Appendix C. MySQL Change History

Table of Contents

C.1. Changes in release 5.1.x (Development)
C.1.1. Changes in MySQL 5.1.27 (Not yet released)
C.1.2. Changes in MySQL 5.1.26 (30 June 2008)
C.1.3. Changes in MySQL 5.1.25 (28 May 2008)
C.1.4. Changes in MySQL 5.1.24-maria (Not yet released)
C.1.5. Changes in MySQL 5.1.24 (08 April 2008)
C.1.6. Changes in MySQL 5.1.23 (29 January 2008)
C.1.7. Changes in MySQL 5.1.22 (24 September 2007: Release Candidate)
C.1.8. Changes in MySQL 5.1.21 (16 August 2007)
C.1.9. Changes in MySQL 5.1.20 (25 June 2007)
C.1.10. Changes in MySQL 5.1.19 (25 May 2007)
C.1.11. Changes in MySQL 5.1.18 (08 May 2007)
C.1.12. Changes in MySQL 5.1.17 (04 April 2007)
C.1.13. Changes in MySQL 5.1.16 (26 February 2007)
C.1.14. Changes in MySQL 5.1.15 (25 January 2007)
C.1.15. Changes in MySQL 5.1.14 (05 December 2006)
C.1.16. Changes in MySQL 5.1.13 (Not released)
C.1.17. Changes in MySQL 5.1.12 (24 October 2006)
C.1.18. Changes in MySQL 5.1.11 (26 May 2006)
C.1.19. Changes in MySQL 5.1.10 (Not released)
C.1.20. Changes in MySQL 5.1.9 (12 April 2006)
C.1.21. Changes in MySQL 5.1.8 (Not released)
C.1.22. Changes in MySQL 5.1.7 (27 February 2006)
C.1.23. Changes in MySQL 5.1.6 (01 February 2006)
C.1.24. Changes in MySQL 5.1.5 (10 January 2006)
C.1.25. Changes in MySQL 5.1.4 (21 December 2005)
C.1.26. Changes in MySQL 5.1.3 (29 November 2005)
C.1.27. Changes in MySQL 5.1.2 (Not released)
C.1.28. Changes in MySQL 5.1.1 (Not released)
C.2. MySQL Connector/ODBC (MyODBC) Change History
C.2.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.5 (Not yet released)
C.2.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.4 (Not yet released)
C.2.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.3 (Not yet released)
C.2.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.2 (13 February 2008)
C.2.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.1 (13 December 2007)
C.2.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.0 (10 September 2007)
C.2.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.12 (Never released)
C.2.8. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.11 (31 January 2007)
C.2.9. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.10 (14 December 2006)
C.2.10. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.9 (22 November 2006)
C.2.11. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.8 (17 November 2006)
C.2.12. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.7 (08 November 2006)
C.2.13. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.6 (03 November 2006)
C.2.14. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.5 (17 October 2006)
C.2.15. Changes in Connector/ODBC 5.0.3 (Connector/ODBC 5.0 Alpha 3) (20 June 2006)
C.2.16. Changes in Connector/ODBC 5.0.2 (Never released)
C.2.17. Changes in Connector/ODBC 5.0.1 (Connector/ODBC 5.0 Alpha 2) (05 June 2006)
C.2.18. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.26 (07 July 2008)
C.2.19. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.25 (Not yet released)
C.2.20. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.24 (Not yet released)
C.2.21. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.23 (09 January 2008)
C.2.22. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.22 (13 November 2007)
C.2.23. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.21 (08 October 2007)
C.2.24. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.20 (10 September 2007)
C.2.25. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.19 (10 August 2007)
C.2.26. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.18 (08 August 2007)
C.2.27. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.17 (14 July 2007)
C.2.28. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.16 (14 June 2007)
C.2.29. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.15 (07 May 2007)
C.2.30. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.14 (08 March 2007)
C.2.31. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.13 (Never released)
C.2.32. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.12 (11 Febrauary 2005)
C.2.33. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.11 (28 January 2005)
C.3. MySQL Connector/NET Change History
C.3.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.3.0 (Not yet released)
C.3.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.2.3 (Not yet released)
C.3.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.2.2 (12 May 2008)
C.3.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.2.1 (27 February 2008)
C.3.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.2.0 (11 February 2008)
C.3.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.7 (Not yet released)
C.3.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.6 (12 May 2008)
C.3.8. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.5 (Not yet released)
C.3.9. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.4 (20 November 2007)
C.3.10. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.3 (21 September 2007)
C.3.11. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.2 (18 June 2007)
C.3.12. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.1 (23 May 2007)
C.3.13. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.0 (01 May 2007)
C.3.14. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.10 (Not yet released)
C.3.15. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.9 (Not yet released)
C.3.16. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.8 (21 August 2007)
C.3.17. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.7 (18 May 2007)
C.3.18. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.6 (22 March 2007)
C.3.19. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.5 (07 March 2007)
C.3.20. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.4 (Not released)
C.3.21. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.3 (05 January 2007)
C.3.22. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.2 (06 November 2006)
C.3.23. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.1 (01 October 2006)
C.3.24. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.0 (08 August 2006)
C.3.25. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.11 (Not yet released)
C.3.26. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.10 (24 August 2007)
C.3.27. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.9 (02 February 2007)
C.3.28. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.8 (20 October 2006)
C.3.29. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.7 (21 November 2005)
C.3.30. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.6 (03 October 2005)
C.3.31. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.5 (29 August 2005)
C.3.32. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.4 (20 January 2005)
C.3.33. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.3 (12 October 2004)
C.3.34. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.2 (15 November 2004)
C.3.35. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.1 (27 October 2004)
C.3.36. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.0 (01 September 2004)
C.3.37. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.9.0 (30 August 2004)
C.3.38. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.76
C.3.39. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.75
C.3.40. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.74
C.3.41. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.71
C.3.42. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.70
C.3.43. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.68
C.3.44. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.65
C.3.45. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.60
C.3.46. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.50
C.4. MySQL Visual Studio Plugin Change History
C.4.1. Changes in MySQL Visual Studio Plugin 1.0.3 (Not yet released)
C.4.2. Changes in MySQL Visual Studio Plugin 1.0.2 (Not yet released)
C.4.3. Changes in MySQL Visual Studio Plugin 1.0.1 (4 October 2006)
C.4.4. Changes in MySQL Visual Studio Plugin 1.0.0 (4 October 2006)
C.5. MySQL Connector/J Change History
C.5.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.x
C.5.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.x
C.5.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.x
C.5.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.x
C.5.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.x
C.5.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.2b (04 July 1999)
C.5.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.2.x and lower
C.6. MySQL Connector/MXJ Change History
C.6.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/MXJ 5.0.6 (04 May 2007)
C.6.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/MXJ 5.0.5 (14 March 2007)
C.6.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/MXJ 5.0.4 (28 January 2007)
C.6.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/MXJ 5.0.3 (24 June 2006)
C.6.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/MXJ 5.0.2 (15 June 2006)
C.6.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/MXJ 5.0.1 (Never released)
C.6.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/MXJ 5.0.0 (09 December 2005)
C.7. MySQL Proxy Change History
C.7.1. Changes in MySQL Proxy 0.6.0 (Not yet released)
C.7.2. Changes in MySQL Proxy 0.5.1 (30 June 2007)
C.7.3. Changes in MySQL Proxy 0.5.0 (19 June 2007)

This appendix lists the changes from version to version in the MySQL source code through the latest version of MySQL 5.1, which is currently MySQL 5.1.28. Starting with MySQL 5.0, we began offering a new version of the Manual for each new series of MySQL releases (5.0, 5.1, and so on). For information about changes in previous release series of the MySQL database software, see the corresponding version of this Manual. For information about legacy versions of the MySQL software through the 4.1 series, see MySQL 3.23, 4.0, 4.1 Reference Manual.

We update this section as we add new features in the 5.1 series, so that everybody can follow the development process.

Note that we tend to update the manual at the same time we make changes to MySQL. If you find a recent version of MySQL listed here that you can't find on our download page (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/), it means that the version has not yet been released.

The date mentioned with a release version is the date of the last Bazaar ChangeSet on which the release was based, not the date when the packages were made available. The binaries are usually made available a few days after the date of the tagged ChangeSet, because building and testing all packages takes some time.

The manual included in the source and binary distributions may not be fully accurate when it comes to the release changelog entries, because the integration of the manual happens at build time. For the most up-to-date release changelog, please refer to the online version instead.

C.1. Changes in release 5.1.x (Development)

An overview of which features were added in MySQL 5.1 can be found here: Section 1.5.1, “What's New in MySQL 5.1”.

For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog sections for each individual 5.1.x release.

For changes relating to MySQL Cluster NDB 6.x, see Section 20.17, “Changes in MySQL Cluster 6.x”.

C.1.1. Changes in MySQL 5.1.27 (Not yet released)

Bugs fixed:

  • The mysql client failed to recognize comment lines consisting of -- followed by a newline. (Bug#36244)

C.1.2. Changes in MySQL 5.1.26 (30 June 2008)

Functionality added or changed:

  • : Important Change: The FEDERATED storage engine is now disabled by default in binary distributions. The engine is still available and can be enabled by starting the server with the --federated option. (Bug#37069)

Bugs fixed:

  • Replication: Performing an insert on a table having an AUTO_INCREMENT column and an INSERT trigger that was being replicated from a master running MySQL 5.0 or any version of MySQL 5.1 up to and including MySQL 5.1.11 to a slave running MySQL 5.1.12 or later caused the replication slave to crash. (Bug#36443)

    See also Bug#33029

  • Row-based replication broke for utf8 CHAR columns longer than 85 characters. (Bug#37426)

  • NOT IN subqueries that selected MIN() or MAX() values but produced an empty result could cause a server crash. (Bug#37004)

  • ha_innodb.so was incorrectly installed in the lib/mysql directory rather than in lib/mysql/plugin. (Bug#36434)

  • An empty bit-string literal (b'') caused a server crash. Now the value is parsed as an empty bit value (which is treated as an empty string in string context or 0 in numeric context). (Bug#35658)

  • The code for detecting a byte order mark (BOM) caused mysql to crash for empty input. (Bug#35480)

  • The mysql client incorrectly parsed statements containing the word “delimiter” in mid-statement. (Bug#33812)

C.1.3. Changes in MySQL 5.1.25 (28 May 2008)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Incompatible Change: A change has been made to the way that the server handles prepared statements. This affects prepared statements processed at the SQL level (using the PREPARE statement) and those processed using the binary client-server protocol (using the mysql_stmt_prepare() C API function).

    Previously, changes to metadata of tables or views referred to in a prepared statement could cause a server crash when the statement was next executed, or perhaps an error at execute time with a crash occurring later. For example, this could happen after dropping a table and recreating it with a different definition.

    Now metadata changes to tables or views referred to by prepared statements are detected and cause automatic repreparation of the statement when it is next executed. Metadata changes occur for DDL statements such as those that create, drop, alter, rename, or truncate tables, or that analyze, optimize, or repair tables. Repreparation also occurs after referenced tables or views are flushed from the table definition cache, either implicitly to make room for new entries in the cache, or explicitly due to FLUSH TABLES.

    Repreparation is automatic, but to the extent that it occurs, performance of prepared statements is diminished.

    Table content changes (for example, with INSERT or UPDATE) do not cause repreparation, nor do SELECT statements.

    An incompatibility with previous versions of MySQL is that a prepared statement may now return a different set of columns or different column types from one execution to the next. For example, if the prepared statement is SELECT * FROM t1, altering t1 to contain a different number of columns causes the next execution to return a number of columns different from the previous execution.

    Older versions of the client library cannot handle this change in behavior. For applications that use prepared statements with the new server, an upgrade to the new client library is strongly recommended.

    Along with this change to statement repreparation, the default value of the table_definition_cache system variable has been increased from 128 to 256. The purpose of this increase is to lessen the chance that prepared statements will need repreparation due to referred-to tables/views having been flushed from the cache to make room for new entries.

    A new status variable, Com_stmt_reprepare, has been introduced to track the number of repreparations. (Bug#27420, Bug#27430, Bug#27690)

  • Important Change: Some changes were made to CHECK TABLE ... FOR UPGRADE and REPAIR TABLE with respect to detection and handling of tables with incompatible .frm files (files created with a different version of the MySQL server). These changes also affect mysqlcheck because that program uses CHECK TABLE and REPAIR table, and thus also mysql_upgrade because that program invokes mysqlcheck.

    • If your table was created by a different version of the MySQL server than the one you are currently running, CHECK TABLE ... FOR UPGRADE indicates that the table has an .frm file with an incompatible version. In this case, the result set returned by CHECK TABLE contains a line with a Msg_type value of error and a Msg_text value of Table upgrade required. Please do "REPAIR TABLE `tbl_name`" to fix it!

    • REPAIR TABLE without USE_FRM upgrades the .frm file to the current version.

    • If you use REPAIR TABLE ...USE_FRM and your table was created by a different version of the MySQL server than the one you are currently running, REPAIR TABLE will not attempt to repair the table. In this case, the result set returned by REPAIR TABLE contains a line with a Msg_type value of error and a Msg_text value of Failed repairing incompatible .FRM file.

      Previously, use of REPAIR TABLE ...USE_FRM with a table created by a different version of the MySQL server risked the loss of all rows in the table.

    (Bug#36055)

  • mysql_upgrade now has a --tmpdir option to enable the location of temporary files to be specified. (Bug#36469)

Bugs fixed:

  • Important Change: The server no longer issues warnings for truncation of excess spaces for values inserted into CHAR columns. This reverts a change in the previous release that caused warnings to be issued. (Bug#30059)

  • Replication: CREATE PROCEDURE and CREATE FUNCTION statements containing extended comments were not written to the binary log correctly, causing parse errors on the slave. (Bug#36570)

    See also Bug#32575

  • Replication: When flushing tables, there were a slight chance that the flush occurred between the processing of one table map event and the next. Since the tables were opened one by one, subsequent locking of tables would cause the slave to crash. This problem was observed when replicating NDBCLUSTER or InnoDB tables, when executing multi-table updates, and when a trigger or a stored routine performed an (additional) insert on a table so that two tables were effectively being inserted into in the same statement. (Bug#36197)

  • Replication: CREATE VIEW statements containing extended comments were not written to the binary log correctly, causing parse errors on the slave. Now, all comments are stripped from such statements before being written to the binary log. (Bug#32575)

    See also Bug#36570

  • On Windows 64-bit systems, temporary variables of long types were used to store ulong values, causing key cache initialization to receive distorted parameters. The effect was that setting key_buffer_size to values of 2GB or more caused memory exhaustion to due allocation of too much memory. (Bug#36705)

  • Multiple-table UPDATE statements that used a temporary table could fail to update all qualifying rows or fail with a spurious duplicate-key error. (Bug#36676)

  • A REGEXP match could return incorrect rows when the previous row matched the expression and used CONCAT() with an empty string. (Bug#36488)

  • mysqltest ignored the value of --tmpdir in one place. (Bug#36465)

  • When updating an existing instance (for example, from MySQL 5.0 to 5.1, or 5.1 to 6.0), the Instance Configuration Wizard unnecessarily prompted for a root password when there was an existing root password. (Bug#36305)

  • Conversion of a FLOAT ZEROFILL value to string could cause a server crash if the value was NULL. (Bug#36139)

  • On Windows, the installer attempted to use JScript to determine whether the target data directory already existed. On Windows Vista x64, this resulted in an error because the installer was attempting to run the JScript in a 32-bit engine, which wasn't registered on Vista. The installer no longer uses JScript but instead relies on a native WiX command. (Bug#36103)

  • mysqltest was performing escape processing for the --replace_result command, which it should not have been. (Bug#36041)

  • An error in calculation of the precision of zero-length items (such as NULL) caused a server crash for queries that employed temporary tables. (Bug#36023)

  • For EXPLAIN EXTENDED, execution of an uncorrelated IN subquery caused a crash if the subquery required a temporary table for its execution. (Bug#36011)

  • The MERGE storage engine did a table scan for SELECT COUNT(*) statements when it could calculate the number of records from the underlying tables. (Bug#36006)

  • The server crashed inside NOT IN subqueries with an impossible WHERE or HAVING clause, such as NOT IN (SELECT ... FROM t1, t2, ... WHERE 0). (Bug#36005)

  • The Event Scheduler was not designed to work under the embedded server. It is now disabled for the embedded server, and the event_scheduler system variable is not displayed. (Bug#35997)

  • Grouping or ordering of long values in unindexed BLOB or TEXT columns with the gbk or big5 character set crashed the server. (Bug#35993)

  • SET GLOBAL debug='' resulted in a Valgrind warning in DbugParse(), which was reading beyond the end of the control string. (Bug#35986)

  • The “prefer full scan on clustered primary key over full scan of any secondary key” optimizer rule introduced by Bug#26447 caused a performance regression for some queries, so it has been disabled. (Bug#35850)

  • The server ignored any covering index used for ref access of a table in a query with ORDER BY if this index was incompatible with the ORDER BY list and there was another covering index compatible with this list. As a result, suboptimal execution plans were chosen for some queries that used an ORDER BY clause. (Bug#35844)

  • mysql_upgrade did not properly update the mysql.event table. (Bug#35824)

  • An incorrect error and message was produced for attempts to create a MyISAM table with an index (.MYI) filename that was already in use by some other MyISAM table that was open at the same time. For example, this might happen if you use the same value of the INDEX DIRECTORY table option for tables belonging to different databases. (Bug#35733)

  • Enabling the read_only system variable while autocommit mode was enabled caused SELECT statements for transactional storage engines to fail. (Bug#35732)

  • The combination of GROUP_CONCAT(), DISTINCT, and LEFT JOIN could crash the server when the right table is empty. (Bug#35298)

  • Some binaries produced stack corruption messages due to being built with versions of bison older than 2.1. Builds are now created using bison 2.3. (Bug#34926)

  • On Windows 64-bit builds, an apparent compiler bug caused memory overruns for code in innobase/mem/*. Removed optimizations so as not to trigger this problem. (Bug#34297)

  • Several additional configuration scripts in the BUILD directory now are included in source distributions. These may be useful for users who wish to build MySQL from source. (See Section 2.9.3, “Installing from the Development Source Tree”, for information about what they do.) (Bug#34291)

  • Executing a FLUSH PRIVILEGES statement after creating a temporary table in the mysql database with the same name as one of the MySQL system tables caused the server to crash.

    Note

    While it is possible to shadow a system table in this way, the temporary table exists only for the current user and connection, and does not effect any user privileges.

    (Bug#33275)

  • Assignment of relative pathnames to general_log_file or slow_query_log_file did not always work. (Bug#32748)

  • The mysql.servers table was not created during installation on Windows. (Bug#28680, Bug#32797)

  • The jp test suite was not working. (Bug#28563)

  • The internal init_time() library function was renamed to my_init_time() to avoid conflicts with external libraries. (Bug#26294)

  • The parser used signed rather than unsigned values in some cases that caused legal lengths in column declarations to be rejected. (Bug#15776)

C.1.4. Changes in MySQL 5.1.24-maria (Not yet released)

The following changes apply only to builds of MySQL 5.1.24 that include the MARIA storage engine.

Bugs fixed:

  • When creating tables not using the MARIA engine, it would be possible to create a table using the TRANSACTIONAL option, even though this option is not supported by non-MARIA tables. A warning will now be produced when using these options, but the option will still be recorded within the options for the table to allow for correct modification during ALTER TABLE operations. (Bug#34395)

C.1.5. Changes in MySQL 5.1.24 (08 April 2008)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Important Change: MySQL Cluster: Packaging: Beginning with this release, standard MySQL 5.1 binaries are no longer built with support for the NDBCLUSTER storage engine, and the NDBCLUSTER code included in 5.1 mainline sources is no longer guaranteed to be maintained or supported. Those using MySQL Cluster in MySQL 5.1.23 and earlier MySQL 5.1 mainline releases should upgrade to MySQL Cluster NDB 6.2.15 or a later MySQL Cluster NDB 6.2 or 6.3 release. (Bug#36193)

  • Important Change: The FEDERATED storage engine is not included in binary distributions of MySQL 5.1.24. (It will be included again in 5.1.25.)

  • Replication: Introduced the slave_exec_mode system variable to control whether idempotent or strict mode is used for replication conflict resolution. Idempotent mode suppresses duplicate-key, no-key-found, and some other errors, and is needed for circular replication, multi-master replication, and some other complex replication setups when using MySQL Cluster. Strict mode is the default. (Bug#31609)

  • Replication: When running the server with --binlog-format=MIXED or --binlog-format=STATEMENT, a query that referred to a system variable used the slave's value when replayed on the slave. This meant that, if the value of a system variable was inserted into a table, the slave differed from the master. Now, statements that refer to a system variable are marked as “unsafe”, which means that:

    • When the server is using --binlog-format=MIXED, the row-based format is used automatically to replicate these statements.

    • When the server is using --binlog-format=STATEMENT, these statements produce a warning.

    (Bug#31168)

    See also Bug#34732

  • The PROCESS privilege now is required to start or stop the InnoDB monitor tables (see linkend="innodb-monitor"/>). Previously, no privilege was required. (Bug#34053)

  • For binary .tar.gz packages, mysqld and other binaries now are compiled with debugging symbols included to enable easier use with a debugger. (Bug#33252)

  • Formerly, when the MySQL server crashed, the generated stack dump was numeric and required external tools to properly resolve the names of functions. This is not very helpful to users having a limited knowledge of debugging techniques. In addition, the generated stack trace contained only the names of functions and was formatted differently for each platform due to different stack layouts.

    Now it is possible to take advantage of newer versions of the GNU C Library provide a set of functions to obtain and manipulate stack traces from within the program. On systems that use the ELF binary format, the stack trace contains important information such as the shared object where the call was generated, an offset into the function, and the actual return address. Having the function name also makes possible the name demangling of C++ functions.

    The library generates meaningful stack traces on the following platforms: i386, x86_64, PowerPC, IA64, Alpha, and S390. On other platforms, a numeric stack trace is still produced, and the use of the resolve_stack_dump utility is still required. (Bug#31891)

  • mysqltest now has mkdir and rmdir commands for creating and removing directories. (Bug#31004)

  • The server uses less memory when loading privileges containing table grants. (Patch provided by Google.) (Bug#25175)

  • Added the Uptime_since_flush_status status variable, which indicates the number of seconds since the most recent FLUSH STATUS statement. (From Jeremy Cole) (Bug#24822)

  • SHOW OPEN TABLES now supports FROM and LIKE clauses. (Bug#12183)

  • The new read-only global system variables report_host, report_password, report_port, and report_user system variables provide runtime access to the values of the corresponding --report-host, --report-password, --report-port, and --report-user options.

  • Formerly it was possible to specify an innodb_flush_method value of fdatasync to obtain the default flush behavior of using fdatasync() for flushing. This is no longer possible because it can be confusing that a value of fdatasync causes use of fsync() rather than fdatasync().

  • The use of InnoDB hash indexes now can be controlled by setting the new innodb_adaptive_hash_index system variable at server startup. By default, this variable is enabled. See Section 13.5.13.3, “Adaptive Hash Indexes”.

Bugs fixed:

  • Important Change: Security Fix: It was possible to circumvent privileges through the creation of MyISAM tables employing the DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options to overwrite existing table files in the MySQL data directory. Use of the MySQL data directory in DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY is now disallowed. This is now also true of these options when used with partitioned tables and individual partitions of such tables. (Bug#32167, CVE-2008-2079)

  • Security Fix: A client that connects to a malicious server could be tricked by the server into sending files from the client host to the server. This occurs because the libmysqlclient client library would respond to a FETCH LOCAL FILE request from the server even if the request is sent for statements from the client other than LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE. The client library has been modified to respond to a FETCH LOCAL FILE request from the server only if is is sent in response to a LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE statement from the client.

    The client library now also checks whether CLIENT_LOCAL_FILE is set and refuses to send a local file if not.

    Note

    Binary distributions ship with the local-infile capability enabled. Applications that do not use this functionality should disable it to be safe.

    (Bug#29605)

  • Important Change: Security Enhancement: On Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, a user without administrative privileges does not have write permissions to the Program Files directory where MySQL and the associated data files are normally installed. Using data files located in the standard Program Files installation directory could therefore cause MySQL to fail, or lead to potential security issues in an installed instance.

    To address the problem, on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, the datafiles and data file configuration are now set to the Microsoft recommended AppData folder. The AppData folder is typically located within the user's home directory.

    Important

    When upgrading an existing 5.1.23 or 6.0.4 installation of MySQL you must take a backup of your data and configuration file (my.ini before installing the new version. To migrate your data, either extract the data and re-import (using mysqldump, then upgrade and re-import using mysql), or back up your data, upgrade to the new version, and copy your existing data files from your old datadir directory to the new directory located within AppData.

    Failure to back up your data and follow these procedures may lead to data loss.

    (Bug#34593)

  • Partitioning: Incompatible Change: The following statements did not function correctly with corrupted or crashed tables and have been removed:

    • ALTER TABLE ... ANALYZE PARTITION

    • ALTER TABLE ... CHECK PARTITION

    • ALTER TABLE ... OPTIMIZE PARTITION

    • ALTER TABLE ... REPAIR PARTITION

    ALTER TABLE ... REBUILD PARTITION is unaffected by this change and continues to be available. This statement and ALTER TABLE ... REORGANIZE PARTITION may be used to analyze and optimize partitioned tables, since these operations cause the partition files to be rebuilt. In addition, it remains possible to use mysqlcheck on partitioned tables and myisamchk on partitioned MyISAM tables. (Bug#20129)

  • Incompatible Change: In MySQL 5.1.23, the last_errno and last_error members of the NET structure in mysql_com.h were renamed to client_last_errno and client_last_error. This was found to cause problems for connectors that use the internal NET structure for error handling. The change has been reverted. (Bug#34655)

    See also Bug#12713

  • Incompatible Change: For packages that are built within their own prefix (for example, /usr/local/mysql) the plugin directory will be lib/plugin. For packages that are built to be installed into a system-wide prefix (such as RPM packages with a prefix of /usr), the plugin directory will be lib/mysql/plugin to ensure a clean /usr/lib hierarchy. In both cases, the $pkglibdir configuration setting is used at build time to set the plugin directory.

    The current plugin directory location is available as the value of the plugin_dir system variable as before, but the mysql_config script now has a --plugindir option that can be used externally to the server by third-party plugin writers to obtain the default plugin directory pathname and configure their installation directory appropriately. (Bug#31736)

  • Important Change: Replication: When the master crashed during an update on a transactional table while in AUTOCOMMIT mode, the slave failed. This fix causes every transaction (including AUTOCOMMIT transactions) to be recorded in the binlog as starting with a BEGIN and ending with a COMMIT or ROLLBACK. (Bug#26395)

  • Important Change: It was possible to use FRAC_SECOND as a synonym for MICROSECOND with DATE_ADD(), DATE_SUB(), and INTERVAL; now, using FRAC_SECOND with anything other than TIMESTAMPADD() or TIMESTAMPDIFF() produces a syntax error.

    It is now possible (and preferable) to use MICROSECOND with TIMESTAMPADD() and TIMESTAMPDIFF(), and FRAC_SECOND is now deprecated. (Bug#33834)

  • Important Change: InnoDB free space information is now shown in the Data_free column of SHOW TABLE STATUS and in the DATA_FREE column of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES table. (Bug#32440)

    This regression was introduced by Bug#11379

  • Important Change: The server handled truncation of values having excess trailing spaces into CHAR, VARCHAR, and TEXT columns in different ways. This behavior has now been made consistent for columns of all three of these types, and now follows the existing behavior of VARCHAR columns in this regard; that is, a Note is always issued whenever such truncation occurs.

    This change does not affect columns of these three types when using a binary encoding; BLOB columns are also unaffected by the change, since they always use a binary encoding. (Bug#30059)

  • Important Change: An AFTER UPDATE trigger was not invoked when the UPDATE did not make any changes to the table for which the trigger was defined. Now AFTER UPDATE triggers behave the same in this regard as do BEFORE UPDATE triggers, which are invoked whether the UPDATE makes any changes in the table or not. (Bug#23771)

  • Replication: Important Note: Network timeouts between the master and the slave could result in corruption of the relay log. This fix rectifies a long-standing replication issue when using unreliable networks, including replication over wide area networks such as the Internet. If you experience reliability issues and see many You have an error in your SQL syntax errors on replication slaves, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to a MySQL version which includes this fix. (Bug#26489)

  • Partitioning: In some cases, matching rows from a partitioned MyISAM using a BIT column as the primary key were not found by queries. (Bug#34358)

  • Partitioning: Enabling innodb_file_per_table produced problems with partitioning and tablespace operations on partitioned InnoDB tables, in some cases leading to corrupt partitions or causing the server to crash. (Bug#33429)

  • Partitioning: A table defined using PARTITION BY KEY and having a BIT column referenced in the partitioning key did not behave correctly; some rows could be inserted into the wrong partition, causing wrong results to be returned from queries. (Bug#33379)

  • Partitioning: When ALTER TABLE DROP PARTITION was executed on a table on which there was a trigger, the statement failed with an error. This occurred even if the trigger did not reference any tables. (Bug#32943)

  • Partitioning: Currently, all partitions of a partitioned table must use the same storage engine. One may optinally specify the storage engine on a per-partition basis; however, where this is the done, the storage engine must be the same as used by the table as a whole. ALTER TABLE did not enforce these rules correctly, the result being that incaccurate error messages were shown when trying to use the statement to change the storage engine used by an individual partition or partitions. (Bug#31931)

  • Partitioning: Using the DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options for partitions with CREATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE statements appeared to work on Windows, although they are not supported by MySQL on Windows systems, and subsequent attempts to use the tables referenced caused errors. Now these options are disabled on Windows, and attempting to use them generates a warning. (Bug#30459)

  • Replication: The failure of a CREATE TABLE ... ENGINE=InnoDB ... SELECT statement caused the slave to lose data. (Bug#35762)

  • Replication: INSERT_ID was not written to the binary log for inserts into BLACKHOLE tables. (Bug#35178)

  • Replication: When using statement-based replication and a DELETE, UPDATE, or INSERT ... SELECT statement using a LIMIT clause is encountered, a warning that the statement is not safe to replicate in statement mode is now issued; when using MIXED mode, the statement is now replicated using the row-based format. (Bug#34768)

  • Replication: mysqlbinlog did not output the values of auto_increment_increment and auto_increment_offset when both were equal to their default values (for both of these variables, the default is 1). This meant that a binary log recorded by a client using the defaults for both variables and then replayed on another client using its own values for either or both of these variables produced erroneous results. (Bug#34732)

    See also Bug#31168

  • Replication: When the Windows version of mysqlbinlog read 4.1 binlogs containing LOAD DATA INFILE statements, it output backslashes as path separators, causing problems for client programs expecting forward slashes. In such cases, it now converts \\ to / in directory paths. (Bug#34355)

  • Replication: SHOW SLAVE STATUS failed when slave I/O was about to terminate. (Bug#34305)

  • Replication: The character sets and collations used for constant identifiers in stored procedures were not replicated correctly. (Bug#34289)

  • Replication: mysqlbinlog from a 5.1 or later MySQL distribution could not read binary logs generated by a 4.1 server when the logs contained LOAD DATA INFILE statements. (Bug#34141)

    This regression was introduced by Bug#32407

  • Replication: A CREATE USER, DROP USER, or RENAME USER statement that fails on the master, or that is a duplicate of any of these statements, is no longer written to the binlog; previously, either of these occurrences could cause the slave to fail.

    (Bug#33862)

    See also Bug#29749

  • Replication: SHOW BINLOG EVENTS could fail when the binlog contained one or more events whose size was close to the value of max_allowed_packet. (Bug#33413)

  • Replication: An extraneous ROLLBACK statement was written to the binary log by a connection that did not use any transactional tables. (Bug#33329)

  • Replication: mysqlbinlog failed to release all of its memory after terminating abnormally. (Bug#33247)

  • Replication: When a stored routine or trigger, running on a master that used MySQL 5.0 or MySQL 5.1.11 or earlier, performed an insert on an AUTO_INCREMENT column, the INSERT_ID value was not replicated correctly to a slave running MySQL 5.1.12 or later (including any MySQL 6.0 release). (Bug#33029)

    See also Bug#19630

  • Replication: The error message generated due to lack of a default value for an extra column was not sufficiently informative. (Bug#32971)

  • Replication: When a user variable was used inside an INSERT statement, the corresponding binlog event was not written to the binlog correctly. (Bug#32580)

  • Replication: When using row-based replication, deletes from a table with a foreign key constraint failed on the slave. (Bug#32468)

  • Replication: The --base64-output option for mysqlbinlog was not honored for all types of events. This interfered in some cases with performing point-in-time recovery. (Bug#32407)

  • Replication: SQL statements containing comments using -- syntax were not replayable by mysqlbinlog, even though such statements replicated correctly. (Bug#32205)

  • Replication: When using row-based replication from a master running MySQL 5.1.21 or earlier to a slave running 5.1.22 or later, updates of integer columns failed on the slave with Error in Unknown event: row application failed. (Bug#31583)

    This regression was introduced by Bug#21842

  • Replication: Replicating write, update, or delete events from a master running MySQL 5.1.15 or earlier to a slave running 5.1.16 or later caused the slave to crash. (Bug#31581)

  • Replication: When using row-based replication, the slave stopped when attempting to delete non-existent rows from a slave table without a primary key. In addition, no error was reported when this occurred. (Bug#31552)

  • Replication: Errors due to server ID conflicts were reported only in the slave's error log; now these errors are also shown in the Server_IO_State column in the output of SHOW SLAVE STATUS. (Bug#31316)

  • Replication: STOP SLAVE did not stop connection attempts properly. If the IO slave thread was attempting to connect, STOP SLAVE waited for the attempt to finish, sometimes for a long period of time, rather than stopping the slave immediately. (Bug#31024)

    See also Bug#30932

  • Replication: Issuing a DROP VIEW statement caused replication to fail if the view did not actually exist. (Bug#30998)

  • Replication: The effects of scheduled events were not always correctly reproduced on the slave when using row-based replication. (Bug#29020)

  • Replication: Setting server_id did not update its value for the current session. (Bug#28908)

  • Replication: Some older servers wrote events to the binary log using different numbering from what is currently used, even though the file format number in the file is the same. Slaves running MySQL 5.1.18 and later could not read these binary logs properly. Binary logs from these older versions now are recognized and event numbers are mapped to the current numbering so that they can be interpreted properly. (Bug#27779, Bug#32434)

    This regression was introduced by Bug#22583

  • Replication: MASTER_POS_WAIT() did not return NULL when the server was not a slave. (Bug#26622)

  • Replication: The inspecific error message Wrong parameters to function register_slave resulted when START SLAVE failed to register on the master due to excess length of any the slave server options --report-host, --report-user, or --report-password. An error message specific to each of these options is now returned in such cases. The new error messages are:

    • Failed to register slave: too long 'report-host'

    • Failed to register slave: too long 'report-user'

    • Failed to register slave; too long 'report-password'

    (Bug#22989)

    See also Bug#19328

  • Replication: START SLAVE UNTIL MASTER_LOG_POS=position issued on a slave that was using --log-slave-updates and that was involved in circular replication would cause the slave to run and stop one event later than that specified by the value of position. (Bug#13861)

  • Replication: PURGE BINARY LOGS TO and PURGE BINARY LOGS BEFORE did not handle missing binary log files correctly or in the same way. Now for both of these statements, if any files listed in the .index file are missing from the filesystem, the statement fails with an error.

  • Manually replacing a binary log file with a directory having the same name caused an error that was not handled correctly. (Bug#35675)

  • Using LOAD DATA INFILE with a view could crash the server. (Bug#35469)

  • Selecting from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.REFERENTIAL_CONSTRAINTS could cause a server crash. (Bug#35406)

    See also Bug#35108

  • For a TERMPORARY table, DELETE with no WHERE clause could fail when preceded by DELETE statements with a WHERE clause. (Bug#35392)

  • If the server crashed with an InnoDB error due to unavailability of undo slots, errors could persist during rollback when the server was restarted: There are two UNDO slot caches (for INSERT and UPDATE). If all slots end up in one of the slot caches, a request for a slot from the other slot cache would fail. This can happen if the request is for an UPDATE slot and all slots are in the INSERT slot cache, or vice versa. (Bug#35352)

  • In some cases, when too many clients tried to connect to the server, the proper SQLSTATE code was not returned. (Bug#35289)

  • Memory-allocation failures for attempts to set key_buffer_size to large values could result in a server crash. (Bug#35272)

  • In some cases, mysqld would crash during replication startup because InnoDB tried to parse a NULL query and failed. (Bug#35226)

  • For InnoDB tables, ALTER TABLE DROP failed if the name of the column to be dropped began with “foreign”. (Bug#35220)

  • Queries could return different results depending on whether ORDER BY columns were indexed. (Bug#35206)

  • When a view containing a reference to DUAL was created, the reference was removed when the definition was stored, causing some queries against the view to fail with invalid SQL syntax errors. (Bug#35193)

  • SELECT ... FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.REFERENTIAL_CONSTRAINTS caused the server to crash if the table referenced by a foreign key had been dropped. This issue was observed on Windows platforms only. (Bug#35108)

    See also Bug#35406

  • Debugging symbols were missing for some executables in Windows binary distributions. (Bug#35104)

  • Non-connection threads were being counted in the value of the Max_used_connections status variable. (Bug#35074)

  • A query that performed a ref_or_null join where the second table used a key having one or columns that could be NULL and had a column value that was NULL caused the server to crash. (Bug#34945)

    This regression was introduced by Bug#12144

  • For some queries, the optimizer used an ordered index scan for GROUP BY or DISTINCT when it was supposed to use a loose index scan, leading to incorrect results. (Bug#34928)

  • Creating a foreign key on an InnoDB table that was created with an explicit AUTO_INCREMENT value caused that value to be reset to 1. (Bug#34920)

  • mysqldump failed to return an error code when using the --master-data option without binary logging being enabled on the server. (Bug#34909)

  • Under some circumstances, the value of mysql_insert_id() following a SELECT ... INSERT statement could return an incorrect value. This could happen when the last SELECT ... INSERT did not involve an AUTO_INCREMENT column, but the value of mysql_insert_id() was changed by some previous statements. (Bug#34889)

  • Table and database names were mixed up in some places of the subquery transformation procedure. This could affect debugging trace output and further extensions of that procedure. (Bug#34830)

  • If fsync() returned ENOLCK, InnoDB could treat this as fatal and cause abnormal server termination. InnoDB now retries the operation. (Bug#34823)

  • CREATE SERVER and ALTER SERVER could crash the server if out-of-memory conditions occurred. (Bug#34790)

  • DROP SERVER does not release memory cached for server structures created by CREATE SERVER, so repeated iterations of these statements resulted in a memory leak. FLUSH PRIVILEGES now releases the memory allocated for CREATE SERVER. (Bug#34789)

  • A malformed URL used for a FEDERATED table's CONNECTION option value in a CREATE TABLE statement was not handled correctly and could crash the server. (Bug#34788)

  • Queries such as SELECT ROW(1, 2) IN (SELECT t1.a, 2) FROM t1 GROUP BY t1.a (combining row constructors and subqueries in the FROM clause) could lead to assertion failure or unexpected error messages. (Bug#34763)

  • Using NAME_CONST() with a negative number and an aggregate function caused MySQL to crash. This could also have a negative impact on replication. (Bug#34749)

  • A memory-handling error associated with use of GROUP_CONCAT() in subqueries could result in a server crash. (Bug#34747)

  • For an indexed integer column col_name and a value N that is one greater than the maximum value allowed for the data type of col_name, conditions of the form WHERE col_name < N failed to return rows where the value of col_name is N - 1. (Bug#34731)

  • A server running with the --debug option could attempt to dereference a null pointer when opening tables, resulting in a crash. (Bug#34726)

  • Assigning an “incremental” value to the debug system variable did not add the new value to the current value. For example, if the current debug value was 'T', the statement SET debug = '+P' resulted in a value of 'P' rather than the correct value of 'P:T'. (Bug#34678)

  • For debug builds, reading from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES or INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS could cause assertion failures. This could happen under rare circumstances when INFORMATION_SCHEMA fails to get information about a table (for example, when a connection is killed). (Bug#34656)

  • Executing a TRUNCATE statement on a table having both a foreign key reference and a DELETE trigger crashed the server. (Bug#34643)

  • Some subqueries using an expression that included an aggregate function could fail or in some cases lead to a crash of the server. (Bug#34620)

  • Dangerous pointer arithmetic crashed the server on some systems. (Bug#34598)

  • Creating a view inside a stored procedure could lead to a crash of the MySQL Server. (Bug#34587)

  • CAST(AVG(arg) AS DECIMAL) produced incorrect results for non-DECIMAL arguments. (Bug#34512)

  • The per-thread debugging settings stack was not being deallocated before thread termination, resulting in a stack memory leak. (Bug#34424)

  • Executing an ALTER VIEW statement on a table crashed the server. (Bug#34337)

  • InnoDB could crash if overflow occurred for an AUTO_INCREMENT column. (Bug#34335)

  • For InnoDB, exporting and importing a table could corrupt TINYBLOB columns, and a subsequent ALTER TABLE could corrupt TINYTEXT columns as well. (Bug#34300)

  • DEFAULT 0 was not allowed for the YEAR data type. (Bug#34274)

  • Under some conditions, a SET GLOBAL innodb_commit_concurrency or SET GLOBAL innodb_autoextend_increment statement could fail. (Bug#34223)

  • mysqldump attempts to set the character_set_results system variable after connecting to the server. This failed for pre-4.1 servers that have no such variable, but mysqldump did not account for this and 1) failed to dump database contents; 2) failed to produce any error message alerting the user to the problem. (Bug#34192)

  • Use of stored functions in the WHERE clause for SHOW OPEN TABLES caused a server crash. (Bug#34166)

  • For a FEDERATED table with an index on a nullable column, accessing the table could crash a server, return an incorrect result set, or return ERROR 1030 (HY000): Got error 1430 from storage engine. (Bug#33946)

  • Passing anything other than a integer to a LIMIT clause in a prepared statement would fail. (This limitation was introduced to avoid replication problems; for example, replicating the statement with a string argument would cause a parse failure in the slave). Now, arguments to the LIMIT clause are converted to integer values, and these converted values are used when logging the statement. (Bug#33851)

  • An internal buffer in mysql was too short. Overextending it could cause stack problems or segmentation violations on some architectures. (This is not a problem that could be exploited to run arbitrary code.) (Bug#33841)

  • A query using WHERE (column1='string1' AND column2=constant1) OR (column1='string2' AND column2=constant2), where col1 used a binary collation and string1 matched string2 except for case, failed to match any records even when matches were found by a query using the equivalent clause WHERE column2=constant1 OR column2=constant2. (Bug#33833)

  • Large unsigned integers were improperly handled for prepared statements, resulting in truncation or conversion to negative numbers. (Bug#33798)

  • Reuse of prepared statements could cause a memory leak in the embedded server. (Bug#33796)

  • The server crashed when executing a query that had a subquery containing an equality X=Y where Y referred to a named select list expression from the parent select. The server crashed when trying to use the X=Y equality for ref-based access. (Bug#33794)

  • Some queries using a combination of IN, CONCAT(), and an implicit type conversion could return an incorrect result. (Bug#33764)

  • In some cases a query that produced a result set when using ORDER BY ASC did not return any results when this was changed to ORDER BY DESC. (Bug#33758)

  • Disabling concurrent inserts caused some cacheable queries not to be saved in the query cache. (Bug#33756)

  • The UPDATE statement allowed NULL to be assigned to NOT NULL columns (the default data type value was assigned). An error occurs now. (Bug#33699)

  • ORDER BY ... DESC sorts could produce misordered results. (Bug#33697)

  • The server could crash when REPEAT or another control instruction was used in conjunction with labels and a LEAVE instruction. (Bug#33618)

  • The parser allowed control structures in compound statements to have mismatched beginning and ending labels. (Bug#33618)

  • make_binary_distribution passed the --print-libgcc-file option to the C compiler, but this does not work with the ICC compiler. (Bug#33536)

  • Threads created by the event scheduler were incorrectly counted against the max_connections thread limit, which could lead to client lockout. (Bug#33507)

  • Dropping a function after dropping the function's creator could cause the server to crash. (Bug#33464)

  • Certain combinations of views, subselects with outer references and stored routines or triggers could cause the server to crash. (Bug#33389)

  • SET GLOBAL myisam_max_sort_file_size=DEFAULT set myisam_max_sort_file_size to an incorrect value. (Bug#33382)

    See also Bug#31177

  • ENUM- or SET-valued plugin variables could not be set from the command line. (Bug#33358)

  • For InnoDB tables, there was a race condition involving the data dictionary and repartitioning. (Bug#33349)

  • Loading plugins via command-line options to mysqld could cause an assertion failure. (Bug#33345)

  • SLEEP(0) failed to return on 64-bit Mac OS X due to a bug in pthread_cond_timedwait(). (Bug#33304)

  • Using Control-R in the mysql client caused it to crash. (Bug#33288)

  • For MyISAM tables, CHECK TABLE (non-QUICK) and any form of REPAIR TABLE incorrected treated rows as corrupted under the combination of the following conditions:

    • The table had dynamic row format

    • The table had a CHAR (not VARCHAR) column longer than 127 bytes (for multi-byte character sets this could be less than 127 characters)

    • The table had rows with a signifcant length of more than 127 bytes significant length in that CHAR column (that is, a byte beyond byte position 127 must be a non-space character)

    This problem affected CHECK TABLE, REPAIR TABLE, OPTIMIZE TABLE, ALTER TABLE. CHECK TABLE reported and marked the table as crashed if any row was present that fulfilled the third condition. The other statements deleted these rows. (Bug#33222)

  • Granting the UPDATE privilege on one column of a view caused the server to crash. (Bug#33201)

  • For DECIMAL columns used with the ROUND(X,D) or TRUNCATE(X,D) function with a non-constant value of D, adding an ORDER BY for the function result produced misordered output. (Bug#33143)

    See also Bug#33402, Bug#30617

  • The CSV engine did not honor update requests for BLOB columns when the new column value had the same length as the value to be updated. (Bug#33067)

  • After receiving a SIGHUP signal, the server could crash, and user-specified log options were ignored when reopening the logs. (Bug#33065)

  • When MySQL was built with OpenSSL, the SSL library was not properly initialized with information of which endpoint it was (server or client), causing connection failures. (Bug#33050)

  • Under some circumstances a combination of aggregate functions and GROUP BY in a SELECT query over a view could lead to incorrect calculation of the result type of the aggregate function. This in turn could lead to incorrect results, or to crashes on debug builds of the server. (Bug#33049)

  • For DISTINCT queries, 4.0 and 4.1 stopped reading joined tables as soon as the first matching row was found. However, this optimzation was lost in MySQL 5.0, which instead read all matching rows. This fix for this regression may result in a major improvement in performance for DISTINCT queries in cases where many rows match. (Bug#32942)

  • Repeated creation and deletion of views within prepared statements could eventually crash the server. (Bug#32890)

    See also Bug#34587

  • Incorrect assertions could cause a server crash for DELETE triggers for transactional tables. (Bug#32790)

  • In some cases where setting a system variable failed, no error was sent to the client, causing the client to hang. (Bug#32757)

  • Enabling the PAD_CHAR_TO_FULL_LENGTH SQL mode caused privilege-loading operations (such as FLUSH PRIVILEGES) to include trailing spaces from grant table values stored in CHAR columns. Authentication for incoming connections failed as a result. Now privilege loading does not include trailing spaces, regardless of SQL mode. (Bug#32753)

  • The SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS and SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX statements incorrectly required the SUPER privilege rather than the PROCESS privilege. (Bug#32710)

  • Inserting strings with a common prefix into a table that used the ucs2 character set corrupted the table. (Bug#32705)

  • Tables in the mysql database that stored the current sql_mode value as part of stored program definitions were not updated with newer mode values (NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION, PAD_CHAR_TO_FULL_LENGTH). This causes various problems defining stored programs if those modes were included in the current sql_mode value. (Bug#32633)

  • A view created with a string literal for one of the columns picked up the connection character set, but not the collation. Comparison to that field therefore used the default collation for that character set, causing an error if the connection collation was not compatible with the default collation. The problem was caused by text literals in a view being dumped with a character set introducer even when this was not necessary, sometimes leading to a loss of collation information. Now the character set introducer is dumped only if it was included in the original query. (Bug#32538)

    See also Bug#21505

  • Queries using LIKE on tables having indexed CHAR columns using either of the eucjpms or ujis character sets did not return correct results. (Bug#32510)

  • Executing a prepared statement associated with a materialized cursor sent to the client a metadata packet with incorrect table and database names. The problem occurred because the server sent the the name of the temporary table used by the cursor instead of the table name of the original table.

    The same problem occured when selecting from a view, in which case the name of the table name was sent, rather than the name of the view. (Bug#32265)

  • InnoDB adaptive hash latches could be held too long, resulting in a server crash. This fix may also provide significant performance improvements on systems on which many queries using filesorts with temporary tables are being performed. (Bug#32149)

  • On Windows, mysqltest_embedded.exe did not properly execute the send command. (Bug#32044)

  • A variable named read_only could be declared even though that is a reserved word. (Bug#31947)

  • On Windows, the build process failed with four parallel build threads. (Bug#31929)

  • Queries testing numeric constants containing leading zeroes against ZEROFILL columns were not evaluated correctly. (Bug#31887)

  • If an error occurred during file creation, the server sometimes did not remove the file, resulting in an unused file in the filesystem. (Bug#31781)

  • The mysqld crash handler failed on Windows. (Bug#31745)

  • The server returned the error message Out of memory; restart server and try again when the actual problem was that the sort buffer was too small. Now an appropriate error message is returned in such cases. (Bug#31590)

  • A table having an index that included a BLOB or TEXT column, and that was originally created with a MySQL server using version 4.1 or earlier, could not be opened by a 5.1 or later server. (Bug#31331)

  • The -, *, and / operators and the functions POW() and EXP() could misbehave when used with floating-point numbers. Previously they might return +INF, -INF, or NaN in cases of numeric overflow (including that caused by division by zero) or when invalid arguments were used. Now NULL is returned in all such cases. (Bug#31236)

  • The mysql_change_user() C API function caused global Com_xxx status variable values to be incorrect. (Bug#31222)

  • When sorting privilege table rows, the server treated escaped wildcard characters (\% and \_) the same as unescaped wildcard characters (% and _), resulting in incorrect row ordering. (Bug#31194)

  • On Windows, SHOW PROCESSLIST could display process entries with a State value of *** DEAD ***. (Bug#30960)

  • ROUND(X,D) or TRUNCATE(X,D) for non-constant values of D could crash the server if these functions were used in an ORDER BY that was resolved using filesort. (Bug#30889)

  • Resetting the query cache by issuing a SET GLOBAL query_cache_size=0 statement caused the server to crash if it concurrently was saving a new result set to the query cache. (Bug#30887)

  • Manifest problems prevented MySQLInstanceConfig.exe from running on Windows Vista. (Bug#30823)

  • If an alias was used to refer to the value returned by a stored function within a subselect, the outer select recognized the alias but failed to retrieve the value assigned to it in the subselect. (Bug#30787)

  • Binary logging for a stored procedure differed depending on whether or not execution occurred in a prepared statement. (Bug#30604)

  • Replication of LOAD DATA INFILE could fail when read_buffer_size was larger than max_allowed_packet. (Bug#30435)

  • An orphaned PID file from a no-longer-running process could cause mysql.server to wait for that process to exit even though it does not exist. (Bug#30378)

  • The Table_locks_waited waited variable was not incremented in the cases that a lock had to be waited for but the waiting thread was killed or the request was aborted. (Bug#30331)

  • The Com_create_function status variable was not incremented properly. (Bug#30252)

  • View metadata returned from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS was changed by the fix for Bug#11986, causing the information returned in MySQL 5.1 to differ from that returned in 5.0. (Bug#30217)

  • mysqld displayed the --enable-pstack option in its help message even if MySQL was configured without --with-pstack. (Bug#29836)

  • The mysql_config command would output CFLAGS values that were incompatible with C++ for the HP-UX platform. (Bug#29645)

  • Replication crashed with the NDB storage engine when mysqld was started with --character-set-server=ucs2. (Bug#29562)

  • Views were treated as insertable even if some base table columns with no default value were omitted from the view definition. (This is contrary to the condition for insertability that a view must contain all columns in the base table that do not have a default value.) (Bug#29477)

  • myisamchk always reported the character set for a table as latin1_swedish_ci (8) regardless of the table' actual character set. (Bug#29182)

  • InnoDB could return an incorrect rows-updated value for UPDATE statements. (Bug#29157)

  • The MySQL preferences pane did not work to start or stop MySQL on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). (Bug#28854)

  • For upgrading to a new major version using RPM packages (such as 4.1 to 5.0), if the installation procedure found an existing MySQL server running, it could fail to shut down the old server, but also erroneously removed the server's socket file. Now the procedure checks for an existing server package from a different vendor or major MySQL version. In such case, it refuses to install the server and recommends how to safely remove the old packages before installing the new ones. (Bug#28555)

  • mysqlhotcopy silently skipped databases with names consisting of two alphanumeric characters. (Bug#28460)

  • No information was written to the general query log for the COM_STMT_CLOSE, COM_STMT_RESET, and COM_STMT_SEND_LONG_DATA commands. (These occur when a client invokes the mysql_stmt_close(), mysql_stmt_reset() and mysql_stmt_send_long_data() C API functions.) (Bug#28386)

  • Previously, the parser accepted the ODBC { OJ ... LEFT OUTER JOIN ...} syntax for writing left outer joins. The parser now allows { OJ ... } to be used to write other types of joins, such as INNER JOIN or RIGHT OUTER JOIN. This helps with compatibility with some third-party applications, but is not official ODBC syntax. (Bug#28317)

  • The FEDERATED storage engine did not perform identifier quoting for column names that are reserved words when sending statements to the remote server. (Bug#28269)

  • The SQL parser did not accept an empty UNION=() clause. This meant that, when there were no underlying tables specified for a MERGE table, SHOW CREATE TABLE and mysqldump both output statements that could not be executed.

    Now it is possible to execute a CREATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE statement with an empty UNION=() clause. However, SHOW CREATE TABLE and mysqldump do not output the UNION=() clause if there are no underlying tables specified for a MERGE table. This also means it is now possible to remove the underlying tables for a MERGE table using ALTER TABLE ... UNION=(). (Bug#28248)

  • The utf8_general_ci collation incorrectly did not sort "U+00DF SHARP S" equal to 's'. (Bug#27877)

  • It was possible to exhaust memory by repeatedly running index_merge queries and never performing any FLUSH TABLES statements. (Bug#27732)

  • When utf8 was set as the connection character set, using SPACE() with a non-Unicode column produced an error. (Bug#27580)

    See also Bug#23637

  • The parser rules for the SHOW PROFILE statement were revised to work with older versions of bison. (Bug#27433)

  • resolveip failed to produce correct results for hostnames that begin with a digit. (Bug#27427)

  • In ORDER BY clauses, mixing aggregate functions and non-grouping columns is not allowed if the ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY SQL mode is enabled. However, in some cases, no error was thrown because of insufficient checking. (Bug#27219)

  • For the --record_log_pos option, mysqlhotcopy now determines the slave status information from the result of SHOW SLAVE STATUS by using the Relay_Master_Log_File and Exec_Master_Log_Pos values rather than the Master_Log_File and Read_Master_Log_Pos values. This provides a more accurate indication of slave execution relative to the master. (Bug#27101)

  • Memory corruption, a crash of the MySQL server, or both, could take place if a low-level I/O error occurred while an ARCHIVE table was being opened. (Bug#26978)

  • DROP DATABASE failed for attempts to drop databases with names that contained the legacy #mysql50# name prefix. (Bug#26703)

  • config-win.h unconditionally defined bool as BOOL, causing problems on systems where bool is 1 byte and BOOL is 4 bytes. (Bug#26461)

  • On Windows, for distributions built with debugging support, mysql could crash if the user typed Control-C. (Bug#26243)

  • When symbolic links were disabled, either with a server startup option or by enabling the NO_DIR_IN_CREATE SQL mode, CREATE TABLE silently ignored the DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY table options. Now the server issues a warning if symbolic links are disabled when these table options are used. (Bug#25677)

  • Attempting to create an index with a prefix on a DECIMAL column appeared to succeed with an inaccurate warning message. Now, this action fails with the error Incorrect prefix key; the used key part isn't a string, the used length is longer than the key part, or the storage engine doesn't support unique prefix keys. (Bug#25426)

  • mysqlcheck -A -r did not correctly identify all tables that needed repairing. (Bug#25347)

  • On Windows, an error in configure.js caused installation of source distributions to fail. (Bug#25340)

  • The Qcache_free_blocks status variable did not display a value of 0 if the query cache was disabled. (Bug#25132)

  • The client library had no way to return an error if no connection had been established. This caused problems such as mysql_library_init() failing silently if no errmsg.sys file was available. (Bug#25097)

  • On Mac OS X, the StartupItem for MySQL did not work. (Bug#25008)

  • For Windows 64-bit builds, enabling shared-memory support caused client connections to fail. (Bug#24992)

  • mysql did not use its completion table. Also, the table contained few entries. (Bug#24624)

  • If a user installed MySQL Server and set a password for the root user, and then uninstalled and reinstalled MySQL Server to the same location, the user could not use the MySQL Instance Config wizard to configure the server because the uninstall operation left the previous data directory intact. The config wizard assumed that any new install (not an upgrade) would have the default data directory where the root user has no password. The installer now writes a registry key named FoundExistingDataDir. If the installer finds an existing data directory, the key will have a value of 1, otherwise it will have a value of 0. When MySQLInstanceConfig.exe is run, it will attempt to read the key. If it can read the key, and the value is 1 and there is no existing instance of the server (indicating a new installation), the Config Wizard will allow the user to input the old password so the server can be configured. (Bug#24215)

  • Logging of statements to log tables was incorrect for statements that contained utf8-incompatible binary strings. Incompatible sequences are hex-encoded now. (Bug#23924)

  • The MySQL header files contained some duplicate macro definitions that could cause compilation problems. (Bug#23839)

  • SHOW COLUMNS on a TEMPOARY table caused locking issues. (Bug#23588)

  • For distributions compiled with the bundled libedit library, there were difficulties using the mysql client to enter input for non-ASCII or multi-byte characters. (Bug#23097)

  • perror reported incomplete or inaccurate information. (Bug#23028, Bug#25177)

  • InnoDB exhibited thread thrashing with more than 50 concurrent connections under an update-intensive workload. (Bug#22868)

  • After stopping and starting the event scheduler, disabled events could remain in the execution queue. (Bug#22738)

  • The server produced a confusing error message when attempting to open a table that required a storage engine that was not loaded. (Bug#22708)

  • For views or stored programs created with an invalid DEFINER value, the error message was confusing (did not tie the problem to the DEFINER clause) and has been improved. (Bug#21854)

  • Warnings for deprecated syntax constructs used in stored routines make sense to report only when the routine is being created, but they were also being reported when the routine was parsed for loading into the execution cache. Now they are reported only at routine creation time. (Bug#21801)

  • Renaming a column that appeared in a foreign key definition did not update that definition with the new column name. This occurred with both referenced and referencing tables. (Bug#21704)

  • On Mac OS X, mysqld did not react to Ctrl-C when run under gdb, even when run with the --gdb option. (Bug#21567)

  • CREATE ... SELECT did not always set DEFAULT column values in the new table. (Bug#21380)

  • mysql_config output did not include -lmygcc on some platforms when it was needed. (Bug#21158)

  • mysql-stress-test.pl and mysqld_multi.server.sh were missing from some binary distributions. (Bug#21023, Bug#25486)

  • The BENCHMARK() function, invoked with more than 2147483648 iterations (the size of a signed 32-bit integer), terminated prematurely. (Bug#20752)

  • mysqldumpslow returned a confusing error message when no configuration file was found. (Bug#20455)

  • MySQLInstanceConfig.exe could lose the innodb_data_home_dir setting when reconfiguring an instance. (Bug#19797)

  • DROP DATABASE did not drop orphaned FOREIGN KEY constraints. (Bug#18942)

  • CREATE TABLE allowed 0 as the default value for a TIMESTAMP column when the server was running in NO_ZERO_DATE mode. (Bug#18834)

  • A SET column whose definition specified 64 elements could not be updated using integer values. (Bug#15409)

  • If a SELECT calls a stored function in a transaction, and a statement within the function fails, that statement should roll back. Furthermore, if ROLLBACK is executed after that, the entire transaction should be rolled back. Before this fix, the failed statement did not roll back when it failed (even though it might ultimately get rolled back by a ROLLBACK later that rolls back the entire transaction). (Bug#12713)

    See also Bug#34655

  • The parser incorrectly allowed SQLSTATE '00000' to be specified for a condition handler. (This is incorrect because the condition must be a failure condition and '00000' indicates success.) (Bug#8759)

  • MySQLInstanceConfig.exe did not save the innodb_data_home_dir value to the my.ini file under certain circumstances. (Bug#6627)

C.1.6. Changes in MySQL 5.1.23 (29 January 2008)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Important Change: Partitioning: Security Fix: It was possible, by creating a partitioned table using the DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options to gain privileges on other tables having the same name as the partitioned table. As a result of this fix, any table-level DATA DIRECTORY or INDEX DIRECTORY options are now ignored for partitioned tables. (Bug#32091, CVE-2007-5970)

    See also Bug#29325, Bug#32111

  • Incompatible Change: In MySQL 5.1.6, when log tables were implemented, the default log destination for the general query and slow query log was TABLE. This default has been changed to FILE, which is compatible with MySQL 5.0, but incompatible with earlier releases of MySQL 5.1 from 5.1.6 to 5.1.20. If you are upgrading from MySQL 5.0 to this release, no logging option changes should be necessary. However, if you are upgrading from 5.1.6 through 5.1.20 to this release and were using TABLE logging, use the --log-output=TABLE option explicitly to preserve your server's table-logging behavior.

    In MySQL 5.1.x, this bug was addressed twice because it turned out that the default was set in two places, only one of which was fixed the first time. (Bug#29993)

  • Incompatible Change

    The parser accepted statements that contained /* ... */ that were not properly closed with */, such as SELECT 1 /* + 2. Statements that contain unclosed /*-comments now are rejected with a syntax error.

    This fix has the potential to cause incompatibilities. Because of Bug#26302, which caused the trailing */ to be truncated from comments in views, stored routines, triggers, and events, it is possible that objects of those types may have been stored with definitions that now will be rejected as syntactically invalid. Such objects should be dropped and re-created so that their definitions do not contain truncated comments. (Bug#28779)

  • MySQL Cluster: The following improvements have been made in the ndb_size.pl utility:

    • The script can now be used with multiple databases; lists of databases and tables can also be excluded from analysis.

    • Schema name information has been added to index table calculations.

    • The database name is now an optional parameter, the exclusion of which causes all databases to be examined.

    • If selecting from INFORMATION_SCHEMA fails, the script now attempts to fall back to SHOW TABLES.

    • A --real_table_name option has been added; this designates a table to handle unique index size calculations.

    • The report title has been amended to cover cases where more than one database is being analyzed.

    Support for a --socket option was also added.

    For more information, see Section 20.10.15, “ndb_size.pl — NDBCLUSTER Size Requirement Estimator”. (Bug#28683, Bug#28253)

  • MySQL Cluster: Mapping of NDB error codes to MySQL storage engine error codes has been improved. (Bug#28423)

  • MySQL Cluster: The output from the cluster management client showing the progress of data node starts has been improved. (Bug#23354)

  • Partitioning: Error messages for partitioning syntax errors have been made more descriptive. (Bug#29368)

  • Replication: Replication of the following SQL functions now switches to row-based logging in MIXED mode, and generates a warning in STATEMENT mode:

    See Section 5.2.4.3, “Mixed Binary Logging Format”, for more information. (Bug#12092, Bug#28086, Bug#30244)

  • mysqltest now has a change_user command to change the user for the current connection. (It invokes the mysql_change_user() C API function.) (Bug#31608)

  • mysql-test-run.pl now allows a suite name prefix to be specified in command-line arguments that name test cases. The test name syntax now is [suite_name.]test_name[.suffix]. For example, mysql-test-run.pl binlog.mytest runs the mytest.test test in the binlog test suite. (Bug#31400)

  • The --event-scheduler option without a value disabled the event scheduler. Now it enables the event scheduler. (Bug#31332)

  • mysqldump produces a -- Dump completed on DATE comment at the end of the dump if --comments is given. The date causes dump files for identical data take at different times to appear to be different. The new options --dump-date and --skip-dump-date control whether the date is added to the comment. --skip-dump-date suppresses date printing. The default is --dump-date (include the date in the comment). (Bug#31077)

  • Server parser performance was improved for expression parsing by lowering the number of state transitions and reductions needed. (Bug#30625)

  • Server parser performance was improved for identifier lists, expression lists, and UDF expression lists. (Bug#30333)

  • Server parser performance was improved for boolean expressions. (Bug#30237)

  • The LAST_EXECUTED column of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.EVENTS table now indicates when the event started executing rather than when it finished executing. As a result, the ENDS column is never less than LAST_EXECUTED. (Bug#29830)

  • The mysql_odbc_escape_string() C API function has been removed. It has multi-byte character escaping issues, doesn't honor the NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES SQL mode and is not needed anymore by Connector/ODBC as of 3.51.17. (Bug#29592)

  • If a MyISAM table is created with no DATA DIRECTORY option, the .MYD file is created in the database directory. By default, if MyISAM finds an existing .MYD file in this case, it overwrites it. The same applies to .MYI files for tables created with no INDEX DIRECTORY option. To suppress this behavior, start the server with the new --keep_files_on_create option, in which case MyISAM will not overwrite existing files and returns an error instead. (Bug#29325)

  • The default value of the connect_timeout system variable was increased from 5 to 10 seconds. This might help in cases where clients frequently encounter errors of the form Lost connection to MySQL server at 'XXX', system error: errno. (Bug#28359)

  • MySQL now can be compiled with gcc 4.2.x. There was a problem involving a conflict with the min() and max() macros in my_global.h. (Bug#28184)

  • The argument for the mysql-test-run.pl --do-test and --skip-test options is now interpreted as a Perl regular expression if there is a pattern metacharacter in the argument value. This allows more flexible specification of which tests to perform or skip.

Bugs fixed:

  • Security Fix: Replication: It was possible for any connected user to issue a BINLOG statement, which could be used to escalate privileges.

    Use of the BINLOG statement now requires the SUPER privilege. (Bug#31611, CVE-2007-6313)

  • Security Fix: Three vulnerabilities in yaSSL versions 1.7.5 and earlier were discovered that could lead to a server crash or execution of unauthorized code. The exploit requires a server with yaSSL enabled and TCP/IP connections enabled, but does not require valid MySQL account credentials. The exploit does not apply to OpenSSL.

    Note

    The proof-of-concept exploit is freely available on the Internet. Everyone with a vulnerable MySQL configuration is advised to upgrade immediately.

    (Bug#33814, CVE-2008-0226, CVE-2008-0227)

  • Security Fix: Using RENAME TABLE against a table with explicit DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options can be used to overwrite system table information by replacing the symbolic link points. the file to which the symlink points.

    MySQL will now return an error when the file to which the symlink points already exists. (Bug#32111, CVE-2007-5969)

  • Security Fix: ALTER VIEW retained the original DEFINER value, even when altered by another user, which could allow that user to gain the access rights of the view. Now ALTER VIEW is allowed only to the original definer or users with the SUPER privilege. (Bug#29908)

  • Security Fix: When using a FEDERATED table, the local server could be forced to crash if the remote server returned a result with fewer columns than expected. (Bug#29801)

  • Security Enhancement: It was possible to force an error message of excessive length which could lead to a buffer overflow. This has been made no longer possible as a security precaution. (Bug#32707)

  • Important Change: Incompatible Change: A number of problems existed in the implementation of MERGE tables that could cause problems. The problems are summarized below:

    • Bug#26379 - Combination of FLUSH TABLE and REPAIR TABLE corrupts a MERGE table. This was caused in a number of situations:

      1. A thread trying to lock a MERGE table performs busy waiting while REPAIR TABLE or a similar table administration task is ongoing on one or more of its MyISAM tables.

      2. A thread trying to lock a MERGE table performs busy waiting until all threads that did REPAIR TABLE or similar table administration tasks on one or more of its MyISAM tables in LOCK TABLES segments do UNLOCK TABLES. The difference against problem #1 is that the busy waiting takes place after the administration task. It is terminated by UNLOCK TABLES only.

      3. Two FLUSH TABLES within a LOCK TABLES segment can invalidate the lock. This does not require a MERGE table. The first FLUSH TABLES can be replaced by any statement that requires other threads to reopen the table. In 5.0 and 5.1 a single FLUSH TABLES can provoke the problem.

    • Bug#26867 - Simultaneously executing LOCK TABLES and REPAIR TABLE on a MERGE table would result in memory/cpu hogging.

      Trying DML on a MERGE table, which has a child locked and repaired by another thread, made an infinite loop in the server.

    • Bug#26377 - Deadlock with MERGE and FLUSH TABLE

      Locking a MERGE table and its children in parent-child order and flushing the child deadlocked the server.

    • Bug#25038 - Waiting TRUNCATE

      Truncating a MERGE child, while the MERGE table was in use, let the truncate fail instead of waiting for the table to become free.

    • Bug#25700 - MERGE base tables get corrupted by OPTIMIZE/ANALYZE/REPAIR TABLE

      Repairing a child of an open MERGE table corrupted the child. It was necessary to FLUSH the child first.

