Problem: data consistency check (maximum record length) for a correct
MyISAM table with CHECKSUM=1 and ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC option
may fail due to wrong inner MyISAM parameter. In result we may
have the table marked as 'corrupted'.
Fix: properly set MyISAM maximum record length parameter.
By default MyISAM overwrites .MYD and .MYI files no
DATA DIRECTORY option is used. This can lead to two tables
using the same .MYD and .MYI files (that can't be dropped).
To prevent CREATE TABLE from overwriting a file a new option
is introduced : keep_files_on_create
When this is on the CREATE TABLE throws an error if either
the .MYD or .MYI exists for a MyISAM table.
The option is off by default (resulting in compatible behavior).
differences in tables
Certain merge tables were wrongly reported as having incorrect definition:
- Some fields that are 1 byte long (e.g. TINYINT, CHAR(1)), might
be internally casted (in certain cases) to a different type on a
storage engine layer. (affects 4.1 and up)
- If tables in a merge (and a MERGE table itself) had short VARCHAR column (less
than 4 bytes) and at least one (but not all) tables were ALTER'ed (even to an
identical table: ALTER TABLE xxx ENGINE=yyy), table definitions went ouf of
sync. (affects 4.1 only)
This is fixed by relaxing a check for underlying conformance and setting
field type to FIELD_TYPE_STRING in case varchar is shorter than 4
when a table is created.
The function mi_get_pointer_length() computed too small
pointer size for very large tables.
Inserted missing 'else' between the branches for very
large tables.
Corrected spelling in copyright text
Makefile.am:
Don't update the files from BitKeeper
Many files:
Removed "MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult AB" from copyright header
Adjusted year(s) in copyright header
Many files:
Added GPL copyright text
Removed files:
Docs/Support/colspec-fix.pl
Docs/Support/docbook-fixup.pl
Docs/Support/docbook-prefix.pl
Docs/Support/docbook-split
Docs/Support/make-docbook
Docs/Support/make-makefile
Docs/Support/test-make-manual
Docs/Support/test-make-manual-de
Docs/Support/xwf
Fixed compiler warnings (detected by VC++):
- Removed not used variables
- Added casts
- Fixed wrong assignments to bool
- Fixed wrong calls with bool arguments
- Added missing argument to store(longlong), which caused wrong store method to be called.
"temporary table with data directory option fails"
myisam should not use user-specified table name when creating
temporary tables and use generated connection specific real name.
Test included.
Very complex select statements can create temporary tables
that are too big to be represented as a MyISAM table.
This was not checked at table creation time, but only at
open time. The result was an attempt to delete the
"impossible" table.
But if the server is built --with-raid, MyISAM tries to
open the table before deleting the files. It needs to find
out if the table uses the raid support and how many raid
chunks there are. This is done with an open "for repair",
which will almost always succeed.
But in this case we have an "impossible" table. The open
failed. Hence the files were not deleted. Also the error
message was a bit unspecific.
I turned an open error in this situation into the assumption
of having no raid support on the table. Thus the normal data
file is tried to be deleted. This may however leave existing
raid chunks behind.
I also added a check in mi_create() to prevent the creation
of an "impossible" table. A more decriptive error message is
given in this case.
No test case. The required select statement is way too
large for the test suite. I added a test script to the
bug report.
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
Add support for VARCHAR with 1 or 2 length bytes
Enable VARCHAR packing in MyISAM files (previous patch didn't pack data properly)
Give error if we got problems in temporary tables during a SELECT
Don't use new table generated by ALTER TABLE if index generation fails
Fixed wrong call by range_end() (Could cause an ASSERT in debug mode)
Renamed HA_VAR_LENGTH to HA_VAR_LENGTH_PART
Renamed in all files FIELD_TYPE_STRING and FIELD_TYPE_VAR_STRING to MYSQL_TYPE_STRING and MYSQL_TYPE_VAR_STRING to make it easy to catch all possible errors
Added support for VARCHAR KEYS to heap
Removed support for ISAM
Now only long VARCHAR columns are changed to TEXT on demand (not CHAR)
Internal temporary files can now use fixed length tables if the used VARCHAR columns are short
