by binlogging some SET ONE_SHOT CHARACTER_SETetc,
which will be enough until we have it more compact and more complete in 5.0. With the present patch,
replication will work ok between 4.1.3 master and slaves, as long as:
- master and slave have the same GLOBAL.COLLATION_SERVER
- COLLATION_DATABASE and CHARACTER_SET_DATABASE are not used
- application does not use the fact that table is created with charset of the USEd db (BUG#2326).
all of which are not too hard to fulfill.
ONE_SHOT is reserved for internal use of mysqlbinlog|mysql and works only for charsets,
so we give error if used for non-charset vars.
Fix for BUG#3875 "mysqlbinlog produces wrong ouput if query uses
variables containing quotes" and BUG#3943 "Queries with non-ASCII literals are not replicated
properly after SET NAMES".
Detecting that master and slave have different global charsets or server ids.
(WL#794). This can be of interest in some recovery-from-backup scenarios, and also when you have
two databases in one mysqld, having a certain similarity and you want one db to be updated when the other is
(some sort of trigger).
Plus small fix for BUG#3568 "MySQL server crashes when built --with-debug and CHANGE MASTER +MASTER_POS_WAIT"
