mariadb/sql/ChangeLog

2000-09-17  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Added option QUICK to DELETE to tell MySQL not to balance the
  trees on delete.

2000-09-15  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Added a thd argument to log::write() to get more speed.

2000-09-01  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Avoid allocation of "localhost" string.	
* Changed that TIMESTAMP(X) is sometimes as string
* Release of 3.23.23

2000-08-21  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Added RENAME TABLE.

2000-08-20  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Added memory as inline functions to THD to get them a bit faster
* Don't count entries with NULL in COUNT(DISTINCT ..)

2000-08-08  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Changed ALTER TABLE and LOAD DATA INFILE to create non unique, small keys
  after all rows are inserted.
* Fixed use of UDF function with const arguments in WHERE clause.

2000-07-11  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Extended safe_mysqld;  Patch by Christian Hammers

2000-07-04  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Changed the update log to take the query length argument; This
  should make the update log \0 safe.

2000-06-21  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Added net_read_timeout and net_write_timeout as startup parameters to mysqld

2000-06-19  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Changed the copyright of MySQL to GPL and LGPL.
* Added myisampack and pack_isam to the MySQL distribution.

2000-06-01  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Added "FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK" command

2000-05-31  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Added table locks to Berkeley DB.

2000-05-28  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Allow ON and USING with INNER JOIN.

2000-05-23  Sasha

* Fix that USE INDEX with 'PRIMARY' keys works.

2000-05-20  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Added symbolic links support for Win32.

2000-05-19  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed protocol to let client know if the server is in AUTOCOMMIT mode
  and if there is a pending transaction.  If there is a pending transaction
  the client library will give an error before reconnecting to the server to
  let the client know that the server did a rollback.
  The protocol is still backward compatible with old clients
* 'kill' now works on a thread that is locked on a 'write' to a dead client.

2000-05-18  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* unlock tables before sending last packet of SELECT ... result to client.

2000-05-16  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* split Item_bool_func2::compare function into individual functions to get more
  speed.
* Small optimizations of do_select() to get more speed.	
	
2000-05-15  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* CHECK will update the statistics for the keys.
* Fixed bug in REPAIR TABLE when the table was used by other threads.	
	
2000-05-11  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* put CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE commands in the update log.
* UPDATE IGNORE will not abort if an update gives a DUPLICATE_KEY error.
* Ensure that all fn_format() or unpack_filename() is called for all
  generated filenames.

2000-05-05  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Added timzone variable to SHOW VARIABLES.

2000-05-04  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Don't write INSERT DELAYED to update log if SQL_LOG_UPDATE=0

2000-05-03  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Fixed problem with REPLACE on HEAP tables.

2000-04-26  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Added 'Writing to net' and 'Reading from net' as 'status' to
  mysqladmin processlist.	

2000-04-23  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Added CREATE DATABASE and DROP DATABASE to the update log
* Fixed problem when doing a GROUP BY on an enum column with MANY
  value combinations.
* Avoid sorting for some simple GROUP BY queries.

2000-04-22  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Fixed problems in update log when using LAST_INSERT_ID() to update
  an table with an auto_increment key.	
* New function: 'NULLIF(expr1,expr2)'
	
2000-04-14  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* UPDATE and DELETE on UNIQUE keys, where the whole key is used in the WHERE
  part, are now faster than before.	
	
* Added optimisation to skip ORDER BY parts where the order by column
  is a constant expression in the WHERE part.  ORDER BY will also
  be skipped if ORDER BY matches a key where the key parts that are
  missing in the ORDER BY is constants:

  In the following case the ORDER BY will be removed:
  SELECT * FROM foo WHERE column=constant ORDER BY column;

  In the following case the first key will be used to solve the ORDER BY:
  SELECT * FROM foo WHERE key_part1=const ORDER BY key_part2;

2000-04-10  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Changed mysql.server to wait until the pid file is deleted on stop
* Clients will automaticly be set to the same character set as the
  server if one hasn't specified a character set with mysql_option()
  or in the my.cnf files.

2000-04-09  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Release of 3.23.14	
* Fixed bug where complex CONCAT() use returned the wrong result.

2000-04-07  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Added some optimization to LIMIT when the used KEY matches almost all
  rows in the table.  (SELECT * from table where key_column > "a" LIMIT 1). 
* REPLACE now honors the LOW_PRIORITY_UPDATES flag.

2000-04-05  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Fixed that DROP TABLE is logged in the update log.
* Fixed problem when searching on DECIMAL() key field
  where the column data contained pre-zeros.
	
2000-04-02  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Fix bug in myisamchk when the auto_increment isn't the first key.

2000-03-30  "Thimble Smith" <tim@mysql.com>
	
* Allow DATETIME in ISO8601 format: 2000-03-12T12:00:00
	
2000-03-30  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Added UMASK_DIR environment variable.
* Fixed problem with seek and RAID tables.	
	
2000-03-29  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* slow_queries log wasn't flushed on FLUSH LOGS.

2000-03-28  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Fix that DELETE FROM table_name;  works on RAID tables.
* Fix that DROP DATABASE works correctly with RAID tables.	
	
2000-03-27  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Added function CONNECTION_ID()

2000-03-26  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* When using = on BLOB or VARCHAR BINARY keys where only a part of the column
  was indexed, the whole column of the result row wasn't compared.

2000-03-24  takeshi@SoftAgency.co.jp

* Fix for sjis & order by

2000-03-23  Michael Widenius  <monty@mysql.com>

* Added patches to allow client library to compile on BEOS.

2000-03-16  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added STDCALL to some functions in libmysql that missed this.
* When running in ANSI mode, don't allow one to use columns that isn't in
  the GROUP BY part.

2000-03-14  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of 3.23.13
* Removed end space from double/float numbers in results from temporary
  tables.

2000-03-13  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed automatic removal of table locks if doing a DROP TABLE on the last
  locked table.	

2000-03-13 Sasha
	
* Added CHECK TABLE command.
	
2000-03-12  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed int2str and longlong2str to use the optimized 
  int10_to_str / longlong10_to_str functions.
	
2000-03-09  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed bug so that mysqladmin shutdown will wait for the local server to close
  down.
* Fixed a possible endless loop when calculating timestamp.
	
2000-02-27  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of 3.23.12	
* Changed that mysql_ping() doesn't increment the 'questions' status variable.
* Fixed that mysql -D database doesn't kill 'mysql'.
	
2000-02-24  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Only allow SHOW GRANTS if you have a privilege on the mysql
  tables
* Fixed bug when storing 0 into a timestamp.
	
2000-02-23  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* When doing mysqladmin shutdown on a local connection, mysqladmin now
  waits until the pidfile is gone before doing an shutdown.
* Changed that the pid file is not removed until all threads have died.

2000-02-23  Matt Wagner

* When doing mysqladmin shutdown on a local connection, mysqladmin now
  waits until the pidfile is gone before doing an shutdown.

2000-02-23  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem with LEFT JOIN and key_field IS NULL.

2000-02-23  Sasha

* Fixed core dump with some COUNT(DISTINCT ...) queries.

2000-02-21  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added options USE KEYS (key_list) and IGNORE KEYS (key_list) as
  join parameters in SELECT.
* DROP of table is now done through the handler.
	
2000-02-17  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added ANSI SQL syntax ALTER TABLE ADD (column_def1, column_def2 ...)

2000-02-16  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem with optimizer that could sometimes use wrong keys

2000-02-15  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed that GRANT/REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES doesn't affect GRANT OPTION
* Removed extra ) from the output of SHOW GRANTS
	
2000-02-13  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem when storing numbers in timestamps.
* Fix problem with timezones that has half hour offsets.
* Storage of numbers in timestamp columns are now faster.

2000-02-11  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Allow the syntax UNIQUE INDEX in CREATE statements.

2000-02-10  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added options --i-am-a-dummy and --safe-updates to mysql.cc
* Added variables select_limit and max_join_size to mysql.cc
* Added sql variables: SQL_MAX_JOIN_SIZE and SQL_SAFE_UPDATES
* Added READ_LOCAL lock that doesn't lock the table for concurrent inserts
* Changed that LOCK TABLES .. READ doesn't anymore allow concurrent inserts
* Added option --skip-delay-key-write to mysqld.
	
2000-02-09  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed security problem in the protocol regarding password checking.

2000-02-03  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Allow 'end' as a field name.
* Added _rowid as an alias for an auto_increment column.
	
2000-01-28  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Ignore empty queries in mysql when running in batch mode
  (To be able to handle rows with double ';' chars).

2000-01-27  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem with timestamps and INSERT DELAYED

2000-01-26  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem that affected queries that did arithmetic on GROUP functions.

2000-01-24  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Don't give a unnecessary GRANT error when using tables from many
  databases in the same query.

2000-01-20  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed that 'date_column BETWEEN const_date AND const_date' works.

2000-01-19  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem when only changing a 0 to NULL in a table with BLOB/TEXT
  columns.	
* Fixed bug in range optimizer when using many key parts and or on the middle
  key parts:  WHERE K1=1 and K3=2 and (K2=2 and K4=4 or K2=3 and K4=5)
* Added the virtual VIO interface to the mysql connection streams.
  (This will make it possible to use SSL through the VIO classe interface)
	
2000-01-14  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added command 'source' to mysql to allow reading of batch files inside
  mysql.  Original patch by Matthew Vanecek.

2000-01-12  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed bug that a change of all VARCHAR columns to CHAR columns didn't change
  row type from dynamic to fixed.

2000-01-11  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added print of default arguments options to all clients.
* Added --log-slow-queries to mysqld to log all queries that takes a
  long time to a separate log file with a time of how long the query took.
* Fixed critical problem with the WITH GRANT OPTION option.
* Added read-next-on-key to HEAP tables.  This should fix all
  problems with HEAP tables when using not UNIQUE keys.
* Disabled floating point exceptions for FreeBSD to fix core dump when
  doing SELECT floor(pow(2,63));
	
2000-01-07  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed core dump when doing WHERE key_column=RAND(...)
  (Note that this query can never use keys as the RAND() function must be
  re-evaluated for each row)
2000-01-04  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed optimization bug in SELECT .. LEFT JOIN ... key_column IS NULL, when
  key_column could contain NULL values.
* Fixed problem with 8 bit characters as separators in LOAD DATA INFILE.

2000-01-02  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of 3.23.8

1999-12-31  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed GRANT problem when doing 'CREATE TABLE ... SELECT'

1999-12-30  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem with timezones that are < GMT -11
* Fixed problem with ISAM when doing some ORDER BY .. DESC queries.

1999-12-28  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed bug when doing a join on a text key which didn't covert the whole key.
* Option --delay-key-write didn't enable delayed key writing
* Fixed update of TEXT column which only involved case changes.

1999-12-27  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed that INSERT DELAYED doesn't update timestamps that are given.

1999-12-25  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added function yearweek() and options 'x', 'X', 'v' and 'V' to date_format()

1999-12-22  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem with MAX(indexed_column) and HEAP tables.
* Fixed problem with BLOB NULL keys and LIKE "prefix%".

1999-12-20  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem with MyISAM and fixed length rows < 5 bytes.

1999-12-10  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added RAID support (patch from T<>nu Samuel)

1999-12-02  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added -O interactive_timeout to mysqld.
* Changed the argument of mysql_data_seek to ulonglong from ulong.

1999-11-30  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

Fixed bug in replace() on Alpha. Patch by 'Tom Holroyd'
Fixed bug in LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE on Alpha. Patch by 'Tom Holroyd'
	
1999-11-29  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added detection of pthread_attr_stacksize() in configure.
* Added variable net_retry_count (needed for FreeBSD).

Sun Nov 28 20:55:45 1999  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.pp.sci.fi>

* Added option '--verbose' to mysqladmin

1999-11-28  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem when converting heap to myisam.
* Fixed bug in HEAP tables when doing insert + delete + insert + scan the
  table.
	
1999-11-23  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fix core dump when releasing a lock from a non existing table
* Remove locks on tables before starting to remove duplicates.
* Added patch to make most string functions multi-byte safe (by Wei He)
* Added Bytes_recieived/Bytes_sent statistics (by Sasha Pachev)
* Added optimization of read_next() with MyISAM
* Changed MyISAM to use concurrent inserts.
	
1999-11-21  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Inverted flag 'delayed_key_write' on 'show variables'

1999-11-20  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added variable max_write_lock_count

1999-11-13  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of 3.23.6
* Made floor() overflow safe on FREEBSD.
* Allow quoting of identifers with `
* Temporary tables now start with #sql	
* Added option --quote-names to mysqldump.
* Added option --ansi to change " to a identifier delimiter and || to
  string concatenation.
* Fixed INTO DUMPFILE to give better error messages.  NULL is now written
  as an empty string.	
* Changed Field_double and double->string to use snprintf() to avoid overflows.
* Fixed bug that one could make a part of a PRIMARY KEY not null.
* Fixed encrypt() to be thread safe and not reuse buffer.

1999-11-11  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed that FLOAT(X) where X <= 24 -> FLOAT and X <= 53 -> DOUBLE.
* Changed DECIMAL(X) to be DECIMAL(X,0) and DECIMAL to be DECIMAL(10,0)

1999-11-09  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added mysqld option -O lower_case_table_names=[0|1] to force table
  names to lower case.
* Added mysql_odbc_escape_string() function to support big5 characters in
  MyOBC.

