when index is used
When the table contained TEXT columns with empty contents
('', zero length, but not NULL) _and_ strings starting with
control characters like tabulator or newline, the empty values
were not found in a "records in range" estimate. Hence count(*)
missed these records.
The reason was a different set of search flags used for key
insert and key range estimation.
I decided to fix the set of flags used in range estimation.
Otherwise millions of databases around the world would require
a repair after an upgrade.
The consequence is that the manual must be fixed, which claims
that TEXT columns are compared with "end space padding". This
is true for CHAR/VARCHAR but wrong for TEXT. See also bug 21335.
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.
corrupted table
Accessing a table with corrupted column definition results in server
crash.
This is fixed by refusing to open such tables. Affects MyISAM only.
No test case, since it requires crashed table.
Accessing fixed record format table with crashed key definition results
in server/myisamchk segmentation fault.
This is fixed by refusing to open such tables. Affects MyISAM only.
No test case, since it requires crashed table.
The function mi_get_pointer_length() computed too small
pointer size for very large tables.
Inserted missing 'else' between the branches for very
large tables.
Corrected spelling in copyright text
Makefile.am:
Don't update the files from BitKeeper
Many files:
Removed "MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult AB" from copyright header
Adjusted year(s) in copyright header
Many files:
Added GPL copyright text
Removed files:
Docs/Support/colspec-fix.pl
Docs/Support/docbook-fixup.pl
Docs/Support/docbook-prefix.pl
Docs/Support/docbook-split
Docs/Support/make-docbook
Docs/Support/make-makefile
Docs/Support/test-make-manual
Docs/Support/test-make-manual-de
Docs/Support/xwf
Compiler warnings due to non-matching conversion
specifications in format strings in DBUG_PRINT calls,
due to non-used parameters (in non-debug mode), and
due to seemingly uninitialized variables.
Initialized variables, declared parameters unused, and
casted DBUG_PRINT arguments to get rid of warnings.
spatial index
While executing OPTIMIZE TABLE on MyISAM tables the server re-creates the
index file(s) in order to sort them physically by the key. This cannot be
done for R-tree indexes as it makes no sense.
The server was not checking the type of the index and was accessing an
R-tree index as if it was a B-tree.
Fixed by preventing sorting the index file if it contains an R-tree index.
- Removed not used variables and functions
- Added #ifdef around code that is not used
- Renamed variables and functions to avoid conflicts
- Removed some not used arguments
Fixed some class/struct warnings in ndb
Added define IS_LONGDATA() to simplify code in libmysql.c
I did run gcov on the changes and added 'purecov' comments on almost all lines that was not just variable name changes
This problem could happen when show table status get outdated copy
of TABLE object from table cache.
MyISAM updates state info when external_lock() method is called. Though
I_S does not lock a table to avoid deadlocks. If I_S opens a table which
is in a table cache it will likely get outdated state info copy.
In this case shared state copy is more recent than local copy. This problem
is fixed by correctly restoring myisam state info pointer back to original
value, that is to shared state.
Affects MyISAM only. No good deterministic test case for this fix.