    • Bug#30275 - MERGE tables: FLUSH TABLES or UNLOCK TABLES causes server to crash.

      Flushing and optimizing locked MERGE children crashed the server.

    • Bug#19627 - temporary merge table locking

      Use of a temporary MERGE table with non-temporary children could corrupt the children.

      Temporary tables are never locked. Creation of tables with non-temporary children of a temporary MERGE table is now prohibited.

    • Bug#27660 - Falcon: MERGE table possible

      It was possible to create a MERGE table with non-MyISAM children.

    • Bug#30273 - MERGE tables: Can't lock file (errno: 155)

      This was a Windows-only bug. Table administration statements sometimes failed with "Can't lock file (errno: 155)".

    The fix introduces the following changes in behavior:

    • This patch changes the behavior of temporary MERGE tables. Temporary MERGE must have temporary children. The old behavior was wrong. A temporary table is not locked. Hence even non-temporary children were not locked. See Bug#19627.

    • You cannot change the union list of a non-temporary MERGE table when LOCK TABLES is in effect. The following does not work:

      CREATE TABLE m1 ... ENGINE=MRG_MYISAM ...;
      LOCK TABLES t1 WRITE, t2 WRITE, m1 WRITE;
      ALTER TABLE m1 ... UNION=(t1,t2) ...;
      

      However, you can do this with a temporary MERGE table.

    • You cannot create a MERGE table with CREATE ... SELECT, neither as a temporary MERGE table, nor as a non-temporary MERGE table. For example, CREATE TABLE m1 ... ENGINE=MRG_MYISAM ... SELECT ...; causes the error message: table is not BASE TABLE.

    (Bug#19627, Bug#25038, Bug#25700, Bug#26377, Bug#26379, Bug#26867, Bug#27660, Bug#30275, Bug#30491)

  • Incompatible Change: It is no longer possible to create CSV tables with NULL columns. However, for backwards compatibility, you can continue to use such tables that were created in previous MySQL releases. (Bug#32050)

  • Incompatible Change: With ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY SQL mode enabled, queries such as SELECT a FROM t1 HAVING COUNT(*)>2 were not being rejected as they should have been.

    This bugfix results in the following behavior:

    • There is a check against mixing group and non-group columns only when ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY is enabled.

    • This check is done both for the select list and for the HAVING clause if there is one.

    This behavior differs from previous versions as follows:

    • Previously, the HAVING clause was not checked when ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY was enabled; now it is checked.

    • Previously, the select list was checked even when ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY was not enabled; now it is checked only when ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY is enabled.

    (Bug#31794)

  • Incompatible Change: Inserting a row with a NULL value for a DATETIME column results in a CSV file that the storage engine cannot read.

    All CSV tables now need to be defined with each column marked as NOT NULL. An error is raised if you try to create a CSV table with columns that are not defined with NOT NULL. (Bug#31473, Bug#32817)

  • Incompatible Change: SET PASSWORD statements now cause an implicit commit, and thus are prohibited within stored functions and triggers. (Bug#30904)

  • Incompatible Change: The mysql_install_db script could fail to locate some components (including resolveip) during execution if the --basedir option was specified on the command-line or within the my.cnf file. This was due to a conflict when comparing the compiled-in values and the supplied values.

    The --source-install command-line option to the script has been removed and replaced with the --srcdir option. mysql_install_db now locates components either using the compiled-in options, the --basedir option or --srcdir option. (Bug#30759)

  • Incompatible Change: Multiple-table DELETE statements containing ambiguous aliases could have unintended side effects such as deleting rows from the wrong table. Example:

    DELETE FROM t1 AS a2 USING t1 AS a1 INNER JOIN t2 AS a2;
    

    Now alias declarations can be declared only in the table_references part. Elsewhere in the statement, alias references are allowed but not alias declarations. Statements containing aliases that are no longer allowed must be rewritten. (Bug#30234)

    See also Bug#27525

  • Incompatible Change: Within a stored routine, it is no longer allowable to declare a cursor for a SHOW statement. This happened to work in some instances, but is no longer supported. (Bug#29223)

  • Incompatible Change: Several type-preserving functions and operators returned an incorrect result type that does not match their argument types: COALESCE(), IF(), IFNULL(), LEAST(), GREATEST(), CASE. These now aggregate using the precise SQL types of their arguments rather than the internal type. In addition, the result type of the STR_TO_DATE() function is now DATETIME by default. (Bug#27216)

  • Incompatible Change: GRANT and REVOKE statements now cause an implicit commit, and thus are prohibited within stored functions and triggers. (Bug#21975, Bug#21422, Bug#17244)

  • Incompatible Change: It was possible for option files to be read twice at program startup, if some of the standard option file locations turned out to be the same directory. Now duplicates are removed from the list of files to be read.

    Also, users could not override system-wide settings using ~/.my.cnf because SYSCONFDIR/my.cnf was read last. The latter file now is read earlier so that ~/.my.cnf can override system-wide settings. (Bug#20748)

  • Important Change: MySQL Cluster: AUTO_INCREMENT columns had the following problems when used in NDB tables:

    • The AUTO_INCREMENT counter was not updated correctly when such a column was updated.

    • AUTO_INCREMENT values were not prefetched beyond statement boundaries.

    • AUTO_INCREMENT values were not handled correctly with INSERT IGNORE statements.

    • After being set, ndb_autoincrement_prefetch_sz showed a value of 1, regardless of the value it had actually been set to.

    As part of this fix, the behavior of ndb_autoincrement_prefetch_sz has changed. Setting this to less than 32 no longer has any effect on prefetching within statements (where IDs are now always obtained in batches of 32 or more), but only between statements. The default value for this variable has also changed, and is now 1. (Bug#25176, Bug#31956, Bug#32055)

  • Partitioning: Important Note: An apostrophe or single quote character (') used in the DATA DIRECTORY, INDEX DIRECTORY, or COMMENT for a PARTITION clause caused the server to crash. When used as part of a CREATE TABLE statement, the crash was immediate. When used in an ALTER TABLE statement, the crash did not occur until trying to perform a SELECT or DML statement on the table. In either case, the server could not be completely restarted until the .FRM file corresponding to the newly created or altered table was deleted.

    Note

    Upgrading to the current (or later) release solves this problem only for tables that are newly created or altered. Tables created or altered in previous versions of the server to include ' characters in PARTITION options must still be removed by deleting the corresponding .FRM files and re-creating them afterwards.

    (Bug#30695)

  • Important Note: The RENAME DATABASE statement was removed and replaced with ALTER DATABASE db_name UPGRADE DATA DIRECTORY NAME. The RENAME DATABASE statement was intended for upgrading database directory names to the encoding format used in 5.1 for representing identifiers in the filesystem (see Section 8.2.3, “Mapping of Identifiers to Filenames”). However, the statement was found to be dangerous because it could result in loss of database contents. See Section 12.1.18, “RENAME DATABASE Syntax” and Section 12.1.1, “ALTER DATABASE Syntax”. (Bug#17565, Bug#21741, Bug#28360)

  • Replication: MySQL Cluster: Row-based replication from or to a big-endian machine where the table used the NDB storage engine failed, if the same table on the other machine was either non-NDB or the other machine was little-endian. (Bug#29549, Bug#30790)

    See also Bug#24231, Bug#30024, Bug#30133, Bug#30134

  • MySQL Cluster: An improperly reset internal signal was observed as a hang when using events in the NDB API but could result in various errors. (Bug#33206)

  • MySQL Cluster: Incorrectly handled parameters could lead to a crash in the Transaction Coordinator during a node failure, causing other data nodes to fail. (Bug#33168)

  • MySQL Cluster: A memory leak occurred if a subscription start request was received by the subscription manager before the node making the request was fully connected to the cluster. (Bug#32652)

  • MySQL Cluster: A local checkpoint could sometimes be started before the previous LCP was restorable from a global checkpoint. (Bug#32519)

  • MySQL Cluster: High numbers of API nodes on a slow or congested network could cause connection negotiation to time out prematurely, leading to the following issues:

    • Excessive retries

    • Excessive CPU usage

    • Partially connected API nodes

    (Bug#32359)

  • MySQL Cluster: When a mysqld acting as a cluster SQL node starts the NDBCLUSTER storage engine, there is a delay during which some necessary data structures cannot be initialized until after it has connected to the cluster, and all MySQL Cluster tables should be opened as read-only. This worked correctly when the NDB binlog thread was running, but when it was not running, Cluster tables were not opened as read-only even when the data structures had not yet been set up. (Bug#32275, Bug#33763)

  • MySQL Cluster: The failure of a master node could lead to subsequent failures in local checkpointing. (Bug#32160)

  • MySQL Cluster: The management server was slow to respond when no data nodes were connected to the cluster. This was most noticeable when running SHOW in the management client. (Bug#32023)

  • MySQL Cluster: An error with an if statement in sql/ha_ndbcluster.cc could potentially lead to an infinite loop in case of failure when working with AUTO_INCREMENT columns in NDB tables. (Bug#31810)

  • MySQL Cluster: The NDB storage engine code was not safe for strict-alias optimization in gcc 4.2.1. (Bug#31761)

  • MySQL Cluster: It was possible in some cases for a node group to be “lost” due to missed local checkpoints following a system restart. (Bug#31525)

  • MySQL Cluster: A query against a table with TEXT or BLOB columns that would return more than a certain amount of data failed with Got error 4350 'Transaction already aborted' from NDBCLUSTER. (Bug#31482)

    This regression was introduced by Bug#29102

  • MySQL Cluster: NDB tables having names containing non-alphanumeric characters (such as “ $ ”) were not discovered correctly. (Bug#31470)

  • MySQL Cluster: A node failure during a local checkpoint could lead to a subsequent failure of the cluster during a system restart. (Bug#31257)

  • MySQL Cluster: A cluster restart could sometimes fail due to an issue with table IDs. (Bug#30975)

  • MySQL Cluster: When handling BLOB columns, the addition of read locks to the lock queue was not handled correctly. (Bug#30764)

  • MySQL Cluster: Discovery of NDB tables did not work correctly with INFORMATION_SCHEMA. (Bug#30667)

  • MySQL Cluster: A filesystem close operation could fail during a node or system restart. (Bug#30646)

  • MySQL Cluster: Transaction timeouts were not handled well in some circumstances, leading to excessive number of transactions being aborted unnecessarily. (Bug#30379)

  • MySQL Cluster: The cluster management client could not connect, and would hang instead. This issue affected Mac OS X 64-bit only. (Bug#30366)

  • MySQL Cluster: Attempting to restore a backup made on a cluster host using one endian to a machine using the other endian could cause the cluster to fail. (Bug#29674)

  • MySQL Cluster: Log event requests to ndb_mgmd could time out, causing it to fail. (Bug#29621)

  • MySQL Cluster: In some cases, the cluster managment server logged entries multiple times following a restart of mgmd. (Bug#29565)

  • MySQL Cluster: ndb_mgm --help did not display any information about the -a option. (Bug#29509)

  • MySQL Cluster: An interpreted program of sufficient size and complexity could cause all cluster data nodes to shut down due to buffer overruns. (Bug#29390)

  • MySQL Cluster: ndb_size.pl failed on tables with FLOAT columns whose definitions included commas (for example, FLOAT(6,2)). (Bug#29228)

  • MySQL Cluster: The error message for NDB error code 275 (Out of transaction records for complete phase) was missing. (Bug#29139)

  • MySQL Cluster: Reads on BLOB columns were not locked when they needed to be to guarantee consistency. (Bug#29102)

    See also Bug#31482

  • MySQL Cluster: A query using joins between several large tables and requiring unique index lookups failed to complete, eventually returning Uknown Error after a very long period of time. This occurred due to inadequate handling of instances where the Transaction Coordinator ran out of TransactionBufferMemory, when the cluster should have returned NDB error code 4012 (Request ndbd time-out). (Bug#28804)

  • MySQL Cluster: There was a short interval during the startup process prior to the beginning of heartbeat detection such that, were an API or management node to reboot or a network failure to occur, data nodes could not detect this, with the result that there could be a lingering connection. (Bug#28445)

  • MySQL Cluster: The description of the --print option provided in the output from ndb_restore --help was incorrect. (Bug#27683)

  • MySQL Cluster: Restoring a backup made on a cluster host using one endian to a machine using the other endian failed for BLOB and DATETIME columns. (Bug#27543, Bug#30024)

  • MySQL Cluster: An invalid subselect on an NDB table could cause mysqld to crash. (Bug#27494)

  • MySQL Cluster: An attempt to perform a SELECT ... FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES whose result included information about NDB tables for which the user had no privileges crashed the MySQL Server on which the query was performed. (Bug#26793)

  • MySQL Cluster: Performing DELETE operations after a data node had been shut down could lead to inconsistent data following a restart of the node. (Bug#26450)

  • MySQL Cluster: UPDATE IGNORE could sometimes fail on NDB tables due to the use of unitialized data when checking for duplicate keys to be ignored. (Bug#25817)

  • MySQL Cluster: The cluster log was formatted inconsistently and contained extraneous newline characters. (Bug#25064)

  • MySQL Cluster: A restart of the cluster failed when more than 1 REDO phase was in use. (Bug#22696)

  • MySQL Cluster: When inserting a row into an NDB table with a duplicate value for a non-primary unique key, the error issued would reference the wrong key.

    This improves on an initial fix for this issue made in MySQL 5.1.13. (Bug#21072)

  • MySQL Cluster: An insufficiently descriptive and potentially misleading Error 4006 (Connect failure - out of connection objects...) was produced when either of the following two conditions occurred:

    1. There were no more transaction records in the transaction coordinator

    2. an Ndb object in the NDB API was initialized with insufficient parallellism

    Separate error messages are now generated for each of these two cases. (Bug#11313)

  • Partitioning: Replication: Replication of partitioned tables using the InnoDB storage engine failed with binlog-format=ROW or binlog-format=MIXED. (Bug#28430)

  • Partitioning: It was possible to partition a table to which a foreign key referred. (Bug#32948)

  • Partitioning: A query of the form SELECT col1 FROM table GROUP BY (SELECT col2 FROM table LIMIT 1); against a partitioned table having a SET column crashed the server. (Bug#32772)

  • Partitioning: SHOW CREATE TABLE misreported the value of AUTO_INCREMENT for partitioned tables using either of the InnoDB or ARCHIVE storage engines. (Bug#32247)

  • Partitioning: Selecting from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PARTITIONS while partition management statements (for example, ALTER TABLE ... ADD PARTITION) were executing caused the server to crash. (Bug#32178)

  • Partitioning: An error in the internal function mysql_unpack_partition() led to a fatal error in subsequent calls to open_table_from_share(). (Bug#32158)

  • Partitioning: Repeated updates of a table that was partitioned by KEY on a TIMESTAMP column eventually crashed the server. (Bug#32067)

  • Partitioning: Changing the storage engine used by a table having subpartitions led to a server crash. (Bug#31893)

  • Partitioning: ORDER BY ... DESC did not always work correctly when selecting from partitioned tables. (Bug#31890)

    See also Bug#31001

  • Partitioning: Selecting from a table partitioned by KEY on a VARCHAR column whose size was greater than 65530 caused the server to crash. (Bug#31705)

  • Partitioning: INSERT DELAYED on a partitioned table crashed the server. The server now rejects the statement with an error. (Bug#31210)

  • Partitioning: Using ALTER TABLE to partition an existing table having an AUTO_INCREMENT column could crash the server. (Bug#30878)

    This regression was introduced by Bug#27405

  • Partitioning: ALTER TABLE ... COALESCE PARTITION on a table partitioned by [LINEAR] HASH or [LINEAR] KEY caused the server to crash. (Bug#30822)

  • Partitioning: LIKE queries on tables partitioned by KEY and using third-party storage engines could return incomplete results. (Bug#30480)

    See also Bug#29320, Bug#29493, Bug#30563

  • Partitioning: It was not possible to insert the greatest possible value for a given data type into a partitioned table. For example, consider a table defined as shown here:

    CREATE TABLE t (c BIGINT UNSIGNED)
        PARTITION BY RANGE(c) (
          PARTITION p0 VALUES LESS THAN MAXVALUE
        );
    

    The largest possible value for a BIGINT UNSIGNED column is 18446744073709551615, but the statement INSERT INTO t VALUES (18446744073709551615); would fail, even though the same statement succeeded were t not a partitioned table.

    In other words, MAXVALUE was treated as being equal to the greatest possible value, rather than as a least upper bound. (Bug#29258)

  • Replication: When dropping a database containing a stored procedure while using row-cased replication, the delete of the stored procedure from the mysql.proc table was recorded in the binary log following the DROP DATABASE statement. To correct this issue, DROP DATABASE now uses statement-based replication. (Bug#32435)

  • Replication: It was possible for the name of the relay log file to exceed the amount of memory reserved for it, possibly leading to a crash of the server. (Bug#31836)

    See also Bug#28597

  • Replication: Corruption of log events caused the server to crash on 64-bit Linux systems having 4 GB of memory or more. (Bug#31793)

  • Replication: Trying to replicate an update of a row that was missing on the slave led to a failure on the slave. (Bug#31702)

  • Replication: Table names were displayed as binary “garbage” characters in slave error messages. The issue was observed on 64-bit Windows but may have effected other platforms. (Bug#30854)

  • Replication: One thread could read uninitialized memory from the stack of another thread. This issue was only known to occur in a mysqld process acting as both a master and a slave. (Bug#30752)

  • Replication: It was possible to set SQL_SLAVE_SKIP_COUNTER such that the slave would jump into the middle of a transaction. This fix improves on one made for this bug in MySQL 5.1.20; the previous fix insured that the slave could not be made to jump into the middle of an event group, but the slave failed to recognize that BEGIN, COMMIT, and ROLLBACK statements could begin or end an event group. (Bug#28618)

    See also Bug#12691

  • Replication: Due a previous change in how the default name and location of the binlog file were determined, replication failed following some upgrades. (Bug#28597, Bug#28603)

    See also Bug#31836

    This regression was introduced by Bug#20166

  • Replication: Stored procedures having BIT parameters were not replicated correctly. (Bug#26199)

  • Replication: Issuing SHOW SLAVE STATUS as mysqld was shutting down could cause a crash. (Bug#26000)

  • Replication: If a temporary error occured inside an event group on an event that was not the first event of the group, the slave could get caught in an endless loop because the retry counter was reset whenever an event was executed successfully. (Bug#24860)

    See also Bug#12691, Bug#23171

  • Replication: An UPDATE statement using a stored function that modified a non-transactional table was not logged if it failed. This caused the copy of the non-transactional table on the master have a row that the copy on the slave did not. (Bug#23333)

    See also Bug#12713

  • Replication: A replication slave sometimes failed to reconnect because it was unable to run SHOW SLAVE HOSTS. It was not necessary to run this statement on slaves (since the master should track connection IDs), and the execution of this statement by slaves was removed. (Bug#21132)

    See also Bug#13963, Bug#21869

  • Replication: A replication slave sometimes stopped for changes that were idempotent (that is, such changes should have been considered “safe”), even though it should have simply noted that the change was already done, and continued operation. (Bug#19958)

  • Cluster Replication: A replication slave could return “garbage” data that was not in recognizable row format due to a problem with the internal all_set() method. (Bug#33375)

  • Cluster Replication: Memory was mistakenly freed for NdbBlob objects when adding an index while replicating the cluster, which could cause mysqld to crash. (Bug#33142)

    See also Bug#18106

  • Cluster Replication: Under certain conditions, the slave stopped processing relay logs. This resulted in the logs never being cleared and the slave eventually running out of disk space. (Bug#31958)

  • Cluster Replication: A node failure during replication could lead to buckets out of order; now active subscribers are checked for, rather than empty buckets. (Bug#31701)

  • Cluster Replication: Replicating NDB tables with extra VARCHAR columns on the master caused the slave to fail. (Bug#31646)

    See also Bug#29549

  • Cluster Replication: When the master mysqld crashed or was restarted, no LOST_EVENTS entry was made in the binlog. (Bug#31484)

    See also Bug#21494

  • Cluster Replication: Incorrect handling of INSERT plus DELETE operations with regard to local checkpoints caused data node failures in multi-master replication setups. (Bug#30914)

  • Cluster Replication: An issue with the mysql.ndb_apply_status table could cause NDB schema autodiscovery to fail in certain rare circumstances. (Bug#20872)

  • Cluster API: A call to CHECK_TIMEDOUT_RET() in mgmapi.cpp should have been a call to DBUG_CHECK_TIMEDOUT_RET(). (Bug#30681)

  • Cluster API: An Ndb object in the NDB API was initialized with insufficient parallellism

  • API: When the language option was not set correctly, API programs calling mysql_server_init() crashed. This issue was observed only on Windows platforms. (Bug#31868)

  • Corrected a typecast involving bool on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), which evaluated differently from earlier Mac OS X versions. (Bug#38217)

  • Use of uninitialized memory for filesort in a subquery caused a server crash. (Bug#33675)

  • CREATE TABLE ... SELECT created tables that for date columns used the obsolete Field_date type instead of Field_newdate. (Bug#33256)

  • Some valid SELECT statements could not be used as views due to incorrect column reference resolution. (Bug#33133)

  • The fix for Bug#11230 and Bug#26215 introduced a significant input-parsing slowdown for the mysql client. This has been corrected. (Bug#33057)

  • The correct data type for a NULL column resulting from a UNION could be determined incorrectly in some cases: 1) Not correctly inferred as NULL depending on the number of selects; 2) Not inferred correctly as NULL if one select used a subquery. (Bug#32848)

  • For queries containing GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT col_list ORDER BY col_list), there was a limitation that the DISTINCT columns had to be the same as ORDER BY columns. Incorrect results could be returned if this was not true. (Bug#32798)

  • SHOW EVENTS and selecting from the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.EVENTS table failed if the current database was INFORMATION_SCHEMA. (Bug#32775)

  • Use of the cp932 character set with CAST() in an ORDER BY clause could cause a server crash. (Bug#32726)

  • A subquery using an IS NULL check of a column defined as NOT NULL in a table used in the FROM clause of the outer query produced an invalid result. (Bug#32694)

  • mysqld_safe looked for error messages in the wrong location. (Bug#32679)

  • Specifying a non-existent column for an INSERT DELAYED statement caused a server crash rather than producing an error. (Bug#32676)

  • An issue with the NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION sql_mode database can cause the creation of stored routines to fail. If you are having problems with creating stored routines while using this sql_mode value, remove this value from your sql_mode setting. (Bug#32633)

  • Use of CLIENT_MULTI_QUERIES caused libmysqld to crash. (Bug#32624)

  • The INTERVAL() function incorrectly handled NULL values in the value list. (Bug#32560)

  • Use of a NULL-returning GROUP BY expression in conjunction with WITH ROLLUP could cause a server crash. (Bug#32558)

    See also Bug#31095

  • ORDER BY UpdateXML(...) caused the server to crash in queries where UpdateXML() returned NULL. (Bug#32557)

  • A SELECT ... GROUP BY bit_column query failed with an assertion if the length of the BIT column used for the GROUP BY was not an integer multiple of 8. (Bug#32556)

  • Using SELECT INTO OUTFILE with 8-bit ENCLOSED BY characters led to corrupted data when the data was reloaded using LOAD DATA INFILE. This was because SELECT INTO OUTFILE failed to escape the 8-bit characters. (Bug#32533)

  • For FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK, the server failed to properly detect write-locked tables when running with low-priority updates, resulting in a crash or deadlock. (Bug#32528)

  • The rules for valid column names were being applied differently for base tables and views. (Bug#32496)

  • A query of the form SELECT @user_variable := constant AS alias FROM table GROUP BY alias WITH ROLLUP crashed the server. (Bug#32482)

  • Sending several KILL QUERY statements to target a connection running SELECT SLEEP() could freeze the server. (Bug#32436)

  • ssl-cipher values in option files were not being read by libmysqlclient. (Bug#32429)

  • Repeated execution of a query containing a CASE expression and numerous AND and OR relations could crash the server. The root cause of the issue was determined to be that the internal SEL_ARG structure was not properly initialized when created. (Bug#32403)

  • Referencing within a subquery an alias used in the SELECT list of the outer query was incorrectly permitted. (Bug#32400)

  • If a global read lock acquired with FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK was in effect, executing ALTER TABLE could cause a server crash. (Bug#32395)

  • An ORDER BY query on a view created using a FEDERATED table as a base table caused the server to crash. (Bug#32374)

  • The mysqldump utility did not print enough version information about itself at the top of its output. The output now shows the same information as mysqldump invoked with the -V option, namely the mysqldump version number, the MySQL server version, and the distribution. (Bug#32350)

  • Comparison of a BIGINT NOT NULL column with a constant arithmetic expression that evaluated to NULL mistakenly caused the error Column '...' cannot be null (error 1048). (Bug#32335)

  • Assigning a 65,536-byte string to a TEXT column (which can hold a maximum of 65,535 bytes) resulted in truncation without a warning. Now a truncation warning is generated. (Bug#32282)

  • The LAST_DAY() function returns a DATE value, but internally the value did not have the time fields zeroed and calculations involving the value could return incorrect results. (Bug#32270)

  • MIN() and MAX() could return incorrect results when an index was present if a loose index scan was used. (Bug#32268)

  • Some uses of user variables in a query could result in a server crash. (Bug#32260)

  • Memory corruption could occur due to large index map in Range checked for each record status reported by EXPLAIN SELECT. The problem was based in an incorrectly calculated length of the buffer used to store a hexadecimal representation of an index map, which could result in buffer overrun and stack corruption under some circumstances. (Bug#32241)

  • Various test program cleanups were made: 1) mytest and libmysqltest were removed. 2) bug25714 displays an error message when invoked with incorrect arguments or the --help option. 3) mysql_client_test exits cleanly with a proper error status. (Bug#32221)

  • The default grant tables on Windows contained information for host production.mysql.com, which should not be there. (Bug#32219)

  • Under certain conditions, the presence of a GROUP BY clause could cause an ORDER BY clause to be ignored. (Bug#32202)

  • For comparisons of the form date_col OP datetime_const (where OP is =, <, >, <=, or >=), the comparison is done using DATETIME values, per the fix for Bug#27590. However that fix caused any index on date_col not to be used and compromised performance. Now the index is used again. (Bug#32198)

  • DATETIME arguments specified in numeric form were treated by DATE_ADD() as DATE values. (Bug#32180)

  • Killing a statement could lead to a race condition in the server. (Bug#32148)

  • InnoDB does not support SPATIAL indexes, but could crash when asked to handle one. Now an error is returned. (Bug#32125)

  • The server crashed on optimizations involving a join of INT and MEDIUMINT columns and a system variable in the WHERE clause. (Bug#32103)

  • mysql-test-run.pl used the --user option when starting mysqld, which produces warnings if the current user is not root. Now --user is added only for root. (Bug#32078)

  • mysqlslap was missing from the MySQL 5.1.22 Linux RPM packages. (Bug#32077)

  • With lower_case_table_names set, CREATE TABLE LIKE was treated differently by libmysqld than by the non-embedded server. (Bug#32063)

  • Within a subquery, UNION was handled differently than at the top level, which could result in incorrect results or a server crash. (Bug#32036, Bug#32051)

  • On 64-bit platforms, assignments of values to enumeration-valued storage engine-specific system variables were not validated and could result in unexpected values. (Bug#32034)

  • A DELETE statement with a subquery in the WHERE clause would sometimes ignore an error during subquery evaluation and proceed with the delete operation. (Bug#32030)

  • Using dates in the range '0000-00-01' to '0000-00-99' range in the WHERE clause could result in an incorrect result set. (These dates are not in the supported range for DATE, but different results for a given query could occur depending on position of records containing the dates within a table.) (Bug#32021)

  • User-defined functions are not loaded if the server is started with the --skip-grant-tables option, but the server did not properly handle this case and issued an Out of memory error message instead. (Bug#32020)

  • If a user-defined function was used in a SELECT statement, and an error occurred during UDF initialization, the error did not terminate execution of the SELECT, but rather was converted to a warning. (Bug#32007)

  • HOUR(), MINUTE(), and SECOND() could return non-zero values for DATE arguments. (Bug#31990)

  • Changing the SQL mode to cause dates with “zero” parts to be considered invalid (such as '1000-00-00') could result in indexed and non-indexed searches returning different results for a column that contained such dates. (Bug#31928)

  • The server used unnecessarily large amounts of memory when user variables were used as an argument to CONCAT() or CONCAT_WS(). (Bug#31898)

  • In debug builds, testing the result of an IN subquery against NULL caused an assertion failure. (Bug#31884)

  • SHOW CREATE TRIGGER caused a server crash. (Bug#31866)

  • The server crashed after insertion of a negative value into an AUTO_INCREMENT column of an InnoDB table. (Bug#31860)

  • For libmysqld applications, handling of mysql_change_user() calls left some pointers improperly updated, leading to server crashes. (Bug#31850)

  • Using ORDER BY led to the wrong result when using the ARCHIVE on a table with a BLOB when the table cache was full. The table could also be reported as crashed after the query had completed, even though the table data was intact. (Bug#31833)

  • Comparison results for BETWEEN were different from those for operators like < and > for DATETIME-like values with trailing extra characters such as '2007-10-01 00:00:00 GMT-6'. BETWEEN treated the values as DATETIME, whereas the other operators performed a binary-string comparison. Now they all uniformly use a DATETIME comparison, but generate warnings for values with trailing garbage. (Bug#31800)

  • Name resolution for correlated subqueries and HAVING clauses failed to distinguish which of two was being performed when there was a reference to an outer aliased field. This could result in error messages about a HAVING clause for queries that had no such clause. (Bug#31797)

  • The server could crash during filesort for ORDER BY based on expressions with INET_NTOA() or OCT() if those functions returned NULL. (Bug#31758)

  • For tables with certain definitions, UPDATE statements could fail to find the correct record to update and report an error when the record did in fact exist. (Bug#31747)

  • For a fatal error during filesort in find_all_keys(), the error was returned without the necessary handler uninitialization, causing an assertion failure. Fixed by uninitializing the handler before returning the error. (Bug#31742)

  • mysqlslap failed to commit after the final record load. (Bug#31704)

  • The examined-rows count was not incremented for const queries. (Bug#31700)

  • The server crashed if a thread was killed while locking the general_log table at the beginning of statement processing. (Bug#31692)

  • The mysql_change_user() C API function was subject to buffer overflow. (Bug#31669)

  • For SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE, if the ENCLOSED BY string is empty and the FIELDS TERMINATED BY string started with a special character (one of n, t, r, b, 0, Z, or N), every occurrence of the character within field values would be duplicated. (Bug#31663)

  • SHOW COLUMNS and DESCRIBE displayed null as the column type for a view with no valid definer. This caused mysqldump to produce a non-reloadable dump file for the view. (Bug#31662)

  • The mysqlbug script did not include the correct values of CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS that were used to configure the distribution. (Bug#31644)

  • Queries that include a comparison of an INFORMATION_SCHEMA table column to NULL caused a server crash. (Bug#31633)

  • EXPLAIN EXTENDED for SELECT from INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables caused an assertion failure. (Bug#31630)

  • ucs2 does not work as a client character set, but attempts to use it as such were not rejected. Now character_set_client cannot be set to ucs2. This also affects statements such as SET NAMES and SET CHARACTER SET. (Bug#31615)

  • A buffer used when setting variables was not dimensioned to accommodate the trailing '\0' byte, so a single-byte buffer overrun was possible. (Bug#31588)

  • HAVING could treat lettercase of table aliases incorrectly if lower_case_table_names was enabled. (Bug#31562)

  • Spurious duplicate-key errors could occur for multiple-row inserts into an InnoDB table that activate a trigger. (Bug#31540)

  • Using ALTER EVENT to rename a disabled event caused it to become enabled. (Bug#31539)

  • The fix for Bug#24989 introduced a problem such that a NULL thread handler could be used during a rollback operation. This problem is unlikely to be seen in practice. (Bug#31517)

  • The length of the result from IFNULL() could be calculated incorrectly because the sign of the result was not taken into account. (Bug#31471)

  • Queries that used the ref access method or index-based subquery execution over indexes that have DECIMAL columns could fail with an error Column col_name cannot be null. (Bug#31450)

  • InnoDB now tracks locking and use of tables by MySQL only after a table has been successfully locked on behalf of a transaction. Previously, the locked flag was set and the table in-use counter was updated before checking whether the lock on the table succeeded. A subsequent failure in obtaining a lock on the table led to an inconsistent state as the table was neither locked nor in use. (Bug#31444)

  • SELECT 1 REGEX NULL caused an assertion failure for debug servers. (Bug#31440)

  • The UpdateXML() function did not check for the validity of all its arguments; in some cases, this could lead to a crash of the server. (Bug#31438)

  • The mysql_change_user() C API function caused advisory locks (obtained with GET_LOCK()) to malfunction. (Bug#31418)

  • NDB libraries and include files were missing from some binary tar file distributions. (Bug#31414)

  • Executing RENAME while tables were open for use with HANDLER statements could cause a server crash. (Bug#31409)

  • mysql-test-run.pl tried to create files in a directory where it could not be expected to have write permission. mysqltest created .reject files in a directory other than the one where test results go. (Bug#31398)

  • For a table that had been opened with HANDLER and marked for reopening after being closed with FLUSH TABLES, DROP TABLE did not properly discard the handler. (Bug#31397)

  • Automatically allocated memory for string options associated with a plugin was not freed if the plugin did not get installed. (Bug#31382)

  • INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES was returning incorrect information. (Bug#31381)

  • DROP USER caused an increase in memory usage. (Bug#31347)

  • mysql_install_db failed if the default storage engine was NDB. Now it explicitly uses MyISAM as the storage engine when running mysqld --bootstrap. (Bug#31315)

  • For InnoDB tables with READ COMMITTED isolation level, UPDATE statements skipped rows locked by another transaction, rather than waiting for the locks to be released. (Bug#31310)

  • For an almost-full MyISAM table, an insert that failed could leave the table in a corrupt state. (Bug#31305)

  • myisamchk --unpack could corrupt a table that when unpacked has static (fixed-length) row format. (Bug#31277)

  • CONVERT(val, DATETIME) would fail on invalid input, but processing was not aborted for the WHERE clause, leading to a server crash. (Bug#31253)

  • Allocation of an insufficiently large group-by buffer following creation of a temporary table could lead to a server crash. (Bug#31249)

  • Use of DECIMAL(n, n) ZEROFILL in GROUP_CONCAT() could cause a server crash. (Bug#31227)

  • When a TIMESTAMP with a non-zero time part was converted to a DATE value, no warning was generated. This caused index lookups to assume that this is a valid conversion and was returning rows that match a comparison between a TIMESTAMP value and a DATE keypart. Now a warning is generated so that TIMESTAMP with a non-zero time part will not match DATE values. (Bug#31221)

  • Server variables could not be set to their current values on Linux platforms. (Bug#31177)

    See also Bug#6958

  • WIth small values of myisam_sort_buffer_size, REPAIR TABLE for MyISAM tables could cause a server crash. (Bug#31174)

  • Use of the @@hostname system variable in inserts in mysql_system_tables_data.sql did not replicate. The workaround is to select its value into a user variable (which does replicate) and insert that. (Bug#31167)

  • If MAKETIME() returned NULL when used in an ORDER BY that was evaluated using filesort, a server crash could result. (Bug#31160)

  • Data in BLOB or GEOMETRY columns could be cropped when performing a UNION query. (Bug#31158)

  • LAST_INSERT_ID() execution could be handled improperly in subqueries. (Bug#31157)

  • An assertion designed to detect a bug in the ROLLUP implementation would incorrectly be triggered when used in a subquery context with non-cacheable statements. (Bug#31156)

  • Selecting spatial types in a UNION could cause a server crash. (Bug#31155)

  • Use of GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT bit_column) caused an assertion failure. (Bug#31154)

  • The server crashed in the parser when running out of memory. Memory handling in the parser has been improved to gracefully return an error when out-of-memory conditions occur in the parser. (Bug#31153)

  • MySQL declares a UNIQUE key as a PRIMARY key if it doesn't have NULL columns and is not a partial key, and the PRIMARY key must alway be the first key. However, in some cases, a non-first key could be reported as PRIMARY, leading to an assert failure by InnoDB. This is fixed by correcting the key sort order. (Bug#31137)

  • mysqldump failed to handle databases containing a ‘-’ character in the name. (Bug#31113)

  • Starting the server using --read-only and with the Event Scheduler enabled caused it to crash.

    Note

    This issue occurred only when the server had been built with certain nonstandard combinations of configure options.

    (Bug#31111)

  • GROUP BY NULL WITH ROLLUP could cause a server crash. (Bug#31095)

    See also Bug#32558

  • A rule to prefer filesort over an indexed ORDER BY when accessing all rows of a table was being used even if a LIMIT clause was present. (Bug#31094)

  • REGEXP operations could cause a server crash for character sets such as ucs2. Now the arguments are converted to utf8 if possible, to allow correct results to be produced if the resulting strings contain only 8-bit characters. (Bug#31081)

  • Expressions of the form WHERE col NOT IN (col, ...), where the same column was named both times, could cause a server crash in the optimizer. (Bug#31075)

  • Internal conversion routines could fail for several multi-byte character sets (big5, cp932, euckr, gb2312, sjis) for empty strings or during evaluation of SOUNDS LIKE. (Bug#31069, Bug#31070)

  • Many nested subqueries in a single query could led to excessive memory consumption and possibly a crash of the server. (Bug#31048)

  • Using ORDER BY with ARCHIVE tables caused a server crash. (Bug#31036)

  • A server crash could occur when a non-DETERMINISTIC stored function was used in a GROUP BY clause. (Bug#31035)

  • The MOD() function and the % operator crashed the server for a divisor less than 1 with a very long fractional part. (Bug#31019)

  • Transactions were committed prematurely when LOCK TABLE and SET AUTOCOMMIT=OFF were used together. (Bug#30996)

  • On Windows, the pthread_mutex_trylock() implementation was incorrect. (Bug#30992)

  • A character set introducer followed by a hexadecimal or bit-value literal did not check its argument and could return an ill-formed result for invalid input. (Bug#30986)

  • CHAR(str USING charset) did not check its argument and could return an ill-formed result for invalid input. (Bug#30982)

  • The result from CHAR(str USING ucs2) did not add a leading 0x00 byte for input strings with an odd number of bytes. (Bug#30981)

  • The GeomFromText() function could cause a server crash if the first argument was NULL or the empty string. (Bug#30955)

  • MAKEDATE() incorrectly moved year values in the 100-200 range into the 1970-2069 range. (This is legitimate for 00-99, but three-digit years should be used unchanged.) (Bug#30951)

  • When invoked with constant arguments, STR_TO_DATE() could use a cached value for the format string and return incorrect results. (Bug#30942)

  • GROUP_CONCAT() returned ',' rather than an empty string when the argument column contained only empty strings. (Bug#30897)

  • For MEMORY tables, lookups for NULL values in BTREE indexes could return incorrect results. (Bug#30885)

  • A server crash could occur if a stored function that contained a DROP TEMPORARY TABLE statement was invoked by a CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE statement that created a table of the same name. (Bug#30882)

  • Calling NAME_CONST() with non-constant arguments triggered an assertion failure. Non-constant arguments are now disallowed. (Bug#30832)

  • For a spatial column with a regular (non-SPATIAL) index, queries failed if the optimizer tried to use the index. (Bug#30825)

  • Values for the --tc-heuristic-recover option incorrectly were treated as values for the --myisam-stats-method option. (Bug#30821)

  • INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA was returning incorrect information. (Bug#30795)

  • The optimizer incorrectly optimized conditions out of the WHERE clause in some queries involving subqueries and indexed columns. (Bug#30788)

  • Improper calculation of CASE expression results could lead to value truncation. (Bug#30782)

  • On Windows, the pthread_mutex_trylock() implementation was incorrect. One symptom was that invalidating the query cache could cause a server crash. (Bug#30768)

  • A multiple-table UPDATE involving transactional and non-transactional tables caused an assertion failure. (Bug#30763)

  • User-supplied names foreign key names might not be set to the right key, leading to foreign keys with no name. (Bug#30747)

  • Under some circumstances, CREATE TABLE ... SELECT could crash the server or incorrectly report that the table row size was too large. (Bug#30736)

  • Using the MIN() or MAX() function to select one part of a multi-part key could cause a crash when the function result was NULL. (Bug#30715)

  • The embedded server did not properly check column-level privileges. (Bug#30710)

  • INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS.VIEW_DEFINITION was incorrect for views that were defined to select from other INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables. (Bug#30689)

  • Issuing an ALTER SERVER statement to update the settings for a FEDERATED server would cause the mysqld to crash. (Bug#30671)

  • The optimizer could ignore ORDER BY in cases when the result set is ordered by filesort, resulting in rows being returned in incorrect order. (Bug#30666)

  • A different execution plan was displayed for EXPLAIN than would actually have been used for the SELECT because the test of sort keys for ORDER BY did not consider keys mentioned in IGNORE KEYS FOR ORDER BY. (Bug#30665)

  • The thread_handling system variable was treated as having a SESSION value and as being settable at runtime. Now it has only a GLOBAL read-only value. (Bug#30651)

  • On Windows, LIMIT arguments greater than 2^32 did not work correctly. (Bug#30639)

  • MyISAM tables could not exceed 4294967295 (2^32 - 1) rows on Windows. (Bug#30638)

  • A failed HANDLER ... READ operation could leave the table in a locked state. (Bug#30632)

  • mysql-test-run.pl could not run mysqld with root privileges. (Bug#30630)

  • The mysqld_safe script contained a syntax error. (Bug#30624)

  • The optimization that uses a unique index to remove GROUP BY did not ensure that the index was actually used, thus violating the ORDER BY that is implied by GROUP BY. (Bug#30596)

  • SHOW STATUS LIKE 'Ssl_cipher_list' from a MySQL client connected via SSL returned an empty string rather than a list of available ciphers. (Bug#30593)

  • For MEMORY tables, DELETE statements that remove rows based on an index read could fail to remove all matching rows. (Bug#30590)

  • Using GROUP BY on an expression of the form timestamp_col DIV number caused a server crash due to incorrect calculation of number of decimals. (Bug#30587)

  • Executing a SELECT COUNT(*) query on an InnoDB table partitioned by KEY that used a DOUBLE column as the partitioning key caused the server to crash. (Bug#30583)

  • The options available to the CHECK TABLE statement were also allowed in OPTIMIZE TABLE and ANALYZE TABLE statements, but caused corruption during their execution. These options were never supported for the these statements, and an error is now raised if you try to apply these options to these statements. (Bug#30495)

  • A self-referencing trigger on a partitioned table caused the server to crash instead of failing with an error. (Bug#30484)

  • The mysql_change_user() C API function did not correctly reset the character set variables to the values they had just after initially connecting. (Bug#30472)

  • When expanding a * in a USING or NATURAL join, the check for table access for both tables in the join was done using only the grant information of the first table. (Bug#30468)

  • When casting a string value to an integer, cases where the input string contained a decimal point and was long enough to overrun the unsigned long long type were not handled correctly. The position of the decimal point was not taken into account which resulted in miscalculated numbers and incorrect truncation to appropriate SQL data type limits. (Bug#30453)

  • Versions of mysqldump from MySQL 4.1 or higher tried to use START TRANSACTION WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT if the --single-transaction and --master-data options were given, even with servers older than 4.1 that do not support consistent snapshots. (Bug#30444)

  • With libmysqld, use of prepared statements and the query cache at the same time caused problems. (Bug#30430)

  • Issuing a DELETE statement having both an ORDER BY clause and a LIMIT clause could cause mysqld to crash. (Bug#30385)

  • For CREATE ... SELECT ... FROM, where the resulting table contained indexes, adding SQL_BUFFER_RESULT to the SELECT part caused index corruption in the table. (Bug#30384)

  • The Last_query_cost status variable value can be computed accurately only for simple “flat” queries, not complex queries such as those with subqueries or UNION. However, the value was not consistently being set to 0 for complex queries. (Bug#30377)

  • The optimizer made incorrect assumptions about the value of the is_member value for user-defined functions, sometimes resulting in incorrect ordering of UDF results. (Bug#30355)

  • Queries that had a GROUP BY clause and selected COUNT(DISTINCT bit_column) returned incorrect results. (Bug#30324)

  • Some valid euc-kr characters having the second byte in the ranges [0x41..0x5A] and [0x61..0x7A] were rejected. (Bug#30315)

  • When loading a dynamic plugin on FreeBSD, the plugin would fail to load. This was due to a build error where the required symbols would be not exported correctly. (Bug#30296)

  • Simultaneous ALTER TABLE statements for BLACKHOLE tables caused 100% CPU use due to locking problems. (Bug#30294)

  • Setting certain values on a table using a spatial index could cause the server to crash. (Bug#30286)

  • Tables with a GEOMETRY column could be marked as corrupt if you added a non-SPATIAL index on a GEOMETRY column. (Bug#30284)

  • Flushing a merge table between the time it was opened and its child table were actually attached caused the server to crash. (Bug#30273)

    This regression was introduced by Bug#26379

  • The query cache does not support retrieval of statements for which column level access control applies, but the server was still caching such statements, thus wasting memory. (Bug#30269)

  • Using DISTINCT or GROUP BY on a BIT column in a SELECT statement caused the column to be cast internally as an integer, with incorrect results being returned from the query. (Bug#30245)

  • GROUP BY on BIT columns produced incorrect results. (Bug#30219)

  • Short-format mysql commands embedded within /*! ... */ comments were parsed incorrectly by mysql, which discarded the rest of the comment including the terminating */ characters. The result was a malformed (unclosed) comment. Now mysql does not discard the */ characters. (Bug#30164)

  • If the server crashed during an ALTER TABLE statement, leaving a temporary file in the database directory, a subsequent DROP DATABASE statement failed due to the presence of the temporary file. (Bug#30152)

  • When mysqldump wrote DROP DATABASE statements within version-specific comments, it included the terminating semicolon in the wrong place, causing following statements to fail when the dump file was reloaded. (Bug#30126)

  • It was not possible for client applications to distinguish between auto-set and auto-updated TIMESTAMP column values.

    To rectify this problem, a new ON_UPDATE_NOW_FLAG flag is set by Field_timestamp constructors whenever a column should be set to NOW on UPDATE, and the get_schema_column_record() function now reports whether a timestamp column is set to NOW on UPDATE. In addition, such columns now display on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in the Extra column in the output from SHOW COLUMNS. (Bug#30081)

  • Some INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables are intended for internal use, but could be accessed by using SHOW statements. (Bug#30079)

  • On some 64-bit systems, inserting the largest negative value into a BIGINT column resulted in incorrect data. (Bug#30069)

  • mysqlslap did not properly handle multiple result sets from stored procedures. (Bug#29985)

  • Specifying the --without-geometry option for configure caused server compilation to fail. (Bug#29972)

  • Statements within stored procedures ignored the value of the low_priority_updates system variable. (Bug#29963)

    See also Bug#26162

  • With auto-reconnect enabled, row fetching for a prepared statement could crash after reconnect occurred because loss of the statement handler was not accounted for. (Bug#29948)

  • mysqldump --skip-events --all-databases dumped data from the mysqld.event table, and when restoring from this dump, events were created in spite of the --skip-events option. (Bug#29938)

  • When mysqlslap was given a query to execute from a file via a --query=file_name option, it executed the query one too many times. (Bug#29803)

  • configure did not find nss on some Linux platforms. (Bug#29658)

  • It was possible when creating a partitioned table using CREATE TABLE ... SELECT to refer in the PARTITION BY clause to columns in the table being selected from, which could cause the server to crash. An example of such a statement is:

    CREATE TABLE t1 (b INT)   
    PARTITION BY RANGE(t2.b) ( 
        PARTITION p1 VALUES LESS THAN (10),
        PARTITION p2 VALUES LESS THAN (20)
    )   SELECT * FROM t2;
    

    The fix is to disallow references in PARTITION BY clauses to columns not in the table being created. (Bug#29444)

  • If a view used a function in its SELECT statement, the columns from the view were not inserted into the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS table. (Bug#29408)

  • The mysql client program now ignores Unicode byte order mark (BOM) characters at the beginning of input files. Previously, it read them and sent them to the server, resulting in a syntax error.

    Presence of a BOM does not cause mysql to change its default character set. To do that, invoke mysql with an option such as --default-character-set=utf8. (Bug#29323)

  • For transactional tables, an error during a multiple-table DELETE statement did not roll back the statement. (Bug#29136)

  • The log and log_slow_queries system variables were displayed by SHOW VARIABLES but could not be accessed in expressions as @@log and @@log_slow_queries. Also, attempting to set them with SET produced an incorrect Unknown system variable message. Now these variables are treated as synonyms for general_log and slow_query_log, which means that they can be accessed in expressions and their values can be changed with SET. (Bug#29131)

  • Denormalized double-precision numbers cannot be handled properly by old MIPS pocessors. For IRIX, this is now handled by enabling a mode to use a software workaround. (Bug#29085)

  • SHOW VARIABLES did not display the relay_log, relay_log_index, or relay_log_info_file system variables. (Bug#28893)

  • When doing a DELETE on table that involved a JOIN with MyISAM or MERGE tables and the JOIN referred to the same table, the operation could fail reporting ERROR 1030 (HY000): Got error 134 from storage engine. This was because scans on the table contents would change because of rows that had already been deleted. (Bug#28837)

  • Killing an SSL connection on platforms where MySQL is compiled with -DSIGNAL_WITH_VIO_CLOSE (Windows, Mac OS X, and some others) could crash the server. (Bug#28812)

  • SHOW VARIABLES did not correctly display the value of the thread_handling system variable. (Bug#28785)

  • On Windows, mysql_upgrade created temporary files in C:\ and did not clean them up. (Bug#28774)

  • Index hints specified in view definitions were ignored when using the view to select from the base table. (Bug#28702)

  • Views do not have indexes, so index hints do not apply. Use of index hints when selecting from a view is now disallowed. (Bug#28701)

  • After changing the SQL mode to a restrictive value that would make already-inserted dates in a column be considered invalid, searches returned different results depending on whether the column was indexed. (Bug#28687)

  • When running the MySQL Instance Configuration Wizard, a race condition could exist that would fail to connect to a newly configured instance. This was because mysqld had not completed the startup process before the next stage of the installation process. (Bug#28628)

  • A SELECT in one connection could be blocked by INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE in another connection even when low_priority_updates is set. (Bug#28587)

  • mysql_upgrade could run binaries dynamically linked against incorrect versions of shared libraries. (Bug#28560)

  • The result from CHAR() was incorrectly assumed in some contexts to return a single-byte result. (Bug#28550)

  • mysqldump reversed the event name and program name in one of its error messages. (Bug#28535)

  • If a LIMIT clause was present, the server could fail to consider indexes that could be used for ORDER BY or GROUP BY. (Bug#28404)

  • The parser confused user-defined function (UDF) and stored function creation for CREATE FUNCTION and required that there be a default database when creating UDFs, although there is no such requirement. (Bug#28318, Bug#29816)

  • Fast-mutex locking was not thread-safe and optimization-safe on some platforms, which could cause program failures such as out-of-memory errors. (Bug#28284)

  • The result of a comparison between VARBINARY and BINARY columns differed depending on whether the VARBINARY column was indexed. (Bug#28076)

  • The metadata in some MYSQL_FIELD members could be incorrect when a temporary table was used to evaluate a query. (Bug#27990)

  • Partition pruning was not used for queries having <= or >= conditions in the WHERE clause on a table using TO_DAYS() in the partitioning expression. (Bug#27927)

  • mysqlbinlog produced incorrectly formatted DATETIME and TIMESTAMP values. (Bug#27894)

  • Failure to log to the general_log or slow_log log tables were not logged to the error log at all or were logged incorrectly. (Bug#27858)

  • comp_err created files with permissions such that they might be inaccessible during make install operations. (Bug#27789)

  • SHOW COLUMNS returned NULL instead of the empty string for the Default value of columns that had no default specified. (Bug#27747)

  • It was possible to create a view having a column whose name consisted of an empty string or space characters only. (Bug#27695)

    See also Bug#31202

  • With recent versions of DBD::mysql, mysqlhotcopy generated table names that were doubly qualified with the database name. (Bug#27694)

  • The anonymous accounts were not being created during MySQL installation. (Bug#27692)

  • Some SHOW statements and INFORMATION_SCHEMA queries could expose information not allowed by the user's access privileges. (Bug#27629)

  • ALTER TABLE tbl_name ROW_FORMAT=format_type did not cause the table to be rebuilt. (Bug#27610)

  • A race condition between killing a statement and the thread executing the statement could lead to a situation such that the binary log contained an event indicating that the statement was killed, whereas the statement actually executed to completion. (Bug#27571)

  • Some character mappings in the ascii.xml file were incorrect. (Bug#27562)

  • Some queries using the NAME_CONST() function failed to return either a result or an error to the client, causing it to hang. This was due to the fact that there was no check to insure that both arguments to this function were constant expressions. (Bug#27545, Bug#32559)

  • With the read_only system variable enabled, CREATE DATABASE and DROP DATABASE were allowed to users who did not have the SUPER privilege. (Bug#27440)

  • For an event with an ON COMPLETION value of PRESERVE, an ALTER EVENT statement that specified no ON COMPLETION option caused the value to become NOT PRESERVE. (Bug#27407)

  • MySQL failed to generate or retrieve an AUTO_INCREMENT primary key for InnoDB tables with user-defined partitioning. (Bug#27405)

  • Changes to the sql_mode system variable were not tracked by INSERT DELAYED. (Bug#27358)

  • A SELECT with more than 31 nested dependent subqueries returned an incorrect result. (Bug#27352)

  • The ExtractValue() and UpdateXML() functions performed extremely slowly for large amounts of XML data (greater than 64 KB). These functions now execute approximately 2000 times faster than previously. (Bug#27287)

  • On Windows, writes to the debug log were using freopen() instead of fflush(), resulting in slower performance. (Bug#27099)

  • For a table that used different full-text parsers for different FULLTEXT indexes, SHOW CREATE TABLE displayed the first parser name for all of them. (Bug#27040)

  • STR_TO_DATE() displayed an error message that referred to STR_TO_TIME(). (Bug#27014)

  • The mysql_insert_id() C API function sometimes returned different results for libmysqld and libmysqlclient. (Bug#26921)

  • Symbolic links on Windows could fail to work. (Bug#26811)

  • mysqld sometimes miscalculated the number of digits required when storing a floating-point number in a CHAR column. This caused the value to be truncated, or (when using a debug build) caused the server to crash. (Bug#26788)

    See also Bug#12860

  • LOAD DATA INFILE ran very slowly when reading large files into partitioned tables. (Bug#26527)

  • It makes no sense to attempt to use ALTER TABLE ... ORDER BY to order an InnoDB table if there is a user-defined clustered index, because rows are always ordered by the clustered index. Such attempts now are ignored and produce a warning.

    Also, in some cases, InnoDB incorrectly used a secondary index when the clustered index would produce a faster scan. EXPLAIN output now indicates use of the clustered index (for tables that have one) as lines with a type value of index, a key value of PRIMARY, and without Using index in the Extra value. (Bug#26447)

    See also Bug#35850

  • Using HANDLER to open a table having a storage engine not supported by HANDLER properly returned an error, but also improperly prevented the table from being dropped by other connections. (Bug#25856)

  • For a prepared statement stmt, changing the default database following PREPARE stmt but before EXECUTE stmt caused stmt to be recorded incorrectly in the binary log. (Bug#25843)

  • CREATE TABLE LIKE did not work when the source table was an INFORMATION_SCHEMA table. (Bug#25629)

  • Threads that were calculating the estimated number of records for a range scan did not respond to the KILL statement. That is, if a range join type is possible (even if not selected by the optimizer as a join type of choice and thus not shown by EXPLAIN), the query in the statistics state (shown by the SHOW PROCESSLIST) did not respond to the KILL statement. (Bug#25421)

  • For InnoDB tables, CREATE TABLE a AS SELECT * FROM A would fail. (Bug#25164)

  • For mysql --show-warnings, warnings were in some cases not displayed. (Bug#25146)

  • The returns column of the mysql.proc table was CHAR(64), which is not long enough to store long data types such as ENUM types. The column has been changed to LONGBLOB and a warning is generated if truncation occurs when storing a row into the proc table. (Bug#24923)

  • If the expected precision of an arithmetic expression exceeded the maximum precision supported by MySQL, the precision of the result was reduced by an unpredictable or arbitrary amount, rather than to the maximum precision. In some cases, exceeding the maximum supported precision could also lead to a crash of the server. (Bug#24907)

  • For Vista installs, MySQLInstanceConfig.exe did not add the default MySQL port to the firewall exceptions. It now provides a checkbox that enables the user a choice of whether to do this. (Bug#24853)

  • A CREATE TRIGGER statement could cause a deadlock or server crash if it referred to a table for which a table lock had been acquired with LOCK TABLES. (Bug#23713)

  • For storage engines that do not redefine handler::index_next_same() and are capable of indexes, statements that include a WHERE clause might select incorrect data. (Bug#22351)

  • The parser treated the INTERVAL() function incorrectly, leading to situations where syntax errors could result depending on which side of an arithmetic operator the function appeared. (Bug#22312)

  • Entries in the general query log were truncated at 1000 characters. (Bug#21557)

  • A memory leak occurred when CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE .. SELECT was invoked from a stored function that in turn was called from CREATE TABLE ... SELECT. (Bug#21136)

  • It was possible to execute CREATE TABLE t1 ... SELECT ... FROM t2 with the CREATE privilege for t1 and SELECT privilege for t2, even in the absence of the INSERT privilege for t1. (Bug#20901)

  • Worked around an icc problem with an incorrect machine instruction being generated in the context of software pre-fetching after a subroutine got in-lined. (Upgrading to icc 10.0.026 makes the workaround unnecessary.) (Bug#20803)

  • If a column selected by a view referred to a stored function, the data type reported for the column in INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS could be incorrect. (Bug#20550)

  • The mysql_change_user() C API function changed the value of the SQL_BIG_SELECTS session variable. (Bug#20023)

  • Hostnames sometimes were treated as case sensitive in account-management statements (CREATE USER, GRANT, REVOKE, and so forth). (Bug#19828)

  • Issuing an SQL KILL of the active connection caused an error on Mac OS X. (Bug#19723)

  • The readline library has been updated to version 5.2. This addresses issues in the mysql client where history and editing within the client would fail to work as expected. (Bug#18431)

  • The -lmtmalloc library was removed from the output of mysql_config on Solaris, as it caused problems when building DBD::mysql (and possibly other applications) on that platform that tried to use dlopen() to access the client library. (Bug#18322)

  • MySQLInstanceConfig.exe failed to grant certain privileges to the 'root'@'%' account. (Bug#17303)

  • The Aborted_clients status variable was incremented twice if a client exited without calling mysql_close(). (Bug#16918)

  • Use of GRANT statements with grant tables from an old version of MySQL could cause a server crash. (Bug#16470)

  • Clients were ignoring the TCP/IP port number specified as the default port via the --with-tcp-port configuration option. (Bug#15327)

  • Parameters of type DATETIME or DATE in stored procedures were silently converted to VARBINARY. (Bug#13675)

  • Zero-padding of exponent values was not the same across platforms. (Bug#12860)

  • Values of types REAL ZEROFILL, DOUBLE ZEROFILL, FLOAT ZEROFILL, were not zero-filled when converted to a character representation in the C prepared statement API. (Bug#11589)

  • mysql stripped comments from statements sent to the server. Now the --comments or --skip-comments option can be used to control whether to retain or strip comments. The default is --skip-comments. (Bug#11230, Bug#26215)

  • Several buffer-size system variables were either being handled incorrectly for large values (for settings larger than 4GB, they were truncated to values less than 4GB without a warning), or were limited unnecessarily to 4GB even on 64-bit systems. The following changes were made:

    • For key_buffer_size, values larger than 4GB are allowed on 64-bit platforms.

    • For join_buffer_size, sort_buffer_size, and myisam_sort_buffer_size, values larger than 4GB are allowed on 64-bit platforms (except Windows, for which large values are truncated to 4GB with a warning).

    In addition, settings for read_buffer_size and read_rnd_buffer_size are limited to 2GB on all platforms. Larger values are truncated to 2GB with a warning. (Bug#5731, Bug#29419, Bug#29446)

  • Executing DISABLE KEYS and ENABLE KEYS on a non-empty table would cause the size of the index file for the table to grow considerable. This was because the DISABLE KEYS operation would only mark the existing index, without deleting the index blocks. The ENABLE KEYS operation would re-create the index, adding new blocks, while the previous index blocks would remain. Existing indexes are now dropped and recreated when the ENABLE KEYS statement is executed. (Bug#4692)

  • Grant table checks failed in libmysqld.

  • There were no more transaction records in the transaction coordinator

  • Replicating from a master table to a slave table where the size of a CHAR or VARCHAR column was a different size would cause mysqld to crash. For more information on replicating with different column definitions, see Section 19.3.1.22, “Replication with Differing Tables on Master and Slave”.

C.1.7. Changes in MySQL 5.1.22 (24 September 2007: Release Candidate)

Functionality added or changed:

  • There is a new innodb_autoinc_lock_mode system variable to configure the locking behavior that InnoDB uses for generating auto-increment values. The default behavior now is slightly different from before, which involves a minor incompatibility for multiple-row inserts that specify an explicit value for the auto-increment column in some but not all rows. See Section 13.5.6.3, “How AUTO_INCREMENT Handling Works in InnoDB.

Bugs fixed:

  • MySQL Cluster: Backups of TIMESTAMP columns made with ndb_restore on a MySQL Cluster using data nodes hosts of one endian could not be used to restore the cluster's data to data node hosts of the other endian. (Bug#30134)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Replication): Multi-master replication setups did not handle --log-slave-updates correctly. (Bug#30017)

  • Row-based replication from a pre-5.1.22 MySQL Server to a MySQL 5.1.22 was unstable due to an uninitialized variable. (Bug#31076)

  • For an InnoDB table if a SELECT was ordered by the primary key and also had a WHERE field = value clause on a different field that was indexed, a DESC order instruction would be ignored. (Bug#31001)

  • mysql_install_db could fail to find its message file. (Bug#30678)

  • Memory corruption occurred for some queries with a top-level OR operation in the WHERE condition if they contained equality predicates and other sargable predicates in disjunctive parts of the condition. (Bug#30396)

  • CONNECTION_ID() always returned 0 for the embedded server (libmysqld). (Bug#30389)

  • The server created temporary tables for filesort operations in the working directory, not in the directory specified by the tmpdir system variable. (Bug#30287)

  • Using KILL QUERY or KILL CONNECTION to kill a SELECT statement caused a server crash if the query cache was enabled. (Bug#30201)

  • mysqldump from the MySQL 5.1.21 distribution could not be used to create a dump from a MySQL 5.1.20 or older server. (Bug#30123)

  • Under some circumstances, a UDF initialization function could be passed incorrect argument lengths. (Bug#29804)

  • Operations that used the time zone replicated the time zone only for successful operations, but did not replicate the time zone for errors that need to know it. (Bug#29536)

  • When using a combination of HANDLER... READ and DELETE on a table, MySQL continued to open new copies of the table every time, leading to an exhaustion of file descriptors. (Bug#29474)

    This regression was introduced by Bug#21587

  • The mysql_list_fields() C API function incorrectly set MYSQL_FIELD::decimals for some view columns. (Bug#29306)

  • Tables using the InnoDB storage engine incremented AUTO_INCREMENT values incorrectly with ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE. (Bug#28781)

  • Non-range queries of the form SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE keypart1=constant, ..., keypartN=constant ORDER BY ... FOR UPDATE sometimes were unnecessarily blocked waiting for a lock if another transaction was using SELECT ... FOR UPDATE on the same table. (Bug#28570)

  • On Windows, symbols for yaSSL and taocrypt were missing from mysqlclient.lib, resulting in unresolved symbol errors for clients linked against that library. (Bug#27861)

  • Read lock requests that were blocked by a pending write lock request were not allowed to proceed if the statement requesting the write lock was killed. (Bug#21281)

C.1.8. Changes in MySQL 5.1.21 (16 August 2007)

This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs.

Note

This Beta release, as any other pre-production release, should not be installed on production level systems or systems with critical data. It is good practice to back up your data before installing any new version of software. Although MySQL has worked very hard to ensure a high level of quality, protect your data by making a backup as you would for any software beta release. Please refer to our bug database at http://bugs.mysql.com/ for more details about the individual bugs fixed in this version.

Note

Subsequent to release, it was discovered that on some platforms, mysql_install_db could fail to find its message file, resulting in error messages of the following form:

shell> mysql_install_db 
Installing MySQL system tables...
070830  9:33:24 [ERROR] Can't find messagefile 'path/share/english/errmsg.sys'
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This problem is corrected in MySQL 5.1.22.

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Functionality added or changed:

  • Incompatible Change: In MySQL 5.1.6, when log tables were implemented, the default log destination for the general query and slow query log was TABLE. This default has been changed to FILE, which is compatible with MySQL 5.0, but incompatible with earlier releases of MySQL 5.1 from 5.1.6 to 5.1.20. If you are upgrading from MySQL 5.0 to this release, no logging option changes should be necessary. However, if you are upgrading from 5.1.6 through 5.1.20 to this release and were using TABLE logging, use the --log-output=TABLE option explicitly to preserve your server's table-logging behavior.

    In MySQL 5.1.x, this bug was addressed twice because it turned out that the default was set in two places, only one of which was fixed the first time. (Bug#29993)

  • Incompatible Change: The innodb_log_arch_dir system variable (which has been deprecated since MySQL 5.0.24) has been removed and should no longer be used.

  • Incompatible Change: On Windows only, the mysqld-nt has been removed from this release and all future releases. The mysqld server now includes named-pipe support as standard, and you do not have to use the mysqld-nt version to enable named-pipe support.

  • Important Change: The default mysqld_safe logging behavior now is --skip-syslog rather than --syslog, which is compatible with the default behavior of writing an error log file for releases prior to 5.1.20.

  • Several programs now accept --debug-check and --debug-info options: mysql, mysqladmin, mysqlbinlog, mysqlcheck, mysqldump, mysqlimport, mysqlshow, mysqlslap, mysqltest, mysql_upgrade. (Note: mysql, mysqladmin, mysqlcheck, mysqldump, mysqlimport, mysqlshow, and mysqltest already accepted --debug-info.) --debug-check prints debugging information at program exit. --debug-info is similar but also prints memory and CPU usage statistics. This patch also corrects a problem for mysql that --debug-info did not display statistics at exit time. (Bug#30127)

  • The --syslog option that was introduced in 5.1.20 for mysqld_safe (to send error output to syslog) did not work correctly: Error output was buffered and not logged immediately. This has been corrected. In addition, some feature changes were made:

    • Important

      The default mysqld_safe logging behavior now is --skip-syslog rather than --syslog, which is compatible with the default behavior of writing an error log file for releases prior to 5.1.20.

    • A new option, --syslog-tag=tag , modifies the default tags written by mysqld_safe and mysqld to syslog to be mysqld_safe-tag and mysqld-tag rather than the default tags of mysqld_safe and mysqld.

    (Bug#29992)

  • Transaction support in the FEDERATED storage engine has been disabled due to issues with multiple active transactions and sessions on the same FEDERATED table. (Bug#29875)

  • Previously, prepared statements processed using PREPARE and EXECUTE were not subject to caching in the query cache if they contained any ? parameter markers. This limitation has been lifted. (Bug#29318)

  • It is now possible to set long_query_time in microseconds or to 0. Setting this value to 0 causes all queries to be recorded in the slow query log.

    Currently, fractional values can be used only when logging to files. We plan to provide this functionality for logging to tables when time-related data types are enhanced to support microsecond resolution. (Bug#25412)

  • The SQL thread on a slave now is always allowed to enter InnoDB even if this would exceed the limit imposed by the innodb_thread_concurrency system variable. In cases of high load on the slave server (when innodb_thread_concurrency is reached), this change helps the slave stay more up to date with the master; in the previous behavior, the SQL thread was competing for resources with all client threads active on the slave server. (Bug#25078)

  • INFORMATION_SCHEMA implementation changes were made that optimize certain types of queries for INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables so that they execute more quickly. Section 7.2.18, “INFORMATION_SCHEMA Optimization”, provides guidelines on how to take advantage of these optimizations by writing queries that minimize the need for the server to access the filesystem to obtain the information contained in INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables. By writing queries that enable the server to avoid directory scans or opening table files, you will obtain better performance. (Bug#19588)

  • Log table locking was redesigned, eliminating several lock-related problems:

    • Truncating mysql.slow_log in a stored procedure after use of a cursor caused the thread to lock.

    • Flushing a log table resulted in unnecessary warnings.

    • The server would hang when performing concurrent ALTER TABLE or TRUNCATE TABLE statements against the log tables.

    • Changing the value of the general_log system variable while a global read lock was in place resulted in deadlock.

    The changes provide better-defined interface characteristics. See Section 5.2.1, “Selecting General Query and Slow Query Log Output Destinations”. (Bug#17876, Bug#23044, Bug#25422, Bug#29129)

  • Added the --commit, --detach, --post-system, and --pre-system options for mysqlslap.

  • Replication between master and slaves now supports different column numbers within a table on both master and slave. The rules for replication where the table definitions are different has also changed. This supercedes the functionality for replication from the master table to a slave table with more columns that was added in MySQL 5.1.12. For more information, see Section 19.3.1.22, “Replication with Differing Tables on Master and Slave”.