1999-11-08  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added patch by Sasha for user defined variables.
* Changed that FLOAT and DOUBLE (without any length modifiers) are
  not anymore fixed decimal point numbers.

1999-10-22  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Added option ROW_FORMAT=[default, dynamic, static, compressed] to
  CREATE_TABLE

1999-10-20  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* 'DELETE FROM table_name' didn't work on temporary tables

1999-10-18  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of MySQL 3.23.5	
* Fixed problem with LIKE "%const"

1999-10-17  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added bit function ~ (neg)

1999-10-14  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added support for the GBK Chinese character set (by Wei He)

1999-10-13  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Storage of date results is now much faster to date and datetime columns.

1999-10-12  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed bug when using DISTINCT + ORDER BY RAND()
* new option --relative to mysqladmin.

1999-10-11  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added some error messages in mysqld.cc
* Allow use of NATIONAL and NCHAR when defining character columns.
  (They don't do anything)
* Don't allow NULL columns in PRIMARY KEY:s (only in UNIQUE keys)

1999-10-10  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Clear LAST_INSERT_ID if in uses this in ODBC context:
  WHERE auto_increment_column IS NULL;
* 'SET SQL_AUTO_IS_NULL=0|1' now turns off/on the above handling of 
  auto_increment columns

1999-10-09  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added parameter 'concurrency' for Solaris.

1999-10-07  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem when using an auto_increment column in two keys

1999-10-06  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* AS on fieldname with CREATE TABLE table_name SELECT ... didn't work.

1999-10-01  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* LIKE with many % ("%xxx%yy%zz%") are now much faster.

1999-09-24  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fix privilege check for LOAD DATA REPLACE .

1999-09-22  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added SHOW GRANT FOR user (by Sinisa)
* Added date + INTERVALL # date_interval_type	
	
1999-09-19  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem with index optimzation with 'WHERE index is not null'

* Allow creation of temporary tables with same name as original table.
* When granting user a grant option for a database, he couldn't grant
  privileges to other users.	

1999-09-17  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Inserting a DATETIME into a TIME column will not anymore try to store 'days'
  in it.	
* Fixed problem with storage of float/double on low endian machines.

1999-09-08  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of 3.23.3
* Added limit to UPDATE
* Added client library function: mysql_change_user()

1999-09-07  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added character set to 'show variables' 
* Added support of '--[white-space]' as comment
* Allow 'INSERT into table_name VALUES ();'

1999-09-03  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Add mysqld option --delay-key-write to mysqld.cc

1999-08-30  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem with COUNT(DISTINCT) and GROUP BY

1999-08-29  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added /*!version */
* Fixed core dump with empty blob to reverse()
* Fixed problem with year(now()) and year(curdate()).	

1999-08-28  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added construct:
	
  CASE value WHEN [compare-value] THEN result
            [WHEN [compare-value] THEN result ...]
      [ELSE result]
  END	

  CASE WHEN [condition] THEN result
      [WHEN [condition] THEN result ...]
      [ELSE result]
  END
1999-08-19  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Added check of arguments to acos() and asin().
* unique_column IS NULL only returned the first row with NULL.

1999-08-12  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* REGEXP(...,NULL) will not return an error anymore.

* Removed ifdef mSQL_COMPLIANT when comparing NULL to NULL

1999-08-05  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fix problem with LOCK TABLES and DELETE FROM table.
	
1999-08-04  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Don't pack all keys even if one key is packed when not using PACK_KEYS=1.

1999-08-03  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed core-dump bug when inserting table or column grant on user name ""

1999-08-02  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fix problem with LOCK TABLES when no database is selected.
* New functions:  MD5(), (by T<>nu Samuel) and EXPORT_SET (by Sasha Pachev)
* Changed Socket to my_socket (to avoid conflicts)

1999-07-29  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem with DISTINCT on BLOB column
* new keywords: CASE, THEN, WHEN, ELSE, END
* The CASE operator (by T<>nu Samuel) (not yet working)
* set SQL_LOW_PRIORITY_UPDATES=# didn't work
* Fixed range optimizer bug in
  SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE key_part1 >= const AND (key_part2 = const OR key_part2 = const)

1999-07-26  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* One can now update indexes columns that are used in the WHERE clause.
  UPDATE tbl_name SET KEY=KEY+1 WHERE KEY > 100;

1999-07-25  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Added get_date() function to all item and fields. This makes date handling
  a lot faster!	
* Added handling of fuzzy dates (dates where day or month is 0)
	
1999-07-21  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed optimization of SELECT ... WHERE key_part1=const1 and key_part_2=const2 and key_part1=const4 and key_part2=const4
 (indextype should be range instead of ref)

1999-07-20  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed handling of 'const_item' to allow handling of
  ORDER BY RAND().	
* MyISAM tables now allows keys on NULL and BLOB columns.
* Optimize the following LEFT JOIN:
  SELECT ... FROM t1 LEFT JOIN t2 ON ... WHERE t2.not_null_column IS NULL
	
1999-07-19  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Added ORDER BY and GROUP BY with functions
* Changed all handling of tables in sql_select.cc to use table_map instead
  of table_nr.
* Added use of column_name = formula to use keys
* column_name = column_name2 don't anymore have to have identical packing
* field IS NULL can now use keys
	
1999-07-16  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed heap tables to be stored in low_byte_first order (to make it easy
  to convert to MyISAM tables)
* Automatic change of HEAP temporary tables to MYISAM tables in case of
  'table is full' errors.	
* Added option --init-file=file_name to mysqld 

1999-07-15  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Added COUNT(DISTINCT value,[value,...])

1999-07-14  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* changed name of temporary table to include getpid().
* Added full support for CREATE TEMPORARY

1999-07-04  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added CREATE TABLE options 'CHECKSUM' and 'PACK_KEYS'
* Added mysqld option --default-table-type
* Added column 'packed' to 'show index'
* Added pack_keys and checksum to show table status
	
1999-07-01  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of 3.23.0
* Show NULL as the default value for AUTO_INCREMENT columns.
* Fixed optimizer bug with tables with only one row.
* Fixed bug when using LOCK TABLES table_name READ; FLUSH TABLES;

1999-06-30  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added use of LIBWRAP (by "Henning P . Schmiedehausen" <hps@tanstaafl.de>)

1999-06-28  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Don't allow AUTO_INCREMENT for other than numerical columns
* Using AUTO_INCREMENT will now automaticly make the column NOT NULL.

1999-06-22  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Added privilege column to 'show columns'

1999-07-13  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Added SQL_BIG_RESULT (SQL_SMALL_RESULT is now default)
* Use the MYISAM UNIQUE constraint to solve SELECT DISTINCT faster.
	
1999-06-06  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed most macros in the libmysql library to functions to avoid many
  versions of shared libraries.

1999-05-16  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* Added "Row_type" to SHOW TABLE STATUS.

1999-05-15  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added option IF NOT EXISTS to CREATE TABLE
* Allow creation of CHAR(0) columns.

1999-05-14  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added more error checking of errors from the table handler.

1999-05-13  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added the '<=>' operator which will act as '=' but will return TRUE if both
  arguments are NULL.

1999-05-12  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* The default base for the log, update-log and pid-file name is now 
  'hostname' with everything after the first '.' removed.

1999-05-11  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Require '%' before format characters in DATE_FORMAT().
* Add logging of GRANT and SET PASSWORD in the update log.

1999-05-10  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed LIKE compare to behave as =;  This means that 'e' LIKE '<27>' is now
  true.

1999-05-10  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* REPLACE now used direct read to find dupplicate row instead of key read;
  This makes REPLACE a lot faster.

1999-05-05  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

* New option: CREATE TABLE SELECT ....
* Added syntax for CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE (not yet implemented)
	
1999-05-03  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik.pp.sci.fi>

@code{DESCRIBE TABLE} returns a lot of information about the tables

1999-05-02  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added comments to tables
* Added UNIQUE, in CREATE TABLE table_name (col int not null UNIQUE);

1999-04-29  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Use auto_increment value provided by MYISAM
* Use key_part statistics if available

1999-04-28  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* null bits are now stored at start of row instead at the end.
  (Now we only need one bit to mark a row deleted)
	
* DELAYED is now a reserved words. (because of conflicts from yacc)

1999-04-20  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added patches for DEC_3_2 by "Andrea Suatoni" <and@itaca.it>

1999-04-19  Jani Tolonen  <jani@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added load_file() function

1999-04-15  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added option --skip-show-databases to mysqld.

1999-04-10  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* set start time when connection.

1999-04-03  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem with 'DELETE FROM TABLE' when table was locked by another
  thread.

1999-04-03  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Check if rows has changed now also works with BLOB/TEXT.
* Added the INNER JOIN syntax;   This made 'INNER' a reserved word.

1999-04-02  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem with 'Host '..' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL
  server' after one had inserted a new MySQL user with a GRANT command.

1999-04-01  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added support for netmasks to the hostname in the MySQL tables.

1999-03-31  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed net.cc to use TCP_NODELAY also on Linux.
* If one compares a NOT NULL DATE/DATETIME column with IS NULL, this
  is changed to a compare against 0 to satisfy some ODBC applications.
  (By shreeve@uci.edu)

1999-03-30  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* NULL IN (...) now returns NULL instead of 0.
  This will ensure that 'null_column NOT IN (...)' doesn't match NULL values.
* Changed the mysql.db entry to char(60).

1999-03-16  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fix storage of floating point values in TIME columns
* Changed parsing of TIME strings to be more strict.  Now the fractional
  second part is detected (and currently skipped)	
  The following formats are supported
  [[[DAYS] [H]H:]MM:]SS[.fraction]  and [[[[H]H]H]H]MM]SS[.fraction]
* Detect (and ignore) second fraction part from DATETIME

1999-03-10  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* On Win32 detect --basedir automaticly from path to mysqld.
* Added option --skip-column-names to mysql.
* Added some memory checks in sql_string.cc

1999-03-08  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added the ODBC 3.0 EXTRACT(interval FROM datetime) function
* Added lots of 'out of memory' checks for SELECT statements.

1999-03-05  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed std() for big tables when result should be 0.

1999-03-04  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* INSERT DELAYED had some garbage at end in the update log.
	
1999-03-03  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

*  Added a lot of casts in filesort.cc to make it more portable.

1999-02-28  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed default size of key_buffer to 4M
* Fixed problem with queries that needed temporary tables with blobs.

1999-02-26  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added LOAD DATA [LOW_PRIORITY] INFILE.
* Added option 'flush-time' to force MySQL-Win32 version to flush
  the tables once in a while.	
* On Linux all process didn't die on shutdown.
	
1999-02-18  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed a core dump problem when using --log-update and connecting
  without a default database.
* Added more error check if one get an error writing to the log files.

1999-02-16  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed some configure errors
* If one used @code{LEFT JOIN} on tables that had circular dependencies this
  caused mysqld to hang forever.

1999-02-05  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of 3.22.16
* mysqladmin processlist could core dump mysqld if a new user logged in.
* DELETE FROM table_name WHERE key_column=column_name didn't find any matching
  rows.
* The default index name is now using the same case as the used column name.

1999-02-03  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added the MODIFY attribute to ALTER TABLE (to be compatible with some other
  SQL databases)	
* Added LIKE to 'show status'

1999-01-31  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* DATE_ADD(column,...) didn't work.
* INSERT DELAYED could deadlock with status 'upgrading lock'

1999-01-30  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Extended item_encrypt() to take longer salt strings than 2 characters.
  (for FreeBSD)

1999-01-26  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>
	
* Release of 3.22.15
* LIKE on binary strings didn't work if one used a multi-byte character set.
* mysqladmin -w will now wait for the server to come up if it's killed.

Tue Jan 26 00:06:10 1999  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem with ORDER BY whith 'only index' optimzation when there
  where multiple key definitions for an used column.
* GRANT with password didn't update in memory GRANT table before
  'mysqladmin flush'

1999-01-20  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Updating BLOB/TEXT through formulas didn't work for short (< 256 char)
  strings.
* Changed option --extended_insert-insert to --extended-insert in mysqldump

1999-01-19  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Lots of changes to support INSERT DELAYED.

1999-01-17  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed unpacking of DATE and DATETIME;  These are now about 5 times faster.

1999-01-16  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* DATE_ADD with now() or curdate() reused the same string.
* Added BENCHMARK(loop-count,expression) function to time expressions.

1999-01-14  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* LEFT JOIN USING (col1,col2) gave an error if one used it with tables
  from 2 different databases.
* LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE didn't work in the unix version because of a missing
  file in the sql directory
* Fixed problems with VARCHAR/BLOB on very short rows (< 4 bytes); One
  could get error 127 when deleting rows.
	
1999-01-13  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Nicer error messages for table types.
* Changed default number of connections to 100

1999-01-11  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* When one did a GRANT on a new host mysqld could die on the first connect
  from this host.
* Use as default bigger buffers when using 'load data infile'.

1999-01-06  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* All blob pointers have now reserved 8 bytes in the .frm files;  This makes
  the .frm files portable to 64 bit architectures.

