test_if_data_home_dir fixed to look into real path.
Checks added to mi_open for symlinks into data home directory.
per-file messages:
include/my_sys.h
Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
my_is_symlink interface added
include/myisam.h
Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
myisam_test_invalid_symlink interface added
myisam/mi_check.c
Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
mi_open_datafile calls modified
myisam/mi_open.c
Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
code added to mi_open to check for symlinks into data home directory.
mi_open_datafile now accepts 'original' file path to check if it's
an allowed symlink.
myisam/mi_static.c
Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
myisam_test_invlaid_symlink defined
myisam/myisamchk.c
Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
mi_open_datafile call modified
myisam/myisamdef.h
Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
mi_open_datafile interface modified - 'real_path' parameter added
mysql-test/r/symlink.test
Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
error codes corrected as some patch now rejected pointing inside datahome
mysql-test/r/symlink.result
Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
error messages corrected in the result
mysys/my_symlink.c
Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
my_is_symlink() implementsd
my_realpath() now returns the 'realpath' even if a file isn't a symlink
sql/mysql_priv.h
Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
test_if_data_home_dir interface
sql/mysqld.cc
Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
myisam_test_invalid_symlik set with the 'test_if_data_home_dir'
sql/sql_parse.cc
Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
error messages corrected
test_if_data_home_dir code fixed
- Reserver namespace and place in frm for TABLE_CHECKSUM and PAGE_CHECKSUM create options
- Added syncing of directory when creating .frm files
- Portability fixes
- Added missing cast that could cause bugs
- Code cleanups
- Made some bit functions inline
- Moved things out of myisam.h to my_handler.h to make them more accessable
- Renamed some myisam variables and defines to make them more globaly usable (as they are used outside of MyISAM)
- Fixed bugs in error conditions
- Use compiler time asserts instead of run time
- Fixed indentation
HA_EXTRA_PREPARE_FOR_DELETE -> HA_EXTRA_PREPARE_FOR_DROP as the old name was wrong
(Added a define for old value to ensure we don't break any old code)
Added HA_EXTRA_PREPARE_FOR_RENAME as a signal for rename (before we used a DROP signal which is wrong)
- Initialize error messages early to get better errors when mysqld or an engine fails to start
- Fix windows bug that query_performance_frequency was not initialized if registry code failed
- thread_stack -> my_thread_stack_size
Faster thr_alarm()
Added 'Opened_files' status variable to track calls to my_open()
Don't give warnings when running mysql_install_db
Added option --source-install to mysql_install_db
I had to do the following renames() as used polymorphism didn't work with Forte compiler on 64 bit systems
index_read() -> index_read_map()
index_read_idx() -> index_read_idx_map()
index_read_last() -> index_read_last_map()
The following type conversions was done:
- Changed byte to uchar
- Changed gptr to uchar*
- Change my_string to char *
- Change my_size_t to size_t
- Change size_s to size_t
Removed declaration of byte, gptr, my_string, my_size_t and size_s.
Following function parameter changes was done:
- All string functions in mysys/strings was changed to use size_t
instead of uint for string lengths.
- All read()/write() functions changed to use size_t (including vio).
- All protocoll functions changed to use size_t instead of uint
- Functions that used a pointer to a string length was changed to use size_t*
- Changed malloc(), free() and related functions from using gptr to use void *
as this requires fewer casts in the code and is more in line with how the
standard functions work.
- Added extra length argument to dirname_part() to return the length of the
created string.
- Changed (at least) following functions to take uchar* as argument:
- db_dump()
- my_net_write()
- net_write_command()
- net_store_data()
- DBUG_DUMP()
- decimal2bin() & bin2decimal()
- Changed my_compress() and my_uncompress() to use size_t. Changed one
argument to my_uncompress() from a pointer to a value as we only return
one value (makes function easier to use).
- Changed type of 'pack_data' argument to packfrm() to avoid casts.
- Changed in readfrm() and writefrom(), ha_discover and handler::discover()
the type for argument 'frmdata' to uchar** to avoid casts.
- Changed most Field functions to use uchar* instead of char* (reduced a lot of
casts).
- Changed field->val_xxx(xxx, new_ptr) to take const pointers.
Other changes:
- Removed a lot of not needed casts
- Added a few new cast required by other changes
- Added some cast to my_multi_malloc() arguments for safety (as string lengths
needs to be uint, not size_t).
