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Expand Up @@ -103,12 +103,39 @@ docker run -d --name binlog-reader -p 6020:6020 \

### HowTo

on each MySQL server instance run the `proxysql_binlog_reader`, e.g:
on each MySQL or MariaDB server instance run the `proxysql_binlog_reader`, e.g:

```sh
./proxysql_binlog_reader -h 127.0.0.1 -u root -p rootpass -P 3306 -l 6020 -f
```

#### MariaDB backends

The reader also supports MariaDB. No flag is needed: the backend is detected
from the server version banner, and the snapshot is read from
`@@gtid_binlog_pos` instead of the MySQL `Executed_Gtid_Set` column, which
MariaDB does not provide.

```sh
./proxysql_binlog_reader -h 127.0.0.1 -u root -p rootpass -P 3306 -l 6020 -f \
--ssl-mode=DISABLED

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Keep the MariaDB example aligned with the TLS requirement.

The example explicitly disables TLS, while the README states that TLS is required and defaults to REQUIRED. Replace the override with REQUIRED, or document this command as a local-only exception and explain its purpose.

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Update the MariaDB example’s ssl-mode option to REQUIRED so it matches the
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```

MariaDB reports positions as `domain-server-sequence` (`0-1-270`), but that
native spelling is **not** what the reader sends. On the wire a MariaDB id is
`domain:start-end` (`0:1-270`), produced by `GTID_Set::to_string()`. A MySQL
UUID keeps its dashed form followed by `:intervals`. The two spellings are not
interchangeable, so do not parse a position out of `@@gtid_binlog_pos` and
expect it to match the reader's output.

A MariaDB domain id is a canonical decimal `uint32`. The reader rejects a
non-canonical spelling, so `0` and `00` never name the same domain, and a value
above `UINT32_MAX` fails rather than being truncated.

MariaDB reports an empty `@@gtid_binlog_pos` until its first GTID. That is a
valid empty position, not an error: the reader waits for the first non-empty
position before it opens the stream, rather than failing at startup.

#### TLS connections

TLS is required and server-certificate verification is enabled by default. For a
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#### Integration testing

The Docker TAP suite uses dbdeployer sandboxes for MySQL `5.7`, `8.0`, `8.4`,
`9.0`, and `9.4`. After building the reader and TAP tests, run one version
during local iteration with:
`9.0`, and `9.4`, and a separate MariaDB `10.11` service for the MariaDB GTID
snapshot and stream tests. After building the reader and TAP tests, run one
version during local iteration with:

```sh
MYSQL_VERSIONS=84 test/infra/start-test.sh
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