Remove alter_algorithm but keep the variable as no-op (with a warning).
The reasons for removing alter_algorithm are:
- alter_algorithm was introduced as a replacement for the
old_alter_table that was used to force the usage of the original
alter table algorithm (copy) in the cases where the new alter
algorithm did not work. The new option was added as a way to force
the usage of a specific algorithm when it should instead have made
it possible to disable algorithms that would not work for some
reason.
- alter_algorithm introduced some cases where ALTER TABLE would not
work without specifying the ALGORITHM=XXX option together with
ALTER TABLE.
- Having different values of alter_algorithm on master and slave could
cause slave to stop unexpectedly.
- ALTER TABLE FORCE, as used by mariadb-upgrade, would not always work
if alter_algorithm was set for the server.
- As part of the MDEV-33449 "improving repair of tables" it become
clear that alter- algorithm made it harder to provide a better and
more consistent ALTER TABLE FORCE and REPAIR TABLE and it would be
better to remove it.
NULL values when there is no DEFAULT
- Merged the alter_non_null test case to alter_not_null test case.
Renamed the alter_non_null_debug to alter_not_null_debug test case
NULL values when there is no DEFAULT
Copy and inplace algorithm works similarly for
NULL to NOT NULL conversion for the following cases:
(1) strict sql mode - Should give error.
(2) non-strict sql mode - Should give warnings alone
(3) alter ignore table command. - Should give warnings alone.