- Fixed all calls to hash-get-key functions to use size_t*. (Needed to be done
explicitely as this conflict was often hided by casting the function to
hash_get_key).
- Changed some buffers to memory regions to uchar* to avoid casts.
- Changed some string lengths from uint to size_t.
- Changed field->ptr to be uchar* instead of char*. This allowed us to
get rid of a lot of casts.
- Some changes from true -> TRUE, false -> FALSE, unsigned char -> uchar
- Include zlib.h in some files as we needed declaration of crc32()
- Changed MY_FILE_ERROR to be (size_t) -1.
- Changed many variables to hold the result of my_read() / my_write() to be
size_t. This was needed to properly detect errors (which are
returned as (size_t) -1).
- Removed some very old VMS code
- Changed packfrm()/unpackfrm() to not be depending on uint size
(portability fix)
- Removed windows specific code to restore cursor position as this
causes slowdown on windows and we should not mix read() and pread()
calls anyway as this is not thread safe. Updated function comment to
reflect this. Changed function that depended on original behavior of
my_pwrite() to itself restore the cursor position (one such case).
- Added some missing checking of return value of malloc().
- Changed definition of MOD_PAD_CHAR_TO_FULL_LENGTH to avoid 'long' overflow.
- Changed type of table_def::m_size from my_size_t to ulong to reflect that
m_size is the number of elements in the array, not a string/memory
length.
- Moved THD::max_row_length() to table.cc (as it's not depending on THD).
Inlined max_row_length_blob() into this function.
- More function comments
- Fixed some compiler warnings when compiled without partitions.
- Removed setting of LEX_STRING() arguments in declaration (portability fix).
- Some trivial indentation/variable name changes.
- Some trivial code simplifications:
- Replaced some calls to alloc_root + memcpy to use
strmake_root()/strdup_root().
- Changed some calls from memdup() to strmake() (Safety fix)
- Simpler loops in client-simple.c
index_read(), index_read_idx(), index_read_last(), and
records_in_range() - instead of 'uint keylen' argument take
'ulonglong keypart_map', a bitmap showing which keyparts are
present in the key value.
Fallback method is provided for handlers that are lagging behind.
OPTIMIZE TABLE with myisam_repair_threads > 1 performs a non-quick
parallel repair. This means that it does not only rebuild all
indexes, but also the data file.
Non-quick parallel repair works so that there is one thread per
index. The first of the threads rebuilds also the new data file.
The problem was that all threads shared the read io cache on the
old data file. If there were holes (deleted records) in the table,
the first thread skipped them, writing only contiguous, non-deleted
records to the new data file. Then it built the new index so that
its entries pointed to the correct record positions. But the other
threads didn't know the new record positions, but put the positions
from the old data file into the index.
The new design is so that there is a shared io cache which is filled
by the first thread (the data file writer) with the new contiguous
records and read by the other threads. Now they know the new record
positions.
Another problem was that for the parallel repair of compressed
tables a common bit_buff and rec_buff was used. I changed it so
that thread specific buffers are used for parallel repair.
A similar problem existed for checksum calculation. I made this
multi-thread safe too.
Changes that requires code changes in other code of other storage engines.
(Note that all changes are very straightforward and one should find all issues
by compiling a --debug build and fixing all compiler errors and all
asserts in field.cc while running the test suite),
- New optional handler function introduced: reset()
This is called after every DML statement to make it easy for a handler to
statement specific cleanups.
(The only case it's not called is if force the file to be closed)
- handler::extra(HA_EXTRA_RESET) is removed. Code that was there before
should be moved to handler::reset()
- table->read_set contains a bitmap over all columns that are needed
in the query. read_row() and similar functions only needs to read these
columns
- table->write_set contains a bitmap over all columns that will be updated
in the query. write_row() and update_row() only needs to update these
columns.
The above bitmaps should now be up to date in all context
(including ALTER TABLE, filesort()).
The handler is informed of any changes to the bitmap after
fix_fields() by calling the virtual function
handler::column_bitmaps_signal(). If the handler does caching of
these bitmaps (instead of using table->read_set, table->write_set),
it should redo the caching in this code. as the signal() may be sent
several times, it's probably best to set a variable in the signal
and redo the caching on read_row() / write_row() if the variable was
set.
