Allow always DROPping of a table which is only referenced by FOREIGN KEY constraints from the same table
Many files:
Do not let REPLACE to perform internally an UPDATE if the table is referenced by a FOREIGN KEY: the manual says that REPLACE must resolve a duplicate key error semantically with DELETE(s) + INSERT, and not by an UPDATE; the internal update caused foreign key checks and cascaded operations to behave in a semantically wrong way
when we open the HEAP table for the first time since server restart,
in hp_open(), we set a flag to propagate this info to the handler level
which then writes a DELETE FROM this_heap_table to the binlog.
It is not a perfect solution for the bug, because between the server start and
the first open of the table, the slave still had old data in his table so
a SELECT on the slave may show wrong content. But if there is a --init-file
to populate the HEAP table on master as startup, then this is a safe fix
(I'll put a note about init-file in the HEAP section of the manual).
Added support for lower_case_table_names=2, which is to be used on case insensitive file systems.
This tells MySQL to preserve the used case of filenames and database names to make it esier to move files between cases sensitive can case insensitive file systems (like Windows and Linux)
New multi-key-cache handling. This was needed becasue the old one didn't work reliable with MERGE tables.
ALTER TABLE table_name ... CHARACTER SET ... now changes all char/varchar/text columns to the given character set
(One must use ALTER TABLE ... DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ... to change the default character set)
Fixed that have_compress is detected properly (fixes problems with func_compress.test on platforms without zlib)
New syntax for CACHE INDEX ('keys' is optional if no index name is given and one mentions the key cache name only ones)
Removed compiler warnings
Added mysql_set_server_option() to allow clients like PHP to easaily set/reset the multi-statement flag.
my_checksum() mysys function
NISAM checksum code moved from mysys to isam/ - it's obsolete
MyISAM checksum code moved to mysys
table's checksum accessible from sql layer
SHOW TABLE STATUS shows checksum (WL#646)
code cleanup
Merge InnoDB-4.0.14: SAVEPOINT now implemented; InnoDB now accepts also column prefix keys; crashing bug in ON UPDATE CASCADE fixed; page checksum formula fixed
