cert, --ssl-key at the same time, TiDB authenticates the client certificate based on the list of trusted CAs specified by this option when the client presents the certificate. If the authentication fails, the connection is terminated.
• If you set this option but the client does not present the certificate, the secure connection continues without client certificate authentication.

ssl-cert

• The file path of the SSL certificate in the PEM format
• Default: “”
• If you set this option and --ssl-key at the same time, TiDB allows (but not forces) the client to securely connect to TiDB using TLS
• If the specified certificate or private key is invalid, TiDB starts as usual but cannot receive secure connection

ssl-key

• The file path of the SSL certificate key in the PEM format, that is the private key of the certificate specified by --ssl-cert
• Default: “”
• Currently, TiDB does not support loading the private keys protected by passwords

Performance

Configuration about performance.

max-procs

• The number of CPUs used by TiDB
• Default: 0
• The default “0” indicates using all CPUs in the machine; you can also set it to max-procs, and then TiDB uses max-procs CPUs

stmt-count-limit

• The maximum number of statements allowed in a single TiDB transaction
• Default: 5000
• If a transaction does not roll back or commit after the number of statements exceeds stmt-count-limit, TiDB returns the statement count 5001 exceeds the transaction limitation, autocommit = false error

tcp-keep-alive

• To enable keepalive in the TCP layer
• Default: false

retry-limit

• The number of retries that TiDB makes when it encounters a key conflict or other errors while committing a transaction
• Default: 10
• If the number of retries exceeds retry-limit but the transaction still fails, TiDB returns an error

cross-join

• Default: true
• TiDB supports executing the join statement without any condition (the where field) of both sides tables by default; if you set the value to false, the server refuses to execute when such a join statement appears

stats-lease

• The time interval between analyzing TiDB statistics and reloading statistics
• Default: 3s
  • At intervals of stats-lease time, TiDB checks the statistics for updates and updates them to the memory if updates exist
  • At intervals of 5 * stats-lease time, TiDB persists the total number of rows generated by DML and the number of modified rows
  • At intervals of stats-lease, TiDB checks for tables and indexes that need to be automatically analyzed
  • At intervals of stats-lease, TiDB checks for column statistics that need to be loaded to the memory

run-auto-analyze

• Whether TiDB executes automatic analysis
• Default: true

feedback-probability

• The probability that TiDB collects the feedback statistics of each query
• Default: 0
• TiDB collects the feedback of each query at the probability of feedback-probability, to update statistics

prepared-plan-cache

The Plan Cache configuration of the prepare statement.

enabled

• To enable Plan Cache of the prepare statement
• Default: false

capacity

• The number of cached statements
• Default: 100

tikv-client

grpc-connection-count

• The maximum number of connections established with each TiKV
• Default: 16

commit-timeout

• The maximum timeout time when executing a transaction commit
• Default: 41s
• It is required to set this value larger than twice of the Raft election timeout time

txn-local-latches

Configuration about the transaction latch. It is recommended to enable it when many local transaction conflicts occur.

enable

• To enable
• Default: false

capacity

• The number of slots corresponding to Hash, which automatically adjusts upward to an exponential multiple of 2. Each slot occupies 32 Bytes of memory. If set too small, it might result in slower running speed and poor performance in the scenario where data writing covers a relatively large range (such as importing data).
• Default: 1024000