  • A new option, --syslog-tag=tag , modifies the default tags written by mysqld_safe and mysqld to syslog to be mysqld_safe-tag and mysqld-tag rather than the default tags of mysqld_safe and mysqld.

  • Two options relating to slow query logging have been added for mysqld. --log-slow-slave-statements causes slow statements executed by a replication slave to be written to the slow query log; min_examined_row_limit can be used to cause queries which examine fewer than the stated number of rows not to be logged.

Bugs fixed:

  • Incompatible Change: Several issues were identified for stored programs (stored functions and procedures, triggers, and events) and views containing non-ASCII symbols. These issues involved conversion errors due to incomplete character set information when translating these objects to and from stored format, such as:

    • Parsing the original object definition so that it can be stored.

    • Compiling the stored definition into executable form when the object is invoked.

    • Retrieval of object definitions from INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables.

    • Displaying the object definition in SHOW statements. This issue also affected mysqldump, which uses SHOW.

    The fix for the problems is to store character set information from the object creation context so that this information is available when the object needs to be used later. The context includes the client character set, the connection character set and collation, and the collation of the database with which the object is associated.

    As a result of the patch, several tables have new columns:

    • In the mysql database, the proc and event tables now have these columns: character_set_client, collation_connection, db_collation, body_utf8.

    • In INFORMATION_SCHEMA, the VIEWS table now has these columns: CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT, COLLATION_CONNECTION. The ROUTINES, TRIGGERS, and EVENT tables now have these columns: CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT, COLLATION_CONNECTION, DATABASE_COLLATION.

    These columns store the session values of the character_set_client and collation_connection system variables, and the collation of the database with which the object is associated. The values are those in effect at object creation time. (The saved database collation is not the value of the collation_database system variable, which applies to the default database; the database that contains the object is not necessarily the default database.)

    Several SHOW statements now display additional columns corresponding to the new table columns. These statements are: SHOW CREATE EVENT, SHOW CREATE FUNCTION, SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE, SHOW CREATE VIEW, SHOW EVENTS, SHOW FUNCTION STATUS, SHOW PROCEDURE STATUS, SHOW TRIGGERS.

    A new statement, SHOW CREATE TRIGGER is introduced and is used by mysqldump for producing CREATE TRIGGER statements.

    Subsequent to the patch just described, it was discovered that the patch broke mysql_upgrade; this has been corrected.

    Important

    The fixes for the problems just describe affect all existing stored programs and views. (For example, you will see warnings about “no creation context.”) To avoid warnings from the server about the use of old definitions from any release prior to 5.1.21, you should dump stored programs and views with mysqldump after upgrading to 5.1.21, and then reload them to recreate them with new definitions. Invoke mysqldump with a --default-character-set option that names the non-ASCII character set that was used for the definitions when the objects were originally defined.

    (Bug#25221, Bug#21249, Bug#30027, Bug#16291, Bug#11986, Bug#25212, Bug#19443, Bug#30029)

  • MySQL Cluster: DELETE FROM table WHERE primary_key IN (value_list), where the value_list contained more than one value, called from an AFTER DELETE trigger on an NDB table, caused mysqld to crash. (Bug#30337)

  • MySQL Cluster: When restarting a data node, queries could hang during that node's start phase 5, and continue only after the node had entered phase 6. (Bug#29364)

  • MySQL Cluster: Replica redo logs were inconsistently handled during a system restart. (Bug#29354)

  • MySQL Cluster: When a node failed to respond to a COPY_GCI signal as part of a global checkpoint, the master node was killed instead of the node that actually failed. (Bug#29331)

  • MySQL Cluster: An invalid comparison made during REDO validation that could lead to an Error while reading REDO log condition. (Bug#29118)

  • MySQL Cluster: The wrong data pages were sometimes invalidated following a global checkpoint. (Bug#29067)

  • MySQL Cluster: If at least 2 files were involved in REDO invalidation, then file 0 of page 0 was not updated and so pointed to an invalid part of the redo log. (Bug#29057)

  • MySQL Cluster: If a storage engine has its own logging capability, then any statement using both this engine and some other engine not having its own logging could not be correctly logged, due to the fact that entries from one engine could be logged before entries from the other engine were. This did not generate any error messages when it occurred.

    Now, if multiple storage engines are used in a statement and at least one of them has its own logging capability, then an error message is generated and the statement is not executed.

    Note

    Currently, the only storage engine to have its own logging capability is NDBCLUSTER.

    (Bug#28722)

  • MySQL Cluster: Warnings and errors generated by ndb_config --config-file=file were sent to stdout, rather than to stderr. (Bug#25941)

  • MySQL Cluster: When a cluster backup was terminated using the ABORT BACKUP command in the management client, a misleading error message Backup aborted by application: Permanent error: Internal error was returned. The error message returned in such cases now reads Backup aborted by user request. (Bug#21052)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Replication): Inconsistencies could occur between the master and the slave when replicating Disk Data tables. (Bug#19259, Bug#19227)

  • MySQL Cluster: Large file support did not work in AIX server binaries. (Bug#10776)

  • Disk Data: Performing Disk Data schema operations during a node restart could cause forced shutdowns of other data nodes. (Bug#29501)

  • Disk Data: When dropping a page, the stack's bottom entry could sometime be left “cold” rather than “hot”, violating the rules for stack pruning. (Bug#29176)

  • Disk Data: Disk data meta-information that existed in ndbd might not be visible to mysqld. (Bug#28720)

  • Disk Data: The number of free extents was incorrectly reported for some tablespaces. (Bug#28642)

  • Cluster Replication: When executing a statement where binlog_format=statement, the result of the statement was logged both as a statement and as rows. (Bug#29222)

  • Cluster Replication: mysqld would segfault on startup when the NDB storage engine was enabled and the default character set was a strictly multi-byte character set such as UCS2.

    This issue does not apply to character sets that can contain single-byte characters in addition to multi-byte characters such as UTF-8.

    Additional issues remain with regard to the use of multi-byte character sets in MySQL Cluster Replication; see Section 20.11.3, “Known Issues in MySQL Cluster Replication”, for more information. (Bug#27404)

  • Prepared statements containing CONNECTION_ID() could be written improperly to the binary log. (Bug#30200)

  • Use of local variables with non-ASCII names in stored procedures crashed the server. (Bug#30120)

  • On Windows, client libraries lacked symbols required for linking. (Bug#30118)

  • --myisam-recover='' (empty option value) did not disable MyISAM recovery. (Bug#30088)

  • For the SHOW TABLE TYPES statement, the server sent incorrect output to clients, possibly causing them to crash. (Bug#30036)

  • The IS_UPDATABLE column in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS table was not always set correctly. (Bug#30020)

  • SHOW statements were being written to the slow query log that should not have been. (Bug#30000)

  • REPAIR TABLE ... USE_FRM could corrupt tables. (Bug#29980)

  • For MyISAM tables on Windows, INSERT, DELETE, or UPDATE followed by ALTER TABLE within LOCK TABLES could cause table corruption. (Bug#29957)

  • LOCK TABLES did not pre-lock tables used in triggers of the locked tables. Unexpected locking behavior and statement failures similar to failed: 1100: Table 'xx' was not locked with LOCK TABLES could result. (Bug#29929)

  • INSERT ... VALUES(CONNECTION_ID(), ...) statements were written to the binary log in such a way that they could not be properly restored. (Bug#29928)

  • Adding DISTINCT could cause incorrect rows to appear in a query result. (Bug#29911)

  • On Windows, the CMake build process did not produce the embedded server library or related binaries. (Bug#29903)

  • Using the DATE() function in a WHERE clause did not return any records after encountering NULL. However, using TRIM or CAST produced the correct results. (Bug#29898)

  • SESSION_USER() returned garbage data (rather than the correct value of the empty string) when executed by a slave SQL thread. (Bug#29878)

  • Very long prepared statements in stored procedures could cause a server crash. (Bug#29856)

  • If query execution involved a temporary table, GROUP_CONCAT() could return a result with an incorrect character set. (Bug#29850)

  • If one thread was performing concurrent inserts, other threads reading from the same table using equality key searches could see the index values for new rows before the data values had been written, leading to reports of table corruption. (Bug#29838)

  • Repeatedly accessing a view in a stored procedure (for example, in a loop) caused a small amount of memory to be allocated per access. Although this memory is deallocated on disconnect, it could be a problem for a long running stored procedures that make repeated access of views. (Bug#29834)

  • mysqldump produced output that incorrectly discarded the NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO value of the SQL_MODE variable after dumping triggers. (Bug#29788)

  • An assertion failure occurred within yaSSL for very long keys. (Bug#29784)

  • For MEMORY tables, the index_merge union access method could return incorrect results. (Bug#29740)

  • Comparison of TIME values using the BETWEEN operator led to string comparison, producing incorrect results in some cases. Now the values are compared as integers. (Bug#29739)

  • The thread ID was not reset properly after execution of mysql_change_user(), which could cause replication failure when replicating temporary tables. (Bug#29734)

  • For a table with a DATE column date_col such that selecting rows with WHERE date_col = 'date_val 00:00:00' yielded a non-empty result, adding GROUP BY date_col caused the result to be empty. (Bug#29729)

  • In some cases, INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... GROUP BY could insert rows even if the SELECT by itself produced an empty result. (Bug#29717)

  • Single-row inserts could report a row count greater than one. (Bug#29692)

  • For the embedded server, the mysql_stmt_store_result() C API function caused a memory leak for empty result sets. (Bug#29687)

  • EXPLAIN produced Impossible where for statements of the form SELECT ... FROM t WHERE c=0, where c was an ENUM column defined as a primary key. (Bug#29661)

  • On Windows, ALTER TABLE hung if records were locked in share mode by a long-running transaction. (Bug#29644)

  • mysqld_safe produced error messages and did not create the error log file under some circumstances. (Bug#29634)

  • On 64-bit platforms, the filesort code (for queries with GROUP BY or ORDER BY) could crash due to an incorrect pointer size. (Bug#29610)

  • A left join between two views could produce incorrect results. (Bug#29604)

  • Certain statements with unions, subqueries, and joins could result in huge memory consumption. (Bug#29582)

  • Clients using SSL could hang the server. (Bug#29579)

  • A slave running with --log-slave-updates would fail to write INSERT DELAY IGNORE statements to its binary log, resulting in different binary log contents on the master and slave. (Bug#29571)

  • Storage engine error conditions in row-based replication were not correctly reported to the user. (Bug#29570)

  • An incorrect result was returned when comparing string values that were converted to TIME values with CAST(). (Bug#29555)

  • gcov coverage-testing information was not written if the server crashed. (Bug#29543)

  • Conversion of ASCII DEL (0x7F) to Unicode incorrectly resulted in QUESTION MARK (0x3F) rather than DEL. (Bug#29499)

  • A field packet with NULL fields caused a libmysqlclient crash. (Bug#29494)

  • On Windows, the mysql client died if the user entered a statement and Return after entering Control-C. (Bug#29469)

  • The full-text parser could enter an infinite loop if it encountered an illegal multi-byte sequence or a sequence that has no mapping to Unicode. (Bug#29464)

  • Failure to consider collation when comparing space characters could lead to incorrect index entry order, making it impossible to find some index values. (Bug#29461)

  • Searching a FULLTEXT index for a word with the boolean mode truncation operator could cause an infinite loop. (Bug#29445)

  • Corrupt data resulted from use of SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE 'file_name' FIELDS ENCLOSED BY 'c', where c is a digit or minus sign, followed by LOAD DATA INFILE 'file_name' FIELDS ENCLOSED BY 'c'. (Bug#29442)

  • Killing an INSERT DELAYED thread caused a server crash. (Bug#29431)

  • Use of SHOW BINLOG EVENTS for a non-existent log file followed by PURGE MASTER LOGS caused a server crash. (Bug#29420)

  • Assertion failure could occur for grouping queries that employed DECIMAL user variables with assignments to them. (Bug#29417)

  • For CAST(expr AS DECIMAL(M,D)), the limits of 65 and 30 on the precision (M) and scale (D) were not enforced. (Bug#29415)

  • Deleting from a CSV table could corrupt it. (Bug#29411)

  • Results for a select query that aliases the column names against a view could duplicate one column while omitting another. This bug could occur for a query over a multiple-table view that includes an ORDER BY clause in its definition. (Bug#29392)

  • mysqldump created a stray file when a given a too-long filename argument. (Bug#29361)

  • The special “zeroENUM value was coerced to the normal empty string ENUM value during a column-to-column copy. This affected CREATE ... SELECT statements and SELECT statements with aggregate functions on ENUM columns in the GROUP BY clause. (Bug#29360)

  • Inserting a negative number into a CSV table could corrupt it. (Bug#29353)

  • Optimization of queries with DETERMINISTIC stored functions in the WHERE clause was ineffective: A sequential scan was always used. (Bug#29338)

  • MyISAM corruption could occur with the cp932_japanese_ci collation for the cp932 character set due to incorrect comparison for trailing space. (Bug#29333)

  • For updates to InnoDB tables, a TIMESTAMP column with the ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP attribute could be updated even when no values actually changed. (Bug#29310)

  • FULLTEXT indexes could be corrupted by certain gbk characters. (Bug#29299)

  • SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE followed by LOAD DATA could result in garbled characters when the FIELDS ENCLOSED BY clause named a delimiter of '0', 'b', 'n', 'r', 't', 'N', or 'Z' due to an interaction of character encoding and doubling for data values containing the enclosed-by character. (Bug#29294)

  • Sort order of the collation wasn't used when comparing trailing spaces. This could lead to incorrect comparison results, incorrectly created indexes, or incorrect result set order for queries that include an ORDER BY clause. (Bug#29261)

  • CHECK TABLE could erroneously report table corruption for a CSV table if multiple threads were modifying the table at the same time. (Bug#29253)

  • Many threads accessing a CSV table simultaneously could cause an assertion failure. (Bug#29252)

  • If an ENUM column contained '' as one of its members (represented with numeric value greater than 0), and the column contained error values (represented as 0 and displayed as ''), using ALTER TABLE to modify the column definition caused the 0 values to be given the numeric value of the non-zero '' member. (Bug#29251)

  • Calling mysql_options() after mysql_real_connect() could cause clients to crash. (Bug#29247)

  • CHECK TABLE for ARCHIVE tables could falsely report table corruption or cause a server crash. (Bug#29207)

  • Mixing binary and utf8 columns in a union caused field lengths to be calculated incorrectly, resulting in truncation. (Bug#29205)

  • AsText() could fail with a buffer overrun. (Bug#29166)

  • Under some circumstances, a SELECT ... FROM mysql.event could cause the server to crash. (Bug#29156)

  • InnoDB refused to start on some versions of FreeBSD with LinuxThreads. This is fixed by enabling file locking on FreeBSD. (Bug#29155)

  • LOCK TABLES was not atomic when more than one InnoDB tables were locked. (Bug#29154)

  • INSERT DELAYED statements on a master server are replicated as non-DELAYED inserts on slaves (which is normal, to preserve serialization), but the inserts on the slave did not use concurrent inserts. Now INSERT DELAYED on a slave is converted to a concurrent insert when possible, and to a normal insert otherwise. (Bug#29152)

  • mysqld failed to exit during shutdown. (Bug#29133)

  • A network structure was initialized incorrectly, leading to embedded server crashes. (Bug#29117)

  • An assertion failure occurred if a query contained a conjunctive predicate of the form view_column = constant in the WHERE clause and the GROUP BY clause contained a reference to a different view column. The fix also enables application of an optimization that was being skipped if a query contained a conjunctive predicate of the form view_column = constant in the WHERE clause and the GROUP BY clause contained a reference to the same view column. (Bug#29104)

  • A maximum of 4TB InnoDB free space was reported by SHOW TABLE STATUS, which is incorrect on systems with more than 4TB space. (Bug#29097)

  • If an INSERT INTO ... SELECT statement inserted into the same table that the SELECT retrieved from, and the SELECT included ORDER BY and LIMIT clauses, different data was inserted than the data produced by the SELECT executed by itself. (Bug#29095)

  • Queries that performed a lookup into a BINARY index containing key values ending with spaces caused an assertion failure for debug builds and incorrect results for non-debug builds. (Bug#29087)

  • The semantics of BIGINT depended on platform-specific characteristics. (Bug#29079)

  • A byte-order issue in writing a spatial index to disk caused bad index files on some systems. (Bug#29070)

  • Creation of a legal stored procedure could fail if no default database had been selected. (Bug#29050)

  • REPLACE, INSERT IGNORE, and UPDATE IGNORE did not work for FEDERATED tables. (Bug#29019)

  • Inserting into InnoDB tables and executing RESET MASTER in multiple threads cause assertion failure in debug server binaries. (Bug#28983)

  • Updates to a CSV table could cause a server crash or update the table with incorrect values. (Bug#28971)

  • For a ucs2 column, GROUP_CONCAT() did not convert separators to the result character set before inserting them, producing a result containing a mixture of two different character sets. (Bug#28925)

  • Dropping the definer of an active event caused the server to crash. (Bug#28924)

  • For a join with GROUP BY and/or ORDER BY and a view reference in the FROM list, the query metadata erroneously showed empty table aliases and database names for the view columns. (Bug#28898)

  • Creating an event using ON SCHEDULE AT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP + INTERVAL ... could in some cases cause mysqld to crash. (Bug#28881)

  • Coercion of ASCII values to character sets that are a superset of ASCII sometimes was not done, resulting in illegal mix of collations errors. These cases now are resolved using repertoire, a new string expression attribute (see Section 9.1.6, “String Repertoire”). (Bug#28875)

  • Executing ALTER EVENT on an event whose definer's event creation privileges had been revoked cause the server to crash. (Bug#28873)

  • ALTER VIEW is not supported as a prepared statement but was not being rejected. ALTER VIEW is now prohibited as a prepared statement or when called within stored routines. (Bug#28846)

  • In strict SQL mode, errors silently stopped the SQL thread even for errors named using the --slave-skip-errors option. (Bug#28839)

  • Fast ALTER TABLE (that works without rebuilding the table) acquired duplicate locks in the storage engine. In MyISAM, if ALTER TABLE was issued under LOCK TABLE, it caused all data inserted after LOCK TABLE to disappear. (Bug#28838)

  • Runtime changes to the log_queries_not_using_indexes system variable were ignored. (Bug#28808)

  • Selecting a column not present in the selected-from table caused an extra error to be produced by SHOW ERRORS. (Bug#28677)

  • Creating an event to be executed at a time close to the end of the allowed range (2038-01-19 03:14:07 UTC) would cause the server to crash. (Bug#28641)

  • For a statement of the form CREATE t1 SELECT integer_constant, the server created the column using the DECIMAL data type for large negative values that are within the range of BIGINT. (Bug#28625)

  • Starting the server with an innodb_force_recovery value of 4 did not work. (Bug#28604)

  • For InnoDB tables, MySQL unnecessarily sorted records in certain cases when the records were retrieved by InnoDB in the proper order already. (Bug#28591)

  • mysql_install_db could fail to find script files that it needs. (Bug#28585)

  • If a stored procedure was created and invoked prior to selecting a default database with USE, a No database selected error occurred. (Bug#28551)

  • On Mac OS X, shared-library installation pathnames were incorrect. (Bug#28544)

  • Using the --skip-add-drop-table option with mysqldump generated incorrect SQL if the database included any views. The recreation of views requires the creation and removal of temporary tables. This option suppressed the removal of those temporary tables. The same applied to --compact since this option also invokes --skip-add-drop-table. (Bug#28524)

  • mysqlbinlog --hexdump generated incorrect output due to omission of the “ # ” comment character for some comment lines. (Bug#28293)

  • InnoDB could crash if the server was shut down while innodb_table_monitor was running. (Bug#28254)

  • A race condition in the interaction between MyISAM and the query cache code caused the query cache not to invalidate itself for concurrently inserted data. (Bug#28249)

  • A duplicate-key error message could display an incorrect key value when not all columns of the key were used to select rows for update. (Bug#28158)

  • Indexing column prefixes in InnoDB tables could cause table corruption. (Bug#28138)

  • Index creation could fail due to truncation of key values to the maximum key length rather than to a mulitiple of the maximum character length. (Bug#28125)

  • Instance Manager had a race condition when it received a shutdown request while a guarded mysqld instance was starting such that it could fail to stop the mysqld instance. (Bug#28030)

  • SELECT ... FOR UPDATE with partitioned tables could cause a server crash. (Bug#28026)

  • On Windows, Instance Manager would crash if an instance object failed to initialize during startup. This could happen if an incorrect mysqld path was supplied in the configuration file. (Bug#28012)

  • The LOCATE() function returned NULL if any of its arguments evaluated to NULL. Likewise, the predicate, LOCATE(str,NULL) IS NULL, erroneously evaluated to FALSE. (Bug#27932)

  • Dropping a user-defined function could cause a server crash if the function was still in use by another thread. (Bug#27564)

  • An error that happened inside INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statements performed from within a stored function or trigger could cause inconsistency between master and slave servers. (Bug#27417)

  • For some event-creation problems, the server displayed messages that implied the problems were errors when they were only warnings. (Bug#27406)

  • Fixed a case of unsafe aliasing in the source that caused a client library crash when compiled with gcc 4 at high optimization levels. (Bug#27383)

  • Index-based range reads could fail for comparisons that involved contraction characters (such as ch in Czech or ll in Spanish). (Bug#27345)

  • Aggregations in subqueries that refer to outer query columns were not always correctly referenced to the proper outer query. (Bug#27333)

  • Error returns from the time() system call were ignored. (Bug#27198)

  • Phantom reads could occur under InnoDB serializable isolation level. (Bug#27197)

  • The SUBSTRING() function returned the entire string instead of an empty string when it was called from a stored procedure and when the length parameter was specified by a variable with the value “ 0 ”. (Bug#27130)

  • Some functions when used in partitioning expressions could cause mysqld to crash. (Bug#27084)

  • The server acquired a global mutex for temporary tables, although such tables are thread-specific. This affected performance by blocking other threads. (Bug#27062)

  • FEDERATED tables had an artificially low maximum of key length. (Bug#26909)

  • Updates to rows in a partitioned table could update the wrong column. (Bug#26827)

  • Index creation could corrupt the table definition in the .frm file: 1) A table with the maximum number of key segments and maximum length key name would have a corrupted .frm file, due to incorrect calculation of the total key length. 2) MyISAM would reject a table with the maximum number of keys and the maximum number of key segments in all keys. (It would allow one less than this total maximum.) Now MyISAM accepts a table defined with the maximum. (Bug#26642)

  • The Windows implementation of pthread_join() was incorrect and could cause crashes. (Bug#26564)

  • After the first read of a TEMPORARY table, CHECK TABLE could report the table as being corrupt. (Bug#26325)

  • If an operation had an InnoDB table, and two triggers, AFTER UPDATE and AFTER INSERT, competing for different resources (such as two distinct MyISAM tables), the triggers were unable to execute concurrently. In addition, INSERT and UPDATE statements for the InnoDB table were unable to run concurrently. (Bug#26141)

  • A number of unsupported constructs — including prohibited constructs, the UCASE() function, and nested function calls — were permitted in partitioning expressions. (Bug#26082, Bug#18198, Bug#29308)

  • ALTER DATABASE did not require at least one option. (Bug#25859)

  • The index merge union access algorithm could produce incorrect results with InnoDB tables. The problem could also occur for queries that used DISTINCT. (Bug#25798)

  • When using a FEDERATED table, the value of last_insert_id() would not correctly update the C API interface, which would affect the autogenerated ID returned both through the C API and the MySQL protocol, affecting Connectors that used the protocol and/or C API. (Bug#25714)

  • The server was blocked from opening other tables while the FEDERATED engine was attempting to open a remote table. Now the server does not check the correctness of a FEDERATED table at CREATE TABLE time, but waits until the table actually is accessed. (Bug#25679)

  • Under ActiveState Perl, mysql-test-run.pl could kill itself when attempting to kill other processes. (Bug#25657)

  • Several InnoDB assertion failures were corrected. (Bug#25645)

  • A query with DISTINCT in the select list to which the loose-scan optimization for grouping queries was applied returned an incorrect result set when the query was used with the SQL_BIG_RESULT option. (Bug#25602)

  • For a multiple-row insert into a FEDERATED table that refers to a remote transactional table, if the insert failed for a row due to constraint failure, the remote table would contain a partial commit (the rows preceding the failed one) instead of rolling back the statement completely. This occurred because the rows were treated as individual inserts.

    Now FEDERATED performs bulk-insert handling such that multiple rows are sent to the remote table in a batch. This provides a performance improvement and enables the remote table to perform statement rollback properly should an error occur. This capability has the following limitations:

    • The size of the insert cannot exceed the maximum packet size between servers. If the insert exceeds this size, it is broken into multiple packets and the rollback problem can occur.

    • Bulk-insert handling does not occur for INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE.

    (Bug#25513)

  • The FEDERATED storage engine failed silently for INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE if a duplicate key violation occurred. FEDERATED does not support ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, so now it correctly returns an ER_DUP_KEY error if a duplicate key violation occurs. (Bug#25511)

  • In a stored function or trigger, when InnoDB detected deadlock, it attempted rollback and displayed an incorrect error message (Explicit or implicit commit is not allowed in stored function or trigger). Now InnoDB returns an error under these conditions and does not attempt rollback. Rollback is handled outside of InnoDB above the function/trigger level. (Bug#24989)

  • Dropping a temporary InnoDB table that had been locked with LOCK TABLES caused a server crash. (Bug#24918)

  • On Windows, executables did not include Vista manifests. (Bug#24732)

    See also Bug#22563

  • Slave servers could incorrectly interpret an out-of-memory error from the master and reconnect using the wrong binary log position. (Bug#24192)

  • If MySQL/InnoDB crashed very quickly after starting up, it would not force a checkpoint. In this case, InnoDB would skip crash recovery at next startup, and the database would become corrupt. Fix: If the redo log scan at InnoDB startup goes past the last checkpoint, force crash recovery. (Bug#23710)

  • Using the READ COMMITTED transaction isolation level caused mixed and statement-based replication to fail. (Bug#23051)

  • SHOW INNODB STATUS caused an assertion failure under high load. (Bug#22819)

  • SHOW BINLOG EVENTS displayed incorrect values of End_log_pos for events associated with transactional storage engines. (Bug#22540)

  • When determining which transaction to kill after deadlock has been detected, InnoDB now adds the number of locks to a transaction's weight, and avoids killing transactions that mave modified non-transactional tables. This should reduce the likelihood of killing long-running transactions containing SELECT ... FOR UPDATE or INSERT/REPLACE INTO ... SELECT statements, and of causing partial updates if the target is a MyISAM table. (Bug#21293)

  • InnoDB displayed an incorrect error message when a CREATE TABLE statement exceeded the InnoDB maximum allowable row size. (Bug#21101)

  • Under heavy load with a large query cache, invalidating part of the cache could cause the server to freeze (that is, to be unable to service other operations until the invalidation was complete). (Bug#21074)

  • On Windows, the server used 10MB of memory for each connection thread, resulting in memory exhaustion. Now each thread uses 1MB. (Bug#20815)

  • InnoDB produced an unnecessary (and harmless) warning: InnoDB: Error: trying to declare trx to enter InnoDB, but InnoDB: it already is declared. (Bug#20090)

  • If a slave timed out while registering with the master to which it was connecting, auto-reconnect failed thereafter. (Bug#19328)

  • If InnoDB reached its limit on the number of concurrent transactions (1023), it wrote a descriptive message to the error log but returned a misleading error message to the client, or an assertion failure occurred. (Bug#18828)

  • Under ActiveState Perl, mysql-test-run.pl would not run. (Bug#18415)

  • The server crashed when the size of an ARCHIVE table grew larger than 2GB. (Bug#15787)

  • SQL_BIG_RESULT had no effect for CREATE TABLE ... SELECT SQL_BIG_RESULT ... statements. (Bug#15130)

  • On 64-bit Windows systems, the Config Wizard failed to complete the setup because 64-bit Windows does not resolve dynamic linking of the 64-bit libmysql.dll to a 32-bit application like the Config Wizard. (Bug#14649)

  • mysql_setpermission tried to grant global-only privileges at the database level. (Bug#14618)

  • For the general query log, logging of prepared statements executed via the C API differed from logging of prepared statements performed with PREPARE and EXECUTE. Logging for the latter was missing the Prepare and Execute lines. (Bug#13326)

  • The TABLE_COMMENT column for INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES displayed extraneous information for InnoDB tables. (Bug#11379)

    See also Bug#32440

  • The server returned data from SHOW CREATE TABLE statement or a SELECT statement on an INFORMATION_SCHEMA table using the binary character set. (Bug#10491)

  • Backup software can cause ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION or ERROR_LOCK_VIOLATION conditions during file operations. InnoDB now retries forever until the condition goes away. (Bug#9709)

  • Retrieval of object definitions from INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables.

  • In INFORMATION_SCHEMA, the VIEWS table now has these columns: CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT, COLLATION_CONNECTION. The ROUTINES, TRIGGERS, and EVENT tables now have these columns: CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT, COLLATION_CONNECTION, DATABASE_COLLATION.

  • In the mysql database, the proc and event tables now have these columns: character_set_client, collation_connection, db_collation, body_utf8.

  • Displaying the object definition in SHOW statements. This issue also affected mysqldump, which uses SHOW.

  • Compiling the stored definition into executable form when the object is invoked.

  • Bulk-insert handling does not occur for INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE.

  • The size of the insert cannot exceed the maximum packet size between servers. If the insert exceeds this size, it is broken into multiple packets and the rollback problem can occur.

  • Parsing the original object definition so that it can be stored.

C.1.9. Changes in MySQL 5.1.20 (25 June 2007)

This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs.

Note

This Beta release, as any other pre-production release, should not be installed on production level systems or systems with critical data. It is good practice to back up your data before installing any new version of software. Although MySQL has worked very hard to ensure a high level of quality, protect your data by making a backup as you would for any software beta release. Please refer to our bug database at http://bugs.mysql.com/ for more details about the individual bugs fixed in this version.

This section documents all changes and bug fixes that have been applied since the last official MySQL release. If you would like to receive more fine-grained and personalized update alerts about fixes that are relevant to the version and features you use, please consider subscribing to MySQL Enterprise (a commercial MySQL offering). For more details please see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Incompatible Change: It is no longer possible to partition the log tables. (Bug#27816)

  • Incompatible Change: mysqld_safe now supports error logging to syslog on systems that support the logger command. The new --syslog and --skip-syslog options can be used instead of the --log-error option to control logging behavior, as described in Section 4.3.2, “mysqld_safe — MySQL Server Startup Script”. The default is to use syslog, which differs from the previous default behavior of writing an error log file.

    Currently, logging to syslog may fail to operate correctly in some cases, so we recommend that you use --skip-syslog or --log-error. To maintain the older behavior if you were using no error-logging option, use --skip-syslog. If you were using --log-error, continue to use it.

    Note: In 5.1.21, the default is changed to --skip-syslog, which is compatible with releases prior to 5.1.20. (Bug#4858)

  • Important Change: MySQL Cluster: The TimeBetweenWatchdogCheckInitial configuration parameter was added to allow setting of a separate watchdog timeout for memory allocation during startup of the data nodes. See Section 20.3.4.5, “Defining Data Nodes”, for more information. (Bug#28899)

  • MySQL Cluster: The cluster management client now stores command history between sessions. (Bug#29073)

  • MySQL Cluster: auto_increment_increment and auto_increment_offset are now supported for NDB tables. (Bug#26342)

  • MySQL Cluster: The server source tree now includes scripts to simplify building MySQL with SCI support. For more information about SCI interconnects and these build scripts, see Section 20.13.1, “Configuring MySQL Cluster to use SCI Sockets”. (Bug#25470)

  • MySQL Cluster: A new configuration parameter ODirect causes NDB to attempt using O_DIRECT writes for LCP, backups, and redo logs, often lowering CPU usage.

  • If a MERGE table cannot be opened or used because of a problem with an underlying table, CHECK TABLE now displays information about which table caused the problem. (Bug#26976)

  • User variables and stored procedure variables are now supported for use in XPath expressions employed as arguments to the ExtractValue() and UpdateXML() functions.

    This means that:

    • XPath can now be used to load data from XML files using virtually any format, and so able to import data from most third party software which either has XML export functionality, or uses XML natively as a storage format.

    • Various complex conditions can be put on rows and columns, so one can filter for desired rows (or skip unwanted rows) when loading XML.

    • Various types of preprocessing using SQL functions are now possible when loading XML. For example, you can concatenate two XML tag or attribute values into a single column value using CONCAT(), or remove some parts of the data using REPLACE().

    See Section 11.10, “XML Functions”, for more information. (Bug#26518)

  • Binary distributions for some platforms did not include shared libraries; now shared libraries are shipped for all platforms except AIX 5.2 64-bit. Exception: The library for the libmysqld embedded server is not shared except on Windows. (Bug#16520, Bug#26767, Bug#13450)

  • Added a new PAD_CHAR_TO_FULL_LENGTH SQL mode. By default, trailing spaces are trimmed from CHAR column values on retrieval. If PAD_CHAR_TO_FULL_LENGTH is enabled, trimming does not occur and retrieved CHAR values are padded to their full length. This mode does not apply to VARCHAR columns, for which trailing spaces are retained on retrieval.

  • XPath can now be used to load data from XML files using virtually any format, and so able to import data from most third party software which either has XML export functionality, or uses XML natively as a storage format.

  • Various complex conditions can be put on rows and columns, so one can filter for desired rows (or skip unwanted rows) when loading XML.

  • The SQL_MODE, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS, character set/collations, and SQL_AUTO_IS_NULL sesstion variables are written to the binary log and honoured during replication. See Section 5.2.4, “The Binary Log”.

  • Various types of preprocessing using SQL functions are now possible when loading XML. For example, you can concatenate two XML tag or attribute values into a single column value using CONCAT(), or remove some parts of the data using REPLACE().

Bugs fixed:

  • Security Fix: A malformed password packet in the connection protocol could cause the server to crash. Thanks for Dormando for reporting this bug, and for providing details and a proof of concept. (Bug#28984, CVE-2007-3780)

  • Security Fix: CREATE TABLE LIKE did not require any privileges on the source table. Now it requires the SELECT privilege.

    In addition, CREATE TABLE LIKE was not isolated from alteration by other connections, which resulted in various errors and incorrect binary log order when trying to execute concurrently a CREATE TABLE LIKE statement and either DDL statements on the source table or DML or DDL statements on the target table. (Bug#23667, Bug#25578, CVE-2007-3781)

  • Incompatible Change: Some error codes had error numbers in MySQL 5.1 different from the numbers in MySQL 5.0. In MySQL 5.1, error numbers have been changed to match the MySQL 5.0 values: Error codes with value of 1458 or higher have changed in MySQL 5.1 now. Client applications designed to work with MySQL 5.1 with hard-coded error code values (for example, in statements such as if (mysql_errno(mysql) == 1463) { ... }) need to be updated in the source code. All clients designed to work with MySQL 5.1 that test error codes (for example, in statements such as if (mysql_errno(mysql) == ER_VIEW_RECURSIVE) { ... }) should be recompiled. Existing 5.0 clients should now work, without changes or recompilation, against servers for MySQL 5.1.20 or higher. (Bug#29245)

  • Incompatible Change: When mysqldump was run with the --delete-master-logs option, binary log files were deleted before it was known that the dump had succeeded, not after. (The method for removing log files used RESET MASTER prior to the dump. This also reset the binary log sequence numbering to .000001.) Now mysqldump flushes the logs (which creates a new binary log number with the next sequence number), performs the dump, and then uses PURGE MASTER LOGS to remove the log files older than the new one. This also preserves log numbering because the new log with the next number is generated and only the preceding logs are removed. However, this may affect applications if they rely on the log numbering sequence being reset. (Bug#24733)

  • Incompatible Change: The use of an ORDER BY or DISTINCT clause with a query containing a call to the GROUP_CONCAT() function caused results from previous queries to be redisplayed in the current result. The fix for this includes replacing a BLOB value used internally for sorting with a VARCHAR. This means that for long results (more than 65,535 bytes), it is possible for truncation to occur; if so, an appropriate warning is issued. (Bug#23856, Bug#28273)

  • MySQL Cluster: Memory corruption could occur due to a problem in the DBTUP kernel block. (Bug#29229)

  • MySQL Cluster: A query having a large IN(...) or NOT IN(...) list in the WHERE condition on an NDB table could cause mysqld to crash. (Bug#29185)

  • MySQL Cluster: In the event that two data nodes in the same node group and participating in a GCP crashed before they had written their respective P0.sysfile files, QMGR could refuse to start, issuing an invalid Insufficient nodes for restart error instead. (Bug#29167)

  • MySQL Cluster: Attempting to restore a NULL row to a VARBINARY column caused ndb_restore to fail. (Bug#29103)

  • MySQL Cluster: ndb_error_reporter now preserves timestamps on files. (Bug#29074)

  • MySQL Cluster: It is now possible to set the maximum size of the allocation unit for table memory using the MaxAllocate configuration parameter. (Bug#29044)

  • MySQL Cluster: When shutting down mysqld, the NDB binlog process was not shut down before log cleanup began. (Bug#28949)

  • MySQL Cluster: ndb_mgm could hang when connecting to a nonexistent host. (Bug#28847)

  • MySQL Cluster: A regression in the heartbeat monitoring code could lead to node failure under high load. This issue affected MySQL 5.1.19 and MySQL Cluster NDB 6.1.10 only. (Bug#28783)

  • MySQL Cluster: A corrupt schema file could cause a File already open error. (Bug#28770)

  • MySQL Cluster: Having large amounts of memory locked caused swapping to disk. (Bug#28751)

  • MySQL Cluster: Setting InitialNoOpenFiles equal to MaxNoOfOpenFiles caused an error. This was due to the fact that the actual value of MaxNoOfOpenFiles as used by the cluster was offset by 1 from the value set in config.ini. (Bug#28749)

  • MySQL Cluster: LCP files were not removed following an initial system restart. (Bug#28726)

  • MySQL Cluster: UPDATE IGNORE statements involving the primary keys of multiple tables could result in data corruption. (Bug#28719)

  • MySQL Cluster: A race condition could result when non-master nodes (in addition to the master node) tried to update active status due to a local checkpoint (that is, between NODE_FAILREP and COPY_GCIREQ events). Now only the master updates the active status. (Bug#28717)

  • MySQL Cluster: A fast global checkpoint under high load with high usage of the redo buffer caused data nodes to fail. (Bug#28653)

  • MySQL Cluster: The management client's response to START BACKUP WAIT COMPLETED did not include the backup ID. (Bug#27640)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Replication): A replicated unique key allowed duplicate key inserts on the slave. (Bug#27044)

  • Replication: It was possible to set SQL_SLAVE_SKIP_COUNTER such that the slave would jump into the middle of an event group. (Bug#28618)

    See also Bug#12691

  • Disk Data: When loading data into a cluster following a version upgrade, the data nodes could forcibly shut down due to page and buffer management failures (that is, ndbrequire failures in PGMAN). (Bug#28525)

  • Disk Data: Repeated INSERT and DELETE operations on a Disk Data table having one or more large VARCHAR columns could cause data nodes to fail. (Bug#20612)

  • Cluster Replication: When replicating MyISAM or InnoDB tables to a MySQL Cluster, it was not possible to determine exactly what had been applied following a shutdown of the slave cluster or mysqld process. (Bug#26783)

  • Cluster API: The timeout set using the MGM API ndb_mgm_set_timeout() function was incorrectly interpreted as seconds rather than as milliseconds. (Bug#29063)

  • Cluster API: An invalid error code could be set on transaction objects by BLOB handling code. (Bug#28724)

  • The TRUNCATE statement was handled differently by the server when row-based logging was in effect, even though the binlogging format in effect does not effect the fact that TRUNCATE is always logged as a statement. (Bug#29130)

  • If one of the queries in a UNION used the SQL_CACHE option and another query in the UNION contained a nondeterministic function, the result was still cached. For example, this query was incorrectly cached:

              
    SELECT NOW() FROM t1 UNION SELECT SQL_CACHE 1 FROM t1;
    

    (Bug#29053)

  • DROP USER statements that named multiple users, only some of which could be dropped, were replicated incorrectly. (Bug#29030)

  • Long pathnames for internal temporary tables could cause stack overflows. (Bug#29015)

  • Using an INTEGER column from a table to ROUND() a number produced different results than using a constant with the same value as the INTEGER column. (Bug#28980)

  • Using events in replication could cause the slave to crash. (Bug#28953)

  • If a program binds a given number of parameters to a prepared statement handle and then somehow changes stmt->param_count to a different number, mysql_stmt_execute() could crash the client or server. (Bug#28934)

  • Queries using UDFs or stored functions were cached. (Bug#28921)

  • INSERT .. ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE could under some circumstances silently update rows when it should not have. (Bug#28904)

  • Queries that used UUID() were incorrectly allowed into the query cache. (This should not happen because UUID() is non-deterministic.) (Bug#28897)

  • Using a VIEW created with a non-existing DEFINER could lead to incorrect results under some circumstances. (Bug#28895)

  • For InnoDB tables that use the utf8 character set, incorrect results could occur for DML statements such as DELETE or UPDATE that use an index on character-based columns. (Bug#28878)

    See also Bug#29449, Bug#30485, Bug#31395

    This regression was introduced by Bug#13195

  • Non-utf8 characters could get mangled when stored in CSV tables. (Bug#28862)

  • On Windows, USE_TLS was not defined for mysqlclient.lib. (Bug#28860)

  • In MySQL 5.1.15, a new error code ER_DUP_ENTRY_WITH_KEY_NAME (1582) was introduced to replace ER_DUP_ENTRY (1062) so that the key name could be provided instead of the key number. This was unnecessary, so ER_DUP_ENTRY is used again and the key name is printed. The incompatibility introduced in 5.1.15 no longer applies. (Bug#28842)

  • A subquery with ORDER BY and LIMIT 1 could cause a server crash. (Bug#28811)

  • Running SHOW TABLE STATUS while performing a high number of inserts on partitioned tables with a great many partitions could cause the server to crash. (Bug#28806)

  • Using BETWEEN with non-indexed date columns and short formats of the date string could return incorrect results. (Bug#28778)

  • Selecting GEOMETRY columns in a UNION caused a server crash. (Bug#28763)

  • When constructing the path to the original .frm file, ALTER .. RENAME was unnecessarily (and incorrectly) lowercasing the entire path when not on a case-insensitive filesystem, causing the statement to fail. (Bug#28754)

  • The binlog_format system variable value was empty if the server was started with binary logging disabled. Now it is set to MIXED. (Bug#28752)

  • Searches on indexed and non-indexed ENUM columns could return different results for empty strings. (Bug#28729)

  • Executing EXPLAIN EXTENDED on a query using a derived table over a grouping subselect could lead to a server crash. This occurred only when materialization of the derived tables required creation of an auxiliary temporary table, an example being when a grouping operation was carried out with usage of a temporary table. (Bug#28728)

  • The result of evaluation for a view's CHECK OPTION option over an updated record and records of merged tables was arbitrary and dependant on the order of records in the merged tables during the execution of the SELECT statement. (Bug#28716)

  • The “manager thread” of the LinuxThreads implementation was unintentionally started before mysqld had dropped privileges (to run as an unprivileged user). This caused signaling between threads in mysqld to fail when the privileges were finally dropped. (Bug#28690)

  • Setting an interval of EVERY 0 SECOND for a scheduled event caused the server to crash. (Bug#28666)

  • For debug builds, ALTER TABLE could trigger an assertion failure due to occurrence of a deadlock when committing changes. (Bug#28652)

  • Attempting to create an index on a BIT column failed after modifying the column. (Bug#28631)

  • After an upgrade, the names of stored routines referenced by views were no longer displayed by SHOW CREATE VIEW. (Bug#28605)

    This regression was introduced by Bug#23491

  • Conversion of U+00A5 YEN SIGN and U+203E OVERLINE from ucs2 to ujis produced incorrect results. (Bug#28600)

  • Killing from one connection a long-running EXPLAIN QUERY started from another connection caused mysqld to crash. (Bug#28598)

  • SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES repeated some variable names. (Bug#28580)

  • When one thread attempts to lock two (or more) tables and another thread executes a statement that aborts these locks (such as REPAIR TABLE, OPTIMIZE TABLE, or CHECK TABLE), the thread might get a table object with an incorrect lock type in the table cache. The result is table corruption or a server crash. (Bug#28574)

  • Outer join queries with ON conditions over constant outer tables did not return NULL-complemented rows when conditions were evaluated to FALSE. (Bug#28571)

  • An update on a multiple-table view with the CHECK OPTION clause and a subquery in the WHERE condition could cause an assertion failure. (Bug#28561)

  • Calling the UpdateXML() function using invalid XPath syntax caused memory corruption possibly leading to a crash of the server. (Bug#28558)

  • PURGE MASTER LOGS BEFORE (subquery) caused a server crash. Subqueries are forbidden in the BEFORE clause now. (Bug#28553)

  • mysqldump calculated the required memory for a hex-blob string incorrectly causing a buffer overrun. This in turn caused mysqldump to crash silently and produce incomplete output. (Bug#28522)

  • When upgrading from MySQL 5.1.17 to 5.1.18, mysql_upgrade and mysql_fix_privilege_tables did not upgrade the system tables relating to the Event Scheduler correctly. (Bug#28521)

  • Passing a DECIMAL value as a parameter of a statement prepared with PREPARE resulted in an error. (Bug#28509)

  • mysql_affected_rows() could return an incorrect result for INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE if the CLIENT_FOUND_ROWS flag was set. (Bug#28505)

  • A query that grouped by the result of an expression returned a different result when the expression was assigned to a user variable. (Bug#28494)

  • Subselects returning LONG values in MySQL versions later than 5.0.24a returned LONGLONG prior to this. The previous behavior was restored. (Bug#28492)

    This regression was introduced by Bug#19714

  • Performing ALTER TABLE ... ADD PARTITION or ALTER TABLE DROP PARTITION could result in inconsistent data, or cause the server to crash, if done concurrently with other accesses to the table. (Bug#28477, Bug#28488)

  • Forcing the use of an index on a SELECT query when the index had been disabled would raise an error without running the query. The query now executes, with a warning generated noting that the use of a disabled index has been ignored. (Bug#28476)

  • The result of executing of a prepared statement created with PREPARE s FROM "SELECT 1 LIMIT ?" was not replicated correctly. (Bug#28464)

  • The query SELECT '2007-01-01' + INTERVAL column_name DAY FROM table_name caused mysqld to fail. (Bug#28450)

  • A server crash could happen under rare conditions such that a temporary table outgrew heap memory reserved for it and the remaining disk space was not big enough to store the table as a MyISAM table. (Bug#28449)

  • Using ALTER TABLE to move columns resulted only in the columns being renamed. The table contents were not changed. (Bug#28427)

  • The test case for mysqldump failed with bin-log disabled. (Bug#28372)

  • Attempting to LOAD_FILE from an empty floppy drive under Windows, caused the server to hang. For example, if you opened a connection to the server and then issued the command SELECT LOAD_FILE('a:test');, with no floppy in the drive, the server was inaccessible until the modal pop-up dialog box was dismissed. (Bug#28366)

  • mysqltest used a too-large stack size on PPC/Debian Linux, causing thread-creation failure for tests that use many threads. (Bug#28333)

  • When using a MEMORY table on Mac OS X, dropping a table and than creating a table with the same name could cause the information of the deleted table to remain accessible, leading to index errors. (Bug#28309)

  • The IS_UPDATABLE column in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS table was not always set correctly. (Bug#28266)

  • For CAST() of a NULL value with type DECIMAL, the return value was incorrectly initialized, producing a runtime error for binaries built using Visual C++ 2005. (Bug#28250)

  • Recreating a view that already exists on the master would cause a replicating slave to terminate replication with a 'different error message on slave and master' error. (Bug#28244)

  • When the query cache was fully used, issuing RENAME DATABASE or RENAME SCHEMA could cause the server to hang, with 100% CPU usage. (Bug#28211)

  • The Bytes_received and Bytes_sent status variables could hold only 32-bit values (not 64-bit values) on some platforms. (Bug#28149)

  • Some valid identifiers were not parsed correctly. (Bug#28127)

  • Storing a large number into a FLOAT or DOUBLE column with a fixed length could result in incorrect truncation of the number if the column's length was greater than 31. (Bug#28121)

  • Sending debugging information from a dump of the Event Scheduler to COM_DEBUG could cause the server to crash. (Bug#28075)

  • The PARTITION_COMMENT column of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PARTITIONS table had the wrong default value. (Bug#28007)

  • DECIMAL values beginning with nine 9 digits could be incorrectly rounded. (Bug#27984)

  • For attempts to open a non-existent table, the server should report ER_NO_SUCH_TABLE but sometimes reported ER_TABLE_NOT_LOCKED. (Bug#27907)

  • Following an invalid call to UpdateXML(), calling the function again (even if valid) crashed the server. (Bug#27898)

  • A stored program that uses a variable name containing multibyte characters could fail to execute. (Bug#27876)

  • The server made strong assumptions about the structure of the general_log and slow_log log tables: It supported only the table structure defined in the mysql database creation scripts. The server also allowed limited ALTER TABLE operations on the log tables, but adding an AUTO_INCREMENT column did not properly initialize the column, and subsequent inserts into the table could fail to generate correct sequence numbers. Now an ALTER TABLE statement that adds an AUTO_INCREMENT column populates the column correctly. In addition, when the server writes a log table row, it will set columns not present in the original table structure to their default values. (Bug#27857)

  • ON conditions from JOIN expressions were ignored when checking the CHECK OPTION clause while updating a multiple-table view that included such a clause. (Bug#27827)

  • On some systems, udf_example.c returned an incorrect result length. Also on some systems, mysql-test-run.pl could not find the shared object built from udf_example.c. (Bug#27741)

  • The modification of a table by a partially completed multi-column update was not recorded in the binlog, rather than being marked by an event and a corresponding error code. (Bug#27716)

  • SHOW ENGINES and queries on INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ENGINES did not use the same values for representing the same storage engine states. (Bug#27684)

  • HASH indexes on VARCHAR columns with binary collations did not ignore trailing spaces from strings before comparisons. This could result in duplicate records being successfully inserted into a MEMORY table with unique key constraints. A consequence was that internal MEMORY tables used for GROUP BY calculation contained duplicate rows that resulted in duplicate-key errors when converting those temporary tables to MyISAM, and that error was incorrectly reported as a table is full error. (Bug#27643)

  • An error occurred trying to connect to mysqld-debug.exe. (Bug#27597)

  • A stack overrun could occur when storing DATETIME values using repeated prepared statements. (Bug#27592)

  • If a stored function or trigger was killed, it aborted but no error was thrown, allowing the calling statement to continue without noticing the problem. This could lead to incorrect results. (Bug#27563)

  • When ALTER TABLE was used to add a new DATE column with no explicit default value, '0000-00-00' was used as the default even if the SQL mode included the NO_ZERO_DATE mode to prohibit that value. A similar problem occurred for DATETIME columns. (Bug#27507)

  • ALTER TABLE ... ENABLE KEYS could cause mysqld to crash when executed on a table containing on a MyISAM table containing billions of rows. (Bug#27029)

  • Binary logging of prepared statements could produce syntactically incorrect queries in the binary log, replacing some parameters with variable names rather than variable values. This could lead to incorrect results on replication slaves. (Bug#26842, Bug#12826)

  • Binary content 0x00 in a BLOB column sometimes became 0x5C 0x00 following a dump and reload, which could cause problems with data using multi-byte character sets such as GBK (Chinese). This was due to a problem with SELECT INTO OUTFILE whereby LOAD DATA later incorrectly interpreted 0x5C as the second byte of a multi-byte sequence rather than as the SOLIDUS (“\”) character, used by MySQL as the escape character. (Bug#26711)

  • Connections from one mysqld server to another failed on Mac OS X, affecting replication and FEDERATED tables. (Bug#26664)

    See also Bug#29083

  • The server crashed when attempting to open a table having a #mysql50# prefix in the database or table name. The server now will not open such tables. (This prefix is reserved by mysql_upgrade for accessing 5.0 tables that have names not yet encoded for 5.1.) (Bug#26402)

  • A FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK statement followed by a FLUSH LOGS statement caused a deadlock if the general log or the slow query log was enabled. (Bug#26380)

  • The query SELECT /*2*/ user, host, db, info FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PROCESSLIST WHERE (command!='Daemon' || user='event_scheduler') AND (info IS NULL OR info NOT LIKE '%processlist%') ORDER BY INFO yielded inconsistent results. (Bug#26338)

  • For a given user variable @v, the statements SELECT @v and CREATE TABLE ... AS SELECT @v did not return the same data type. (Bug#26277)

  • Statements within triggers ignored the value of the low_priority_updates system variable. (Bug#26162)

    See also Bug#29963

  • The embedded server library displayed error messages at startup if the mysql.plugin table was not present. This no longer occurs. (Bug#25800)

  • On Windows, an application that called mysql_thread_init() but forgot to call mysql_thread_end() would get this error: Error in my_thread_global_end(). (Bug#25621)

  • Embedded /* ... */ comments were handled incorrectly within the definitions of stored programs and views, resulting in malformed definitions (the trailing */ was stripped). This also affected binary log contents. (Bug#25411, Bug#26302)

  • Due to a race condition, executing FLUSH PRIVILEGES in one thread could cause brief table unavailability in other threads. (Bug#24988)

  • In SHOW SLAVE STATUS output, Last_Errno and Last_Error were not set after master_retry_count errors had occurred. To provide additional information, the statement now displays four additional columns:

    • Last_IO_Errno: The number of the last error that caused the I/O thread to stop

    • Last_IO_Error: A description of the last error that caused the I/O thread to stop

    • Last_SQL_Errno: The number of the last error that caused the SQL thread to stop

    • Last_SQL_Error: A description of the last error that caused the SQL thread to stop

    Also, Last_Errno and Last_Error now are aliases for Last_SQL_Errno and Last_SQL_Error. (Bug#24954)

  • A too-long shared-memory-base-name value could cause a buffer overflow and crash the server or clients. (Bug#24924)

  • When mysqld was run as a Windows service, shared memory objects were not created in the global namespace and could not be used by clients to connect. (Bug#24731)

  • On some Linux distributions where LinuxThreads and NPTL glibc versions both are available, statically built binaries can crash because the linker defaults to LinuxThreads when linking statically, but calls to external libraries (such as libnss) are resolved to NPTL versions. This cannot be worked around in the code, so instead if a crash occurs on such a binary/OS combination, print an error message that provides advice about how to fix the problem. (Bug#24611)

  • A number of SHOW statements caused mysqld to crash on recent versions of Solaris. This issue is believed to be present only in MySQL 5.1.12 and later. (Bug#23810)

  • The server deducted some bytes from the key_cache_block_size option value and reduced it to the next lower 512 byte boundary. The resulting block size was not a power of two. Setting the key_cache_block_size system variable to a value that is not a power of two resulted in MyISAM table corruption. (Bug#23068, Bug#28478, Bug#25853)

  • Conversion errors could occur when constructing the condition for an IN predicate. The predicate was treated as if the affected column contains NULL, but if the IN predicate is inside NOT, incorrect results could be returned. (Bug#22855)

  • When using transactions and replication, shutting down the master in the middle of a transaction would cause all slaves to stop replicating. (Bug#22725)

  • Linux binaries were unable to dump core after executing a setuid() call. (Bug#21723)

  • Stack overflow caused server crashes. (Bug#21476)

  • Using CREATE TABLE LIKE ... would raise an assertion when replicated to a slave. (Bug#18950)

  • The server was ignoring the return value of the parse() function for full-text parser plugins. (Bug#18839)

  • Granting access privileges to an individual table where the database or table name contained an underscore would fail. (Bug#18660)

  • The -lmtmalloc library was removed from the output of mysql_config on Solaris, as it caused problems when building DBD::mysql (and possibly other applications) on that platform that tried to use dlopen() to access the client library. (Bug#18322)

  • The check-cpu script failed to detect AMD64 Turion processors correctly. (Bug#17707)

  • When using mysqlbinlog with --read-from-remote-server to load the data direct from a remote MySQL server would cause a core dump when dumping certain binary log events. (Bug#17654)

  • Trying to shut down the server following a failed LOAD DATA INFILE caused mysqld to crash. (Bug#17233)

  • The omission of leading zeros in dates could lead to erroneous results when these were compared with the output of certain date and time functions. (Bug#16377)

  • Using up-arrow for command-line recall in mysql could cause a segmentation fault. (Bug#10218)

  • The result for CAST() when casting a value to UNSIGNED was limited to the maximum signed BIGINT value (9223372036854775808), rather than the maximum unsigned value (18446744073709551615). (Bug#8663)

  • The internal functions for table preparation, creation, and alteration were not re-execution friendly, causing problems in code that: repeatedly altered a table; repeatedly created and dropped a table; opened and closed a cursor on a table, altered the table, and then reopened the cursor; used ALTER TABLE to change a table's current AUTO_INCREMENT value; created indexes on utf8 columns.

    Re-execution of CREATE DATABASE, CREATE TABLE, and ALTER TABLE statements in stored routines or as prepared statements also caused incorrect results or crashes. (Bug#4968, Bug#6895, Bug#19182, Bug#19733, Bug#22060, Bug#24879)

  • Last_IO_Error: A description of the last error that caused the I/O thread to stop

  • Last_IO_Errno: The number of the last error that caused the I/O thread to stop

  • Last_SQL_Error: A description of the last error that caused the SQL thread to stop

  • Last_SQL_Errno: The number of the last error that caused the SQL thread to stop

C.1.10. Changes in MySQL 5.1.19 (25 May 2007)

This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs.

Note

This Beta release, as any other pre-production release, should not be installed on production level systems or systems with critical data. It is good practice to back up your data before installing any new version of software. Although MySQL has worked very hard to ensure a high level of quality, protect your data by making a backup as you would for any software beta release. Please refer to our bug database at http://bugs.mysql.com/ for more details about the individual bugs fixed in this version.

This section documents all changes and bug fixes that have been applied since the last official MySQL release. If you would like to receive more fine-grained and personalized update alerts about fixes that are relevant to the version and features you use, please consider subscribing to MySQL Enterprise (a commercial MySQL offering). For more details please see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Incompatible Change: INSERT DELAYED is now downgraded to a normal INSERT if the statement uses functions that access tables or triggers, or that is called from a function or a trigger.

    This was done to resolve the following interrelated issues:

    • The server could abort or deadlock for INSERT DELAYED statements for which another insert was performed implicitly (for example, via a stored function that inserted a row).

    • A trigger using an INSERT DELAYED caused the error INSERT DELAYED can't be used with table ... because it is locked with LOCK TABLES although the target table was not actually locked.

    • INSERT DELAYED into a table with a BEFORE INSERT or AFTER INSERT trigger gave an incorrect NEW pseudocolumn value and caused the server to deadlock or abort.

    (Bug#21483)

    See also Bug#20497, Bug#21714

  • MySQL Cluster: Formerly, restoring a cluster backup made on a MySQL 5.0 Cluster to a 5.1 cluster using a 5.1 version of ndb_restore did not resize VARCHAR columns as might be expected; now, the default behavior of ndb_restore in such cases is to resize the VARCHAR columns. This changed default behavior can be overridden using the --no-upgrade (or -u) option when invoking ndb_restore. (Bug#22240)

  • The BLACKHOLE storage engine now supports INSERT DELAYED. Previously, INSERT DELAYED statements for BLACKHOLE tables were not supported, and caused the server to crash. (Bug#27998)

  • A new status variable, Com_call_procedure, indicates the number of calls to stored procedures. (Bug#27994)

  • The BLACKHOLE storage engine now supports LOCK TABLES and UNLOCK TABLES. (Bug#26241)

  • GLOBAL_STATUS

  • GLOBAL_VARIABLES

  • SESSION_VARIABLES

  • The data type used for the VARIABLE_VALUE column of the following INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables has been changed to VARCHAR:

    • GLOBAL_STATUS

    • SESSION_STATUS

    • GLOBAL_VARIABLES

    • SESSION_VARIABLES

    For more information, see Section 27.24, “The INFORMATION_SCHEMA GLOBAL_STATUS and SESSION_STATUS Tables”, Section 27.25, “The INFORMATION_SCHEMA GLOBAL_VARIABLES and SESSION_VARIABLES Tables”.

    See also Bug#26994

  • SESSION_STATUS

Bugs fixed:

  • Security Fix: UDFs are supposed to be loadable only from the plugin directory, but this restriction was not being enforced. (Bug#28341)

  • Security Fix: Use of a view could allow a user to gain update privileges for tables in other databases. (Bug#27878, CVE-2007-3782)

  • MySQL Cluster: When an API node sent more than 1024 signals in a single batch, NDB would process only the first 1024 of these, and then hang. (Bug#28443)

  • MySQL Cluster: A delay in obtaining AUTO_INCREMENT IDs could lead to excess temporary errors. (Bug#28410)

  • MySQL Cluster: Local checkpoint files relating to dropped NDB tables were not removed. (Bug#28348)

  • MySQL Cluster: Multiple operations involving deletes followed by reads were not handled correctly.

    Note

    This issue could also affect MySQL Cluster Replication.

    (Bug#28276)

  • MySQL Cluster: Repeated insertion of data generated by mysqldump into NDB tables could eventually lead to failure of the cluster. (Bug#27437)

  • MySQL Cluster: Restarting a data node caused SQL nodes to log repeatedly and unnecessarily the status of the event buffer.

    (This issue was known to occur in MySQL 5.1.16 and later only.) (Bug#27292)

  • MySQL Cluster: ndb_mgmd failed silently when the cluster configuration file contained invalid [tcp] entries. (Bug#27207)

  • MySQL Cluster: ndb_connectstring did not appear in the output of SHOW VARIABLES. (Bug#26675)

  • MySQL Cluster: A failure to release internal resources following an error could lead to problems with single user mode. (Bug#25818)

  • MySQL Cluster: DDL operations were not supported on a partially started cluster. (Bug#24631)

  • Disk Data: Extremely large inserts into Disk Data tables could lead to data node failure in some circumstances. (Bug#27942)

  • Cluster API: In a multi-operation transaction, a delete operation followed by the insertion of an implicit NULL failed to overwrite an existing value. (Bug#20535)

  • Some ALTER TABLE statements that worked in MySQL 5.0 did not work in 5.1. (Bug#28415)

  • mysql_upgrade failed if certain SQL modes were set. Now it sets the mode itself to avoid this problem. (Bug#28401)

  • A query with a NOT IN subquery predicate could cause a crash when the left operand of the predicate evaluated to NULL. (Bug#28375)

  • A buffer overflow could occur when using DECIMAL columns on Windows operating systems. (Bug#28361)

  • libmysql.dll could not be dynamically loaded on Windows. (Bug#28358)

  • Grouping queries with correlated subqueries in WHERE conditions could produce incorrect results. (Bug#28337)

  • EXPLAIN for a query on an empty table immediately after its creation could result in a server crash. (Bug#28272)

  • Comparing a DATETIME column value with a user variable yielded incorrect results. (Bug#28261)

  • Portability problems caused by use of isinf() were corrected. (Bug#28240)

  • When dumping procedures, mysqldump --compact generated output that restored the session variable SQL_MODE without first capturing it. When dumping routines, mysqldump --compact neither set nor retrieved the value of SQL_MODE. (Bug#28223)

  • Comparison of the string value of a date showed as unequal to CURTIME(). Similar behavior was exhibited for DATETIME values. (Bug#28208)

  • For InnoDB, in some rare cases the optimizer preferred a more expensive ref access to a less expensive range access. (Bug#28189)

  • Comparisons of DATE or DATETIME values for the IN() function could yield incorrect results. (Bug#28133)

  • It was not possible to use the value –9223372036854775808 (that is, –MAXVALUE + 1) when specifying a LIST partition. (Bug#28005)

  • The server could hang for INSERT IGNORE ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE if an update failed. (Bug#28000)

  • CAST() to DECIMAL did not check for overflow. (Bug#27957)

  • The second execution of a prepared statement from a UNION query with ORDER BY RAND() caused the server to crash. This problem could also occur when invoking a stored procedure containing such a query. (Bug#27937)

  • Views ignored precision for CAST() operations. (Bug#27921)

  • Changes to some system variables should invalidate statements in the query cache, but invalidation did not happen. (Bug#27792)

  • LOAD DATA did not use CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as the default value for a TIMESTAMP column for which no value was provided. (Bug#27670)

  • Selecting MIN() on an indexed column that contained only NULL values caused NULL to be returned for other result columns. (Bug#27573)

  • Using a TEXT local variable in a stored routine in an expression such as SET var = SUBSTRING(var, 3) produced an incorrect result. (Bug#27415)

  • The error message for error number 137 did not report which database/table combination reported the problem. (Bug#27173)

  • A large filesort could result in a division by zero error and a server crash. (Bug#27119)

  • Some InnoDB variables were missing from the output of mysqld --verbose --help. (Bug#26987)

  • Flow control optimization in stored routines could cause exception handlers to never return or execute incorrect logic. (Bug#26977)

  • Some test suite files were missing from some MySQL-test packages. (Bug#26609)

  • Running CHECK TABLE concurrently with a SELECT, INSERT or other statement on Windows could corrupt a MyISAM table. (Bug#25712)

  • Concurrent execution of CREATE TABLE ... SELECT and other statements involving the target table suffered from various race conditions, some of which might have led to deadlocks. (Bug#24738)

  • An attempt to execute CREATE TABLE ... SELECT when a temporary table with the same name already existed led to the insertion of data into the temporary table and creation of an empty non-temporary table. (Bug#24508)

  • A statement of the form CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS t1 SELECT f1() AS i failed with a deadlock error if the stored function f1() referred to a table with the same name as the to-be-created table. Now it correctly produces a message that the table already exists. (Bug#22427)

  • Quoted labels in stored routines were mishandled, rendering the routines unusable. (Bug#21513)

  • CURDATE() is less than NOW(), either when comparing CURDATE() directly (CURDATE() < NOW() is true) or when casting CURDATE() to DATE (CAST(CURDATE() AS DATE) < NOW() is true). However, storing CURDATE() in a DATE column and comparing col_name < NOW() incorrectly yielded false. This is fixed by comparing a DATE column as DATETIME for comparisons to a DATETIME constant. (Bug#21103)

  • CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ... SELECT caused a server crash if the target table already existed and had a BEFORE INSERT trigger. (Bug#20903)

  • Deadlock occurred for attempts to execute CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ... SELECT when LOCK TABLES had been used to acquire a read lock on the target table. (Bug#20662, Bug#15522)

  • For dates with 4-digit year parts less than 200, an incorrect implicit conversion to add a century was applied for date arithmetic performed with DATE_ADD(), DATE_SUB(), + INTERVAL, and - INTERVAL. (For example, DATE_ADD('0050-01-01 00:00:00', INTERVAL 0 SECOND) became '2050-01-01 00:00:00'.) (Bug#18997)

  • Changing the size of a key buffer that is under heavy use could cause a server crash. The fix partially removes the limitation that LOAD INDEX INTO CACHE fails unless all indexes in a table have the same block size. Now the statement fails only if IGNORE LEAVES is specified. (Bug#17332)

C.1.11. Changes in MySQL 5.1.18 (08 May 2007)

This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs.

Note

This Beta release, as any other pre-production release, should not be installed on production level systems or systems with critical data. It is good practice to back up your data before installing any new version of software. Although MySQL has worked very hard to ensure a high level of quality, protect your data by making a backup as you would for any software beta release. Please refer to our bug database at http://bugs.mysql.com/ for more details about the individual bugs fixed in this version.

This section documents all changes and bug fixes that have been applied since the last official MySQL release. If you would like to receive more fine-grained and personalized update alerts about fixes that are relevant to the version and features you use, please consider subscribing to MySQL Enterprise (a commercial MySQL offering). For more details please see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Incompatible Change: MySQL Cluster: The internal specifications for columns in NDB tables has changed to allow compatibility with future MySQL Cluster releases that are expected to implement online adding and dropping of columns. This change is not backward compatible with earlier versions of MySQL Cluster.

    See the related note in Section 20.5.2, “MySQL Cluster 5.1 and MySQL Cluster NDB 6.x Upgrade and Downgrade Compatibility”, for important information prior to upgrading a MySQL Cluster to MySQL 5.1.18 or later from MySQL 5.1.17 or earlier.

    See also Bug#28205

  • Cluster Replication: Incompatible Change: The definition of the mysql.ndb_apply_status table has changed such that an online upgrade is not possible from MySQL 5.1.17 or earlier for a replication slave cluster; you must shut down all SQL nodes as part of the upgrade procedure. See Section 20.5.2, “MySQL Cluster 5.1 and MySQL Cluster NDB 6.x Upgrade and Downgrade Compatibility” before upgrading for details.

    For more information about the changes to mysql.ndb_apply_status see Section 20.11.4, “Cluster Replication Schema and Tables”.

  • Incompatible Change: Prior to this release, when DATE values were compared with DATETIME values, the time portion of the DATETIME value was ignored, or the comparison could be performed as a string compare. Now a DATE value is coerced to the DATETIME type by adding the time portion as 00:00:00. To mimic the old behavior, use the CAST() function to cause the comparison operands to be treated as previously. For example: SELECT date_col = CAST(NOW() AS DATE);. (Bug#28929)

  • Incompatible Change: The INFORMATION_SCHEMA.EVENTS and mysql.event tables have been changed to facilitate replication of events. When upgrading to MySQL 5.1.18, you must run mysql_upgrade prior to working with events. Until you have done so, any statement relating to the Event Scheduler or these tables (including SHOW EVENTS) will fail with the errors Expected field status at position 12 to have type enum ('ENABLED','SLAVESIDE_DISABLED','DISABLED'), found enum('ENABLED','DISABLED') and Table mysql.event is damaged. Can not open.