* DECIMAL(x,y) now works according to ANSI SQL.

1998-12-30  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* If one used ORDER BY on column name that was the same name as an alias,
  the ORDER BY was done on the alias.

1998-12-29  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added aggregate UDF functions. Thanks to
   Andreas F. Bobak <bobak@relog.ch> for this !

1998-12-28  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed sql_crypt() a bit to make it a bit more secure;  This will make old
  string stored with the old decrypt() function unreadable! 
	
1998-12-27  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Allow empty arguments to mysqld to make it easier to start it
  from shell scripts!

1998-12-23  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* last_insert_id() is now updated for INSERT INTO ... SELECT
* Setting a TIMESTAMP column to NULL didn't record the timestamp
  value in the update log.

1998-12-21  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed lock handler bug when one did:
  INSERT INTO TABLE ... SELECT ... GROUP BY.
* Added a patch for localtime_r() on Win32 that it will not crash anymore
  if your date is > 2039, but instead it will return a time of all zero.
* UDF function names are not longer case sensitive.
* Added escape of '^Z' to \Z as ^Z doesn't work with pipes on Win32
* Changed optimizer to not use 'range search' in some cases.
* Changed optimizer to use result form 'check_range' in optimization of
  searching of part keys.
	
1998-12-16  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* SELECT COUNT(*) didn't work on LEFT JOIN queries with only had expressions
  in the ON part and there where no WHERE clause.
* Added optional support for crypted frm files.

1998-12-13  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Saving NOW(), CURDATE() or CURTIME() directly in a column didn't work.
* SELECT COUNT(*) didn't work on LEFT JOIN queries with only had expressions
  in the ON part and no WHERE clause.

1998-12-09  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed a bug in sql_list.h that made ALTER TABLE dump a core in some context.

1998-12-08  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Allow use of negative real numbers without a decimal point.
* day number is now adjusted to max days in month if the resulting month
  after DATE_ADD/DATE_SUB() doesn't have enough days.

1998-12-07  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fix that GRANT compares columns case insensitive.
* Add / to TMPDIR if needed.	
	
1998-12-06  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Allow GLOBAL as a table or database name.

Thu Dec  3 10:29:11 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik>

* Added option SQL_SMALL_RESULT to SELECT to force use of fast temporary
  tables when one knows that the result set will be small!

1998-11-27  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* The hostname in user@hostname can now include '.' and '-' without quotes.

1998-11-26  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem when using DATE_ADD()/DATE_SUB() in a WHERE clause.
* One can now set the password for a user with the
  GRANT ... user IDENTIFIED BY 'password' syntax.
* Fixed bug in GRANT checking with SELECT on many tables.	
* Removed some 'no Database selected' errors.	
* Release of 3.22.11
	
1998-11-21  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed USER() to return user@host
* New command: FLUSH STATUS ; to reset most status variables.
* New status variables: aborted_threads and aborted_connects.

1998-11-20  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed bug in ORDER BY on FIELD()
* New function make_set() (70% by Jani Tolonen)
	
1998-11-18  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added functions encrypt() and decrypt().  Because of endspace stripping of
  CHAR() and VARCHAR() these should only be used with fixed size strings or
  with BLOB/TEXT columns.

1998-11-17  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Silently remove DEFAULT values from AUTO_INCREMENT columns.
* Added new variable to mysqld: connection_timeout 

1998-11-13  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Better error message when table doesn't exists.

1998-11-12  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added option SET SQL_WARNINGS=1 to get a warning count also for simple
  inserts.
* IS NULL on a AUTO_INCREMENT column in a LEFT JOIN didn't work.
* MySQL now uses SIGTERM instead of SIGQUIT with shutdown to work better
  on FreeBSD.
* Added option \G (print vertically) to mysql
* SELECT HIGH_PRIORITY ... killed mysqld.
	
1998-11-11  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added grant checking to 'show tables'
* Large changes to get grants integrated with the current privilege system. 
	
1998-11-10  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* SELECT .. WHERE t1.id1=t2.id2 could fail if t1.id1 and t1.id2 was keys
  and of radically differently types.
* Changed get_password to use getpass function. (Patch by Jaromir
  Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>)

1998-11-04  Michael Widenius  <monty@analytik>

* Release of 3.22.10	
* Changed +, - (sign and minus), *, /, % and ABS() to be BIGINT aware.
* ALTER TABLE and UPDATE now writes out the values of any duplicated keys.

1998-11-03  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* ADABASD like INSERT statement:
  INSERT INTO table_name SET column=value,column=value...
* The client flag option 'CLIENT_IGNORE_SPACE' didn't work properly.
* Fixed bug in ALTER TABLE that caused a core dump.
* Added optimization of SELECT ... FROM table ORDER BY key_part1 LIMIT ...
  This query will now use indexes instead of sorting the table.	  
	
Mon Nov  2 20:52:15 1998  Jani Tolonen  <jani@bitch.pp.sci.fi>

* Added more variables to SHOW STATUS and changed format of output
* Added command extended-status to mysqladmin which will show the
  new status

1998-10-30  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* columns of type date, date_time and 'set' are now stored a little
  more efficient if they are 0, NULL or ''.

1998-10-26  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Most errors are now printed through sql_write_error() which will add
  date, time and thread id to the .err log.

1998-10-25  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added option MYSQL_INIT_COMMAND to mysql_options() to make a query
  on connect or reconnect.
* Added option MYSQL_READ_DEFAULT_FILE and MYSQL_READ_DEFAULT_GROUP to
  mysql_option() to read the following parameters from the my.cnf file:
  "port", "socket", "compress", "password", "pipe", "timeout", "user",
  "init-command", "host" and "database"
	
* Added maybe_null to the UDF structure

1998-10-22  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added IGNORE to INSERT with many rows.
* Added SQL GRANT commands
* Release of 3.22.9

1998-10-18  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* One can new set the last_insert_id() value in an update with
  LAST_INSERT_ID(expr).  This makes it possible to return a value for things
  like:
  UPDATE table SET COUNT=LAST_INSERT_ID(COUNT+1) WHERE primary_key_col=#
* display key name used by 'range' in the 'key' column in 'show processlist'
* new SQL command:  FLUSH [ TABLES | HOSTS | LOGS | PRIVILEGES ] [, ...]
* new SQL command:  KILL thread_id
	
Thu Oct 15 18:57:15 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik>

* Reuse memory for identical set and enum fields.

1998-10-14  Michael Widenius  <monty@analytik>

* Added open file information to mysqladmin debug
* Fixed conversion problem when using ALTER TABLE from a INT to a short CHAR()
  column.
* Added 'SELECT HIGH_PRIORITY';  This will get a lock for the SELECT even if
  there is a thread waiting another SELECT to get a WRITE LOCK.
  NOTE: This makes HIGH_PRIORITY a reserved word
	
1998-10-12  Michael Widenius  <monty@analytik>

* Moved wild_compare to string class to be able to use LIKE on BLOB/TEXT columns with \0
* Added ESCAPE option to LIKE

1998-10-08  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Update for AIX: Added a cast to all bzero() calls and changed to use
  my_gethostbyname_r instead of gethostbyname_r.

1998-10-03  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of 3.22.8	
* Added an extra thread signal loop on shutdown to avoid some error messages
  from the client.
* MySQL now uses the next available number as extension for the update
  log file.

1998-09-25  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* MySQL clients on NT will now by default first try to connect with named pipes
  and after this with TCP/IP.

1998-09-24  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problems with TIME columns and negative strings.
* Added a new column 'state' to 'mysqladmin proc' that gives some
  information what the thread is doing.
	
* DATE_ADD() and DATE_SUB() didn't work with group functions.

1998-09-23  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* 'mysql' will now also try to reconnect on 'use database' commands.

* Fix problem with ORDER BY and LEFT JOIN and const tables.

1998-09-22  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem with ORDER BY if the first ORDER BY column was a key and
  the rest wasn't.

1998-09-17  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of 3.22.7
* OPTIMIZE TABLE table_name can now be used to reclaim disk space
  after many deletes.  This uses currently ALTER TABLE to re-generate
  the table, but in the future it will use an integrated isamchk
  for more speed.

1998-09-16  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added functions for perfect hashing of symbols. Moved some other things
  to the LEX structure for faster setup.
* Changed libmysql.dll on Win32 to use TLS to get better multi-threading 

1998-09-15  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>
* Added --where to mysqldump (patch by Jim Faucette).
* Fixed slow UPDATE/DELETE when using DATETIME or DATE keys.

1998-09-14  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed some optimizations parameters to make better joins.	
* Anyone can now use 'mysqladmin proc' to check ones own
  threads. Only users with the 'Process_priv' privilege can get
  information about all threads.
* Fixed very unlikely optimizer bug in the range optimizer
 (bug introduced in 3.22.6)
* Added handling of formats YYMMDD, YYYYMMDD, YYMMDDHHMMSS to
  DATETIME/TIMESTAMP when using numbers. (Before these formats only worked
  with strings).

1998-09-06  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added connect option CLIENT_IGNORE_SPACE to allow one to use
  space after the function name and before '('  (Powerbuilder requires this).
  This will make all function names reserved words.
* comments that start with /*!  are now interpreted as commands. This feature
  allows one to use MySQL extensions like:
  'SELECT /*! STRAIGHT_JOIN */ * from table1,table1'
  in a portable manor.	
	
1998-09-04  Michael Widenius  <monty@analytik>

* Added SET OPTION INSERT_ID=#  to force use of specific INSERT_ID. This is
  usable with new --log-long-format option.
	
1998-08-31  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem when INSERTING into TIME fields.

1998-08-29  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added key cache and handler statistic to 'mysqladmin debug'.
* changed UPDATE and DELETE to not use 'index only' range detection.
  (Fixed slow update_key in the benchmarks)
* Changed the insert benchmark because it was impossible to use it with
  postgreSQL (to slow).

Thu Aug 27 15:38:23 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.pp.sci.fi>

* mysqldump will automaticly use LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE if one uses
  an TCP/IP connection.

1998-08-27  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added support of local files with LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE ..
* Save history if one kills mysql with ^C.  Save history in MYSQL_HISTFILE.
  Modfied patch by Tommy Larsen <tommy@mix.hive.no>
	
1998-08-26  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed a possible problem with mysql_refresh().

Tue Aug 18 14:07:53 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.pp.sci.fi>

* Give an error for queries that mix GROUP columns and fields when there
  is no GROUP BY specification.

1998-08-17  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed sql_yacc.yy to allow field attributes in any order.
	
1998-08-15  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Increased max_allowed_packed to 1M as default.
* LOAD DATA INFILE didn't copy single field separators in some case:
  "Hello"Atif"!"

1998-08-13  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed fatal bug in lpad().

Thu Aug 13 01:00:44 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.pp.sci.fi>

* REGEXP can now take a expression as the second argument.

1998-08-12  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed LIKE to be faster in some cases with many '%': LIKE '%c%ompiler%'

1998-08-11  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* All table lock handing is changed to avoid some very subtitle
  deadlocks when using DROP TABLE, ALTER TABLE, DELETE FROM TABLE and
  mysqladmin flush-tables under heavy usage.
	
1998-08-10  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Allow one to use the syntax 'CONSTRAINT symbol' before FOREIGN KEY.
* new mysqld option '--low-priority-insert' to give inserts lower priority
  than selects.
* One can now use {INSERT | REPLACE} LOW_PRIORITY INTO ...
  One side effect is that LOW_PRIORITY is now a reserved word :(	
* Changed locking code to get better handling of locks of different types.

1998-08-09  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* mysqld will now ignore trailing ';' characters in queries. This is to
  make it easier to emigrate from some other SQL servers that require the
  end ';'  	
* One can now use a LIMIT value with DELETE to make it return after deleting
  a given number of rows.
* Fix for corrupted output of fixed format and SELECT INTO OUTFILE: 
  select * from test into outfile "/tmp/test.txt" fields terminated by '' enclosed by ''

1998-08-04  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* new mysqld option:  '-O max_connect_errors=#'.
  Connect errors are now reset for each correct connection.	
* Add support for INSERT INTO table ... VALUES(...),(...),(...)

1998-08-03  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added Oracle GREATEST() and LEAST() functions.  One must now use
  these instead if the MAX() and MIN() functions to get the biggest/smallest
  value from a list of values. These can now handle real, bigint and
  string values.
* The following query now uses indexing instead of sorting the table:
  SELECT ... FROM table ORDER BY key_part1 desc,key_part2 desc,...
* Added check that the error message file has enough error messages.
* DAYOFWEEK() had offset 0 for Sunday. Changed the offset to 1.

1998-08-02  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* new option to mysql:  '--vertical' to print results in vertical mode.
* All count structures in the client (affected_rows, insert_id...) are now of
  type BIGINT to allow one to use 64 bit values.
  This required a minor change in the MySQL protocol which may affect
  old clients when using tables with auto_increment values > 24M.
* The return type of mysql_fetch_lengths() has changed from uint *
  to ulong *. This may give a warning for old clients but should work
  on most machines.

Thu Jul 30 15:29:05 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik>

* COUNT(), STD() and AVG() are extended to handle more than 4G rows.

