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.
This reverts commit e86010f909fb6b8c4ffd9d6df92991ac079e67e7.
Reverting on Monty's request, as this change makes merging
things from 10.5 to 10.2 much harder.
The bug was that when long item-strings was converted to VARCHAR,
type_handler::string_type_handler() didn't take into account max
VARCHAR length. The resulting Aria temporary table was created with
a VARCHAR field of length 1 when it should have been 65537. This caused
MariaDB to send impossible records to ma_write() and Aria reported
eventually the table as crashed.
Fixed by updating Type_handler::string_type_handler() to not create too long
VARCHAR fields. To make things extra safe, I also added checks in when
writing dynamic Aria records to ensure we find the wrong record during write
instead of during read.
Make Field::is_equal() const and return bool as it's a naturally fitting
type for it. Also it's agrument was narrowed to Column_definition.
InnoDB can change type of some columns by itself. InnoDB-specific code used to
reside in Field_xxx:is_equal() methods. Now engine-specific stuff was
moved to a virtual methods of handler::can_convert{string,varstring,blob,geom}.
These methods are called by Field::can_be_converted_by_engine() which is a
double dispatch pattern.
Some InnoDB-specific code still resides in compare_keys_but_name(). It should
be moved from here someday to handler::compare_key_parts(...) or similar.
IS_EQUAL_WITH_REINTERPRET_COMPATIBLE_CHARSET
IS_EQUAL_WITH_REINTERPRET_COMPATIBLE_CHARSET_BUT_COLLATE: both was removed
IS_EQUAL_NO, IS_EQUAL_YES are not needed now and should be removed
along with deprecated handler::check_if_incompatible_data().
HA_EXTENDED_TYPES_CONVERSION: was removed as such logic is not needed now by
server code.
ALTER_COLUMN_EQUAL_PACK_LENGTH: was renamed to a more generic
ALTER_COLUMN_TYPE_CHANGE_BY_ENGINE
Patch is about two cases:
1) On some collate changes it's possible to rebuild only secondary indexes
2) For non-indexed columns collate can be changed INSTANTly
Implemented mostly in Field_{string,varstring,blob}::is_equal().
Make this method return how exactly collationa differs.
This information is later used by fill_alter_inplace_info() to pass
correct info to engine.
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.