    These changes were made as part of fixes for the following bugs:

    • The effects of scheduled events were not replicated (that is, binary logging of scheduled events did not work).

    • Effects of scheduled events on a replication master were both replicated and executed on the slave, causing double execution of events.

    • CREATE FUNCTION statements and their effects were not replicated correctly.

    For more information, see Section 19.3.1.5, “Replication of Invoked Features”. (Bug#17857, Bug#16421, Bug#20384, Bug#17671)

  • Important Change: When upgrading to MySQL 5.1.18 or later from a previous MySQL version and scheduled events have been used, the upgrade utilities do not accomodate changes in event-related system tables. As a workaround, you can dump events before the upgrade, then restore them from the dump afterwards. This issue was fixed in MySQL 5.1.20.

    See also Bug#28521

  • MySQL Cluster: The behavior of the ndb_restore utility has been changed as follows:

    • It is now possible to restore selected databases or tables using ndb_restore.

    • Several options have been added for use with ndb_restore --print_data to facilitate the creation of structured data dump files. These options can be used to make dumps made using ndb_restore more like those produced by mysqldump.

    For details of these changes, see Section 20.9.3, “ndb_restore — Restore a Cluster Backup”. (Bug#26899, Bug#26900)

  • MySQL Cluster: The following changes were made in the ndb_size.pl utility:

    • When ndb_size.pl calculates a value for a given configuration parameter that is less than the default value, it now suggests the default value instead.

    • The dependency on HTML::Template was removed, with the result that the file ndb_size.tmpl is no longer needed or included.

    (Bug#24227, Bug#24228)

  • Cluster Replication: Some circular replication setups are now supported for MySQL Cluster. See Section 20.11.3, “Known Issues in MySQL Cluster Replication”, for detailed information. (Bug#17095, Bug#25688)

  • Cluster API: The MGM API now supports explicit setting of network timeouts using the ndb_mgm_set_timeout() function. A utility function ndb_mgm_number_of_mgmd_in_connect_string() is also implemented to facilitate calculation of timeouts based on the number of management servers in the cluster.

    For more information, see ndb_mgm_set_timeout(), and ndb_mgm_number_of_mgmd_in_connect_string().

  • mysqld_multi now understands the --no-defaults, --defaults-file, and --defaults-extra-file options. The --config-file option is deprecated; if given, it is treated like --defaults-extra-file. (Bug#27390)

  • If a set function S with an outer reference S(outer_ref) cannot be aggregated in the outer query against which the outer reference has been resolved, MySQL interprets S(outer_ref) the same way that it would interpret S(const). However, standard SQL requires throwing an error in this situation. An error now is thrown for such queries if the ANSI SQL mode is enabled. (Bug#27348)

  • Several additional data types are supported for columns in INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables: DATE, TIME, BLOB, FLOAT, and all integer types. (Bug#27047)

  • The output of mysql --xml and mysqldump --xml now includes a valid XML namespace. (Bug#25946)

  • If you use SSL for a client connection, you can tell the client not to authenticate the server certificate by specifying neither --ssl-ca nor --ssl-capath. The server still verifies the client according to any applicable requirements established via GRANT statements for the client, and it still uses any --ssl-ca/--ssl-capath values that were passed to server at startup time. (Bug#25309)

  • Added a MASTER_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT option for the CHANGE MASTER statement, and a Master_SSL_Verify_Server_Cert output column to the SHOW SLAVE STATUS statement. The option value also is written to the master.info file. (Bug#19991)

  • The innodb_log_archive system variable has been removed. The impact of this change should be low because the variable was unused, anyway.

  • Added the --auto-generate-sql-add-auto-increment, --auto-generate-sql-execute-number, --auto-generate-sql-guid-primary, --auto-generate-sql-secondary-indexes, --auto-generate-sql-unique-query-number, --auto-generate-sql-unique-write-number, --post-query,, and --pre-query, options for mysqlslap. Removed the --lock-directory, --slave, and --use-threads options.

  • Added --write-binlog option for mysqlcheck. This option is enabled by default, but can be given as --skip-write-binlog to cause ANALYZE TABLE, OPTIMIZE TABLE, and REPAIR TABLE statements generated by mysqlcheck not to be written to the binary log. (Bug#26262)

  • New command-line options: To alleviate ambiguities in variable names, all variables related to plugins can be specified using a plugin part in the name. For example, every time where we used to have innodb in the command-line options, you can now write plugin-innodb:

    --skip-plugin-innodb
    --plugin-innodb-buffer-pool-size=#
    

    Furthermore, this is the preferred syntax. It helps to avoid ambiguities when a plugin, say, wait, has an option called timeout. --wait-timeout will still set a system variable, but --plugin-wait-timeout will set the plugin variable. Also, there is a new command-line option --plugin-load to install or load plugins at initialization time without using the mysql.plugin table.

  • The plugin interface and its handling of system variables was changed. Command-line options such as --skip-innodb now cause an error if InnoDB is not built-in or plugin-loaded. You should use --loose-skip-innodb if you do not want any error even if InnoDB is not available. The --loose prefix modifier should be used for all command-line options where you are uncertain whether the plugin exists and when you want the operation to proceed even if the option is necessarily ignored due to the absence of the plugin. (For a desecription of how --loose works, see Section 4.2.3.1, “Using Options on the Command Line”.)

  • Storage engine plugins may now be uninstalled at run time. However, a plugin is not actually uninstalled until after its reference count drops to zero. The default_storage_engine system variable consumes a reference count, so uninstalling will not complete until said reference is removed.

  • The mysql_create_system_tables script was removed because mysql_install_db no longer uses it in MySQL 5.1.

  • Renamed the old_mode system variable to old.

Bugs fixed:

  • Security Fix: The requirement of the DROP privilege for RENAME TABLE was not enforced. (Bug#27515, CVE-2007-2691)

  • Security Fix: If a stored routine was declared using SQL SECURITY INVOKER, a user who invoked the routine could gain privileges. (Bug#27337, CVE-2007-2692)

  • Security Fix: A user with only the ALTER privilege on a partitioned table could obtain information about the table that should require the SELECT privilege. (Bug#23675, CVE-2007-2693)

  • MySQL Cluster: The cluster waited 30 seconds instead of 30 milliseconds before reading table statistics. (Bug#28093)

  • MySQL Cluster: Under certain rare circumstances, ndbd could get caught in an infinite loop when one transaction took a read lock and then a second transaction attempted to obtain a write lock on the same tuple in the lock queue. (Bug#28073)

  • MySQL Cluster: Under some circumstances, a node restart could fail to update the Global Checkpoint Index (GCI). (Bug#28023)

  • MySQL Cluster: INSERT IGNORE wrongly ignored NULL values in unique indexes. (Bug#27980)

  • MySQL Cluster: The name of the month “March” was given incorrectly in the cluster error log. (Bug#27926)

  • MySQL Cluster: NDB tables having MEDIUMINT AUTO_INCREMENT columns were not restored correctly by ndb_restore, causing spurious duplicate key errors. This issue did not affect TINYINT, INT, or BIGINT columns with AUTO_INCREMENT. (Bug#27775)

  • MySQL Cluster: NDB tables with indexes whose names contained space characters were not restored correctly by ndb_restore (the index names were truncated). (Bug#27758)

  • MySQL Cluster: An INSERT followed by a delete DELETE on the same NDB table caused a memory leak. (Bug#27756)

    This regression was introduced by Bug#20612

  • MySQL Cluster: It was not possible to add a unique index to an NDB table while in single user mode. (Bug#27710)

  • MySQL Cluster: Under certain rare circumstances performing a DROP TABLE or TRUNCATE on an NDB table could cause a node failure or forced cluster shutdown. (Bug#27581)

  • MySQL Cluster: Memory usage of a mysqld process grew even while idle. (Bug#27560)

  • MySQL Cluster: Using more than 16GB for DataMemory caused problems with variable-size columns. (Bug#27512)

  • MySQL Cluster: A data node failing while another data node was restarting could leave the cluster in an inconsistent state. In certain rare cases, this could lead to a race condition and the eventual forced shutdown of the cluster. (Bug#27466)

  • MySQL Cluster: When using the MemReportFrequency configuration parameter to generate periodic reports of memory usage in the cluster log, DataMemory usage was not always reported for all data nodes. (Bug#27444)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Replication): An UPDATE on the master became a DELETE on slaves. (Bug#27378)

  • MySQL Cluster: When trying to create an NDB table after the server was started with --ndbcluster but without --ndb-connectstring, mysqld produced a memory allocation error. (Bug#27359)

  • MySQL Cluster: Performing a delete followed by an insert during a local checkpoint could cause a Rowid already allocated error. (Bug#27205)

  • MySQL Cluster: In an NDB table having a TIMESTAMP column using DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, that column would assume a random value when another column in the same row was updated. (Bug#27127)

  • MySQL Cluster: Error messages displayed when running in single user mode were inconsistent. (Bug#27021)

  • MySQL Cluster: On Solaris, the value of an NDB table column declared as BIT(33) was always displayed as 0. (Bug#26986)

  • MySQL Cluster: Performing ALTER TABLE ... ENGINE=MERGE on an NDB table caused mysqld to crash. (Bug#26898)

  • MySQL Cluster: The NDBCLUSTER table handler did not set bits in null bytes correctly. (Bug#26591)

  • MySQL Cluster: In some cases, AFTER UPDATE and AFTER DELETE triggers on NDB tables that referenced subject table did not see the results of operation which caused invocation of the trigger, but rather saw the row as it was prior to the update or delete operation.

    This was most noticeable when an update operation used a subquery to obtain the rows to be updated. An example would be UPDATE tbl1 SET col2 = val1 WHERE tbl1.col1 IN (SELECT col3 FROM tbl2 WHERE c4 = val2) where there was an AFTER UPDATE trigger on table tbl1. In such cases, the trigger would fail to execute.

    The problem occurred because the actual update or delete operations were deferred to be able to perform them later as one batch. The fix for this bug solves the problem by disabling this optimization for a given update or delete if the table has an AFTER trigger defined for this operation. (Bug#26242)

  • MySQL Cluster: Joins on multiple tables containing BLOB columns could cause data nodes run out of memory, and to crash with the error NdbObjectIdMap::expand unable to expand. (Bug#26176)

  • MySQL Cluster: START BACKUP NOWAIT caused a spurious Out of backup record error in the management client (START BACKUP and START BACKUP WAIT STARTED performed normally). (Bug#25446)

  • MySQL Cluster: Adding of indexes online failed for NDB tables having BLOB or TEXT columns. (Bug#25431)

  • MySQL Cluster: When a cluster data node suffered a “hard” failure (such as a power failure or loss of a network connection) TCP sockets to the missing node were maintained indefinitely. Now socket-based transporters check for a response and terminate the socket if there is no activity on the socket after 2 hours. (Bug#24793)

  • MySQL Cluster: The ndb_resize.pl utility did not calculate memory usage for indexes correctly. (Bug#24229)

  • MySQL Cluster: While a data node was stopped, dropping a table then creating an index on a different table caused that node to fail during restart. This was due to the re-use of the dropped table's internal ID for the index without verifying that the index now referred to a different database object. (Bug#21755)

  • MySQL Cluster: When trying to create tables on an SQL node not connected to the cluster, a misleading error message Table 'tbl_name' already exists was generated. The error now generated is Could not connect to storage engine. (Bug#18676)

  • Replication: Out-of-memory errors were not reported. Now they are written to the error log. (Bug#26844)

  • Cluster Replication: Disk Data: An issue with replication of Disk Data tables could in some cases lead to node failure. (Bug#28161)

  • Disk Data: Changes to a Disk Data table made as part of a transaction could not be seen by the client performing the changes until the transaction had been committed. (Bug#27757)

  • Disk Data: When in single user mode, it was possible to create log file groups and tablespaces from any SQL node connected to the cluster. (Bug#27712)

  • Disk Data: CREATE TABLE ... LIKE disk_data_table created an in-memory NDB table. (Bug#25875)

  • Disk Data: When restarting a data node following the creation of a large number of Disk Data objects (approximately 200 such objects), the cluster could not assign a node ID to the restarting node. (Bug#25741)

  • Disk Data: Creating an excessive number of Disk Data tables (1000 or more) could cause data nodes to fail. (Bug#24951)

  • Disk Data: Changing a column specification or issuing a TRUNCATE statement on a Disk Data table caused the table to become an in-memory table.

    This fix supersedes an incomplete fix that was made for this issue in MySQL 5.1.15. (Bug#24667, Bug#25296)

  • Disk Data: Setting the value of the UNDO BUFFER SIZE to 64K or less in a CREATE LOGFILE GROUP statement led to failure of cluster data nodes. (Bug#24560)

  • Disk Data: Creating an excessive number of data files for a single tablespace caused data nodes to crash. (Bug#24521)

  • Disk Data: It was possible to drop the last remaining datafile in a tablespace using ALTER TABLESPACE, even when there was still an empty table using the tablespace.

    Note

    The datafile could be not dropped if the table still contained any rows, so this bug involved no loss of data.

    (Bug#21699)

  • Cluster Replication: Some queries that updated multiple tables were not backed up correctly. (Bug#27748)

  • Cluster Replication: It was possible for API nodes to begin interacting with the cluster subscription manager before they were fully connected to the cluster. (Bug#27728)

  • Cluster Replication: Under very high loads, checkpoints could be read or written with checkpoint indexes out of order. (Bug#27651)

  • Cluster Replication: Trying to replicate a large number of frequent updates with a relatively small relay log (max-relay-log-size set to 1M or less) could cause the slave to crash. (Bug#27529)

  • Cluster Replication: Setting SQL_LOG_BIN to zero did not disable binary logging.

    This issue affected only the NDB storage engine. (Bug#27076)

  • Cluster Replication: An SQL node acting as a replication master server could be a single point of failure; that is, if it failed, the replication slave had no way of knowing this, which could result in a mismatch of data between the master and the slave. (Bug#21494)

  • Cluster API: For BLOB reads on operations with lock mode LM_CommittedRead, the lock mode was not upgraded to LM_Read before the state of the BLOB had already been calculated. The NDB API methods affected by this problem included the following:

    • NdbOperation::readTuple()

    • NdbScanOperation::readTuples()

    • NdbIndexScanOperation::readTuples()

    (Bug#27320)

  • Cluster API: Using NdbBlob::writeData() to write data in the middle of an existing blob value (that is, updating the value) could overwrite some data past the end of the data to be changed. (Bug#27018)

  • A performance degradation was observed for outer join queries to which a not-exists optimization was applied. (Bug#28188)

  • SELECT * INTO OUTFILE ... FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA failed with an Access denied error, even for a user who had the FILE privilege. (Bug#28181)

  • Early NULL-filtering optimization did not work for eq_ref table access. (Bug#27939)

  • Non-grouped columns were allowed by * in ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY SQL mode. (Bug#27874)

  • Some equi-joins containing a WHERE clause that included a NOT IN subquery caused a server crash. (Bug#27870)

  • An error message suggested the use of mysql_fix_privilege_tables after an upgrade, but the recommended program is now mysql_upgrade. (Bug#27818)

  • Debug builds on Windows generated false alarms about uninitialized variables with some Visual Studio runtime libraries. (Bug#27811)

  • Certain queries that used uncorrelated scalar subqueries caused EXPLAIN to crash. (Bug#27807)

  • Performing a UNION on two views that had ORDER BY clauses resulted in an Unknown column error. (Bug#27786)

  • mysql_install_db is supposed to detect existing system tables and create only those that do not exist. Instead, it was exiting with an error if tables already existed. (Bug#27783)

  • The LEAST() and GREATEST() functions compared DATE and DATETIME values as strings, which in some cases could lead to an incorrect result. (Bug#27759)

  • A memory leak in the event scheduler that was uncovered by Valgrind was fixed. (Bug#27733)

  • mysqld did not check the length of option values and could crash with a buffer overflow for long values. (Bug#27715)

  • Comparisons using row constructors could fail for rows containing NULL values. (Bug#27704)

  • mysqldump could not connect using SSL. (Bug#27669)

  • SELECT DISTINCT could return incorrect results if the select list contained duplicated columns. (Bug#27659)

  • On Linux, the server could not create temporary tables if lower_case_table_names was set to 1 and the value of tmpdir was a directory name containing any uppercase letters. (Bug#27653)

  • For InnoDB tables, a multiple-row INSERT of the form INSERT INTO t (id...) VALUES (NULL...) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE id=VALUES(id), where id is an AUTO_INCREMENT column, could cause ERROR 1062 (23000): Duplicate entry... errors or lost rows. (Bug#27650)

  • When MySQL logged slow query information to a CSV table, it used an incorrect formula to calculate the query_time and lock_time values. (Bug#27638)

  • The XML output representing an empty result was an empty string rather than an empty <resultset/> element. (Bug#27608)

  • Comparison of a DATE with a DATETIME did not treat the DATE as having a time part of 00:00:00. (Bug#27590)

    See also Bug#32198

  • With NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO SQL mode enabled, LOAD DATA operations could assign incorrect AUTO_INCREMENT values. (Bug#27586)

  • Group relay log rotation updated only the log position and not the name, causing the slave to stop. (Bug#27583)

  • Incorrect results could be returned for some queries that contained a select list expression with IN or BETWEEN together with an ORDER BY or GROUP BY on the same expression using NOT IN or NOT BETWEEN. (Bug#27532)

  • The fix for Bug#17212 provided correct sort order for misordered output of certain queries, but caused significant overall query performance degradation. (Results were correct (good), but returned much more slowly (bad).) The fix also affected performance of queries for which results were correct. The performance degradation has been addressed. (Bug#27531)

  • The CRC32() function returns an unsigned integer, but the metadata was signed, which could cause certain queries to return incorrect results. (For example, queries that selected a CRC32() value and used that value in the GROUP BY clause.) (Bug#27530)

  • An interaction between SHOW TABLE STATUS and other concurrent statements that modify the table could result in a divide-by-zero error and a server crash. (Bug#27516)

  • Evaluation of an IN() predicate containing a decimal-valued argument caused a server crash. (Bug#27513, Bug#27362, CVE-2007-2583)

  • A race condition between DROP TABLE and SHOW TABLE STATUS could cause the latter to display incorrect information. (Bug#27499)

  • In out-of-memory conditions, the server might crash or otherwise not report an error to the Windows event log. (Bug#27490)

  • Passing nested row expressions with different structures to an IN predicate caused a server crash. (Bug#27484)

  • The decimal.h header file was incorrectly omitted from binary distributions. (Bug#27456)

  • With innodb_file_per_table enabled, attempting to rename an InnoDB table to a non-existent database caused the server to exit. (Bug#27381)

  • Nested aggregate functions could be improperly evaluated. (Bug#27363)

  • A stored function invocation in the WHERE clause was treated as a constant. (Bug#27354)

  • For the INFORMATION_SCHEMA SESSION_STATUS and GLOBAL_STATUS tables, some status values were incorrectly converted to the data type of the VARIABLE_VALUE column. (Bug#27327)

  • Failure to allocate memory associated with transaction_prealloc_size could cause a server crash. (Bug#27322)

  • A subquery could get incorrect values for references to outer query columns when it contained aggregate functions that were aggregated in outer context. (Bug#27321)

  • The server did not shut down cleanly. (Bug#27310)

  • In a view, a column that was defined using a GEOMETRY function was treated as having the LONGBLOB data type rather than the GEOMETRY type. (Bug#27300)

  • mysqldump crashed if it got no data from SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE (for example, when trying to dump a routine defined by a different user and for which the current user had no privileges). Now it prints a comment to indicate the problem. It also returns an error, or continues if the --force option is given. (Bug#27293)

  • Queries containing subqueries with COUNT(*) aggregated in an outer context returned incorrect results. This happened only if the subquery did not contain any references to outer columns. (Bug#27257)

  • Use of an aggregate function from an outer context as an argument to GROUP_CONCAT() caused a server crash. (Bug#27229)

  • String truncation upon insertion into an integer or year column did not generate a warning (or an error in strict mode). (Bug#27176, Bug#26359)

  • mysqlbinlog produced different output with the -R option than without it. (Bug#27171)

  • Storing NULL values in spatial fields caused excessive memory allocation and crashes on some systems. (Bug#27164)

  • Row equalities in WHERE clauses could cause memory corruption. (Bug#27154)

  • ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE failed for a table partitioned by KEY on a primary key VARCHAR column. (Bug#27123)

  • GROUP BY on a ucs2 column caused a server crash when there was at least one empty string in the column. (Bug#27079)

  • Duplicate members in SET or ENUM definitions were not detected. Now they result in a warning; if strict SQL mode is enabled, an error occurs instead. (Bug#27069)

  • For FEDERATED tables, SHOW CREATE TABLE could fail when the table name was longer than the connection name. (Bug#27036)

  • mysql_install_db could terminate with an error after failing to determine that a system table already existed. (Bug#27022)

  • In a MEMORY table, using a BTREE index to scan for updatable rows could lead to an infinite loop. (Bug#26996)

  • make_win_bin_dist neglected to copy some required MyISAM table files. (Bug#26922)

  • Improved out-of-memory detection when sending logs from a master server to slaves, and log a message when allocation fails. (Bug#26837)

  • For InnoDB tables having a clustered index that began with a CHAR or VARCHAR column, deleting a record and then inserting another before the deleted record was purged could result in table corruption. (Bug#26835)

  • mysqldump would not dump a view for which the DEFINER no longer exists. (Bug#26817)

  • Duplicates were not properly identified among (potentially) long strings used as arguments for GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT). (Bug#26815)

  • ALTER VIEW requires the CREATE VIEW and DROP privileges for the view. However, if the view was created by another user, the server erroneously required the SUPER privilege. (Bug#26813)

  • If the name of a table given to myisamchk -rq was a packed table and the name included the .MYI extension, myisamchk incorrectly created a file with a .MYI.MYI extension. (Bug#26782)

  • Creating a temporary table with InnoDB when using the one-file-per-table setting, and when the host filesystem for temporary tables was tmpfs, would cause an assertion within mysqld. This was due to the use of O_DIRECT when opening the temporary table file. (Bug#26662)

  • mysql_upgrade did not detect failure of external commands that it runs. (Bug#26639)

  • The range optimizer could cause the server to run out of memory. (Bug#26625)

  • The range optimizer could consume a combinatorial amount of memory for certain classes of WHERE clauses. (Bug#26624)

  • Aborting a statement on the master that applied to a non-transactional statement broke replication. The statement was written to the binary log but not completely executed on the master. Slaves receiving the statement executed it completely, resulting in loss of data synchrony. Now an error code is written to the error log so that the slaves stop without executing the aborted statement. (That is, replication stops, but synchrony to the point of the stop is preserved and you can investigate the problem.) (Bug#26551)

  • mysqldump could crash or exhibit incorrect behavior when some options were given very long values, such as --fields-terminated-by="some very long string". The code has been cleaned up to remove a number of fixed-sized buffers and to be more careful about error conditions in memory allocation. (Bug#26346)

  • Fixed a possible buffer overflow in SHOW PROCEDURE CODE. (Bug#26303)

  • The FEDERATED engine did not allow the local and remote tables to have different names. (Bug#26257)

  • The temporary file-creation code was cleaned up on Windows to improve server stability. (Bug#26233)

  • For MyISAM tables, COUNT(*) could return an incorrect value if the WHERE clause compared an indexed TEXT column to the empty string (''). This happened if the column contained empty strings and also strings starting with control characters such as tab or newline. (Bug#26231)

  • For INSERT INTO ... SELECT where index searches used column prefixes, insert errors could occur when key value type conversion was done. (Bug#26207)

  • mysqlbinlog --base64-output produced invalid SQL. (Bug#26194)

  • For DELETE FROM tbl_name ORDER BY col_name (with no WHERE or LIMIT clause), the server did not check whether col_name was a valid column in the table. (Bug#26186)

  • Executing an INSERT ... SELECT ... FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.GLOBAL_STATUS statement from within an event caused a server crash. (Bug#26174)

  • mysqldump could not dump log tables. (Bug#26121)

  • On Windows, trying to use backslash (\) characters in paths for DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY when creating partitioned tables caused MySQL to crash.

    (You must use / characters when specifying paths for these options, regardless of platform. See Section 21.1, “Overview of Partitioning in MySQL”, for an example using absolute paths for DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY when creating a partitioned table on Windows.) (Bug#26074, Bug#25141)

  • mysqldump crashed for MERGE tables if the --complete-insert (-c) option was given. (Bug#25993)

  • Index hints (USE INDEX, IGNORE INDEX, FORCE INDEX) cannot be used with FULLTEXT indexes, but were not being ignored. (Bug#25951)

  • Setting a column to NOT NULL with an ON DELETE SET NULL clause foreign key crashes the server. (Bug#25927)

  • Corrupted MyISAM tables that have different definitions in the .frm and .MYI tables might cause a server crash. (Bug#25908)

  • If CREATE TABLE t1 LIKE t2 failed due to a full disk, an empty t2.frm file could be created but not removed. This file then caused subsequent attempts to create a table named t2 to fail. This is easily corrected at the filesystem level by removing the t2.frm file manually, but now the server removes the file if the create operation does not complete successfully. (Bug#25761)

  • In certain situations, MATCH ... AGAINST returned false hits for NULL values produced by LEFT JOIN when no full-text index was available. (Bug#25729)

  • Concurrent CREATE SERVER and ALTER SERVER statements could cause a deadlock. (Bug#25721)

  • CREATE SERVER, DROP SERVER, and ALTER SERVER did not require any privileges. Now these statements require the SUPER privilege. (Bug#25671)

  • On Windows, connection handlers did not properly decrement the server's thread count when exiting. (Bug#25621)

  • When RAND() was called multiple times inside a stored procedure, the server did not write the correct random seed values to the binary log, resulting in incorrect replication. (Bug#25543)

  • OPTIMIZE TABLE might fail on Windows when it attempts to rename a temporary file to the original name if the original file had been opened, resulting in loss of the .MYD file. (Bug#25521)

  • For SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS, the LATEST DEADLOCK INFORMATION was not always cleared properly. (Bug#25494)

  • mysql_stmt_fetch() did an invalid memory deallocation when used with the embedded server. (Bug#25492)

  • GRANT statements were not replicated if the server was started with the --replicate-ignore-table or --replicate-wild-ignore-table option. (Bug#25482)

  • mysql_upgrade did not pass a password to mysqlcheck if one was given. (Bug#25452)

  • On Windows, mysql_upgrade was sensitive to lettercase of the names of some required components. (Bug#25405)

  • During a call to mysql_change_user(), when authentication fails or the database to change to is unknown, a subsequent call to any function that does network communication leads to packets out of order. This problem was introduced in MySQL 5.1.14. (Bug#25371)

  • Difficult repair or optimization operations could cause an assertion failure, resulting in a server crash. (Bug#25289)

  • For storage engines that allow the current auto-increment value to be set, using ALTER TABLE ... ENGINE to convert a table from one such storage engine to another caused loss of the current value. (For storage engines that do not support setting the value, it cannot be retained anyway when changing the storage engine.) (Bug#25262)

  • Restoration of the default database after stored routine or trigger execution on a slave could cause replication to stop if the database no longer existed. (Bug#25082)

  • Duplicate entries were not assessed correctly in a MEMORY table with a BTREE primary key on a utf8 ENUM column. (Bug#24985)

  • Several math functions produced incorrect results for large unsigned values. ROUND() produced incorrect results or a crash for a large number-of-decimals argument. (Bug#24912)

  • The result set of a query that used WITH ROLLUP and DISTINCT could lack some rollup rows (rows with NULL values for grouping attributes) if the GROUP BY list contained constant expressions. (Bug#24856)

  • Selecting the result of AVG() within a UNION could produce incorrect values. (Bug#24791)

  • For queries that used ORDER BY with InnoDB tables, if the optimizer chose an index for accessing the table but found a covering index that enabled the ORDER BY to be skipped, no results were returned. (Bug#24778)

  • The NO_DIR_IN_CREATE server SQL mode was not enforced for partitioned tables. (Bug#24633)

  • MBRDisjoint(), MBRequal(), MBRIntersects(), MBROverlaps(), MBRTouches(), and MBRWithin() were inadvertently omitted from recent versions of MySQL (5.1.14 to 5.1.17). (Bug#24588)

  • Access via my_pread() or my_pwrite() to table files larger than 2GB could fail on some systems. (Bug#24566)

  • MBROverlaps() returned incorrect values in some cases. (Bug#24563)

  • A problem in handling of aggregate functions in subqueries caused predicates containing aggregate functions to be ignored during query execution. (Bug#24484)

  • The MERGE storage engine could return incorrect results when several index values that compare equality were present in an index (for example, 'gross' and 'gross ', which are considered equal but have different lengths). (Bug#24342)

  • Some upgrade problems are detected and better error messages suggesting that mysql_upgrade be run are produced. (Bug#24248)

  • The test for the MYSQL_OPT_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT option for mysql_options() was performed incorrectly. Also changed as a result of this bugfix: The arg option for the mysql_options() C API function was changed from char * to void *. (Bug#24121)

  • Some views could not be created even when the user had the requisite privileges. (Bug#24040)

  • The values displayed for the Innodb_row_lock_time, Innodb_row_lock_time_avg, and Innodb_row_lock_time_max status variables were incorrect. (Bug#23666)

  • Using CAST() to convert DATETIME values to numeric values did not work. (Bug#23656)

  • A damaged or missing mysql.event table caused SHOW VARIABLES to fail. (Bug#23631)

  • SHOW CREATE VIEW qualified references to stored functions in the view definition with the function's database name, even when the database was the default database. This affected mysqldump (which uses SHOW CREATE VIEW to dump views) because the resulting dump file could not be used to reload the database into a different database. SHOW CREATE VIEW now suppresses the database name for references to functions in the default database. (Bug#23491)

  • An INTO OUTFILE clause is allowed only for the final SELECT of a UNION, but this restriction was not being enforced correctly. (Bug#23345)

  • The AUTO_INCREMENT value would not be correctly reported for InnoDB tables when using SHOW CREATE TABLE statement or mysqldump command. (Bug#23313)

  • With the NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO SQL mode enabled, LAST_INSERT_ID() could return 0 after INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE. Additionally, the next rows inserted (by the same INSERT, or the following INSERT with or without ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE), would insert 0 for the auto-generated value if the value for the AUTO_INCREMENT column was NULL or missing. (Bug#23233)

  • If a rotate event occured in the middle of a non-transaction group, the group position would be updated by the rotate event indicating an illegal group start position that was effectively inside a group. This can happen if, for example, a rotate occurs between an Intvar event and the associated Query event, or between the table map events and the rows events when using row-based replication. (Bug#23171)

  • Implicit conversion of 9912101 to DATE did not match CAST(9912101 AS DATE). (Bug#23093)

  • SELECT COUNT(*) from a table containing a DATETIME NOT NULL column could produce spurious warnings with the NO_ZERO_DATE SQL mode enabled. (Bug#22824)

  • Using SET GLOBAL to change the lc_time_names system variable had no effect on new connections. (Bug#22648)

  • SOUNDEX() returned an invalid string for international characters in multi-byte character sets. (Bug#22638)

  • Row-based replication of MyISAM to non-MyISAM tables did not work correctly for BIT columns. This has been corrected, but the fix introduces an incompatibility into the binary log format. (The incompatibility is corrected by the fix for Bug#27779.) (Bug#22583)

  • A multiple-table UPDATE could return an incorrect rows-matched value if, during insertion of rows into a temporary table, the table had to be converted from a MEMORY table to a MyISAM table. (Bug#22364)

  • COUNT(decimal_expr) sometimes generated a spurious truncation warning. (Bug#21976)

  • yaSSL crashed on pre-Pentium Intel CPUs. (Bug#21765)

  • A slave that used --master-ssl-cipher could not connect to the master. (Bug#21611)

  • Database and table names have a maximum length of 64 characters (even if they contain multi-byte characters), but were truncated to 64 bytes.

    Note

    This improves on a previous fix made for this bug in MySQL 5.1.12.

    (Bug#21432)

  • For InnoDB, fixed consistent-read behavior of the first read statement, if the read was served from the query cache, for the READ COMMITTED isolation level. (Bug#21409)

  • On Windows, if the server was installed as a service, it did not auto-detect the location of the data directory. (Bug#20376)

  • Changing a utf8 column in an InnoDB table to a shorter length did not shorten the data values. (Bug#20095)

  • In some cases, the optimizer preferred a range or full index scan access method over lookup access methods when the latter were much cheaper. (Bug#19372)

  • Conversion of DATETIME values in numeric contexts sometimes did not produce a double (YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.uuuuuu) value. (Bug#16546)

  • INSERT...ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE could cause Error 1032: Can't find record in ... for inserts into an InnoDB table unique index using key column prefixes with an underlying utf8 string column. (Bug#13191)

  • Having the EXECUTE privilege for a routine in a database should make it possible to USE that database, but the server returned an error instead. This has been corrected. As a result of the change, SHOW TABLES for a database in which you have only the EXECUTE privilege returns an empty set rather than an error. (Bug#9504)

C.1.12. Changes in MySQL 5.1.17 (04 April 2007)

This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs.

Note

This Beta release, as any other pre-production release, should not be installed on production level systems or systems with critical data. It is good practice to back up your data before installing any new version of software. Although MySQL has worked very hard to ensure a high level of quality, protect your data by making a backup as you would for any software beta release. Please refer to our bug database at http://bugs.mysql.com/ for more details about the individual bugs fixed in this version.

This section documents all changes and bug fixes that have been applied since the last official MySQL release. If you would like to receive more fine-grained and personalized update alerts about fixes that are relevant to the version and features you use, please consider subscribing to MySQL Enterprise (a commercial MySQL offering). For more details please see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Incompatible Change: Scheduled events now use the MySQL server time zone to determine their schedules, rather than UTC as in previous releases. Because of this change, scheduled event metadata now includes time zone information, which can be seen in the TIME_ZONE column of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.EVENTS table and the Time zone column in the output of the SHOW EVENTS statement. These columns have been added in this release, along with a time_zone column in the mysql.event table. Due to these changes, events created in previous versions of MySQL cannot be created, viewed, or used until mysql.event has been upgraded. (Bug#16420)

  • Important Change: The CREATE EVENT and ALTER EVENT statements now support a DEFINER clause, similar to that used in the CREATE TRIGGER statement.

    See Section 25.2.2, “CREATE EVENT Syntax”, for detailed information. (Bug#16425)

  • Important Change: The following options for controlling replication master configuration on a slave are now deprecated.

    • --master-host

    • --master-user

    • --master-password

    • --master-port

    • --master-connect-retry

    • --master-ssl

    • --master-ssl-ca

    • --master-ssl-capath

    • --master-ssl-cert

    • --master-ssl-cipher

    • --master-ssl-key

    To change the master configuration on a slave you should use the CHANGE MASTER statement.

    See also Bug#21490

  • MySQL Cluster: Added the --skip-table-check option (short form -s) for ndb_restore, which causes the restoration process to ignore any changes that may have occurred in table schemas after the backup was made. Previously, this was the default behavior.

    See Section 20.9.3, “ndb_restore — Restore a Cluster Backup”, for more information. (Bug#24363)

  • Added a --no-beep option to mysqladmin. It suppresses the warning beep that is emitted by default for errors such as a failure to connect to the server. (Bug#26964)

  • Added the --service-startup-timeout option for mysql.server to specify how long to wait for the server to start. If the server does not start within the timeout period, mysql.server exits with an error. (Bug#26952)

  • Prefix lengths for columns in SPATIAL indexes can no longer be specified. For tables created in older versions of MySQL that have SPATIAL indexes containing prefixed columns, dumping and reloading the table causes the indexes to be created with no prefixes. (The full column width of each column is indexed.) (Bug#26794)

  • Added the innodb_stats_on_metadata system variable to enable control over whether InnoDB performs statistics gathering when metadata statements are executed. See Section 13.5.4, “InnoDB Startup Options and System Variables”. (Bug#26598)

  • Statements that affect mysql database tables now are written to the binary log using the following rules:

    • Data manipulation statements such as INSERT that change data in mysql database tables directly are logged according to the settings of the binlog_format system variable.

    • Statements such as GRANT that change the mysql database indirectly are logged as statements regardless of the value of binlog_format.

    For more details, see Section 5.2.4.4, “Logging Format for Changes to mysql Database Tables”. (Bug#25091)

  • The server now includes a timestamp in error messages that are logged as a result of unhandled signals (such as mysqld got signal 11 messages). (Bug#24878)

  • The syntax for index hints has been extended to enable more fine-grained control over the optimizer's selection of an execution plan for various phases of query processing. See Section 12.2.7.2, “Index Hint Syntax”. (Bug#21174)

  • Added the --secure-file-priv option for mysqld, which limits the effect of the LOAD_FILE() function and the LOAD DATA and SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE statements to work only with files in a given directory. (Bug#18628)

  • Added the thread_handling system variable to control whether the server use a single thread or one thread per connection. The --one-thread option now is deprecated; use --thread_handling=one-thread instead.

  • Prepared statements now use the query cache under the conditions described in Section 7.5.4.1, “How the Query Cache Operates”. (Bug#735)

  • Statements such as GRANT that change the mysql database indirectly are logged as statements regardless of the value of binlog_format.

  • Added the hostname system variable, which the server sets at startup to the server hostname.

  • Online (non-copying) ADD INDEX and DROP INDEX operations are now performed on dynamic (variable-width) columns. Renaming of NDB and MyISAM tables and of columns in such tables is now performed without copying or locking the tables. As a result, these operations are now performed much more quickly than previously.

    See Section 12.1.4, “ALTER TABLE Syntax”, Section 12.1.7, “CREATE INDEX Syntax”, and Section 12.1.13, “DROP INDEX Syntax”, for more information.

  • Data manipulation statements such as INSERT that change data in mysql database tables directly are logged according to the settings of the binlog_format system variable.

  • Added the old_mode system variable to cause the server to revert to certain behaviors present in older versions. Currently, this variable affects handling of index hints. See Section 12.2.7.2, “Index Hint Syntax”.

Bugs fixed:

  • Incompatible Change: INSERT DELAYED statements are not supported for MERGE tables, but the MERGE storage engine was not rejecting such statements, resulting in table corruption. Applications previously using INSERT DELAYED into MERGE table will break when upgrading to versions with this fix. To avoid the problem, remove DELAYED from such statements. (Bug#26464)

  • Important Note: The parser accepted invalid code in SQL condition handlers, leading to server crashes or unexpected execution behavior in stored programs. Specifically, the parser allowed a condition handler to refer to labels for blocks that enclose the handler declaration. This was incorrect because block label scope does not include the code for handlers declared within the labeled block.

    The parser now rejects this invalid construct, but if you upgrade in place (without dumping and reloading your databases), existing handlers that contain the construct are still invalid — even if they appear to function as you expect — and should be rewritten.

    To find affected handlers, use mysqldump to dump all stored functions and procedures, triggers, and events. Then attempt to reload them into an upgraded server. Handlers that contain illegal label references will be rejected.

    For more information about condition handlers and writing them to avoid invalid jumps, see Section 23.2.8.2, “DECLARE Handlers”. (Bug#26503)

  • MySQL Cluster: It was not possible to set LockPagesInMainMemory equal to 0. (Bug#27291)

  • MySQL Cluster: A race condition could sometimes occur if the node acting as master failed while node IDs were still being allocated during startup. (Bug#27286)

  • MySQL Cluster: When a data node was taking over as the master node, a race condition could sometimes occur as the node was assuming responsibility for handling of global checkpoints. (Bug#27283)

  • MySQL Cluster: After putting the cluster in single user mode from one MySQL server, trying to drop an NDB table from a second MySQL server also connected to the cluster would cause the second MySQL server to hang. (Bug#27254)

  • MySQL Cluster: mysqld could crash shortly after a data node failure following certain DML operations. (Bug#27169)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Disk Data): Under some circumstances, a data node could fail during restart while flushing Disk Data UNDO logs. (Bug#27102)

  • MySQL Cluster: The same failed request from an API node could be handled by the cluster multiple times, resulting in reduced performance. (Bug#27087)

  • MySQL Cluster: The failure of a data node while restarting could cause other data nodes to hang or crash. (Bug#27003)

  • MySQL Cluster: Creating a table on one SQL node while in single user mode caused other SQL nodes to crash. (Bug#26997)

  • MySQL Cluster: mysqld processes would sometimes crash under high load. (Bug#26825)

  • MySQL Cluster: Using only the --print_data option (and no other options) with ndb_restore caused ndb_restore to fail. (Bug#26741)

    This regression was introduced by Bug#14612

  • MySQL Cluster: The output from ndb_restore --print_data was incorrect for a backup made of a database containing tables with TINYINT or SMALLINT columns. (Bug#26740)

  • MySQL Cluster: An infinite loop in an internal logging function could cause trace logs to fill up with Unknown Signal type error messages and thus grow to unreasonable sizes. (Bug#26720)

  • MySQL Cluster: An invalid pointer was returned following a FSCLOSECONF signal when accessing the REDO logs during a node restart or system restart. (Bug#26515)

  • MySQL Cluster: The management client command node_id STATUS displayed the message Node node_id: not connected when node_id was not the node ID of a data node.

    Note

    The ALL STATUS command in the cluster management client still displays status information for data nodes only. This is by design. See Section 20.7.2, “Commands in the MySQL Cluster Management Client”, for more information.

    (Bug#21715)

  • MySQL Cluster: When performing an upgrade or downgrade, no specific error information was made available when trying to upgrade data nodes or SQL nodes before upgrading management nodes. (Bug#21296)

  • MySQL Cluster: Some values of MaxNoOfTables caused the error Job buffer congestion to occur. (Bug#19378)

  • Disk Data: A memory overflow could occur with tables having a large amount of data stored on disk, or with queries using a very high degree of parallelism on Disk Data tables. (Bug#26514)

  • Disk Data: Use of a tablespace whose INITIAL_SIZE was greater than 1 GB could cause the cluster to crash. (Bug#26487)

  • Disk Data: Creating multiple Disk Data tables using different tablespaces could sometimes cause the cluster to fail. (Bug#25992)

  • Disk Data: ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN ... on a Disk Data table moved data for existing non-indexed columns from the tablespace into memory. (Bug#25880)

  • Disk Data: DROP INDEX on a Disk Data table did not always move data from memory into the tablespace. (Bug#25877)

  • Disk Data: When creating a log file group, setting INITIAL_SIZE to less than UNDO_BUFFER_SIZE caused data nodes to crash. (Bug#25743)

  • Cluster Replication: The simultaneous failure of a data node and an SQL node could cause replication to fail. (Bug#27005)

  • Cluster API: A delete operation using a scan followed by an insert using a scan could cause a data node to fail. (Bug#27203)

  • Cluster API: (Cluster APIs): NAND and NOR operations with NdbScanFilter did not perform correctly. (Bug#24568)

  • Cluster API: You can now use the ndb_mgm_check_connection() function to determine whether a management server is running. See ndb_mgm_check_connection().

  • SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE with a long FIELDS ENCLOSED BY value could crash the server. (Bug#27231)

  • An INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE statement might modify values in a table but not flush affected data from the query cache, causing subsequent selects to return stale results. This made the combination of query cache plus ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE very unreliable. (Bug#27210)

    See also Bug#27006, Bug#27033

    This regression was introduced by Bug#19978

  • For INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE statements on tables containing AUTO_INCREMENT columns, LAST_INSERT_ID() was reset to 0 if no rows were successfully inserted or changed. “Not changed” includes the case where a row was updated to its current values, but in that case, LAST_INSERT_ID() should not be reset to 0. Now LAST_INSERT_ID() is reset to 0 only if no rows were successfully inserted or touched, whether or not touched rows were changed. (Bug#27033)

    See also Bug#27210, Bug#27006

    This regression was introduced by Bug#19978

  • Invalid optimization of pushdown conditions for queries where an outer join was guaranteed to read only one row from the outer table led to results with too few rows. (Bug#26963)

  • For MERGE tables defined on underlying tables that contained a short VARCHAR column (shorter than four characters), using ALTER TABLE on at least one but not all of the underlying tables caused the table definitions to be considered different from that of the MERGE table, even if the ALTER TABLE did not change the definition. (Bug#26881)

  • Use of a subquery containing GROUP BY and WITH ROLLUP caused a server crash. (Bug#26830)

  • Setting event_scheduler=1 or event_scheduler=ON caused the server to crash if the server had been started with --skip-grant-tables. Starting the server with --skip-grant-tables now causes event_scheduler to be set to DISABLED automatically, overriding any other value that may have been set. (Bug#26807)

  • Added support for --debugger=dbx for mysql-test-run.pl and fixed support for --debugger=devenv, --debugger=DevEnv, and --debugger=/path/to/devenv. (Bug#26792)

  • A result set column formed by concatention of string literals was incomplete when the column was produced by a subquery in the FROM clause. (Bug#26738)

  • SSL connections failed on Windows. (Bug#26678)

  • When using the result of SEC_TO_TIME() for time value greater than 24 hours in an ORDER BY clause, either directly or through a column alias, the rows were sorted incorrectly as strings. (Bug#26672)

  • Use of a subquery containing a UNION with an invalid ORDER BY clause caused a server crash. (Bug#26661)

  • In some error messages, inconsistent format specifiers were used for the translations in different languages. comp_err (the error message compiler) now checks for mismatches. (Bug#26571)

  • Views that used a scalar correlated subquery returned incorrect results. (Bug#26560)

  • UNHEX() IS NULL comparisons failed when UNHEX() returned NULL. (Bug#26537)

  • On 64-bit Windows, large timestamp values could be handled incorrectly. (Bug#26536)

  • SHOW CREATE EVENT failed to display the STARTS and ENDS clauses for an event defined with STARTS NOW(), ENDS NOW(), or both. (Bug#26429)

  • If the server was started with --skip-grant-tables, Selecting from INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables causes a server crash. (Bug#26285)

  • For some values of the position argument, the INSERT() function could insert a NUL byte into the result. (Bug#26281)

  • For an INSERT statement that should fail due to a column with no default value not being assigned a value, the statement succeeded with no error if the column was assigned a value in an ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE clause, even if that clause was not used. (Bug#26261)

  • INSERT DELAYED statements inserted incorrect values into BIT columns. (Bug#26238)

  • A query of type index_merge, and with a WHERE clause having the form WHERE indexed_column_1=value_1 OR indexed_column_2=value_2 on a partitioned table caused the server to crash. (Bug#26117)

  • A multiple-row delayed insert with an auto-increment column could cause duplicate entries to be created on the slave in a replication environment. (Bug#26116, Bug#25507)

  • BENCHMARK() did not work correctly for expressions that produced a DECIMAL result. (Bug#26093)

  • For MEMORY tables, extending the length of a VARCHAR column with ALTER TABLE might result in an unusable table. (Bug#26080)

  • The server could hang during binary log rotation. (Bug#26079)

  • LOAD DATA INFILE sent an okay to the client before writing the binary log and committing the changes to the table had finished, thus violating ACID requirements. (Bug#26050)

  • X() IS NULL and Y() IS NULL comparisons failed when X() and Y() returned NULL. (Bug#26038)

  • Indexes on TEXT columns were ignored when ref accesses were evaluated. (Bug#25971)

  • If a thread previously serviced a connection that was killed, excessive memory and CPU use by the thread occurred if it later serviced a connection that had to wait for a table lock. (Bug#25966)

  • VIEW restrictions were applied to SELECT statements after a CREATE VIEW statement failed, as though the CREATE had succeeded. (Bug#25897)

  • Several deficiencies in resolution of column names for INSERT ... SELECT statements were corrected. (Bug#25831)

  • Inserting utf8 data into a TEXT column that used a single-byte character set could result in spurious warnings about truncated data. (Bug#25815)

  • On Windows, debug builds of mysqld could fail with heap assertions. (Bug#25765)

  • In certain cases it could happen that deleting a row corrupted an RTREE index. This affected indexes on spatial columns. (Bug#25673)

  • Using mysqlbinlog on a binary log would crash if there were a large number of row-based events related to a single statement. (Bug#25628)

  • Expressions involving SUM(), when used in an ORDER BY clause, could lead to out-of-order results. (Bug#25376)

  • Use of a GROUP BY clause that referred to a stored function result together with WITH ROLLUP caused incorrect results. (Bug#25373)

  • A stored procedure that made use of cursors failed when the procedure was invoked from a stored function. (Bug#25345)

  • On Windows, the server exhibited a file-handle leak after reaching the limit on the number of open file descriptors. (Bug#25222)

  • The REPEAT() function did not allow a column name as the count parameter. (Bug#25197)

  • Duplicating the usage of a user variable in a stored procedure or trigger would not be replicated correctly to the slave. (Bug#25167)

  • A reference to a non-existent column in the ORDER BY clause of an UPDATE ... ORDER BY statement could cause a server crash. (Bug#25126)

  • A view on a join is insertable for INSERT statements that store values into only one table of the join. However, inserts were being rejected if the inserted-into table was used in a self-join because MySQL incorrectly was considering the insert to modify multiple tables of the view. (Bug#25122)

  • Creating a table with latin characters in the name caused the output of SHOW FULL TABLES to have ERROR for the table type. (Bug#25081)

  • MySQL would not compile when configured using --without-query-cache. (Bug#25075)

  • It was not possible to use XPath keywords as tag names for expressions used in the ExtractValue() function. (Bug#24747)

  • Increasing the width of a DECIMAL column could cause column values to be changed. (Bug#24558)

  • IF(expr, unsigned_expr, unsigned_expr) was evaluated to a signed result, not unsigned. This has been corrected. The fix also affects constructs of the form IS [NOT] {TRUE|FALSE}, which were transformed internally into IF() expressions that evaluated to a signed result.

    For existing views that were defined using IS [NOT] {TRUE|FALSE} constructs, there is a related implication. The definitions of such views were stored using the IF() expression, not the original construct. This is manifest in that SHOW CREATE VIEW shows the transformed IF() expression, not the original one. Existing views will evaluate correctly after the fix, but if you want SHOW CREATE VIEW to display the original construct, you must drop the view and re-create it using its original definition. New views will retain the construct in their definition. (Bug#24532)

  • DROP TRIGGER statements would not be filtered on the slave when using the replication-wild-do-table option. (Bug#24478)

  • For INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE statements where some AUTO_INCREMENT values were generated automatically for inserts and some rows were updated, one auto-generated value was lost per updated row, leading to faster exhaustion of the range of the AUTO_INCREMENT column.

    Because the original problem can affect replication (different values on master and slave), it is recommended that the master and its slaves be upgraded to the current version. (Bug#24432)

  • SHOW ENGINE MUTEX STATUS failed to produce an Unknown table engine error.

    See Section 12.5.4.13, “SHOW ENGINE Syntax”. (Bug#24392)

  • A user-defined variable could be assigned an incorrect value if a temporary table was employed in obtaining the result of the query used to determine its value. (Bug#24010)

  • mysqlimport used a variable of the wrong type for the --use-threads option, which could cause a crash on some architectures. (Bug#23814)

  • Queries that used a temporary table for the outer query when evaluating a correlated subquery could return incorrect results. (Bug#23800)

  • Replication between master and slave would infinitely retry binary log transmission where the max_allowed_packet on the master was larger than that on the slave if the size of the transfer was between these two values. (Bug#23775)

  • On Windows, debug builds of mysqlbinlog could fail with a memory error. (Bug#23736)

  • When using certain server SQL modes, the mysql.proc table was not created by mysql_install_db. (Bug#23669)

  • DOUBLE values such as 20070202191048.000000 were being treated as illegal arguments by WEEK(). (Bug#23616)

  • The server could crash if two or more threads initiated query cache resize operation at moments very close in time. (Bug#23527)

  • NOW() returned the wrong value in statements executed at server startup with the --init-file option. (Bug#23240)

  • Setting the slow_query_log_file system variable caused log output to go tothe general log, not the slow query log. (Bug#23225)

  • When nesting stored procedures within a trigger on a table, a false dependency error was thrown when one of the nested procedures contained a DROP TABLE statement. (Bug#22580)

  • Instance Manager did not remove the angel PID file on a clean shutdown. (Bug#22511)

  • EXPLAIN EXTENDED did not show WHERE conditions that were optimized away. (Bug#22331)

  • IN ((subquery)), IN (((subquery))), and so forth, are equivalent to IN (subquery), which is always interpreted as a table subquery (so that it is allowed to return more than one row). MySQL was treating the “over-parenthesized” subquery as a single-row subquery and rejecting it if it returned more than one row. This bug primarily affected automatically generated code (such as queries generated by Hibernate), because humans rarely write the over-parenthesized forms. (Bug#21904)

  • An INSERT trigger invoking a stored routine that inserted into a table other than the one on which the trigger was defined would fail with a Table '...' doesn't exist referring to the second table when attempting to delete records from the first table. (Bug#21825)

  • CURDATE() is less than NOW(), either when comparing CURDATE() directly (CURDATE() < NOW() is true) or when casting CURDATE() to DATE (CAST(CURDATE() AS DATE) < NOW() is true). However, storing CURDATE() in a DATE column and comparing col_name < NOW() incorrectly yielded false. This is fixed by comparing a DATE column as DATETIME for comparisons to a DATETIME constant. (Bug#21103)

  • When a stored routine attempted to execute a statement accessing a nonexistent table, the error was not caught by the routine's exception handler. (Bug#20713, Bug#8407)

  • For a stored procedure containing a SELECT statement that used a complicated join with an ON expression, the expression could be ignored during re-execution of the procedure, yielding an incorrect result. (Bug#20492)

  • The conditions checked by the optimizer to allow use of indexes in IN predicate calculations were unnecessarily tight and were relaxed. (Bug#20420)

  • When a TIME_FORMAT() expression was used as a column in a GROUP BY clause, the expression result was truncated. (Bug#20293)

  • The creation of MySQL system tables was not checked for by mysql-test-run.pl. (Bug#20166)

  • For index reads, the BLACKHOLE engine did not return end-of-file (which it must because BLACKHOLE tables contain no rows), causing some queries to crash. (Bug#19717)

  • For expr IN(value_list), the result could be incorrect if BIGINT UNSIGNED values were used for expr or in the value list. (Bug#19342)

  • When attempting to call a stored procedure creating a table from a trigger on a table tbl in a database db, the trigger failed with ERROR 1146 (42S02): Table 'db.tbl' doesn't exist. However, the actual reason that such a trigger fails is due to the fact that CREATE TABLE causes an implicit COMMIT, and so a trigger cannot invoke a stored routine containing this statement. A trigger which does so now fails with ERROR 1422 (HY000): Explicit or implicit commit is not allowed in stored function or trigger, which makes clear the reason for the trigger's failure. (Bug#18914)

  • While preparing prepared statements, the server acquired unnecessary table write locks. (Bug#18326)

  • The update columns for INSERT ... SELECT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE could be assigned incorrect values if a temporary table was used to evaluate the SELECT. (Bug#16630)

  • For SUBSTRING() evaluation using a temporary table, when SUBSTRING() was used on a LONGTEXT column, the max_length metadata value of the result was incorrectly calculated and set to 0. Consequently, an empty string was returned instead of the correct result. (Bug#15757)

  • Loading data using LOAD DATA INFILE may not replicate correctly (due to character set incompatibilities) if the character_set_database variable is set before the data is loaded. (Bug#15126)

  • User defined variables used within stored procedures and triggers are not replicated correctly when operating in statement-based replication mode. (Bug#14914, Bug#20141)

  • Local variables in stored routines or triggers, when declared as the BIT type, were interpreted as strings. (Bug#12976)

  • For some operations, system tables in the mysql database must be accessed. For example, the HELP statement requires the contents of the server-side help tables, and CONVERT_TZ() might need to read the time zone tables. However, to perform such operations while a LOCK TABLES statement is in effect, the server required you to also lock the requisite system tables explicitly or a lock error occurred:

    mysql> LOCK TABLE t1 READ;
    Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)
    mysql> HELP HELP;
    ERROR 1100 (HY000) at line 4: Table 'help_topic' was not
    locked with LOCK TABLES
    

    Now, the server implicitly locks the system tables for reading as necessary so that you need not lock them explicitly. These tables are treated as just described:

    mysql.help_category
    mysql.help_keyword
    mysql.help_relation
    mysql.help_topic
    mysql.proc
    mysql.time_zone
    mysql.time_zone_leap_second
    mysql.time_zone_name
    mysql.time_zone_transition
    mysql.time_zone_transition_type
    

    If you want to explicitly place a WRITE lock on any of those tables with a LOCK TABLES statement, the table must be the only one locked; no other table can be locked with the same statement. (Bug#9953)

C.1.13. Changes in MySQL 5.1.16 (26 February 2007)

This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs.

Note

This Beta release, as any other pre-production release, should not be installed on production level systems or systems with critical data. It is good practice to back up your data before installing any new version of software. Although MySQL has worked very hard to ensure a high level of quality, protect your data by making a backup as you would for any software beta release. Please refer to our bug database at http://bugs.mysql.com/ for more details about the individual bugs fixed in this version.

Note

After release, a trigger failure problem was found to have been introduced. (Bug#27006) Users affected by this issue should upgrade to MySQL 5.1.17, which corrects the problem.

This section documents all changes and bug fixes that have been applied since the last official MySQL release. If you would like to receive more fine-grained and personalized update alerts about fixes that are relevant to the version and features you use, please consider subscribing to MySQL Enterprise (a commercial MySQL offering). For more details please see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Cluster API: Incompatible Change: The AbortOption type is now a member of the NdbOperation class; its values and behavior have also changed. NdbTransaction::AbortOption can no longer be used, and applications written against the NDB API may need to be rewritten and recompiled to accomodate these changes. For more information about this change, see The NdbOperation::AbortOption Type.

    This also affects the behavior of the NdbTransaction::execute() method, which now reports failure only if the transaction was actually aborted. See NdbTransaction::execute(), for more information.

  • MySQL Cluster: Previously, when a data node failed more than 8 times in succession to start, this caused a forced shutdown of the cluster. Now, when a data node fails to start 7 consecutive times, the node will not start again until it is started with the --initial option, and a warning to this effect is written to the error log. (Bug#25984)

  • MySQL Cluster: In the event that all cluster management and API nodes are configured with ArbitrationRank=0, ndb_mgmd now issues the following warning when starting: Cluster configuration warning: Neither MGM nor API nodes are configured with arbitrator, may cause complete cluster shutdown in case of host failure. (Bug#23546)

  • MySQL Cluster: A number of new and more descriptive error messages covering transporter errors were added. (Bug#22025)

  • MySQL Cluster: A new configuration parameter MemReportFrequency allows for additional control of data node memory usage. Previously, only warnings at predetermined percentages of memory allocation were given; setting this parameter allows for that behavior to be overridden. For more information, see Section 20.3.4.5, “Defining Data Nodes”.

  • Cluster API: A new ndb_mgm_get_clusterlog_loglevel() function was added to the MGM API.

    For more information, see ndb_mgm_get_clusterlog_loglevel().

  • The localhost anonymous user account created during MySQL installation on Windows now has no global privileges. Formerly this account had all global privileges. For operations that require global privileges, the root account can be used instead. (Bug#24496)

  • In the INFORMATION_SCHEMA REFERENTIAL_CONSTRAINTS table, the UNIQUE_CONSTRAINT_NAME column incorrectly named the referenced table. Now it names the referenced constraint, and a new column, REFERENCED_TABLE_NAME, names the referenced table. (Bug#21713)

  • RAND() now allows non-constant initializers (such as a column name) as its argument. In this case, the seed is initialized with the value for each invocation of RAND(). (One implication of this is that for equal argument values, RAND() will return the same value each time.) (Bug#6172)

  • Added the --auto-generate-sql-load-type and --auto-generate-sql-write-number options for mysqlslap.

  • The bundled yaSSL library was upgraded to version 1.5.8.

Bugs fixed:

  • Security Fix: Using an INFORMATION_SCHEMA table with ORDER BY in a subquery could cause a server crash.

    We would like to thank Oren Isacson of Flowgate Security Consulting and Stefan Streichsbier of SEC Consult for informing us of this problem. (Bug#24630, Bug#26556, CVE-2007-1420)

  • Partitioning: MySQL Cluster: A query with an IN clause against an NDB table employing explicit user-defined partitioning did not always return all matching rows. (Bug#25821)

  • MySQL Cluster: An inadvertent use of unaligned data caused ndb_restore to fail on some 64-bit platforms, including Sparc and Itanium-2. (Bug#26739)

  • MySQL Cluster: The InvalidUndoBufferSize error used the same error code (763) as the IncompatibleVersions error. InvalidUndoBufferSize now uses its own error code (779). (Bug#26490)

  • MySQL Cluster: The failure of a data node when restarting it with --initial could lead to failures of subsequent data node restarts. (Bug#26481)

  • MySQL Cluster: Takeover for local checkpointing due to multiple failures of master nodes was sometimes incorrectly handled. (Bug#26457)

  • MySQL Cluster: The LockPagesInMainMemory parameter was not read until after distributed communication had already started between cluster nodes. When the value of this parameter was 1, this could sometimes result in data node failure due to missed heartbeats. (Bug#26454)

  • MySQL Cluster: Under some circumstances, following the restart of a management node, all data nodes would connect to it normally, but some of them subsequently failed to log any events to the management node. (Bug#26293)

  • MySQL Cluster: Condition pushdown did not work with prepared statements. (Bug#26225)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Replication): Under some circumstances, the binlog thread could shut down while the slave SQL thread was still using it. (Bug#26015, Bug#26019)

  • MySQL Cluster: A memory leak could cause problems during a node or cluster shutdown or failure. (Bug#25997)

  • MySQL Cluster: No appropriate error message was provided when there was insufficient REDO log file space for the cluster to start. (Bug#25801)

  • MySQL Cluster: An UPDATE using an IN clause on an NDB table on which there was a trigger caused mysqld to crash. (Bug#25522)

  • MySQL Cluster: A memory allocation failure in SUMA (the cluster Subscription Manager) could cause the cluster to crash. (Bug#25239)

  • MySQL Cluster: The ndb_size.tmpl file (necessary for using the ndb_size.pl script) was missing from binary distributions. (Bug#24191)

  • MySQL Cluster: The message Error 0 in readAutoIncrementValue(): no Error was written to the error log whenever SHOW TABLE STATUS was performed on a Cluster table that did not have an AUTO_INCREMENT column.

    Note

    This improves on and supersedes an earlier fix that was made for this issue in MySQL 5.1.12.

    (Bug#21033)

  • MySQL Cluster: When a node failed due to there being insufficient disk space to perform a local checkpoint, there was no indication that this was the source of the problem. Such a condition now produces an appropriate error message. (Bug#20121)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Replication): The error message Last_Errno: 4294967295, Error in Write_rows event now supplies a valid error code. (Bug#19896)

  • MySQL Cluster: In the event that cluster backup parameters such as BackupWriteSize were incorrectly set, no appropriate error was issued to indicate that this was the case. (Bug#19146)

  • Cluster API: Disk Data: A delete and a read performed in the same operation could cause one or more data nodes to crash. This could occur when the operation affected more than 5 columns concurrently, or when one or more of the columns was of the VARCHAR type and was stored on disk. (Bug#25794)

  • Cluster API: After defining a delete operation (using NdbOperation::deleteTuple()) on a nonexistent primary key of a table having a BLOB or TEXT column, invoking NdbTransaction::execute() caused the calling application to enter an endless loop rather than raising an error.

    This issue also affected ndb_restore; when restoring tables containing BLOB or TEXT columns, this could cause it to consume all available memory and then crash. (Bug#24028)

    See also Bug#27308, Bug#30177

  • Cluster API: libndbclient.so was not versioned. (Bug#13522)

  • Using ORDER BY or GROUP BY could yield different results when selecting from a view and selecting from the underlying table. (Bug#26209)

  • DISTINCT queries that were executed using a loose scan for an InnoDB table that had been emptied caused a server crash. (Bug#26159)

  • A WHERE clause that used BETWEEN for DATETIME values could be treated differently for a SELECT and a view defined as that SELECT. (Bug#26124)

  • Collation for LEFT JOIN comparisons could be evaluated incorrectly, leading to improper query results. (Bug#26017)

  • The WITH CHECK OPTION clause for views was ignored for updates of multiple-table views when the updates could not be performed on fly and the rows to update had to be put into temporary tables first. (Bug#25931)

  • LOAD DATA INFILE did not work with pipes. (Bug#25807)

  • The SEC_TO_TIME() and QUARTER() functions sometimes did not handle NULL values correctly. (Bug#25643)

  • View definitions that used the ! operator were treated as containing the NOT operator, which has a different precedence and can produce different results. . (Bug#25580)

  • An error in the name resolution of nested JOIN ... USING constructs was corrected. (Bug#25575)

  • GROUP BY and DISTINCT did not group NULL values for columns that have a UNIQUE index. . (Bug#25551)

  • The --with-readline option for configure did not work for commercial source packages, but no error message was printed to that effect. Now a message is printed. (Bug#25530)

  • A yaSSL program named test was installed, causing conflicts with the test system utility. It is no longer installed. (Bug#25417)

  • For a UNIQUE index containing many NULL values, the optimizer would prefer the index for col IS NULL conditions over other more selective indexes. . (Bug#25407)

  • An AFTER UPDATE trigger on an InnoDB table with a composite primary key caused the server to crash. (Bug#25398)

  • Passing a NULL value to a user-defined function from within a stored procedure crashes the server. (Bug#25382)

  • perror crashed on some platforms due to failure to handle a NULL pointer. (Bug#25344)

  • mysql.server stop timed out too quickly (35 seconds) waiting for the server to exit. Now it waits up to 15 minutes, to ensure that the server exits. (Bug#25341)

  • A query that contained an EXIST subquery with a UNION over correlated and uncorrelated SELECT queries could cause the server to crash. (Bug#25219)

  • mysql_kill() caused a server crash when used on an SSL connection. (Bug#25203)

  • yaSSL was sensitive to the presence of whitespace at the ends of lines in PEM-encoded certificates, causing a server crash. (Bug#25189)

  • A query with ORDER BY and GROUP BY clauses where the ORDER BY clause had more elements than the GROUP BY clause caused a memory overrun leading to a crash of the server. (Bug#25172)

  • Use of ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE defeated the usual restriction against inserting into a join-based view unless only one of the underlying tables is used. (Bug#25123)

  • ALTER TABLE ... ENABLE KEYS acquired a global lock, preventing concurrent execution of other statements that use tables. . (Bug#25044)

  • OPTIMIZE TABLE caused a race condition in the I/O cache. (Bug#25042)

  • A return value of -1 from user-defined handlers was not handled well and could result in conflicts with server code. (Bug#24987)

  • Certain joins using Range checked for each record in the query execution plan could cause the server to crash. (Bug#24776)

  • ALTER TABLE caused loss of CASCADE clauses for InnoDB tables. (Bug#24741)

  • If an ORDER BY or GROUP BY list included a constant expression being optimized away and, at the same time, containing single-row subselects that returned more that one row, no error was reported. If a query required sorting by expressions containing single-row subselects that returned more than one row, execution of the query could cause a server crash. (Bug#24653)

  • For ALTER TABLE, using ORDER BY expression could cause a server crash. Now the ORDER BY clause allows only column names to be specified as sort criteria (which was the only documented syntax, anyway). (Bug#24562)

  • Within stored routines or prepared statements, inconsistent results occurred with multiple use of INSERT ... SELECT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE when the ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE clause erroneously tried to assign a value to a column mentioned only in its SELECT part. (Bug#24491)

  • Expressions of the form (a, b) IN (SELECT a, MIN(b) FROM t GROUP BY a) could produce incorrect results when column a of table t contained NULL values while column b did not. (Bug#24420)

  • If a prepared statement accessed a view, access to the tables listed in the query after that view was checked in the security context of the view. (Bug#24404)

  • A nested query on a partitioned table returned fewer records than on the corresponding non-partitioned table, when the subquery affected more than one partition. (Bug#24186)

  • Expressions of the form (a, b) IN (SELECT c, d ...) could produce incorrect results if a, b, or both were NULL. (Bug#24127)

  • Queries that evaluate NULL IN (SELECT ... UNION SELECT ...) could produce an incorrect result (FALSE instead of NULL). (Bug#24085)

  • Some UPDATE statements were slower than in previous versions when the search key could not be converted to a valid value for the type of the search column. (Bug#24035)

  • ISNULL(DATE(NULL)) and ISNULL(CAST(NULL AS DATE)) erroneously returned false. (Bug#23938)

  • Within a stored routine, accessing a declared routine variable with PROCEDURE ANALYSE() caused a server crash. (Bug#23782)

  • For an InnoDB table with any ON DELETE trigger, TRUNCATE TABLE mapped to DELETE and activated triggers. Now a fast truncation occurs and triggers are not activated. .

    Important

    As a result of this fix, TRUNCATE TABLE now requires the DROP privilege rather than the DELETE privilege.