Wed Jul 29 10:36:05 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik>

* Added new option:
  SET OPTION SQL_LOG_UPDATE=[0,1] to allow users with process_priv
  privilege to bypass the update log.
  (Modified patch from Sergey A Mukhin <violet@rosnet.net>)
	
Thu Jul 23 15:58:13 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik>

* Initialize line buffer in mysql.cc to make blob readings from pipes safer.

Tue Jul 21 22:04:43 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik>

* One can now store -838:59:59 <= x <= 838:59:59 in a TIME column.
* TIME_TO_SEC() and SEC_TO_TIME() can now handle negative times and hours
  up to 32767.
 	
Mon Jul 20 20:34:33 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik>

* Change mysys/dbug to allocate all thread varibles in one struct.
  This makes it easier to make a threaded libmysql.dll
	
Sun Jul 19 12:54:45 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik>

* Changed ALTER TABLE to make it more multi-thread safe.
* normal INSERT INTO TABLE are now also cached when used with
  LOCK TABLES. (previously only INSERT ... SELECT and LOAD DATA INFILE
  was cached)	

Fri Jul 17 20:53:23 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik>

* Allow group functions with HAVING:
  SELECT col FROM table GROUP BY col HAVING COUNT(*)>0;
	
Tue Jul 14 15:11:52 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik>

* Use the result from 'gethostname' as the name for pid files
  (instead of uname()).

Sun Jul 12 12:38:45 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik>

* Index only optimization;  Some queries are now resolved using
  only indexes.  Until MySQL 4.0 this works only for number columns.

  SELECT key_part1,key_part2 FROM table WHERE key_part1=#
  SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table WHERE key_part1=# and key_part2=#
  SELECT key_part2 FROM table GROUP BY key_part1;
  SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY key_part2;
	
1998-07-07  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added function DATE_ADD() and DATE_SUB()

1998-07-06  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added function SUBSTRING() with 2 arguments.

1998-07-05  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added optimization to remove const reference tables from ORDER BY and
  GROUP BY.
* Allow '$' in table and column names.

1998-07-04  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* new option --tmpdir for mysqld.

1998-07-03  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* MySQL now automaticly changes a query from an ODBC client:
  SELECT ... from table WHERE auto_increment_column IS NULL
  to
  SELECT ... from table WHERE auto_increment_column == LAST_INSERT_ID().
  This allows some ODBC programs (Delphi, Access) to retrieve the newly
  inserted row to fetch the auto_increment id.
* Drop table now waits for all users to free a table before deleting it
	
1998-07-02  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* New functions: BIN(), HEX() and CONV() for converting between different
  number bases.

1998-07-01  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* If one created a table with smaller record length than 5, one couldn't
  delete rows from this table	
* mysqld now automaticly disables system locking on Linux, Win32 and if
  one uses MIT-threads.  One can force the use of locking by doing:
  --enable-locking.
* Added new mysqld option --console, to force a console window (for error
  messages) when using Win32.
* Removed a useless check in the ISAM delete code; Delete should now be
  a bit faster.
	
1998-06-28  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of MySQL 3.22.3
* New flag to mysqld: --one-thread for debugging with linuxthreads (or glibc)

1998-06-27  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added the LEX structure to THD to get a bit more speed.
* Added DROP TABLE IF EXISTS to not get an error if the table doesn't exists.
* IF and EXISTS are now reserved words (they would have to be sooner or later)
	
1998-06-26  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added lots of new options to mysqldump.

Wed Jun 24 23:33:35 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik>

* Server error messages are now in mysqld_errror.h
* Added compression server/client protocol. (By Sinisa).

1998-06-22  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* New functions:  <<, >>, rpad() and lpad().
* Fixed a core-dump bug in the range optimizer.
	
Fri Jun 19 01:51:09 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik>

* One can now save default options (like passwords) in a config file (my.cnf).

1998-06-17  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* searching on multiple constant keys that matched > 30 % of the rows didn't
  always use the best possible key.
	
1998-06-16  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Lot's of small changes to get ORDER BY to work when no records are found
  when using fields that are not in GROUP BY (MySQL extension)
* Added new option --chroot to mysqld to start mysqld in a chroot environment
  (by Nikki Chumakov <nikkic@cityline.ru>)
	
1998-06-15  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Add option --one-database to mysql to only update one database
  from a update log.

1998-06-13  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* end space is now ignored when comparing case sensitive strings;
  This should fix some problems with ODBC!	
* mysql_free_result() now automaticly handles a mysql_use_result() set that
  is not completely read.
	
1998-06-10  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of MySQL 3.22.1
* Fixed problems with date_format() and wrong dates.
* enum() and set() columns was compared binary; Changed to be case insensitive.

1998-06-08  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added new API functions: mysql_init() and mysql_options().
  One MUST now call mysql_init() before one calls mysql_real_connect().
  One doesn't have to call mysql_init if one only calls mysql_connect().
* LEFT JOIN core dumped if the second table is used with a constant
  WHERE/ON expression with uniquely identifies one record.

1998-06-07  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Range optimizer is not used anymore when comparing a string column
  to a number.  This will make such compares slower but safer.

Sun Jun  7 04:47:14 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik>

* UPDATE now returns a update information about how many rows was
  matched, updated and if one got any 'warnings' when doing the update.

Sat Jun  6 22:58:02 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@tik>

* Fixed wrong result from 'format(-100,2)'.

1998-06-06  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added new C-API function: mysql_ping().
* Added options AFTER column and FIRST to ALTER TABLE ... ADD columns.
  This makes is possible to add a new column at some specific location
  in an old table.
* Fixed problem with find_in_set().

1998-05-18  Michael Widenius  <monty@analytik>

* Added new API function:  mysql_ping().

1998-05-15  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

*  WEEK() now takes an optional argument to allow handling of weeks when the
   first day of the week = Sunday (default or 0) or Monday ( extra argument is
   1). WEEK() now returns the week number in the range 0-53 for the used
   year.

1998-05-13  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added flag -T32 to mysqld for running all queries under the main thread.
  This makes it possible to debug mysqld under Linux with gdb!
  (This is now called --one-thread)	
	
1998-05-12  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added optimization of 'not_null_column IS NULL' (needed for some Access
  queries)
* Made all time functions 'more streamlined'.

1998-05-09  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Allow one to use STRAIGHT_JOIN between two tables to force the optimizer
  to join them in a specific order.
	
Fri May  8 02:35:00 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.pp.sci.fi>

* Added SET OPTION PASSWORD='new_crypted_password' and
  SET OPTION PASSWORD= 'host' : 'user' : 'new_password'. The last version
  only works for users with write access to the mysql database.
  One can also use:  SET OPTION PASSWORD=PASSWORD("new_password");

Tue May  5 14:41:47 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.pp.sci.fi>

* String functions now return VARCHAR() instead of CHAR() and 
  the column type is now VARCHAR() for fields saved as VARCHAR().
  This should make the MyODBC driver better, but may break some old
  MySQL clients that doesn't handle FIELD_TYPE_VARCHAR identical as
  FIELD_TYPE_CHAR.
 
Mon May  4 00:33:27 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.pp.sci.fi>

* Added BOOL as a synonym for BIT and DISTINCTROW as a synonym for DISTINCT.
* CREATE INDEX and DROP INDEX are now implemented trough ALTER TABLE.
  CREATE TABLE is still the recommended (fast) way to create indexes.
* Added option SET OPTION PASSWORD='new_password'.
  mysqladmin can now be used by not anonymous users to change their
  password.

Sun May  3 18:47:24 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.pp.sci.fi>

* Added option wait_timeout to mysqld.

Sat Apr 18 14:14:23 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.pp.sci.fi>

* Added hashing of fieldnames for tables with many fields.
* The most frequently used string functions are now in assembler (Linux-intel).

Thu Apr 16 16:14:14 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.pp.sci.fi>

* Added quick checking if ok host.
* Changed the interface for field->val_str() to better use stack buffers.

Thu Apr  9 20:02:26 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.pp.sci.fi>

* One can now reference to tables in different databases with:
  table@database or database.table
* Added cacheing of users & access rights (for faster access rights checking)

1998-04-08  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Save of command line history to file in mysql client.
  by Tommy Larsen <tommy@mix.hive.no>	
	
1998-04-07  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added time column to 'mysqladmin processes' to show how long a query
  has taken or how long a thread has sleeped.
	
1998-04-06  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* 'show variables' now gives the correct path for 'datadir'.
* Added logging and update_log to "show variables"	

1998-03-29  Michael Widenius  <monty@analytik>

* Added new type: YEAR. YEAR is stored on 1 byte with range 0, 1901-2155.
* Added new DATE type that is stored on 3 bytes instead of 4. All new
  tables will created with the new date type if one doesn't use
  --old-protocol.
* Fixed bug in record caches;  One could get 'Error from table handler: #'
  on some OS from some queries.

1998-03-27  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* mysql (the command line tool) striped start space from new rows.

1998-03-25  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added user level locks:  GET_LOCK(string,timeout), RELEASE_LOCK(string)
* Fixed bug in range optimizer when using:
  WHERE	key_part_1 >= something and key_part_2 <= something_else
* Changed connect timeout to 3 seconds to make it somewhat harder
  for crackers to kill mysqld trough telnet + TCP/IP.

1998-03-24  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* new mysqld option --big-selects:
  Allow big result sets by saving all temporary sets on file.
 (Solves most 'table full' errors)
	
1998-03-21  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* WHERE with string-column-key = constant-string didn't always find all rows
  if the column had many values differing only with characters of the same sort
  value (like e and <20>).
* Added opened_tables to 'show status'.
* Strings keys looked up with 'ref' was not compared case sensitively.
* Added flag '--big-selects' to avoid 'Table is full' errors.
  Using this will slow down some queries thought.	
* Added umask() to make log_files non-readable for normal users.
* Fixed some odd cases with queries that uses group functions where
  the WHERE or HAVING didn't match anything.
* Ignore users with old password (8 byte) on startup if not using
 --old-protocol.
* Changed name of the sql_memory allocation system and moved this to
  the mysys library.

1998-03-17  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added use of current_date, current_time and current_timestamp functions
  without (). This automaticly made these reservered words :(	

Tue Mar 10 12:34:50 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed mysql_real_connect() to include possible db for faster connection
  to a new db.
* select which matched all key fields returned the values in the same
  case as the matched values instead of the found values.
* Release of 3.21.26
* In DATE_FORMAT() PM and AM was swapped for hours 00 and 12.

Mon Mar  9 14:15:00 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added some tests to the table order optimizer to get some cases with
  'SELECT ... FROM many_tables' much faster.
* Added a retry loop around accept() to possible fix some problems on some
  Linux machines.

Fri Mar  6 01:18:47 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* from_days(0) now returns "0000-00-00"
* Enchanted mysql_connect protocol to allow one to specify database
  on connection. This will make MySQL twice as fast to connect to a database
  for new clients.

Thu Mar  5 18:09:45 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Updated record_cache code to be aligned for more speed.
* New tests to crash-me
* Extended the default max key size to 256.

Wed Mar  4 00:02:16 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed bug when using BLOB/TEXT in GROUP BY with many tables.

Mon Mar  2 18:58:10 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* A enum field that is not declared NOT NULL has NULL as default value.
  (Before the default value was the first enum option)

Tue Feb 24 20:11:30 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed bug in the join optimizer code when using many part keys
  on the same key:  INDEX (Organisation,Surname(35),Initials(35)).

Mon Feb 23 16:15:39 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* One can now kill threads that are waiting for 'disk full'.
* Fixed some problems with UDF functions.
* ALTER TABLE + IGNORE now returns right number of affected rows.
* Fixed a bug when using 8 bytes long (alpha); filesort() didn't work. 
  Affects DISTINCT, ORDER BY and GROUP BY on 64 bit processors. 

Sat Feb 21 15:36:48 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed typedef string to my_string because of C++ new string class.
* now one can kill threads that's are waiting on 'disk full'.

Fri Feb 13 23:19:23 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of MySQL 3.21.24
* Fixed problem with LEFT JOIN and constant expressions in the ON part.

Thu Feb 12 02:54:57 1998  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added much more descriptive error messages to mysqladmin if connect failed.
* Dynamic loadable functions. Based on source from:
  Alexis Mikhailov <root@medinf.chuvashia.su>

Thu Feb  5 15:19:14 1998    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* One couldn't delete from a table if no one had done a select on the table.
* Fixed problem with range optimizer which many OR's on key parts inside
  each other.

Tue Feb  3 14:34:32 1998    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed default umask for new files from 0664 to 0660.

Fri Jan 30 23:58:19 1998    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of MySQL 3.21.23
* Changed ALTER TABLE to work with WIN32 (Win32 can't rename open files)

Thu Jan 29 20:37:50 1998    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed that the following symbols are not reserved words:
  TIME DATE TIMESTAMP TEXT BIT ENUM NO ACTION CHECK YEAR MONTH DAY HOUR
  MINUTE SECOND STATUS VARIABLES.
* Changed string handling in sql_yacc.yy and sql_lex.cc to be faster.
* Setting a TIMSTAMP to NULL in LOAD DATA INFILE... didn't set the current
  time for the TIMESTAMP.
* Fixed that key conversions are tested in the WHERE clause
* LOAD DATA INFILE .... REPLACE INTO ... had wrong 'skipped' count

Tue Jan 27 15:24:50 1998    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added switch --skip-thread-prior for systems where mysqld's thread
  scheduling doesn't work properly. At least BSDI 3.1 works better with
  this!
* Added ODBC functions DAYNAME() and MONTHNAME().
* Fixed unlikely(?) key optimizer bug when using ORs inside ANDs.

