The InnoDB DATA DIRECTORY attribute is not implemented via
symbolic links but something similar, *.isl files that contain
the names of data files.
InnoDB failed to ignore the DATA DIRECTORY attribute even though
the server was started with --skip-symbolic-links.
Native ALTER TABLE in InnoDB will retain the DATA DIRECTORY attribute
of the table, no matter if the table will be rebuilt or not.
Generic ALTER TABLE (with ALGORITHM=COPY) as well as TRUNCATE TABLE
will discard the DATA DIRECTORY attribute.
All tests have been run with and without the ./mtr option
--mysqld=--skip-symbolic-links
and some tests that use the InnoDB DATA DIRECTORY attribute
have been adjusted for this.
MySQL 5.7 introduced WL#7943: InnoDB: Implement Information_Schema.Files
to provide a long-term alternative for accessing tablespace metadata.
The INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_* views are considered internal interfaces
that are subject to change or removal between releases. So, users should
refer to I_S.FILES instead of I_S.INNODB_SYS_TABLESPACES to fetch metadata
about CREATE TABLESPACE.
Because MariaDB 10.2 does not support CREATE TABLESPACE or
CREATE TABLE…TABLESPACE for InnoDB, it does not make sense to support
I_S.FILES either. So, let MariaDB 10.2 omit the code that was added in
MySQL 5.7. After this change, I_S.FILES will report the empty result,
unless some other storage engine in MariaDB 10.2 implements the interface.
(The I_S.FILES interface was originally created for the NDB Cluster.)
Contains also
MDEV-10547: Test multi_update_innodb fails with InnoDB 5.7
The failure happened because 5.7 has changed the signature of
the bool handler::primary_key_is_clustered() const
virtual function ("const" was added). InnoDB was using the old
signature which caused the function not to be used.
MDEV-10550: Parallel replication lock waits/deadlock handling does not work with InnoDB 5.7
Fixed mutexing problem on lock_trx_handle_wait. Note that
rpl_parallel and rpl_optimistic_parallel tests still
fail.
MDEV-10156 : Group commit tests fail on 10.2 InnoDB (branch bb-10.2-jan)
Reason: incorrect merge
MDEV-10550: Parallel replication can't sync with master in InnoDB 5.7 (branch bb-10.2-jan)
Reason: incorrect merge