    (Bug#23556)

  • With ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY enables, the server was too strict: Some expressions involving only aggregate values were rejected as non-aggregate (for example, MAX(a)MIN(a)). (Bug#23417)

  • The arguments to the ENCODE() and the DECODE() functions were not printed correctly, causing problems in the output of EXPLAIN EXTENDED and in view definitions. (Bug#23409)

  • Some queries against INFORMATION_SCHEMA that used subqueries failed. . (Bug#23299)

  • readline detection did not work correctly on NetBSD. (Bug#23293)

  • The number of setsockopt() calls performed for reads and writes to the network socket was reduced to decrease system call overhead. (Bug#22943)

  • Storing values specified as hexadecimal values 64 or more bits long in BIT(64), BIGINT, or BIGINT UNSIGNED columns did not raise any warning or error if the value was out of range. (Bug#22533)

  • Type conversion errors during formation of index search conditions were not correctly checked, leading to incorrect query results. (Bug#22344)

  • For the IF() and COALESCE() function and CASE expressions, large unsigned integer values could be mishandled and result in warnings. (Bug#22026)

  • Inserting DEFAULT into a column with no default value could result in garbage in the column. Now the same result occurs as when inserting NULL into a NOT NULL column. (Bug#20691)

  • Indexes disabled with ALTER TABLE ... DISABLE KEYS could in some cases be used by specifying FORCE INDEX. (Bug#20604)

  • If a duplicate key value was present in the table, INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE reported a row count indicating that a record was updated, even when no record actually changed due to the old and new values being the same. Now it reports a row count of zero. (Bug#19978)

    See also Bug#27006, Bug#27033, Bug#27210

  • ORDER BY values of the DOUBLE or DECIMAL types could change the result returned by a query. (Bug#19690)

  • The readline library wrote to uninitialized memory, causing mysql to crash. (Bug#19474)

  • Use of already freed memory caused SSL connections to hang forever. (Bug#19209)

  • The server might fail to use an appropriate index for DELETE when ORDER BY, LIMIT, and a non-restricting WHERE are present. (Bug#17711)

  • The optimizer used a filesort rather than a const table read in some cases when the latter was possible. (Bug#16590)

  • To enable installation of MySQL RPMs on Linux systems running RHEL 4 (which includes SE-Linux) additional information was provided to specify some actions that are allowed to the MySQL binaries. (Bug#12676)

  • CONNECTION is no longer treated as a reserved word. (Bug#12204)

  • The presence of ORDER BY in a view definition prevented the MERGE algorithm from being used to resolve the view even if nothing else in the definition required the TEMPTABLE algorithm. (Bug#12122)

  • If a slave server closed its relay log (for example, due to an error during log rotation), the I/O thread did not recognize this and still tried to write to the log, causing a server crash. (Bug#10798)

C.1.14. Changes in MySQL 5.1.15 (25 January 2007)

This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs.

Note

This Beta release, as any other pre-production release, should not be installed on production level systems or systems with critical data. It is good practice to back up your data before installing any new version of software. Although MySQL has worked very hard to ensure a high level of quality, protect your data by making a backup as you would for any software beta release. Please refer to our bug database at http://bugs.mysql.com/ for more details about the individual bugs fixed in this version.

This section documents all changes and bug fixes that have been applied since the last official MySQL release. If you would like to receive more fine-grained and personalized update alerts about fixes that are relevant to the version and features you use, please consider subscribing to MySQL Enterprise (a commercial MySQL offering). For more details please see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Incompatible Change: MySQL Cluster: The LockPagesInMainMemory configuration parameter has changed its type and possible values. For more information, see LockPagesInMainMemory.

    Important

    The values true and false are no longer accepted for this parameter. If you were using this parameter and had it set to false in a previous release, you must change it to 0. If you had this parameter set to true, you should instead use 1 to obtain the same behavior as previously, or 2 to take advantage of new functionality introduced with this release, as described in the section cited above.

    (Bug#25686)

  • Incompatible Change: InnoDB rolls back only the last statement on a transaction timeout. A new option, --innodb_rollback_on_timeout, causes InnoDB to abort and roll back the entire transaction if a transaction timeout occurs (the same behavior as in MySQL 5.0.13 and earlier). (Bug#24200)

  • Incompatible Change: Previously, the DATE_FORMAT() function returned a binary string. Now it returns a string with a character set and collation given by character_set_connection and collation_connection so that it can return month and weekday names containing non-ASCII characters. (Bug#22646)

  • Incompatible Change: The following conditions apply to enabling the read_only system variable:

    • If you attempt to enable read_only while you have any explicit locks (acquired with LOCK TABLES or have a pending transaction, an error will occur.

    • If other clients hold explicit table locks or have pending transactions, the attempt to enable read_only blocks until the locks are released and the transactions end. While the attempt to enable read_only is pending, requests by other clients for table locks or to begin transactions also block until read_only has been set.

    • read_only can be enabled while you hold a global read lock (acquired with FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK) because that does not involve table locks.

    Previously, the attempt to enable read_only would return immediately even if explicit locks or transactions were pending, so some data changes could occur for statements executing in the server at the same time. (Bug#22009, Bug#11733)

  • Important Change: When using MERGE tables the definition of the MERGE table and the MyISAM tables are checked each time the tables are opened for access (including any SELECT or INSERT statement. Each table is compared for column order, types, sizes and associated. If there is a difference in any one of the tables then the statement will fail.

  • Important Change: Previously, duplicate-key errors were indicated by the ER_DUP_ENTRY error code (1062). This code is no longer used. Instead, the server returns ER_DUP_ENTRY_WITH_KEY_NAME (1582), and the error message indicates the name of the index for which the duplicate occurred. Applications that test for duplicate keys should look for both error codes if they need to be compatible with current and older servers.

    See also Bug#28842

  • MySQL Cluster: The NDB storage engine could leak memory during file operations. (Bug#21858)

  • On Unix, when searching the standard locations for option files, MySQL programs now also look for /etc/mysql/my.cnf after checking for /etc/my.cnf and before checking the remaining locations. (Bug#25104)

  • The default value of the max_connections variable has been increased to 151 in order that Websites running on Apache and using MySQL will not have more processes trying to access MySQL than the default number of connections available.

    (The maximum number of Apache processes is determined by the Apache MaxClient, which defaults to 256, but is usually set to 150 in the httpd.conf commonly distributed with Apache. For more information about MaxClient, see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mpm_common.html#maxclients.) (Bug#23883)

  • The Com_create_user status variable was added (for counting CREATE USER statements). (Bug#22958)

  • The --memlock option relies on system calls that are unreliable on some operating systems. If a crash occurs, the server now checks whether --memlock was specified and if so issues some information about possible workarounds. (Bug#22860)

  • The (undocumented) UNIQUE_USERS() and GROUP_UNIQUE_USERS() functions were removed. (Bug#22687)

  • Partitioning of tables using the FEDERATED storage engine is no longer permitted. Attempting to create such a table or to modify an existing table so that is uses both partitioning and FEDERATED now fails with an error. (Bug#22451)

  • The --skip-thread-priority option now is enabled by default for binary Mac OS X distributions. Use of thread priorities degrades performance on Mac OS X. (Bug#18526)

  • Calling a non-deterministic stored routine when using statement-based replication now throws an error. Formerly, defining such a stored routine would cause an error to be thrown. (Bug#16456)

  • read_only can be enabled while you hold a global read lock (acquired with FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK) because that does not involve table locks.

  • The bundled yaSSL library was upgraded to version 1.5.0.

  • Remote servers for use with the FEDERATED storage engine now can be managed with the new CREATE/ALTER/DROP SERVER syntax.

  • Added the --disable-grant-options option to configure. If configure is run with this option, the --bootstrap, --skip-grant-tables, and --init-file options for mysqld are disabled and cannot be used. For Windows, the configure.js script recognizes the DISABLE_GRANT_OPTIONS flag, which has the same effect.

  • If other clients hold explicit table locks or have pending transactions, the attempt to enable read_only blocks until the locks are released and the transactions end. While the attempt to enable read_only is pending, requests by other clients for table locks or to begin transactions also block until read_only has been set.

  • If you attempt to enable read_only while you have any explicit locks (acquired with LOCK TABLES or have a pending transaction, an error will occur.

Bugs fixed:

  • Incompatible Change: For ENUM columns that had enumeration values containing commas, the commas were mapped to 0xff internally. However, this rendered the commas indistinguishable from true 0xff characters in the values. This no longer occurs. However, the fix requires that you dump and reload any tables that have ENUM columns containing any true 0xff values. Dump the tables using mysqldump with the current server before upgrading from a version of MySQL 5.1 older than 5.1.15 to version 5.1.15 or newer. (Bug#24660)

  • Partitioning: MySQL Cluster: Non-32-bit, non-aligned columns were not handled correctly in explicitly partitioned NDB tables. (Bug#25587)

  • MySQL Cluster: It was not possible to create an NDB table with a key on two VARCHAR columns where both columns had a storage length in excess of 256. (Bug#25746)

  • MySQL Cluster: Hosts in clusters with large numbers of nodes could experience excessive CPU usage while obtaining configuration data. (Bug#25711)

  • MySQL Cluster: In some circumstances, shutting down the cluster could cause connected mysqld processes to crash. (Bug#25668)

  • MySQL Cluster: Some aggregate queries such as SELECT COUNT(*) performed a table scan on NDB tables rather than checking table statistics, causing such queries to perform much more slowly in MySQL Cluster 5.1 than in 5.0. (Bug#25567)

  • MySQL Cluster: Memory allocations for TEXT columns were calculated incorrectly, resulting in space being wasted and other issues. (Bug#25562)

  • MySQL Cluster: The failure of a master node during a node restart could lead to a resource leak, causing later node failures. (Bug#25554)

  • MySQL Cluster: The failure of a node during a local checkpoint could lead to other node failures. (Bug#25468)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Replication): Connecting a mysqld to a cluster where not all nodes were running, starting the remaining cluster nodes, and then disconnecting from the cluster caused the mysqld process to crash. (Bug#25387)

  • MySQL Cluster: A node shutdown occurred if the master failed during a commit. (Bug#25364)

  • MySQL Cluster: Creating a non-unique index with the USING HASH clause silently created an ordered index instead of issuing a warning. (Bug#24820)

  • MySQL Cluster: ndb_config failed when trying to use 2 management servers and node IDs. (Bug#23887)

  • MySQL Cluster: When a data node was shut down using the management client STOP command, a connection event (NDB_LE_Connected) was logged instead of a disconnection event (NDB_LE_Disconnected). (Bug#22773)

  • MySQL Cluster: The management server did not handle logging of node shutdown events correctly in certain cases. (Bug#22013)

  • MySQL Cluster: SELECT statements with a BLOB or TEXT column in the selected column list and a WHERE condition including a primary key lookup on a VARCHAR primary key produced empty result sets. (Bug#19956)

  • MySQL Cluster: When stopping and restarting multiple data nodes, the last node to be restarted would sometimes hang in Phase 100. (Bug#19645)

  • Disk Data: Following 3 or more missed local checkpoints by a cluster node, a restart of the node caused incorrect undo information to be used for Disk Data tables. (Bug#25636)

  • Disk Data: MEDIUMTEXT columns of Disk Data tables were stored in memory rather than on disk, even if the columns were not indexed. (Bug#25001)

  • Disk Data: Performing a node restart with a newly dropped Disk Data table could lead to failure of the node during the restart. (Bug#24917)

  • Disk Data: Changing a column specification or issuing a TRUNCATE statement on a Disk Data table caused the table to become an in-memory table. (Bug#24667, Bug#25296)

  • Disk Data: When restoring from backup a cluster containing any Disk Data tables with hidden primary keys, a node failure resulted which could lead to a crash of the cluster. (Bug#24166)

  • Disk Data: Repeated CREATE, DROP, or TRUNCATE in various combinations with system restarts between these operations could lead to the eventual failure of a system restart. (Bug#21948)

  • Disk Data: Extents that should have been available for re-use following a DROP TABLE operation were not actually made available again until after the cluster had performed a local checkpoint. (Bug#17605)

  • Cluster Replication: Certain errors in replication setups could lead to unexpected node failures. (Bug#25755)

  • Cluster Replication: Connecting an API node to the cluster during a node restart while performing database operations could cause the restarting node to fail. (Bug#25329)

  • Cluster Replication: Following a restart of the master cluster, the latest GCI was set to 0 upon reconnection to the slave. (Bug#21806)

  • Cluster API: Deletion of an Ndb_cluster_connection object took a very long time. (Bug#25487)

  • Cluster API: Invoking the NdbTransaction::execute() method using execution type Commit and abort option AO_IgnoreError could lead to a crash of the transaction coordinator (DBTC). (Bug#25090)

  • Cluster API: A unique index lookup on a non-existent tuple could lead to a data node timeout (error 4012). (Bug#25059)

  • Cluster API: When using the NdbTransaction::execute() method, a very long timeout (greater than 5 minutes) could result if the last data node being polled was disconnected from the cluster. (Bug#24949)

  • Cluster API: Due to an error in the computation of table fragment arrays, some transactions were not executed from the correct starting point. (Bug#24914)

  • mysqltest_embedded crashed at startup. (Bug#25890)

  • Referencing an ambiguous column alias in an expression in the ORDER BY clause of a query caused the server to crash. (Bug#25427)

  • Some problems uncovered by Valgrind were fixed. (Bug#25396)

  • Using a view in combination with a USING clause caused column aliases to be ignored. (Bug#25106)

  • A multiple-table DELETE QUICK could sometimes cause one of the affected tables to become corrupted. (Bug#25048)

  • An assertion failed incorrectly for prepared statements that contained a single-row uncorrelated subquery that was used as an argument of the IS NULL predicate. (Bug#25027)

  • In the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE table, the value displayed for the REFERENCED_TABLE_NAME column was the table name as encoded for disk storage, not the actual table name. (Bug#25026)

  • The REPEAT() function could return NULL when passed a column for the count argument. (Bug#24947)

  • mysql_upgrade failed if the --password (or -p) option was given. (Bug#24896)

  • Accessing a fixed record format table with a crashed key definition results in server/myisamchk segmentation fault. (Bug#24855)

  • mysqld_multi and mysqlaccess looked for option files in /etc even if the --sysconfdir option for configure had been given to specify a different directory. (Bug#24780)

  • If there was insufficient memory available to mysqld, this could sometimes cause the server to hang during startup. (Bug#24751)

  • Optimizations that are legal only for subqueries without tables and WHERE conditions were applied for any subquery without tables. (Bug#24670)

  • Under certain rare circumstances, local checkpoints were not performed properly, leading to an inability to restart one or more data nodes. (Bug#24664)

  • A workaround was implemented to avoid a race condition in the NPTL pthread_exit() implementation. (Bug#24507)

  • Under some circumstances, a REORGANIZE PARTITION statement could crash mysqld. (Bug#24502)

  • mysqltest crashed with a stack overflow. (Bug#24498)

  • Using row-based replication to replicate to a table having at least one extra BIT column with a default value on the slave as compared to the master could cause the slave to fail. (Bug#24490)

  • Attempts to access a MyISAM table with a corrupt column definition caused a server crash. (Bug#24401)

  • ALTER ENABLE KEYS or ALTER TABLE DISABLE KEYS combined with another ALTER TABLE option other than RENAME TO did nothing. In addition, if ALTER TABLE was used on a table having disabled keys, the keys of the resulting table were enabled. (Bug#24395)

  • When opening a corrupted .frm file during a query, the server crashes. (Bug#24358)

  • The --extern option for mysql-test-run.pl did not function correctly. (Bug#24354)

  • Some joins in which one of the joined tables was a view could return erroneous results or crash the server. (Bug#24345)

  • The mysql.server script used the source command, which is less portable than the . command; it now uses . instead. (Bug#24294)

  • A view was not handled correctly if the SELECT part contained “ \Z ”. (Bug#24293)

  • mysql_install_db did not create the mysql.plugin table if strict SQL mode was enabled. (Bug#24270)

  • A query using WHERE unsigned_column NOT IN ('negative_value') could cause the server to crash. (Bug#24261)

  • ALTER TABLE statements that performed both RENAME TO and {ENABLE|DISABLE} KEYS operations caused a server crash. (Bug#24219)

  • When SET PASSWORD was written to the binary log double quotes were included in the statement. If the slave was running in with the server SQL mode set to ANSI_QUOTES, then the event failed, which halted the replication process. (Bug#24158)

  • A FETCH statement using a cursor on a table which was not in the table cache could sometimes cause the server to crash. (Bug#24117)

  • Hebrew-to-Unicode conversion failed for some characters. Definitions for the following Hebrew characters (as specified by the ISO/IEC 8859-8:1999) were added: LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK (LRM), RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK (RLM) (Bug#24037)

  • On HP-UX, mysqltest (non-thread-safe) crashed due to being linked against a thread-safe libmysys library. (Bug#23984)

  • The server was built even when configure was run with the --without-server option. (Bug#23973)

  • The MySQL 5.1.12 binaries for Windows were missing the FEDERATED, EXAMPLE, and BLACKHOLE storage engines. (Bug#23900)

  • ROW_COUNT() did not work properly as an argument to a stored procedure. (Bug#23760)

  • When reading from the standard input on Windows, mysqlbinlog opened the input in text mode rather than binary mode and consequently misinterpreted some characters such as Control-Z. (Bug#23735)

  • A stored procedure, executed from a connection using a binary character set, and which wrote multibyte data, would write incorrectly escaped entries to the binary log. This caused syntax errors, and caused replication to fail. (Bug#23619, Bug#24492)

  • OPTIMIZE TABLE tried to sort R-tree indexes such as spatial indexes, although this is not possible (see Section 12.5.2.5, “OPTIMIZE TABLE Syntax”). (Bug#23578)

  • The row count for MyISAM tables was not updated properly, causing SHOW TABLE STATUS to report incorrect values. (Bug#23526)

  • The Instance Manager DROP INSTANCE command did not work. (Bug#23476)

  • User-defined variables could consume excess memory, leading to a crash caused by the exhaustion of resources available to the MEMORY storage engine, due to the fact that this engine is used by MySQL for variable storage and intermediate results of GROUP BY queries. Where SET had been used, such a condition could instead give rise to the misleading error message You may only use constant expressions with SET, rather than Out of memory (Needed NNNNNN bytes). (Bug#23443)

  • A table created with the ROW_FORMAT = FIXED table option lost the option if an index was added or dropped with CREATE INDEX or DROP INDEX. (Bug#23404)

  • A deadlock could occur, with the server hanging on Closing tables, with a sufficient number of concurrent INSERT DELAYED, FLUSH TABLES, and ALTER TABLE operations. (Bug#23312)

  • Accuracy was improved for comparisons between DECIMAL columns and numbers represented as strings. (Bug#23260)

  • The Instance Manager STOP INSTANCE command took too much time and caused Instance Manager to be unresponsive. (Bug#23215)

  • If there was insufficient memory to store or update a blob record in a MyISAM table then the table will marked as crashed. (Bug#23196)

  • A compressed MyISAM table that became corrupted could crash myisamchk and possibly the MySQL Server. (Bug#23139)

  • Using CREATE TABLE ... SELECT and rolling back the transaction would leave an empty table on the master, but the instructions would not be recorded in the binary log and therefore replicated to the slave. This would result in a difference between the master and slave databases. An implicit commit has been added to ensure consistency. (Bug#22865)

  • CREATE TABLE ... SELECT statements were not rolled back correctly. As part of the fix, such a statement now causes an implicit commit before and after it is executed. However, it does not cause a commit when used to create a temporary table. (Bug#22864)

  • mysql_upgrade failed when called with a basedir pathname containing spaces. (Bug#22801)

  • Using INSTALL PLUGIN followed by a restart of the server caused an error due to memory not being properly initialized. (Bug#22694)

  • SET lc_time_names = value allowed only exact literal values, not expression values. (Bug#22647)

  • Changes to the lc_time_names system variable were not replicated. (Bug#22645)

  • A partitioned table that used the DATA DIRECTORY option, where the data directory was the same as the directory in which the table definition file resided, became corrupted following ALTER TABLE ENGINE=ARCHIVE. This was actually due to an issue with the ARCHIVE storage engine, and not with partitioned tables in general. (Bug#22634)

  • The STDDEV() function returned a positive value for data sets consisting of a single value. (Bug#22555)

  • SHOW COLUMNS reported some NOT NULL columns as NULL. (Bug#22377)

  • A server crash occurred when using LOAD DATA to load a table containing a NOT NULL spatial column, when the statement did not load the spatial column. Now a NULL supplied to NOT NULL column error occurs. (Bug#22372)

  • An ALTER TABLE statement that used a RENAME clause in combination with a MODIFY or CHANGE that did not actually change the table (for example, when it changed a column's type from INT to INT). The behavior caused by this bug differed according to whether or not the storage engine used by the table was transactional or non-transactional. For transactional tables (such as those using the InnoDB storage engine), the statement simply failed; for non-transactional tables (such as those using the MyISAM storage engine), the ALTER TABLE statement succeeding renaming the table, but subsequent SELECT statements against the renamed table would fail. (Bug#22369)

  • The Instance Manager STOP INSTANCE command could not be applied to instances in the Crashed, Failed, or Abandoned state. (Bug#22306)

  • DATE_ADD() requires complete dates with no “zero” parts, but sometimes did not return NULL when given such a date. (Bug#22229)

  • Some small double precision numbers (such as 1.00000001e-300) that should have been accepted were truncated to zero. (Bug#22129)

  • Changing the value of MI_KEY_BLOCK_LENGTH in myisam.h and recompiling MySQL resulted in a myisamchk that saw existing MyISAM tables as corrupt. (Bug#22119)

  • For a nonexistent table, DROP TEMPORARY TABLE failed with an incorrect error message if read_only was enabled. (Bug#22077)

  • A crash of the MySQL Server could occur when unpacking a BLOB column from a row in a corrupted MyISAM table. This could happen when trying to repair a table using either REPAIR TABLE or myisamchk; it could also happen when trying to access such a “broken” row using statements like SELECT if the table was not marked as crashed. (Bug#22053)

  • The code for generating USE statements for binary logging of CREATE PROCEDURE statements resulted in confusing output from mysqlbinlog for DROP PROCEDURE statements. (Bug#22043)

  • STR_TO_DATE() returned NULL if the format string contained a space following a non-format character. (Bug#22029)

  • It was possible to use DATETIME values whose year, month, and day parts were all zeroes but whose hour, minute, and second parts contained nonzero values, an example of such an illegal DATETIME being '0000-00-00 11:23:45'.

    Note

    This fix was reverted in MySQL 5.1.18.

    (Bug#21789)

    See also Bug#25301

  • SSL connections could hang at connection shutdown. (Bug#21781, Bug#24148)

  • yaSSL crashed on pre-Pentium Intel CPUs. (Bug#21765)

  • Using FLUSH TABLES in one connection while another connection is using HANDLER statements caused a server crash.

    Note

    This fix was reverted in MySQL 5.1.22

    (Bug#21587)

    See also Bug#29474

  • The FEDERATED storage engine did not support the euckr character set. (Bug#21556)

  • InnoDB crashed while performing XA recovery of prepared transactions. (Bug#21468)

  • It was possible to set the backslash character (“ \ ”) as the delimiter character using DELIMITER, but not actually possible to use it as the delimiter. (Bug#21412)

  • Using ALTER TABLE to convert a CSV table containing NULL values to MyISAM resulted in warnings. (Bug#21328)

  • When updating a table that used a JOIN of the table itself (for example, when building trees) and the table was modified on one side of the expression, the table would either be reported as crashed or the wrong rows in the table would be updated. (Bug#21310)

  • mysqld_error.h was not installed when only the client libraries were built. (Bug#21265)

  • InnoDB: During a restart of the MySQL Server that followed the creation of a temporary table using the InnoDB storage engine, MySQL failed to clean up in such a way that InnoDB still attempted to find the files associated with such tables. (Bug#20867)

  • Selecting into variables sometimes returned incorrect wrong results. (Bug#20836)

  • Queries of the form SELECT ... WHERE string = ANY(...) failed when the server used a single-byte character set and the client used a multi-byte character set. (Bug#20835)

  • mysql_fix_privilege_tables.sql altered the table_privs.table_priv column to contain too few privileges, causing loss of the CREATE VIEW and SHOW VIEW privileges. (Bug#20589)

  • A stored routine containing semicolon in its body could not be reloaded from a dump of a binary log. (Bug#20396)

  • SELECT ... FOR UPDATE, SELECT ... LOCK IN SHARE MODE, DELETE, and UPDATE statements executed using a full table scan were not releasing locks on rows that did not satisfy the WHERE condition. (Bug#20390)

  • The BUILD/check-cpu script did not recognize Celeron processors. (Bug#20061)

  • Unsigned BIGINT values treated as signed values by the MOD() function. (Bug#19955)

  • Compiling PHP 5.1 with the MySQL static libraries failed on some versions of Linux. (Bug#19817)

  • The DELIMITER statement did not work correctly when used in an SQL file run using the SOURCE statement. (Bug#19799)

  • For SET, SELECT, and DO statements that invoked a stored function from a database other than the default database, the function invocation could fail to be replicated. (Bug#19725)

  • mysqltest incorrectly tried to retrieve result sets for some queries where no result set was available. (Bug#19410)

  • VARBINARY column values inserted on a MySQL 4.1 server had trailing zeroes following upgrade to MySQL 5.0 or later. (Bug#19371)

  • Some CASE statements inside stored routines could lead to excessive resource usage or a crash of the server. (Bug#19194, Bug#24854)

  • Instance Manager could crash during shutdown. (Bug#19044)

  • myisampack wrote to unallocated memory, causing a crash. (Bug#17951)

  • FLUSH LOGS or mysqladmin flush-logs caused a server crash if the binary log was not open. (Bug#17733)

  • mysql_fix_privilege_tables did not handle a password containing embedded space or apostrophe characters. (Bug#17700)

  • No warning was issued for use of the DATA DIRECTORY or INDEX DIRECTORY table options on a platform that does not support them. (Bug#17498)

  • The FEDERATED storage engine did not support the utf8 character set. (Bug#17044)

  • The optimizer removes expressions from GROUP BY and DISTINCT clauses if they happen to participate in expression = constant predicates of the WHERE clause, the idea being that, if the expression is equal to a constant, then it cannot take on multiple values. However, for predicates where the expression and the constant item are of different result types (for example, when a string column is compared to 0), this is not valid, and can lead to invalid results in such cases. The optimizer now performs an additional check of the result types of the expression and the constant; if their types differ, then the expression is not removed from the GROUP BY list. (Bug#15881)

  • When a prepared statement failed during the prepare operation, the error code was not cleared when it was reused, even if the subsequent use was successful. (Bug#15518)

  • Dropping a user-defined function sometimes did not remove the UDF entry from the mysql.proc table. (Bug#15439)

  • Inserting a row into a table without specifying a value for a BINARY(N) NOT NULL column caused the column to be set to spaces, not zeroes. (Bug#14171)

  • On Windows, the SLEEP() function could sleep too long, especially after a change to the system clock. (Bug#14094, Bug#24686, Bug#17635)

  • mysqldump --order-by-primary failed if the primary key name was an identifier that required quoting. (Bug#13926)

  • Subqueries of the form NULL IN (SELECT ...) returned invalid results. (Bug#8804, Bug#23485)

C.1.15. Changes in MySQL 5.1.14 (05 December 2006)

This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs.

Note

This Beta release, as any other pre-production release, should not be installed on production level systems or systems with critical data. It is good practice to back up your data before installing any new version of software. Although MySQL has worked very hard to ensure a high level of quality, protect your data by making a backup as you would for any software beta release. Please refer to our bug database at http://bugs.mysql.com/ for more details about the individual bugs fixed in this version.

This section documents all changes and bug fixes that have been applied since the last official MySQL release. If you would like to receive more fine-grained and personalized update alerts about fixes that are relevant to the version and features you use, please consider subscribing to MySQL Enterprise (a commercial MySQL offering). For more details please see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Cluster Replication: Incompatible Change: Two major changes have taken place with regard to the MySQL Cluster system tables. These are:

    1. The cluster database is no longer used. The tables formerly found in the cluster database are now in the mysql database, and have been renamed as ndb_binlog_index, ndb_apply_status, and ndb_schema.

    2. The mysql.ndb_apply_status and mysql.ndb_schema tables (formerly cluster.apply_status and cluster.schema are now created by ndb_restore, in the event that they do not already exist on the slave cluster.

    Note

    When upgrading from versions of MySQL previous to 5.1.14 to 5.1.14 or later, mysql_fix_privilege_tables merely creates a new mysql.ndb_binlog_index table, but does not remove the existing cluster database (or, if upgrading from MySQL 5.1.7 or earlier, the existing cluster_replication database), nor any of the tables in it.

    For more information, see Section 20.11.4, “Cluster Replication Schema and Tables”. (Bug#14612)

  • Cluster Replication: Incompatible Change: The cluster database is no longer used. The tables formerly found in the cluster database are now in the mysql database, and have been renamed as ndb_binlog_index, ndb_apply_status, and ndb_schema.

  • Incompatible Change: The prepared_stmt_count system variable has been converted to the Prepared_stmt_count global status variable (viewable with the SHOW GLOBAL STATUS statement). (Bug#23159)

  • Incompatible Change: Previously, you could create a user-defined function (UDF) or stored function with the same name as a built-in function, but could not invoke the UDF. Now an error occurs if you try to create such a UDF. The server also now generates a warning if you create a stored function with the same name as a built-in function. It is not considered an error to create a stored function with the same name as a built-in function because you can invoke the function using db_name.func_name() syntax. However, the server now generates a warning in this case.

    See Section 8.2.4, “Function Name Parsing and Resolution”, for the rules describing how the server interprets references to different kinds of functions. (Bug#22619, Bug#18239)

  • MySQL Cluster: Backup messages are now printed to the Cluster log. (Bug#24544)

  • MySQL Cluster: Setting the configuration parameter LockPagesInMainMemory had no effect. (Bug#24461)

  • MySQL Cluster: The error message Management server closed connection, when recorded in the MySQL error log, now includes a timestamp indicating when the error took place. (Bug#21519)

  • MySQL Cluster: It is now possible to create a unique hashed index on a column that is not defined as NOT NULL.

    Note

    This change applies only to tables using the NDB storage engine.

    Unique indexes on columns in NDB tables do not store null values because they are mapped to primary keys in an internal index table (and primary keys cannot contain nulls).

    Normally, an additional ordered index is created when one creates unique indexes on NDB table columns; this can be used to search for NULL values. However, if USING HASH is specified when such an index is created, no ordered index is created.

    The reason for permitting unique hash indexes with null values is that, in some cases, the user wants to save space if a large number of records are pre-allocated but not fully initialized. This also assumes that the user will not try to search for null values. Since MySQL does not support indexes that are not allowed to be searched in some cases, the NDB storage engine uses a full table scan with pushed conditions for the referenced index columns to return the correct result.

    A warning is returned if one creates a unique nullable hash index, since the query optimizer should be provided a hint not to use it with NULL values if this can be avoided. (Bug#21507)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Disk Data): The output of mysqldump now includes by default all tablespace and logfile group definitions used by any tables or databases that are dumped.

    Note

    The working of the --all-tablespaces or -Y option for mysqldump remains unaffected by this change.

    (Bug#20839)

  • DROP TRIGGER now supports an IF EXISTS clause. (Bug#23703)

  • Direct and indirect usage of stored routines, user-defined functions, and table references is now prohibited in CREATE EVENT and ALTER EVENT statements.

    See Section 25.2.2, “CREATE EVENT Syntax”, and Section 25.2.1, “ALTER EVENT Syntax”, for more specific information. (Bug#22830)

  • The XPath operators < and >, as implemented in the ExtractValue() function, operated in reverse.

    With this fix, all standard XPath comparison operators should now be supported correctly for use with the ExtractValue() and UpdateXML() functions. (Bug#22823)

  • For the mysql client, display of result set metadata now is enabled with the --column-type-info option rather than with --debug-info/-T.

  • mysqladmin, mysqlcheck, mysqldump, mysqlimport, and mysqlshow now accept the --debug-info option, which displays debugging information and memory and CPU usage statistics at program exit.

Bugs fixed:

  • MySQL Cluster: The failure of a data node failure during a schema operation could lead to additional node failures. (Bug#24752)

  • MySQL Cluster: A committed read could be attempted before a data node had time to connect, causing a timeout error. (Bug#24717)

  • MySQL Cluster: The simultaneous shutdown of mysqld and ndbd processes caused unnecessary locking. (Bug#24655)

  • MySQL Cluster: The failure of the master node in a node group during the allocation of node IDs could cause ndb_mgmd to hang. (Bug#24543)

  • MySQL Cluster: In certain rare cases, a data node could crash due to a typographical error in the MySQL Cluster source code. (Bug#24476)

  • MySQL Cluster: Creating a new tables containing a BLOB column when the server was short of memory could cause the server to crash. (Bug#24470)

  • MySQL Cluster: Sudden disconnection of an SQL or data node could lead to shutdown of data nodes with the error failed ndbrequire. (Bug#24447)

  • MySQL Cluster: Any statement following the execution of CREATE TABLE ... LIKE ndb_table (where ndb_table was a table using the NDB storage engine), would cause the mysql client to hang. (Bug#24301)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Disk Data): Excessive fragmentation of Disk Data files (including log files and data files) could occur during the course of normal use. (Bug#24143)

  • MySQL Cluster: When the management client command ALL RESTART -i was executed while one data node was not running, all data nodes in the cluster were shut down. (Bug#24105)

  • MySQL Cluster: A query using an index scan followed by a delete operation, and then a rollback could cause one or more data nodes to crash. (Bug#24039)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Disk Data): Under some circumstances, a DELETE from a Disk Data table could cause mysqld to crash. (Bug#23542)

  • MySQL Cluster: It was possible for the sum of the MaxNoOfTables, MaxNoOfOrderedIndexes, and MaxNoOfUniqueHashIndexes configuration parameters, plus the number of system tables to exceed the maximum value for a Uint32 number. In such a case, the cluster's data nodes failed to start, and no reason for this could easily be determined from the error messages provided. (Bug#22548)

  • MySQL Cluster: A value equal to or greater than the allowed maximum for LongMessageBuffer caused all data nodes to crash. (Bug#22547)

  • MySQL Cluster: Multiple occurrences of error conditions were logged with duplicat error messages rather than being reported with a single error message stating that the error was encountered N times. (Bug#22313)

  • MySQL Cluster: Given a table mytbl in a database mydb on a MySQL Server acting as an SQL node in a MySQL Cluster, then, following multiple ALTER TABLE mytbl ENGINE=engine statements — first, to change the storage engine used for a table to NDB, and then again to change the table to use a non-NDB storage engine — a DROP DATABASE mydb statement executed on any SQL node in the cluster would cause mydb to be dropped on all SQL nodes in the cluster, even if mydb contained non-NDB tables. (Bug#21495)

  • MySQL Cluster: An incorrect error message was displayed in the event that the value of the MaxNoOfOrderedIndexes parameter was set too low. (Bug#20065)

  • MySQL Cluster: An incorrect error message was displayed in the event that the value of the DataMemory parameter was insufficient for the amount of data to be stored by the cluster. (Bug#19808)

  • MySQL Cluster: Some values of MaxNoOfTriggers could cause the server to become inaccessible following startup of the data nodes. (Bug#19454)

  • MySQL Cluster: If the value set for MaxNoOfAttributes is excessive, a suitable error message is now returned. (Bug#19352)

  • MySQL Cluster: Different error messages were returned for similar cases involving failure to allocate memory for Cluster operations. (Bug#19203)

  • MySQL Cluster: A unique constraint violation was not ignored by an UPDATE IGNORE statement when the constraint violation occurred on a non-primary key. (Bug#18487, Bug#24303)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Replication): If errors occurred during purging of the binary logs, extraneous rows could remain left in the binlog_index table. (Bug#15021)

  • Disk Data: ndb_restore sometimes failed when attempting to restore Disk Data tables due to data node failure caused by accessing uninitialized memory. (Bug#24331)

  • Disk Data: It was possible to execute a statement for creating a Disk Data table that referred to a nonexistent tablespace, in which case the table created was actually an in-memory NDB table. Such a statement now fails instead, with an appropriate error message. (Bug#23576)

  • Cluster API: Using BIT values with any of the comparison methods of the NdbScanFilter class caused data nodes to fail. (Bug#24503)

  • Cluster API: Some MGM API function calls could yield incorrect return values in certain cases where the cluster was operating under a very high load, or experienced timeouts in inter-node communications. (Bug#24011)

  • In some cases, a function that should be parsed as a user-defined function was parsed as a stored function. (Bug#24736)

  • Some unnecessary Valgrind warnings were removed from the server. . (Bug#24488, Bug#24533)

  • The server source code had multiple exportable definitions of the field_in_record_is_null() function. These are now all declared static. (Bug#24190)

  • The loose index scan optimization for GROUP BY with MIN or MAX was not applied within other queries, such as CREATE TABLE ... SELECT ..., INSERT ... SELECT ..., or in the FROM clauses of subqueries. (Bug#24156)

  • Subqueries for which a pushed-down condition did not produce exactly one key field could cause a server crash. (Bug#24056)

  • The size of MEMORY tables and internal temporary tables was limited to 4GB on 64-bit Windows systems. (Bug#24052)

  • With row-based binary logging, replicated multiple-statement transaction deadlocks did not return the correct error code, causing the slave SQL thread to stop rather than roll back and re-execute. (Bug#23831)

  • LAST_DAY('0000-00-00') could cause a server crash. (Bug#23653)

  • A trigger that invoked a stored function could cause a server crash when activated by different client connections. (Bug#23651)

  • The stack size for NetWare binaries was increased to 128KB to prevent problems caused by insufficient stack size. (Bug#23504)

  • If elements in a non-top-level IN subquery were accessed by an index and the subquery result set included a NULL value, the quantified predicate that contained the subquery was evaluated to NULL when it should return a non-NULL value. (Bug#23478)

  • When applying the group_concat_max_len limit, GROUP_CONCAT() could truncate multi-byte characters in the middle. (Bug#23451)

  • mysql_affected_rows() could return values different from mysql_stmt_affected_rows() for the same sequence of statements. (Bug#23383)

  • Calculation of COUNT(DISTINCT), AVG(DISTINCT), or SUM(DISTINCT) when they are referenced more than once in a single query with GROUP BY could cause a server crash. (Bug#23184)

  • Changes to character set variables prior to an action on a replication-ignored table were forgotten by slave servers. (Bug#22877)

  • With row-based binary logging, for CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS LIKE temporary_table statements, the IF NOT EXISTS clause was not logged. (Bug#22762)

  • BENCHMARK(), ENCODE(), DECODE(), and FORMAT() could only accept a constant for some parameters, and could not be used in prepared statements. (Bug#22684)

  • Queries using a column alias in an expression as part of an ORDER BY clause failed, an example of such a query being SELECT mycol + 1 AS mynum FROM mytable ORDER BY 30 - mynum. (Bug#22457)

  • Using EXPLAIN caused a server crash for queries that selected from INFORMATION_SCHEMA in a subquery in the FROM clause. (Bug#22413)

  • Instance Manager option-parsing code caused memory-allocation errors. (Bug#22242)

  • Trailing spaces were not removed from Unicode CHAR column values when used in indexes. This resulted in excessive usage of storage space, and could affect the results of some ORDER BY queries that made use of such indexes.

    Note

    When upgrading, it is necessary to re-create any existing indexes on Unicode CHAR columns in order to take advantage of the fix. This can be done by using a REPAIR TABLE statement on each affected table.

    (Bug#22052)

  • With row-based binary logging, CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS SELECT statements were not logged properly. (Bug#22027)

  • In some cases, the parser failed to distinguish a user-defined function from a stored function. (Bug#21809)

  • Inserting a default or invalid value into a spatial column could fail with Unknown error rather than a more appropriate error. (Bug#21790)

  • Evaluation of subqueries that require the filesort algorithm were allocating and freeing the sort_buffer_size buffer many times, resulting in slow performance. Now the buffer is allocated once and reused. (Bug#21727)

  • Through the C API, the member strings in MYSQL_FIELD for a query that contains expressions may return incorrect results. (Bug#21635)

  • View columns were always handled as having implicit derivation, leading to illegal mix of collation errors for some views in UNION operations. Now view column derivation comes from the original expression given in the view definition. (Bug#21505)

  • INET_ATON() returned a signed BIGINT value, not an unsigned value. (Bug#21466)

  • For debug builds, mysqladmin shutdown displayed an extraneous skipped 9 bytes from file: socket (3) message. (Bug#21428)

  • For renaming of views, encoding of table name to filenames was not performed. (Bug#21370)

  • CREATE FUNCTION X() and CREATE FUNCTION Y() failed with a syntax error instead of warning the user that these function names are already used (for GIS functions). (Bug#21025)

  • On slave servers, transactions that exceeded the lock wait timeout failed to roll back properly. (Bug#20697)

  • CONCURRENT did not work correctly for LOAD DATA INFILE. (Bug#20637)

  • With lower_case_table_names set to 1, SHOW CREATE TABLE printed incorrect output for table names containing Turkish I (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE). (Bug#20404)

  • A query with a subquery that references columns of a view from the outer SELECT could return an incorrect result if used from a prepared statement. (Bug#20327)

  • For queries that select from a view, the server was returning MYSQL_FIELD metadata inconsistently for view names and table names. For view columns, the server now returns the view name in the table field and, if the column selects from an underlying table, the table name in the org_table field. (Bug#20191)

  • Invalidating the query cache caused a server crash for INSERT INTO ... SELECT statements that selected from a view. (Bug#20045)

  • For a cast of a DATETIME value containing microseconds to DECIMAL, the microseconds part was truncated without generating a warning. Now the microseconds part is preserved. (Bug#19491)

  • SQL statements close to the size of max_allowed_packet could produce binary log events larger than max_allowed_packet that could not be read by slave servers. (Bug#19402)

  • The server could send incorrect column count information to the client for queries that produce a larger number of columns than can fit in a two-byte number. (Bug#19216)

  • For some problems relating to character set conversion or incorrect string values for INSERT or UPDATE, the server was reporting truncation or length errors instead. (Bug#18908)

  • Constant expressions and some numeric constants used as input parameters to user-defined functions were not treated as constants. (Bug#18761)

  • Attempting to use a view containing DEFINER information for a non-existent user resulted in an error message that revealed the definer account. Now the definer is revealed only to superusers. Other users receive only an access denied message. (Bug#17254)

  • IN() and CHAR() can return NULL, but did not signal that to the query processor, causing incorrect results for IS NULL operations. (Bug#17047)

  • Warnings were generated when explicitly casting a character to a number (for example, CAST('x' AS SIGNED)), but not for implicit conversions in simple arithmetic operations (such as 'x' + 0). Now warnings are generated in all cases. (Bug#11927)

  • Metadata for columns calculated from scalar subqueries was limited to integer, double, or string, even if the actual type of the column was different. (Bug#11032)

C.1.16. Changes in MySQL 5.1.13 (Not released)

This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs.

Note

This Beta release, as any other pre-production release, should not be installed on production level systems or systems with critical data. It is good practice to back up your data before installing any new version of software. Although MySQL has worked very hard to ensure a high level of quality, protect your data by making a backup as you would for any software beta release. Please refer to our bug database at http://bugs.mysql.com/ for more details about the individual bugs fixed in this version.

This section documents all changes and bug fixes that have been applied since the last official MySQL release. If you would like to receive more fine-grained and personalized update alerts about fixes that are relevant to the version and features you use, please consider subscribing to MySQL Enterprise (a commercial MySQL offering). For more details please see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Incompatible Change: The number of function names affected by IGNORE_SPACE was reduced significantly in MySQL 5.1.13, from about 200 to about 30. (For details about IGNORE_SPACE, see Section 8.2.4, “Function Name Parsing and Resolution”.) This change improves the consistency of parser operation. However, it also introduces the possibility of incompatibility for old SQL code that relies on the following conditions:

    • IGNORE_SPACE is disabled.

    • The presence or absence of whitespace following a function name is used to distinguish between a built-in function and stored function that have the same name (for example, PI() versus PI ()).

    For functions that are no longer affected by IGNORE_SPACE as of MySQL 5.1.13, that strategy no longer works. Either of the following approaches can be used if you have code that is subject to the preceding incompatibility:

    • If a stored function has a name that conflicts with a built-in function, refer to the stored function with a schema name qualifier, regardless of whether whitespace is present. For example, write schema_name.PI() or schema_name.PI ().

    • Alternatively, rename the stored function to use a non-conflicting name and change invocations of the function to use the new name.

    (Bug#21114)

  • Incompatible Change: The innodb_buffer_pool_awe_mem_mb system variable has been removed and should no longer be used.

  • MySQL Cluster: A change in the interfaces for the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.FILES table has made the table accessible to storage engines other than NDB. (Bug#23013)

  • Binary distributions of MySQL 5.1.12 were built without support for partitioning. This has been corrected except for NetWare. (Bug#23949)

  • If the user specified the server options --max-connections=N or --table-open-cache=M , a warning would be given in some cases that some values were recalculated, with the result that --table-open-cache could be assigned greater value.

    It should be noted that, in such cases, both the warning and the increase in the --table-open-cache value were completely harmless. Note also that it is not possible for the MySQL Server to predict or to control limitations on the maximum number of open files, since this is determined by the operating system.

    The recalculation code has now been fixed to ensure that the value of --table-open-cache is no longer increased automatically, and that a warning is now given only if some values had to be decreased due to operating system limits. (Bug#21915)

  • For the CALL statement, stored procedures that take no arguments now can be invoked without parentheses. That is, CALL p() and CALL p are equivalent. (Bug#21462)

  • mysql_upgrade now passes all the parameters specified on the command line to both mysqlcheck and mysql using the upgrade_defaults file. (Bug#20100)

  • mysqldump --single-transaction now uses START TRANSACTION /*!40100 WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT */ rather than BEGIN to start a transaction, so that a consistent snapshot will be used on those servers that support it. (Bug#19660)

Bugs fixed:

  • MySQL Cluster: Backup of a cluster failed if there were any tables with 128 or more columns. (Bug#23502)

  • MySQL Cluster: Cluster backups failed when there were more than 2048 schema objects in the cluster. (Bug#23499)

  • MySQL Cluster: Restoring a cluster failed if there were any tables with 128 or more columns. (Bug#23494)

  • MySQL Cluster: The management client command ALL DUMP 1000 would cause the cluster to crash if data nodes were connected to the cluster but not yret fully started. (Bug#23203)

  • MySQL Cluster: INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE on an NDB table could lead to deadlocks and memory leaks. (Bug#23200)

  • MySQL Cluster: An NDB source file included a memset() call with reversed arguments. (Bug#23169)

  • MySQL Cluster: If a node restart could not be performed from the REDO log, no node takeover took place. This could cause partitions to be left empty during a system restart. (Bug#22893)

  • MySQL Cluster: Multiple node restarts in rapid succession could cause a system restart to fail , or induce a race condition. (Bug#22892, Bug#23210)

  • MySQL Cluster: Attempting to create a unique constraint with USING HASH on an NDB table caused mysqld to crash. (Bug#21873)

  • MySQL Cluster: When inserting a row into an NDB table with a duplicate value for a non-primary unique key, the error issued would reference the wrong key. (Bug#21072)

  • MySQL Cluster: Aborting a cluster backup too soon after starting it caused a forced shutdown of the data nodes. (Bug#19148)

  • Disk Data: In the event of an aborted multiple update, the space in the Disk Data log buffer to be freed as a result was actually freed twice, which could eventually lead to a crash. (Bug#23430)

  • Cluster API: When multiple processes or threads in parallel performed the same ordered scan with exclusive lock and updated the retrieved records, the scan could skip some records, which as a result were not updated. (Bug#20446)

  • There was a race condition in the InnoDB fil_flush_file_spaces() function. (Bug#24098)

  • Some yaSSL-related memory leaks detected by Valgrind were fixed. (Bug#23981)

  • MySQL 5.0.26 introduced an ABI incompatibility, which this release reverts. Programs compiled against 5.0.26 are not compatible with any other version and must be recompiled. (Bug#23427)

  • M % 0 returns NULL, but ( M % 0) IS NULL evaluated to false. (Bug#23411)

  • For not-yet-authenticated connections, the Time column in SHOW PROCESSLIST was a random value rather than NULL. (Bug#23379)

  • InnoDB crashed when trying to display an error message about a foreign key constraint violation when the two tables are in different schemas. (Bug#23368)

  • MySQL failed to build on Linux/Alpha. (Bug#23256)

    This regression was introduced by Bug#21250

  • If COMPRESS() returned NULL, subsequent invocations of COMPRESS() within a result set or within a trigger also returned NULL. (Bug#23254)

  • Insufficient memory (myisam_sort_buffer_size) could cause a server crash for several operations on MyISAM tables: repair table, create index by sort, repair by sort, parallel repair, bulk insert. (Bug#23175)

  • The column default value in the output from SHOW COLUMNS or SELECT FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS was truncated to 64 characters. (Bug#23037)

  • mysql did not check for errors when fetching data during result set printing. (Bug#22913)

  • The return value from my_seek() was ignored. (Bug#22828)

  • Use of SQL_BIG_RESULT did not influence the sort plan for query execution. (Bug#22781)

  • The optimizer failed to use equality propagation for BETWEEN and IN predicates with string arguments. (Bug#22753)

  • The Handler_rollback status variable sometimes was incremented when no rollback had taken place. (Bug#22728)

  • The Host column in SHOW PROCESSLIST output was blank when the server was started with the --skip-grant-tables option. (Bug#22723)

  • If a table contains an AUTO_INCREMENT column, inserting into an insertable view on the table that does not include the AUTO_INCREMENT column should not change the value of LAST_INSERT_ID(), because the side effects of inserting default values into columns not part of the view should not be visible. MySQL was incorrectly setting LAST_INSERT_ID() to zero. (Bug#22584)

  • The optimizer used the ref join type rather than eq_ref for a simple join on strings. (Bug#22367)

  • Some queries that used MAX() and GROUP BY could incorrectly return an empty result. (Bug#22342)

  • If an init_connect SQL statement produced an error, the connection was silently terminated with no error message. Now the server writes a warning to the error log. (Bug#22158)

  • An unhandled NULL pointer caused a server crash. (Bug#22138)

  • Incorrect warnings occurred for use of CREATE TABLE ... LIKE or REPAIR TABLE with the log tables. (Bug#21966)

  • The optimizer sometimes mishandled R-tree indexes for GEOMETRY data types, resulting in a server crash. (Bug#21888)

  • Use of a DES-encrypted SSL certificate file caused a server crash. (Bug#21868)

  • Use of PREPARE with a CREATE PROCEDURE statement that contained a syntax error caused a server crash. (Bug#21856)

  • Adding a day, month, or year interval to a DATE value produced a DATE, but adding a week interval produced a DATETIME value. Now all produce a DATE value. (Bug#21811)

  • Use of a subquery that invoked a function in the column list of the outer query resulted in a memory leak. (Bug#21798)

  • It was not possible to do an atomic rename of the log tables without the possibility of losing rows. Now you can do this:

    USE mysql;
    CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS general_log2 LIKE general_log;
    RENAME TABLE general_log TO general_log_backup, general_log2 TO general_log;
    

    (Bug#21785, Bug#17544)

  • Within a prepared statement, SELECT (COUNT(*) = 1) (or similar use of other aggregate functions) did not return the correct result for statement re-execution. (Bug#21354)

  • Within a stored routine, a view definition cannot refer to routine parameters or local variables. However, an error did not occur until the routine was called. Now it occurs during parsing of the routine creation statement.

    Note

    A side effect of this fix is that if you have already created such routines, and error will occur if you execute SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE or SHOW CREATE FUNCTION. You should drop these routines because they are erroneous.

    (Bug#20953)

  • In mysql, invoking connect or \r with very long db_name or host_name parameters caused buffer overflow. (Bug#20894)

  • WITH ROLLUP could group unequal values. (Bug#20825)

  • Range searches on columns with an index prefix could miss records. (Bug#20732)

  • The server did not allocate sufficient memory for some queries for which a DISTINCT to GROUP BY conversion is possible and an ORDER BY clause is present, resulting in a server crash. (Bug#20503)

  • LIKE searches failed for indexed utf8 character columns. (Bug#20471)

  • With SQL_MODE=TRADITIONAL, MySQL incorrectly aborted on warnings within stored routines and triggers. (Bug#20028)

  • mysqldump --xml produced invalid XML for BLOB data. (Bug#19745)

  • Column names were not quoted properly for replicated views. (Bug#19736)

  • The range analysis optimizer did not take into account predicates for which an index could be used after reading const tables. In some cases this resulted in non-optimal execution plans. (Bug#19579)

  • FLUSH INSTANCES in Instance Manager triggered an assertion failure. (Bug#19368)

  • For a debug server, a reference to an undefined user variable in a prepared statment executed with EXECUTE caused an assertion failure. (Bug#19356)

  • Within a trigger for a base table, selecting from a view on that base table failed. (Bug#19111)

  • The value of the warning_count system variable was not being calculated correctly (also affecting SHOW COUNT(*) WARNINGS). (Bug#19024)

  • DELETE IGNORE could hang for foreign key parent deletes. (Bug#18819)

  • InnoDB used table locks (not row locks) within stored functions. (Bug#18077)

  • mysql would lose its connection to the server if its standard output was not writable. (Bug#17583)

  • At shutdown, Instance Manager told guarded server instances to stop, but did not wait until they actually stopped. (Bug#17486)

  • mysql-test-run did not work correctly for RPM-based installations. (Bug#17194)

  • A client library crash was caused by executing a statement such as SELECT * FROM t1 PROCEDURE ANALYSE() using a server side cursor on a table t1 that does not have the same number of columns as the output from PROCEDURE ANALYSE(). (Bug#17039)

  • The WITH CHECK OPTION for a view failed to prevent storing invalid column values for UPDATE statements. (Bug#16813)

  • InnoDB showed substandard performance with multiple queries running concurrently. (Bug#15815)

  • ALTER TABLE was not able to rename a view. (Bug#14959)

  • Statements such as DROP PROCEDURE and DROP VIEW were written to the binary log too late due to a race condition. (Bug#14262)

  • A literal string in a GROUP BY clause could be interpreted as a column name. (Bug#14019)

  • Entries in the slow query log could have an incorrect Rows_examined value. (Bug#12240)

  • Lack of validation for input and output TIME values resulted in several problems: SEC_TO_TIME() in some cases did not clip large values to the TIME range appropriately; SEC_TO_TIME() treated BIGINT UNSIGNED values as signed; only truncation warnings were produced when both truncation and out-of-range TIME values occurred. (Bug#11655, Bug#20927)

  • Several string functions could return incorrect results when given very large length arguments. (Bug#10963)

  • FROM_UNIXTIME() did not accept arguments up to POWER(2,31)-1, which it had previously. (Bug#9191)

  • OPTIMIZE TABLE with myisam_repair_threads > 1 could result in MyISAM table corruption. (Bug#8283)

  • Transient errors in replication from master to slave may trigger multiple Got fatal error 1236: 'binlog truncated in the middle of event' errors on the slave. (Bug#4053)

C.1.17. Changes in MySQL 5.1.12 (24 October 2006)

This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs.

This section documents all changes and bug fixes that have been applied since the last official MySQL release. If you would like to receive more fine-grained and personalized update alerts about fixes that are relevant to the version and features you use, please consider subscribing to MySQL Enterprise (a commercial MySQL offering). For more details please see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Incompatible Change: MySQL Cluster: MySQL Cluster node and system restarts formerly required that all fragments use the same local checkpoint (LCP); beginning with this version, it is now possible for different fragments to use different LCPs during restarts. This means that data node filesystems must be rebuilt as part of any upgrade to this version by restarting all data nodes with the --initial option.

    See Section 20.5.2, “MySQL Cluster 5.1 and MySQL Cluster NDB 6.x Upgrade and Downgrade Compatibility”, and related sections of the Manual before upgrading a MySQL Cluster to version 5.1.12 or later. (Bug#21478, Bug#21271)

  • Incompatible Change: In the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.EVENTS table, the EVENT_DEFINITION column now contains the SQL executed by a scheduled event.

    The EVENT_BODY column now contains the language used for the statement or statements shown in EVENT_DEFINITION. In MySQL 5.1, the value shown in EVENT_BODY is always SQL.

    These changes were made to bring this table into line with the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES table, and that table's ROUTINE_BODY and ROUTINE_DEFINITION columns. (Bug#16992)

  • Incompatible Change: Support for the BerkeleyDB (BDB) engine has been dropped from this release. Any existing tables that are in BDB format will not be readable from within MySQL from 5.1.12 or newer. You should convert your tables to another storage engine before upgrading to 5.1.12.

    Because of this change, the SHOW [BDB] LOGS statement has been dropped.

  • Incompatible Change: A number of MySQL constructs are now prohibited in partitioning expressions, beginning with this release. These include:

    • A number of MySQL functions.

      You can find a complete list of these functions under Partitioning Limitations.

    • The bit operators |, &, ^, <<, >>, and ~.

    • Nested function calls.

    • Calls to stored routines, UDFs, or plugins.

    • Character-to-integer conversions involving non-8-bit character sets or any of the latin1_german2_ci, latin2_czech_cs, or cp1250_czech_cs collations.

    These restrictions were added in part as a result of Bug#18198 and related bug reports.

    For more information about these and other restrictions on partitioned tables in MySQL, see Section 21.5, “Restrictions and Limitations on Partitioning”.

  • Incompatible Change: The permitted values for and behaviour of the event_scheduler system variable have changed. Permitted values are now ON, OFF, and DISABLED, with OFF being the default. It is not possible to change its value to or from DISABLED while the server is running.

    For details, see Section 25.1, “Event Scheduler Overview”.

  • Incompatible Change: The plugin interface has changed: The st_mysql_plugin structure has a new license member to indicate the license type. (The allowable values are defined in mysql/plugin.h.) This change is not backward compatible, so the API version (MYSQL_PLUGIN_INTERFACE_VERSION) has changed. For additional information, see Section 31.2.5, “Writing Plugins”.

  • Incompatible Change: The full-text parser plugin interface has changed in two ways:

    • The MYSQL_FTPARSER_PARAM structure has a new flags member. This is zero if there are no special flags, or MYSQL_FTFLAGS_NEED_COPY, which means that mysql_add_word() must save a copy of the word (that is, it cannot use a pointer to the word because the word is in a buffer that will be overwritten.)

      This flag might be set or reset by MySQL before calling the parser plugin, by the parser plugin itself, or by the mysql_parse() function.

    • The mysql_parse() and mysql_add_word() functions now take a MYSQL_FTPARSER_PARAM as their first argument, not a MYSQL_FTPARSER_PARAM::mysql_ftparam as before.

    These changes are not backward compatible, so the API version (MYSQL_FTPARSER_INTERFACE_VERSION) has changed. For additional information, see Section 31.2.5, “Writing Plugins”.

  • Incompatible Change: Storage engines can be pluggable at runtime, so the distinction between disabled and invalid storage engines no longer applies. This affects the NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION SQL mode, as described in Section 5.1.7, “SQL Modes”.

  • Incompatible Change: The namespace for scheduled events has changed, such that events are no longer unique to individual users. This also means that a user with the EVENT privilege on a given database can now view, alter, or drop any events defined on that database.

    If you used scheduled events in an earlier MySQL 5.1 release, you should rename any of them having the same name and defined on the same database but belonging to different users — so that all events in a given database have unique names — before upgrading to 5.1.12 (or newer).

    For additional information, see Section 25.5, “The Event Scheduler and MySQL Privileges”.

  • Important Change: Partitioning: MySQL Cluster: It is no longer possible to create Cluster tables using any partitioning type other than [LINEAR] KEY. Attempting to do so now raises an error.

  • Important Change: MySQL Cluster: LOAD DATA INFILE no longer causes an implicit commit for all storage engines. It now causes an implicit commit only for tables using the NDB storage engine. (Bug#11151)

  • Important Change: MySQL Cluster: The status variables Ndb_connected_host and Ndb_connected_port were renamed to Ndb_config_from_host and Ndb_config_from_port, respectively.

  • MySQL Cluster: The ndb_config utility now accepts -c as a short form of the --ndb-connectstring option. (Bug#22295)

  • MySQL Cluster: Added the --bind-address option for ndbd. This allows a data node process to be bound to a specific network interface. (Bug#22195)

  • MySQL Cluster: The Ndb_number_of_storage_nodes system variable was renamed to Ndb_number_of_data_nodes. (Bug#20848)

  • MySQL Cluster: The HELP command in the Cluster management client now provides command-specific help. For example, HELP RESTART in ndb_mgm provides detailed information about the RESTART command. (Bug#19620)

  • MySQL Cluster: A number of erroneous, misleading, or missing error messages have been corrected. (Bug#17297, Bug#19543)

  • MySQL Cluster: Backup messages are no longer printed to the cluster log.

  • MySQL Cluster: Added the --ndb-use-copying-alter-table option to mysqld to provide a fallback in case of problems with online ALTER TABLE operations on NDB tables.

  • Cluster API: Two new NDB API methods — aggregate() and validate() — were added to the NdbDictionary::Object::Table class. See Table::aggregate(), and Table::validate(), for more information. This was done to rectify the following issues:

    • Under some conditions, the data distribution could become unbalanced in a MySQL Cluster with 2 or more node groups following the creation of a new table.

    • Data was stored unevenly between partitions due to all BLOB data being placed in partition 0.

    (Bug#21690)

  • The number of InnoDB threads is no longer limited to 1,000 on Windows. (Bug#22268)

  • The STATE column of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PROCESSLIST table was increased from 30 to 64 characters to accommodate longer state values. (Bug#21652)

  • mysqldump now has a --flush-privileges option. It causes mysqldump to emit a FLUSH PRIVILEGES statement after dumping the mysql database. This option should be used any time the dump contains the mysql database and any other database that depends on the data in the mysql database for proper restoration. (Bug#21424)

  • mysqlslap threads now try to connect up to 10 times if the initial connect attempt fails. (Bug#21297)

  • The output generated by the server when using the --xml option has changed with regard to null values. It now matches the output from mysqldump --xml . That is, a column containing a NULL value is now reported as

    <field name="column_name" xsi:nil="true" />
    

    whereas a column containing the string value 'NULL' is reported as

    <field name="column_name">NULL</field>
    

    and a column containing an empty string is reported as

    <field name="column_name">>/field>
    

    (Bug#21263)

  • The mysqld and mysqlmanager manpages have been reclassified from volume 1 to volume 8. (Bug#21220)

  • InnoDB now honors IGNORE INDEX. Perviously using IGNORE INDEX in cases where an index sort would be slower than a filesort had no effect when used with InnoDB tables. (Bug#21174)

  • TIMESTAMP columns that are NOT NULL now are reported that way by SHOW COLUMNS and INFORMATION_SCHEMA. (Bug#20910)

  • Memory consumption of the InnoDB data dictionary cache was roughly halved by cleaning up the data structures. (Bug#20877)

  • The BINARY keyword now is forbidden as a data type attribute in stored routines (for example, DECLARE v1 VARCHAR(25) BINARY), because DECLARE does not support collations, and in this context BINARY specifies the binary collation of the variable's character set. (Bug#20701)

  • The following statements now can be executed as prepared statements (using PREPARE plus EXECUTE):

    CACHE INDEX
    CHANGE MASTER
    CHECKSUM {TABLE | TABLES}
    {CREATE | RENAME | DROP} DATABASE
    {CREATE | RENAME | DROP} USER
    FLUSH {TABLE | TABLES | TABLES WITH READ LOCK | HOSTS | PRIVILEGES
      | LOGS | STATUS | MASTER | SLAVE | DES_KEY_FILE | USER_RESOURCES}
    GRANT
    REVOKE
    KILL
    LOAD INDEX INTO CACHE
    RESET {MASTER | SLAVE | QUERY CACHE}
    SHOW BINLOG EVENTS
    SHOW CREATE {PROCEDURE | FUNCTION | EVENT | TABLE | VIEW}
    SHOW {AUTHORS | CONTRIBUTORS | WARNINGS | ERRORS}
    SHOW {MASTER | BINARY} LOGS
    SHOW {MASTER | SLAVE} STATUS
    SLAVE {START | STOP}
    INSTALL PLUGIN
    UNINSTALL PLUGIN
    

    (Bug#20665)

  • In the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES table the ROUTINE_DEFINITION column now is defined as NULL rather than NOT NULL. Also, NULL rather than the empty string is returned as the column value if the user does not have sufficient privileges to see the routine definition. (Bug#20230)

  • The mysqldumpslow script has been moved from client RPM packages to server RPM packages. This corrects a problem where mysqldumpslow could not be used with a client-only RPM install, because it depends on my_print_defaults which is in the server RPM. (Bug#20216)

  • The MySQL distribution now compiles on UnixWare 7.13. (Bug#20190)

  • configure now defines the symbol DBUG_ON in config.h to indicate whether the source tree is configured to be compiled with debugging support. (Bug#19517)

  • TEXT and BLOB columns do not support DEFAULT values. However, when a default of '' was specified, the specification was silently ignored. This now results in a warning, or an error in strict mode. (Bug#19498)

  • For mysqlshow, if a database name argument contains wildcard characters (such as “ _ ”) but matches a single database name exactly, treat the name as a literal name. This allows a command such as mysqlshow information_schema work without having to escape the wildcard character. (Bug#19147)

  • The source distribution has been updated so that the UDF example can be compiled under Windows with CMake. See Section 31.3.4.5, “Compiling and Installing User-Defined Functions”. (Bug#19121)

  • The default value of the tmp_table_size system variable was lowered from 32MB to 16MB because it is bounded by the value of max_heap_table_size, which has a default of 16MB. (Bug#18875)

  • Log table changes: By default, the log tables use the CSV storage engine, as before. But now the log tables can be altered to use the MyISAM storage engine. You cannot use ALTER TABLE to alter a log table that is in use. The log must be disabled first. No engines other than CSV or MyISAM are legal for the log tables. The use of DROP TABLE for log tables is similarly restricted: It cannot be used to drop a log table that is in use. The log must be disabled first. (These changes also correct a deadlock that occurred for an attempt to drop an in-use log table.) (Bug#18559)

  • Added the --set-charset option to mysqlbinlog to allow the character set to be specified for processing binary log files. (Bug#18351)

  • The ExtractValue() function now produces an error when passed an XML fragment that is not well-formed.

    (Previously, the function allowed invalid XML fragments to be used.) (Bug#18201)

  • On Windows, typing Control-C while a query was running caused the mysql client to crash. Now it causes mysql to attempt to kill the current statement. If this cannot be done, or Control-C is typed again before the statement is killed, mysql exits. (In other words, mysql's behavior with regard to Control-C is now the same as it is on Unix platforms.) (Bug#17926)

    See also Bug#1989

  • The bundled yaSSL library licensing has added a FLOSS exception similar to MySQL to resolve licensing incompatibilities with MySQL. (See the extra/yassl/FLOSS-EXCEPTIONS file in a MySQL source distribution for details.) (Bug#16755)

  • SHOW CREATE TABLE now shows constraints for InnoDB tables. (Bug#16614)

  • EXPLAIN EXTENDED now shows a filtered column that is an estimated percentage of the examined rows that will be joined with the previous tables. This was added while dealing with a problem of MySQL choosing the wrong index for some queries. (Bug#14940)

  • The mysql client now allows \l in the prompt command argument to insert the current delimiter into the prompt. (Bug#14448)

  • The mysql client used the default character set if it automatically reconnected to the server, which is incorrect if the character set had been changed. To enable the character set to remain synchronized on the client and server, the mysql command charset (or \C) that changes the default character set and now also issues a SET NAMES statement. The changed character set is used for reconnects. (Bug#11972)

  • The LEFT() and RIGHT() functions return NULL if any argument is NULL. (Bug#11728)

  • If a DROP VIEW statement named multiple views, it stopped with an error if a non-existent view was named and did not drop the remaining views. Now it continues on and reports an error at the end, similar to DROP TABLE. (Bug#11551)

  • For a successful dump, mysqldump now writes a SQL comment to the end of the dump file in the following format:

    -- Dump completed on YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
    

    (Bug#10877)

  • There were several issues regarding how SHOW STATUS affected some status variables and logging which could impact monitoring the MySQL Server. The behavior of this statement has been modified in two ways:

    • SHOW STATUS is no longer logged to the slow query log.

    • SHOW STATUS no longer updates any session status variables, except for com_show_status.

    However, SHOW STATUS continues to update global status variables to allow monitoring of what the server is actually doing. This is because SHOW STATUS creates temporary tables that may affect performance if it is called excessively often. (Bug#10210)

    See also Bug#19764

  • For spatial data types, the server formerly returned these as VARSTRING values with a binary collation. Now the server returns spatial values as BLOB values. (Bug#10166)

  • The LOAD DATA FROM MASTER and LOAD TABLE FROM MASTER statements are deprecated. See Section 12.6.2.2, “LOAD DATA FROM MASTER Syntax”, for recommended alternatives. (Bug#9125, Bug#20596, Bug#14399, Bug#12187, Bug#15025, Bug#18822)

  • For the mysql client, typing Control-C causes mysql to attempt to kill the current statement. If this cannot be done, or Control-C is typed again before the statement is killed, mysql exits. Previously, Control-C caused mysql to exit in all cases. (Bug#1989)

  • It is no longer possible to create partitioned tables using the CSV storage engine.

  • Character-to-integer conversions involving non-8-bit character sets or any of the latin1_german2_ci, latin2_czech_cs, or cp1250_czech_cs collations.

  • Binary MySQL distributions no longer include a mysqld-max server. Instead, distributions contain a binary that includes the features previously included in the mysqld-max binary.

  • SHOW STATUS is no longer logged to the slow query log.

  • Program Database files (extension pdf) are now included by default in Windows distributions. These can be used to help diagnose problems with mysqld and other tools. See Section 31.5.1, “Debugging a MySQL Server”.

  • INFORMATION_SCHEMA contains new tables, GLOBAL_STATUS, SESSION_STATUS, GLOBAL_VARIABLES, and SESSION_VARIABLES, that correspond to the output from the SHOW {GLOBAL|SESSION} STATUS and SHOW {GLOBAL|SESSION} VARIABLES statements.

  • SHOW STATUS no longer updates any session status variables, except for com_show_status.

