CHANGE MASTER TO option [, option] ... [ channel_option ]

option: {
    MASTER_BIND = 'interface_name'
  | MASTER_HOST = 'host_name'
  | MASTER_USER = 'user_name'
  | MASTER_PASSWORD = 'password'
  | MASTER_PORT = port_num
  | MASTER_CONNECT_RETRY = interval
  | MASTER_RETRY_COUNT = count
  | MASTER_DELAY = interval
  | MASTER_HEARTBEAT_PERIOD = interval
  | MASTER_LOG_FILE = 'source_log_name'
  | MASTER_LOG_POS = source_log_pos
  | MASTER_AUTO_POSITION = {0|1}
  | RELAY_LOG_FILE = 'relay_log_name'
  | RELAY_LOG_POS = relay_log_pos
  | MASTER_SSL = {0|1}
  | MASTER_SSL_CA = 'ca_file_name'
  | MASTER_SSL_CAPATH = 'ca_directory_name'
  | MASTER_SSL_CERT = 'cert_file_name'
  | MASTER_SSL_CRL = 'crl_file_name'
  | MASTER_SSL_CRLPATH = 'crl_directory_name'
  | MASTER_SSL_KEY = 'key_file_name'
  | MASTER_SSL_CIPHER = 'cipher_list'
  | MASTER_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT = {0|1}
  | MASTER_TLS_VERSION = 'protocol_list'
  | IGNORE_SERVER_IDS = (server_id_list)
}

channel_option:
    FOR CHANNEL channel

server_id_list:
    [server_id [, server_id] ... ]

CHANGE MASTER TO changes the parameters that the replica uses for connecting to the replication source server, for reading the source's binary log, and reading the replica's relay log. It also updates the contents of the replication metadata repositories (see Section 16.2.4, “Relay Log and Replication Metadata Repositories”). CHANGE MASTER TO requires the SUPER privilege.

Prior to MySQL 5.7.4, the replication threads must be stopped, using STOP SLAVE if necessary, before issuing this statement. In MySQL 5.7.4 and later, you can issue CHANGE MASTER TO statements on a running replica without doing this, depending on the states of the replication SQL thread and replication I/O thread. The rules governing such use are provided later in this section.

When using a multithreaded replica (in other words slave_parallel_workers is greater than 0), stopping the replica can cause “gaps” in the sequence of transactions that have been executed from the relay log, regardless of whether the replica was stopped intentionally or otherwise. When such gaps exist, issuing CHANGE MASTER TO fails. The solution in this situation is to issue START SLAVE UNTIL SQL_AFTER_MTS_GAPS which ensures that the gaps are closed.

The optional FOR CHANNEL channel clause enables you to name which replication channel the statement applies to. Providing a FOR CHANNEL channel clause applies the CHANGE MASTER TO statement to a specific replication channel, and is used to add a new channel or modify an existing channel. For example, to add a new channel called channel2:

CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST=host1, MASTER_PORT=3002 FOR CHANNEL 'channel2'

If no clause is named and no extra channels exist, the statement applies to the default channel.

When using multiple replication channels, if a CHANGE MASTER TO statement does not name a channel using a FOR CHANNEL channel clause, an error occurs. See Section 16.2.2, “Replication Channels” for more information.

Options not specified retain their value, except as indicated in the following discussion. Thus, in most cases, there is no need to specify options that do not change. For example, if the password to connect to your replication source server has changed, issue this statement to tell the replica about the new password:

CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_PASSWORD='new3cret';

MASTER_HOST, MASTER_USER, MASTER_PASSWORD, and MASTER_PORT provide information to the replica about how to connect to its replication source server:

Setting MASTER_SSL=1 for a replication connection and then setting no further MASTER_SSL_xxx options corresponds to setting --ssl-mode=REQUIRED for the client, as described in Command Options for Encrypted Connections. With MASTER_SSL=1, the connection attempt only succeeds if an encrypted connection can be established. A replication connection does not fall back to an unencrypted connection, so there is no setting corresponding to the --ssl-mode=PREFERRED setting for replication. If MASTER_SSL=0 is set, this corresponds to --ssl-mode=DISABLED.

The MASTER_SSL_xxx options and the MASTER_TLS_VERSION option specify how the replica uses encryption and ciphers to secure the replication connection. These options can be changed even on replicas that are compiled without SSL support. They are saved to the source metadata repository, but are ignored if the replica does not have SSL support enabled. The MASTER_SSL_xxx and MASTER_TLS_VERSION options perform the same functions as the --ssl-xxx and --tls-version client options described in Command Options for Encrypted Connections. The correspondence between the two sets of options, and the use of the MASTER_SSL_xxx and MASTER_TLS_VERSION options to set up a secure connection, is explained in Section 16.3.8, “Setting Up Replication to Use Encrypted Connections”.

