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That happens because ALTER TABLE writes outdated shared state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.
table
ROW_FORMAT option is lost during CREATE/DROP INDEX.
This fix forces CREATE/DROP INDEX to retain ROW_FORMAT by instructing
mysql_alter_table() that ROW_FORMAT is not used during creating/dropping
indexes.
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.
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.
(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.
Continued implementation of WL#1324 (table name to filename encoding)
The intermediate (not temporary) files of the new table
during ALTER TABLE was visible for SHOW TABLES. These
intermediate files are copies of the original table with
the changes done by ALTER TABLE. After all the data is
copied over from the original table, these files are renamed
to the original tables file names. So they are not temporary
files. They persist after ALTER TABLE, but just with another
name.
In 5.0 the intermediate files are invisible for SHOW TABLES
because all file names beginning with "#sql" were suppressed.
This failed since 5.1.6 because even temporary table names were
converted when making file names from them. The prefix became
converted to "@0023sql". Converting the prefix during SHOW TABLES
would suppress the listing of user tables that start with "#sql".
The solution of the problem is to continue the implementation of
the table name to file name conversion feature. One requirement
is to suppress the conversion for temporary table names.
This change is straightforward for real temporary tables as there
is a function that creates temporary file names.
But the generated path names are located in TMPDIR and have no
relation to the internal table name. This cannot be used for
ALTER TABLE. Its intermediate files need to be in the same
directory as the old table files. And it is necessary to be
able to deduce the same path from the same table name repeatedly.
Consequently the intermediate table files must be handled like normal
tables. Their internal names shall start with tmp_file_prefix
(#sql) and they shall not be converted like normal table names.
I added a flags parameter to all relevant functions that are
called from ALTER TABLE. It is used to suppress the conversion
for the intermediate table files.
The outcome is that the suppression of #sql in SHOW TABLES
works again. It does not suppress user tables as these are
converted to @0023sql on file level.
This patch does also fix ALTER TABLE ... RENAME, which could not
rename a table with non-ASCII characters in its name.
It does also fix the problem that a user could create a table like
`#sql-xxxx-yyyy`, where xxxx is mysqld's pid and yyyy is the thread
ID of some other thread, which prevented this thread from running
ALTER TABLE.
Some of the above problems are mentioned in Bug 1405, which can
be closed with this patch.
This patch does also contain some minor fixes for other forgotten
conversions. Still known problems are reported as bugs 21370,
21373, and 21387.
The problem is that in a MyISAM table the following column
after a varchar field gets corrupted, if varchar field is
extended.
This should be made to work without a copy in the future, but
I'm not sure if this code is ready yet. This fix will force copy
in this case. It will not do any harm to have it here, only makes
alter table a bit slower in this case. If this should work for
MyISAM, then the bug is somewhere else in that code.
Until it works, I propose this as a temporary fix or a workaround.
Test case for the bug has been added.