  • A new system variable, lc_time_names, specifies the locale that controls the language used to display day and month names and abbreviations. This variable affects the output from the DATE_FORMAT(), DAYNAME() and MONTHNAME() functions. See Section 9.8, “MySQL Server Locale Support”.

  • Using --with-debug to configure MySQL with debugging support enables you to use the --debug="d,parser_debug" option when you start the server. This causes the Bison parser that is used to process SQL statements to dump a parser trace to the server's standard error output. Typically, this output is written to the error log.

  • The bit operators |, &, ^, <<, >>, and ~.

  • Nested function calls.

  • The bundled yaSSL library was upgraded to version 1.3.7.

  • Calls to stored routines, UDFs, or plugins.

  • The Instance Manager --passwd option has been renamed to --print-password-line. Other options were added to enable management of the IM password file from the command line: --add-user, --drop-user, --edit-user, --list-users, --check-password-file, --clean-password-file, --username, and --password. The --mysql-safe-compatible option was added to cause the Instance Manner to act similarly to mysqld_safe.

  • Added the SHOW CONTRIBUTORS statement.

  • The general query log and slow query logs now can be enabled or disabled at runtime with the general_log and slow_query_log system variables, and the name of the log files can be changed by setting the general_log_file and slow_query_log_file system variables. See Section 5.2.3, “The General Query Log”, and Section 5.2.5, “The Slow Query Log”.

  • The default binary log format (as used during replication) is now Mixed based, automatically using a combination of row-based and statement based log events as appropriate.

Bugs fixed:

  • Security Fix: A stored routine created by one user and then made accessible to a different user using GRANT EXECUTE could be executed by that user with the privileges of the routine's definer. (Bug#18630, CVE-2006-4227)

  • Security Fix: On Linux, and possibly other platforms using case-sensitive filesystems, it was possible for a user granted rights on a database to create or access a database whose name differed only from that of the first by the case of one or more letters. (Bug#17647, CVE-2006-4226)

  • Security Fix: If a user has access to MyISAM table t, that user can create a MERGE table m that accesses t. However, if the user's privileges on t are subsequently revoked, the user can continue to access t by doing so through m. If this behavior is undesirable, you can start the server with the new --skip-merge option to disable the MERGE storage engine. (Bug#15195, CVE-2006-4031)

  • Incompatible Change: For utf8 columns, the full-text parser incorrectly considered several non-word punctuation and whitespace characters as word characters, causing some searches to return incorrect results.

    The fix involves a change to the full-text parser, so any tables that have FULLTEXT indexes on utf8 columns must be repaired with REPAIR TABLE:

    REPAIR TABLE tbl_name QUICK;
    

    (Bug#19580)

  • MySQL Cluster: Packaging: The ndb_mgm program was included in both the MySQL-ndb-tools and MySQL-ndb-management RPM packages, resulting in a conflict if both were installed. Now ndb_mgm is included only in MySQL-ndb-tools. (Bug#21058)

  • MySQL Cluster: Replication: A DELETE FROM table with no WHERE clause (deleting all rows) running concurrently with INSERT statements on a storage engine with row-level locking (such as NDB) could produce inconsistent results when using statement-based replication. (Bug#19066)

  • MySQL Cluster: (NDB API): Inacivity timeouts for scans were not correctly handled. (Bug#23107)

  • MySQL Cluster: Inserting into an NDB table failed when the table had no primary key but had a unique key added after table was created on one or more NOT NULL columns. This occurred when the unique key had been adding using either ALTER TABLE or CREATE UNIQUE KEY. (Bug#22838)

  • MySQL Cluster: (NDB API): Attempting to read a nonexistent tuple using Commit mode for NdbTransaction::execute() caused node failures. (Bug#22672)

  • MySQL Cluster: The --help output from NDB binaries did not include file-related options. (Bug#21994)

  • MySQL Cluster: Setting TransactionDeadlockDetectionTimeout to a value greater than 12000 would cause scans to deadlock, time out, fail to release scan records, until the cluster ran out of scan records and stopped processing. (Bug#21800)

  • MySQL Cluster: A scan timeout returned Error 4028 (Node failure caused abort of transaction) instead of Error 4008 (Node failure caused abort of transaction...). (Bug#21799)

  • MySQL Cluster: The node recovery algorithm was missing a version check for tables in the ALTER_TABLE_COMMITTED state (as opposed to the TABLE_ADD_COMMITTED state, which has the version check). This could cause inconsistent schemas across nodes following node recovery. (Bug#21756)

  • MySQL Cluster: A memory leak occurred when running ndb_mgm -e "SHOW". (Bug#21670)

  • MySQL Cluster: The server provided a non-descriptive error message when encountering a fatally corrupted REDO log. (Bug#21615)

  • MySQL Cluster: The output for the --help option used with NDB executable programs (such as ndbd, ndb_mgm, ndb_restore, ndb_config, and others mentioned in Section 20.10, “Cluster Utility Programs”) referred to the Ndb.cfg file, instead of to my.cnf. (Bug#21585)

  • MySQL Cluster: A partial rollback could lead to node restart failures. (Bug#21536)

  • MySQL Cluster: Partition distribution keys were updated only for the primary and starting replicas during node recovery. This could lead to node failure recovery for clusters having an odd number of replicas.

    Note

    We recommend values for NumberOfReplicas that are even powers of 2, for best results.

    (Bug#21535)

  • MySQL Cluster: The ndb_mgm management client did not set the exit status on errors, always returning 0 instead. (Bug#21530)

  • MySQL Cluster: The failure of a unique index read due to an invalid schema version could be handled incorrectly in some cases, leading to unpredictable results. (Bug#21384)

  • MySQL Cluster: Attempting to create an NDB table on a MySQL server with an existing non-Cluster table with the same name in the same database could result in data loss or corruption. Now, if such a table is encountered during autodiscovery, a warning is written to the error log of the affected mysqld, and the local table is overwritten. (Bug#21378)

  • MySQL Cluster: Cluster logs were not rotated following the first rotation cycle. (Bug#21345)

  • MySQL Cluster: In a cluster with more than 2 replicas, a manual restart of one of the data nodes could fail and cause the other nodes in the same node group to shut down. (Bug#21213)

  • MySQL Cluster: The ndb_size.pl script did not account for TEXT and BLOB column values correctly. (Bug#21204)

  • MySQL Cluster: Some queries involving joins on very large NDB tables could crash the MySQL server. (Bug#21059)

  • MySQL Cluster: Condition pushdown did not work correctly with DATETIME columns. (Bug#21056)

  • MySQL Cluster: Responses to the ALL DUMP 1000 management client command were printed multiple times in the cluster log for each cluster node. (Bug#21044)

  • MySQL Cluster: The message Error 0 in readAutoIncrementValue(): no Error was written to the error log whenever SHOW TABLE STATUS was performed on a Cluster table that did not have an AUTO_INCREMENT column. (Bug#21033)

  • MySQL Cluster: Restarting a data node while DDL operations were in progress on the cluster could cause other data nodes to fail. This could also lead to mysqld hanging or crashing under some circumstances. (Bug#21017, Bug#21050)

  • MySQL Cluster: In some situations with a high disk-load, writing of the redo log could hang, causing a crash with the error message GCP STOP detected. (Bug#20904)

  • MySQL Cluster: A race condition could in some cirumstances following a DROP TABLE. (Bug#20897)

  • MySQL Cluster: Under some circumstances, local checkpointing would hang, keeping any unstarted nodes from being started. (Bug#20895)

  • MySQL Cluster: When the redo buffer ran out of space, a Pointer too large error was raised and the cluster could become unusable until restarted with --initial. (Bug#20892)

  • MySQL Cluster: A vague error message was returned when reading both schema files during a restart of the cluster. (Bug#20860)

  • MySQL Cluster: The repeated creating and dropping of a table would eventually lead to NDB Error 826, Too many tables and attributes ... Insufficient space. (Bug#20847)

  • MySQL Cluster: When attempting to restart the cluster following a data import, the cluster failed during Phase 4 of the restart with Error 2334: Job buffer congestion. (Bug#20774)

  • MySQL Cluster: REPLACE statements did not work correctly on an NDB table having both a primary key and a unique key. In such cases, proper values were not set for columns which were not explicitly referenced in the statement. (Bug#20728)

  • MySQL Cluster: The server did not honor the value set for ndb_cache_check_time in the my.cnf file. (Bug#20708)

  • MySQL Cluster: Truncating a table on one mysqld caused other mysqld processes connected to the cluster to return ERROR 1412 (HY000): Table definition has changed, please retry transaction on subsequent queries. (Bug#20705)

  • MySQL Cluster: Using an invalid node ID with the management client STOP command could cause ndb_mgm to hang. (Bug#20575)

  • MySQL Cluster: Renaming of table columns was not supported as fast a ALTER TABLE for NDB tables. (Bug#20456)

  • MySQL Cluster: ndb_size.pl and ndb_error_reporter were missing from RPM packages. (Bug#20426)

  • MySQL Cluster: Running ndbd --nowait-nodes=id where id was the node ID of a node that was already running would fail with an invalid error message. (Bug#20419)

  • MySQL Cluster: Data nodes added while the cluster was running in single user mode were all assigned node ID 0, which could later cause multiple node failures. Adding nodes while in single user mode is no longer possible. (Bug#20395)

  • MySQL Cluster: The ndb_mgm client command ALL CLUSTERLOG STATISTICS=15 had no effect. (Bug#20336)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Direct APIs): NdbScanOperation::readTuples() and NdbIndexScanOperation::readTuples() ignored the batch parameter. (Bug#20252)

  • MySQL Cluster: A node failure during a scan could sometime cause the node to crash when restarting too quickly following the failure. (Bug#20197)

  • MySQL Cluster: The failure of a data node when preparing to commit a transaction (that is, while the node's status was CS_PREPARE_TO_COMMIT) could cause the failure of other cluster data nodes. (Bug#20185)

  • MySQL Cluster: SHOW ENGINE NDB STATUS could sometimes return an incorrect value of 0 for the latest epoch, which could cause problems with synchronizing the binlog. (Bug#20142)

  • MySQL Cluster: An internal formatting error caused some management client error messages to be unreadable. (Bug#20016)

  • MySQL Cluster: Creating tables with variable-size columns caused DataMemory to be used but not freed when the tables were dropped. (Bug#20007)

  • MySQL Cluster: Renaming a table in such a way as to move it to a different database failed to move the table's indexes. (Bug#19967)

  • MySQL Cluster: Running management client commands while mgmd was in the process of disconnecting could cause the management server to fail. (Bug#19932)

  • MySQL Cluster: Under certain conditions, a starting node could miss transactions, leading to inconsistencies between the primary and backup replicas. (Bug#19929)

  • MySQL Cluster: An uncommitted row could sometimes be checkpointed and thus incorrectly included in a backup. (Bug#19928)

  • MySQL Cluster: In some cases where SELECT COUNT(*) from an NDB table should have yielded an error, MAX_INT was returned instead. (Bug#19914)

  • MySQL Cluster: TEXT columns in Cluster tables having both an explicit primary key and a unique key were not correctly updated by REPLACE statements. (Bug#19906)

  • MySQL Cluster: The cluster's data nodes failed while trying to load data when NoOfFrangmentLogFiles was set equal to 1. (Bug#19894)

  • MySQL Cluster: Following the restart of a management node, the Cluster management client did not automatically reconnect. (Bug#19873)

  • MySQL Cluster: Restoring a backup with ndb_restore failed when the backup had been taken from a cluster whose DataMemory had been completely used up. (Bug#19852)

  • MySQL Cluster: Error messages given when trying to make online changes to parameters such as NoOfReplicas that can only be changed via a complete shutdown and restart of the cluster did not indicate the true nature of the problem. (Bug#19787)

  • MySQL Cluster: Under some circumstances, repeated DDL operations on one mysqld could cause failure of a second mysqld attached to the same cluster. (Bug#19770)

  • MySQL Cluster: ndb_restore did not always make clear that it had recovered successfully from temporary errors while restoring a cluster backup. (Bug#19651)

  • MySQL Cluster: Resources for unique indexes on Cluster table columns were incorrectly allocated, so that only one-fourth as many unique indexes as indicated by the value of UniqueHashIndexes could be created. (Bug#19623)

  • MySQL Cluster: LOAD DATA LOCAL failed to ignore duplicate keys in Cluster tables. (Bug#19496)

  • MySQL Cluster: For ndb_mgmd, Valgrind revealed problems with a memory leak and a dependency on an uninitialized variable. (Bug#19318, Bug#20333)

  • MySQL Cluster: A DELETE of many rows immediately followed by an INSERT on the same table could cause the ndbd process on the backup replica to crash. (Bug#19293)

  • MySQL Cluster: An excessive number of ALTER TABLE operations could cause the cluster to fail with NDB error code 773 (Out of string memory, please modify StringMemory). (Bug#19275)

  • MySQL Cluster: A problem with error handling when ndb_use_exact_count was enabled could lead to incorrect values returned from queries using COUNT(). A warning is now returned in such cases. (Bug#19202)

  • MySQL Cluster: In rare situations with resource shortages, a crash could result from insufficient IndexScanOperations. (Bug#19198)

  • MySQL Cluster: Running out of DataMemory could sometimes crash ndbd and mysqld processes. (Bug#19185)

  • MySQL Cluster: It was possible to use port numbers greater than 65535 for ServerPort in the config.ini file. (Bug#19164)

  • MySQL Cluster: ndb_mgm -e show | head would hang after displaying the first 10 lines of output. (Bug#19047)

  • MySQL Cluster: The error returned by the cluster when too many nodes were defined did not make clear the nature of the problem. (Bug#19045)

  • MySQL Cluster: The management client ALL STOP command shut down mgmd processes (as well as ndbd processes). (Bug#18966)

  • MySQL Cluster: TRUNCATE TABLE failed to reset the AUTO_INCREMENT counter. (Bug#18864)

  • MySQL Cluster: Restarting a failed node could sometimes crash the cluster. (Bug#18782)

  • MySQL Cluster: Trying to create or drop a table while a node was restarting caused the node to crash. This is now handled by raising an error. (Bug#18781)

  • MySQL Cluster: Repeated CREATE - INSERT - DROP operations tables could in some circumstances cause the MySQL table definition cache to become corrupt, so that some mysqld processes could access table information but others could not. (Bug#18595)

  • MySQL Cluster: A CREATE TABLE statement involving foreign key constraints raised an error rather than being silently ignored (see Section 12.1.10, “CREATE TABLE Syntax”).

    This bug affected Cluster in MySQL 5.1 only. (Bug#18483)

  • MySQL Cluster: The server failed with a non-descriptive error message when out of data memory. (Bug#18475)

  • MySQL Cluster: For NDB and possibly InnoDB tables, a BEFORE UPDATE trigger could insert incorrect values. (Bug#18437)

  • MySQL Cluster: The DATA_LENGTH and AVG_ROW_LENGTH columns of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES table did not report the size of variable-width column values correctly.

    See Section 27.2, “The INFORMATION_SCHEMA TABLES Table”, for more information. (Bug#18413)

  • MySQL Cluster: SELECT ... FOR UPDATE failed to lock the selected rows. (Bug#18184)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Disk Data): Deletes from Disk Data tables used a non-optimal scan to find the rows to be deleted, resulting in poor performance. The fix causes disk order rather than memory order to be used, and can improve performance of Disk Data deletes by up to ~300% in some cases. (Bug#17929)

  • MySQL Cluster: perror did not properly report NDB error codes. (Bug#16561)

  • MySQL Cluster: A problem with takeover during a system restart caused ordered indexes to be rebuilt incorrectly. This also adversely affected MySQL Cluster Replication. (Bug#15303)

  • MySQL Cluster: A cluster data node could crash when an ordered index became full before the table containing the index was full. (Bug#14935)

  • MySQL Cluster: The management client ALL STATUS command could sometimes report the status of some data nodes incorrectly. (Bug#13985)

  • MySQL Cluster: New mysqld processes were allowed to connect without a restart of the cluster, causing the cluster to crash. (Bug#13266)

  • MySQL Cluster: Cluster system status variables were not updated properly. (Bug#11459)

  • MySQL Cluster: (NDBAPI): Update operations on blobs were not checked for illegal operations.

    Note

    Read locks with blob update operations are now upgraded from read committed to read shared.

  • MySQL Cluster: (Replication): A node failure could send duplicate events, causing a mysqld replicating tables containing BLOBs to crash.

  • MySQL Cluster: The loss of one or more data nodes could sometimes cause ndb_mgmd to use a high amount of CPU (15 percent or more, as opposed to 1 to 2 percent normally).

  • Partitioning: Old partition and subpartition files were not always removed following ALTER TABLE ... REORGANIZE PARTITION statements. (Bug#20770)

  • Disk Data: On some platforms, ndbd compiled with gcc 4 would crash when attempting to run CREATE LOGFILE GROUP. (Bug#21981)

  • Disk Data: Trying to create a Disk Data table using a nonexistent tablespace or to drop a nonexistent data file from a tablespace produced an uninformative error message. (Bug#21751)

  • Disk Data: Errors could occur when dropping a data file during a node local checkpoint. (Bug#21710)

  • Disk Data: Creating a tablespace and log file group, then attempting to restart the cluster without using the --initial option and without having created any Disk Data tables could cause a forced shutdown of the cluster and raise a configuration error. (Bug#21172)

  • Disk Data: mysqldump did not back up tablespace or log file group information for Disk Data tables correctly.

    Specifically, UNDO_BUFFER_SIZE and INITIAL_SIZE values were misreported. This meant that trying to restore from such a backup would produce error 1296: Got error 1504 'Out of logbuffer memory' from NDB. (Bug#20809)

  • Disk Data: Running a large number of scans on Disk Data could cause subsequent scans to perform poorly. (Bug#20334)

  • Disk Data: INFORMATION_SCHEMA.FILES records for UNDO files showed incorrect values in the EXTENT_SIZE, FREE_EXTENTS, and TOTAL_EXTENTS columns. (Bug#20073)

  • Disk Data: A data file created for one tablespace could be dropped using ALTER TABLESPACE ... DROP DATAFILE using a different tablespace. (Bug#20053)

  • Disk Data: Trying to create Disk Data tables when running the cluster in diskless mode caused cluster data nodes to crash.

    Note

    Disk Data tables are now disabled when running in diskless mode.

    (Bug#20008)

  • Disk Data: An issue with disk allocation could sometimes cause a forced shutdown of the cluster when running a mix of memory and Disk Data tables. (Bug#18780)

  • Disk Data: The failure of a CREATE TABLESPACE or CREATE LOGFILE GROUP statement did not revert all changes made prior to the point of failure. (Bug#16341)

  • Cluster Replication: In some cases, a large number of MySQL servers sending requests to the cluster simultaneously could cause the cluster to crash. This could also be triggered by many NDB API clients making simultaneous event subscriptions or unsubscriptions. (Bug#20683)

  • Cluster Replication: One or more of the mysqld processes could fail when subjecting a Cluster replication setup with multiple mysqld processes on both the master and slave clusters to high loads. (Bug#19768)

  • Cluster Replication: Data definition and data manipulation statements on different tables were not serialised correctly in the binlog. For example, there was no guarantee that a CREATE TABLE statement and an update on a different table would occur in the same order in the binlog as they did on the cluster being replicated. (Bug#18947)

  • Cluster API: The storage/ndb directory was missing from the server binary distribution, making it impossible to compile NDB API and MGM API applications. This directory can be found as /usr/include/storage/ndb after installing that distribution. (Bug#21955)

  • Cluster API: Invoking the MGM API function ndb_mgm_listen_event() caused a memory leak. (Bug#21671)

  • Cluster API: The inclusion of my_config.h in NdbApi.h required anyone wishing to write NDB API applications against MySQL 5.1 to have a complete copy of the 5.1 sources. (Bug#21253)

  • Cluster API: The MGM API function ndb_logevent_get_fd() was not implemented. (Bug#21129)

  • Cluster API: The NdbOperation::getBlobHandle() method, when called with the name of a nonexistent column, caused a segmentation fault. (Bug#21036)

  • ALTER EVENT statements including only a COMMENT clause failed with a syntax error on two platforms: Linux for S/390, and OS X 10.4 for 64-bit PPC. (Bug#23423)

  • When event_scheduler was set to DISABLED, its value was not displayed correctly by SHOW VARIABLES or SELECT @@global.event_scheduler. (Bug#22662)

  • BIT columns were not replicated properly under row-based replication. (Bug#22550)

  • ALTER EVENT in the body of a stored procedure led to a crash when the procedure was called. This affected only those ALTER EVENT statements which changed the interval of the event. (Bug#22397)

  • The optimizer could make an incorrect index choice for indexes with a skewed key distribution. (Bug#22393)

  • Deleting entries from a large MyISAM index could cause index corruption when it needed to shrink. Deletes from an index can happen when a record is deleted, when a key changes and must be moved, and when a key must be un-inserted because of a duplicate key. This can also happen in REPAIR TABLE when a duplicate key is found and in myisamchk when sorting the records by an index. (Bug#22384)

  • Instance Manager had a race condition involving mysqld PID file removal. (Bug#22379)

  • yaSSL had a conflicting definition for socklen_t on hurd-i386 systems. (Bug#22326)

  • Conversion of values inserted into a BIT column could affect adjacent columns. (Bug#22271)

  • Some Linux-x86_64-icc packages (of previous releases) mistakenly contained 32-bit binaries. Only ICC builds are affected, not gcc builds. Solaris and FreeBSD x86_64 builds are not affected. (Bug#22238)

  • mysql_com.h unnecessarily referred to the ulong type. (Bug#22227)

  • The source distribution would not build on Windows due to a spurious dependency on ib_config.h. (Bug#22224)

  • Execution of a prepared statement that uses an IN subquery with aggregate functions in the HAVING clause could cause a server crash. (Bug#22085)

  • The CSV storage engine failed to detect some table corruption. (Bug#22080)

  • Using GROUP_CONCAT() on the result of a subquery in the FROM clause that itself used GROUP_CONCAT() could cause a server crash. (Bug#22015)

  • Running SHOW MASTER LOGS at the same time as binary log files were being switched would cause mysqld to hang. (Bug#21965)

  • libmysqlclient defined a symbol BN_bin2bn which belongs to OpenSSL. This could break applications that also linked against OpenSSL's libcrypto library. The fix required correcting an error in a build script that was failing to add rename macros for some functions. (Bug#21930)

  • character_set_results can be NULL to signify “no conversion,” but some code did not check for NULL, resulting in a server crash. (Bug#21913)

  • A misleading error message was displayed when attempting to define a unique key that was not valid for a partitioned table. (Bug#21862)

  • A query that used GROUP BY and an ALL or ANY quantified subquery in a HAVING clause could trigger an assertion failure. (Bug#21853)

  • An InnoDB mutex was not aquired and released under the same condition, leading to deadlock in some rare situations involving XA transactions. (Bug#21833)

  • A NUL byte within a prepared statement string caused the rest of the string not to be written to the query log, allowing logging to be bypassed. (Bug#21813)

  • COUNT(*) queries with ORDER BY and LIMIT could return the wrong result.

    Note

    This problem was introduced by the fix for Bug#9676, which limited the rows stored in a temporary table to the LIMIT clause. This optimization is not applicable to non-group queries with aggregate functions. The current fix disables the optimization in such cases.

    (Bug#21787)

  • Using DROP TABLE with concurrent queries causes mysqld to crash. (Bug#21784)

  • INSERT ... SELECT sometimes generated a spurious Column count doesn't match value count error. (Bug#21774)

  • UPGRADE was treated as a reserved word, although it is not. (Bug#21772)

  • A function result in a comparison was replaced with a constant by the optimizer under some circumstances when this optimization was invalid. (Bug#21698)

  • Selecting from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.FILES could crash the server. (Bug#21676)

  • Errors could be generated during the execution of certain prepared statements that ran queries on partitioned tables. (Bug#21658)

  • The presence of a subquery in the ON clause of a join in a view definition prevented the MERGE algorithm from being used for the view in cases where it should be allowed. (Bug#21646)

  • When records are merged from the insert buffer and the page needs to be reorganized, InnoDB used incorrect column length information when interpreting the records of the page. This caused a server crash due to apparent corruption of secondary indexes in ROW_FORMAT=COMPACT that contain prefix indexes of fixed-length columns. Data files should not be corrupted, but the crash was likely to repeat every time the server was restarted. (Bug#21638)

  • For character sets having a mbmaxlen value of 2, any ALTER TABLE statement changed TEXT columns to MEDIUMTEXT. (Bug#21620)

  • mysql displayed an empty string for NULL values. (Bug#21618)

  • Selecting from a MERGE table could result in a server crash if the underlying tables had fewer indexes than the MERGE table itself. (Bug#21617, Bug#22937)

  • A loaded storage engine plugin did not load after a server restart. (Bug#21610)

  • For INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, use of VALUES(col_name) within the UPDATE clause sometimes was handled incorrectly. (Bug#21555)

  • Subqueries with aggregate functions but no FROM clause could return incorrect results. (Bug#21540)

  • mysqldump incorrectly tried to use LOCK TABLES for tables in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database. (Bug#21527)

  • The server could crash for the second execution of a function containing a SELECT statement that uses an aggregating IN subquery. (Bug#21493)

  • Memory overruns could occur for certain kinds of subqueries. (Bug#21477)

  • A DATE can be represented as an integer (such as 20060101) or as a string (such as '2006.01.01'). When a DATE (or TIME) column is compared in one SELECT against both representations, constant propagation by the optimizer led to comparison of DATE as a string against DATE as an integer. This could result in integer comparisons such as 2006 against 20060101, erroneously producing a false result. (Bug#21475)

  • For row-based replication, log rotation could occur at an improper time. (Bug#21474)

  • myisam_ftdump produced bad counts for common words. (Bug#21459)

  • Adding ORDER BY to a SELECT DISTINCT(expr) query could produce incorrect results. (Bug#21456)

  • The URL into the online manual that is printed in the stack trace message by the server was out of date. (Bug#21449)

  • Database and table names have a maximum length of 64 characters (even if they contain multi-byte characters), but were truncated to 64 bytes.

    Note

    An additional fix was made in MySQL 5.1.18.

    (Bug#21432)

  • With max_sp_recursion set to 0, a stored procedure that executed a SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE statement for itself triggered a recursion limit exceeded error, though the statement involves no recursion. (Bug#21416)

  • After FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK followed by UNLOCK TABLES, attempts to drop or alter a stored routine failed with an error that the routine did not exist, and attempts to execute the routine failed with a lock conflict error. (Bug#21414)

  • On 64-bit Windows, a missing table generated error 1017, not the correct value of 1146. (Bug#21396)

  • Table aliases in multiple-table DELETE statements sometimes were not resolved. (Bug#21392)

  • The optimizer sometimes produced an incorrect row-count estimate after elimination of const tables. This resulted in choosing extremely inefficient execution plans in same cases when distribution of data in joins were skewed. (Bug#21390)

  • For multiple-table UPDATE statements, storage engines were not notified of duplicate-key errors. (Bug#21381)

  • Using relative paths for DATA DIRECTORY or INDEX DIRECTORY with a partitioned table generated a warning rather than an error, and caused “junk” files to be created in the server's data directory. (Bug#21350)

  • Using EXPLAIN PARTITIONS with a query on a table whose partitioning expression was based on the value of a DATE column could sometimes cause the server to crash. (Bug#21339)

  • The feature of being able to recover a temporary table named #sql_id in InnoDB by creating a table named rsql_id_recover_innodb_tmp_table was broken by the introduction of the new identifier encoding in MySQL 5.1.6 (Bug#21313)

  • It was possible for a stored routine with a non-latin1 name to cause a stack overrun. (Bug#21311)

  • A query result could be sorted improperly when using ORDER BY for the second table in a join. (Bug#21302)

  • Query results could be incorrect if the WHERE clause contained t.key_part NOT IN (val_list), where val_list is a list of more than 1000 constants. (Bug#21282)

  • Queries that used the index_merge and sort_union methods to access an InnoDB table could produce inaccurate results. This issue was introduced in MySQL 5.1.10 when a new handler and bitmap interface was implemented. (Bug#21277)

  • For user-defined functions created with CREATE FUNCTION, the DEFINER clause is not legal, but no error was generated. (Bug#21269)

  • The SELECT privilege was required for an insert on a view, instead of the INSERT privilege. (Bug#21261)

    This regression was introduced by Bug#20989

  • mysql_config --libmysqld-libs did not produce any SSL options necessary for linking libmysqld with SSL support enabled. (Bug#21239)

  • Subqueries on INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables could erroneously return an empty result. (Bug#21231)

  • mysql_upgrade created temporary files in a possibly insecure way. (Bug#21224)

  • When DROP DATABASE or SHOW OPEN TABLES was issued while concurrently in another connection issuing DROP TABLE, RENAME TABLE, CREATE TABLE LIKE or any other statement that required a name lock, the server crashed. (Bug#21216, Bug#19403)

  • The --master-data option for mysqldump requires certain privileges, but mysqldump generated a truncated dump file without producing an appropriate error message or exit status if the invoking user did not have those privileges. (Bug#21215)

  • Using ALTER TABLE ... REORGANIZE PARTITIONS to reduce the number of subpartitions to 1 caused the server to crash. (Bug#21210)

  • In the package of pre-built time zone tables that is available for download at timezones.html, the tables now explicitly use the utf8 character set so that they work the same way regardless of the system character set value. (Bug#21208)

  • Under heavy load (executing more than 1024 simultaneous complex queries), a problem in the code that handles internal temporary tables could lead to writing beyond allocated space and memory corruption.

    Use of more than 1024 simultaneous cursors server wide also could lead to memory corruption. This applies to both stored procedure cursors and C API cursors. (Bug#21206)

  • When run with the --use-threads option, mysqlimport returned a random exit code. (Bug#21188)

  • A subquery that uses an index for both the WHERE and ORDER BY clauses produced an empty result. (Bug#21180)

  • Running SHOW TABLE STATUS on any InnoDB table having at least one record could crash the server. Note that this was not due to any issue in the InnoDB storage engine, but rather with AUTO_INCREMENT handling in the partitioning code — however, the table did not have to have an AUTO_INCREMENT column for the bug to manifest. (Bug#21173)

  • Some prepared statements caused a server crash when executed a second time. (Bug#21166)

  • The optimizer assumed that if (a=x AND b=x) is true, (a=x AND b=x) AND a=b is also true. But that is not always so if a and b have different data types. (Bug#21159)

  • Some ALTER TABLE statements affecting a table's subpartitioning could hang. (Bug#21143)

  • Certain malformed INSERT statements could crash the mysql client. (Bug#21142)

  • SHOW INNODB STATUS contained some duplicate output. (Bug#21113)

  • InnoDB was slow with more than 100,000 .idb files. (Bug#21112)

  • Creating a TEMPORARY table with the same name as an existing table that was locked by another client could result in a lock conflict for DROP TEMPORARY TABLE because the server unnecessarily tried to acquire a name lock. (Bug#21096)

  • Performing an INSERT on a view that was defined using a SELECT that specified a collation and a column alias caused the server to crash . (Bug#21086)

  • Incorrect results could be obtained from re-execution of a parametrized prepared statement or a stored routine with a SELECT that uses LEFT JOIN with a second table having only one row. (Bug#21081)

  • ALTER VIEW did not retain existing values of attributes that had been originally specified but were not changed in the ALTER VIEW statement. (Bug#21080)

  • The myisam_stats_method variable was mishandled when set from an option file or on the command line. (Bug#21054)

  • With query_cache_type set to 0, RESET QUERY CACHE was very slow and other threads were blocked during the operation. Now a cache reset is faster and non-blocking. (Bug#21051)

  • mysql crashed for very long arguments to the connect command. (Bug#21042)

  • When creating a table using CREATE...SELECT and a stored procedure, there would be a mismatch between the binary log and transaction cache which would cause a server crash. (Bug#21039)

  • A query using WHERE column = constant OR column IS NULL did not return consistent results on successive invocations. The column in each part of the WHERE clause could be either the same column, or two different columns, for the effect to be observed. (Bug#21019)

  • mysqldump sometimes did not select the correct database before trying to dump views from it, resulting in an empty result set that caused mysqldump to die with a segmentation fault. (Bug#21014)

  • Performance during an import on a table with a trigger that called a stored procedure was severely degraded. (Bug#21013)

  • mysql_upgrade produced a malformed upgrade_defaults file by overwriting the [client] group header with a password option. This prevented mysqlcheck from running successfully when invoked by mysql_upgrade. (Bug#21011)

  • A query of the form shown here caused the server to crash:

    SELECT * FROM t1 NATURAL JOIN (
        t2 JOIN (
            t3 NATURAL JOIN t4,
            t5 NATURAL JOIN t6
        )
        ON (t3.id3 = t2.id3 AND t5.id5 = t2.id5)
    );
    

    (Bug#21007)

  • A SELECT that used a subquery in the FROM clause that did not select from a table failed when the subquery was used in a join. (Bug#21002)

  • REPLACE ... SELECT for a view required the INSERT privilege for tables other than the table being modified. (Bug#20989)

  • STR_TO_DATE() sometimes would return NULL if the %D format specifier was not the last specifier in the format string. (Bug#20987)

  • A query using WHERE NOT (column < ANY (subquery)) yielded a different result from the same query using the same column and subquery with WHERE (column > ANY (subquery)). (Bug#20975)

  • Under certain circumstances, AVG(key_val) returned a value but MAX(key_val) returned an empty set due to incorrect application of MIN()/MAX() optimization. (Bug#20954)

  • In mixed-format binary logging mode, stored functions, triggers, and views that use functions in their body that require row-based logging did not replicate reliably because the logging did not switch from statement-based to row-based format. For example, INSERT INTO t SELECT FROM v, where v is a view that selects UUID() could cause problems. This limitation has been removed. (Bug#20930)

  • Closing of temporary tables failed if binary logging was not enabled. (Bug#20919)

  • Use of zero-length variable names caused a server crash. (Bug#20908)

  • Building mysql on Windows with CMake 2.4 would fail to create libmysqld correctly. (Bug#20907)

  • Creating a partitioned table that used the InnoDB storage engine and then restarting mysqld with --skip-innodb caused MySQL to crash. (Bug#20871)

  • For certain queries, the server incorrectly resolved a reference to an aggregate function and crashed. (Bug#20868)

  • If the binary logging format was changed between the times when a locked table was modified and when it was unlocked, the binary log contents were incorrect. (Bug#20863)

  • It was possible to provide the ExtractValue() function with input containing “tags” that were not valid XML; for example, it was possible to use tag names beginning with a digit, which are disallowed by the W3C's XML 1.0 specification. Such cases caused the function to return “junk” output rather than an error message signalling the user as to the true nature of the problem. (Bug#20854)

  • InnoDB (Partitioning): Updating an InnoDB table using HASH partitioning with a composite primary key would cause the server to hang. (Bug#20852)

  • A race condition during slave server shutdown caused an assert failure. (Bug#20850)

  • mysqldump did not add version-specific comments around WITH PARSER and TABLESPACE ... STORAGE DISK clauses for CREATE TABLE statements, causing dump files from servers where these features were in use to fail when loaded into older servers. (Bug#20841)

  • For multiple INSERT DELAYED statements executed in a batch by the delayed-insert handler thread, not all rows were written to the binary log. (Bug#20821)

  • The ExtractValue() function did not accept XML tag names containing a period (.) character. (Bug#20795)

  • Using aggregate functions in subqueries yielded incorrect results under certain circumstances due to incorrect application of MIN()/MAX() optimization. (Bug#20792)

  • On Windows, inserting into a MERGE table after renaming an underlying MyISAM table caused a server crash. (Bug#20789)

  • Within stored routines, some error messages were printed incorrectly. A non-null-terminated string was passed to a message-printing routine that expected a null-terminated string. (Bug#20778)

  • Merging multiple partitions having subpartitions into a single partition with subpartitions, or splitting a single partition having subpartitions into multiple partitions with subpartitions, could sometimes crash the server. These issues were associated with a failure reported in the partition_range test. (Bug#20767, Bug#20893, Bug#20766, Bug#21357)

  • Searches against a ZEROFILL column of a partitioned table could fail when the ZEROFILL column was part of the table's partitioning key. (Bug#20733)

  • If a column definition contained a character set declaration, but a DEFAULT value began with an introducer, the introducer character set was used as the column character set. (Bug#20695)

  • An UPDATE that referred to a key column in the WHERE clause and activated a trigger that modified the column resulted in a loop. (Bug#20670)

  • Issuing a SHOW CREATE FUNCTION or SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE statement without sufficient privileges could crash the mysql client. (Bug#20664)

  • With mixed-format binary logging, INSERT DELAYED statements were logged using statement-based logging, and they did not replicate properly for statements that used values such as UUID(), RAND(), or user-defined variables that require row-based logging. To correct this, the DELAYED handler thread how switches to row-based logging if the logging format is mixed. (Bug#20633, Bug#20649)

  • INSERT DELAYED did not honor SET INSERT_ID or the auto_increment_* system variables. (Bug#20627, Bug#20830)

  • A buffer overwrite error in Instance Manager caused a crash. (Bug#20622)

  • Loading a plugin caused any an existing plugin with the same name to be lost. (Bug#20615)

  • A query selecting records from a single partition of a partitioned table and using ORDER BY ic DESC (where ic represents an indexed column) could cause errors or crash the server. (Bug#20583)

  • If the auto_increment_offset setting causes MySQL to generate a value larger than the column's maximum possible value, the INSERT statement is accepted in strict SQL mode, whereas but should fail with an error. (Bug#20573)

  • In a view defined with SQL SECURITY DEFINER, the CURRENT_USER() function returned the invoker, not the definer. (Bug#20570)

  • The fill_help_tables.sql file did not contain a SET NAMES 'utf8' statement to indicate its encoding. This caused problems for some settings of the MySQL character set such as big5. (Bug#20551)

  • Scheduled events that invoked stored procedures executing DDL operations on partitioned tables could crash the server. (Bug#20548)

  • Users who had the SHOW VIEW privilege for a view and privileges on one of the view's base tables could not see records in INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables relating to the base table. (Bug#20543)

  • The fill_help_tables.sql file did not load properly if the ANSI_QUOTES SQL mode was enabled. (Bug#20542)

  • The MD5(), SHA1(), and ENCRYPT() functions should return a binary string, but the result sometimes was converted to the character set of the argument. MAKE_SET() and EXPORT_SET() now use the correct character set for their default separators, resulting in consistent result strings which can be coerced according to normal character set rules. (Bug#20536)

  • With the auto_increment_increment system variable set larger than 1, if the next generated AUTO_INCREMENT value would be larger than the column's maximum value, the value would be clipped down to that maximum value and inserted, even if the resulting value would not be in the generated sequence. This could cause problems for master-master replication. Now the server clips the value down to the previous value in the sequence, which correctly produces a duplicate-key error if that value already exists in the column. (Bug#20524)

  • In mixed binary logging mode, a temporary switch from statement-based logging to row-based logging occurs when storing a row that uses a function such as UUID() into a temporary table. However, temporary table changes are not written to the binary log under row-based logging, so the row does not exist on the slave. A subsequent select from the temporary table to a non-temporary table using statement-based logging works correctly on the master, but not on the slave where the row does not exist. The fix for this is that replication does not switch back from row-based logging to statement-based logging until there are no temporary tables for the session. (Bug#20499)

  • If a partitioned InnoDB table contained an AUTO_INCREMENT column, a SHOW statement could cause an assertion failure with more than one connection. (Bug#20493)

  • Using EXPLAIN PARTITIONS with a UNION query could crash the server. This could occur whether or not the query actually used any partitioned tables. (Bug#20484)

  • Creation of a view as a join of views or tables could fail if the views or tables are in different databases. (Bug#20482)

  • SELECT statements using GROUP BY against a view could have missing columns in the output when there was a trigger defined on one of the base tables for the view. (Bug#20466)

  • CREATE PROCEDURE, CREATE FUNTION, CREATE TRIGGER, and CREATE VIEW statements containing multi-line comments (/* ... */) could not be replicated. (Bug#20438)

  • For connections that required a SUBJECT value, a check was performed to verify that the value was correct, but the connection was not refused if not. (Bug#20411)

  • mysql_upgrade was missing from binary MySQL distributions. (Bug#20403, Bug#18516, Bug#20556)

  • Some user-level errors were being written to the server's error log, which is for server errors. (Bug#20402)

  • Using ALTER TABLE ... ENGINE = x, where x was not a storage engine supported by the server, would cause mysqld to crash. (Bug#20397)

  • User names have a maximum length of 16 characters (even if they contain multi-byte characters), but were being truncated to 16 bytes. (Bug#20393)

  • Some queries using ORDER BY ... DESC on subpartitioned tables could crash the server. (Bug#20389)

  • mysqlslap did not enable the CLIENT_MULTI_RESULTS flag when connecting, which is necessary for executing stored procedures. (Bug#20365)

  • Queries using an indexed column as the argument for the MIN() and MAX() functions following an ALTER TABLE .. DISABLE KEYS statement returned Got error 124 from storage engine until ALTER TABLE ... ENABLE KEYS was run on the table. (Bug#20357)

  • When a statement used a stored function that inserted into an AUTO_INCREMENT column, the generated AUTO_INCREMENT value was not written into the binary log, so a different value could in some cases be inserted on the slave. (Bug#20341)

  • Partitions were represented internally as the wrong data type, which led in some cases to failures of queries such as SELECT COUNT(*) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PARTITIONS WHERE PARTITION_NAME = 'partition_name'. (Bug#20340)

  • A stored procedure that used LAST_INSERT_ID() did not replicate properly using statement-based binary logging. (Bug#20339)

  • PROCEDURE ANALYSE() returned incorrect values of M FLOAT(M, D) and DOUBLE(M, D). (Bug#20305)

  • Defining a table partitioned by LIST with a single PARTITION ... VALUES IN (NULL) clause could lead to server crashes, particularly with queries having WHERE conditions comparing the partitioning key with a constant. (Bug#20268, Bug#19801)

  • When using row based replication, a CREATE TABLE...SELECT statement would be replicated, even if the table creation failed on the master (for example, due to a duplicate key failure). (Bug#20265)

  • Partition pruning could cause incorrect results from queries, such missing rows, when the partitioning expression relied on a BIGINT UNSIGNED column. (Bug#20257)

  • For a MyISAM table locked with LOCK TABLES ...WRITE, queries optimized using the index_merge method did not show rows inserted with the lock in place. (Bug#20256)

  • mysqldump produced a malformed dump file when dumping multiple databases that contained views. (Bug#20221)

  • Running InnoDB with many concurrent threads could cause memory corruption and a seg fault due to a bug introduced in MySQL 5.1.11. (Bug#20213)

  • SUBSTRING() results sometimes were stored improperly into a temporary table when multi-byte character sets were used. (Bug#20204)

  • The thread for INSERT DELAYED rows was maintaining a separate AUTO_INCREMENT counter, resulting in incorrect values being assigned if DELAYED and non-DELAYED inserts were mixed. (Bug#20195)

  • If a table on a slave server had a higher AUTO_INCREMENT counter than the corresponding master table (even though all rows of the two tables were identical), in some cases REPLACE or INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE would not replicate properly using statement-based logging. (Different values would be inserted on the master and slave.) (Bug#20188)

  • The --default-storage-engine server option did not work. (Bug#20168)

  • For a table having LINEAR HASH subpartitions, the LINEAR keyword did not appear in the SUBPARTITION_METHOD column of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PARTITIONS table. (Bug#20161)

  • For a DATE parameter sent via a MYSQL_TIME data structure, mysql_stmt_execute() zeroed the hour, minute, and second members of the structure rather than treating them as read-only. (Bug#20152)

  • perror crashed on Solaris due to NULL return value of strerror() system call. (Bug#20145)

  • FLUSH TABLES followed by a LOCK TABLES statement to lock a log table and a non-log table caused an infinite loop and high CPU use. Now FLUSH TABLES ignores log tables. To flush the log tables, use FLUSH LOGS instead. (Bug#20139)

  • On Linux, libmysqlclient when compiled with yaSSL using the icc compiler had a spurious dependency on C++ libraries. (Bug#20119)

  • For an ENUM column that used the ucs2 character set, using ALTER TABLE to modify the column definition caused the default value to be lost. (Bug#20108)

  • For mysql, escaping with backslash sometimes did not work. (Bug#20103)

  • Queries on tables that were partitioned by KEY and had a VARCHAR column as the partitioning key produced an empty result set. (Bug#20086)

  • A number of dependency issues in the RPM bench and test packages caused installation of these packages to fail. (Bug#20078)

  • Use of MIN() or MAX() with GROUP BY on a ucs2 column could cause a server crash. (Bug#20076)

  • mysqld --flush failed to flush MyISAM table changes to disk following an UPDATE statement for which no updated column had an index. (Bug#20060)

  • In MySQL 5.1.11, the --with-openssl and --with-yassl options were replaced by --with-ssl. But no message was issued if the old options were given. Now configure produces a message indicating that the new option should be used and exits. (Bug#20002)

  • When a statement is executed that does not generate any rows, an extra table map event and associated binrows event would be generated and written to the binary log. (Bug#19995)

  • Join conditions using index prefixes on utf8 columns of InnoDB tables incorrectly ignored rows where the length of the actual value was greater than the length of the index prefix. (Bug#19960)

  • AUTHORS and CONTRIBUTORS were not treated as reserved words. (Bug#19939)

  • The query command for mysqltest did not work. (Bug#19890)

  • Shutting down a slave in a replication scenario where temporary tables are in use would cause the slave to produce a core dump. (Bug#19881)

  • Identifiers with embedded escape characters were not handled correctly by some SHOW statements due to some old code that was doing some extra unescaping. (Bug#19874)

  • When executing a SELECT with ORDER BY on a view that is constructed from a SELECT statement containing a stored function, the stored function was evaluated too many times. (Bug#19862)

  • Using SELECT on a corrupt MyISAM table using the dynamic record format could cause a server crash. (Bug#19835)

  • Using cursors with READ COMMITTED isolation level could cause InnoDB to crash. (Bug#19834)

  • CREATE DATABASE, RENAME DATABASE, and DROP DATABASE could deadlock in cases where there was a global read lock. (Bug#19815)

  • The yaSSL library bundled with libmysqlclient had some conflicts with OpenSSL. Now macros are used to rename the conflicting symbols to have a prefix of ya. (Bug#19810)

  • The WITH CHECK OPTION was not enforced when a REPLACE statement was executed against a view. (Bug#19789)

  • Multiple-table updates with FEDERATED tables could cause a server crash. (Bug#19773)

  • On 64-bit systems, use of the cp1250 character set with a primary key column in a LIKE clause caused a server crash for patterns having letters in the range 128..255. (Bug#19741)

  • make install tried to build files that should already have been built by make all, causing a failure if installation was performed using a different account than the one used for the initial build. (Bug#19738)

  • InnoDB unlocked its data directory before committing a transaction, potentially resulting in non-recoverable tables if a server crash occurred before the commit. (Bug#19727)

  • An issue with yaSSL prevented Connector/J clients from connecting to the server using a certificate. (Bug#19705)

  • For a MyISAM table with a FULLTEXT index, compression with myisampack or a check with myisamchk after compression resulted in table corruption. (Bug#19702)

  • The EGNINE clause was displayed in the output of SHOW CREATE TABLE for partitioned tables when the SQL mode included no_table_options. (Bug#19695)

  • A cast problem caused incorrect results for prepared statements that returned float values when MySQL was compiled with gcc 4.0. (Bug#19694)

  • EXPLAIN PARTITIONS would produce illegible output in the partitions column if the length of text to be displayed in that column was too long. This could occur when very many partitions were defined for the table, partitions were given very long names, or due to a combination of the two. (Bug#19684)

  • The mysql_list_fields() C API function returned the incorrect table name for views. (Bug#19671)

  • If a query had a condition of the form tableX.key = tableY.key , which participated in equality propagation and also was used for ref access, then early ref-access NULL filtering was not peformed for the condition. This could make query execution slower. (Bug#19649)

  • Re-execution of a prepared multiple-table DELETE statement that involves a trigger or stored function can result in a server crash. (Bug#19634)

  • The effect of a stored function or trigger that caused AUTO_INCREMENT values to be generated for multiple tables was not logged properly if statement-based logging was used. Only the first table's value was logged, causing replication to fail. Under mixed logging format, this is dealt with by switching to row-based logging for the function or trigger. For statement-based logging, this remains a problem. (Bug#19630)

  • File size specifications for InnoDB data files were case sensitive. (Bug#19609)

  • CHECK TABLE on a MyISAM table briefly cleared its AUTO_INCREMENT value, while holding only a read lock. Concurrent inserts to that table could use the wrong AUTO_INCREMENT value. CHECK TABLE no longer modifies the AUTO_INCREMENT value. (Bug#19604)

  • Some yaSSL public function names conflicted with those from OpenSSL, causing conflicts for applications that linked against both OpenSSL and a version of libmysqlclient that was built with yaSSL support. The yaSSL public functions now are renamed to avoid this conflict. (Bug#19575)

  • In the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.FILES table, the INITIAL_SIZE, MAXIMUM_SIZE, and AUTOEXTEND_SIZE columns incorrectly were being stored as VARCHAR rather than BIGINT. . (Bug#19544)

  • InnoDB failed to increment the handler_read_prev counter. (Bug#19542)

  • Portions of statements related to partitioning were not surrounded by version-specific comments by mysqldump, breaking backward compatibility for dump files. (Bug#19488)

  • For row-based replication, the BINLOG statement did not lock tables properly, causing a crash for some table types. (Bug#19459)

  • Column names supplied for a view created on a master server could be lost on a slave server. (Bug#19419)

  • Repeated DROP TABLE statements in a stored procedure could sometimes cause the server to crash. (Bug#19399)

  • Renaming a database to itself caused a server crash. (Bug#19392)

  • Race conditions on certain platforms could cause the Instance Manager to fail to initialize. (Bug#19391)

  • When not running in strict mode, the server failed to convert the invalid years portion of a DATE or DATETIME value to '0000' when inserting it into a table.

    Note

    This fix was reverted in MySQL 5.1.18.

    (Bug#19370)

    See also Bug#25301

  • Use of the --no-pager option caused mysql to crash. (Bug#19363)

  • Multiple calls to a stored procedure that altered a partitioned MyISAM table would cause the server to crash. (Bug#19309)

  • ALTER TABLE ... COALESCE PARTITION did not delete the files associated with the partitions that were removed. (Bug#19305)

  • Adding an index to a partitioned table that had been created using AUTO_INCREMENT = value caused the AUTO_INCREMENT value to be reset. (Bug#19281)

  • Multiple-table DELETE statements containing a subquery that selected from one of the tables being modified caused a server crash. (Bug#19225)

  • The final parenthesis of a CREATE INDEX statement occurring in a stored procedure was omitted from the binary log when the stored procedure was called. (Bug#19207)

  • An ALTER TABLE operation that does not need to copy data, when executed on a table created prior to MySQL 4.0.25, could result in a server crash for subsequent accesses to the table. (Bug#19192)

  • SSL connections using yaSSL on OpenBSD could fail. (Bug#19191)

  • The dropping of a temporary table whose name contained a backtick ('`') character was not correctly written to the binary log, which also caused it not to be replicated correctly. (Bug#19188)

  • ALTER TABLE ... REBUILD PARTITION could cause the server to hang or crash. (Bug#19122)

  • With row-based replication, replicating a statement to a slave where the table had additional columns relative to the master table did not work. (Bug#19069)

  • Using ALTER TABLE on a subpartitioned table caused the server to crash. (Bug#19067)

  • Trying to execute a query having a WHERE clause using int_col = "string_value" OR int_col IS NULL on a partitioned table whose partitioning or subpartitioning function used the integer column int_col would crash the server. (Bug#19055)

  • Valgrind revealed several issues with mysqld that were corrected: A dangling stack pointer being overwritten; possible uninitialized data in a string comparison; memory corruption in replication slaves when switching databases; syscall() write parameter pointing to an uninitialized byte. (Bug#19022, Bug#20579, Bug#20769, Bug#20783, Bug#20791)

  • A redundant table map event could be generated in the binary log when there were no actual changes to a table being replicated. In addition, a slave failed to stop when attempting to replicate a table that did not exist on the slave. (Bug#18948)

  • A SELECT with a subquery that was bound to the outer query over multiple columns returned different results when a constant was used instead of one of the dependant columns. (Bug#18925)

  • It was possible using ALTER EVENT ... RENAME ... to move an event to a database on which the user did not have the EVENT privilege. (Bug#18897)

  • When used in the DO clause of a CREATE EVENT statement, the statements CREATE EVENT, CREATE FUNCTION, and CREATE PROCEDURE caused the server to crash. (These statements are not permitted inside CREATE EVENT.) (Bug#18896, Bug#16409)

  • BIT columns in a table could cause joins that use the table to fail. (Bug#18895)

  • The build process incorrectly tried to overwrite sql/lex_hash.h. This caused the build to fail when using a shadow link tree pointing to original sources that were owned by another account. (Bug#18888)

  • Setting myisam_repair_threads caused any repair operation on a MyISAM table to fail to update the cardinality of indexes, instead making them always equal to 1. (Bug#18874)

  • The MySQL server startup script /etc/init.d/mysql (created from mysql.server) is now marked to ensure that the system services ypbind, nscd, ldap, and NTP are started first (if these are configured on the machine). (Bug#18810)

  • InnoDB: Quoted Unicode identifiers were not handled correctly. This included names of tables, columns, and foreign keys. (Bug#18800)

  • Intermediate tables created during the execution of an ALTER TABLE statement were visible in the output of SHOW TABLES. (Bug#18775)

  • FEDERATED tables raised invalid duplicate key errors when attempting on one server to insert rows having the same primary key values as rows that had been deleted from the linked table on the other server. (Bug#18764)

  • Memory used by scheduled events was not freed when the events were dropped. (Bug#18683)

  • The implementation for UNCOMPRESS() did not indicate that it could return NULL, causing the optimizer to do the wrong thing. (Bug#18539)

  • Referring to a stored function qualified with the name of one database and tables in another database caused a “table doesn't exist” error. (Bug#18444)

  • Identifiers could not contain bytes with a value of 255, though that should be allowed as of the identifier-encoding changes made in MySQL 5.1.6. (Bug#18396)

  • Triggers on tables in the mysql database caused a server crash. Triggers for tables in this database now are disallowed. (Bug#18361, Bug#18005)

  • Incorrect type aggregation for IN() and CASE expressions could lead to an incorrect result. (Bug#18360)

  • The length of the pattern string prefix for LIKE operations was calculated incorrectly for multi-byte character sets. As a result, the scanned range was wider than necessary if the prefix contained any multi-byte characters, and rows could be missing from the result set. (Bug#18359, Bug#16674)

  • On Windows, corrected a crash stemming from differences in Visual C runtime library routines from POSIX behavior regarding invalid file descriptors. (Bug#18275)

  • Linking the pthreads library to single-threaded MySQL libraries caused dlopen() to fail at runtime on HP-UX. (Bug#18267)

  • The source distribution failed to compile when configured with the --with-libwrap option. (Bug#18246)

  • On Windows, terminating mysqld with Control-C could result in a crash during shutdown. (Bug#18235)

  • Selecting data from a MEMORY table with a VARCHAR column and a HASH index over it returned only the first row matched. (Bug#18233)

  • The use of MIN() and MAX() on columns with an index prefix produced incorrect results in some queries. (Bug#18206)

  • A UNION over more than 128 SELECT statements that use an aggregate function failed. (Bug#18175)

  • The optimizer did not take advantage of indexes on columns used for the second or third arguments of BETWEEN. (Bug#18165)

  • Performing INSERT ... SELECT ... JOIN ... USING without qualifying the column names caused ERROR 1052 "column 'x' in field list is ambiguous" even in cases where the column references were unambiguous. (Bug#18080)

  • An update that used a join of a table to itself and modified the table on both sides of the join reported the table as crashed. (Bug#18036)

  • Race conditions on certain platforms could cause the Instance Manager to try to restart the same instance multiple times. (Bug#18023)

  • Changing the definition of a DECIMAL column with ALTER TABLE caused loss of column values. (Bug#18014)

  • For table-format output, mysql did not always calculate columns widths correctly for columns containing multi-byte characters in the column name or contents. (Bug#17939)

  • The character set was not being properly initialized for CAST() with a type like CHAR(2) BINARY, which resulted in incorrect results or even a server crash. (Bug#17903)

  • Checking a MyISAM table (using CHECK TABLE) having a spatial index and only one row would wrongly indicate that the table was corrupted. (Bug#17877)

  • For a reference to a non-existent index in FORCE INDEX, the error message referred to a column, not an index. (Bug#17873)

  • A stored procedure that created and invoked a prepared statement was not executed when called in a mysqld init-file. (Bug#17843)

  • It is possible to create MERGE tables into which data cannot be inserted (by not specifying a UNION clause. However, when an insert was attempted, the error message was confusing. Now an error occurs indicating that the table is read-only. (Bug#17766)

  • Row-based replication failed when the query cache was enabled on the slave. (Bug#17620)

  • Attempting to insert a string of greater than 4096 bytes into a FEDERATED table resulted in the error ERROR 1296 (HY000) at line 2: Got error 10000 'Error on remote system: 1054: Unknown column 'string-value' from FEDERATED. This error was raised regardless of the type of column involved (VARCHAR, TEXT, and so on.) (Bug#17608)

  • If a filename was specified for the --log or --log-slow_queries options but the server was logging to tables and not files, the server produced no error message. (Bug#17599)

  • If the general log table reached a large enough file size (27GB), SELECT COUNT(*) on the table caused a server crash. (Bug#17589)

  • Using the extended syntax for TRIM() — that is, TRIM(... FROM ...) — in a SELECT statement defining a view caused an invalid syntax error when selecting from the view. (Bug#17526)

  • Use of the --prompt option or prompt command caused mysql to be unable to connect to the Instance Manager. (Bug#17485)

  • OPTIMIZE TABLE and REPAIR TABLE yielded incorrect messages or warnings when used on partitioned tables. (Bug#17455)

  • mysqldump would not dump views that had become invalid because a table named in the view definition had been dropped. Instead, it quit with an error message. Now you can specify the --force option to cause mysqldump to keep going and write a SQL comment containing the view definition to the dump output. (Bug#17371)

  • N'xxx' and _utf8'xxx' were not treated as equivalent because N'xxx' failed to unescape backslashes (\) and doubled apostrophe/single quote characters (''). (Bug#17313)

  • Following a failed attempt to add an index to an ARCHIVE table, it was no longer possible to drop the database in which the table had been created. (Bug#17310)

  • Assignments of values to variables of type TEXT were handled incorrectly in stored routines. (Bug#17225)

  • Views created from prepared statements inside of stored procedures were created with a definition that included both SQL_CACHE and SQL_NO_CACHE. (Bug#17203)

  • mysqldump wrote an extra pair of DROP DATABASE and CREATE DATABASE statements if run with the --add-drop-database option and the database contained views. (Bug#17201)

  • A Table ... doesn't exist error could occur for statements that called a function defined in another database. (Bug#17199)

  • A prepared statement that altered partitioned table within a stored procedure failed with the error Unknown prepared statement handler. (Bug#17138)

  • myisam_ftdump would fail when trying to open a MyISAM index file that you did not have write permissions to access, even though the command would only be reading from the file. (Bug#17122)

  • ALTER TABLE on a table created prior to 5.0.3 would cause table corruption if the ALTER TABLE did one of the following:

    • Change the default value of a column.

    • Change the table comment.

    • Change the table password.

    (Bug#17001)

  • For statements that have a DEFINER clause such as CREATE TRIGGER or CREATE VIEW, long usernames or hostnames could cause a buffer overflow. (Bug#16899)

  • The PASSWORD() function returned invalid results when used in some UNION queries. (Bug#16881)

  • ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1 always set a user variable to the last possible value from the table. (Bug#16861)

  • Compilation on Windows would fail if row based replication was disabled using --without-row-based-replication. (Bug#16837)

  • Queries containing a subquery that used aggregate functions could return incorrect results. (Bug#16792)

  • Concatenating the results of multiple constant subselects produced incorrect results. (Bug#16716)

  • When performing a GROUP_CONCAT(), the server transformed BLOB columns VARCHAR columns, which could cause erroneous results when using Connector/J and possibly other MySQL APIs. (Bug#16712)

  • Stored procedures did not use the character set defined for the database in which they were created. (Bug#16676)

  • Some server errors were not reported to the client, causing both to try to read from the connection until a hang or crash resulted. (Bug#16581)

  • If the files for an open table were removed at the OS level (external to the server), the server exited with an assertion failure. (Bug#16532)

  • On Windows, a definition for mysql_set_server_option() was missing from the C client library. (Bug#16513)

  • mysqlcheck tried to check views instead of ignoring them. (Bug#16502)

  • Updating a column of a FEDERATED table to NULL sometimes failed. (Bug#16494)

  • For SELECT ... FOR UPDATE statements that used DISTINCT or GROUP BY over all key parts of a unique index (or primary key), the optimizer unnecessarily created a temporary table, thus losing the linkage to the underlying unique index values. This caused a Result set not updatable error. (The temporary table is unnecessary because under these circumstances the distinct or grouped columns must also be unique.) (Bug#16458)

  • A scheduled event that took longer to execute than the length of time scheduled between successive executions could “skip” executions. For example, an event defined with EVERY 1 SECOND — but which required longer than 1 second to complete — might be executed only once every 2 seconds. (Bug#16417)

  • A subselect used in the ON SCHEDULE clause of a CREATE EVENT or ALTER EVENT statement caused the server to crash, rather than producing an error as expected. (Bug#16394)

  • Grant table modifications sometimes did not refresh the in-memory tables if the hostname was '' or not specified. (Bug#16297)

  • A subquery in the WHERE clause of the outer query and using IN and GROUP BY returned an incorrect result. (Bug#16255)

  • A query could produce different results with and without and index, if the WHERE clause contained a range condition that used an invalid DATETIME constant. (Bug#16249)

  • TIMESTAMPDIFF() examined only the date and ignored the time when the requested difference unit was months or quarters. (Bug#16226)

  • Using tables from MySQL 4.x in MySQL 5.x, in particular those with VARCHAR fields and using INSERT DELAYED to update data in the table would result in either data corruption or a server crash. (Bug#16218, Bug#17294, Bug#16611)

  • The value returned by a stored function returning a string value was not of the declared character set. (Bug#16211)

  • The index_merge/Intersection optimizer could experience a memory overrun when the number of table columns covered by an index was sufficiently large, possibly resulting in a server crash. (Bug#16201)

  • Row equalities (such as WHERE (a,b) = (c,d) were not taken into account by the optimizer, resulting in slow query execution. Now they are treated as conjunctions of equalities between row elements. (Bug#16081)

  • Some memory leaks in the libmysqld embedded server were corrected. (Bug#16017)

  • Values greater than 2 gigabytes used in the VALUES LESS THAN clause of a table partitioned by RANGE were treated as negative numbers. (Bug#16002)

  • A CREATE TABLE that produced a The PARTITION function returns the wrong type error also caused an Incorrect information in file to be printed to STDERR, and a junk file to be left in the database directory. (Bug#16000)

  • The max_length metadata value for columns created from CONCAT() could be incorrect when the collation of an argument differed from the collation of the CONCAT() itself. In some contexts such as UNION, this could lead to truncation of the column contents. (Bug#15962)

  • When NOW() was used in a BETWEEN clause of the definition for a view, it was replaced with a constant in the view. (Bug#15950)

  • The server's handling of the number of partitions or subpartitions specified in a PARTITIONS or SUBPARTITIONS clause was changed. Beginning with this release, the number of partitions must:

    • be a positive, non-zero integer

    • not have any leading zeroes

    • not be an expression

    Also beginning with this version, no attempt is made to convert, truncate, or evaluate a PARTITIONS or SUBPARTITIONS value; instead, the CREATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE statement containing the PARTITIONS or SUBPARTITIONS clause now fails with an appropriate error message. (Bug#15890)

  • Long multiple-row INSERT statements could take a very long time for some multi-byte character sets. (Bug#15811)

  • The C API failed to return a status message when invoking a stored procedure. (Bug#15752)

  • mysqlimport sends a set @@character_set_database=binary statement to the server, but this is not understood by pre-4.1 servers. Now mysqlimport encloses the statement within a /*!40101 ... */ comment so that old servers will ignore it. (Bug#15690)

  • DELETE with LEFT JOIN for InnoDB tables could crash the server if innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog was enabled. (Bug#15650)

  • BIN(), OCT(), and CONV() did not work with BIT values. (Bug#15583)

  • Nested natural joins worked executed correctly when executed as a non-prepared statement could fail with an Unknown column 'col_name' in 'field list' error when executed as a prepared statement, due to a name resolution problem. (Bug#15355)

  • The MD5() and SHA() functions treat their arguments as case-sensitive strings. But when they are compared, their arguments were compared as case-insensitive strings, which leads to two function calls with different arguments (and thus different results) compared as being identical. This can lead to a wrong decision made in the range optimizer and thus to an incorrect result set. (Bug#15351)

  • Invalid escape sequences in option files caused MySQL programs that read them to abort. (Bug#15328)

  • SHOW GRANTS FOR CURRENT_USER did not return definer grants when executed in DEFINER context (such as within a stored prodedure defined with SQL SECURITY DEFINER), it returned the invoker grants. (Bug#15298)

  • The --collation-server server option was being ignored. With the fix for this problem, if you choose a non-default character set with --character-set-server, you should also use --collation-server to specify the collation. (Bug#15276)

  • Re-executing a stored procedure with a complex stored procedure cursor query could lead to a server crash. (Bug#15217)

  • The server crashed if it tried to access a CSV table for which the data file had been removed. (Bug#15205)

  • When using tables containing VARCHAR columns created under MySQL 4.1 with a 5.0 or later server, for some queries the metadata sent to the client could have an empty column name. (Bug#14897)

  • An invalid comparison between keys with index prefixes over multi-byte character fields could lead to incorrect result sets if the selected query execution plan used a range scan by an index prefix over a UTF8 character field. This also caused incorrect results under similar circumstances with many other character sets. (Bug#14896)

  • When setting a column to its implicit default value as the result of inserting a NULL into a NOT NULL column as part of a multi-row insert or LOAD DATA operation, the server returned a misleading warning message. (Bug#14770)

  • For BOOLEAN mode full-text searches on non-indexed columns, NULL rows generated by a LEFT JOIN caused incorrect query results. (Bug#14708, Bug#25637)

  • The parser rejected queries that selected from a table twice using a UNION within a subquery. The parser now supports arbitrary subquery, join, and parenthesis operations within EXISTS subqueries. A limitation still exists for scalar subqueries: If the subquery contains UNION, the first SELECT of the UNION cannot be within parentheses. For example, SELECT (SELECT a FROM t1 UNION SELECT b FROM t2) will work, but SELECT ((SELECT a FROM t1) UNION (SELECT b FROM t2)) will not. (Bug#14654)

  • Using SELECT and a table join while running a concurrent INSERT operation would join incorrect rows. (Bug#14400)

  • Prepared statements caused general log and server memory corruption. (Bug#14346)

  • The binary log lacked character set information for table names when dropping temporary tables. (Bug#14157)

  • libmysqld produced some warnings to stderr which could not be silenced. These warnings now are suppressed. (Bug#13717)

  • RPM packages had spurious dependencies on Perl modules and other programs. (Bug#13634)

  • InnoDB locking was improved by removing a gap lock for the case that you try to delete the same row twice within a transaction. (Bug#13544)

  • REPLACE statements caused activation of UPDATE triggers, not DELETE and INSERT triggers. (Bug#13479)

  • The source distribution failed to compile when configured with the --without-geometry option. (Bug#12991)

  • With settings of read_buffer_size >= 2G and read_rnd_buffer_size >=2G, LOAD DATA INFILE failed with no error message or caused a server crash for files larger than 2GB. (Bug#12982)

  • A B-TREE index on a MEMORY table erroneously reported duplicate entry error for multiple NULL values. (Bug#12873)

  • Instance Manager didn't close the client socket file when starting a new mysqld instance. mysqld inherited the socket, causing clients connected to Instance Manager to hang. (Bug#12751)

  • On Mac OS X, zero-byte read() or write() calls to an SMB-mounted filesystem could return a non-standard return value, leading to data corruption. Now such calls are avoided. (Bug#12620)

  • DATE_ADD() and DATE_SUB() returned NULL when the result date was on the day '9999-12-31'. (Bug#12356)

  • For very complex SELECT statements could create temporary tables that were too large, and for which the temporary files were not removed, causing subsequent queries to fail. (Bug#11824)

  • After an INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE statement that updated an existing row, LAST_INSERT_ID() could return a value not in the table. (Bug#11460)

  • USE did not refresh database privileges when employed to re-select the current database. (Bug#10979)

  • The server returns a more informative error message when it attempts to open a MERGE table that has been defined to use non-MyISAM tables. (Bug#10974)

  • The type of the value returned by the VARIANCE() function varied according to the type of the input value. The function should always return a DOUBLE value. (Bug#10966)

  • The same trigger error message was produced under two conditions: The trigger duplicated an existing trigger name, or the trigger duplicated an existing combination of action and event. Now different messages are produced for the two conditions so as to be more informative. (Bug#10946)

  • A locking safety check in InnoDB reported a spurious error stored_select_lock_type is 0 inside ::start_stmt() for INSERT ... SELECT statements in innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog mode. The safety check was removed. (Bug#10746)

  • CREATE USER did not respect the 16-character username limit. (Bug#10668)

  • A server or network failure with an open client connection would cause the client to hang even though the server was no longer available.

