Bug #21785 "Server crashes after rename of the log table" and
Bug #21966 "Strange warnings on create like/repair of the log
tables"
According to the patch, from now on, one should use RENAME to
perform a log table rotation (this should also be reflected in
the manual).
Here is a sample:
use mysql;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS general_log2 LIKE general_log;
RENAME TABLE general_log TO general_log_backup, general_log2 TO general_log;
The rules for Rename of the log tables are following:
IF 1. Log tables are enabled
AND 2. Rename operates on the log table and nothing is being
renamed to the log table.
DO 3. Throw an error message.
ELSE 4. Perform rename.
The very RENAME query will go the the old (backup) table. This is
consistent with the behavoiur we have with binlog ROTATE LOGS
statement.
Other problems, which are solved by the patch are:
1) Now REPAIR of the log table is exclusive operation (as it should be), this
also eliminates lock-related warnings. and
2) CREATE LIKE TABLE now usese usual read lock on the source table rather
then name lock, which is too restrictive. This way we get rid of another
log table-related warning, which occured because of the above fact
(as a side-effect, name lock resulted in a warning).
Both on its own and in the plugin shutdown.... not so good. The code is a bit simpler, and we could now technically remove the panic all entirely if we wanted to.
In practice this means that handlerton is now created by the server and is passed to the engine. Plugin startups can now also control how plugins are inited (and can optionally pass values). Bit more flexibility to those who want to write plugin interfaces to the database.
Only MyISAM tables locked with LOCK TABLES ... WRITE were affected.
A query that is optimized with index_merge doesn't reflect rows
inserted within LOCK TABLES.
MyISAM doesn't flush a state within LOCK TABLES. index_merge
optimization creates a copy of the handler, which thus gets
outdated MyISAM state.
New handler->clone() method is introduced to fix this problem.
For non-MyISAM storage engines it allocates a handler and opens
it with ha_open(). For MyISAM it additionally copies MyISAM state
pointer to cloned handler.
Plugins now when compiled or not compiled work correctly with status variables.
Status variables from plugins now set their own names (removed bit where plugin name was pre-appended this broke Innodb and Cluster)
A few Makefile cleanups.
There is an existing macros for initializing LEX_STRINGs
with constant strings -> C_STRING_WITH_LEN. Change existing code to use it.
(char *) STRING_WITH_LEN -> C_STRING_WITH_LEN
into govinda.patg.net:/home/patg/mysql-build/mysql-5.1-5.0-merge2
Push by holyfoot@production.mysql.com on Tue Jul 25 13:41:40 2006:
bk clone -l -r'holyfoot/hf@mysql.com/deer.(none)|ChangeSet|20060725085017|41021' mysql-5.0 tmp_merge
gets deadlocked when dropping w/ log on"
Log tables rely on concurrent insert machinery to add data.
This means that log tables are always opened and locked by
special (artificial) logger threads. Because of this, the thread
which tries to drop a log table starts to wait for the table
to be unlocked. Which will happen only if the log table is disabled.
Alike situation happens if one tries to alter a log table.
However in addition to the problem above, alter table calls
check_if_locking_is_allowed() routine for the engine. The
routine does not allow alter for the log tables. So, alter
doesn't start waiting forever for logs to be disabled, but
returns with an error.
Another problem is that not all engines could be used for
the log tables. That's because they need concurrent insert.
In this patch we:
(1) Explicitly disallow to drop/alter a log table if it
is currently used by the logger.
(2) Update MyISAM to support log tables
(3) Allow to drop log tables/alter log tables if log is
disabled
At the same time we (4) Disallow to alter log tables to
unsupported engine (after this patch CSV and MyISAM are
alowed)
Recommit with review fixes.
Changed the error reporting (and a crash) when inserting data into a
MERGE table that has no underlying tables or no INSERT_METHOD specified
by reporting that it is read-only.
