this key does not stop" (5.1 version).
UPDATE statement which WHERE clause used key and which invoked trigger
that modified field in this key worked indefinetely.
This problem occured because in cases when UPDATE statement was
executed in update-on-the-fly mode (in which row is updated right
during evaluation of select for WHERE clause) the new version of
the row became visible to select representing WHERE clause and was
updated again and again.
We already solve this problem for UPDATE statements which does not
invoke triggers by detecting the fact that we are going to update
field in key used for scanning and performing update in two steps,
during the first step we gather information about the rows to be
updated and then doing actual updates. We also do this for
MULTI-UPDATE and in its case we even detect situation when such
fields are updated in triggers (actually we simply assume that
we always update fields used in key if we have before update
trigger).
The fix simply extends this check which is done with help of
check_if_key_used()/QUICK_SELECT_I::check_if_keys_used()
routine/method in such way that it also detects cases when
field used in key is updated in trigger. We do this by
changing check_if_key_used() to take field bitmap instead
field list as argument and passing TABLE::write_set
to it (we also have to add info about fields used in
triggers to this bitmap a bit earlier).
As nice side-effect we have more precise and thus more optimal
perfomance-wise check for the MULTI-UPDATE.
Also check_if_key_used() routine and similar method were renamed
to is_key_used()/is_keys_used() in order to better reflect that
it is simple boolean predicate.
Finally, partition_key_modified() routine now also takes field
bitmap instead of field list as argument.
In practice this means that handlerton is now created by the server and is passed to the engine. Plugin startups can now also control how plugins are inited (and can optionally pass values). Bit more flexibility to those who want to write plugin interfaces to the database.
There is an existing macros for initializing LEX_STRINGs
with constant strings -> C_STRING_WITH_LEN. Change existing code to use it.
(char *) STRING_WITH_LEN -> C_STRING_WITH_LEN
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.
New methods to handle VARCHAR strings and CHAR's which are not
using a binary collation.
Indentation fixes
Now strings are run through strnxfrm before they are processed
by the partition function
We do not allow collations where strnxfrm expands the string since
we want the resulting string to fit in the same value range as
the original.
Changed test for functions if they are supported.
3 categories:
1) Fully supported
2) Supported for single character collations
3) Supported for binary collations
The problem appeared because the same values produced different hash
during INSERT and SELECT for VARCHAR data type.
Fix:
VARCHAR required special treatment to avoid hashing of length bytes
(leftmost one or two bytes) as well as trailing bytes beyond real length,
which could contain garbage. Fix is done by introducing hash() - new method
in the Field class.