- Removed the read_set and write_set bitmap objects from the handler class
- Removed all column bit handling functions from the handler class.
(Now one instead uses the normal bitmap functions in my_bitmap.c instead
of handler dedicated bitmap functions)
- field->query_id is removed. One should instead instead check
table->read_set and table->write_set if a field is used in the query.
- handler::extra(HA_EXTRA_RETRIVE_ALL_COLS) and
handler::extra(HA_EXTRA_RETRIEVE_PRIMARY_KEY) are removed. One should now
instead use table->read_set to check for which columns to retrieve.
- If a handler needs to call Field->val() or Field->store() on columns
that are not used in the query, one should install a temporary
all-columns-used map while doing so. For this, we provide the following
functions:
my_bitmap_map *old_map= dbug_tmp_use_all_columns(table, table->read_set);
field->val();
dbug_tmp_restore_column_map(table->read_set, old_map);
and similar for the write map:
my_bitmap_map *old_map= dbug_tmp_use_all_columns(table, table->write_set);
field->val();
dbug_tmp_restore_column_map(table->write_set, old_map);
If this is not done, you will sooner or later hit a DBUG_ASSERT
in the field store() / val() functions.
(For not DBUG binaries, the dbug_tmp_restore_column_map() and
dbug_tmp_restore_column_map() are inline dummy functions and should
be optimized away be the compiler).
- If one needs to temporary set the column map for all binaries (and not
just to avoid the DBUG_ASSERT() in the Field::store() / Field::val()
methods) one should use the functions tmp_use_all_columns() and
tmp_restore_column_map() instead of the above dbug_ variants.
- All 'status' fields in the handler base class (like records,
data_file_length etc) are now stored in a 'stats' struct. This makes
it easier to know what status variables are provided by the base
handler. This requires some trivial variable names in the extra()
function.
- New virtual function handler::records(). This is called to optimize
COUNT(*) if (handler::table_flags() & HA_HAS_RECORDS()) is true.
(stats.records is not supposed to be an exact value. It's only has to
be 'reasonable enough' for the optimizer to be able to choose a good
optimization path).
- Non virtual handler::init() function added for caching of virtual
constants from engine.
- Removed has_transactions() virtual method. Now one should instead return
HA_NO_TRANSACTIONS in table_flags() if the table handler DOES NOT support
transactions.
- The 'xxxx_create_handler()' function now has a MEM_ROOT_root argument
that is to be used with 'new handler_name()' to allocate the handler
in the right area. The xxxx_create_handler() function is also
responsible for any initialization of the object before returning.
For example, one should change:
static handler *myisam_create_handler(TABLE_SHARE *table)
{
return new ha_myisam(table);
}
->
static handler *myisam_create_handler(TABLE_SHARE *table, MEM_ROOT *mem_root)
{
return new (mem_root) ha_myisam(table);
}
- New optional virtual function: use_hidden_primary_key().
This is called in case of an update/delete when
(table_flags() and HA_PRIMARY_KEY_REQUIRED_FOR_DELETE) is defined
but we don't have a primary key. This allows the handler to take precisions
in remembering any hidden primary key to able to update/delete any
found row. The default handler marks all columns to be read.
- handler::table_flags() now returns a ulonglong (to allow for more flags).
- New/changed table_flags()
- HA_HAS_RECORDS Set if ::records() is supported
- HA_NO_TRANSACTIONS Set if engine doesn't support transactions
- HA_PRIMARY_KEY_REQUIRED_FOR_DELETE
Set if we should mark all primary key columns for
read when reading rows as part of a DELETE
statement. If there is no primary key,
all columns are marked for read.
- HA_PARTIAL_COLUMN_READ Set if engine will not read all columns in some
cases (based on table->read_set)
- HA_PRIMARY_KEY_ALLOW_RANDOM_ACCESS
Renamed to HA_PRIMARY_KEY_REQUIRED_FOR_POSITION.
- HA_DUPP_POS Renamed to HA_DUPLICATE_POS
- HA_REQUIRES_KEY_COLUMNS_FOR_DELETE
Set this if we should mark ALL key columns for
read when when reading rows as part of a DELETE
statement. In case of an update we will mark
all keys for read for which key part changed
value.
- HA_STATS_RECORDS_IS_EXACT
Set this if stats.records is exact.
