Renamed HA_VAR_LENGTH to HA_VAR_LENGTH_PART
Renamed in all files FIELD_TYPE_STRING and FIELD_TYPE_VAR_STRING to MYSQL_TYPE_STRING and MYSQL_TYPE_VAR_STRING to make it easy to catch all possible errors
Added support for VARCHAR KEYS to heap
Removed support for ISAM
Now only long VARCHAR columns are changed to TEXT on demand (not CHAR)
Internal temporary files can now use fixed length tables if the used VARCHAR columns are short
the result takes its charset/collation
attributes from the character string,
e.g. SELECT func(NULL, _latin2'string')
now returns a latin2 result. This is
done by introducing a new derivation
(aka coercibility) level DERIVATION_IGNORABLE,
which is used with Item_null.
2. 'Pure' NULL is now BINARY(0), not CHAR(0).
I.e. NULL is now more typeless.
character set with NULL, @a should be latin2
after this query sequence:
SET @a=_latin2'string';
SET @a=NULL;
I.e. the second query should not change the charset
to the current default value, but should keep the
original value assigned during the first query.
In order to do it, we don't copy charset
from the argument if the argument is NULL
and the variable has previously been initialized.
FOUND is not a reserved keyword anymore
Added Item_field::set_no_const_sub() to be able to mark fields that can't be substituted
Added 'simple_select' method to be able to quickly determinate if a select_result is a normal SELECT
Note that the 5.0 tree is not yet up to date: Sanja will have to fix multi-update-locks for this merge to be complete
if possible"
- many new test cases
- more and improved comments
New files: t/ps_7ndb.test test suite for NDB tables
r/ps_7ndb.result expected results
include/ps_conv.inc conversion test cases
+ review comments and fixes.
They are separated from the other WL#1856 stuff, because they improve the behaviour of the current tests.
Make the result sets (order of rows) more predictable by using ORDER BY.
TIMESTAMP columns should be unsigned to preserve compatibility with 4.0
(Or else InnoDB will return different internal TIMESTAMP values when user upgrades to 4.1).
Altough this fix will introduce problems with early 4.1 -> 4.1 upgrades (tables with
TIMESTAMP field should be reloaded using mysqldump) it will allow easy 4.0 -> 4.1
upgrade (which is more important since 4.1 is still beta).
new tests to ensure that prepared statement *really* work
(and that MySQL not picks up some number from arbitrary location
that happens to match the parameter's value)
Note: The following tests fails
- fulltext (Sergei has promised to fix)
- rpl_charset (Guilhem should fix)
- rpl_timezone (Dimitray has promised to fix)
Sanja needs to check out the calling of close_thread_tables() in sp_head.cc
