I have slave setup and looks like it is running fine. Below is a snapshot of it.

show slave STATUS\G;
*************************** 1. row ***************************
               Slave_IO_State: Waiting for master to send event
                  Master_Host: *.*.*.*
                  Master_User: repliV1
                  Master_Port: 3306
                Connect_Retry: 60
              Master_Log_File: mysql-bin.000001
          Read_Master_Log_Pos: 10726644
               Relay_Log_File: mysqld-relay-bin.000056
                Relay_Log_Pos: 231871
        Relay_Master_Log_File: mysql-bin.000001
             Slave_IO_Running: Yes
            Slave_SQL_Running: Yes
              Replicate_Do_DB: data1
          Replicate_Ignore_DB:
           Replicate_Do_Table:
       Replicate_Ignore_Table:
      Replicate_Wild_Do_Table:
  Replicate_Wild_Ignore_Table:
                   Last_Errno: 0
                   Last_Error:
                 Skip_Counter: 0
          Exec_Master_Log_Pos: 10726644
              Relay_Log_Space: 232172
              Until_Condition: None
               Until_Log_File:
                Until_Log_Pos: 0
           Master_SSL_Allowed: No
           Master_SSL_CA_File:
           Master_SSL_CA_Path:
              Master_SSL_Cert:
            Master_SSL_Cipher:
               Master_SSL_Key:
        Seconds_Behind_Master: 0
Master_SSL_Verify_Server_Cert: No
                Last_IO_Errno: 0
                Last_IO_Error:
               Last_SQL_Errno: 0
               Last_SQL_Error:

I want to understand further is the Relay_Log_File, Relay_Log_Pos and Relay_Master_Log_File.

Questions

• The relay log file is where it read and store for the replication run loacally, is it?

• What about relay_master_log_file? What is the difference with Master_Log_File?

• Another thing: why are both of these values, Read_Master_Log_Pos and Relay_Log_Pos, even though both have completed the replication?

• The files are in binary so not able to view them, right?