binlog coordinates corresponding to the dump".
The good news is that now mysqldump can be used to get an online backup of InnoDB *which works for
point-in-time recovery and replication slave creation*. Formerly, mysqldump --master-data --single-transaction
used to call in fact mysqldump --master-data, so the dump was not an online dump (took big lock all time of dump).
The only lock which is now taken in this patch is at the beginning of the dump: mysqldump does:
FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK; START TRANSACTION WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT; SHOW MASTER STATUS; UNLOCK TABLES;
so the lock time is in fact the time FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK takes to return (can be 0 or very long, if
a table is undergoing a huge update).
I have done some more minor changes listed in the paragraph of mysqldump.c.
WL#2237 "WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT clause for START TRANSACTION":
it's a START TRANSACTION which additionally starts a consistent read on all
capable storage engine (i.e. InnoDB). So, can serve as a replacement for
BEGIN; SELECT * FROM some_innodb_table LIMIT 1; which starts a consistent read too.
added new variable for ndb port 1186
changed meaning of ndb_port_base to be default tcp port setting
changed to use split between port and port_base for ndbcluster
so that ndb_port and ndb_port_base are propagated to startscript for ndbcluster
added larger space to pid print
moved readAndExecute out of CommandInterpreter to avoid linking lib with readline
added c-api to Ndb_mgmclient
pass also ndb_port to make
DROP DATABASE failed because of file ext not in TYPELIB of known extensions.
General solution - construct a TYPELIB at runtime instead of a static list.
When we are writing a transaction to the binlog, we log BEGIN/COMMIT with zero error code.
Example: all statements of trans succeeded, connection lost and so implicit rollback:
we don't want ER_NET* errors to be logged in the BEGIN/ROLLBACK events, while statement
events have 0. If there was really a serious error code, it's already in the statement events.
the result takes its charset/collation
attributes from the character string,
e.g. SELECT func(NULL, _latin2'string')
now returns a latin2 result. This is
done by introducing a new derivation
(aka coercibility) level DERIVATION_IGNORABLE,
which is used with Item_null.
2. 'Pure' NULL is now BINARY(0), not CHAR(0).
I.e. NULL is now more typeless.
Revise the --hex-blob help message string. (This will need
revising after merge to 4.1, too, but the CHAR BINARY and
VARCHAR BINARY data types will be BINARY and VARBINRY.)