Sat Jan 24 03:35:46 1998    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of 3.21.22
* Added support of 'long constant strings' from ANSI SQL:
  select 'first ' 'second';  -> 'first second';

Mon Jan 19 17:59:49 1998    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem with Russian character set and LIKE.
* Fixed bug in ORDER BY on string formula with possible NULL values.
* Added functions DAYOFYEAR(), DAYOFMONTH(), MONTH(), YEAR(), WEEK(),
  QUARTER(), HOUR(), MINUTE(), SECOND() and FIND_IN_SET().
* Changed weighting, when using many key parts, in join optimizer to avoid
  full joins for a couple of cases.

Sun Jan 18 21:16:06 1998    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Removed that NULL = NULL is true.  Now one must use IS NULL or IS NOT NULL
  to test if a value is NULL. (This is according to ANSI SQL but may break
  old applications that are ported from mSQL)
  One can get the old behaviour by compiling with -DmSQL_COMPLIANT
* Fix of count(*) problems when the WHERE clause didn't match any records.
* Added function DAYOFMONTH()

1998-01-14  Michael Widenius  <monty@analytik>

* Fixed mysqladmin.c to display only the used socket or TCP/IP port.

Mon Jan 12 19:32:31 1998    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed SHOW FIELDS to return NULL as default value for TIMESTAMP
  (This removes the DEFAULT "" entry for timestamps in mysqldump)
* Release of MySQL 3.21.21
* Added commands SHOW STATUS and SHOW VARIABLES.
* Fixed optimizer bug when using
  'WHERE data_field=date_field2 and date_field2=constant'

Sun Jan 11 05:07:59 1998    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of MySQL 3.21.20
* Added long comments to MySQL /* */
* Changed lex parsing to be a bit faster in some cases.

Sat Jan 10 15:17:44 1998    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed bug when using SELECT DISTINCT + NULL values.

Fri Jan  9 16:45:26 1998    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed maximum table name and column name lengths from 32 to 64.
* Aliases can now be of 'any' length.

Thu Jan  8 02:28:11 1998    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Now one gets an error if one tries to create an INDEX or UNIQUE
  on a column that allows NULL values. (Before the column was silently
  made NOT NULL).

Wed Jan  7 23:19:11 1998    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed protocol (downward compatible) to mark if a column
  is auto_increment or a timestamp. This is needed for the
  new java driver.
* One can now in the clients check if a column is a automatic
  TIMESTAMP or a AUTO_INCREMENT field.

Sun Jan  4 20:10:21 1998    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added update of big5 by jou@pdlc.ieo.nctu.edu.tw
* Added hebrew sorting order by Zeev Suraski.

Thu Jan  1 12:57:04 1998    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of 3.21.19
* unique key fields was not marked as unique keys in mysqlshow.
* Added function REVERSE() (by Zeev Suraski)
* Changed ni_range() to fixed a case of slow range searching.

Wed Dec 31 15:46:25 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of 3.21.18a
* Fixed problem with new filesort code from 3.21.18 on Linux

Mon Dec 29 10:02:24 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added CROSS JOIN syntax. CROSS is now a reserved word
* USE database was not always written to output log.
* mysqladmin command 'status' doesn't increment 'Questions' anymore.

Sun Dec 28 13:20:20 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Recoded yacc/bison stack allocation to be even safer and allow MysQL
  to handle even bigger expressions.

Sat Dec 27 15:28:39 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* last_insert_id and used timestamp is now written to update log file.
  timestamps, calculations with time and LAST_INSERT_ID() will now work
  correctly when updating from the update log.

Fri Dec 26 17:03:14 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Give error message if client C functions are called in wrong order. 
* Added automatic reconnect of clients for some cases. 

Mon Dec 22 00:25:34 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Range optimizer didn't solve ranges of type:
  key_part1= x AND key_part2 > y.  This forced some ORDER BY queries to
  do a full table scan when used with where like above.
* Small sort sets doesn't use temporary files anymore.

Fri Dec 19 16:30:24 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of MySQL 3.21.17a
* Fixed problem with compare of binary strings and blobs with ASCII
  characters over 127. 

Thu Dec 18 00:33:25 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed core dump in first() when chaning some very specific AND and OR
  key columns.
* Fixed lock problem: When freeing a read lock on a table with multiple
  read locks, a thread waiting for write lock would have given the lock.
  This shouldn't affect data integrity, but could possible make mysqld
  to restart if one thread was reading data that another thread modified.
* LIMIT offset,count didn't work in INSERT ... SELECT.

Wed Dec 17 12:35:11 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* optimized key block caching. This will be quicker than the old one when
  using bigger key caches.

Tue Dec 16 23:33:24 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed bool to my_bool in some item structures to use less memory.
* Changed optimizer to use array references. This made the code 'nicer'

Mon Dec 15 17:03:43 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of Mysql 3.21.17
* mysql: Added ouput of line number on errors when running batch.
* SELECT column,SUM(expr) now returns NULL for column when there is no
  matching rows.

Sun Dec 14 14:59:46 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed create problem with fixed length records of exactly 256 bytes.
  (One couldn't insert more than 1 record in such a table).

Fri Dec 12 18:31:32 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added ODBC and ANSI SQL style LEFT OUTER JOIN.
  The following are new reserved words:  LEFT, NATURAL, USING
* Changed use of table bits and key bits to use typedefs to make it easy
  to extend join tables and keys to 64.
* The client library is now using the environment variable MYSQL_HOST as
  the default host if it's defined.

Wed Dec 10 01:29:11 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of 3.21.16a
* Field type SET with 33-55 elements didn't work.
* Release of 3.21.16
* Fixed bug in ALTER TABLE when copying from DATETIME to TIMESTAMP.
  (All TIMESTAMP where set to current time).

Tue Dec  9 14:53:15 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added function TIME_TO_SEC()

Mon Dec  8 09:56:44 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Allow empty strings as default values for BLOB and TEXT to be compatible with
  mysqldump.
* Added ODBC 2.0 & 3.0 functions: POWER(), SPACE(), COT(), DEGREES(), RADIANS(),
  ROUND(2 arg) and TRUNCATE().
* Added optional (ignored) argument to CURRENT_TIME() and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP().
* LOCATE() parameters where swapped according to ODBC standard. Fixed.
* Added detection of all ODBC 3.0 functions to crash-me
* In some cases default values was not used for NOT NULL fields.
* Timestamp wasn't updated in UPDATE SET... if the timestamp was used as
  a value or in the WHERE clause.

Sun Nov 30 04:06:31 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Renamed version.h to mysql_version.h

Sat Nov 29 10:50:28 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added dayofweek() for ODBC.
* Allow DATE '1997-01-01', TIME '12:10:10' and TIMESTAMP '1997-01-01 12:10:10'
  formats required by ANSI SQL.
  This has the unfortunate side-effect that one can't have columns named
  DATE, TIME or TIMESTAMP anymore :(
* Changed net_write() to my_net_write() because of name conflict with sybase.
* Added --no-auto-rehash option to mysql.
* Added VARBINARY as synonym for VARCHAR BINARY

Wed Nov 26 12:53:41 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added framework for multiple character sorting

Tue Nov 25 04:03:29 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added extra client flag to mysql_real_connect to be compatible with
  MyODBC.
* Zeev fixed bug in DATE_FORMAT: It forgot to reset the null marker.

Mon Nov 24 20:19:18 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem with wrong result order when using all of
  DISTINCT + JOIN + ORDER BY + LIMIT.

Sun Nov 23 14:29:54 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* mysql:  edit command now allows one to edit last query in a editor;
  (patch by Zeev Suraski)
* Recoded all delete item to avoid use of stack space for deletes.
 (For crash-me)
* Added command: SET SQL_LOG_OFF=1 to not log commands to standard log.
  This will only affect users with process list privileges.

Sat Nov 22 13:08:55 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added stack checking for crash-me :)
  The following failed before:  select 1+1+1+1+1+.... (687 times)

Fri Nov 21 01:50:34 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added new patch for Chinese Big5 code.
* Change that blobs returns the max length for a blob instead of 8192
  to the client as field_length.

Thu Nov 20 15:37:05 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* fixed bug in range-optimizer that crashed mysql on some queries.
* table and column name completion for mysql by
  Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans
* Fixed problem with queries that didn't find any records: This happens only
  when using multiple part keys where the first part is a number and some
  other part is a char or varchar.
* Removed some wrong warning messages from range optimizer

Wed Nov 19 16:41:14 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added new command REPLACE, which works like INSERT but replaces conflicting
  records with the new record. REPLACE INTO TABLE ... SELECT ... works also.
* Added new commands: CREATE DATABASE db_name and DROP DATABASE db_name
* Added RENAME option to ALTER TABLE:  ALTER TABLE name RENAME AS new_name

Sun Nov 16 21:41:32 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* The thread stack was overwritten if one tried to create a table with too many
  fields (more than 1000).
- Table scanning was a bit slower when using LOCK TABLE xxx WRITE. Fixed.

Thu Nov 13 03:12:54 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* ALTER TABLE forgot BINARY attribute for strings and BLOBS
* Change comparision of strings to integer to compare as floats instead
  of as integers.
* Added printing of Access denied errors to log.
* Fixed some not 100% portable typedefs in mysql_com.h
* Added Luuk de Boers defines for interval handling.
  This isn't compleat yet.

Wed Nov 12 00:28:58 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added automatic removal of 'ODBC function conversions': {fn now() }
* Added new function DATE_FORMAT(date_expr,format). The format string is the
  same one that was previously integrated with from_unix_timestamp().
* Changed from_unix_timestamp() to call function DATE_FORMAT() with format
  element.

Mon Nov 10 18:17:39 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added flag for stupid ODBC applications (like access) that wants found_rows
  instead of affected_rows.
* Added basic functions for handling av ANSI INTERVAL.

Sat Nov  8 01:20:03 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* compare with DATE and TIME with NULL didn't work. (IS NULL worked)
* Added many changes from the Win32 port.
* new function: DATE_ADD_MM().

Wed Nov  5 13:10:10 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@analytik>

* SORTING on calculated DOUBLE values sorted on integer results instead.
* SELECT ... WHERE KEY=constant ORDER BY ... didn't use key to retrieve
  records. This was slow because everything was sorted..
* CHECK isn't a reserved word anymore.
	
Mon Nov  3 07:55:47 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Allow start of mysqld.cc without a current database.
* Changed server version to include -debug and -log if compiled with debugging
  and to show that one has a logging enabled.
	
Sat Nov  1 13:08:00 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added missing expression 'NOT IN'
* Changed the place where HAVING should be. According to ANSI it should be
  after GROUP BY but before ORDER BY.  MySQL 3.20 had it wrongly last.
* Added Sybase command: USE DATABASE to start using another database.
* Fixed core dump when one had a wrong password in the password column.
* Added automatic adjusting of number of connections and table cache size
  if the maximum number of files that can be opened are less than needed.
  This should fix that mysqld doesn't crash even if one hasn't done a
  ulimit -n 256 before starting mysqld.
* Added limit checks for create table.
* Added more checks of different errors from net_read for SCO port.

Tue Oct 28 14:30:31 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem when using big table_caches; MySQL could previously only
  open 256 files.

Mon Oct 27 10:02:19 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added options LINE STARTING WITH to LOAD DATA INFILE and
  SELECT ... into outfile. Now one can do:

    LOAD DATA INFILE '/tmp/syslog.sql' INTO TABLE uptime
    FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','  OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED by "'"
    LINES STARTING WITH 'VALUES (' LINES TERMINATED by ');\n' ignore 100 lines

and
    SELECT * from uptime into outfile '/tmp/syslog2.sql'
    FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','  OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED by "'"
    LINES STARTING WITH 'INSERT INTO uptime VALUES (' LINES TERMINATED by ');\n'

* Added IGNORE # LINES to LOAD DATA INFILE.

* Allow \N as a shorthand of NULL in SQL statements.

Sun Oct 26 11:34:38 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* More memory checking.
* Fixed grouping of functions with many from tables.

Sat Oct 25 01:46:27 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* New error message so one can check if the connection was lost while
  the command was running or if the connection was down from the start.
* The mysql command tool now does a automatic reconnect if the connection
  was lost when it does a query.
* new command: 'mysqladmin debug'. This forces the server to dump out some
  useful information to stdout. Currently it prints all lock information.
* Rewrite lexer to be faster and more easy to extend.

Fri Oct 24 13:57:06 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed bug when like on number key.
* Added --table option to mysql to print in table format.
  Moved time and row information after query result.
* Added != as an alias for <>.

Thu Oct 23 16:00:22 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added function VERSION() to make easier logs.