(This saves us some extra records() calls
when optimizing COUNT(*))
- Removed table_flags()
- HA_NOT_EXACT_COUNT Now one should instead use HA_HAS_RECORDS if
handler::records() gives an exact count() and
HA_STATS_RECORDS_IS_EXACT if stats.records is exact.
- HA_READ_RND_SAME Removed (no one supported this one)
- Removed not needed functions ha_retrieve_all_cols() and ha_retrieve_all_pk()
- Renamed handler::dupp_pos to handler::dup_pos
- Removed not used variable handler::sortkey
Upper level handler changes:
- ha_reset() now does some overall checks and calls ::reset()
- ha_table_flags() added. This is a cached version of table_flags(). The
cache is updated on engine creation time and updated on open.
MySQL level changes (not obvious from the above):
- DBUG_ASSERT() added to check that column usage matches what is set
in the column usage bit maps. (This found a LOT of bugs in current
column marking code).
- In 5.1 before, all used columns was marked in read_set and only updated
columns was marked in write_set. Now we only mark columns for which we
need a value in read_set.
- Column bitmaps are created in open_binary_frm() and open_table_from_share().
(Before this was in table.cc)
- handler::table_flags() calls are replaced with handler::ha_table_flags()
- For calling field->val() you must have the corresponding bit set in
table->read_set. For calling field->store() you must have the
corresponding bit set in table->write_set. (There are asserts in
all store()/val() functions to catch wrong usage)
- thd->set_query_id is renamed to thd->mark_used_columns and instead
of setting this to an integer value, this has now the values:
MARK_COLUMNS_NONE, MARK_COLUMNS_READ, MARK_COLUMNS_WRITE
Changed also all variables named 'set_query_id' to mark_used_columns.
- In filesort() we now inform the handler of exactly which columns are needed
doing the sort and choosing the rows.
- The TABLE_SHARE object has a 'all_set' column bitmap one can use
when one needs a column bitmap with all columns set.
(This is used for table->use_all_columns() and other places)
- The TABLE object has 3 column bitmaps:
- def_read_set Default bitmap for columns to be read
- def_write_set Default bitmap for columns to be written
- tmp_set Can be used as a temporary bitmap when needed.
The table object has also two pointer to bitmaps read_set and write_set
that the handler should use to find out which columns are used in which way.
- count() optimization now calls handler::records() instead of using
handler->stats.records (if (table_flags() & HA_HAS_RECORDS) is true).
- Added extra argument to Item::walk() to indicate if we should also
traverse sub queries.
- Added TABLE parameter to cp_buffer_from_ref()
- Don't close tables created with CREATE ... SELECT but keep them in
the table cache. (Faster usage of newly created tables).
New interfaces:
- table->clear_column_bitmaps() to initialize the bitmaps for tables
at start of new statements.
- table->column_bitmaps_set() to set up new column bitmaps and signal
the handler about this.
- table->column_bitmaps_set_no_signal() for some few cases where we need
to setup new column bitmaps but don't signal the handler (as the handler
has already been signaled about these before). Used for the momement
only in opt_range.cc when doing ROR scans.
- table->use_all_columns() to install a bitmap where all columns are marked
as use in the read and the write set.
- table->default_column_bitmaps() to install the normal read and write
column bitmaps, but not signaling the handler about this.
This is mainly used when creating TABLE instances.
- table->mark_columns_needed_for_delete(),
table->mark_columns_needed_for_delete() and
table->mark_columns_needed_for_insert() to allow us to put additional
columns in column usage maps if handler so requires.
(The handler indicates what it neads in handler->table_flags())
- table->prepare_for_position() to allow us to tell handler that it
needs to read primary key parts to be able to store them in
future table->position() calls.
(This replaces the table->file->ha_retrieve_all_pk function)
- table->mark_auto_increment_column() to tell handler are going to update
columns part of any auto_increment key.
- table->mark_columns_used_by_index() to mark all columns that is part of
an index. It will also send extra(HA_EXTRA_KEYREAD) to handler to allow
it to quickly know that it only needs to read colums that are part
of the key. (The handler can also use the column map for detecting this,
but simpler/faster handler can just monitor the extra() call).
- table->mark_columns_used_by_index_no_reset() to in addition to other columns,
also mark all columns that is used by the given key.
- table->restore_column_maps_after_mark_index() to restore to default
column maps after a call to table->mark_columns_used_by_index().
