Before this fix, the test thread_cache failed with spurious failures.
The test used:
-- disconnect X
-- connect Y
while assuming that connection Y would reuse connection X slot in the thread cache.
For this to happen, the disconnect X operation must be given enough time to complete,
otherwise connect Y can be executed in the server before X actually finishes.
This fix uses wait conditions to make the test execution more controlled,
and more reproductible.
Before this fix, the performance schema tables were defined in UPPERCASE.
This was incompatible with the lowercase_table_names option, and caused
issues with the install / upgrade process, when changing the lower case
table names setting *after* the install or upgrade.
With this fix, all performance schema tables are exposed with lowercase names.
As a result, the name of the performance schema table is always lowercase,
no matter how / if / when the lowercase_table_names setting if changed.
This change is to align the 5.5 performance_schema.THREADS
table definition with the 5.6 performance_schema.THREADS table,
to facilitate the 5.5 -> 5.6 migration later.
In the table performance_schema.THREADS:
- renamed ID to PROCESSLIST_ID, removed not null
- changed NAME from varchar(64) to varchar(128)
to match the columns definitions from 5.6
Adjusted the test cases accordingly.
Note: this fix is for 5.5 only, to null merge into 5.6