    As a result of this change, the MYSQL_OPT_READ_TIMEOUT and MYSQL_OPT_WRITE_TIMEOUT options for mysql_options() now apply to TCP/IP connections on all platforms. Previously, they applied only to Windows. (Bug#9678)

  • INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... LIMIT 1 could be slow because the LIMIT was ignored when selecting candidate rows. (Bug#9676)

  • The optimizer could produce an incorrect result after AND with collations such as latin1_german2_ci, utf8_czech_ci, and utf8_lithianian_ci. (Bug#9509)

  • The DATA DIRECTORY table option did not work for TEMPORARY tables. (Bug#8706)

  • A stored procedure with a CONTINUE handler that encountered an error continued to execute a statement that caused an error, rather with the next statement following the one that caused the error. (Bug#8153)

  • For ODBC compatibility, MySQL supports use of WHERE col_name IS NULL for DATE or DATETIME columns that are NOT NULL, to allow column values of '0000-00-00' or '0000-00-00 00:00:00' to be selected. However, this was not working for WHERE clauses in DELETE statements. (Bug#8143)

  • A user variable set to a value selected from an unsigned column was stored as a signed value. (Bug#7498)

  • The --with-collation option was not honored for client connections. (Bug#7192)

  • An invalid GRANT statement for which Ok was returned on a replication master caused an error on the slave and replication to fail. (Bug#6774)

  • With TRADITIONAL SQL mode, assignment of out-of-bound values and rounding of assigned values was done correctly, but assignment of the same numbers represented as strings sometimes was handled differently. (Bug#6147)

  • On an INSERT into an updatable but non-insertable view, an error message was issued stating that the view was not updatable. Now the message says the view is not insertable-into. (Bug#5505)

  • EXPLAIN sometimes returned an incorrect select_type for a SELECT from a view, compared to the select_type for the equivalent SELECT from the base table. (Bug#5500)

  • Some queries that used ORDER BY and LIMIT performed quickly in MySQL 3.23, but slowly in MySQL 4.x/5.x due to an optimizer problem. (Bug#4981)

  • Incorporated some portability fixes into the definition of __attribute__ in my_global.h. (Bug#2717)

  • User-created tables having a name beginning with #sql were not visible to SHOW TABLES and could collide with internal temporary table names. Now they are not hidden and do not collide. (Bug#1405)

  • not have any leading zeroes

  • not be an expression

  • be a positive, non-zero integer

C.1.18. Changes in MySQL 5.1.11 (26 May 2006)

This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs.

This section documents all changes and bug fixes that have been applied since the last official MySQL release. If you would like to receive more fine-grained and personalized update alerts about fixes that are relevant to the version and features you use, please consider subscribing to MySQL Enterprise (a commercial MySQL offering). For more details please see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Incompatible Change: The Event Scheduler can now be in one of three states (on, off, or the new suspended state). In addition, due to the fact that SET GLOBAL event_scheduler; now acts in a synchronous rather than asynchronous manner, the Event Scheduler thread can be no longer be activated or deactivated at run time.

    For more information regarding these changes, see Section 25.1, “Event Scheduler Overview”. (Bug#17619)

  • MySQL Cluster: The limit of 2048 ordered indexes per cluster has been lifted. There is now no upper limit on the number of ordered indexes (including AUTO_INCREMENT columns) that may be used. (Bug#14509)

  • Added the log_queries_not_using_indexes system variable. (Bug#19616)

  • Added the ssl_ca, ssl_capath, ssl_cert, ssl_cipher, and ssl_key system variables, which display the values given via the corresponding command options. See Section 5.5.7.3, “SSL Command Options”. (Bug#19606)

  • The ENABLE KEYS and DISABLE KEYS clauses for the ALTER TABLE statement are now supported for partitioned tables. (Bug#19502)

  • Added the --ssl-verify-server-cert option to MySQL client programs. This option causes the server's Common Name value in its certificate to be verified against the hostname used when connecting to the server, and the connection is rejected if there is a mismatch. Added MYSQL_OPT_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT option for the mysql_options() C API function to enable this verification. This feature can be used to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. Verification is disabled by default. (Bug#17208)

  • The default for the innodb_thread_concurrency system variable was changed to 8. (Bug#15868)

  • It is now possible to use NEW.var_name values within triggers as INOUT parameters to stored procedures. (Bug#14635)

  • Added the --angel-pid-file option to mysqlmanager for specifying the file in which the angel process records its process ID when mysqlmanager runs in daemon mode. (Bug#14106)

  • Previously, to build MySQL from source with SSL support enabled, you would invoke configure with either the --with-openssl or --with-yassl option. Those options both have been replaced by the --with-ssl option. By default, --with-ssl causes the bundled yaSSL library to be used. To select OpenSSL instead, give the option as --with-ssl=path , where path is the directory where the OpenSSL header files and libraries are located.

  • The mysql_get_ssl_cipher() C API function was added.

  • mysql_explain_log (a third-party program) is no longer included in MySQL distributions.

Bugs fixed:

  • Security Fix: An SQL-injection security hole has been found in multi-byte encoding processing. The bug was in the server, incorrectly parsing the string escaped with the mysql_real_escape_string() C API function.

    This vulnerability was discovered and reported by Josh Berkus and Tom Lane as part of the inter-project security collaboration of the OSDB consortium. For more information about SQL injection, please see the following text.

    Discussion.  An SQL injection security hole has been found in multi-byte encoding processing. An SQL injection security hole can include a situation whereby when a user supplied data to be inserted into a database, the user might inject SQL statements into the data that the server will execute. With regards to this vulnerability, when character set-unaware escaping is used (for example, addslashes() in PHP), it is possible to bypass the escaping in some multi-byte character sets (for example, SJIS, BIG5 and GBK). As a result, a function such as addslashes() is not able to prevent SQL-injection attacks. It is impossible to fix this on the server side. The best solution is for applications to use character set-aware escaping offered by a function such mysql_real_escape_string().

    However, a bug was detected in how the MySQL server parses the output of mysql_real_escape_string(). As a result, even when the character set-aware function mysql_real_escape_string() was used, SQL injection was possible. This bug has been fixed.

    Workarounds.  If you are unable to upgrade MySQL to a version that includes the fix for the bug in mysql_real_escape_string() parsing, but run MySQL 5.0.1 or higher, you can use the NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES SQL mode as a workaround. (This mode was introduced in MySQL 5.0.1.) NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES enables an SQL standard compatibility mode, where backslash is not considered a special character. The result will be that queries will fail.

    To set this mode for the current connection, enter the following SQL statement:

    SET sql_mode='NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES';
    

    You can also set the mode globally for all clients:

    SET GLOBAL sql_mode='NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES';
    

    This SQL mode also can be enabled automatically when the server starts by using the command-line option --sql-mode=NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES or by setting sql-mode=NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES in the server option file (for example, my.cnf or my.ini, depending on your system). (Bug#8378, CVE-2006-2753)

    See also Bug#8303

  • Partitioning: MySQL Cluster: SELECT MIN(unique_column) from a Cluster table with user-defined partitioning crashed the server. (Bug#18730)

  • MySQL Cluster: Running ALL START in the NDB management client or restarting multiple nodes simultaneously could under some circumstances cause the cluster to crash. (Bug#19930)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Replication): Memory was not freed after some ALTER TABLE operations, which could cause mysqld processes to crash. (Bug#19885)

  • MySQL Cluster: (NDBAPI): On big-endian platforms, NdbOperation::write_attr() did not update 32-bit fields correctly. (Bug#19537)

  • MySQL Cluster: TRUNCATE failed on tables having BLOB or TEXT columns with the error Lock wait timeout exceeded.

    Note

    This issue affected both in-memory and Disk Data tables.

    (Bug#19201)

  • MySQL Cluster: ALTER TABLE ENGINE=... failed when used to change a MySQL Cluster table having no explicit primary key to use a different storage engine.

    Note

    As a consequence of this fix, SHOW CREATE TABLE no longer displays auto-partitioning information for NDBCLUSTER tables.

    (Bug#19010)

  • MySQL Cluster: (NDBAPI): The Ndb::dropEventOperation() method failed to clean up all objects used, which could cause memory leaks to occur. (Bug#17610)

  • MySQL Cluster: Using “stalemysqld .FRM files could cause a newly-restored cluster to fail. This situation could arise when restarting a MySQL Cluster using the --intial option while leaving connected mysqld processes running. (Bug#16875)

  • MySQL Cluster: A Cluster whose storage nodes were installed from the MySQL-ndb-storage-* RPMs could not perform CREATE or ALTER operations that made use of non-default character sets or collations. (Bug#14918)

  • MySQL Cluster: Data node failures could cause excessive CPU usage by ndb_mgmd. (Bug#13987)

  • Cluster Replication: mysqld processes did not always detect cluster shutdown, leading to issues with Cluster replication and schema distribution. (Bug#19395)

  • The Data_free column in the output of SHOW TABLE STATUS always displayed 0 for partitioned tables. (Bug#19501)

  • Altering a VARCHAR column in a MyISAM table to make it longer could cause corruption of the following column. (Bug#19386)

  • In was not possible to invoke a stored routine containing dynamic SQL from a scheduled event. (Bug#19264)

  • Adding an index to a table created using partitioning by KEY and the MEMORY storage engine caused the server to crash. (Bug#19140)

  • Use of uninitialized user variables in a subquery in the FROM clause resulted in invalid entries in the binary log. (Bug#19136)

  • A CREATE TABLE statement that created a table from a materialized view did not inherit default values from the underlying table. (Bug#19089)

  • Premature optimization of nested subqueries in the FROM clause that refer to aggregate functions could lead to incorrect results. (Bug#19077)

  • When creating a table using CREATE TABLE ... PARTITION BY ... SELECT ..., the partitioning clause was ignored. (Bug#19062)

  • For dates with 4-digit year parts less than 200, an implicit conversion to add a century was applied for date arithmetic performed with DATE_ADD(), DATE_SUB(), + INTERVAL, and - INTERVAL. (For example, DATE_ADD('0050-01-01 00:00:00', INTERVAL 0 SECOND) became '2050-01-01 00:00:00'.) Now these operations return NULL rather than an incorrect non-NULL value. (Bug#18997)

  • BLOB or TEXT arguments to or values returned from stored functions were not copied properly if too long and could become garbled. (Bug#18587)

  • The embedded server crashed with row-based replication enabled. (Bug#18518)

  • The client libraries were not compiled for position-independent code on Solaris-SPARC and AMD x86_64 platforms. (Bug#18091, Bug#13159, Bug#14202)

  • Returning the value of a system variable from a stored function caused a server crash. (Bug#18037)

  • Revised memory allocation for local objects within stored functions and triggers to avoid memory leak for repeated function or trigger invocation. (Bug#17260)

  • Symlinking .mysql_history to /dev/null to suppress statement history saving by mysql did not work. (mysql deleted the symlink and recreated .mysql_history as a regular file, and then wrote history to it.) (Bug#16803)

  • IS_USED_LOCK() could return an incorrect connection identifier. (Bug#16501)

  • Simultaneous scheduled events whose actions conflicted with one another could crash the server. (Bug#16428)

  • Concurrent reading and writing of privilege structures could crash the server. (Bug#16372)

  • The server no longer uses a signal handler for signal 0 because it could cause a crash on some platforms. (Bug#15869)

  • EXPLAIN ... SELECT INTO caused the client to hang. (Bug#15463)

  • CREATE TABLE ... SELECT ... statements that used a stored function explicitly or implicitly (through a view) resulted in a Table not locked error. (Bug#15137, Bug#12472)

  • Display better error message for ALTER TABLE operations that will result in duplicate keys due to AUTO_INCREMENT resequencing. (Bug#14573)

  • The result from CONV() is a string, but was not always treated the same way as a string when converted to a real value for an arithmetic operation. (Bug#13975)

  • Within a trigger, SET used the SQL mode of the invoking statement, not the mode in effect at trigger creation time. (Bug#6951)

  • Corrected several problems with the treatment of the --log-error option by mysqld_safe. These problems were manifest as differences from mysqld in error log handling.

    • If a filename was given for --log-error, mysqld_safe ignored it and did not pass it to mysqld, which then wrote error information to stderr and resulted in incorrect log rotation when FLUSH LOGS was used.

    • mysql_safe now adds .err to the end of the filename if no extension is present (the same as mysqld).

    • mysqld_safe treated a relative pathname as relative to its own current working directory. Now it treats a relative pathname as relative to the data directory (the same as mysqld).

    In addition, some argument quoting problems were corrected. (Bug#6061)

  • The basedir and tmpdir system variables could not be accessed via @@var_name syntax. (Bug#1039)

  • mysqld_safe treated a relative pathname as relative to its own current working directory. Now it treats a relative pathname as relative to the data directory (the same as mysqld).

  • mysql_safe now adds .err to the end of the filename if no extension is present (the same as mysqld).

  • If a filename was given for --log-error, mysqld_safe ignored it and did not pass it to mysqld, which then wrote error information to stderr and resulted in incorrect log rotation when FLUSH LOGS was used.

  • The patch for Bug#8303 broke the fix for Bug#8378 and was undone. (In string literals with an escape character (\) followed by a multi-byte character that has a second byte of (\), the literal was not interpreted correctly. The next byte now is escaped, not the entire multi-byte character. This means it a strict reverse of the mysql_real_escape_string() function.)

C.1.19. Changes in MySQL 5.1.10 (Not released)

Note

This was an internal release only, and no binaries were published.

MySQL 5.1.10 includes the patches for recently reported security vulnerabilites in the MySQL client-server protocol. We would like to thank Stefano Di Paola for finding and reporting these to us.

This section documents all changes and bug fixes that have been applied since the last official MySQL release. If you would like to receive more fine-grained and personalized update alerts about fixes that are relevant to the version and features you use, please consider subscribing to MySQL Enterprise (a commercial MySQL offering). For more details please see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Security Enhancement: Added the global max_prepared_stmt_count system variable to limit the total number of prepared statements in the server. This limits the potential for denial-of-service attacks based on running the server out of memory by preparing huge numbers of statements. The current number of prepared statements is available through the prepared_stmt_count system variable. (Bug#16365)

  • MySQL Cluster: It is now possible to restore a MySQL Cluster backup between big-endian and little-endian machines. (Bug#19255)

  • MySQL Cluster: It is now possible to perform a partial start of a cluster. That is, it is now possible to bring up the cluster without first running ndbd --initial on all configured data nodes. (Bug#18606)

  • MySQL Cluster: It is now possible to install MySQL with Cluster support to a non-default location and change the search path for font description files using either the --basedir or --character-sets-dir options. (Previously in MySQL 5.1, ndbd searched only the default path for character sets.)

  • Packaging: The MySQL-shared-compat-5.1.X-.i386.rpm shared compatibility RPMs no longer contain libraries for MySQL 5.0. This avoids a conflict because the 5.0 and 5.1 libraries share the same soname number. They now contain libraries for MySQL 3.23, 4.0, 4.1, and 5.1. (Bug#19288)

  • SQL syntax for prepared statements now supports ANALYZE TABLE, OPTIMIZE TABLE, and REPAIR TABLE. (Bug#19308)

  • The ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY SQL mode now also applies to the HAVING clause. That is, columns not named in the GROUP BY clause cannot be used in the HAVING clause if not used in an aggregate function. (Bug#18739)

  • XPath expressions passed to the ExtractValue() and UpdateXML() functions can now include the colon character (“ : ”). This enables use of these functions with XML which employs namespaces. (Bug#18170)

  • On Windows, some names such as nul, prn, and aux could not be used as filenames because they are reserved as device names. These are now allowable names in MySQL. They are encoded by appending @@@ to the name when the server creates the corresponding file or directory. This occurs on all platforms for portability of the corresponding database object between platforms. (Bug#17870)

  • The bundled yaSSL library was upgraded to version 1.3.5. This improves handling of certain problems with SSL-related command options. (Bug#17737)

  • You must now have the DROP privilege to drop table partitions. (Bug#17139)

  • Server and clients ignored the --sysconfdir option that was passed to configure. The directory specified by this option, if set, now is used as one of the standard locations in which to look for option files. (Bug#15069)

  • In result set metadata, the MYSQL_FIELD.length value for BIT columns now is reported in number of bits. For example, the value for a BIT(9) column is 9. (Formerly, the value was related to number of bytes.) (Bug#13601)

  • Added the KEY_BLOCK_SIZE table option and index option. This can be used in CREATE TABLE, ALTER TABLE, and CREATE INDEX statements to provide a hint to the storage engine about the size to use for index key blocks. The engine is allowed to change the value if necessary.

  • Added the sql_big_selects system variable to the output of SHOW VARIABLES.

  • The mysql_upgrade command has been converted from a shell script to a C program, so it is available on non-Unix systems such as Windows. This program should be run for each MySQL upgrade. See Section 4.4.8, “mysql_upgrade — Check Tables for MySQL Upgrade”.

  • Added the REFERENTIAL_CONSTRAINTS table to INFORMATION_SCHEMA. It provides information about foreign keys.

  • Added the have_dynamic_loading system variable that indicates whether the server supports dynamic loading of plugins.

  • Added --debug option to Instance Manager.

  • Binary distributions that include SSL support now are built using yaSSL when possible.

Bugs fixed:

  • Security Fix: A NUL byte within a comment in a statement string caused the rest of the string not to be written to the query log, allowing logging to be bypassed. (Bug#17667, CVE-2006-0903)

  • Security Fix: A malicious client, using specially crafted invalid COM_TABLE_DUMP packets was able to trigger an exploitable buffer overflow on the server. Thanks to Stefano Di Paola for finding and reporting this bug. (CVE-2006-1518)

  • Security Fix: A malicious client, using specially crafted invalid login or COM_TABLE_DUMP packets was able to read uninitialized memory, which potentially, though unlikely in MySQL, could have led to an information disclosure. (, ) Thanks to Stefano Di Paola for finding and reporting this bug. (CVE-2006-1516, CVE-2006-1517)

  • MySQL Cluster: A 5.1.6 or newer server did not read local checkpoints recorded by any other 5.1 version, thus preventing a system restart following an upgrade. (Bug#19333)

  • MySQL Cluster: Concurrent INSERT and ROLLBACK statements from different connections could cause node failures. (Bug#19245)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Disk Data): Running an INSERT and a DELETE on a Disk Data table in the same transaction could cause a deadlock. (Bug#19244)

  • MySQL Cluster: Starting mysqld without --log-bin caused DDL statements on NDB tables to time out. (Bug#19214)

  • MySQL Cluster: (NDBAPI): Passing a nonexistent index name to NdbIndexScanOperation::setBound() caused a segmentation fault. (Bug#19088)

  • MySQL Cluster: mysql-test-run.pl started NDB even for test cases that did not need it. (Bug#19083)

  • MySQL Cluster: Stopping multiple nodes could cause node failure handling not to be completed. (Bug#19039)

  • MySQL Cluster: The Cluster binlog mysqld accepted updates even though the binary log was not set up, which could lead to updates missing from the binary log. (Bug#18932)

  • MySQL Cluster: mysqld could crash when attempting an update if the cluster had failed previously. (Bug#18798)

  • MySQL Cluster: An INSERT or UPDATE of more than 128 bytes of data in a 4-replica cluster could cause data nodes to crash. (Bug#18622)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Disk Data): CREATE LOGFILE GROUP accepted values other than NDB or NDBCLUSTER in the ENGINE clause. (Bug#18604)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Disk Data): Omitting the required ENGINE clause from a CREATE LOGFILE GROUP or CREATE TABLESPACE statement caused the server to crash. An appropriate error message is now returned instead. (Bug#18603)

  • MySQL Cluster: Queries using ORDER BY pkN failed against a LIST-partitioned Cluster table having a multi-column primary key, where pkN represents one of the columns making up the primary key. (Bug#18598)

  • MySQL Cluster: A simultaneous DROP TABLE and table update operation utilising a table scan could trigger a node failure. (Bug#18597)

  • MySQL Cluster: Fragment IDs were not logged correctly, causing ndb_restore_log to fail. (Bug#18594)

  • MySQL Cluster: Repeated use of the SHOW and ALL STATUS commands in the ndb_mgm client could cause the mgmd process to crash. (Bug#18591)

  • MySQL Cluster: ndbd sometimes failed to start with the error Node failure handling not completed following a graceful restart. (Bug#18550)

  • MySQL Cluster: ndb_restore failed to restore a backup made from a 5.0 cluster to a 5.1 cluster. (Bug#18210)

  • MySQL Cluster: Adding an index to an unsigned integer column did not work correctly. (Bug#18133)

  • MySQL Cluster: A SELECT from an NDB table with ORDER BY indexed_column and a LIMIT clause would fail following ALTER TABLE. (Bug#18094)

  • MySQL Cluster: mysqldump included in its output data from the internal cluster database. (Bug#17840)

  • MySQL Cluster: Backups could fail for large clusters with many tables, where the number of tables approached MaxNoOfTables. (Bug#17607)

  • MySQL Cluster: Some queries having a WHERE clause of the form c1=val1 OR c2 LIKE 'val2' were not evaluated correctly. (Bug#17421)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Replication): Delete and update of rows in a table without a primary key failed on the slave. (Bug#17400)

  • MySQL Cluster: An issue with ndb_mgmd prevented more than 27 mysqld processes from connecting to a single cluster at one time. (Bug#17150)

  • MySQL Cluster: In a 2-node cluster with a node failure, restarting the node with a low value for StartPartialTimeout could cause the cluster to come up partitioned (“split-brain” issue).

    A similar issue could occur when the cluster was first started with a sufficiently low value for this parameter. (Bug#16447, Bug#18612)

  • MySQL Cluster: Performing multiple ALTER TABLE operations on the same NDB table from different mysqld processes in the same cluster led to schema versioning errors when trying to access the table again following the restart of one of the mysqld processes. (Bug#16445)

  • MySQL Cluster: On systems with multiple network interfaces, data nodes would get “stuck” in startup phase 2 if the interface connecting them to the management server was working on node startup while the interface interconnecting the data nodes experienced a temporary outage. (Bug#15695)

  • MySQL Cluster: On slow networks or CPUs, the management client SHOW command could sometimes erroneously show all data nodes as being master nodes belonging to nodegroup 0. (Bug#15530)

  • MySQL Cluster: Unused open handlers for tables in which the metadata had changed were not properly closed. This could result in stale results from NDB tables following an ALTER TABLE statement. (Bug#13228)

  • MySQL Cluster: Uninitialized internal variables could lead to unexpected results. (Bug#11033, Bug#11034)

  • MySQL Cluster: When attempting to create an index on a BIT or BLOB column, Error 743: Unsupported character set in table or index was returned instead of Error 906: Unsupported attribute type in index.

  • Cluster Replication: Partitioning: Attempting to create an index using multiple columns on an explicitly partitioned table in a replicated Cluster database could cause the master mysqld process to crash. (Bug#18284)

  • Disk Data: Issuing a CREATE LOGFILE GROUP statement during the drop of an NDB table would cause database corruption. (Bug#19141)

  • Disk Data: Concurrent table schema operations and operations on log file groups, tablespaces, data files, or undo files could lead to data node failures. (Bug#18575)

  • Cluster Replication: Using the --binlog-do-db option caused problems with CREATE TABLE on the cluster acting as the replication master. (Bug#19492)

  • Cluster Replication: When taking part in Cluster replication of tables containing BLOB columns, mysqld falsely reported a large memory leak in the replication buffers when there was none. (Bug#19247)

  • Cluster Replication: Trying to restore the apply_status table from a 5.0 cluster backup failed on a 5.1 server. (Bug#18935)

  • Cluster Replication: An issue with replication caused a mysqld connected to a replicated cluster to crash when entering single user mode. (Bug#18535)

  • A compatibility issue with NPTL (Native POSIX Thread Library) on Linux could result in a deadlock with FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK under some conditions. (Bug#20048)

  • Some outer joins were incorrectly converted to inner joins. (Bug#19816)

    This regression was introduced by Bug#17146

  • A view definition that referred to an alias in the HAVING clause could be saved in the .frm file with the alias replaced by the expression that it referred to, causing failure of subsequent SELECT * FROM view_name statements. (Bug#19573)

  • mysql displayed NULL for strings that are empty or contain only spaces. (Bug#19564)

  • Selecting from a view that used GROUP BY on a non-constant temporal interval (such as DATE(col) + INTERVAL TIME_TO_SEC(col) SECOND could cause a server crash. (Bug#19490)

  • An outer join of two views that was written using { OJ ... } syntax could cause a server crash. (Bug#19396)

  • An issue with file handling in the partitioning code could cause mysqld to crash when started and then stopped within a very short period of time. (Bug#19313)

  • myisamchk and myisam_ftdump should allow either table names or .MYI filenames as arguments, but allowed only table names. (Bug#19220)

  • InnoDB could read a delete mark from its system tables incorrectly. (Bug#19217)

  • Executing a CREATE EVENT statement could cause 100% CPU usage. (Bug#19170)

  • Eliminated some memory corruption problems that resultsd in double free or corruption errors and a server crash. (Bug#19154)

  • Attempting to set the default value of an ENUM or SET column to NULL caused a server crash. (Bug#19145)

  • Index corruption could occur in cases when key_cache_block_size was not a multiple of myisam_block_size (for example, with key_cache_block_size=1536 and myisam_block_size=1024). (Bug#19079)

  • Fix the way that Instance Manager finds the version number of instances, so that it works properly when the executable name isn't the same as what the Instance Manager launched (such as when wrapping a libtool-wrapped executable from the source tree). (Bug#19059)

  • Some fast ALTER TABLE operations (requiring no temporary table) did not work for all tables. (Bug#19011)

  • Successive ALTER TABLE ... DROP PARTITION statements on the same subpartitioned table could eventually cause the server to crash. (Bug#18962)

  • Creating a table in an InnoDB database with a column name that matched the name of an internal InnoDB column (including DB_ROW_ID, DB_TRX_ID, DB_ROLL_PTR and DB_MIX_ID) would cause a crash. MySQL now returns Error 1005 Cannot create table with errno set to -1. (Bug#18934)

  • The parser leaked memory when its stack needed to be extended. (Bug#18930)

  • MySQL would not compile on Linux distributions that use the tinfo library. (Bug#18912)

  • The server attempted to flush uninitialized log tables during SIGHUP processing, causing a crash. (Bug#18848)

  • For a reference to a non-existent stored function in a stored routine that had a CONTINUE handler, the server continued as though a useful result had been returned, possibly resulting in a server crash. (Bug#18787)

  • For single-SELECT union constructs of the form (SELECT ... ORDER BY order_list1 [LIMIT n]) ORDER BY order_list2, the ORDER BY lists were concatenated and the LIMIT clause was ignored. (Bug#18767)

  • Inserts failed with duplicate key errors on a table partitioned using an AUTO_INCREMENT column for the partitioning key. (Bug#18753, Bug#18552)

  • It was possible to create a RANGE-partitioned table with a partition defined using the clause VALUES LESS THAN (NULL), even though such a partition could never contain any values whatsoever. (Bug#18752)

  • Delimited identifiers for partitions were not being treated the same as delimited identifiers for other database objects (such as tables and columns) with regard to allowed characters. (Bug#18750)

  • CREATE VIEW statements would not be replicated to the slave if the --replicate-wild-ignore-table rule was enabled. (Bug#18715)

  • Conversion of a number to a CHAR UNICODE string returned an invalid result. (Bug#18691)

  • If the second or third argument to BETWEEN was a constant expression such as '2005-09-01 - INTERVAL 6 MONTH and the other two arguments were columns, BETWEEN was evaluated incorrectly. (Bug#18618)

  • LOAD DATA FROM MASTER would fail when trying to load the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database from the master, because the INFORMATION_SCHEMA system database would already exist on the slave. (Bug#18607)

  • Running an ALTER TABLE on a partitioned table simultaneously experiencing a high number of concurrent DML statements could crash the server. (Bug#18572)

  • A LOCK TABLES statement that failed could cause MyISAM not to update table statistics properly, causing a subsequent CHECK TABLE to report table corruption. (Bug#18544)

  • mysqltest incorrectly interpreted some ER_xxx error names given in the error command. (Bug#18495)

  • InnoDB: ALTER TABLE to add or drop a foreign key for an InnoDB table had no effect. (Bug#18477)

  • InnoDB did not use a consistent read for CREATE ... SELECT when innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog was set. (Bug#18350)

  • DROP DATABASE did not drop stored routines associated with the database if the database name was longer than 21 characters. (Bug#18344)

  • A query on a table partitioned or subpartitioned by HASH did not display all results when using a WHERE condition involving a column used in the hashing expression. (Bug#18329, Bug#18423)

  • In mysqltest, --sleep=0 had no effect. Now it correctly causes sleep commands in test case files to sleep for 0 seconds. (Bug#18312)

  • ExtractValue function did not return character data within <![CDATA[]]> as expected. (Bug#18285)

  • A recent change caused the mysql client not to display NULL values correctly and to display numeric columns left-justified rather than right-justified. The problems have been corrected. (Bug#18265)

  • Updates to a MEMORY table caused the size of BTREE indexes for the table to increase. (Bug#18160)

  • A failed ALTER TABLE operation could fail to clean up a temporary .frm file. (Bug#18129)

  • Event-creation statements enclosed in multi-line comments using /*!version_number ... */ syntax were not parsed correctly. (Bug#18078)

  • SELECT DISTINCT queries sometimes returned only the last row. (Bug#18068)

  • InnoDB: A DELETE followed by an INSERT and then by an UPDATE on a partitioned InnoDB table caused subsequent queries to return incorrect results. (Bug#17992)

  • It was possible to use trailing spaces in the names of partitions and subpartitions. Attempting to do so now raises the error Incorrect partition name. (Bug#17973)

  • LIKE searches failed on a CHAR column used as the partitioning column of a table partitioned by KEY. (Bug#17946)

  • Executing SELECT on a large table that had been compressed within myisampack could cause a crash. (Bug#17917)

  • The sql_big_selects system variable was not displayed by SHOW VARIABLES. (Bug#17849)

  • REPAIR TABLE did not restore the length for packed keys in tables created under MySQL 4.x, which caused them to appear corrupt to CHECK TABLE but not to REPAIR TABLE. (Bug#17810)

  • A range access optimizer heuristic was invalid, causing some queries to be much slower in MySQL 5.0 than in 4.0. (Bug#17379, Bug#18940)

  • Logging to the mysql.general_log and mysql.slow_log tables did not work for Windows builds because the CSV storage engine was unavailable. The CSV engine now is enabled in Windows builds. (Bug#17368)

  • Updating a field value when also requesting a lock with GET_LOCK() would cause slave servers in a replication environment to terminate. (Bug#17284)

  • The binary log would create an incorrect DROP query when creating temporary tables during replication. (Bug#17263)

  • If the WHERE condition of a query contained an OR-ed FALSE term, the set of tables whose rows cannot serve for null-complements in outer joins was determined incorrectly. This resulted in blocking possible conversions of outer joins into joins by the optimizer for such queries. (Bug#17164)

  • Casting a string to DECIMAL worked, but casting a trimmed string (using LTRIM() or RTRIM()) resulted in loss of decimal digits. (Bug#17043)

  • MyISAM table deadlock was possible if one thread issued a LOCK TABLES request for write locks and then an administrative statement such as OPTIMIZE TABLE, if between the two statements another client meanwhile issued a multiple-table SELECT for some of the locked tables. (Bug#16986)

  • ALTER TABLE ... REBUILD PARTITION returned an inaccurate error message. (Bug#16819)

  • Use of --default-storage-engine=innodb resulted in an error with the server reporting that InnoDB was an unknown table type. (Bug#16691)

  • MySQL-shared-compat-5.1.9-0.i386.rpm incorrectly depended on glibc 2.3 and could not be installed on a glibc 2.2 system. (Bug#16539)

  • The presence of multiple equalities in a condition after reading a constant table could cause the optimizer not to use an index. This resulted in certain queries being much slower than in MySQL 4.1. (Bug#16504)

  • Within a trigger, CONNECTION_ID() did not return the connection ID of the thread that caused the trigger to be activated. (Bug#16461)

  • The XPath string-length() function was not implemented for use with ExtractValue(). (Bug#16319)

  • The ExtractValue() function failed with a syntax error when the XPath expression used special characters such as Ñ (“N-tilde”). (Bug#16233)

  • The sql_notes and sql_warnings system variables were not always displayed correctly by SHOW VARIABLES (for example, they were displayed as ON after being set to OFF). (Bug#16195)

  • If the first argument to BETWEEN was a DATE or TIME column of a view and the other arguments were constants, BETWEEN did not perform conversion of the constants to the appropriate temporary type, resulting in incorrect evaluation. (Bug#16069)

  • After calling FLUSH STATUS, the max_used_connections variable did not increment for existing connections and connections which use the thread cache. (Bug#15933)

  • DELETE and UPDATE statements that used large NOT IN (value_list) clauses could use large amounts of memory. (Bug#15872)

  • InnoDB failure to release an adaptive hash index latch could cause a server crash if the query cache was enabled. (Bug#15758)

  • LAST_INSERT_ID() in a stored function or trigger returned zero. . (Bug#15728)

  • The system_time_zone and version_* system variables could not be accessed via SELECT @@var_name syntax. (Bug#15684, Bug#12792)

  • If the server were built without partition support, it was possible to run partitioning-related statements with no errors or warnings, even though these statements would have no effect. Now such statements are disallowed unless the server has been compiled using the --with-partition option. (Bug#15561)

  • Use of CONVERT_TZ() in a view definition could result in spurious syntax or access errors. (Bug#15153)

  • Prevent recursive views caused by using RENAME TABLE on a view after creating it. (Bug#14308)

  • Some queries were slower in 5.0 than in 4.1 because some 4.1 cost-evaluation code had not been merged into 5.0. (Bug#14292)

  • Avoid trying to include <asm/atomic.h> when it doesn't work in C++ code. (Bug#13621)

  • Running myisampack followed by myisamchk with the --unpack option would corrupt the auto_increment key. (Bug#12633)

  • Use of CONVERT_TZ() in a stored function or trigger (or in a stored procedure called from a stored function or trigger) caused an error. (Bug#11081)

  • When myisamchk needed to rebuild a table, AUTO_INCREMENT information was lost. (Bug#10405)

C.1.20. Changes in MySQL 5.1.9 (12 April 2006)

This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs.

Note

This Beta release, as any other pre-production release, should not be installed on production level systems or systems with critical data. It is good practice to back up your data before installing any new version of software. Although MySQL has worked very hard to ensure a high level of quality, protect your data by making a backup as you would for any software beta release. Please refer to our bug database at http://bugs.mysql.com/ for more details about the individual bugs fixed in this version.

This section documents all changes and bug fixes that have been applied since the last official MySQL release. If you would like to receive more fine-grained and personalized update alerts about fixes that are relevant to the version and features you use, please consider subscribing to MySQL Enterprise (a commercial MySQL offering). For more details please see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise.

Functionality added or changed:

  • MySQL Cluster: The NDB storage engine now supports CREATE TABLE statements of arbitrary length. (Previously, CREATE TABLE statements for MySQL Cluster tables could contain a maximum of 4096 characters only.) (Bug#17813)

  • MySQL Cluster: Added the --nowait-nodes startup option for ndbd, making it possible to skip specified nodes without waiting for them to start when starting the cluster. See Section 20.6.5.1, “Command Options for ndbd.

  • mysqld_safe no longer checks for a mysqld-max binary. Instead, mysqld_safe nows checks only for the standard mysqld server unless another server binary is specified explicitly via --mysqld or --mysqld-version. If you previously relied on the implicit invocation of mysqld-max, you should use an appropriate option now. (Bug#17861)

  • For partitioned tables, the output of SHOW TABLE STATUS now shows in the Engine column the name of the storage engine used by all partitions for the table; in the Create_options column, the output now shows partitioned for a partitioned table. This change also affects the values shown in the corresponding columns of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES table. (Bug#17631)

  • SHOW PLUGIN was renamed to SHOW PLUGINS. SHOW PLUGIN now is deprecated and generates a warning. (Bug#17112)

  • Large file support was re-enabled for the MySQL server binary for the AIX 5.2 platform. (Bug#13571)

  • Binary MySQL distributions now include a mysqld-max server, in addition to the usual mysqld optimized server and the mysqld-debug debugging server.

Bugs fixed:

  • Security Fix: Invalid arguments to DATE_FORMAT() caused a server crash. Thanks to Jean-David Maillefer for discovering and reporting this problem to the Debian project and to Christian Hammers from the Debian Team for notifying us of it. (Bug#20729, CVE-2006-3469)

  • Partitioning: MySQL Cluster: BLOB columns did not work correctly with user-partitioned NDB tables. (Bug#16796)

  • MySQL Cluster: An uninitialized internal variable could lead to unexpected results. (Bug#18831)

  • MySQL Cluster: TRUNCATE did not reset the AUTO_INCREMENT counter for MyISAM tables when issued inside a stored procedure.

    Note

    This bug did not affect InnoDB tables.

    In addition, TRUNCATE does not reset the AUTO_INCREMENT counter for NDB tables regardless of when it is called.

    (Bug#14945)

    See also Bug#18864

  • For full-text searches in boolean mode, and when a full-text parser plugin was used, a MYSQL_FTPARSER_PARAM::ftparser_state could have been corrupted by recursive calls to the plugin. (Bug#18836)

  • mysql_reconnect() sent a SET NAMES statement to the server, even for pre-4.1 servers that do not understand the statement. (Bug#18830)

  • A query against a partitioned table using WHERE col IS NULL could produce incorrect results given the following conditions:

    • The table had partitions and subpartitions

    • The partitioning function depended on a single column col of one of the MySQL integer types

    • The partitioning function was not monotonically increasing

    The same issue could cause the server to crash when run in debug mode. (Bug#18659)

  • Partition pruning did not work properly for some kinds of partitioning and subpartitioning, with certain WHERE clauses. (Partitions and subpartitions that should have been marked as used were not so marked.) The error could manifest as incorrect content in EXPLAIN PARTITIONS output as well as missing rows in the results of affected queries. (Bug#18558)

  • Building the server using --with-example-storage-engine failed to enable the EXAMPLE storage engine in the server. (Bug#18464)

  • If InnoDB encountered a HA_ERR_LOCK_TABLE_FULL error and rolled back a transaction, the transaction was still written to the binary log. (Bug#18283)

  • Complex queries with nested joins could cause a server crash. (Bug#18279)

  • COUNT(*) on a MyISAM table could return different results for the base table and a view on the base table. (Bug#18237)

  • EXTRACT(QUARTER FROM date) returned unexpected results. (Bug#18100)

  • Queries using WHERE ... IS NULL returned incorrect results from partitioned tables. (Bug#18070)

  • Partition pruning did not perform correctly with partitions on NULL, and could potentially crash the server. (Bug#18053)

  • MEDIUMINT columns were not handled in the same way as other column types by partition pruning.

    Partition pruning would sometimes use inappropriate columns in preforming queries.

    Both of these issues were rectified as part of the same bugfix. (Bug#18025)

  • For tables created in a MySQL 4.1 installation upgraded to MySQL 5.0 and up, multiple-table updates could update only the first matching row. (Bug#16281)

  • For mysql.server, if the basedir option was specified after datadir in an option file, the setting for datadir was ignored and assumed to be located under basedir. (Bug#16240)

  • Triggers created in one version of the server could not be dropped after upgrading to a newer version. (Bug#15921)

  • CAST(double AS SIGNED INT) for large double values outside the signed integer range truncated the result to be within range, but the result sometimes had the wrong sign, and no warning was generated. (Bug#15098)

  • Quoted values could not be used for partition option values. (Bug#13520)

  • Delimited identifiers could not be used in defining partitions. (Bug#13433)

  • mysql_config returned incorrect libraries on x86_64 systems. (Bug#13158)

  • The server was always built as though --with-extra-charsets=complex had been specified. (Bug#12076)

  • The table had partitions and subpartitions

  • The partitioning function was not monotonically increasing

  • The partitioning function depended on a single column col of one of the MySQL integer types

C.1.21. Changes in MySQL 5.1.8 (Not released)

Note

This was an internal release only, and no binaries were published.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Cluster Replication: Incompatible Change: The cluster_replication database has been renamed to cluster. This will effect replication between MySQL Clusters where one cluster is running MySQL 5.1.8 or later, and the other is running MySQL 5.1.7 or earlier. See Section 20.11, “MySQL Cluster Replication”, and especially Section 20.11.4, “Cluster Replication Schema and Tables”.

  • Incompatible Change: The semantics of ALTER TABLE t ENGINE=X; for partitioned tables is changed, and now means that the storage engine used for table t is changed to X.

    The previous statement formerly (prior to MySQL 5.1.8) meant that all partitioning was removed from the table. In order to remove the partitioning of a table, the syntax ALTER TABLE t REMOVE PARTITIONING; is introduced. The REMOVE PARTITIONING option can be used in combination with existing ALTER TABLE options such as those employed for adding or dropping columns or indexes. (Bug#17754)

  • Incompatible Change: For purposes of determining placement, RANGE partitioning now treats NULL as less than any other value. (Formerly, NULL was treated as equal to zero.) See Section 21.2.6, “How MySQL Partitioning Handles NULL Values”. (Bug#15447)

  • MySQL Cluster: The stability of CREATE and DROP operations on NDB tables containing BLOB columns has been improved. (Bug#17761)

  • MySQL Cluster: The NDBCLUSTER storage engine now supports INSERT IGNORE and REPLACE statements. Previously, these statements failed with an error. (Bug#17431)

  • Disk Data: You can now have only one log file group at any one time. See Section 12.1.8, “CREATE LOGFILE GROUP Syntax”. (Bug#16386)

  • Builds for Windows, Linux, and Unix (except AIX) platforms now have SSL support enabled, in the server as well as in the client libraries. Because part of the SSL code is written in C++, this does introduce dependencies on the system's C++ runtime libraries in several cases, depending on compiler specifics. (Bug#18195)

  • Partition pruning was made more stable, particularly in cases involving queries using tests for NULL values in the WHERE clause against subpartitioned tables which were partitioned by LIST( some_function(col1, ... ,colN) ). (Bug#17891)

  • The output of SHOW CREATE EVENT no longer qualifies the event name with the name of the schem to which the event belongs. (Bug#17714)

  • The deprecated constructs in the following table now generate warnings. You should not employ them in new applications, as they are likely to be removed in a future version of MySQL. Use the equivalents shown in the table's second column instead. For the same reason, existing applications that depend on the deprecated constructs should be converted to make use of the current equivalents as soon as possible.

    Deprecated / Obsolete:Current / Preferred:
    @@table_type @@storage_engine
    @@log_bin_trust_routine_creators @@log_bin_trust_function_creators
    TIMESTAMP(N) See Section 11.6, “Date and Time Functions”.
    TYPE= ENGINE=
    BACKUP TABLE mysqldump, mysqlhotcopy, or MySQL Administrator
    RESTORE TABLE, LOAD TABLE FROM MASTER mysqldump, mysql, or MySQL Administrator
    SHOW TABLE TYPES SHOW [STORAGE] ENGINES
    SHOW INNODB STATUS SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS
    SHOW MUTEX STATUS SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX
    SHOW BDB LOGS, SHOW LOGS SHOW ENGINE BDB LOGS

    SHOW BDB LOGS and SHOW LOGS are removed as of MySQL 5.1.12, and the other deprecated items shown in the table are removed as of MySQL 5.2.5.

    Important

    TYPE vs ENGINE In order not to break legacy applications, support for TYPE = engine_name — deprecated since MySQL 4.0 — has been restored, but now generates a warning.

    Beginning with MySQL 5.2.5, TYPE = engine_name will no longer be available and will produce a syntax error.

    You should not use TYPE in any new applications, and you should immediately begin conversion of existing applications to use the ENGINE = engine_name syntax instead.

    (Bug#17501)

  • Temporary tables may no longer be partitioned. (Bug#17497)

  • More specific error messages are now given when attempting to create an excessive number of partitions or subpartitions. (Previously, no distinction was made between an excessive number of partitions and an excessive number of subpartitions.) (Bug#17393)

  • Added the --events option to mysqldump to enable events to be included in the dump output. (Bug#16853)

  • For an event having no STARTS time specified when it was created, the mysql.event table's start column now displays the creation time rather than NULL.

    In addition, both the SHOW EVENTS statement's Starts column and the STARTS column of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.EVENTS table are now empty rather than NULL when STARTS was not used in the CREATE EVENT statement. (Bug#16537)

  • Event names are now case-insenstive. That is (for example), you cannot have events with the names Myevent and MyEvent belonging to the same database and definer. (Bug#16415)

  • Description of the EVENT privilege has been changed to To create, alter, drop, and execute events. (Bug#16412)

  • MICROSECOND intervals are no longer allowed for events. (Bug#16411)

  • Events no longer support times past the end of the Unix epoch. (Formerly, such dates were interpreted as being at the beginning of the Unix epoch.) (Bug#16396)

  • The XPath last() function is now implemented for use with ExtractValue(). (Bug#16318)

  • The ExtractValue() function with contains() now uses the SQL collation in making comparisons. Perviously, comparisons were always binary (that is, case-sensitive). (Bug#16316)

  • Triggers from older servers that included no DEFINER clause in the trigger definition now execute with the privileges of the invoker (which on the slave is the slave SQL thread). Previously, replication slaves could not replicate such triggers. (Bug#16266)

  • Names of subpartitions must now be unique for an entire table, and not merely within the same partition. (Bug#15408)

  • Added the --sysdate-is-now option to mysqld to enable SYSDATE() to be treated as an alias for NOW(). See Section 11.6, “Date and Time Functions”. (Bug#15101)

  • mysqldump now surrounds the DEFINER, SQL SECURITY DEFINER and WITH CHECK OPTION clauses of a CREATE VIEW statement with "not in version" comments to prevent errors in earlier versions of MySQL. (Bug#14871)

  • The mysql_ping function will now retry if the reconnect flag is set and error CR_SERVER_LOST is encountered during the first attempt to ping the server. (Bug#14057)

  • The mysqltest utility now converts all CR/LF combinations to LF to allow test cases intended for Windows to work properly on UNIX-like systems. (Bug#13809)

  • The output from SHOW CREATE TABLE is more consistent about using uppercase for keywords. Data types still are in lowercase. (Bug#10460)

  • The client API now attempts to reconnect using TCP/IP if the reconnect flag is set, as is the case with sockets. (Bug#2845)

  • The binlog_format system variable now can be set to a third format, MIXED, as described in Section 19.1.2, “Replication Formats”.

  • The syntax for CREATE PROCEDURE and CREATE FUNCTION statements now includes a DEFINER clause. The DEFINER value specifies the security context to be used when checking access privileges at routine invocation time if the routine has the SQL SECURITY DEFINER characteristic. See Section 23.2.1, “CREATE PROCEDURE and CREATE FUNCTION Syntax”, for more information.

    When mysqldump is invoked with the --routines option, it now dumps the DEFINER value for stored routines.

  • The binlog_format system variable now is dynamic and can be changed at runtime, as described in Section 19.1.2, “Replication Formats”.

  • A slave server may switch the format automatically now. This happens when the server is running in either STATEMENT or MIXED format and encounters a row in the binary log that is written in ROW logging format. In that case, the slave switches to row-based replication temporarily for that event, and switches back to the previous format afterwards.

Bugs fixed:

  • Partitioning: MySQL Cluster: Trying to insert a value into a nonexistent LIST partition of an NDB table would cause the server to crash.

    Note

    Beginning with MySQL 5.1.12, user-defined partitioning types other than KEY or LINEAR KEY were disabled for NDB tables.

    (Bug#17763)

  • Partitioning: MySQL Cluster: A repeated SELECT on a partitioned table that used the NDB storage engine could cause the server to crash. (Bug#17390)

  • MySQL Cluster: Attempting to restart a node with dropped events still pending would fail. (Bug#18491)

  • MySQL Cluster: Two mysqld processes starting at the same time could cause a race condition. (Bug#18472)

  • MySQL Cluster: A timeout in the handling of an ABORT condition with more that 32 operations could yield a node failure. (Bug#18414)

  • MySQL Cluster: Two mysqld processes did not synchronise DROP TABLE binary log events correctly. (Bug#18395)

  • MySQL Cluster: A node restart immediately following a CREATE TABLE would fail.

    Important

    This fix supports 2-node Clusters only.

    (Bug#18385)

  • MySQL Cluster: In event of a node failure during a rollback, a “false” lock could be established on the backup for that node, which lock could not be removed without restarting the node. (Bug#18352)

  • MySQL Cluster: When multiple node restarts were attempted without allowing each restart to complete, the error message returned was Array index out of bounds rather than Too many crashed replicas. (Bug#18349)

  • MySQL Cluster: The cluster created a crashed replica of a table having an ordered index — or when logging was not enabled, of a table having a table or unique index — leading to a crash of the cluster following 8 successive restarts. (Bug#18298)

  • MySQL Cluster: Issuing a DROP LOGFILE GROUP statement would cause ndbd processes to crash if MySQL had been compiled with gcc4. (Bug#18295)

  • MySQL Cluster: auto_increment values were not propagated correctly in statement-based replication. (Bug#18208)

  • MySQL Cluster: When replacing a failed master node, the replacement node could cause the cluster to crash from a buffer overflow if it had an excessively large amount of data to write to the cluster log. (Bug#18118)

  • MySQL Cluster: Memory was mistakenly freed for NdbRecAttr objects during addition of an index while replicating the cluster, which could cause mysqld to crash. (Bug#18106)

  • MySQL Cluster: Insufficient StringBuffer memory when attempting to create a trigger caused the server to crash. (Bug#18101)

  • MySQL Cluster: Variable-length columns used as primary keys were not handled correctly. (Bug#18075)

  • MySQL Cluster: Row-based replication could fail with tables using VARCHAR columns for primary keys and having BLOB columns. (Bug#18067)

  • MySQL Cluster: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX on a column containing non-unique data could cause one or more ndbd nodes to hang or crash. (Bug#18040)

  • MySQL Cluster: Node recovery of tables with VARCHAR columns using character sets was inconsistent, which could cause a number of issues, including the data nodes failing to restart and ALTER TABLE statements to hang. (Bug#18026)

  • MySQL Cluster: A SELECT ... ORDER BY query on an explicitly partitioned Cluster table with no explicit indexes would crash the server. (Bug#17899)

  • MySQL Cluster: ALTER TABLE ... ADD INDEX failed with ERROR 756: Index on disk column is not supported when run against a Disk Data table having a primary key. (Bug#17888)

  • MySQL Cluster: In some cases, a single ndbd node failed following a system restart. (Bug#17854)

  • MySQL Cluster: (Replication): The binary log on the secondary master was not being set up correctly following a table rename. (Bug#17838)

  • MySQL Cluster: A simultaneous RENAME of several tables was logged multiple times. (Bug#17827)

  • MySQL Cluster: Trying to perform a DELETE from an NDB table following a LOCK TABLES caused the ndbd processes to hang. (Bug#17812)

  • MySQL Cluster: Trying to update very large partitioned tables using the NDB storage engine sometimes caused the server to crash. (Bug#17806, Bug#16385)

  • MySQL Cluster: Using ALTER TABLE ... ADD PARTITION on a table partitioned by LIST would cause the client to hang. (Bug#17701)

  • MySQL Cluster: With a single replica, transactions waiting in the log synchronisation queue were not being restarted, causing them to be aborted. (Bug#17536)

  • MySQL Cluster: ALTER TABLE on a partitioned NDB table could cause the server to crash. (Bug#17499)

  • MySQL Cluster: DELETE operations on NDB tables could cause memory leaks. (Bug#16874)

  • MySQL Cluster: Some query cache statistics were not always correctly reported for Cluster tables. (Bug#16795)

  • MySQL Cluster: Restarting nodes were allowed to start and join the cluster too early. (Bug#16772)

  • MySQL Cluster: UNDO_BUFFER_SIZE was limited to 17 MB. (Bug#16657, Bug#17890)

  • MySQL Cluster: Inserting and deleting BLOB column values while a backup was in process could cause data nodes to shut down. (Bug#14028)

  • Disk Data: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX failed with Error 4243: Index not found. (Bug#18039)

  • Disk Data: It was not possible to create more than 9 tablespaces. (Bug#16913)

  • Replication of data stored in a partitioned table would cause slave servers to issue a assertion and terminate. (Bug#18436)

  • A SELECT ... ORDER BY ... from a view defined using a function could crash the server. An example of such a view is CREATE VIEW v1 AS SELECT SQRT(c1) FROM t1. (Bug#18386)

  • The server would crash when SHOW STATUS was called on a server linked with yaSSL. (Bug#18310)

  • The ExtractValue() function did not return an error when passed an invalid XPath string. (Bug#18172)

  • Using the position() function in the XPath argument to ExtractValue() crashed the server. (Bug#18171)

  • REPAIR TABLE, OPTIMIZE TABLE, and ALTER TABLE operations on transactional tables (or on tables of any type on Windows) could corrupt triggers associated with those tables. (Bug#18153)

  • Connecting to a server with a UCS2 default character set with a client using a non-UCS2 character set crashed the server. (Bug#18004)

  • Using ALTER TABLE ... REBUILD PARTITION without specifying the name of the partition caused the server to crash, rather than reporting a syntax error. (Bug#17947)

  • ALTER TABLE ... REBUILD PARTITION with no partition name specified would crash the server. (Bug#17940)

  • A query with a WHERE date_column > date_value condition failed on a table partitioned by RANGE. (Bug#17894)

  • Renaming and adding a new column to a partitioned table in the same ALTER TABLE statement caused the server to crash. (Bug#17772)

  • MyISAM: Performing a bulk insert on a table referenced by a trigger would crash the table. (Bug#17764)

  • Using triggers with partitioned InnoDB tables led to incorrect results. (Bug#17744)

  • Updating a view that filters certain rows to set a filtered out row to be included in the table caused infinite loop. For example, if the view has a WHERE clause of salary > 100 then issuing an UPDATE statement of SET salary = 200 WHERE id = 10, caused an infinite loop. (Bug#17726)

  • A security enhancement in Visual Studio 8 could cause a MySQL debug server compiled with it to hang when running SELECT queries against partitioned tables. (Bug#17722)

  • The EXAMPLE storage engine did not work on Windows. (Bug#17721)

  • ALTER TABLE ... REORGANIZE PARTITION failed with Error on rename of filename ... on Windows. (Bug#17720)

  • The MySQL server could crash with out of memory errors when performing aggregate functions on a DECIMAL column. (Bug#17602)

  • NULL values were written to the mysql.slow_log table incorrectly. (Bug#17600)

  • mysql_fix_privilege_tables didn't create the mysql.plugin table. (Bug#17568)

  • Improper checking of binary log statements could result in a server crash. (Bug#17457)

  • Rpeated invocations of a stored procedure containing a SHOW CREATE EVENT statement would result in the error Packets out of order. (Bug#17403)

  • For FEDERATED tables, a SELECT statement with an ORDER BY clause did not return rows in the proper order. (Bug#17377)

  • SELECT ... WHERE column LIKE 'A%', when column had a key and used the latin2_czech_cs collation, caused the wrong number of rows to be returned. (Bug#17374)

  • Calling CREATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE twice on a partitioned table in a stored procedure or a prepared statement resulted in errors and sometimes server crashes. (Bug#17290)

  • Checks for permissions on database operations could be performed in a case-insensitive manner (a user with permissions on database MYDATABASE could by accident get permissions on database myDataBase), if the privilege data were still cached from a previous check. (Bug#17279)

  • Stored procedures that call UDFs and pass local string variables caused server crashes. (Bug#17261)

  • A problem with NULLs and interval mapping sometimes caused incorrect results or crashes when trying to use less-than searches on partitioned tables. (Bug#17173)

  • Attempting to add a new partition to a table partitioned by a unique key would cause an Out of memory error. (Bug#17169)

  • Creating a table with the same name as the mapped name of another table caused a server crash. For example, if MySQL maps the table name txu#P#p1 to txu@0023P@0023p1 on disk, creating another table named txu@0023P@0023p1 crashed the server. (Bug#17142)

  • Trying to add a partition to a table having subpartitions could crash the server. (Bug#17140)

  • Use of TRUNCATE TABLE for a TEMPORARY table on a master server was propagated to slaves properly, but slaves did not decrement the Slave_open_temp_tables counter properly. (Bug#17137)

  • Attempting to use a conflicting VALUES clause in ALTER TABLE ... ADD PARTITION caused the server to crash. An example of such a conflicting clause would be that uses VALUES LESS THAN (constant) (which indicates a range) with a table that is partitioned by LIST. (Bug#17127)

  • A failed ALTER TABLE ... ADD PRIMARY KEY on a partitioned table would result in bad table metadata and could possibly crash the server. (Bug#17097)

  • Stored routine names longer than 64 characters were silently truncated. Now the limit is properly enforced and an error occurs. (Bug#17015)

  • Cursors in stored routines could cause a server crash. (Bug#16887)

  • Triggers created without BEGIN and END clauses resulted in “You have an error in your SQL syntax” errors when dumping and replaying a binary log. (Bug#16878)

  • Using ALTER TABLE to increase the length of a BINARY(M) column caused column values to be padded with spaces rather than 0x00 bytes. (Bug#16857)

  • ALTER TABLE ... COALESCE PARTITION failed with an Out of Memory error. (Bug#16810)

  • ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN ... AFTER ... failed when used on partitioned tables. (Bug#16806)

  • If the server was started with the --skip-grant-tables option, it was impossible to create a trigger or a view without explicitly specifying a DEFINER clause. (Bug#16777)

  • In a highly concurrent environment, a server crash or deadlock could result from execution of a statement that used stored functions or activated triggers coincident with alteration of the tables used by these functions or triggers. (Bug#16593)

  • Clients compiled from source with the --without-readline did not save command history from session to session. (Bug#16557)

  • Using ORDER BY intvar within a stored procedure (where intvar is an integer variable or expression) would crash the server.

    Note

    The use of an integer i in an ORDER BY i clause for sorting the result by the i th column is deprecated (and non-standard). It should not be used in new applications. See Section 12.2.7, “SELECT Syntax”.

    (Bug#16474)

  • Slow queries executed by scheduled events were not being written to the slow query log. (Bug#16426)

  • INSERT statements executed by scheduled events were not written to the general log. (Bug#16413)

  • Repeated invocations of a stored procedure containing a CREATE EVENT or ALTER EVENT statement would crash the server. (Bug#16408)

  • Names of subpartitions were not displayed in the output of SHOW CREATE TABLE. (Bug#16370)

  • The ExtractValue() function would not accept expressions which matched element names containing an underscore character. (Bug#16320)

  • The self() XPath function was not handled correcty by ExtractValue(). (Bug#16315)

  • The ExtractValue() function allowed the use of the ! character in identifiers by ignoring the illegal character. This is now correctly reported as a syntax error. (Bug#16313)

  • Slave servers would retry the execution of a SQL statement an infinite number of times, ignoring the value SLAVE_TRANSACTION_RETRIES when using the NDB engine. (Bug#16228)

  • A memory leak caused warnings on slaves for certain statements that executed without warning on the master. (Bug#16175)

  • The DEFINER value for stored routines was not replicated. (Bug#15963)

  • No error was reported when subpartitions were defined for a non-subpartitioned table. (Bug#15961)

  • Character set conversion of string constants for UNION of constant and table column was not done when it was safe to do so. (Bug#15949)

  • The mysql_close() C API function leaked handles for shared-memory connections on Windows. (Bug#15846)

  • A SELECT using a function against a nested view would crash the server. (Bug#15683)

  • Setting up subpartitions on at least one but not all the partitions of a partitioned table caused the server to crash. (Bug#15407)

  • During conversion from one character set to ucs2, multi-byte characters with no ucs2 equivalent were converted to multiple characters, rather than to 0x003F QUESTION MARK. (Bug#15375)

  • CREATE TABLE ... PARTITION ... AS SELECT ... would cause the server to crash. (Bug#15336)

  • When attempting to insert a 0 into a LIST-partitioned table that had no value-list containing 0, no error was reported. (Bug#15253)

  • SELECT COUNT(*) for a MyISAM table could return different results depending on whether an index was used. (Bug#14980)

  • Stored routines that contained only a single statement were not written properly to the dumpfile when using mysqldump. (Bug#14857)

  • Execution of a stored function or trigger which inserted data into a table while running concurrent selects on the same table could result in storing incorrect data in the query cache. (Bug#14767)

  • Naming a partition using the characters Ç or ç (“c-cedilla”; Unicode 00C7 or 00E7) made unreadable the table containing the partition. (Bug#14527)

  • Searches on indexed columns of partitioned tables failed to find all matching rows following updates of the indexed columns. (Bug#14526)

  • Creating a partition which depends on an expression containing a column using the UTF8 character set would cause the server to crash. (Bug#14367)

  • On Linux, creation of table partitions failed within a stored procedure. (Bug#14363)

  • Invoking more than once a prepared statement that creates a partitioned table would crash the server. (Bug#14350)

  • The RENAME TABLE statement did not move triggers to the new table. (Bug#13525)

  • The server would execute stored routines that had a non-existent definer. (Bug#13198)

  • The length of a VARCHAR() column that used the utf8 character set would increase each time the table was re-created in a stored procedure or prepared statement, eventually causing the CREATE TABLE statement to fail. (Bug#13134)

  • Loading of UDFs in a statically linked MySQL caused a server crash. UDF loading is now blocked if the MySQL server is statically linked. (Bug#11835)

  • Setting the myisam_repair_threads system variable to a value larger than 1 could cause corruption of large MyISAM tables. (Bug#11527)

  • Issuing GRANT EXECUTE on a procedure would display any warnings related to the creation of the procedure. (Bug#7787)

C.1.22. Changes in MySQL 5.1.7 (27 February 2006)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Incompatible Change: The mysql_stmt_attr_get() C API function now returns a boolean rather than an unsigned int for STMT_ATTR_UPDATE_MAX_LENGTH. (Bug#16144)

  • Incompatible Change: Due to a change in the naming scheme for partitioning and subpartitioning files, it is not possible for the server to read partitioned tables created in previous MySQL versions. Attempting to read pre-5.1.6 partitioned tables with a MySQL 5.1.7 or later server now generates a suitable warning message.

    Two possible workarounds are:

      1. Create a non-partitioned table with the same table schema using a standard CREATE TABLE statement (that is, with no partitioning clauses)

      2. Issue a SELECT INTO to copy the data into the non-partitioned table before the upgrade

      Following the upgrade, you can partition the new table using ALTER TABLE ... PARTITION BY ....

    • Alternatively, you can dump the table using mysqldump prior to upgrading and reload it afterwards with LOAD DATA.

    In either case, you should drop the pre-5.1.6 partitioned tables before upgrading to 5.1.6 or later.

    Important

    If any partitioned tables that were created prior to MySQL 5.1.6 are present following an upgrade to MySQL 5.1.6 or later, it is also not possible to read from the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PARTITIONS table, nor will you be able to drop those tables or the database or databases in which they are located. In this event, you must:

    1. Shut down mysqld

    2. Manually delete the table, partition, and (if any) subpartition files

    3. Restart the MySQL Server

    (Bug#13437, Bug#16695)

  • Incompatible Change: TYPE = engine_name is no longer accepted as a synonym for the ENGINE = engine_name table option. (TYPE has been deprecated since MySQL 4.0.)

  • MySQL Cluster: Attempting to SELECT ... FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.FILES now raises a warning in the event that the cluster has crashed. (Bug#17087)

  • Disk Data: Status messages have been added to ndb_restore to enable users to know that data files for Disk Data are being created. (Bug#16873)

  • Cluster Replication: It is now possible to replicate NDB tables having no explicit primary key. See Section 20.11, “MySQL Cluster Replication”.

  • Creator privileges are now checked for all events before execution. (Bug#17289)

  • CREATE EVENT, DROP EVENT, and ALTER EVENT statements are not allowed in triggers. (Bug#16410)

  • The SQL mode in effect at the time an event is created or altered is recorded and used during event execution. (Bug#16407)

  • New charset command added to mysql command-line client. By typing charset name or \C name (such as \C UTF8), the client character set can be changed without reconnecting. (Bug#16217)

  • Added the --wait-timeout option to mysqlmanager to allow configuration of the timeout for dropping an inactive connection, and increased the default timeout from 30 seconds to 28,800 seconds (8 hours). (Bug#15980, Bug#12674)

  • All subpartitions within a given partitioned table are now guaranteed to have unique names. (Bug#15408)

  • mysqlimport now has a --use-threads=N option for loading data files in parallel using N threads.

  • Added the --check-upgrade to mysqlcheck that invokes CHECK TABLE with the FOR UPGRADE option. Added the --fix-db-names and --fix-table-names options to mysqlcheck.

  • Added the RENAME DATABASE statement.

  • Added the PROCESSLIST table to INFORMATION_SCHEMA.

  • Added the FOR UPGRADE option for the CHECK TABLE statement. This option checks whether tables are incompatible with the current version of MySQL Server.

  • In row-based replication, when executing a Rows_log_event, the associated table was locked, the rows applied and the lock released. This did not work since there are storage engines that count locks and perform an autocommit when the number of locks reach zero. Now we ensure that all table maps come before all ROWS events in a statement.

  • Removed the have_isam and have_raid system variables.

  • Several changes were made to make upgrades easier:

    • Added the mysql_upgrade program that checks all tables for incompatibilities with the current version of MySQL Server and repairs them if necessary. This program should be run for each MySQL upgrade (rather than mysql_fix_privilege_tables). See Section 4.4.8, “mysql_upgrade — Check Tables for MySQL Upgrade”.

    • Added the FOR UPGRADE option for the CHECK TABLE statement. This option checks whether tables are incompatible with the current version of MySQL Server.

    • Added the --check-upgrade to mysqlcheck that invokes CHECK TABLE with the FOR UPGRADE option. Added the --fix-db-names and --fix-table-names options to mysqlcheck.

  • Added the mysql_upgrade program that checks all tables for incompatibilities with the current version of MySQL Server and repairs them if necessary. This program should be run for each MySQL upgrade (rather than mysql_fix_privilege_tables). See Section 4.4.8, “mysql_upgrade — Check Tables for MySQL Upgrade”.

  • Added the IN NATURAL LANGUAGE MODE and IN NATURAL LANGUAGE MODE WITH QUERY EXPANSION modifiers for full-text searches. See Section 11.8, “Full-Text Search Functions”.

Bugs fixed:

  • MySQL Cluster: Creating NDB tables containing BLOB columns but no primary key caused unpredictable behavior. (Bug#17559)

  • MySQL Cluster: Inserting the output of REPEAT('some_string', some_int) into a BLOB column resulted in the error Invalid blob attributes or invalid blob parts table. (Bug#17505)

  • MySQL Cluster: ndbd restarts could sometimes fail due to incorrect memory access. (Bug#17417)

  • MySQL Cluster: Sharing of table names containing special characters between multiple SQL nodes was not handled correctly when binary logging was enabled (a timeout error resulted). (Bug#17415)

  • MySQL Cluster: Table definitions were not shared between multiple SQL nodes in a cluster without binary logging being enabled. (Bug#17414)

  • MySQL Cluster: Cluster log file paths were truncated to 128 characters. They may now be as long as MAX_PATH (the maximum path length permitted by the operating system). (Bug#17411)

  • MySQL Cluster: SHOW CREATE TABLE would fail when run against a table created in a different session. (Bug#17340)

  • MySQL Cluster: Following multiple forced shutdowns and restarts of data nodes, DROP DATABASE could fail. (Bug#17325)

  • MySQL Cluster: The REDO log would become corrupted (and thus unreadable) in some circumstances, due to a failure in the query handler. (Bug#17295)

  • MySQL Cluster: An UPDATE with an inner join failed to match any records if both tables in the join did not have a primary key. (Bug#17257)

  • MySQL Cluster: A DELETE with a join in the WHERE clause failed to retrieve any records if both tables in the join did not have a primary key. (Bug#17249)

  • MySQL Cluster: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE of a Cluster table would fail with an Unsupported error or crash the server. (Bug#17210, Bug#16552)

  • MySQL Cluster: The storage engine did not allow views to be updated. (Bug#17206)

  • MySQL Cluster: When attempting to import data into an NDB table using LOAD DATA INFILE, the server would hang in the event of a duplicate key error. (Bug#17154)

  • MySQL Cluster: In some cases, LOAD DATA INFILE did not load all data into NDB tables. (Bug#17081)

  • MySQL Cluster: CREATE TABLE new_tbl LIKE old_tbl; failed when old_tbl used the NDB storage engine. (Bug#17005)

  • MySQL Cluster: An unhandled resources issue could cause node failure with a DELETE FROM TABLE affecting thousands of rows. (Bug#16492)

  • MySQL Cluster: UNIQUE keys in Cluster tables were limited to 225 bytes in length. (Bug#15918)

  • MySQL Cluster: REPLACE failed when attempting to update a primary key value in a Cluster table. (Bug#14007)

  • MySQL Cluster: No error message was generated for setting NoOfFragmentLogFiles too low. (Bug#13966)

  • MySQL Cluster: No error message was generated for setting MaxNoOfAttributes too low. (Bug#13965)

  • MySQL Cluster: Performing large numbers of data manipulation statements on cluster tables using Disk Data could lead to a server crash.

