Before commit 6112853cda in MySQL 4.1.1
introduced the parameter innodb_file_per_table, all InnoDB data was
written to the InnoDB system tablespace (often named ibdata1).
A serious design problem is that once the system tablespace has grown to
some size, it cannot shrink even if the data inside it has been deleted.
There are also other design problems, such as the server hang MDEV-29930
that should only be possible when using innodb_file_per_table=0 and
innodb_undo_tablespaces=0 (storing both tables and undo logs in the
InnoDB system tablespace).
The parameter innodb_change_buffering was deprecated
in commit b5852ffbee.
Starting with commit baf276e6d4
(MDEV-19229) the number of innodb_undo_tablespaces can be increased,
so that the undo logs can be moved out of the system tablespace
of an existing installation.
If all these things (tables, undo logs, and the change buffer) are
removed from the InnoDB system tablespace, the only variable-size
data structure inside it is the InnoDB data dictionary.
DDL operations on .ibd files was optimized in
commit 86dc7b4d4c (MDEV-24626).
That should have removed any thinkable performance advantage of
using innodb_file_per_table=0.
Since there should be no benefit of setting innodb_file_per_table=0,
the parameter should be deprecated. Starting with MySQL 5.6 and
MariaDB Server 10.0, the default value is innodb_file_per_table=1.
This essentially reverts commit 4e89ec6692
and only disables InnoDB persistent statistics for tests where it is
desirable. By design, InnoDB persistent statistics will not be updated
except by ANALYZE TABLE or by STATS_AUTO_RECALC.
The internal transactions that update persistent InnoDB statistics
in background tasks (with innodb_stats_auto_recalc=ON) may cause
nondeterministic query plans or interfere with some tests that deal
with other InnoDB internals, such as the purge of transaction history.
Remove CREATE/DROP database.
Remove some unnecessary suppressions, replacements, and
SQL statements.
Populate tables via have_sequence.inc to avoid the creation of
explicit InnoDB record locks in INSERT...SELECT. This will remove
some gaps in AUTO_INCREMENT values.
to tables in the system tablespace
This is a regression caused by MDEV-11585, which accidentally
changed Tablespace::is_undo_tablespace() in an incorrect way,
causing the InnoDB system tablespace to be reported as a dedicated
undo tablespace, for which the change buffer is not applicable.
Tablespace::is_undo_tablespace(): Remove. There were only 2
calls from the function buf_page_io_complete(). Replace those
calls as appropriate.
Also, merge changes to tablespace import/export tests from
MySQL 5.7, and clean up the tests a little further, allowing
them to be run with any innodb_page_size.
Remove duplicated error injection instrumentation for the
import/export tests. In MySQL 5.7, the error injection label
buf_page_is_corrupt_failure was renamed to
buf_page_import_corrupt_failure.
fil_space_extend_must_retry(): Correct a debug assertion
(tablespaces can be extended during IMPORT), and remove a
TODO comment about compressed temporary tables that was
already addressed in MDEV-11816.
dict_build_tablespace_for_table(): Correct a comment that
no longer holds after MDEV-11816, and assert that
ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED can only be used in .ibd files.
