Refactoring code to add parameter to pack() and unpack() functions with
purpose of indicating if data should be packed in little-endian or
native order. Using new functions to always pack data for binary log
in little-endian order. The purpose of this refactoring is to allow
proper implementation of endian-agnostic pack() and unpack() functions.
Eliminating several versions of virtual pack() and unpack() functions
in favor for one single virtual function which is overridden in
subclasses.
Implementing pack() and unpack() functions for some field types that
packed data in native format regardless of the value of the
st_table_share::db_low_byte_first flag.
The field types that were packed in native format regardless are:
Field_real, Field_decimal, Field_tiny, Field_short, Field_medium,
Field_long, Field_longlong, and Field_blob.
Before the patch, row-based logging wrote the rows incorrectly on
big-endian machines where the storage engine defined its own
low_byte_first() to be FALSE on big-endian machines (the default
is TRUE), while little-endian machines wrote the fields in correct
order. The only known storage engine that does this is NDB. In effect,
this means that row-based replication from or to a big-endian
machine where the table was using NDB as storage engine failed if the
other engine was either non-NDB or on a little-endian machine.
With this patch, row-based logging is now always done in little-endian
order, while ORDER BY uses the native order if the storage engine
defines low_byte_first() to return FALSE for big-endian machines.
In addition, the max_data_length() function available in Field_blob
was generalized to the entire Field hierarchy to give the maximum
number of bytes that Field::pack() will write.
Problem: rpl_stm_mystery22 is unstable.
Reason: At one place, the test case *should* wait until the SQL thread on the
slave receives an error, but instead it waits until the SQL thread stops. The
SQL thread may stop before the error flag is set, so that when the test case
continues to execute, the error flag is not set.
Fix: Introduce the subroutine mysql-test/include/wait_for_slave_sql_error.inc,
which waits until there is an error in the sql thread of the slave.
Re-commit: fixed one logical error and two smaller things noted by Mats.
Report claims that Seconds_behind_master behaves unexpectedly.
Code analysis shows that there is an evident flaw in that treating of FormatDescription event is wrong
so that after FLUSH LOGS on slave the Seconds_behind_master's calculation slips and incorrect
value can be reported to SHOW SLAVE STATUS.
Even worse is that the gap between the correct and incorrect deltas grows with time.
Fixed with prohibiting changes to rpl->last_master_timestamp by artifical events (any kind of).
suggestion as comments is added how to fight with lack of info on the slave side by means of
new heartbeat feature coming.
The test can not be done ealily fully determistic.
of statement breaks binlog.
There were two problems discovered by this bug:
1. Default (current) database is not fixed at the creation time.
That leads to wrong output of DATABASE() function.
2. Database attributes (@@collation_database) are not fixed at
the creation time. That leads to wrong resultset.
Binlog breakage and Query Cache wrong output happened because of
the first problem.
The fix is to remember the current database at the PREPARE-time and
set it each time at EXECUTE.
