with other alterations causes lost tables
Using RENAME clause combined with other clauses of ALTER TABLE led to
data loss (the data was there but not accessible). This could happen if the
changes do not change the table much. Adding and droppping of fields and
indices was safe. Renaming a column with MODIFY or CHANGE was unsafe operation,
if the actual column didn't change (changing from int to int, which is a noop)
Depending on the storage engine (SE) the behavior is different:
1)MyISAM/MEMORY - the ALTER TABLE statement completes
without any error but next SELECT against the new table fails.
2)InnoDB (and every other transactional table) - The ALTER TABLE statement
fails. There are the the following files in the db dir -
`new_table_name.frm` and a temporary table's frm. If the SE is file
based, then the data and index files will be present but with the old
names. What happens is that for InnoDB the table is not renamed in the
internal DDIC.
Fixed by adding additional call to mysql_rename_table() method, which should
not include FRM file rename, because it has been already done during file
names juggling.
- Removed not used variables
- Changed some ulong parameters/variables to ulonglong (possible serious bug)
- Added casts to get rid of safe assignment from longlong to long (and similar)
- Added casts to function parameters
- Fixed signed/unsigned compares
- Added some constructores to structures
- Removed some not portable constructs
Better fix for bug Bug #21428 "skipped 9 bytes from file: socket (3)" on "mysqladmin shutdown"
(Added new parameter to net_clear() to define when we want the communication buffer to be emptied)
ALTER TABLE DISABLE KEYS doesn't work when modifying the table
ENABLE|DISABLE KEYS combined with another ALTER TABLE option, different
than RENAME TO did nothing. Also, if the table had disabled keys
and was ALTER-ed then the end table was with enabled keys.
Fixed by checking whether the table had disabled keys and enabling them
in the copied table.
Added missing DBUG_RETURN statements (in mysqldump.c)
Added missing enums
Fixed a lot of wrong DBUG_PRINT() statements, some of which could cause crashes
Removed usage of %lld and %p in printf strings as these are not portable or produces different results on different systems.
(this is the 5.0 patch, because 4.1 differs)
There was an improper order of doing chained operations.
To the documentor: ENABLE|DISABLE KEYS combined with RENAME TO, and no other
ALTER TABLE clause, leads to server crash independent of the presence of
indices and data in the table.
There was an improper order of doing chained operations.
To the documentor: ENABLE|DISABLE KEYS combined with RENAME TO, and no other
ALTER TABLE clause, leads to server crash independent of the presence of
indices and data in the table.
This is a performance issue for queries with subqueries evaluation
of which requires filesort.
Allocation of memory for the sort buffer at each evaluation of a
subquery may take a significant amount of time if the buffer is rather big.
With the fix we allocate the buffer at the first evaluation of the
subquery and reuse it at each subsequent evaluation.
list using a function
When executing dependent subqueries they are re-inited and re-exec() for
each row of the outer context.
The cause for the bug is that during subquery reinitialization/re-execution,
the optimizer reallocates JOIN::join_tab, JOIN::table in make_simple_join()
and the local variable in 'sortorder' in create_sort_index(), which is
allocated by make_unireg_sortorder().
Care must be taken not to allocate anything into the thread's memory pool
while re-initializing query plan structures between subquery re-executions.
All such items mush be cached and reused because the thread's memory pool
is freed at the end of the whole query.
Note that they must be cached and reused even for queries that are not
otherwise cacheable because otherwise it will grow the thread's memory
pool every time a cacheable query is re-executed.
We provide additional members to the JOIN structure to store references
to the items that need to be cached.
The mysql_alter_table() was able to rename only a table.
The view/table renaming code is moved from the function rename_tables
to the new function called do_rename().
The mysql_alter_table() function calls it when it needs to rename a view.
Bug #21785 "Server crashes after rename of the log table" and
Bug #21966 "Strange warnings on create like/repair of the log
tables"
According to the patch, from now on, one should use RENAME to
perform a log table rotation (this should also be reflected in
the manual).
Here is a sample:
use mysql;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS general_log2 LIKE general_log;
RENAME TABLE general_log TO general_log_backup, general_log2 TO general_log;
The rules for Rename of the log tables are following:
IF 1. Log tables are enabled
AND 2. Rename operates on the log table and nothing is being
renamed to the log table.
DO 3. Throw an error message.
ELSE 4. Perform rename.
The very RENAME query will go the the old (backup) table. This is
consistent with the behavoiur we have with binlog ROTATE LOGS
statement.
Other problems, which are solved by the patch are:
1) Now REPAIR of the log table is exclusive operation (as it should be), this
also eliminates lock-related warnings. and
2) CREATE LIKE TABLE now usese usual read lock on the source table rather
then name lock, which is too restrictive. This way we get rid of another
log table-related warning, which occured because of the above fact
(as a side-effect, name lock resulted in a warning).
(race cond)
It was possible for one thread to interrupt a Data Definition Language
statement and thereby get messages to the binlog out of order. Consider:
Connection 1: Drop Foo x
Connection 2: Create or replace Foo x
Connection 2: Log "Create or replace Foo x"
Connection 1: Log "Drop Foo x"
Local end would have Foo x, but the replicated slaves would not.
The fix for this is to wrap all DDL and logging of a kind in the same mutex.
Since we already use mutexes for the various parts of altering the server,
this only entails moving the logging events down close to the action, inside
the mutex protection.
