numbers into char fields" and bug #12860 "Difference in zero padding of
exponent between Unix and Windows"
Rewrote the code that determines what 'precision' argument should be
passed to sprintf() to fit the string representation of the input number
into the field.
We get finer control over conversion by pre-calculating the exponent, so
we are able to determine which conversion format, 'e' or 'f', will be
used by sprintf().
We also remove the leading zero from the exponent on Windows to make it
compatible with the sprintf() output on other platforms.
Server failed in assert() when we tried to create a DECIMAL() temp field
with a scale of more than the allowed 30. Now we limit the scale to the
allowed maximum. A truncation warning is thrown as necessary.
and auto_increment keys
Problems:
1. ALTER TABLE ... ORDER BY... doesn't make sence if there's a
user-defined clustered index in the table.
2. using a secondary index is slower than using a clustered one
for a table scan.
Fixes:
1. raise a warning.
2. use the clustered index.
JOIN, and ORDER BY
Problem: improper maximum length calculation of the CASE function leads to
decimal value truncation (storing/retrieving decimal field values).
Fix: accurately calculate maximum length/unsigned flag/decimals parameters
of the CASE function.
file .\ha_innodb.
Problem: if a partial unique key followed by a non-partial one we declare
the second one as a primary key.
Fix: sort non-partial unique keys before partial ones.
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ... SELECT let you insert into an existing
table as long as you had the CREATE privilege. CREATE ... SELECT
variants now always require INSERT privilege on target table.
Problem: lying to the optimizer that a function (Item_func_inet_ntoa)
cannot return NULL values leads to unexpected results (in the case group
keys creation/comparison is broken).
Fix: Item_func_inet_ntoa::maybe_null should be set properly.
The general log write function (general_log_print) uses printf style
arguments which need to be pre-processed, meaning that the all arguments
are copied to a single buffer and the problem is that the buffer size is
constant (1022 characters) but queries can be much larger then this.
The solution is to introduce a new log write function that accepts a
buffer and it's length as arguments. The function is to be used when
a formatted output is not required, which is the case for almost all
query write-to-log calls.
This is a incompatible change with respect to the log format of prepared
statements.
The server crashed when a thread was killed while locking the
general_log table at statement begin.
The general_log table is handled like a performance schema table.
The state of open tables is saved and cleared so that this table
seems to be the only open one. Then this table is opened and locked.
After writing, the table is closed and the open table state is
restored. Before restoring, however, it is asserted that there is
no current table open.
After locking the table, mysql_lock_tables() checks if the thread
was killed in between. If so, it unlocks the table and returns an
error. open_ltable() just returns with the error and leaves closing
of the table to close_thread_tables(), which is called at
statement end.
open_performance_schema_table() did not take this into account.
It assumed that a failed open_ltable() would not leave an open
table behind.
Fixed by closing thread tables after open_ltable() and before
restore_backup_open_tables_state() if the thread was killed.
No test case. It requires correctly timed parallel execution.
Since this bug was detected by the test suite, it seems
dispensable to add another test.
Previously, UDF *_init functions were passed constant strings with erroneous lengths. The length came from the containing variable's size, not the length of the value itself.
Now the *_init functions get the constant as a null terminated string with the correct length supplied too.
