This commit adds a new feature to the server to add comments at the database
level. 1024 bytes is the maximum comment length allowed. If the comment length
exceeds this limit, a new error/warning code 4144 is thrown, based on whether
thd->is_strict_mode() is true/false. The database comment is also added to the
db.opt file, as well as to the information_schema.schemata table.
This task involves the implementation for the optimizer trace.
This feature produces a trace for any SELECT/UPDATE/DELETE/,
which contains information about decisions taken by the optimizer during
the optimization phase (choice of table access method, various costs,
transformations, etc). This feature would help to tell why some decisions were
taken by the optimizer and why some were rejected.
Trace is session-local, controlled by the @@optimizer_trace variable.
To enable optimizer trace we need to write:
set @@optimizer_trace variable= 'enabled=on';
To display the trace one can run:
SELECT trace FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.OPTIMIZER_TRACE;
This task also involves:
MDEV-18489: Limit the memory used by the optimizer trace
introduces a switch optimizer_trace_max_mem_size which limits
the memory used by the optimizer trace. This was implemented by
Sergei Petrunia.
Part of MDEV-5336 Implement LOCK FOR BACKUP
Originally both table metadata lock and global read lock protection
were acquired before getting TABLE from table cache. This will be
reordered in a future commit with MDL_BACKUP_XXX locks so that we
first take table metadata lock, then get TABLE from table cache, then
acquire analogue of global read lock.
This patch both simplifies FLUSH TABLES code, makes FLUSH TABLES to
lock less and also enables FLUSH TABLES code to be used with backup
locks.
The usage of FLUSH TABLES changes slightly:
- FLUSH TABLES without any arguments will now only close not used tables
and tables locked by the FLUSH TABLES connection. All not used table
shares will be closed.
Tables locked by the FLUSH TABLES connection will be reopened and
re-locked after all others has stoped using the table (as before).
If there was no locked tables, then FLUSH TABLES is instant and will
not cause any waits.
FLUSH TABLES will not wait for any in use table.
- FLUSH TABLES with a table list, will ensure that the tables are closed
before statement returns. The code is now only using MDL locks and not
table share versions, which simplices the code greatly. One visible
change is that the server will wait for the end of the transaction that
are using the tables. Before FLUSH TABLES only waited for the statements
to end.
Signed-off-by: Monty <monty@mariadb.org>
Implement according to standard SQL specification 2008.
The check_constraints table is used for fetching metadata about
the constraints defined for tables in all databases.
