ALTER LOGFILE GROUP logfile_group
    ADD UNDOFILE 'file'
    [INITIAL_SIZE [=] size]
    ENGINE [=] engine

This statement adds an UNDO file named 'file' to an existing log file group logfile_group. An ALTER LOGFILE GROUP statement has one and only one ADD UNDOFILE clause. No DROP UNDOFILE clause is supported.

The optional INITIAL_SIZE parameter sets the UNDO file's initial size in bytes; if not specified, the initial size default to 128M (128 megabytes). You may optionally follow size with a one-letter abbreviation for an order of magnitude, similar to those used in my.cnf. Generally, this is one of the letters M (for megabytes) or G (for gigabytes).

The ENGINE parameter (required) determines the storage engine which is used by this log file group, with engine being the name of the storage engine. In MySQL 5.1, the only accepted values for engine are NDB and NDBCLUSTER.

Here is an example, which assumes that the log file group lg_3 has already been created using CREATE LOGFILE GROUP (see Section 13.1.9, “CREATE LOGFILE GROUP Syntax”):

ALTER LOGFILE GROUP lg_3
    ADD UNDOFILE 'undo_10.dat'
    INITIAL_SIZE=32M
    ENGINE=NDB;

When ALTER LOGFILE GROUP is used with ENGINE = NDB, an UNDO log file is created on each Cluster data node. You can verify that the UNDO files were created and obtain information about them by querying the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.FILES table. For example:

mysql> SELECT FILE_NAME, LOGFILE_GROUP_NUMBER, EXTRA 
    -> FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.FILES 
    -> WHERE LOGFILE_GROUP_NAME = 'lg_3';
+-------------+----------------------+----------------+
| FILE_NAME   | LOGFILE_GROUP_NUMBER | EXTRA          |
+-------------+----------------------+----------------+
| newdata.dat |                    0 | CLUSTER_NODE=3 |
| newdata.dat |                    0 | CLUSTER_NODE=4 |
| undo_10.dat |                   11 | CLUSTER_NODE=3 |
| undo_10.dat |                   11 | CLUSTER_NODE=4 |
+-------------+----------------------+----------------+
4 rows in set (0.01 sec)

(See Section 22.21, “The INFORMATION_SCHEMA FILES Table”.)

ALTER LOGFILE GROUP was added in MySQL 5.1.6. In MySQL 5.1, it is useful only with Disk Data storage for MySQL Cluster. See Section 15.11, “MySQL Cluster Disk Data Tables”.