Question

When directing MySQL’s General Query Log to a general_log table, it has an event_time column of type timestamp – which has a resolution of 1sec. Also there is no auto-increment id column.

If multiple log entries have the same timestamp (occur on same second) – how can I know their order?

(If you know of a completely different approach to logging the queries by their order, please do share as well)

Answer 1

Summing up my understandings and the comments above:

• General Query Log (GQL) entries are written in the order received, which might differ from the order in which they are executed
• Indeed GQL has a resolution of only 1sec
• MySQL’s binary log seems the only way to get better resolution