Changed my_error() to print error messages, which come from
arbitrary registered ranges of error messages. Messages can
be unregistered (and should be at end of the program).
Added registration of handler error messages.
Added a new mi_print_error() macro and a new
mi_report_error() function, which supply error
messages with a table name.
Added calls to mi_print_error() or mi_report_error()
at all places in MyISAM, where table corruption is detected.
Changed the semantics of open_count so that it is decremented
at every unlock (if it was incremented due to data changes).
So it indicates a crash, if it is non-zero after a lock.
The table will then be repaired.
Fixed bugs in group_concat with ORDER BY and DISTINCT (Bugs #2695, #3381 and #3319)
Fixed crash when doing rollback in slave and the io thread catched up with the sql thread
Set locked_in_memory properly
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.
Monty revoked any locks for temporary tables in
ha_myisam::external_lock()
But further code bans using write cache on nonlocked tables
this makes operations much slower
Fixes for embedded server
Made key_cache more configurable
Fixed that one can change key blocksize in MyISAM
A lot of optimizations to make MyISAM slightly faster
