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.
- Server incorrectly downgrading the MDL after prepare phase when
table is empty. mdl_exclusive_after_prepare is being set in
prepare phase only. But mdl_exclusive_after_prepare condition was
misplaced and checked before prepare phase by
commit d270525dfd and it is now
changed to check after prepare phase.
- main.innodb_mysql_sync test case was changed to avoid locking
optimization when table is empty.
InnoDB does not allow creating multiple FULLTEXT INDEX
in ALGORITHM=INPLACE. This constraint was not being properly
enforced after MariaDB started to support ALGORITHM=INSTANT
and instant ADD COLUMN.
As a side effect of this bug, we again allow ALGORITHM=INPLACE
to rebuild a table when one FULLTEXT INDEX survives.
Also, we are returning a more accurate reason for refusing LOCK=NONE.
innobase_fulltext_exist(): Return the number of fulltext indexes.
ha_innobase::check_if_supported_inplace_alter(): If the table
needs to be rebuilt, refuse the operation if multiple fulltext
indexes would remain.
