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PROBLEM
In 5.5 when doing doing a rename of a column ,we ignore the case between
old and new column names while comparing them,so if the change is just
the case then we don't even mark the field FIELD_IS_RENAMED ,we just update
the frm file ,but don't recreate the table as is the norm when alter is
used.This leads to inconsistency in the innodb data dictionary which causes
index creation to fail.
FIX
According to the documentation any innodb column rename should trigger
rebuild of the table. Therefore for innodb tables we will do a strcmp()
between the column names and if there is case change in column name
we will trigger a rebuild.
TABLES IN INCORRECT ENGINE
PROBLEM:
CREATE/ALTER TABLE currently can move system tables like
mysql.db, user, host etc, to engines other than MyISAM. This is not
completely supported as of now, by mysqld. When some of system tables
like plugin, servers, event, func, *_priv, time_zone* are moved
to innodb, mysqld restart crashes. Currently system tables
can be moved to BLACKHOLE also!!!.
ANALYSIS:
The problem is that there is no check before creating or moving
a system table to some particular engine.
System tables are suppose to be residing in MyISAM. We can think
of restricting system tables to exist only in MyISAM. But, there could
be future needs of these system tables to be part of other engines
by design. For eg, NDB cluster expects some tables to be on innodb
or ndb engine. This calls for a solution, by which system
tables can be supported by any desired engine, with minimal effort.
FIX:
The solution provides a handlerton interface using which,
mysqld server can query particular storage engine handlerton for
system tables that it supports. This way each storage engine
layer can define their own system database and system tables.
The check_engine() function uses the new handlerton function
ha_check_if_supported_system_table() to check if db.tablename
provided in the DDL is supported by the SE.
Note: This fix has modified a test in help.test, which was moving
mysql.help_* to innodb. The primary intention of the test was not
to move them between engines.
TO POSITION FIRST CAN CAUSE DATA TO BE CORRUPTED".
ALTER TABLE MODIFY/CHANGE ... FIRST did nothing except renaming
columns if new version of the table had exactly the same
structure as the old one (i.e. as result of such statement, names
of columns changed their order as specified but data in columns
didn't). The same thing happened for ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN/ADD
COLUMN statements which were supposed to produce new version of
table with exactly the same structure as the old version of table.
I.e. in the latter case the result was the same as if old column
was renamed instead of being dropped and new column with default
as value being created.
Both these problems were caused by the fact that ALTER TABLE
implementation incorrectly interpreted both these situations as
simple renaming of columns and assumed that in-place ALTER TABLE
algorithm could have been used for them.
This patch fixes this problem by ensuring that in cases when some
column is moved to the first position or some column is dropped
the default ALTER TABLE algorithm involving table copying is
always used. This is achieved by detecting such situations in
mysql_prepare_alter_table() and setting Alter_info::change_level
to ALTER_TABLE_DATA_CHANGED for them.
CLAUSE FAILS OR ABORTS SERVER".
Attempt to re-execute prepared ALTER TABLE statement which
involves .FRM-only changes and also have RENAME clause led
to unwarranted 'Table doesn't exist' error in production
builds and assertion failure for debug builds.
This problem stemmed from the fact that for such ALTER TABLE
mysql_alter_table() code changed table list element for table
to be altered when it tried to re-open table under new name.
Since this change was not reverted back before next
re-execution, it made this statement re-execution unsafe.
This fix addresses this problem by avoiding changing table list
element from the main table list in such a situation. Instead
temporary TABLE_LIST object is used.
The problem was that doing ALTER TABLE on a table which had a key
on a TEXT/BLOB column with a prefix longer than the maximum number
of characteres in this column (as per the character set), by mistake,
caused an error (Error 1170 - ER_BLOB_KEY_WITHOUT_LENGTH).
This bug not repeatable in 5.5.
This patch adds a regression test to alter_table.test and
contains no code changes.
table copy".
This patch only adds test case as the bug itself was addressed
by Ramil's fix for bug 50946 "fast index creation still seems
to copy the table".
The task is to
(a) add a comment on indexes and
(b) increase the maximum length of column, table and the new index comments.
The patch committed on behalf of Yoshinori Matsunobu (Yoshinori.Matsunobu@Sun.COM).
corruption and crash results
An index creation statement where the index key
is larger/wider than the column it references
should throw an error.
A statement like:
CREATE TABLE t1 (a CHAR(1), PRIMARY KEY (A(255)))
did not error, but a segmentation fault followed when
an insertion was attempted on the table
The partial key validiation clause has been
restructured to (hopefully) better document which
uses of partial keys are valid.
freezes (win) the server
The check for equality was assuming the field object is always
created. If it's not it was de-referencing a NULL pointer.
Fixed to use the data in the create object instead.
An ALTER TABLE statement which added a column and added
a non-partial index on it failed with:
"ERROR 1089 (HY000): Incorrect sub part key; the used
key part isn't a string, the used length is longer than
the key part, or the storage engine doesn't support unique
sub keys"
In a check introduced to fix an earlier bug (no. 26794),
to allow for indices on spatial type columns, the
test expression was flawed (a logical OR was used instead
of a logical AND), which led to this regression.