- New item function register_field_in_read_map(), for marking used columns
in table->read_map. Used by filesort() to mark all used columns
- Maintain in TABLE->merge_keys set of all keys that are used in query.
(Simplices some optimization loops)
- Maintain Field->part_of_key_not_clustered which is like Field->part_of_key
but the field in the clustered key is not assumed to be part of all index.
(used in opt_range.cc for faster loops)
- dbug_tmp_use_all_columns(), dbug_tmp_restore_column_map()
tmp_use_all_columns() and tmp_restore_column_map() functions to temporally
mark all columns as usable. The 'dbug_' version is primarily intended
inside a handler when it wants to just call Field:store() & Field::val()
functions, but don't need the column maps set for any other usage.
(ie:: bitmap_is_set() is never called)
- We can't use compare_records() to skip updates for handlers that returns
a partial column set and the read_set doesn't cover all columns in the
write set. The reason for this is that if we have a column marked only for
write we can't in the MySQL level know if the value changed or not.
The reason this worked before was that MySQL marked all to be written
columns as also to be read. The new 'optimal' bitmaps exposed this 'hidden
bug'.
- open_table_from_share() does not anymore setup temporary MEM_ROOT
object as a thread specific variable for the handler. Instead we
send the to-be-used MEMROOT to get_new_handler().
(Simpler, faster code)
Bugs fixed:
- Column marking was not done correctly in a lot of cases.
(ALTER TABLE, when using triggers, auto_increment fields etc)
(Could potentially result in wrong values inserted in table handlers
relying on that the old column maps or field->set_query_id was correct)
Especially when it comes to triggers, there may be cases where the
old code would cause lost/wrong values for NDB and/or InnoDB tables.
- Split thd->options flag OPTION_STATUS_NO_TRANS_UPDATE to two flags:
OPTION_STATUS_NO_TRANS_UPDATE and OPTION_KEEP_LOG.
This allowed me to remove some wrong warnings about:
"Some non-transactional changed tables couldn't be rolled back"
- Fixed handling of INSERT .. SELECT and CREATE ... SELECT that wrongly reset
(thd->options & OPTION_STATUS_NO_TRANS_UPDATE) which caused us to loose
some warnings about
"Some non-transactional changed tables couldn't be rolled back")
- Fixed use of uninitialized memory in ha_ndbcluster.cc::delete_table()
which could cause delete_table to report random failures.
- Fixed core dumps for some tests when running with --debug
- Added missing FN_LIBCHAR in mysql_rm_tmp_tables()
(This has probably caused us to not properly remove temporary files after
crash)
- slow_logs was not properly initialized, which could maybe cause
extra/lost entries in slow log.
- If we get an duplicate row on insert, change column map to read and
write all columns while retrying the operation. This is required by
the definition of REPLACE and also ensures that fields that are only
part of UPDATE are properly handled. This fixed a bug in NDB and
REPLACE where REPLACE wrongly copied some column values from the replaced
row.
- For table handler that doesn't support NULL in keys, we would give an error
when creating a primary key with NULL fields, even after the fields has been
automaticly converted to NOT NULL.
- Creating a primary key on a SPATIAL key, would fail if field was not
declared as NOT NULL.
Cleanups:
- Removed not used condition argument to setup_tables
- Removed not needed item function reset_query_id_processor().
- Field->add_index is removed. Now this is instead maintained in
(field->flags & FIELD_IN_ADD_INDEX)
- Field->fieldnr is removed (use field->field_index instead)
- New argument to filesort() to indicate that it should return a set of
row pointers (not used columns). This allowed me to remove some references
to sql_command in filesort and should also enable us to return column
results in some cases where we couldn't before.
- Changed column bitmap handling in opt_range.cc to be aligned with TABLE
bitmap, which allowed me to use bitmap functions instead of looping over
all fields to create some needed bitmaps. (Faster and smaller code)
- Broke up found too long lines
- Moved some variable declaration at start of function for better code
readability.
- Removed some not used arguments from functions.
(setup_fields(), mysql_prepare_insert_check_table())
- setup_fields() now takes an enum instead of an int for marking columns
usage.
- For internal temporary tables, use handler::write_row(),
handler::delete_row() and handler::update_row() instead of
handler::ha_xxxx() for faster execution.
- Changed some constants to enum's and define's.