Tue Oct 21 00:09:13 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Relase of 3.21.12
* Added memory checks to all string functions to return NULL if some
  string gets bigger than max_allowed_packet. This is to make MySQL more
  secure.
* Fixed core dump bug on range optimizer.
* In some cases doing a join + group + INTO OUTFILE, the result wasn't
  grouped.
* Now SQL_BIG_TABLES + DISTINCT is also optimized.
* Changed the syntax of ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ident SET DEFAULT ...
  (The DEFAULT keyword wasn't allowed or required before).
* Added russian error messages.

Mon Oct 20 04:10:53 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* LIKE with '_' as last character didn't work. Fixed
* Added many error checks for 'end of memory'
* Added ENCRYPT() function by Zeev Suraski.
* Fixed better FOREIGN KEY syntax skipping.
  New reserved words:  MATCH, FULL, PARTIAL

Sun Oct 19 23:13:50 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Force .log to logfile-name if one uses hostname as logfile.
* mysqld now allows ip and hostname to the --bind-address option.

Sat Oct 18 22:02:36 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added "SET OPTION CHARACTER SET cp1251_koi8" to enable conversions off
  data to/from different character sets. Currently cp1251_koi8 is the only
  one, but it's now trivial to add others.
  Conversions:  strings in the query 		-> intern set
	        fields and items in result	-> terminal set
  One can get back to the old one with:
  SET OPTION CHARACTER SET DEFAULT
* Lots of changes for Win95 port

Fri Oct 17 15:29:44 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed the create column syntax off NOT NULL to be after the DEFAULT value
  as specified in the ANSI SQL standard. This will make mysqldump with
  NOT NULL and default values incompatible with MySQL 3.20.
* New reserved words are: BOTH, FOR, LEADING and TRAILING 
* Added a lot of function name alias so one can use the functions with
  ODBC or ANSI SQL92 syntax.
* Fixed ALTER TABLE person ALTER COLUMN phone SET DEFAULT NULL syntax.
* Added CHAR and BIT as a synonyms for CHAR(1)
* Changed the name if the INTERVAL type to ENUM, because INTERVAL is used in
  ANSI SQL.
* Added extended ANSI SQL TRIM() function.
* Added CURTIME().

Thu Oct 16 17:26:48 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed core dump when updating as user with only select privilige.

Wed Oct 15 04:25:47 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP BY didn't work in some cases. On got
  'Invalid use of group function'
* When using LIMIT, SELECT now always uses keys instead of record scan.
  This will give better performance on SELECT and a WHERE that matches many
  rows.
* Added function last_insert_id() to retreive last auto_increment value.
  This is for clients to ODBC that can't use the mysql_insert_id API function.
* Added option '--flush-logs' to mysqladmin.
* Added command 'status' to mysql.
* Moved some messages from libmysql.c to errmsg.c

Mon Oct 13 18:38:01 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Tested on BSDI 3.0 with the newest pthread library.
* Added new group functions: BIT_OR() and BIT_AND().
* Added compatibility functions: CHECK, REFERENCES.
* Added BIT as a synonym for CHAR(1) to get better compatibility.
* Added option ALL to GRANT for better compatibility. (GRANT is still
  a dummy fuction.
* CHECK is now a reserved word.

Fri Oct 10 17:01:25 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added partly translated dutch messages.
* Fixed bug in ORDER BY and GROUP BY with NULL columns

Thu Oct  9 10:26:47 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added test of create of table without columns.
* Release of 3.21.10
* Fixed a couple of bugs in the range optimizer. Now test-select works.

Tue Sep 30 02:40:42 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added new function: REPEAT(string,count).
* Added patch of support of Chinese(BIG5).
* Fixed awful slowdown of libmysql.c when configuring using '--with-debug=yes'
  This affected all clients that got large results from the server.
  (This didn't affect using --quick or mysql_use_result).

Sun Sep 28 20:59:41 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Made a new function: mysql_real_connect, that takes two extra arguments:
  port and socket to use on connection.	
* Added text types: TINYTEXT, TEXT, MIDDLETEXT and LONGTEXT.
  These are actually blobs, but all searching is done text independent.
  All old BLOB fields are now TEXT fields.
* LONG VARCHAR is a synonym for TEXT. LONG BINARY is a synonym for BLOB.
* 'LONG' is now a reserved word.

Fri Sep 26 16:11:34 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Release of 3.21.9
* Fixed a couple of portable problems with include files. 
* Fixed bug in range calculation that could return empty 
  set when searching on multiple key with only one entry (very rare). 

Wed Sep 24 15:51:37 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed thread scope from PROCESS to SYSTEM. This should give better
  scheduling (performance) on Solaris.
* Fixed duplicated free bug in sql_base with io_cache.

Tue Sep 23 13:05:23 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Allow also the old SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE syntax.
* Fixed bug with group by and select on key with many values.

Mon Sep 22 14:54:00 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* mysql_fetch_lengths() returned sometimes wrong lengths when one used
  mysql_use_result(). This affected at least some cases of mysqldump --quick.

Sun Sep 21 20:50:07 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed memory leak bug in range optimizer.

Sat Sep 20 00:03:51 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Allow TIME, DATE and TIMESTAMP as column names.
* Fixed bug in optimization of WHERE const op field.

Fri Sep 19 12:06:37 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed problem when sorting on NULL fields.
* Added handling of calculation of sum() functions.
* Added handling of trigometric functions: PI(), ACOS(), ASIN(), ATAN(),
  COS(), SIN() and TAN().
* Fixed sorting of big tables for 64 bit integers (Alpha).

Fri Aug 29 13:06:32 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@analytik>

* Added option --pid-file=# to mysqld
* Added date formating to from_unixtime(), originally by Zeev Suraski.
	
Wed Aug 27 01:35:18 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed bug when using 'unsigned long' on Alpa.

Tue Aug 26 03:23:28 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added option --bind-address to mysqld.
* Changed 'Access denied' to return username and password usage.
* Changed 'Access to database denied' to return username and database.

Sun Aug 24 22:55:24 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed password crypt from 31 bits to 62 bits to make passwords more
  secure.
* Changed protocol to allow for passing of mysql_errno to client.

Fri Aug 22 18:14:00 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed bug in BETWEEN in range optimizer (Did only test = of the first
  argument).

Thu Aug 21 16:40:21 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Version 3.21.6
* Enabled range optimizer for update and delete. Now update and delete can
  use keys again.
* Fixed bug when using unknown field in group clause.

Tue Aug 19 00:49:13 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* The range optimizer is now enabled as default. Use msyqld --skip-new
  to disable it.
* numerous small fixes to the range optimzer and a couple if fixes to
  group and where handling.
* Added patch from JOERG_HENNE@Non-HP-Germany-om88.om.hp.com to allow
  mit-threads to work on HPUX10. (This patch is regarded alpha)

Fri Aug 15 02:29:21 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Remove reverse lookup of hostnames because this takes 2 seconds
  one some machines for every connection!
  This can be enabled with the --secure option to mysqld.

Thu Aug 14 22:40:15 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* remove HAVING -> WHERE optimization. To fix this one has to change
  all Item_ref fields to Item_fields.
* Added patch for fast TCP/IP on FreeBSD.

Wed Aug 13 17:14:50 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Add optimizing of SELECT DISTINCT .... LIMIT # when there is no
  GROUP or ORDER BY.
* Changed mysql to only print time information if not silent or if -vvv.
* Added polish error messages
  
Sun Aug 10 11:31:10 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* new function: substring_index(), originally by Zeev Suraski.
* Added new option to mysqld: -O tmp_table_size=#
* Removed all use of PTHREAD_MUTEX_INIT and PTHREAD_COND_INIT for
  porting to FreeBSD 3.0 and HPUX.

Thu Aug  7 01:24:50 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* New function from_unixtime(timestamp) which returns a date string in
  YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:DD format.
* New function sec_to_time(seconds) which returns a string in H:MM:SS format.

Sat Aug  2 17:18:22 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed some porting issues for OSF1 and for Alpha.
  Now MySQL is know to configure on OSF1 with the Dec compiler,
  after changeing one line in config.h:
  #define SOCKET_SIZE_TYPE int

Wed Jul 30 11:05:39 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added reverse check lookup of hostnames to get better security.
* Fixed some possible buffer overflows if one uses too long filenames.
* mysqld doesn't accept hostnames that starts with digits followed by a '.'
  because the hostname may look like a IP.
* Added option --skip-networking to only allow socket connections.
  (This will not work with MIT threads!)

Tue Jul 29 10:38:55 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Removed wrong free() that killed the server on 'create/drop database'.
* Changed the name of some mysqld -O options to better names.
* Added option '-O join_cache_size=#'.
* Added option '-O max_join_size=#' to be able to set a limit how big queries
  (in this case big = slow) one should be able to handle without specifying
  'SQL_OPTION OPTION_BIG_SELECTS=1'.
  A # = is about 10 examined records. The default is 'unlimited'.
* When comparing a TIME, DATE, DATETIME or TIMESTAMP column to a 
  constant the constant is converted to a time value before comparing.
  This will make it easier to get ODBC and particularly Access97 to work with
  the above types. It should also make dates easier to use and the compares
  should be quicker than before.
* added check of too long table names for alias.

Mon Jul 21 16:09:47 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Applied patch from Jochen Wiedmann that fixes that query() in mysqlperl now
  can take queries with \0 in it.

Sat Jul 19 01:11:38 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Store of timestamp with 2 digit year YYMMDD didn't work.
* Fix that timestamp isn't automaticly updated if set in a update clause.
* Now the automatic timestamp field is the FIRST timestamp field.
	
Thu Jul  3 13:34:26 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added check if database name is okey.
* Addded check if too long table names.
* SELECT * INTO OUTFILE, which didn't correctly if the outfile already existed.
* 'mysql' now shows thread id when starting or doing a reconnect.
* Changed the default sort buffer size from 2M to 1M.

Mon Jun 30 10:18:39 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* mysqladmin: One can now do 'mysqladmin kill 5,6,7,8'
* Fixed 'Packets out of order' message.  This error come sometimes when the
  server was out of threads/memory. Now the correct message is retrieved by
  the client.
* Added more checks with thread create for 'out of memory' errors.
* Added more checks if threads is killed to get faster kill.
* Changed the default record cache from 512K to 128K to get less problem on
  systems with little memory.

Sat Jun 28 00:18:02 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* When the max connection limit is reached, one extra connection by a user with
  the PROCESS_ACL privilege is granted.

Fri Jun 27 22:03:24 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added new mysqld option: -O backlog=#

Tue Jun 24 22:08:58 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed SELECT DISTINCT when using 'hidden group'. For example:
  SELECT DISTINCT MOD(some_field,10) FROM test GROUP BY some_field;
* Increased max packet size from 512K to 1024K for client.
* Removed a lot of unused functions

Mon Jun 23 22:58:07 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Changed key_parts to have own field for shortened keys. This gives much
  nicer code in select.

Thu Jun 19 13:09:14 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* ALTER TABLE now returns warnings from field conversions.
  Changed all numerical fields to check for correct number and
  increment warning counts if the value is wrong.

Wed Jun 18 22:14:36 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Fixed buffer overflow when retrieving big packets.

Tue Jun 17 03:26:27 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Port changed to 3306 (got it reserved from ISI).

Mon Jun 16 15:46:42 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* All double are now rounded before storad as integer values.
* Fixed bug when using: SELECT WHERE A=const1 OR A=const2 OR A=const3,
  and const1 = const3. In this case a key over A=const1 was wrongly used and
  A=const2 wasn't used.
* Added a fix for Visual Fox Base so that any schema name from a table
  specification is automaticly removed.

Sun Jun 15 12:47:23 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* The thr_alarm array is now initialized based on number of connections
* Changed some memcpy() to bmove() to get rid of some warnings from purify.
* Changed the sql_yacc.c to drop schema name from table name. This is a crude
  patch to get VFP

Sat Jun 14 12:04:59 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* fixed missed ptr variable in filesort.
* Fixed wrong tablename and record count EXPLAIN.
* Changed the 'key use' test to prefere keys even more over full join.
* Fixed LIKE to work for binary strings.

Fri Jun 13 13:38:14 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* New function char(num,....).

Wed Jun 11 14:53:17 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* All field types tested with extrema values. date_time and timestamp
  now require at least year, month and day on insert.

Mon Jun  9 01:23:36 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added French error messages (by Therrien, Gilbert). English is still default.
* Added option '--skip-name-resolve' to get mysqld to use only IP's to
  autenticate a host. 'localhost' will still be used for local UNIX sockets.
* Removed the between() function. On should use the 'col BETWEEN a AND b'
  syntax instead.

Sun Jun  8 11:05:46 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* New function ASCII.

Sat May 31 01:00:18 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* host names are now compared case insensitive.

Wed May 28 13:04:00 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* HAVING is added to WHERE if there is no grouping.
* MySQL now doesn't anymore have to use a extra temporary table when sorting
  on functions or SUM functions.

Tue May 27 00:54:51 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added function to print a item for debugging purposes.
* Fixed bug that one couldn't use 'table_name.field_name' in UPDATE.
* Removed init code with reset some of the mysqld -O variables to default after
  they where set by start options.

Thu May 22 14:52:26 1997    <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* Added varbinary syntax: 0x###### which can be used as a string (default) or a
  number.