The MASTER_HEARTBEAT_PERIOD, MASTER_CONNECT_RETRY, and MASTER_RETRY_COUNT options control how the replica recognizes that the connection to the source has been lost and makes attempts to reconnect.

MASTER_DELAY specifies how many seconds behind the source the replica must lag. An event received from the source is not executed until at least interval seconds later than its execution on the source. The default is 0. An error occurs if interval is not a nonnegative integer in the range from 0 to 2³¹−1. For more information, see Section 16.3.10, “Delayed Replication”.

From MySQL 5.7, a CHANGE MASTER TO statement employing the MASTER_DELAY option can be executed on a running replica when the replication SQL thread is stopped.

MASTER_BIND is for use on replicas having multiple network interfaces, and determines which of the replica's network interfaces is chosen for connecting to the source.

The address configured with this option, if any, can be seen in the Master_Bind column of the output from SHOW SLAVE STATUS. If you are using a table for the source metadata repository (server started with master_info_repository=TABLE), the value can also be seen as the Master_bind column of the mysql.slave_master_info table.

The ability to bind a replica to a specific network interface is also supported by NDB Cluster.

MASTER_LOG_FILE and MASTER_LOG_POS are the coordinates at which the replication I/O thread should begin reading from the source the next time the thread starts. RELAY_LOG_FILE and RELAY_LOG_POS are the coordinates at which the replication SQL thread should begin reading from the relay log the next time the thread starts. If you specify any of these options, you cannot specify MASTER_AUTO_POSITION = 1 (described later in this section). If neither of MASTER_LOG_FILE or MASTER_LOG_POS is specified, the replica uses the last coordinates of the replication SQL thread before CHANGE MASTER TO was issued. This ensures that there is no discontinuity in replication, even if the replication SQL thread was late compared to the replication I/O thread, when you merely want to change, say, the password to use.

From MySQL 5.7, a CHANGE MASTER TO statement employing RELAY_LOG_FILE, RELAY_LOG_POS, or both options can be executed on a running replica when the replication SQL thread is stopped. Prior to MySQL 5.7.4, CHANGE MASTER TO deletes all relay log files and starts a new one, unless you specify RELAY_LOG_FILE or RELAY_LOG_POS. In that case, relay log files are kept; the relay_log_purge global variable is set silently to 0. In MySQL 5.7.4 and later, relay logs are preserved if at least one of the replication SQL thread and the replication I/O thread is running. If both threads are stopped, all relay log files are deleted unless at least one of RELAY_LOG_FILE or RELAY_LOG_POS is specified. For the Group Replication applier channel (group_replication_applier), which only has an SQL thread and no I/O thread, this is the case if the SQL thread is stopped, but with that channel you cannot use the RELAY_LOG_FILE and RELAY_LOG_POS options.

RELAY_LOG_FILE can use either an absolute or relative path, and uses the same base name as MASTER_LOG_FILE. (Bug #12190)

When MASTER_AUTO_POSITION = 1 is used with CHANGE MASTER TO, the replica attempts to connect to the source using the auto-positioning feature of GTID-based replication, rather than a binary log file based position. From MySQL 5.7, this option can be employed by CHANGE MASTER TO only if both the replication SQL thread and the replication I/O thread are stopped. Both the replica and the source must have GTIDs enabled (GTID_MODE=ON, ON_PERMISSIVE, or OFF_PERMISSIVE on the replica, and GTID_MODE=ON on the source). MASTER_LOG_FILE, MASTER_LOG_POS, RELAY_LOG_FILE, and RELAY_LOG_POS cannot be specified together with MASTER_AUTO_POSITION = 1. If multi-source replication is enabled on the replica, you need to set the MASTER_AUTO_POSITION = 1 option for each applicable replication channel.

With MASTER_AUTO_POSITION = 1 set, in the initial connection handshake, the replica sends a GTID set containing the transactions that it has already received, committed, or both. The source responds by sending all transactions recorded in its binary log whose GTID is not included in the GTID set sent by the replica. This exchange ensures that the source only sends the transactions with a GTID that the replica has not already recorded or committed. If the replica receives transactions from more than one source, as in the case of a diamond topology, the auto-skip function ensures that the transactions are not applied twice. For details of how the GTID set sent by the replica is computed, see Section 16.1.3.3, “GTID Auto-Positioning”.

If any of the transactions that should be sent by the source have been purged from the source's binary log, or added to the set of GTIDs in the gtid_purged system variable by another method, the source sends the error ER_MASTER_HAS_PURGED_REQUIRED_GTIDS to the replica, and replication does not start. Also, if during the exchange of transactions it is found that the replica has recorded or committed transactions with the source's UUID in the GTID, but the source itself has not committed them, the source sends the error ER_SLAVE_HAS_MORE_GTIDS_THAN_MASTER to the replica and replication does not start. For information on how to handle these situations, see Section 16.1.3.3, “GTID Auto-Positioning”.

