Simple optimzations and cleanups
Removed compiler warnings and fixed portability issues
Added client functions 'mysql_embedded()' to allow client to check if we are using embedded server
Fixes for purify
produce hex digits in lower case). (fixed version)
Replaced _dig_vec array with two _dig_vec_upper/_dig_vec_lower arrays.
Added extra argument to int2str function which controls case of digits you get.
Replaced lot of invocations of int2str for decimal radix with more optimized int10_to_str()
function.
Removed unused my_itoa/my_ltoa functions.
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.
Added MYSQL_TYPE_NULL as a dummy bind case for fetch buffers
Fix for offset based re-fetch using mysql_fetch_column
Misc cleanups for ODBC compatibility
Warning handling and initial prepared statement handling (last not complete yet)
Changed a lot of functions that returned 0/1 to my_bool type.
GRANT handling now uses read/write locks instead of mutex
Change basic net functions to use THD instead of NET
(needed for 4.1 protocol)
Use my_sprintf instead of sprintf() + strlen()
Added alloc_query() to be able to chare query initialization code with
prepared statements.
Cleanup handling of SHOW COUNT(*) WARNINGS and SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()
Note that the following test fails (will be fixed ASAP):
sub_select, union, rpl_rotate_logs and rpl_mystery22
Added statistics information for alarms (for bug tracking)
Don't store "incomplete" in the xxx.cfg file if we are not using --restart. (Crash-me)
Enlarged STACK_BUF_ALLOC becasue of failed crash-me test
Aded new script mysql_tableinfo to make a system directory.
