- Detect if a table has field of type MYSQL_TYPE_VAR_STRING while running
"CHECK TABLE t FOR UPGRADE" and indicate it need to be fixed
with "REPAIR TABLE t".
- When running a "REPAIR TABLE t" or "ALTER TABLE t FORCE" on the above
table, install a special copy function to trim off the trailing spaces
which we safely can say that the pre 5.0 mysqld didn't put there.
The problem was that any VIEW columns had always implicit derivation.
Fix: derivation is now copied from the original expression
given in VIEW definition.
For example:
- a VIEW column which comes from a string constant
in CREATE VIEW definition have now coercible derivation.
- a VIEW column having COLLATE clause
in CREATE VIEW definition have now explicit derivation.
on large length
Problem: Most (all) of the numeric inputs were being coerced into
int (32 bit) sized variables. Works OK for sane inputs; any input
larger than 2^32 (or 2^31 for signed vars) exihibited predictable
wrapping behavior (up to about 10^18) and then started having really
strange behaviour past that point (since the conversion to 64 bit int
from the DECIMAL type can do weird things on out of range numbers).
Solution: 1) Add many tests. 2) Convert input from (u)long type to
(u)longlong. 3) Do (sometimes multiple) sanity checks on input,
keeping in mind that sometimes a negative longlong is not a negative
longlong (if the unsigned_flag is set). 4) Emulate existing behavior
w/rt negative and "small" out-of-bounds values.
- When returning metadata for scalar subqueries the actual type of the
column was calculated based on the value type, which limits the actual
type of a scalar subselect to the set of (currently) 3 basic types :
integer, double precision or string. This is the reason that columns
of types other then the basic ones (e.g. date/time) are reported as
being of the corresponding basic type.
Fixed by storing/returning information for the column type in addition
to the result type.
Problem: GROUP_CONCAT on a multi-byte column can truncate
in the middle of a multibyte character when applying
group_concat_max_len limit. It produces an invalid
multi-byte character in the result string.
The second, easier version - reusing old "warning_for_row" flag,
instead of introducing of "result_is_full" - which was
added in the previous commit.
The Item_func_mod objects never had maybe_null set, so users had no reason
to expect that they can be NULL, and may therefore deduce wrong results.
Now, set maybe_null.
The parser is allocating Item_field for references by name in ORDER BY
expressions. Such expressions however may point not only to Item_field
in the select list (or to a table column) but also to an arbitrary Item.
This causes Item_field::fix_fields to throw an error about missing
column.
The fix substitutes Item_field for the reference with an Item_ref when
not pointing to Item_field.
When we write 'query=...' string to a frm file for views on a slave,
indentifiers are not properly quoted due to missing OPTION_QUOTE_SHOW_CREATE
flag in the thd->options.
Fix: properly set thd->options for the slave thread.
