1. Removed TIMESTAMP/TRANSACTION unit auto-detection in favor of default TIMESTAMP.
Reasons:
1.1. rare practical use and doubtful advantage of such auto-detection;
1.2. it conflicts with MDEV-16226 (TRX_ID-based versioned tables performance improvement).
Needless check_unit membership removed.
2. SQL: versioning type handling refactoring
Vers_type_handler hierarchy stores versioning properties of type.
virtual Type_handler::vers() accesses specialization of
Vers_type_handler for specific type.
virtual Vers_type_handler::kind() returns versioning kind
(timestamp/trx_id).
Removed Type_handler::Vers_history_point_check_unit() in favor of
Type_handler::vers().
Renames:
require_timestamp() -> require_timestamp_error()
require_trx_id() -> require_trx_id_error()
EDIT by Alexander Barkov (@abarkov):
check_sys_fields() moved to Vers_type_handler::check_sys_fields()
Hiding the definitions inside Type_handler_xxx::name().
This is needed to avoid exporting members with MYSQL_PLUGIN_IMPORT,
which would be needed to compile data type plugins on Windows.
Introducing methods instead:
const Name version_mysql56() const;
const Name version_mariadb53() const;
This is needed to avoid exporting members with MYSQL_PLUGIN_IMPORT,
which would be needed to compile data type plugins on Windows.
Fix the build on clang. GCC only checks that a member function with
the C++11 override keyword is actually overriding a virtual member
function in a base class. In clang, you will get a warning for
overridden member functions that lack the keyword, if any overridden
member function of the class is declared with the keyword.
This patch fixes:
- MDEV-19284 INSTANT ALTER with ucs2-to-utf16 conversion produces bad data
- MDEV-19285 INSTANT ALTER from ascii_general_ci to latin1_general_ci produces corrupt data
These regressions were introduced in 10.4.3 by:
- MDEV-15564 Avoid table rebuild in ALTER TABLE on collation or charset changes
Changes:
1. Cleanup: Adding a helper method
Field_longstr::csinfo_change_allows_instant_alter(),
to remove some duplicate code in field.cc.
2. Cleanup: removing Type_handler::Charsets_are_compatible() and static
function charsets_are_compatible() and
introducing new methods in the recently added class Charset instead:
- encoding_allows_reinterpret_as()
- encoding_and_order_allow_reinterpret_as()
3. Bug fix: Removing the code that allowed instant conversion for
ascii-to->8bit and ucs2-to->utf16.
This actually fixes MDEV-19284 and MDEV-19285.
4. Bug fix: Adding a helper method Charset::collation_specific_name().
The old corresponding code in Type_handler::Charsets_are_compatible()
was not safe against (badly named) user-defined collations whose
character set name can be longer than collation name.