The code in question does a sanity check on the key, and
the flawed code mistakenly classified any index created
in the way specified above as a partial index. Since
many data types does not allow partial indices, the
statement would fail.
We set up DATE and TIMESTAMP differently in field-creation than we
did in field-MD creation (for CREATE). Admirably, ALTER TABLE
detected this and didn't damage any data, but it did initiate a
full copy/conversion, which we don't really need to do.
Now we describe Field and Create_field the same for those types.
As a result, ALTER TABLE that only changes meta-data (like a
field's name) no longer forces a data-copy when there needn't
be one.
The problem was that appending values to the end of an existing
ENUM or SET column was being treated as table data modification,
preventing a immediately (fast) table alteration that occurs when
only table metadata is being modified.
The cause was twofold: adding a enumeration or set members to the
end of the list of valid member values was not being considered
a "compatible" table alteration, and for SET columns, the check
was being done upon the max display length and not the underlying
(pack) length of the field.
The solution is to augment the function that checks wether two ENUM
or SET fields are compatible -- by comparing the pack lengths and
performing a limited comparison of the member values.
Problem: mysqld doesn't detect that enum data must be reinserted performing
'ALTER TABLE' in some cases.
Fix: reinsert data altering an enum field if enum values are changed.
The problem was that PACK_KEYS and MAX_ROWS clause in ALTER TABLE did not trigger
table reconstruction.
The fix is to rebuild a table if PACK_KEYS or MAX_ROWS are specified.
The problem was that when comparing tables for a possible
fast alter table, the comparison was being performed using
the parsed information and not the final definition.
The solution is to use the possible final table layout to
compare if a fast alter is possible or not.
added get_field_default_value() function which obtains default value from the field
(used in store_create_info() & get_schema_column_record() functions)
INSERT/DELETE/UPDATE followed by ALTER TABLE within LOCK TABLES
may cause table corruption on Windows.
That happens because ALTER TABLE writes outdated shared state
info into index file.
Fixed by removing obsolete workaround.
Affects MyISAM tables on Windows only.
To avoid unnecessary work the mysql_alter_table function takes the
list of table fields and applies all changes to it (drops/moves/renames/etc).
Then this function compares the new list and the old one. If the changes
require only .frm to be modified then the actual data isn't copied. To detect
changes all columns attributes but names are compared. When a column has been
moved and has replaced another column with the same attributes except name
the mysql_alter_table function wrongly decides that two fields has been just
renamed. As a result the data from the moved column and from all columns
after it is not copied.
Now the mysql_alter_table function forces table data copying by setting
the need_copy_table flag when it finds a moved column. The flag is set at
the stage when the modified fields are created.
mode.
When a new DATE/DATETIME field without default value is being added by the
ALTER TABLE the '0000-00-00' value is used as the default one. But it wasn't
checked whether such value was allowed by the set sql mode. Due to this
'0000-00-00' values was allowed for DATE/DATETIME fields even in the
NO_ZERO_DATE mode.
Now the mysql_alter_table() function checks whether the '0000-00-00' value
is allowed for DATE/DATETIME fields by the set sql mode.
The new error_if_not_empty flag is used in the mysql_alter_table() function
to indicate that it should abort if the table being altered isn't empty.
The new new_datetime_field field is used in the mysql_alter_table() function
for error throwing purposes.
The new error_if_not_empty parameter is added to the copy_data_between_tables()
function to indicate the it should return error if the source table isn't empty.
and invalidation in the most general case (non-temporary table and
not simple RENAME or ENABLE/DISABLE KEYS or partitioning command).
See comment for sql/sql_table.cc for more information.
These changes are prerequisite for 5.1 version of fix for bug #23667
"CREATE TABLE LIKE is not isolated from alteration by other connections"
It was syntactically correct to define
spatial keys over parts of columns (e.g.
ALTER TABLE t1 ADD x GEOMETRY NOT NULL,
ADD SPATIAL KEY (x(32))).
This may lead to undefined results and/or
interpretation.
Fixed by not allowing partial column
specification in a SPATIAL index definition.
Different set of conditions is used to verify
the validity of index definitions over a GEOMETRY
column in ALTER TABLE and CREATE TABLE.
The difference was on how sub-keys notion validity
is checked.
Fixed by extending the CREATE TABLE condition to
support the cases allowed in ALTER TABLE.
Made the SHOW CREATE TABLE not to display spatial
indexes using the sub-key notion.
Different set of conditions is used to verify
the validity of index definitions over a GEOMETRY
column in ALTER TABLE and CREATE TABLE.
The difference was on how sub-keys notion validity
is checked.
Fixed by extending the CREATE TABLE condition to
support the cases allowed in ALTER TABLE.
Made the SHOW CREATE TABLE not to display spatial
indexes using the sub-key notion.
