Essentially, the problem is that safemalloc is excruciatingly
slow as it checks all allocated blocks for overrun at each
memory management primitive, yielding a almost exponential
slowdown for the memory management functions (malloc, realloc,
free). The overrun check basically consists of verifying some
bytes of a block for certain magic keys, which catches some
simple forms of overrun. Another minor problem is violation
of aliasing rules and that its own internal list of blocks
is prone to corruption.
Another issue with safemalloc is rather the maintenance cost
as the tool has a significant impact on the server code.
Given the magnitude of memory debuggers available nowadays,
especially those that are provided with the platform malloc
implementation, maintenance of a in-house and largely obsolete
memory debugger becomes a burden that is not worth the effort
due to its slowness and lack of support for detecting more
common forms of heap corruption.
Since there are third-party tools that can provide the same
functionality at a lower or comparable performance cost, the
solution is to simply remove safemalloc. Third-party tools
can provide the same functionality at a lower or comparable
performance cost.
The removal of safemalloc also allows a simplification of the
malloc wrappers, removing quite a bit of kludge: redefinition
of my_malloc, my_free and the removal of the unused second
argument of my_free. Since free() always check whether the
supplied pointer is null, redudant checks are also removed.
Also, this patch adds unit testing for my_malloc and moves
my_realloc implementation into the same file as the other
memory allocation primitives.
Apart strict-aliasing warnings, fix the remaining warnings
generated by GCC 4.4.4 -Wall and -Wextra flags.
One major source of warnings was the in-house function my_bcmp
which (unconventionally) took pointers to unsigned characters
as the byte sequences to be compared. Since my_bcmp and bcmp
are deprecated functions whose only difference with memcmp is
the return value, every use of the function is replaced with
memcmp as the special return value wasn't actually being used
by any caller.
There were also various other warnings, mostly due to type
mismatches, missing return values, missing prototypes, dead
code (unreachable) and ignored return values.
POSIX requires that a signal handler defined with sigaction()
is not reset on delivering a signal unless SA_NODEFER or
SA_RESETHAND is set. It is therefore unnecessary to redefine
the handler on signal delivery on platforms where sigaction()
is used without those flags.
automatic reconnect
A client with automatic reconnect enabled will see the error
message "Lost connection to MySQL server during query" if the
connection is lost between mysql_stmt_prepare() and
mysql_stmt_execute(). The mysql_stmt_errno() number, however,
is 0 -- not the corresponding value 2013.
This patch checks for the case where the prepared statement
has been pruned due to a connection loss (i.e., stmt->mysql
has been set to NULL) during a call to cli_advanced_command(),
and avoids changing the last_errno to the result of the last
reconnect attempt.
(make relies GNU extentions). The patch was partially
backport from 6.0.
Original comment:
bug#30708: make relies GNU extensions. Now that we no longer use
BitKeeper we can safely remove the SCCS handling with no loss of
functionality.
- Update/fix file layouts for each package type, add new types for
native package formats including deb, rpm and svr4.
- Build all plugins, including debug versions
- Update compiler flags to match current release
- Add missing @VAR@ expansions
- Install correct mysqclient library symlinks
- Fix icc/ia64 builds
- Fix install of libmysqld-debug
- Don't include mysql_embedded
- Remove unpackaged manual pages to avoid missing files warnings
- Don't install mtr's test suite
This patch:
- Moves all definitions from the mysql_priv.h file into
header files for the component where the variable is
defined
- Creates header files if the component lacks one
- Eliminates all include directives from mysql_priv.h
- Eliminates all circular include cycles
- Rename time.cc to sql_time.cc
- Rename mysql_priv.h to sql_priv.h
Conflicts:
Text conflict in client/mysqlbinlog.cc
Text conflict in mysql-test/Makefile.am
Text conflict in mysql-test/collections/default.daily
Text conflict in mysql-test/r/mysqlbinlog_row_innodb.result
Text conflict in mysql-test/suite/rpl/r/rpl_typeconv_innodb.result
Text conflict in mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/rpl_get_master_version_and_clock.test
Text conflict in mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/rpl_row_create_table.test
Text conflict in mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/rpl_slave_skip.test
Text conflict in mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/rpl_typeconv_innodb.test
Text conflict in mysys/charset.c
Text conflict in sql/field.cc
Text conflict in sql/field.h
Text conflict in sql/item.h
Text conflict in sql/item_func.cc
Text conflict in sql/log.cc
Text conflict in sql/log_event.cc
Text conflict in sql/log_event_old.cc
Text conflict in sql/mysqld.cc
Text conflict in sql/rpl_utility.cc
Text conflict in sql/rpl_utility.h
Text conflict in sql/set_var.cc
Text conflict in sql/share/Makefile.am
Text conflict in sql/sql_delete.cc
Text conflict in sql/sql_plugin.cc
Text conflict in sql/sql_select.cc
Text conflict in sql/sql_table.cc
Text conflict in storage/example/ha_example.h
Text conflict in storage/federated/ha_federated.cc
Text conflict in storage/myisammrg/ha_myisammrg.cc
Text conflict in storage/myisammrg/myrg_open.c
Corrected some packaging bugs:
- install mysqlservices library
- install libmysqlclient_r.so.{16,16.0.0} as links
to libmysqlclient.so
- install libmysqld-debug.a
- install my_safe_process, my_safe_kill and
symlinks to mysql-test-run.pl (mtr, mysql-test-run)
into correct place ${INSTALL_MYSQLTESTDIR}
Conflicts:
Text conflict in .bzr-mysql/default.conf
Text conflict in mysql-test/r/explain.result
Text conflict in mysql-test/r/having.result
Text conflict in mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/disabled.def
Text conflict in mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/rpl_slave_skip.test
Text conflict in storage/federated/ha_federated.cc
A client doing multiple mysql_library_init() and
mysql_library_end() calls over the lifetime of the process may
experience lost character set data, potentially even a
SIGSEGV.
This patch reinstates the reloading of character set data when
a mysql_library_init() is done after a mysql_library_end().
using cmake option INSTALL_LAYOUT=STANDALONE would produce the layout as in
tar.gz or zip packages.
INSTALL_LAYOUT=UNIX will produce unixish install layout (with mysqld being in sbin subdirectory , libs in lib/mysql etc). This layout is used for RPM packages.
Subtle differences in both packages unfortunately lead to the need to recompile MySQL to use with other package type - as otherwise for example default plugins or data directories would be wrong set.
There are numerous other variables that allow fine-tuning packaging layout. (INSTALL_BINDIR, INSTALL_LIBDIR , INSTALL_PLUGINDIR etc).
This options are different from autotools as they do not expect full paths to directories, but only subdirectory of CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.
There are 2 special options that expect full directory paths
- MYSQL_DATADIR that defines default MYSQL data directory (autotools equivalent
is --localstatedir)
- SYSCONFDIR can be added to search my.cnf search path (autotools equivalent is --sysconfdir)