- Using separate column read and write sets allows for easier checking
of timestamp field was set by statement.
- Remove calls to free_io_cache() as this is now done automaticly in ha_reset()
- Don't build table->normalized_path as this is now identical to table->path
(after bar's fixes to convert filenames)
- Fixed some missed DBUG_PRINT(.."%lx") to use "0x%lx" to make it easier to
do comparision with the 'convert-dbug-for-diff' tool.
Things left to do in 5.1:
- We wrongly log failed CREATE TABLE ... SELECT in some cases when using
row based logging (as shown by testcase binlog_row_mix_innodb_myisam.result)
Mats has promised to look into this.
- Test that my fix for CREATE TABLE ... SELECT is indeed correct.
(I added several test cases for this, but in this case it's better that
someone else also tests this throughly).
Lars has promosed to do this.
Added support for key_block_size to MyISAM.
Simplify interface to 'new Key' to make it easier to add new key options.
mysqld option --new is used to define where key options are printed.
(In 5.3 we should move all key options to after key part definition to avoid problem with reserved names)
Fixed some compiler warnings and a memory leak in ssl
Allow for configuration of the maximum number of indexes per table.
Added and used a configure.in macro.
Replaced fixed limits by the configurable limit.
Limited MyISAM indexes to its hard limit.
Fixed a bug in opt_range.cc for many indexes with InnoDB.
Tested for 2, 63, 64, 65, 127, 128, 129, 255, 256, and 257 indexes.
Testing this part of the bugfix requires rebuilding of the server
with different options. This cannot be done with our test suite.
Therefore I added the necessary test files to the bug report.
If you repeat the tests, please note that the ps_* tests fail for
everything but 64 indexes. This is because of differences in the
meta data, namely field lengths for index names etc.
This patch allows to configure MyISAM for 128 indexes per table.
The main problem is the key_map, wich is implemented as an ulonglong.
To get rid of the limit and keep the efficient and flexible
implementation, the highest bit is now used for all upper keys.
This means that the lower keys can be disabled and enabled
individually as usual and the high keys can only be disabled and
enabled as a block. That way the existing test suite is still
applicable, while more keys work, though slightly less efficient.
To really get more than 64 keys, some defines need to be changed.
Another patch will address this.
myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size is depricated
Ensure that myisam_data_pointer_size is honoured when creating new MyISAM files
Changed default value of myisam_data_pointer_size from 4 to 6 to get rid of 'table-is-full' errors
Split TABLE to TABLE and TABLE_SHARE (TABLE_SHARE is still allocated as part of table, will be fixed soon)
Created Field::make_field() and made Field_num::make_field() to call this
Added 'TABLE_SHARE->db' that points to database name; Changed all usage of table_cache_key as database name to use this instead
Changed field->table_name to point to pointer to alias. This allows us to change alias for a table by just updating one pointer.
Renamed TABLE_SHARE->real_name to table_name
Renamed TABLE->table_name to alias
Renamed TABLE_LIST->real_name to table_name
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
New records_in_range() interface (similar to read_range())
Macros for faster bitmap handling
Simplify read_range() code (#WL1786)
New general key_cmp() function to compare keys
Added support for lower_case_table_names=2, which is to be used on case insensitive file systems.
This tells MySQL to preserve the used case of filenames and database names to make it esier to move files between cases sensitive can case insensitive file systems (like Windows and Linux)
Added option --max-record-length=# to myisamchk
Don't try repair twice if doing myisamchk --repair --force
Shared memory handler didn't clean up things on errors or shutdown
New multi-key-cache handling. This was needed becasue the old one didn't work reliable with MERGE tables.
ALTER TABLE table_name ... CHARACTER SET ... now changes all char/varchar/text columns to the given character set
(One must use ALTER TABLE ... DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ... to change the default character set)
Fixed that have_compress is detected properly (fixes problems with func_compress.test on platforms without zlib)
New syntax for CACHE INDEX ('keys' is optional if no index name is given and one mentions the key cache name only ones)
Removed compiler warnings
Added mysql_set_server_option() to allow clients like PHP to easaily set/reset the multi-statement flag.
my_checksum() mysys function
NISAM checksum code moved from mysys to isam/ - it's obsolete
MyISAM checksum code moved to mysys
table's checksum accessible from sql layer
SHOW TABLE STATUS shows checksum (WL#646)
code cleanup
