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.
Instead of trying to open time zone tables during calculation of CONVERT_TZ() function
or setting of @@time_zone variable we should open and lock them with the rest of
statement's table (so we should add them to global table list) and after that use such
pre-opened tables for loading info about time zones.
more logical table/index_flags
return HA_ERR_WRONG_COMMAND instead of abstract methods where appropriate
max_keys and other limits renamed to max_supported_keys/etc
max_keys/etc are now wrappers to max_supported_keys/etc
ha_index_init/ha_rnd_init/ha_index_end/ha_rnd_end are now wrappers to real {index,rnd}_{init,end} to enforce strict pairing
Added basic per-thread time zone functionality (based on public
domain elsie-code). Now user can select current time zone
(from the list of time zones described in system tables).
All NOW-like functions honor this time zone, values of TIMESTAMP
type are interpreted as values in this time zone, so now
our TIMESTAMP type behaves similar to Oracle's TIMESTAMP WITH
LOCAL TIME ZONE (or proper PostgresSQL type).
WL#1266 "CONVERT_TZ() - basic time with time zone conversion
function".
Fixed problems described in Bug #2336 (Different number of warnings
when inserting bad datetime as string or as number). This required
reworking of datetime realted warning hadling (they now generated
at Field object level not in conversion functions).
Optimization: Now Field class descendants use table->in_use member
instead of current_thd macro.
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.
'SHOW GRANTS' syntax is added
'SHOW GRANTS FOR CURRENT_USER' syntax is added
'SHOW GRANTS FOR CURRENT_USER()' syntax is added
CURRENT_USER without parens in expressions(SELECT CURRENT_USER;)
and for (2) converting the columns:
1. ALTER TABLE t1 [DEFAULT] CHARACTER SET xxx [COLLATE yyy]
2. ALTER TABLE t1 CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET xxx [COLLATE yyy]
CREATE TABLE t1(a NVARCHAR(10))
This is for compatibility with MSSQL, DB2, Informix and some other DBMSs.
Note, standard SQL doesn't have "NVARCHAR" syntax.
There are only these syntaxes in SQL2003:
NATIONAL VARCHAR
NCHAR VARCHAR
NATIONAL CHARACTER VARYING
NCHAR VARYING
- Tests were added for all the above syntaxes.
Added proper options to CHANGE MASTER TO, new fields to SHOW SLAVE STATUS,
Honoring this parameters during connection to master.
Introduced new format of master.info file
