differences in tables
Certain merge tables were wrongly reported as having incorrect definition:
- Some fields that are 1 byte long (e.g. TINYINT, CHAR(1)), might
be internally casted (in certain cases) to a different type on a
storage engine layer. (affects 4.1 and up)
- If tables in a merge (and a MERGE table itself) had short VARCHAR column (less
than 4 bytes) and at least one (but not all) tables were ALTER'ed (even to an
identical table: ALTER TABLE xxx ENGINE=yyy), table definitions went ouf of
sync. (affects 4.1 only)
This is fixed by relaxing a check for underlying conformance and setting
field type to FIELD_TYPE_STRING in case varchar is shorter than 4
when a table is created.
incorrect key file for table
In certain cases it could happen that deleting a row could
corrupt an RTREE index.
According to Guttman's algorithm, page underflow is handled
by storing the page in a list for later re-insertion. The
keys from the stored pages have to be inserted into the
remaining pages of the same level of the tree. Hence the
level number is stored in the re-insertion list together
with the page.
In the MySQL RTree implementation the level counts from zero
at the root page, increasing numbers for levels down the tree.
If during re-insertion of the keys the tree height grows, all
level numbers become invalid. The remaining keys will be
inserted at the wrong level.
The fix is to increment the level numbers stored in the
reinsert list after a split of the root block during reinsertion.
Using INSERT DELAYED on MERGE tables could lead to table
corruptions.
The manual lists a couple of storage engines, which can be
used with INSERT DELAYED. MERGE is not in this list.
The attempt to try it anyway has not been rejected yet.
This bug was not detected earlier as it can work under
special circumstances. Most notable is low concurrency.
To be safe, this patch rejects any attempt to use INSERT
DELAYED on MERGE tables.
When the ORDER BY clause gets fixed it's allowed to search in the current
item_list in order to find aliased fields and expressions. This is ok for a
SELECT but wrong for an UPDATE statement. If the ORDER BY clause will
contain a non-existing field which is mentioned in the UPDATE set list
then the server will crash due to using of non-existing (0x0) field.
When an Item_field is getting fixed it's allowed to search item list for
aliased expressions and fields only for selects.
Having maybe_null flag unset for geometry/spatial functions leads to
wrong Item_func_isnull::val_int()'s results.
Fix: set maybe_null flag and add is_null() methods.
- Starting time of a query sent by file bootstrapping wasn't initialized
and starting time defaulted to 0. This later used value by the Now-
item and is translated to 1970-01-01 11:00:00.
- marking the time with thd->set_time() before the call to
mysql_parse resolves this issue.
ENUMs weren't allowed to have character 0xff, a perfectly good character in some locales.
This was circumvented by mapping 0xff in ENUMs to ',', thereby prevent actual commas from
being used. Now if 0xff makes an appearance, we find a character not used in the enum and
use that as a separator. If no such character exists, we throw an error.
Any solution would have broken some sort of existing behaviour. This solution should
serve both fractions (those with 0xff and those with ',' in their enums), but
WILL REQUIRE A DUMP/RESTORE CYCLE FROM THOSE WITH 0xff IN THEIR ENUMS. :-/
That is, mysqldump with their current server, and restore when upgrading to one with
this patch.
"update existingtable set anycolumn=nonexisting order by nonexisting" would crash
the server.
Though we would find the reference to a field, that doesn't mean we can then use
it to set some values. It could be a reference to another field. If it is NULL,
don't try to use it to set values in the Item_field and instead return an error.
Over the previous patch, this signals an error at the location of the error, rather
than letting the subsequent deref signal it.
When a merge table is opened compare column and key definition of
underlying tables against column and key definition of merge table.
If any of underlying tables have different column/key definition
refuse to open merge table.
Depending on the queries we use different data processing methods
and can lose some data in case of double (and decimal in 4.1) fields.
The fix consists of two parts:
1. double comparison changed, now double a is equal to double b
if (a-b) is less than 5*0.1^(1 + max(a->decimals, b->decimals)).
For example, if a->decimals==1, b->decimals==2, a==b if (a-b)<0.005
2. if we use a temporary table, store double values there as is
to avoid any data conversion (rounding).
The bug report has demonstrated the following two problems.
1. If an ORDER/GROUP BY list includes a constant expression being
optimized away and, at the same time, containing single-row
subselects that return more that one row, no error is reported.
Strictly speaking the standard allows to ignore error in this case.
Yet, now a corresponding fatal error is reported in this case.
2. If a query requires sorting by expressions containing single-row
subselects that, however, return more than one row, then the execution
of the query may cause a server crash.
To fix this some code has been added that blocks execution of a subselect
item in case of a fatal error in the method Item_subselect::exec.
WL#3681 (ALTER TABLE ORDER BY)
Before this fix, the ALTER TABLE statement implemented an ORDER BY option
with the following characteristics :
1) The order by clause accepts a list of criteria, with optional ASC or
DESC keywords
2) Each criteria can be a general expression, involving operators,
native functions, stored functions, user defined functions, subselects ...
With this fix :
1) has been left unchanged, since it's a de-facto existing feature,
that was already present in the code base and partially covered in the test
suite. Code coverage for ASC and DESC was missing and has been improved.
2) has been changed to limit the kind of criteria that are permissible:
now only a column name is valid.
