If option ‘binlog_structure’ is set to ‘tree’ then SHOW BINARY LOGS
displays the tree details of the binlog files.
MySQL [(none)]> SHOW BINARY LOGS;
+--------------------------+-----------+
| Log_name | File_size |
+--------------------------+-----------+
| 0/10122/mysql-bin.000117 | 1167 |
| 0/10122/mysql-bin.000118 | 652 |
| 0/10124/foo-bin.000016 | 5082 |
| 0/10124/foo-bin.000017 | 491 |
+--------------------------+-----------+
With option set to ‘flat’ (which is the default) the output contains
only
names:
MySQL [(none)]> SHOW BINARY LOGS;
+------------------+-----------+
| Log_name | File_size |
+------------------+-----------+
| mysql-bin.000110 | 425 |
| mysql-bin.000111 | 10409 |
| mysql-bin.000112 | 9659 |
+------------------+-----------+