When using concurrent insert with parallel index reads, it could
happen that reading sessions found keys that pointed to records
yet to be written to the data file. The result was a report of
a corrupted table. But it was false alert.
When inserting a record in a table with indexes, the keys are
inserted into the indexes before the record is written to the data
file. When the insert happens concurrently to selects, an
index read can find a key that references the record that is not
yet written to the data file. To avoid any access to such record,
the select saves the current end of file position when it starts.
Since concurrent inserts are always appended at end of the data
file, the select can easily ignore any concurrently inserted record.
The problem was that the ignore was only done for non-exact key
searches (partial key or using >, >=, < or <=).
The fix is to ignore concurrently inserted records also for
exact key searches.
No test case. Concurrent inserts cannot be tested with the test
suite. Test cases are attached to the bug report.
MERGE engine may return incorrect values when several representations
of equal keys are present in the index. For example "groß" and "gross"
or "gross" and "gross " (trailing space), which are considered equal,
but have different lengths.
The problem was that key length was not recalculated after key lookup.
Only MERGE engine is affected.
Corrected spelling in copyright text
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It was possible that fetching a record by an exact key value
(including the record pointer) could return a record with a
different key value. This happened only if a concurrent insert
added a record with the searched key value after the fetching
statement locked the table for read.
The search succeded on the key value, but the record was
rejected as it was past the file length that was remembered
at start of the fetching statement. With other words it was
rejected as being a concurrently inserted record.
The action to recover from this problem was to fetch the
record that is pointed at by the next key of the index.
This was repeated until a record below the file length was
found.
I do now avoid this loop if an exact match was searched.
If this match is beyond the file length, it is now treated
as "key not found". There cannot be another key with the
same record pointer.
The problem was an ab-use of last_rkey_length.
Formerly we saved the packed key length (of the search key)
in this element. But in certain cases it got replaced by
the (packed) result key length.
Now we use a new element of MI_INFO to save the packed key
length of the search key.
Changed my_error() to print error messages, which come from
arbitrary registered ranges of error messages. Messages can
be unregistered (and should be at end of the program).
Added registration of handler error messages.
Added a new mi_print_error() macro and a new
mi_report_error() function, which supply error
messages with a table name.
Added calls to mi_print_error() or mi_report_error()
at all places in MyISAM, where table corruption is detected.
Use 0x.... as strings if 'new' mode. (bug 152)
Don't report -max on windows when InnoDB is enabled. (bug 332)
Reset current_linfo; This could cause a hang when doing PURGE LOGS.
Fix for row numbers in EXPLAIN (bug 322)
Fix that USE_FRM works for all table types (bug 97)
Fixes for embedded server
Made key_cache more configurable
Fixed that one can change key blocksize in MyISAM
A lot of optimizations to make MyISAM slightly faster
Fixed bug in SELECT db1.table.* FROM db1.table,db2.table
Fixed bug in INSERT DELAYED when doing shutdown and a table was locked
Changed that tmp_table_size =4G-1 means unlimited.