Sun May 18 22:00:58 1997    <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* mysqldump: added options to lock tables and specify many tables to dump
* Add support of NULL fields in filesort
* SELECT with COUNT(),MIN() .... with no matching rows now returns 1 row.

Sat May 17 22:06:29 1997    <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* New operator IN. This uses a binary search to find a match.
* Added 'SET OPTION SQL_BIG_TABLES= (0 | 1). Setting this to 1 will force
  all temporary tables to disk. This will allow one to do big selects that
  ordinary would give a 'table full' error.

Fri May 16 18:53:21 1997    <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* New command LOCK TABLES table_name [alias] (READ | WRITE), ....

Wed May 14 14:33:07 1997    <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Renamed FIELD_TYPE_CHAR to FIELD_TYPE_TINY

Mon May 12 09:54:24 1997    <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added command --log-update to get a update log for incremental backups.
* log file rotation for mysqld.
* log file for incremental backups
* new command: DESCRIBE SELECT ....
* Removed mysql_reload() and added mysql_refresh() instead.
  Left a define to get old source to compile.

Fri May  9 10:41:36 1997    <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* All functions now regards a binary type as 'sticky'.
* The time is now only requested once at start of each query.
* Splitted item_func.cc in two tables to get around that gcc uses too
  much memory compiling it.
* Changed MIN() and MAX() to return the original type.
* Fixed bug in acl with anonymous user:  Now if one gets accepted by the user
  table as a empty user name, the user name is set to '' when checking against
  the 'db' and 'host' tables.
* calculate all const expressions in the first optimizer pass. 

Tue May  6 19:16:56 1997    <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Fixed ORDER BY bug when selecting on very small tables that made the
  optimizer use a full join.

Mon May  5 00:15:52 1997    <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added use of table alias in insert, delete and update.
* Removed FIELD_TYPE_TINY_BLOB, FIELD_TYPE_MEDIUM_BLOB, FIELD_TYPE_LONG_BLOB, 
  FIELD_TYPE_VAR_STRING from client code.
* Change syntax of SELECT .. WHERE ... INTO OUTFILE .. to the more standard
  SELECT .. INTO OUTFILE 'name' WHERE ...

Thu May  1 23:16:14 1997    <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added new API functions:
  mysql_row_seek(),mysql_row_tell() and mysql_field_tell().
  mysql_field_seek() now returns old offset.
* Added expr BETWEEN expr2 AND expr3.

Sun Apr 27 16:16:17 1997    <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Changed range() detection to get queries on prefix to works faster.
  Now SELECT name FROM table WHERE name="prefix" is quick even if there
  are lots of rows where name starts with prefix.
* Fixed crash with shutdown and --log-isam
* Added group function STD() (standard derivation).
* mysql.cc: Fixed that NULL columns are always at least 4 wide for nicer output
  of NULL values.
* Fixed that calculations that are not in GROUP BY works as expected.
  (ANSI SQL extension)
  Example: SELECT id,id+1 FROM table GROUP BY id

Thu Apr 24 13:41:01 1997  Michael Widenius TcX DataKonsulter AB  <monty@analytik>

* Fixed convert bug which got mysqld to core dump with Aritmetic error on
  Sparc-386

Wed Apr 23 12:11:05 1997  Michael Widenius TcX DataKonsulter AB  <monty@analytik>

* Added tty password to mysqlshow.c

Tue Apr 22 15:44:11 1997  Michael Widenius TcX DataKonsulter AB  <monty@analytik>

* The test of using MYSQL_PWD was reversed. Now MYSQL_PWD is enabled as default
  in the default release

Sun Apr 20 14:36:39 1997    <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Now one usually only have to give --basedir to mysqld. All other paths
  are relative in a normal installation.
* BLOBs contained sometimes garbage when used with a SELECT on more than
  one table and ORDER BY.
* Added option --unbuffered to mysql. (For new mysqlaccess)
* 'select *' without tables crashed server.
* When using overlapping (unnecessary keys) and join over many tables
  the optimizer could get confused and return 0 records.
* Changed safe_mysqld to allow one to move installed releases.

Sun Apr 13 10:40:50 1997    <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Release 3.20.17
* Added new function unix_timestamp([timestamp_column])

Sat Apr 12 11:27:57 1997    <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Fixed memory over run bug when using selects with many brace levels.
* Change from_days() and weekday() to also take a full timestamp or
  a datetime as argument. Before they only took a number of type YYYYMMDD or
  YYMMDD.

Wed Apr  9 13:22:24 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Changed stack usage to use less memory.
* All communication packages and row buffers are now alloced on demand.
  The default communication buffers are now smaller than before.
* count(field) where field could have a NULL value didn't work.
* IS NULL and IS NOT NULL now work in the WHERE.
* BLOBs now work in the WHERE.
* Remove pre-space from numbers when writing decimal() coulmns to file.
* INSERT INTO ... SELECT .. WHERE could give the error 'Dupplicated field'

Tue Apr  8 16:14:54 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added commands SET OPTION SQL_SELECT_LIMIT=# to provide framework
  for options and to get some ODBC things to work.
* Fixed bug in SELECT ... two tables ... GROUP BY
* Fixed bug in INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP BY
* Fixed bug in acl: To use FILE_PRIV one also had to have SELECT PRIV
  in the user grant table.
* Fixed fatal bug in ranged querie with OR when one part of the query didn't
  have any matching records.

Mon Apr  7 16:03:00 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Now connections are allowed even if hostname isn't found.
  In this case all hostname checks are done on IP.
* When doing insert on timestamps, the timestamp was set to the
  current time even if updated by a value.
* Fixed LOAD DATA.. that if one has COLUMN TERMINATED BY to be same as
  LINE TERMINATED BY, then LINE TERMINATED BY is set to a empty string.
  This wasn't a bug, but a common mistake when reading columns separated
  with newlines.

Sun Apr  6 22:37:53 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Changed definition of function ELT as it should have been:
  ELT(index,element,element,element....) now returns the index:s
  element in the list. The first element has index 1.
  FIELD(find,string,string,string) searches after the 'find' string
  in the string list and returns a index to the found string.
  The strings are compared case insensitive.
* Added some tests to safe_mysqld to make it 'safer'
 
Fri Apr  4 02:17:40 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* When sorting the db grant table, host wasn't sorted.

Wed Apr  2 03:00:14 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Fixed case  'WHERE key_num_column = "string"'
* LIKE was case sensitive in some places and case insensitive in other.
  Now LIKE is always case insensitive.
* Fixed bug in select optimizer when using many tables with the same
  column used as key to different tables.

Sun Mar 30 21:22:39 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* mysql.cc; Allow '#' anywhere on the line.

Thu Mar 27 02:42:12 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added new latin2 and Russian KOI8 character tables.
* Added support for a dummy GRANT command satisfy Powerbuilder.

Wed Mar 26 03:03:07 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Release of 3.20.15
* Removed possible loop when thread waits for command from client
  and fcntl() fails. Thanks to Mike Bretz for finding this bug 

Tue Mar 25 18:03:15 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Changed alarm loop in mysqld.cc because shutdown didn't always
  succeed in Linux.
* Removed use of termbits from mysql.cc  This conflicted with glibc 2.0
* Fixed syntax error in get_password.c (for BSD). Added flush of line.
* Added test if 'linux' style gethostbyaddr_r in mysqld.cc
* Fixed bug when doing a select as superuser without a database.
* Fixed bug when doing SELECT with group calculation to outfile.

Mon Mar 24 16:03:01 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Release of 3.20.14
* Added new function SOUNDEX()
* If one gives '-p' or -password to mysql or mysqladmin without an argument,
  the password will be asked from the tty.

Sun Mar 23 00:19:42 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Sometimes when doing a reconnect on a down connection this succeded
  first on second try. Fixed by removing handling of SIGPIPE in client.
* When adding a auto_increment key with ALTER_TABLE on got the error:
  'Can't write, duplicate key'.

Sat Mar 22 22:55:12 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* AVG() gave too small value on some selects with GROUP BY and ORDER BY.

Fri Mar 21 12:27:32 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added new DATETIME type (by Giovanni Maruzzelli <maruzz@matrice.it>)
* Fixed that define 'DONT_USE_DEFAULT_FIELDS' works
* Added default password from MYSQL_PWD. (by Elmar Haneke)
* Changed C++ code to be compatible with Sun Workshop

Thu Mar 20 12:28:06 1997  Michael Widenius TcX DataKonsulter AB  <monty@analytik>

* Changed to use a thread to handle alarms instead of signals on Solaris to
  avoid race conditions.
* Fixed default length of signed numbers. (George Harvey <georgeh@pinacl.co.uk>)
* Added commando 'kill' to mysqladmin to kill a specific mysql thread.

Wed Mar 19 12:21:33 1997  Michael Widenius TcX DataKonsulter AB  <monty@analytik>

* sql_base.cc: Allow anything for CREATE INDEX.

Mon Mar 17 19:54:11 1997  Michael Widenius TcX DataKonsulter AB  <monty@analytik>

* Add prezeros when packing numbers to DATE, TIME and TIMESTAMP.
* Fixed the OR bug for good.

Fri Mar 14 11:46:54 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Release 3.20.13
* Added changes by bonis@kiss.de to allow WHERE const op field
* Fixed bug in mysql.c when reading long commands from batch.
* mysqldump.c
  Changed newlines, return and ASCII 0 to "\n", "\r" and "\0",
  to allow restoring of columns with these.

Thu Mar 13 20:02:53 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Fixed bug in select with and-or levels.

Mon Mar 10 04:04:03 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added support for Slovenian characters.
* Fixed bug with limit and order by.
* Allow order and group on items that isn't in the select list.

Sun Mar  9 00:21:36 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added ANSISQL94 DATE and TIME types. Changed TIMESTAMP fields to work better
  when updateing it with a number.

Sat Mar  8 20:19:21 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Allow setting of timestamp values in INSERT.
* Fixed bug with SELECT ... WHERE ... = NULL. 
* Added changes for glibc 2.0

Fri Mar  7 07:53:01 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Fixed bug in alter table when changeing a not null field to allow NULLs.
* Added HAVE_READDIR_R as a define which can be removed if one has
  a broken readdir_r implementation (Sparc/Linux).

Thu Mar  6 21:06:02 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added some ANS92 synonyms as field types to CREATE TABLE.
  CREATE TABLE now allows FLOAT(4) and FLOAT(8) to mean FLOAT and DOUBLE.

Wed Mar  5 00:41:29 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Release 3.20.11
* Added sync of records count in sql_update. This fixed slow updates on first
  connection. (Thanks to Vaclav Bittner for the test)
* Changed temporary file prefix from UN to MY.
* When using SELECT .... INTO OUTFILE all temporary tables are ISAM instead of
  HEAP to allow big dumps.
* Changed date functions to be 'string functions'. This fixed some 'funny'
  side effects when sorting on dates.

Tue Mar  4 23:07:03 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Changed FOREIGN KEY to not create a key. Now it's only for compability.
* Extended ALTER TABLE according to SQL92.
* Some minor compability changes.
* Added --port and --socket to all utility programs and mysqld.

Sat Feb 15 01:27:51 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added Oracle command DESCRIBE (DESC) as a synomym for some SHOW commands:
  DESC table_name          <==>  SHOW FIELDS FROM table_name
  DESC table_name column   <==>  SHOW FIELDS FROM table_name LIKE 'column'
  DESC table_name 'column' <==>  SHOW FIELDS FROM table_name LIKE 'column'
  mysql.cc thought that tinyblob, mediumblob and longblob was numerical.
  (Was right adjusted)

Thu Feb 13 00:49:29 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* mediumblob didn't work.
* Fixed safe_mysqld and make_binary_distribution to work better.
* ALTER TABLE and changeing a BLOB to a CHAR() added some garabage at
  string end.

Wed Feb 12 16:10:49 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* new insert type: INSERT INTO ... SELECT ....;

Tue Feb 11 12:58:36 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Fixed some defines to get mysql to compile on freebsd 2.0 (intel)
* Removed all _A() from prototype declaration.
* Removed use of ulong in mysql.h and mysql_com.h
* Changed mysqldump to dump keynames.
* SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE 'test' create the file in the base directory
  instead in database directory (if one didn't give a full path)
* A primary key is now defined as a key with name PRIMARY or the first
  unique key if there doesn't exist a key with name PRIMARY.

Mon Feb 10 00:40:48 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Fixed leak bug when using LOAD DATA into a blob with is sometimes NULL.
* DROP TABLE can now take a list of tables.
* If a databas was crashed, in some cases a read of the wrong record
  was used as a 'end of file', instead of returning an error.

Sat Feb  8 00:16:07 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* merged structs field_t and FIELD to FIELD.

Fri Feb  7 12:49:01 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* version 3.20.9
* Alter table didn't copy null bit. This resulted that NULL fields where
  always NULL.
* CREATE didn't take numbers as DEFAULT.

Wed Feb  5 13:28:19 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* New scripts 'add_file_priv' which add the new field 'file_priv'
  to the user table. This scripts must be executed if one wants to
  use the new SELECT ... INTO and LOAD DATA INFILE...  commands
  with a version of mysql less than 3.20.7.
* Found bug in locking code when another thread got a table opened
  by another thread. This could make a thread block forever wating
  for a write lock.