IGNORE_SERVER_IDS takes a comma-separated list of 0 or more server IDs. Events originating from the corresponding servers are ignored, with the exception of log rotation and deletion events, which are still recorded in the relay log.

In circular replication, the originating server normally acts as the terminator of its own events, so that they are not applied more than once. Thus, this option is useful in circular replication when one of the servers in the circle is removed. Suppose that you have a circular replication setup with 4 servers, having server IDs 1, 2, 3, and 4, and server 3 fails. When bridging the gap by starting replication from server 2 to server 4, you can include IGNORE_SERVER_IDS = (3) in the CHANGE MASTER TO statement that you issue on server 4 to tell it to use server 2 as its source instead of server 3. Doing so causes it to ignore and not to propagate any statements that originated with the server that is no longer in use.

If a CHANGE MASTER TO statement is issued without any IGNORE_SERVER_IDS option, any existing list is preserved. To clear the list of ignored servers, it is necessary to use the option with an empty list:

CHANGE MASTER TO IGNORE_SERVER_IDS = ();

Prior to MySQL 5.7.5, RESET SLAVE ALL has no effect on the server ID list. In MySQL 5.7.5 and later, RESET SLAVE ALL clears IGNORE_SERVER_IDS. (Bug #18816897)

If IGNORE_SERVER_IDS contains the server's own ID and the server was started with the --replicate-same-server-id option enabled, an error results.

The source metadata repository and the output of SHOW SLAVE STATUS provide the list of servers that are currently ignored. For more information, see Section 16.2.4.2, “Replication Metadata Repositories”, and Section 13.7.5.34, “SHOW SLAVE STATUS Statement”.

Invoking CHANGE MASTER TO causes the previous values for MASTER_HOST, MASTER_PORT, MASTER_LOG_FILE, and MASTER_LOG_POS to be written to the error log, along with other information about the replica's state prior to execution.

CHANGE MASTER TO causes an implicit commit of an ongoing transaction. See Section 13.3.3, “Statements That Cause an Implicit Commit”.

In MySQL 5.7.4 and later, the strict requirement to execute STOP SLAVE prior to issuing any CHANGE MASTER TO statement (and START SLAVE afterward) is removed. Instead of depending on whether the replica is stopped, the behavior of CHANGE MASTER TO depends (in MySQL 5.7.4 and later) on the states of the replication SQL thread and the replication I/O thread; which of these threads is stopped or running now determines the options that can or cannot be used with a CHANGE MASTER TO statement at a given point in time. The rules for making this determination are listed here:

You can check the current state of the replication SQL thread and the replication I/O thread using SHOW SLAVE STATUS. Note that the Group Replication applier channel (group_replication_applier) has no I/O thread, only an SQL thread.

For more information, see Section 16.3.7, “Switching Sources During Failover”.

If you are using statement-based replication and temporary tables, it is possible for a CHANGE MASTER TO statement following a STOP SLAVE statement to leave behind temporary tables on the replica. From MySQL 5.7, a warning (ER_WARN_OPEN_TEMP_TABLES_MUST_BE_ZERO) is issued whenever this occurs. You can avoid this in such cases by making sure that the value of the Slave_open_temp_tables system status variable is equal to 0 prior to executing such a CHANGE MASTER TO statement.

CHANGE MASTER TO is useful for setting up a replica when you have the snapshot of the replication source server and have recorded the source's binary log coordinates corresponding to the time of the snapshot. After loading the snapshot into the replica to synchronize it with the source, you can run CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_LOG_FILE='log_name', MASTER_LOG_POS=log_pos on the replica to specify the coordinates at which the replica should begin reading the source's binary log.

The following example changes the replication source server the replica uses and establishes the source's binary log coordinates from which the replica begins reading. This is used when you want to set up the replica to replicate the source:

CHANGE MASTER TO
  MASTER_HOST='source2.example.com',
  MASTER_USER='replication',
  MASTER_PASSWORD='password',
  MASTER_PORT=3306,
  MASTER_LOG_FILE='source2-bin.001',
  MASTER_LOG_POS=4,
  MASTER_CONNECT_RETRY=10;

The next example shows an operation that is less frequently employed. It is used when the replica has relay log files that you want it to execute again for some reason. To do this, the source need not be reachable. You need only use CHANGE MASTER TO and start the SQL thread (START SLAVE SQL_THREAD):

CHANGE MASTER TO
  RELAY_LOG_FILE='replica-relay-bin.006',
  RELAY_LOG_POS=4025;

The following table shows the maximum permissible length for the string-valued options.