- When creating an index for the sort, the number of rows plus 1 is used
to allocate a buffer. In this test case, the number of rows 4294967295
is the max value of an unsigned integer, so when 1 was added to it, a
buffer of size 0 was allocated causing the crash.
- Create new test suite for this bug's test suite as per QA.
tables
In case system doesn't have native pread/pwrite calls (e.g. Windows)
and there is CHECK TABLE runs concurrently with another statement that
reads from a table, the table may be reported as crashed.
This is fixed by locking file descriptor when my_seek is executed on
MyISAM index file and emulated pread/pwrite may be executed concurrently.
Affects MyISAM tables on platforms that do not have native
pread/pwrite calls (e.g. Windows).
No deterministic test case for this bug.
- Added script to generate application specific manifest.
- Added new CMake MACRO to add customer build events which will first
generate a manifest and then embeds that manifest into an executable.
When a table status is requested by statement like SHOW TABLE
STATUS and there is another statement (e.g. DELETE) sets
number of records to 0 concurrently, we may get division by
zero error, which crashes a server.
This is fixed by using thread local variable x->records instead
of shared info->state->records when we check if it is zero and
divide by it.
MERGE engine may return incorrect values when several representations
of equal keys are present in the index. For example "groß" and "gross"
or "gross" and "gross " (trailing space), which are considered equal,
but have different lengths.
The problem was that key length was not recalculated after key lookup.
Only MERGE engine is affected.
when index is used
When the table contained TEXT columns with empty contents
('', zero length, but not NULL) _and_ strings starting with
control characters like tabulator or newline, the empty values
were not found in a "records in range" estimate. Hence count(*)
missed these records.
The reason was a different set of search flags used for key
insert and key range estimation.
I decided to fix the set of flags used in range estimation.
Otherwise millions of databases around the world would require
a repair after an upgrade.
The consequence is that the manual must be fixed, which claims
that TEXT columns are compared with "end space padding". This
is true for CHAR/VARCHAR but wrong for TEXT. See also bug 21335.
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.
incorrect key file for table
In certain cases it could happen that deleting a row could
corrupt an RTREE index.
According to Guttman's algorithm, page underflow is handled
by storing the page in a list for later re-insertion. The
keys from the stored pages have to be inserted into the
remaining pages of the same level of the tree. Hence the
level number is stored in the re-insertion list together
with the page.
In the MySQL RTree implementation the level counts from zero
at the root page, increasing numbers for levels down the tree.
If during re-insertion of the keys the tree height grows, all
level numbers become invalid. The remaining keys will be
inserted at the wrong level.
The fix is to increment the level numbers stored in the
reinsert list after a split of the root block during reinsertion.
corrupted table
Accessing a table with corrupted column definition results in server
crash.
This is fixed by refusing to open such tables. Affects MyISAM only.
No test case, since it requires crashed table.
Accessing fixed record format table with crashed key definition results
in server/myisamchk segmentation fault.
This is fixed by refusing to open such tables. Affects MyISAM only.
No test case, since it requires crashed table.
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