Tue Feb  4 00:57:24 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Changed select_test.c and insert_test.c to include config.h

Mon Feb  3 00:42:08 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Add an optional keyname for all key declarators.

Sat Feb  1 19:02:43 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added command 'status' to mysqladmin for short logging.
* Increased max keys to 16 and max key parts to 15.

Fri Jan 31 00:05:23 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added ANSI92 extended ALTER TABLE statement.
* Changed all locking code to detect ALTER table after one got a lock.
  Tables are automaticly reopened if ALTERed. 
* Changed some structs to classes to get better code when using CREATE TABLE.

Thu Jan 30 01:12:13 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added new privilege to the user grant table: file_priv
* Added some compitibility changes to mysql.cc
* Added new syntax for creating keys with is a sub part of some field.
* Did a lot of changes to get around bug when comparing fields of
  different lengths. Hope I didn't break something else :)
* Added long options to mysqldump.
* Added new function NOW().

Wed Jan 29 15:51:22 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added option -k for mysqlshow to get key info for table.
* Changed some definitions from int to uint in mysql.h to get fewer warning
  with prolint.

Mon Jan 27 02:01:29 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added sql command 'load data infile...' for export from textfiles.
* Added new API function mysql->info to pass info to client.
* Added INTO OUTFILE as option to select to get result to file.

Fri Jan 24 14:56:19 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Relase 3.20.5-beta
* Got first version to work which MIT-threads.
* Added long options to mysqld
* mysqld now starts without system locking if compiled with MIT threads.
* Added new sql function RAND([init])
* Changed sql_lex to handle \0 unquoted, but the client can't send
  the query through the C api, because it takes a str pointer.
  one have to use mysql_real_query() to send the query.

Thu Jan 23 00:33:26 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added API function: mysql_get_client_info
* mysqld now uses the N_MAX_KEY_LENGTH from nisam.h as the max allowed key
  length.
* The following now works: "select filter_nr,filter_nr from filter order by
  filter_nr"
  Before you got the error: "Column: 'filter_nr' in order clause is ambiguous"

Wed Jan 22 14:48:58 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Changed fctnl flag O_NDELAY to O_NONBLOCK (Posix, and to get MIT threads
  to work)

Tue Jan 21 12:31:17 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* mysql now outputs \0 \t \n and \\ when writing tab separated output.
  when encountering ascii 0, tab, newline or \. This is to allow printing of
  binary data in a portable format.
  To get old behavior use -r (or --raw).
* Added long options to mysqladmin, mysql and mysqlshow.
* Added german error messages (60 of 80 error messages translated)
* Added new api function: mysql_fetch_lengths(MYSQL_RES *) which
  returns a array of of column lengths (of type uint).

Sat Jan 18 23:59:53 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Fixed bug with IS NULL in where clause.

Fri Jan 17 12:14:38 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Changed the optimizer a little to get better results when searching on a key
  part.
* Added select option STRAIGHT_JOIN to tell the optimizer that it should join
  tables in the given order.

Thu Jan 16 00:55:41 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added support of comment starting with '--' in mysql.cc (Postgres syntax)
* You can now have select_expressions and table columns in a select which
  are not used in the group part. This makes it efficient to implement lookups.
  If the not used column is not a constant for the group the column value
  is unspecified.
  Example: SELECT id,lookup.text,sum(*) FROM test,lookup
	   WHERE test.id=lookup.id group by id;

* Fixed bug in sum(function) (Could make core dump)
* Changed auto_increment according to SQL_SYNTAX:
  INSERT into table (auto_field) values (0) inserted 0, but the SQL_SYNTAX
  statied it should insert a auto_incremnt value.

Wed Jan 15 10:42:09 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* mysqlshow.c: Added number of records in table. Had to change the client code a
  little to fix this.
* mysql now allows double '' or "" in strings for embedded ' or ".
* Changed copyright text in mysqlshow and mysqladmin.

Mon Jan 13 02:33:09 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Relase 3.20.3
* Using the new readline library from bash.
* Updated a lot of text files.
* safe_mysqld and mysql.server changed to be more compatible between the
  source and the binary releases.

Sun Jan 12 18:23:30 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* LIMIT takes now one or two numerical arguments.
  If one argument the argument indicates the maximum number of rows in a result.
  If two arguments the first arguments says the offset to the first row to return,
  the second is the maximum number of rows.
  With this it's easy to do a poor mans next page/previous page www application.
* Changed name of SQL function FIELDS to ELT.
* Made SHOW COLUMNS a synonym for SHOW FIELDS.
  Added compatibility syntax FRIEND KEY to create table. This creates in mysql
  a non unique key on the given columns.
* Added CREATE INDEX and DROP INDEX as compatibility functions. In mysql 
  CREATE INDEX only checks if the index exists and gives an error if it doesn't
  exists. DROP INDEX always succeeds.

Sat Jan 11 00:44:29 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* mysqladmin.c: Added client version to version info.

Fri Jan 10 20:30:04 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Fixed core dump bug in sql_acl (core on new connection).
* Removed host,user and db tables from database test in the distribution.
* FIELD_TYPE_CHAR can now be signed (-128 - 127) or unsigned (0 - 255)
  Before it was always unsigned.

Thu Jan  9 00:02:03 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Changed name from mysqllib to mysqlclient for mysql client lib.
* The following failed: concat(1,concat(2),2).
  Could not call a variable argument function in a variable argument count
  function. Fixed.

Wed Jan  8 15:58:49 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* weekday() returned wrong day 6 of 7 times.

Mon Jan  6 23:49:31 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* changed a lot of source to get mysqld to be compiled with SUNPRO compiler.
* sql functions must now have a '(' directly after the function name.
  user '(' is now regarders as an identifier and a '('

Fri Jan  3 12:18:14 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Fixed possible bug when sorting with float and double.
  Changed static sort_length to thread variable. This may have caused some
  big sorts to fail when running two simultaneous sorts.
* Changed sql function INTERVALL() to INTERVAL().

Wed Jan  1 16:18:30 1997  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added some portability files for testing with RTS threads.
* Lot of changes for configure.

Sun Dec 29 13:26:52 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Remove Makefile-linux-pl and Makefile-solaris-pl from the binary distribution.
  Now only Makefile.PL is needed.

Sat Dec 28 22:41:09 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Fixed that insert with a timestamp set to NULL works. (This is for a cleaner
  syntax)

Fri Dec 27 01:28:02 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* mysqld now has english & swedish error messages.
* unireg files moved to sql directory changed to c++.

Thu Dec 26 11:57:57 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* mysqld: Added option 'b' for mysql basedir.  All given directories is
  prefixed with this if not given with hard path.
  added option '-L' (language). Default is 'english/'
  Moved all unireg files to sql directory. 

Fri Dec 20 11:05:37 1996  Michael Widenius TcX DataKonsulter AB  <monty@ozelot>

* Changed lex to allow a database name, table name and field name to start with
  number or '_'.

* mysqldump should now be able to dump all field types.
  Changed 'show fields from table' to be fully compatible with create.
* Some bugs when parsing 'create table' fixed. (Blobs and timestamps was effected)
* Fixed one possible dead lock bug when using many tables.
* Changed a lot for configure

Sun Dec 15 02:29:53 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added new functions: INSERT(),RTRIM(),LTRIM(),FORMAT().

* New relase 3.19.5
* Added functions DATABASE(),USER(),POW(),LOG10()  (needed for ODBC).

Sat Dec 14 10:10:42 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* In a WHERE with a ORDER BY on fields from only one table the table is
  now preferred as first table in a multi-join.
* HAVING and IS NULL or IS NOT NULL now works.
* a group on one column and a sort on a group function (SUM,AVG...) didn't
  work together. Fixed.

Fri Dec 13 07:20:47 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* mysqldump: Didn't send password to server.

* New relase 3.19.4
* Fixed horrible locking bug when inserting in one thread and reading
  on another thread.
* Fixed one-off decimal bug.  1.00 was outputed as 1.0
* Added attribute 'Locked' to process list as info if a query is
  locked by another query.
* Fixed full magic timestamp. Timestamp length may now be 14,12,10,8,6,4 or 2.

Thu Dec 12 18:14:57 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* sort on some number functions could be sorted wrong on last number.
* if(arg,syntax_error,syntax_error) crashed.
* added functions ceiling() and round(), exp(), log() and sqrt()
* enchanted BETWEEN to handle strings.

Wed Dec 11 09:09:02 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* MYODBC: Sometimes password test failed because of faulty charactermap in
	  windows.

Mon Dec  9 12:50:56 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* new relase 3.19.3
* Fixed that select with grouping on blob's doesn't return wrong blob info.
  grouping, sorting and distinct on blobs will not yet work as expected
 (Probably it will group/sort by the first 7 characters in the blob)
  Groping on formulas with a fixed string size (use mid on blob) should work.
* When doing a full join (no direct keys) on multiple tables with blob fields,
  the blob was garbage on output.
* Fixed distinct with calculated columns.

Sun Dec  8 19:53:24 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Fixed bug when allocation string for group
* new release 3.19.2
* mysqldump.c: Didn't output ' around blobs.

Sat Dec  7 13:00:43 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added user flag to mysqldump & mysqlshow.
* ODBC: Added full support of SQLGetInfo(). Fixed limit bug (from 1.0.3).
        myodbc-1.0.4 released

Fri Dec  6 01:35:22 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* ODBC: Added more support SetStmtOptions(). Added more debugging code
  myodbc-1.0.3 released
 
Tue Dec  3 22:12:30 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added 'max_connections' and 'table_cache' as start variables to mysqld.
* Changed weights in join optimizer: Now prefers to use keys even more:
  Before the optimizer would prefer to do a full join on small tables
 (< 300 records), even if there was a usable key.

Mon Dec  2 00:17:42 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* new release 3.19.1
* Fixed bug when joining tables without keys and null fields and varchars.
  (mysqld hang)
* Fixed output of 'mysql show'. All fields was 'unsigned zerofill'.

* new release 3.19.0
* Added new column specifier AUTO_INCREMENT.
* Changed format of sql command 'show fields'.
* Changed mysqlshow to use sql command 'show fields' to get more info.
* Added synonym RLIKE for REGEXP to be compatible with mSQL

Sun Dec  1 12:53:05 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* item_func.cc (fix_fields): Fixed new bug when calculation and levels.
  Crashed stack when optimizing where! (fatal bug in 3.18.1)

Fri Nov 29 00:32:09 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Distribution 3.18.1
* Fixed optimizeing bug. 
* New ODBC version with traceing in all functions with isn't supported yet
  for easier debugging. Added NO WARRANTY info.
  Released as 1.0.2

Wed Nov 27 17:18:51 1996  Michael Widenius TcX DataKonsulter AB  <monty@ozelot>

* Added Henry Spencer's regexp in 'field REGEXP string'. Can only be used
  in select_expression or HAVING until I fix the where clause.

Mon Nov 25 20:01:05 1996  Michael Widenius TcX DataKonsulter AB  <monty@ozelot>

* Created files: CREDITS, PUBLIC. Updated FAQ, README, TODO, SQL_SYNTAX...
* Done a lot of testing on HAVING.

Sun Nov 24 00:45:07 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* mysql didn't stop on error in batch mode even if -f wasn't used.
* Fixed DBD Makefile.PL for linux
* Added a function.tst & function.res (test and result file of mysql functions)
* libmysql.c: Added some checking for calls after connection has gone done.
* Implemented HAVING with full expr syntax
* Changed operators '=,

Sat Nov 23 20:52:42 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* SQL_SYNTAX added 'like' as a boolean expression in select.
* mysqladmin.c:  'mysqladmin garbage' didn't give an error.
* sql_insert.cc: If one read a deleted record and did a insert with all fields
  then the new record was marked deleted.
* perl DBI interface ported.

Thu Nov 21 00:58:44 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* mysql only used the TCP connection, no socket was ever created
* There was a bug in when reading from getenv(MYSQL_TCP_PORT)
* Added some more start-logging to check for port & socket.
* If something got wrong at startup some threads was kept alive in Linux
* If argument -h to mysqld is a relative path, change it to './'
* Search after the 'unireg' directory from: current dir,
  mysqld program dir/.. and in env(MY_BASEDIR_VERSION)
* Added longlong support to Linux
* Added copyright notices to all files. Everything should be ready for
  distribution.

Wed Nov 20 19:03:02 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Added function IF.
* Added select without FROM clause (for easy test of functions)

Tue Nov 19 11:48:55 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* mysql.c: Sometimes 'in-string' was not initialized.
* linux distribution

Mon Nov 18 13:47:09 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@bitch.sci.fi>

* Fixed blob:s to work (as varchar) in ODBC (myodbc-1.0.1.zip)
* Added option -O to set buffer sizes to mysqld

Wed Nov 13 15:21:14 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* New sql functions:  REPLACE, LCASE and UCASE
* hacked search on '%xxx' to work.

Tue Nov 12 00:52:35 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* mysql.cc: Fixed problems with strings containing not backslashed ' or ".

Mon Nov 11 14:52:30 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@monty.pp.sci.fi>

* added braces to where clause. Change where to use items.

Wed Nov  6 00:17:37 1996  Michael Widenius  <monty@analytikerna.se>

* added PRIMARY KEY, KEY and UNIQUE to sql create.