  • Disk Data: In some cases, a cluster using Disk Data tables could not be restarted following a normal shutdown. (Bug#16872)

  • Cluster Replication: Row-based replication was not set up correctly if a backup was already in progress. For example, connecting a mysqld instance to a cluster which was being backed up would result in the message NDB: skipping setup table tbl_name being written to the error log. (Bug#17459)

  • Cluster Replication: Row-based replication of a cluster failed to take --binlog_ignore_db settings into account. (Bug#17188)

  • Cluster Replication: Cluster tables not having an explicit primary key could not be replicated. (Bug#14541)

  • Column counts were encoded incorrectly in the binary log for row-based logging format. (Bug#17678)

  • Data truncations on non-UNIQUE indexes could crash InnoDB when using multi-byte character sets. (Bug#17530)

  • An ALTER DATABASE statement on a replication master crashed the slaves. (Bug#17521)

  • Execution times for scheduled events were not calculated correctly: the last execution time was used as a base rather than the actual start time. (Bug#17494)

  • Creating an event and using a whitespace character other than space following the DO keyword caused a server crash. (Bug#17453)

  • Partitioning with certain SUBPARTITION BY HASH clauses caused an error when querying for a partitioned column using an IS NULL comparison. (Bug#17430, Bug#17432)

  • Race conditions between event creation, dropping, and execution could result in a server crash or hang. (Bug#17373)

  • Trying to create a partitioned table with more than 32 attributes failed. (Bug#17179)

  • Attempting to add a new partition to a table partitioned by a unique key would cause an Out of memory error. (Bug#17169)

  • myisam_ftdump did not work for FULLTEXT indexes associated with a parser plugin. (Bug#17116)

  • On Windows platforms, some attempts to create partitioned tables from the command line would cause the mysql client to hang. (Bug#17082)

  • A SELECT from the last partition of a subpartitioned table having a UNIQUE KEY could crash the MySQL Server. (Bug#16907)

  • Statements that contained Unicode characters were not logged to the log tables correctly. (Bug#16905)

  • A SELECT on a subpartitioned table having a multiple-column PRIMARY or UNIQUE KEY, and whose partitioning function used only the first column of the key, could cause mysqld to crash. (Bug#16901)

  • A RETURN statement within a trigger caused a server crash. RETURN now is disallowed within triggers. To exit immediately, use LEAVE. (Bug#16829)

  • Using REPLACE INTO on a partitioned table having a primary key would crash the server in the event of a duplicate key error. (Bug#16782)

  • DROP TABLE would sometimes fail on a table having subpartitions that used the default storage engine. (Bug#16775)

  • If the query optimizer transformed a GROUP BY clause in a subquery, it did not also transform the HAVING clause if there was one, producing incorrect results. (Bug#16603)

  • Querying the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PARTITIONS table on a non-max server caused a server crash. This also happened following the creation of a table with a very large number (hundreds) of partitions. (Bug#16591, Bug#17141)

  • For a transaction that used MyISAM and InnoDB tables, interruption of the transaction due to a dropped connection on a master server caused slaves to lose synchrony. (Bug#16559)

  • SHOW CREATE EVENT displayed no output. (Bug#16423)

  • DROP DATABASE did not drop events for the database. (Bug#16406)

  • The mysql_fix_privilege_tables.sql script did not properly initialize the Event_priv column to 'Y' for those accounts that should have the EVENT privilege. (Bug#16400)

  • SELECT with GROUP BY on a view could cause a server crash. (Bug#16382)

  • MySQL server dropped client connection for certain SELECT statements against views defined that used MERGE algorithm. (Bug#16260)

  • Using an XPath expression containing = with ExtractValue() caused the server to crash. (Bug#16242)

  • When used with the ExtractValue() function, an XPath expression having no leading “ / ” character would crash the server. (Bug#16234)

  • Using GROUP BY on column used in WHERE clause could cause empty set to be returned. (Bug#16203)

  • CAST(... AS TIME) operations returned different results when using versus not using prepared-statement protocol. (Bug#15805)

  • The SELECT privilege was required for triggers that performed no selects. (Bug#15196)

  • The UPDATE privilege was required for triggers that performed no updates. (Bug#15166)

  • A statement containing GROUP BY and HAVING clauses could return incorrect results when the HAVING clause contained logic that returned FALSE for every row. (Bug#14927)

  • Killing a long-running query containing a subquery could cause a server crash. (Bug#14851)

  • Previously, a stored function invocation was written to the binary log as DO func_name() if the invocation changes data and occurs within a non-logged statement, or if the function invokes a stored procedure that produces an error. These invocations now are logged as SELECT func_name() instead for better control over error code checking (slave servers could stop due to detecting a different error than occurred on the master). (Bug#14769)

  • SUBSTRING_INDEX() could yield inconsistent results when applied with the same arguments to consecutive rows in a query. (Bug#14676)

  • SET sql_mode = N, where N > 31, did not work properly. (Bug#13897)

  • SHOW CREATE TABLE produced extraneous spaces following the keywords “PRIMARY KEY”. (Bug#13883)

  • BIT fields were not properly handled when using row-based replication. (Bug#13418)

  • InnoDB could display an incorrect error message for a cascading update. (Bug#9680)

  • CHECKSUM TABLE returned different values for MyISAM tables depending on whether the QUICK or EXTENDED option was used. (Bug#8841)

  • SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL acted like SET SESSION TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL. That is, it set the isolation level for longer than the next transaction. (Bug#7955)

  • Repeated invocation of my_init() and my_end() caused corruption of character set data and connection failure. (Bug#6536)

C.1.23. Changes in MySQL 5.1.6 (01 February 2006)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Incompatible Change: Words with apostrophes are now matched in a FULLTEXT search against non-apostrophe words (for example, a search for Jerry will match against the term Jerry's). Users upgrading to this version must issue REPAIR TABLE ... QUICK statements for tables containing FULLTEXT indexes. (Bug#14194)

  • Incompatible Change: This release introduces the TRIGGER privilege. Previously, the SUPER privilege was needed to create or drop triggers. Now those operations require the TRIGGER privilege. This is a security improvement because you no longer need to grant users the SUPER privilege to enable them to create triggers. However, the requirement that the account named in a trigger's DEFINER clause must have the SUPER privilege has changed to a requirement for the TRIGGER privilege. After upgrading, be sure to update your grant tables as described in Section 4.4.4, “mysql_fix_privilege_tables — Upgrade MySQL System Tables”. This process assigns the TRIGGER privilege to all accounts that had the SUPER privilege. (After updating, you might also consider whether any of those accounts no longer need SUPER.) If you fail to update the grant tables, triggers may fail when activated. (Bug#9142)

  • Incompatible Change: Before MySQL 5.1.6, the server writes general query log and slow query log entries to log files. As of MySQL 5.1.6, the server's logging capabilities for these logs are more flexible. Log entries can be written to log files (as before) or to the general_log and slow_log tables in the mysql database. If logging is enabled, either or both destinations can be selected. The --log-output option controls the destination or destinations of log output. See Section 5.2.1, “Selecting General Query and Slow Query Log Output Destinations”.

    If logging is enabled, the default destination now is to log to tables, which differs from earlier versions. If you had the server configured for logging to log files formerly, use --log-output=FILE to preserve this behavior after an upgrade to MySQL 5.1.6 or higher.

  • Important Change: MySQL Cluster: Replication: Replication between MySQL Clusters is now supported. It is now also possible to replicate between a MySQL Cluster and a non-cluster database. See Section 20.11, “MySQL Cluster Replication”, for more information.

  • MySQL Cluster: Added the ndb_extra_logging system variable.

  • MySQL Cluster: The NDB storage engine now supports the CREATE INDEX and DROP INDEX statements.

  • Packaging: MySQL 5.1.6 introduces some changes to distribution packaging:

    • Distributions include both a mysqld optimized server and mysqld-debug debugging server. There is no separate debug distribution.

    • There is no longer a mysqld-max server. (Note: This changed in MySQL 5.1.9: The mysqld-max server also is included in binary distributions.)

    • Server binaries no longer are stripped, except for RPM distributions.

    • Binary distributions for Unix and Unix-like systems no longer include safe_mysqld as a link to mysqld_safe. safe_mysqld has been deprecated since MySQL 4.0 and now is removed.

  • The mysqldump utility now supports an option for dumping tablespaces. Use -Y or --all-tablespaces to enable this functionality. (Bug#16753)

  • Partition support is not an “engine”, but it was included in the output of SHOW ENGINES. Now it is not. The have_partition_engine variable was renamed to have_partitioning. (Bug#14355, Bug#16718)

  • ANALYZE TABLE is now supported for partitioned tables. (Bug#13441)

  • Added the --use-threads option for mysqlslap.

  • Queries against partitioned tables can now take advantage of partition pruning. In some cases, this can result in query execution that is an order of magnitude faster than the same query against a non-partitioned version of the same table.

  • There is no longer a mysqld-max server. (Note: This changed in MySQL 5.1.9: The mysqld-max server also is included in binary distributions.)

  • Added the FILES table to INFORMATION_SCHEMA.

  • Binary distributions for Unix and Unix-like systems no longer include safe_mysqld as a link to mysqld_safe. safe_mysqld has been deprecated since MySQL 4.0 and now is removed.

  • Special characters in database and table identifiers now are encoded when creating the corresponding directory names and filenames. This relaxes the restrictions on the characters that can appear in identifiers. See Section 8.2.3, “Mapping of Identifiers to Filenames”.

  • Added the event_scheduler system variable.

  • MySQL 5.1.6 introduces the Event Scheduler which allows one to schedule statements for execution at predetermined times. Events can be transient (one-time-only) or recurrent at regular intervals, and may execute queries and statements permitted in stored routines, including compound statements.

    Events can be altered after creation, and dropped when no longer needed.

    Information about scheduled events can be obtained using the statements SHOW EVENTS and SHOW CREATE EVENT, or by querying the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.EVENTS table. All of these are available beginning in MySQL 5.1.6.

    Users must have the EVENT privilege (also added in 5.1.6) to create events.

    For more information, see Chapter 25, Event Scheduler.

  • Distributions include both a mysqld optimized server and mysqld-debug debugging server. There is no separate debug distribution.

  • Server binaries no longer are stripped, except for RPM distributions.

  • The ARCHIVE storage engine now supports the AUTO_INCREMENT column attribute and the AUTO_INCREMENT table option. Section 13.10, “The ARCHIVE Storage Engine”.

  • Server plugins can register their own status variables to be displayed by the SHOW STATUS statement.

  • Added the PARTITIONS table to INFORMATION_SCHEMA.

  • Added the EVENTS table to INFORMATION_SCHEMA.

Bugs fixed:

  • MySQL Cluster: NDB leaked disk space when performing repeated INSERT or DELETE statements. (Bug#16771)

  • MySQL Cluster: ndb_delete_all ran out of memory when processing tables containing BLOB columns. (Bug#16693)

  • MySQL Cluster: Trying to import too many dumped tables requiring resources beyond those allocated in the cluster configuration file caused the server to crash instead of reporting an insufficient resources error. (Bug#16455)

  • MySQL Cluster: A BIT column whose offset and length totaled 32 caused the cluster to crash. (Bug#16125)

  • MySQL Cluster: The ndb_autodiscover test failed sporadically due to a node not being permitted to connect to the cluster. (Bug#15619)

  • MySQL Cluster: NDB returned an incorrect Can't find file error for OS error 24; this has been changed to Too many open files. (Bug#15020)

  • MySQL Cluster: CREATE TABLESPACE statements were incorrectly parsed on 64-bit platforms. (INITIAL SIZE size worked, but INITIAL SIZE = size failed.) (Bug#13556)

  • MySQL Cluster: Using mysqldump to obtain a dump of a partitioned table employing the NDB storage engine produced a non-functional table creation statement. (Bug#13155)

  • Disk Data: Tablespaces created using parameters with relatively low values (10 MB or less) produced filesizes much smaller than expected. (Bug#16742)

  • Disk Data: NDB returned the wrong error when the tablespace on disk was full. (Bug#16738)

  • Disk Data: The error message generated by a failed ADD UNDOFILE did not provide any reasons for the failure. (Bug#16267)

  • Disk Data: DROP LOGFILE GROUP corrupted the cluster file system and caused ndbd to fail when running more than one node on the same system. (Bug#16193)

  • Cluster API: Upon the completion of a scan where a key request remained outstanding on the primary replica and a starting node died, the scan did not terminate. This caused incomplete error handling for the failed node. (Bug#15908)

  • When the fulltext search parser plugin returned more words than half of the length (in bytes) of the query string, the server would crash. (Bug#16722)

  • An indexing error sometimes caused values to be assigned to the wrong RANGE partition. (Bug#16684)

  • An INSERT statement in a stored procedure corrupted the binary log. (Bug#16621)

  • Trying to add more than one partition in a single ALTER TABLE ... ADD PARTITION statement caused the server to crash. (Bug#16534)

  • Parallel builds occasionally failed on Solaris. (Bug#16282)

  • Inserting a negative value into an integer column used as the partitioning key for a table partitioned by HASH could cause the server to crash. (Bug#15968)

  • Creating a partitioned table using a storage engine other than the session default storage engine caused the server to crash. (Bug#15966)

  • The error message for specifying values for which no partition exists returned wrong values on certain platforms. (Bug#15910)

  • Specifying a value for --tmpdir without a trailing slash had unpredictable results. (Bug#15904)

  • STR_TO_DATE(1,NULL) caused a server crash. (Bug#15828, CVE-2006-3081)

  • ALTER TABLE ... ADD PARTITIONS on a table with one partition crashed the server. (Bug#15820)

  • The mysql_real_connect() C API function incorrectly reset the MYSQL_OPT_RECONNECT option to its default value. (Bug#15719)

  • In some cases the query optimizer did not properly perform multiple joins where inner joins followed left joins, resulting in corrupted result sets. (Bug#15633)

  • Certain permission management statements could create a NULL hostname for a user, resulting in a server crash. (Bug#15598)

  • Improper memory handling for stored routine variables could cause memory overruns and binary log corruption. (Bug#15588)

  • The absence of a table in the left part of a left or right join was not checked prior to name resolution, which resulted in a server crash. (Bug#15538)

  • An ALTER TABLE ... PARTITION BY ... statement did not have any effect. (Bug#15523)

  • Using RANGE partitioning with a CASE expression as the partitioning function would cause records to be placed in the wrong partition. (Bug#15393)

  • Certain subqueries where the inner query was the result of a aggregate function would return different results with MySQL 5.1 than with MySQL 4.1.

    Subselects could also return wrong results when the query cache and grouping were involved. (Bug#15347)

  • Attempting to insert data into a partitioned table that used the BLACKHOLE storage engine caused mysqld to crash. (Bug#14524)

  • A FULLTEXT query in a prepared statement could result in unexpected behavior. (Bug#14496)

  • With a table partitioned by LIST, inserting a value which was smaller than any value shown in the partitioning value-lists could cause the server to crash. (Bug#14365)

  • The DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY clauses of a CREATE TABLE statement involving partitions did not work. (Bug#14354)

  • SHOW CREATE TABLE did not display the PARTITIONS clause for tables partitioned by HASH or KEY. (Bug#14327)

  • ALTER TABLE ... DROP PARTITION would truncate all DATE column values in the table's remaining partitions to NULL. (Bug#13644)

  • ALTER TABLE ... ADD PARTITION could crash the server or cause an Out of memory error in some circumstances. (Bug#13447)

  • The server would allow foreign keys to be declared in the definition of a partitioned table despite the fact that partitioned tables do not support foreign keys (see Section 21.5, “Restrictions and Limitations on Partitioning”). (Bug#13446)

  • A SELECT from a key-partitioned table with a multi-column key could cause the server to crash. (Bug#13445)

  • Issuing a TRUNCATE statement twice in succession on the same partitioned table would cause the server to crash. (Bug#13442)

  • Using a REPLACE statement on a partitioned table caused the server to crash. (Bug#13440)

  • Using an identifier rather than a literal integer value in the LESS THAN clause of a range-partitioned table could cause the server to crash and corruption of tables. (Bug#13439)

  • Using ENGINE=... within a PARTITION clause could cause the server to crash. (Bug#13438)

  • CREATE TABLE ... LIKE did not work if the table whose schema was to be copied was a partitoned table. (Bug#13435)

  • Multi-byte path names for LOAD DATA and SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE caused errors. Added the character_set_filesystem system variable, which controls the interpretation of string literals that refer to filenames. (Bug#12448)

  • Temporary table aliasing did not work inside stored functions. (Bug#12198)

  • Using the TRUNCATE() function with a negative number for the second argument on a BIGINT column returned incorrect results. (Bug#8461)

  • Certain Japanese table names were not properly saved during a CREATE TABLE statement. (Bug#3906)

C.1.24. Changes in MySQL 5.1.5 (10 January 2006)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Added the --port-open-timeout option to mysqld to control how many seconds the server should wait for the TCP/IP port to become free if it cannot be opened. (Bug#15591)

  • Added the --create-schema, --lock-directory, --number-of-queries, --only-print, --preserve-schema, and --slave options for mysqlslap.

  • Added the --base64-output option to mysqlbinlog to print all binary log entries using base64 encoding. This is for debugging only. Logs produced using this option should not be applied on production systems.

  • Added the INFORMATION_SCHEMA PLUGINS table and the SHOW PLUGIN statement.

  • Added the binlog_format system variable that controls whether to use row-based or statement-based binary logging. Added the --binlog-format and --binlog-row-event-max-size server options for binary logging control. See Section 19.1.2, “Replication Formats”.

  • Two new Hungarian collations are included: utf8_hungarian_ci and ucs2_hungarian_ci. These support the correct sort order for Hungarian vowels. However, they do not support the correct order for sorting Hungarian consonant contractions; this issue will be fixed in a future release.

  • Plugins now can have status variables that are displayed in the output from SHOW STATUS. See Section 31.2.5, “Writing Plugins”.

  • Added the INFORMATION_SCHEMA ENGINES table.

  • Added the XML functions ExtractValue() and UpdateXML(). ExtractValue() returns the content of a fragment of XML matching a given XPath expression. UpdateXML() replaces the element selected from a fragment of XML by an XPath expression supplied by the user with a second XML fragment (also user-supplied), and returns the modified XML. See Section 11.10, “XML Functions”.

Bugs fixed:

  • INSERT DELAYED caused mysqld to crash. (Bug#16095)

  • The --plugin_dir option was not working. Also fix error with specifying parser name for fulltext. (Bug#16068)

  • Attempting to insert into a table partitioned by LIST a value less than any specified in one of the table's partition definitions resulted in a server crash. In such cases, mysqld now returns ERROR 1500 (HY000): Table has no partition for value v , where v is the out-of-range value. (Bug#15819)

  • Issuing a DROP USER command could cause some users to encounter a hostname is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server error. (Bug#15775)

  • The output of mysqldump --triggers did not contain the DEFINER clause in dumped trigger definitions. (Bug#15110)

  • The output of SHOW TRIGGERS contained extraneous whitespace. (Bug#15103)

  • Creating a trigger caused a server crash if the table or trigger database was not known because no default database had been selected. (Bug#14863)

  • InnoDB: Comparison of indexed VARCHAR CHARACTER SET ucs2 COLLATE ucs2_bin columns using LIKE could fail. (Bug#14583)

  • A COMMIT statement followed by a ALTER TABLE statement on a BDB table caused server crash. (Bug#14212)

  • An INSERT ... SELECT statement between tables in a MERGE set can return errors when statement involves insert into child table from merge table or vice-versa. (Bug#5390)

  • InnoDB: An UPDATE statement with no index column in the WHERE condition locked all the rows in the table. (Bug#3300)

C.1.25. Changes in MySQL 5.1.4 (21 December 2005)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Added the --server-id option to mysqlbinlog to enable only those events created by the server having the given server ID to be extracted. (Bug#15485)

  • It is now possible to build the server such that MyISAM tables can support up to 128 keys rather than the standard 64. This can be done by configuring the build using the option --with-max-indexes=N , where N≤128 is the maximum number of indexes to permit per table. (Bug#10932)

  • Added the myisam_use_mmap system variable.

  • Added the --bdb-data-direct and --bdb-log-direct server options.

  • Added the mysqlslap program, which is designed to emulate client load for a MySQL server and report the timing of each stage. It works as if multiple clients are accessing the server.

  • The bundled BDB library was upgraded to version 4.4.16.

  • Added the cp1250_polish_ci collation for the cp1250 character set.

Bugs fixed:

  • MySQL Cluster: The --ndb option for perror did not function. (Bug#15486)

  • MySQL Cluster: Using ORDER BY primary_key_column when selecting from a table having the primary key on a VARCHAR column caused a forced shutdown of the cluster. (Bug#15240, Bug#15682, Bug#14828, Bug#15517)

  • Server could not be built on default Debian systems with BDB enabled. (Bug#15734)

  • SHOW ENGINES output showed the FEDERATED engine as DISABLED even for builds with FEDERATED support. (Bug#15559)

  • BDB: A DELETE, INSERT, or UPDATE of a BDB table could cause the server to crash where the query contained a subquery using an index read. (Bug#15536)

  • It was not possible to reorganize a partition reusing a discarded partition name.

    Now, for example, you can create a table such as this one:

    CREATE TABLE t1 (a INT) 
        PARTITION BY RANGE (a) (
          PARTITION p0 VALUES LESS THAN (10),
          PARTITION p1 VALUES LESS THAN (20),
          PARTITION p2 VALUES LESS THAN MAXVALUE
        );
    

    and then repartition it as shown here:

    ALTER TABLE t1 REORGANIZE PARTITION p2 INTO (
        PARTITION p2 VALUES LESS THAN (30)
    );
    

    Previously, attempting to do so would produce the error All partitions must have unique names in the table . (Bug#15521)

  • The BLACKHOLE storage engine did not handle transactions properly: Rolled-back transactions were written to the binary log. Now they ae not. (Bug#15406)

  • A left join on a column that having a NULL value could cause the server to crash. (Bug#15268)

  • Selecting from a view processed with the temptable algorithm caused a server crash if the query cache was enabled. (Bug#15119)

  • Creating a view that referenced a stored function that selected from a view caused a crash upon selection from the view. (Bug#15096)

  • Multiple-table update operations were counting updates and not updated rows. As a result, if a row had several updates it was counted several times for the “rows matched” value but updated only once. (Bug#15028)

  • ROW_COUNT() returned an incorrect result after EXECUTE of a prepared statement. (Bug#14956)

  • ANALYZE TABLE did not properly update table statistics for a MyISAM table with a FULLTEXT index containing stopwords, so a subsequent ANALYZE TABLE would not recognize the table as having already been analyzed. (Bug#14902)

  • Creating a view within a stored procedure could result in an out of memory error or a server crash. (Bug#14885)

  • SELECT queries that began with an opening parenthesis were not being placed in the query cache. (Bug#14652)

  • Space truncation was being ignored when inserting into BINARY or VARBINARY columns. Now space truncation results in a warning, or an error in strict mode. (Bug#14299)

  • The maximum value of MAX_ROWS was handled incorrectly on 64-bit systems. (Bug#14155)

  • For binary string data types, mysqldump --hex-blob produced an illegal output value of 0x rather than ''. (Bug#13318)

  • Some comparisons for the IN() operator were inconsistent with equivalent comparisons for the = operator. (Bug#12612)

  • Attempts to assign NULL to a NOT NULL column in strict mode now result in a message of Column 'col_name' cannot be null, rather than Column set to default value; NULL supplied to NOT NULL column 'col_name' at row n. (Bug#11491)

  • SHOW CREATE DATABASE was sometimes refused when the client had privileges for the database. (Bug#9785)

  • Invalid casts to DATE values now result in a message of Incorrect datetime value, rather than Truncated incorrect datetime value. (Bug#8294)

  • mysql ignored the MYSQL_TCP_PORT environment variable. (Bug#5792)

C.1.26. Changes in MySQL 5.1.3 (29 November 2005)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Plugin API: Incompatible Change: MySQL 5.1 adds support for a very flexible plugin API that enables loading and unloading of various components at runtime, without restarting the server. Although the work on this is not finished yet, plugin full-text parsers are a first step in this direction. This allows users to implement their own input filter on the indexed text, enabling full-text search capability on arbitrary data such as PDF files or other document formats. A pre-parser full-text plugin performs the actual parsing and extraction of the text and hands it over to the built-in MySQL full-text search. (Author: Sergey Vojtovich)

    The plugin API requires the mysql.plugin table. When upgrading from an older version of MySQL, you should run the mysql_fix_privilege_tables command to create this table. See Section 4.4.4, “mysql_fix_privilege_tables — Upgrade MySQL System Tables”.

    Plugins are installed in the directory named by the plugin_dir system variable. This variable also controls the location from which the server loads user-defined functions (UDFs), which is a change from earlier versions of MySQL. That is, all UDF library files now must be installed in the plugin directory. When upgrading from an older version of MySQL, you must migrate your UDF files to the plugin directory.

  • Incompatible Change: Renamed the table_cache system variable to table_open_cache. Any scripts that refer to table_cache should be updated to use the new name.

  • MySQL Cluster: VARCHAR columns used in MySQL Cluster tables are now variable-sized; that is, they now only allocate as much space as required to store the data. Previously, a VARCHAR(n) column allocated n+2 bytes (aligned to 4 bytes), regardless of whether the actual inserted value required that much space. (In other words, a VARCHAR column always required the same, fixed, amount of storage as a CHAR column of the same size.)

  • Partitioning: allows distributing portions of individual tables across a filesystem, according to rules which can be set when the table is created. In effect, different portions of a table are stored as separate tables in different locations, but from the user point of view, the partitioned table is still a single table. See Chapter 21, Partitioning, for further information on this functionality. (Author: Mikael Ronström)

  • RAND() no longer allows non-constant initializers. (Prior to MySQL 5.1.3, the effect of non-constant initializers is undefined.) (Bug#6172)

  • Added the table_definition_cache system variable. If you use a large number of tables, you can create a large table definition cache to speed up opening of tables. The table definition cache takes less space and does not use file descriptors, unlike the normal table cache.

  • SET instance_name. option_name=option_value sets an option to the specified value and writes it to the config file See Section 4.6.9, “mysqlmanager — The MySQL Instance Manager”, for more details on these new commands. (Author: Petr Chardin)

  • SHOW instance_name LOG FILES provides a listing of all log files used by the instance. (Author: Petr Chardin)

  • Added the SHOW AUTHORS statement.

  • Fast ALTER TABLE: Operations that change only table metadata and not table data do not require a temporary table to be used, which improves performance. For example, renaming a column changes only the .frm file and no longer uses a temporary table.

  • The Instance Manager (IM) now has some additional functionality:

    • SHOW instance_name LOG FILES provides a listing of all log files used by the instance. (Author: Petr Chardin)

    • SHOW instance_name LOG {ERROR | SLOW | GENERAL} size retrieves a part of the specified log file. (Author: Petr Chardin)

    • SET instance_name. option_name=option_value sets an option to the specified value and writes it to the config file See Section 4.6.9, “mysqlmanager — The MySQL Instance Manager”, for more details on these new commands. (Author: Petr Chardin)

  • SHOW instance_name LOG {ERROR | SLOW | GENERAL} size retrieves a part of the specified log file. (Author: Petr Chardin)

  • Added the SHOW FUNCTION CODE and SHOW PROCEDURE CODE statements (available only for servers that have been built with debugging support). See Section 12.5.4.23, “SHOW PROCEDURE CODE and SHOW FUNCTION CODE Syntax”.

  • The performance of boolean full-text searches (using the “+” Operator) has been improved. See Section 11.8, “Full-Text Search Functions”, for more details about full-text searching. (Author: Sergey Vojtovich)

Bugs fixed:

  • RESET MASTER failed to delete log files on Windows. One consequence of this change is that server opens the general query and slow log files in shared mode, so now they can be renamed while the server has them open (something not true in previous versions). (Bug#13377)

  • Set functions could not be aggregated in outer subqueries. (Bug#12762)

C.1.27. Changes in MySQL 5.1.2 (Not released)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Added the bdb_cache_parts and bdb_region_size system variables, and allowed bdb_cache_size to be larger than 4GB on systems that support it. (Bug#14895)

  • Added MAXLOCKS, MINLOCKS, MAXWRITE, and MINWRITE as allowable values of the --bdb-lock-detect option. (Bug#14876)

  • Added --replace to mysqldump. This option uses REPLACE INTO, rather than INSERT INTO, when writing the dumpfile.

  • Added Transactions, XA, and Savepoints columns to SHOW ENGINES output.

Bugs fixed:

  • Foreign keys were not properly enforced in TEMPORARY tables. Foreign keys now are disallowed in TEMPORARY tables. (Bug#12084)

C.1.28. Changes in MySQL 5.1.1 (Not released)

Bugs fixed:

  • Partitioning: MySQL Cluster: Specifying the wrong nodegroup in a CREATE TABLE statement using partitioning would lead to the table name being locked after the statement failed (that is, the table name could not be re-used). (Bug#12114)

  • Using ORDER BY in a query with a partitioned table on a 64-bit operating system could crash the server. (Bug#12116)

  • Performing a CREATE TABLE statement with a PARTITION BY clause in a prepared statement could crash a server running in debug mode. (Bug#12097)

  • When two threads competed for the same table, a deadlock could occur if one thread also had a lock on another table through LOCK TABLES and the thread was attempting to remove the table in some manner while the other thread tried to place locks on both tables. (Bug#10600)

C.2. MySQL Connector/ODBC (MyODBC) Change History

C.2.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.5 (Not yet released)
C.2.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.4 (Not yet released)
C.2.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.3 (Not yet released)
C.2.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.2 (13 February 2008)
C.2.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.1 (13 December 2007)
C.2.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.0 (10 September 2007)
C.2.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.12 (Never released)
C.2.8. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.11 (31 January 2007)
C.2.9. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.10 (14 December 2006)
C.2.10. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.9 (22 November 2006)
C.2.11. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.8 (17 November 2006)
C.2.12. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.7 (08 November 2006)
C.2.13. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.6 (03 November 2006)
C.2.14. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.5 (17 October 2006)
C.2.15. Changes in Connector/ODBC 5.0.3 (Connector/ODBC 5.0 Alpha 3) (20 June 2006)
C.2.16. Changes in Connector/ODBC 5.0.2 (Never released)
C.2.17. Changes in Connector/ODBC 5.0.1 (Connector/ODBC 5.0 Alpha 2) (05 June 2006)
C.2.18. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.26 (07 July 2008)
C.2.19. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.25 (Not yet released)
C.2.20. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.24 (Not yet released)
C.2.21. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.23 (09 January 2008)
C.2.22. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.22 (13 November 2007)
C.2.23. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.21 (08 October 2007)
C.2.24. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.20 (10 September 2007)
C.2.25. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.19 (10 August 2007)
C.2.26. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.18 (08 August 2007)
C.2.27. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.17 (14 July 2007)
C.2.28. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.16 (14 June 2007)
C.2.29. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.15 (07 May 2007)
C.2.30. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.14 (08 March 2007)
C.2.31. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.13 (Never released)
C.2.32. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.12 (11 Febrauary 2005)
C.2.33. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.11 (28 January 2005)

C.2.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.5 (Not yet released)

Bugs fixed:

  • ODBC TIMESTAMP string format is not handled properly by the MyODBC driver. When passing a TIMESTAMP or DATE to MyODBC, in the ODBC format: {d <date>} or {ts <timestamp>}, the string that represents this is copied once into the SQL statement, and then added again, as an escaped string. (Bug#37342)

  • SQLDriverConnect does not return SQL_NO_DATA on cancel. The ODBC documentation specifies that this method should return SQL_NO_DATA when the user cancels the dialog to connect. The connector, however, returns SQL_ERROR. (Bug#36293)

  • The ODBC connector randomly uses logon information stored in odbc-profile, or prompts the user for connection information and ignores any settings stored in odbc-profile. (Bug#36203)

  • After having successfully established a connection, a crash occurs when calling SQLProcedures() followed by SQLFreeStmt(), using the ODBC C API. (Bug#36069)

C.2.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.4 (Not yet released)

Bugs fixed:

  • Wrong result obtained when using sum() on a decimal(8,2) field type. (Bug#35920)

  • The driver installer could not create a new DSN if many other drivers were already installed. (Bug#35776)

  • The SQLColAttribute() function returned SQL_TRUE when querying the SQL_DESC_FIXED_PREC_SCALE (SQL_COLUMN_MONEY) attribute of a DECIMAL column. Previously, the correct value of SQL_FALSE was returned; this is now again the case. (Bug#35581)

  • On Linux, SQLGetDiagRec() returned SQL_SUCCESS in cases when it should have returned SQL_NO_DATA. (Bug#33910)

  • The driver crashes ODBC Administrator on attempting to add a new DSN. (Bug#32057)

C.2.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.3 (Not yet released)

Platform specific notes:

  • Important Change: You must uninstall previous 5.1.x editions of Connector/ODBC before installing the new version.

  • The HP-UX 11.23 IA64 binary package does not include the GUI bits because of problems building Qt on that platform.

  • There is no binary package for Mac OS X on 64-bit PowerPC because Apple does not currently provide a 64-bit PowerPC version of iODBC.

  • The installer for 64-bit Windows installs both the 32-bit and 64-bit driver. Please note that Microsoft does not yet supply a 64-bit bridge from ADO to ODBC.

Bugs fixed:

  • Important Change: In previous versions, the SSL certificate would automatically be verified when used as part of the Connector/ODBC connection. The default mode is now to ignore the verificate of certificates. To enforce verification of the SSL certificate during connection, use the SSLVERIFY DSN parameter, setting the value to 1. (Bug#29955, Bug#34648)

  • Inserting characters to a UTF8 table using surrogate pairs would fail and insert invalid data. (Bug#34672)

  • Installation of Connector/ODBC would fail because it was unable to uninstall a previous installed version. The file being requested would match an older release version than any installed version of the connector. (Bug#34522)

  • Using SqlGetData in combination with SQL_C_WCHAR would return overlapping data. (Bug#34429)

  • Descriptor records were not cleared correctly when calling SQLFreeStmt(SQL_UNBIND). (Bug#34271)

  • The dropdown selection for databases on a server when creating a DSN was too small. The list size now automatically adjusts up to a maximum size of 20 potential databases. (Bug#33918)

  • Microsoft Access would be unable to use DBEngine.RegisterDatabase to create a DSN using the Connector/ODBC driver. (Bug#33825)

  • Connector/ODBC erroneously reported that it supported the CAST() and CONVERT() ODBC functions for parsing values in SQL statements, which could lead to bad SQL generation during a query. (Bug#33808)

  • Using a linked table in Access 2003 where the table has a BIGINT column as the first column in the table, and is configured as the primary key, shows #DELETED for all rows of the table. (Bug#24535)

  • Updating a RecordSet when the query involves a BLOB field would fail. (Bug#19065)

C.2.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.2 (13 February 2008)

MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.2-beta, a new version of the ODBC driver for the MySQL database management system, has been released. This release is the second beta (feature-complete) release of the new 5.1 series and is suitable for use with any MySQL server version since MySQL 4.1, including MySQL 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0. (It will not work with 4.0 or earlier releases.)

Keep in mind that this is a beta release, and as with any other pre-production release, caution should be taken when installing on production level systems or systems with critical data.

Platform specific notes:

  • The HP-UX 11.23 IA64 binary package does not include the GUI bits because of problems building Qt on that platform.

  • There is no binary package for Mac OS X on 64-bit PowerPC because Apple does not currently provide a 64-bit PowerPC version of iODBC.

  • The installer for 64-bit Windows installs both the 32-bit and 64-bit driver. Please note that Microsoft does not yet supply a 64-bit bridge from ADO to ODBC.

  • Due to differences with the installation process used on Windows and potential registry corruption, it is recommended that uninstall any existing versions of Connector/ODBC 5.1.x before upgrading.

    See also Bug#34571

Functionality added or changed:

  • Explicit descriptors are implemented. (Bug#32064)

  • A full implementation of SQLForeignKeys based on the information available from INFORMATION_SCHEMA in 5.0 and later versions of the server has been implemented.

  • Changed SQL_ATTR_PARAMSET_SIZE to return an error until support for it is implemented.

  • Disabled MYSQL_OPT_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT when using an SSL connection.

  • SQLForeignKeys uses INFORMATION_SCHEMA when it is available on the server, which allows more complete information to be returned.

Bugs fixed:

  • The SSLCIPHER option would be incorrectly recorded within the SSL configuration on Windows. (Bug#33897)

  • Within the GUI interface, when connecting to a MySQL server on a non-standard port, the connection test within the GUI would fail. The issue was related to incorrect parsing of numeric values within the DSN when the option was not configured as the last parameter within the DSN. (Bug#33822)

  • Specifying a non-existent database name within the GUI dialog would result in an empty list, not an error. (Bug#33615)

  • When deleting rows from a static cursor, the cursor position would be incorrectly reported. (Bug#33388)

  • SQLGetInfo() reported characters for SQL_SPECIAL_CHARACTERS that were not encoded correctly. (Bug#33130)

  • Retrieving data from a BLOB column would fail within SQLGetDatawhen the target data type was SQL_C_WCHAR due to incorrect handling of the character buffer. (Bug#32684)

  • Renaming an existing DSN entry would create a new entry with the new name without deleting the old entry. (Bug#31165)

  • Reading a TEXT column that had been used to store UTF8 data would result in the wrong information being returned during a query. (Bug#28617)

  • SQLForeignKeys would return an empty string for the schema columns instead of NULL. (Bug#19923)

  • When accessing column data, FLAG_COLUMN_SIZE_S32 did not limit the octet length or display size reported for fields, causing problems with Microsoft Visual FoxPro.

    The list of ODBC functions that could have caused failures in Microsoft software when retrieving the length of LONGBLOB or LONGTEXT columns includes:

    • SQLColumns

    • SQLColAttribute

    • SQLColAttributes

    • SQLDescribeCol

    • SQLSpecialColumns (theoretically can have the same problem)

    (Bug#12805, Bug#30890)

  • Dynamic cursors on statements with parameters were not supported. (Bug#11846)

  • Evaluating a simple numeric expression when using the OLEDB for ODBC provider and ADO would return an error, instead of the result. (Bug#10128)

  • Adding or updating a row using SQLSetPos() on a result set with aliased columns would fail. (Bug#6157)

C.2.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.1 (13 December 2007)

MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.1-beta, a new version of the ODBC driver for the MySQL database management system, has been released. This release is the first beta (feature-complete) release of the new 5.1 series and is suitable for use with any MySQL server version since MySQL 4.1, including MySQL 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0. (It will not work with 4.0 or earlier releases.)

Keep in mind that this is a beta release, and as with any other pre-production release, caution should be taken when installing on production level systems or systems with critical data.

Includes changes from Connector/ODBC 3.51.21 and 3.51.22.

Built using MySQL 5.0.52.

Platform specific notes:

  • The HP-UX 11.23 IA64 binary package does not include the GUI bits because of problems building Qt on that platform.

  • There is no binary package for Mac OS X on 64-bit PowerPC because Apple does not currently provide a 64-bit PowerPC version of iODBC.

  • The installer for 64-bit Windows installs both the 32-bit and 64-bit driver. Please note that Microsoft does not yet supply a 64-bit bridge from ADO to ODBC.

  • Due to differences with the installation process used on Windows and potential registry corruption, it is recommended that uninstall any existing versions of Connector/ODBC 5.1.x before upgrading.

    See also Bug#34571

Functionality added or changed:

  • Incompatible Change: Replaced myodbc3i (now myodbc-installer) with Connector/ODBC 5.0 version.

  • Incompatible Change: Removed monitor (myodbc3m) and dsn-editor (myodbc3c).

  • Incompatible Change: Disallow SET NAMES in initial statement and in executed statements.

  • A wrapper for the SQLGetPrivateProfileStringW() function, which is required for Unicode support, has been created. This function is missing from the unixODBC driver manager. (Bug#32685)

  • Added MSI installer for Windows 64-bit. (Bug#31510)

  • Implemented support for SQLCancel(). (Bug#15601)

  • Added support for SQL_NUMERIC_STRUCT. (Bug#3028, Bug#24920)

  • Removed non-threadsafe configuration of the driver. The driver is now always built against the threadsafe version of libmysql.

  • Implemented native Windows setup library

  • Replaced the internal library which handles creation and loading of DSN information. The new library, which was originally a part of Connector/ODBC 5.0, supports Unicode option values.

  • The Windows installer now places files in a subdirectory of the Program Files directory instead of the Windows system directory.

Bugs fixed:

  • The SET NAMES statement has been disabled because it causes problems in the ODBC driver when determining the current client character set. (Bug#32596)

  • SQLDescribeColW returned UTF-8 column as SQL_VARCHAR instead of SQL_WVARCHAR. (Bug#32161)

  • ADO was unable to open record set using dynamic cursor. (Bug#32014)

  • ADO applications would not open a RecordSet that contained a DECIMAL field. (Bug#31720)

  • Memory usage would increase considerably. (Bug#31115)

  • SQL statements are limited to 64KB. (Bug#30983, Bug#30984)

  • SQLSetPos with SQL_DELETE advances dynamic cursor incorrectly. (Bug#29765)

  • Using an ODBC prepared statement with bound columns would produce an empty result set when called immediately after inserting a row into a table. (Bug#29239)

  • ADO Not possible to update a client side cursor. (Bug#27961)

  • Recordset Update() fails when using adUseClient cursor. (Bug#26985)

  • Connector/ODBC would fail to connect to the server if the password contained certain characters, including the semicolon and other punctuation marks. (Bug#16178)

  • Fixed SQL_ATTR_PARAM_BIND_OFFSET, and fixed row offsets to work with updatable cursors.

  • SQLSetConnectAttr() did not clear previous errors, possibly confusing SQLError().

  • SQLError() incorrectly cleared the error information, making it unavailable from subsequent calls to SQLGetDiagRec().

  • NULL pointers passed to SQLGetInfo() could result in a crash.

  • SQL_ODBC_SQL_CONFORMANCE was not handled by SQLGetInfo().

  • SQLCopyDesc() did not correctly copy all records.

  • Diagnostics were not correctly cleared on connection and environment handles.

C.2.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.0 (10 September 2007)

This release is the first of the new 5.1 series and is suitable for use with any MySQL server version since MySQL 4.1, including MySQL 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0. (It will not work with 4.0 or earlier releases.)

Keep in mind that this is a alpha release, and as with any other pre-production release, caution should be taken when installing on production level systems or systems with critical data. Not all of the features planned for the final Connector/ODBC 5.1 release are implemented.

Functionality is based on Connector/ODBC 3.51.20.

Platform specific notes:

  • The HP-UX 11.23 IA64 binary package does not include the GUI bits because of problems building Qt on that platform.

  • There is no binary package for Mac OS X on 64-bit PowerPC because Apple does not currently provide a 64-bit PowerPC version of iODBC.

  • There are no installer packages for Microsoft Windows x64 Edition.

  • Due to differences with the installation process used on Windows and potential registry corruption, it is recommended that uninstall any existing versions of Connector/ODBC 5.1.x before upgrading.

    See also Bug#34571

Functionality added or changed:

  • Added support for Unicode functions (SQLConnectW, etc).

  • Added descriptor support (SQLGetDescField, SQLGetDescRec, etc).

  • Added support for SQL_C_WCHAR.

C.2.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.12 (Never released)

Note

Development on Connector/ODBC 5.0.x has ceased. New features and functionality will be incorporated into Connector/ODBC 5.1. See Section 30.1.2.1, “Connector/ODBC Roadmap”.

Bugs fixed:

  • Inserting NULL values into a DATETIME column from Access reports an error. (Bug#27896)

  • Tables with TEXT columns would be incorrectly identified, returning an Unknown SQL type - 65535 error. (Bug#20127)

C.2.8. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.11 (31 January 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Added support for ODBC v2 statement options using attributes.

  • Driver now builds and is partially tested under Linux with the iODBC driver manager.

Bugs fixed:

  • Connection string parsing for DSN-less connections could fail to identify some parameters. (Bug#25316)

  • Updates of MEMO or TEXT columns from within Microsoft Access would fail. (Bug#25263)

  • Transaction support has been added and tested. (Bug#25045)

  • Internal function, my_setpos_delete_ignore() could cause a crash. (Bug#22796)

  • Fixed occasional mis-handling of the SQL_NUMERIC_C type.

  • Fixed the binding of certain integer types.

C.2.9. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.10 (14 December 2006)

Connector/ODBC 5.0.10 is the sixth BETA release.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Significant performance improvement when retrieving large text fields in pieces using SQLGetData() with a buffer smaller than the whole data. Mainly used in Access when fetching very large text fields. (Bug#24876)

  • Added initial unicode support in data and metadata. (Bug#24837)

  • Added initial support for removing braces when calling stored procedures and retrieving result sets from procedure calls. (Bug#24485)

  • Added loose handling of retrieving some diagnostic data. (Bug#15782)

  • Added wide-string type info for SQLGetTypeInfo().

Bugs fixed:

  • Editing DSN no longer crashes ODBC data source administrator. (Bug#24675)

  • String query parameters are new escaped correctly. (Bug#19078)

C.2.10. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.9 (22 November 2006)

Connector/ODBC 5.0.9 is the fifth BETA release.

This is an implementation and testing release, and is not designed for use within a production environment.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Added support for column binding as SQL_NUMBERIC_STRUCT.

  • Added recognition of SQL_C_SHORT and SQL_C_TINYINT as C types.

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed wildcard handling of and listing of catalogs and tables in SQLTables.

  • Added limit of display size when requested via SQLColAttribute/SQL_DESC_DISPLAY_SIZE.

  • Fixed buffer length return for SQLDriverConnect.

  • ODBC v2 behaviour in driver now supports ODBC v3 date/time types (since DriverManager maps them).

  • Catch use of SQL_ATTR_PARAMSET_SIZE and report error until we fully support.

  • Fixed statistics to fail if it couldn't be completed.

  • Corrected retrieval multiple field types bit and blob/text.

  • Fixed SQLGetData to clear the NULL indicator correctly during multiple calls.

C.2.11. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.8 (17 November 2006)

Connector/ODBC 5.0.8 is the fourth BETA release.

This is an implementation and testing release, and is not designed for use within a production environment.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Also made SQL_DESC_NAME only fill in the name if there was a data pointer given, otherwise just the length.

  • Fixed display size to be length if max length isn’t available.

  • Made distinction between CHAR/BINARY (and VAR versions).

  • Wildcards now support escaped chars and underscore matching (needed to link tables with underscores in access).

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed binding using SQL_C_LONG.

  • Fixed using wrong pointer for SQL_MAX_DRIVER_CONNECTIONS in SQLGetInfo.

  • Set default return to SQL_SUCCESS if nothing is done for SQLSpecialColumns.

  • Fixed MDiagnostic to use correct v2/v3 error codes.

  • Allow SQLDescribeCol to be called to retrieve the length of the column name, but not the name itself.

  • Length now used when handling bind parameter (needed in particular for SQL_WCHAR) - this enables updating char data in MS Access.

  • Updated retrieval of descriptor fields to use the right pointer types.

  • Fixed hanlding of numeric pointers in SQLColAttribute.

  • Fixed type returned for MYSQL_TYPE_LONG to SQL_INTEGER instead of SQL_TINYINT.

  • Fix size return from SQLDescribeCol.

  • Fixed string length to chars, not bytes, returned by SQLGetDiagRec.

C.2.12. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.7 (08 November 2006)

Connector/ODBC 5.0.7 is the third BETA release.

This is an implementation and testing release, and is not designed for use within a production environment.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Added support for SQLStatistics to MYODBCShell.

  • Improved trace/log.

Bugs fixed:

  • SQLBindParameter now handles SQL_C_DEFAULT.

  • Corrected incorrect column index within SQLStatistics. Many more tables can now be linked into MS Access.

  • Fixed SQLDescribeCol returning column name length in bytes rather than chars.

C.2.13. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.6 (03 November 2006)

Connector/ODBC 5.0.6 is the second BETA release.

This is an implementation and testing release, and is not designed for use within a production environment.

Features, limitations and notes on this release

  • Connector/ODBC supports both User and System DSNs.

  • Installation is provided in the form of a standard Microsoft System Installer (MSI).

  • You no longer have to have Connector/ODBC 3.51 installed before installing this version.

Bugs fixed:

  • You no longer have to have Connector/ODBC 3.51 installed before installing this version.

  • Connector/ODBC supports both User and System DSNs.

  • Installation is provided in the form of a standard Microsoft System Installer (MSI).

C.2.14. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.5 (17 October 2006)

Connector/ODBC 5.0.5 is the first BETA release.

This is an implementation and testing release, and is not designed for use within a production environment.

You no longer have to have Connector/ODBC 3.51 installed before installing this version.

Bugs fixed:

  • You no longer have to have Connector/ODBC 3.51 installed before installing this version.

C.2.15. Changes in Connector/ODBC 5.0.3 (Connector/ODBC 5.0 Alpha 3) (20 June 2006)

This is an implementation and testing release, and is not designed for use within a production environment.

Features, limitations and notes on this release:

  • The following ODBC API functions have been added in this release:

    • SQLBindParameter

    • SQLBindCol

C.2.16. Changes in Connector/ODBC 5.0.2 (Never released)

Connector/ODBC 5.0.2 was an internal implementation and testing release.

C.2.17. Changes in Connector/ODBC 5.0.1 (Connector/ODBC 5.0 Alpha 2) (05 June 2006)

Features, limitations and notes on this release:

  • Connector/ODBC 5.0 is Unicode aware.

  • Connector/ODBC is currently limited to basic applications. ADO applications and Microsoft Office are not supported.

  • Connector/ODBC must be used with a Driver Manager.

  • The following ODBC API functions are implemented:

    • SQLAllocHandle

    • SQLCloseCursor

    • SQLColAttribute

    • SQLColumns

    • SQLConnect

    • SQLCopyDesc

    • SQLDisconnect

    • SQLExecDirect

    • SQLExecute

    • SQLFetch

    • SQLFreeHandle

    • SQLFreeStmt

    • SQLGetConnectAttr

    • SQLGetData

    • SQLGetDescField

    • SQLGetDescRec

    • SQLGetDiagField

    • SQLGetDiagRec

    • SQLGetEnvAttr

    • SQLGetFunctions

    • SQLGetStmtAttr

    • SQLGetTypeInfo

    • SQLNumResultCols

    • SQLPrepare

    • SQLRowcount

    • SQLTables

    The following ODBC API function are implemented, but not yet support all the available attributes/options:

    • SQLSetConnectAttr

    • SQLSetDescField

    • SQLSetDescRec

    • SQLSetEnvAttr

    • SQLSetStmtAttr

C.2.18. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.26 (07 July 2008)

Functionality added or changed:

  • There is a new connection option, FLAG_NO_BINARY_RESULT. When set this option disables charset 63 for columns with an empty org_table. (Bug#29402)

Bugs fixed:

  • When an ADOConnection is created and attempts to open a schema with ADOConnection.OpenSchema an access violation occurs in myodbc3.dll. (Bug#30770)

  • When SHOW CREATE TABLE was invoked and then the field values read, the result was truncated and unusable if the table had many rows and indexes. (Bug#24131)

C.2.19. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.25 (Not yet released)

Bugs fixed:

  • The SQLColAttribute() function returned SQL_TRUE when querying the SQL_DESC_FIXED_PREC_SCALE (SQL_COLUMN_MONEY) attribute of a DECIMAL column. Previously, the correct value of SQL_FALSE was returned; this is now again the case. (Bug#35581)

  • The driver crashes ODBC Administrator on attempting to add a new DSN. (Bug#32057)

  • When accessing column data, FLAG_COLUMN_SIZE_S32 did not limit the octet length or display size reported for fields, causing problems with Microsoft Visual FoxPro.

    The list of ODBC functions that could have caused failures in Microsoft software when retrieving the length of LONGBLOB or LONGTEXT columns includes:

    • SQLColumns

    • SQLColAttribute

    • SQLColAttributes

    • SQLDescribeCol

    • SQLSpecialColumns (theoretically can have the same problem)

    (Bug#12805, Bug#30890)

C.2.20. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.24 (Not yet released)

Bugs fixed:

  • Security Enhancement: Accessing a parameer with the type of SQL_C_CHAR, but with a numeric type and a length of zero, the parameter marker would get stropped from the query. In addition, a SQL injection was possible if the parameter value had a non-zero length and was not numeric, the text would be inserted verbatim. (Bug#34575)

  • Important Change: In previous versions, the SSL certificate would automatically be verified when used as part of the Connector/ODBC connection. The default mode is now to ignore the verificate of certificates. To enforce verification of the SSL certificate during connection, use the SSLVERIFY DSN parameter, setting the value to 1. (Bug#29955, Bug#34648)

  • When using ADO, the count of parameters in a query would always return zero. (Bug#33298)

  • Using tables with a single quote or other non-standard characters in the table or column names through ODBC would fail. (Bug#32989)

  • When using Crystal Reports, table and column names would be truncated to 21 characters, and truncated columns in tables where the truncated name was the duplicated would lead to only a single column being displayed. (Bug#32864)

  • SQLExtendedFetch() and SQLFetchScroll() ignored the rowset size if the Don't cache result DSN option was set. (Bug#32420)

  • When using the ODBC SQL_TXN_READ_COMMITTED option, 'dirty' records would be read from tables as if the option had not been applied. (Bug#31959)

  • When creating a System DSN using the ODBC Administrator on Mac OS X, a User DSN would be created instead. The root cause is a problem with the iODBC driver manager used on Mac OS X. The fix works around this issue.

    Note

    ODBC Administrator may still be unable to register a System DSN unless the /Library/ODBC/odbc.ini file has the correct permissions. You should ensure that the file is writable by the admin group.

    (Bug#31495)

  • Calling SQLFetch or SQLFetchScroll would return negative data lengths when using SQL_C_WCHAR. (Bug#31220)

  • SQLSetParam() caused memory allocation errors due to driver manager's mapping of deprecated functions (buffer length -1). (Bug#29871)

  • Static cursor was unable to be used through ADO when dynamic cursors were enabled. (Bug#27351)

  • Using connection.Execute to create a record set based on a table without declaring the cmd option as adCmdTable will fail when communicating with versions of MySQL 5.0.37 and higher. The issue is related to the way that SQLSTATE is returned when ADO tries to confirm the existence of the target object. (Bug#27158)

  • Updating a RecordSet when the query involves a BLOB field would fail. (Bug#19065)

  • With some connections to MySQL databases using Connector/ODBC, the connection would mistakenly report 'user cancelled' for accesses to the database information. (Bug#16653)

C.2.21. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.23 (09 January 2008)

Platform specific notes:

  • The HP-UX 11.23 IA64 binary package does not include the GUI bits because of problems building Qt on that platform.

  • There is no binary package for Mac OS X on 64-bit PowerPC because Apple does not currently provide a 64-bit PowerPC version of iODBC.

  • There are no installer packages for Microsoft Windows x64 Edition.

Bugs fixed:

  • Connector/ODBC would incorrectly return SQL_SUCCESS when checking for distributed transaction support. (Bug#32727)

  • When using unixODBC or directly linked applications where the thread level is set to less than 3 (within odbcinst.ini), a thread synchronization issue would lead to an application crash. This was because SQLAllocStmt() and SQLFreeStmt() did not synchronize access to the list of statements associated with a connection. (Bug#32587)

  • Cleaning up environment handles in multithread environments could result in a five (or more) second delay. (Bug#32366)

  • Renaming an existing DSN entry would create a new entry with the new name without deleting the old entry. (Bug#31165)

  • Setting the default database using the DefaultDatabase property of an ADO Connection object would fail with the error Provider does not support this property. The SQLGetInfo() returned the wrong value for SQL_DATABASE_NAME when no database was selected. (Bug#3780)

C.2.22. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.22 (13 November 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

  • The workaround for this bug was removed due to the fixes in MySQL Server 5.0.48 and 5.1.21.

    This regression was introduced by Bug#10491

Bugs fixed:

  • The English locale would be used when formatting floating point values. The C locale is now used for these values. (Bug#32294)

  • When accessing information about supported operations, the driver would return incorrect information about the support for UNION. (Bug#32253)

  • Unsigned integer values greater than the maximum value of a signed integer would be handled incorrectly. (Bug#32171)

  • The wrong result was returned by SQLGetData() when the data was an empty string and a zero-sized buffer was specified. (Bug#30958)

  • Added the FLAG_COLUMN_SIZE_S32 option to limit the reported column size to a signed 32-bit integer. This option is automatically enabled for ADO applications to provide a work around for a bug in ADO. (Bug#13776)

C.2.23. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.21 (08 October 2007)

Bugs fixed:

  • When using a rowset/cursor and add a new row with a number of fields, subsequent rows with fewer fields will include the original fields from the previous row in the final INSERT statement. (Bug#31246)

  • Uninitiated memory could be used when C/ODBC internally calls SQLGetFunctions(). (Bug#31055)

  • The wrong SQL_DESC_LITERAL_PREFIX would be returned for date/time types. (Bug#31009)

  • The wrong COLUMN_SIZE would be returned by SQLGetTypeInfo for the TIME columns (SQL_TYPE_TIME). (Bug#30939)

  • Clicking outside the character set selection box when configuring a new DSN could cause the wrong character set to be selected. (Bug#30568)

  • Not specifying a user in the DSN dialog would raise a warning even though the parameter is optional. (Bug#30499)

  • SQLSetParam() caused memory allocation errors due to driver manager's mapping of deprecated functions (buffer length -1). (Bug#29871)

  • When using ADO, a column marked as AUTO_INCREMENT could incorrectly report that the column allowed NULL values. This was dur to an issue with NULLABLE and IS_NULLABLE return values from the call to SQLColumns(). (Bug#26108)

  • Connector/ODBC would return the wrong the error code when the server disconnects the active connection because the configured wait_timeout has expired. Previously it would return HY000. Connector/ODBC now correctly returns an SQLSTATE of 08S01. (Bug#3456)

C.2.24. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.20 (10 September 2007)

Bugs fixed:

  • Using FLAG_NO_PROMPT doesn't suppress the dialogs normally handled by SQLDriverConnect. (Bug#30840)

  • The specified length of the username and authentication parameters to SQLConnect() were not being honored. (Bug#30774)

  • The wrong column size was returned for binary data. (Bug#30547)

  • SQLGetData() will now always return SQL_NO_DATA_FOUND on second call when no data left, even if requested size is 0. (Bug#30520)

  • SQLGetConnectAttr() did not reflect the connection state correctly. (Bug#14639)

  • Removed checkbox in setup dialog for FLAG_FIELD_LENGTH (identified as Don't Optimize Column Width within the GUI dialog), which was removed from the driver in 3.51.18.

C.2.25. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.19 (10 August 2007)

Connector/ODBC 3.51.19 fixes a specific issue with the 3.51.18 release. For a list of changes in the 3.51.18 release, see Section C.2.26, “Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.18 (08 August 2007)”.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Because of Bug#10491 in the server, character string results were sometimes incorrectly identified as SQL_VARBINARY. Until this server bug is corrected, the driver will identify all variable-length strings as SQL_VARCHAR.

C.2.26. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.18 (08 August 2007)

Platform specific notes:

  • The HP-UX 11.23 IA64 binary package does not include the GUI bits because of problems building Qt on that platform.

  • There is no binary package for Mac OS X on 64-bit PowerPC because Apple does not currently provide a 64-bit PowerPC version of iODBC.

  • Binary packages for Sun Solaris are now available as PKG packages.

  • Binary packages as disk images with installers are now available for Mac OS X.

  • A binary package without an installer is available for Microsoft Windows x64 Edition. There are no installer packages for Microsoft Windows x64 Edition.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Incompatible Change: The FLAG_DEBUG option was removed.

  • When connecting to a specific database when using a DSN, the system tables from the mysql database are no longer also available. Previously, tables from the mysql database (catalog) were listed as SYSTEM TABLES by SQLTables() even when a different catalog was being queried. (Bug#28662)

  • Installed for Mac OS X has been re-instated. The installer registers the driver at a system (not user) level and makes it possible to create both user and system DSNs using the Connector/ODBC driver. The installer also fixes the situation where the necessary drivers would bge installed local to the user, not globally. (Bug#15326, Bug#10444)

  • Connector/ODBC now supports batched statements. In order to enable cached statement support you must switch enable the batched statement option (FLAG_MULTI_STATEMENTS, 67108864, or Allow multiple statements within a GUI configuration). Be aware that batched statements create an increased chance of SQL injection attacks and you must ensure that your application protects against this scenario. (Bug#7445)

  • The SQL_ATTR_ROW_BIND_OFFSET_PTR is now supported for row bind offsets. (Bug#6741)

  • The TRACE and TRACEFILE DSN options have been removed. Use the ODBC driver manager trace options instead.

Bugs fixed:

  • When using a table with multiple TIMESTAMP columns, the final TIMESTAMP column within the table definition would not be updateable. Note that there is still a limitation in MySQL server regarding multiple TIMESTAMP columns . (Bug#9927) (Bug#30081)

  • Fixed an issue where the myodbc3i would update the the user ODBC configuration file (~/Library/ODBC/odbcinst.ini) instead of the system /Library/ODBC/odbcinst.ini. This was caused because myodbc3i was not honouring the s and u modifiers for the -d command-line option. (Bug#29964)

  • Getting table metadata (through the SQLColumns() would fail, returning a bad table definition to calling applications. (Bug#29888)

  • DATETIME column types would return FALSE in place of SQL_SUCCESS when requesting the column type information. (Bug#28657)

  • The SQL_COLUMN_TYPE, SQL_COLUMN_DISPLAY and SQL_COLUMN_PRECISION values would be returned incorrectly by SQLColumns(), SQLDescribeCol() and SQLColAttribute() when accessing character columns, especially those generated through concat(). The lengths returned should now conform to the ODBC specification. The FLAG_FIELD_LENGTH option no longer has any affect on the results returned. (Bug#27862)

  • Obtaining the length of a column when using a character set for the connection of utf8 would result in the length being returned incorrectly. (Bug#19345)

  • The SQLColumns() function could return incorrect information about TIMESTAMP columns, indicating that the field was not nullable. (Bug#14414)

  • The SQLColumns() function could return incorrect information about AUTO_INCREMENT columns, indicating that the field was not nullable. (Bug#14407)

  • A binary package without an installer is available for Microsoft Windows x64 Edition. There are no installer packages for Microsoft Windows x64 Edition.

  • There is no binary package for Mac OS X on 64-bit PowerPC because Apple does not currently provide a 64-bit PowerPC version of iODBC.

  • BIT(n) columns are now treated as SQL_BIT data where n = 1 and binary data where n > 1.

  • The wrong value from SQL_DESC_LITERAL_SUFFIX was returned for binary fields.

  • The SQL_DATETIME_SUB column in SQLColumns() was not correctly set for date and time types.

  • The value for SQL_DESC_FIXED_PREC_SCALE was not returned correctly for values in MySQL 5.0 and later.

  • The wrong value for SQL_DESC_TYPE was returned for date and time types.

  • SQLConnect() and SQLDriverConnect() were rewritten to eliminate duplicate code and ensure all options were supported using both connection methods. SQLDriverConnect() now only requires the setup library to be present when the call requires it.

  • The HP-UX 11.23 IA64 binary package does not include the GUI bits because of problems building Qt on that platform.

  • Binary packages as disk images with installers are now available for Mac OS X.

  • Binary packages for Sun Solaris are now available as PKG packages.

  • The wrong value for DECIMAL_DIGITS in SQLColumns() was reported for FLOAT and DOUBLE fields, as well as the wrong value for the scale parameter to SQLDescribeCol(), and the SQL_DESC_SCALE attribute from SQLColAttribute().

  • The SQL_DATA_TYPE column in SQLColumns() results did not report the correct value for date and time types.

C.2.27. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.17 (14 July 2007)

Platform specific notes:

  • The HP-UX 11.23 IA64 binary package does not include the GUI bits because of problems building Qt on that platform.

  • There is no binary package for Mac OS X on 64-bit PowerPC because Apple does not currently provide a 64-bit PowerPC version of iODBC.

  • Binary packages for Sun Solaris are now available as PKG packages.

  • Binary packages as disk images with installers are now available for Mac OS X.

  • A binary package without an installer is available for Microsoft Windows x64 Edition. There are no installer packages for Microsoft Windows x64 Edition.

Functionality added or changed:

  • It is now possible to specify a different character set as part of the DSN or connection string. This must be used instead of the SET NAMES statement. You can also configure the character set value from the GUI configuration. (Bug#9498, Bug#6667)

  • Fixed calling convention ptr and wrong free in myodbc3i, and fixed the null terminating (was only one, not two) when writing DSN to string.

  • Dis-allow NULL ptr for null indicator when calling SQLGetData() if value is null. Now returns SQL_ERROR w/state 22002.

  • The setup library has been split into its own RPM package, to allow installing the driver itself with no GUI dependencies.

Bugs fixed:

  • myodbc3i did not correctly format driver info, which could cause the installation to fail. (Bug#29709)

  • Connector/ODBC crashed with Crystal Reports due to a rproblem with SQLProcedures(). (Bug#28316)

  • Fixed a problem where the GUI would crash when configuring or removing a System or User DSN. (Bug#27315)

  • Fixed error handling of out-of-memory and bad connections in catalog functions. This might raise errors in code paths that had ignored them in the past. (Bug#26934)

  • For a stored procedure that returns multiple result sets, Connector/ODBC returned only the first result set. (Bug#16817)

  • Calling SQLGetDiagField with RecNumber 0, DiagIdentifier NOT 0 returned SQL_ERROR, preventing access to diagnostic header fields. (Bug#16224)

  • Added a new DSN option (FLAG_ZERO_DATE_TO_MIN) to retrieve XXXX-00-00 dates as the minimum allowed ODBC date (XXXX-01-01). Added another option (FLAG_MIN_DATE_TO_ZERO) to mirror this but for bound parameters. FLAG_MIN_DATE_TO_ZERO only changes 0000-01-01 to 0000-00-00. (Bug#13766)

  • If there was more than one unique key on a table, the correct fields were not used in handling SQLSetPos(). (Bug#10563)

  • When inserting a large BLOB field, Connector/ODBC would crash due to a memory allocation error. (Bug#10562)

  • The driver was using mysql_odbc_escape_string(), which does not handle the NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES SQL mode. Now it uses mysql_real_escape_string(), which does. (Bug#9498)

  • SQLColumns() did not handle many of its parameters correctly, which could lead to incorrect results. The table name argument was not handled as a pattern value, and most arguments were not escaped correctly when they contained non-alphanumeric characters. (Bug#8860)

  • There are no binary packages for Microsoft Windows x64 Edition.

  • There is no binary package for Mac OS X on 64-bit PowerPC because Apple does not currently provide a 64-bit PowerPC version of iODBC.

  • Correctly return error if SQLBindCol is called with an invalid column.

  • Fixed possible crash if SQLBindCol() was not called before SQLSetPos().

  • The Mac OS X binary packages are only provided as tarballs, there is no installer.

  • The binary packages for Sun Solaris are only provided as tarballs, not the PKG format.

  • The HP-UX 11.23 IA64 binary package does not include the GUI bits because of problems building Qt on that platform.

C.2.28. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.16 (14 June 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Connector/ODBC now supports using SSL for communication. This is not yet exposed in the setup GUI, but must be enabled through configuration files or the DSN. (Bug#12918)

Bugs fixed:

  • Calls to SQLNativeSql() could cause stack corruption due to an incorrect pointer cast. (Bug#28758)

  • Using curors on results sets with multi-column keys could select the wrong value. (Bug#28255)

  • SQLForeignKeys does not escape _ and % in the table name arguments. (Bug#27723)

  • When using stored procedures, making a SELECT or second stored procedure call after an initial stored procedure call, the second statement will fail. (Bug#27544)

  • SQLTables() did not distinguish tables from views. (Bug#23031)

  • Data in TEXT columns would fail to be read correctly. (Bug#16917)

  • Specifying strings as parameters using the adBSTR or adVarWChar types, (SQL_WVARCHAR and SQL_WLONGVARCHAR) would be incorrectly quoted. (Bug#16235)

  • SQL_WVARCHAR and SQL_WLONGVARCHAR parameters were not properly quoted and escaped. (Bug#16235)

  • Using BETWEEN with date values, the wrong results could be returned. (Bug#15773)

  • When using the Don't Cache Results (option value 1048576) with Microsoft Access, the connection will fail using DAO/VisualBasic. (Bug#4657)

  • Return values from SQLTables() may be truncated. (Bugs #22797)

C.2.29. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.15 (07 May 2007)

Bugs fixed:

  • Connector/ODBC would incorrectly claim to support SQLProcedureColumns (by returning true when queried about SQLPROCEDURECOLUMNS with SQLGetFunctions), but this functionality is not supported. (Bug#27591)

  • An incorrect transaction isolation level may not be returned when accessing the connection attributes. (Bug#27589)

  • Adding a new DSN with the myodbc3i utility under AIX would fail. (Bug#27220)

  • When inserting data using bulk statements (through SQLBulkOperations), the indicators for all rows within the insert would not updated correctly. (Bug#24306)

  • Using SQLProcedures does not return the database name within the returned resultset. (Bug#23033)

  • The SQLTransact() function did not support an empty connection handle. (Bug#21588)

  • Using SQLDriverConnect instead of SQLConnect could cause later operations to fail. (Bug#7912)

  • When using blobs and parameter replacement in a statement with WHERE CURSOR OF, the SQL is truncated. (Bug#5853)

  • Connector/ODBC would return too many foreign key results when accessing tables with similar names. (Bug#4518)

C.2.30. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.14 (08 March 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Use of SQL_ATTR_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT on the server has now been disabled. If you attempt to set this attribute on your connection the SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO will be returned, with an error number/string of HYC00: Optional feature not supported. (Bug#19823)

  • Added auto is null option to Connector/ODBC option parameters. (Bug#10910)

  • Added auto-reconnect option to Connector/ODBC option parameters.

  • Added support for the HENV handlers in SQLEndTran().

Bugs fixed:

  • On 64-bit systems, some types would be incorrectly returned. (Bug#26024)

  • When retrieving TIME columns, C/ODBC would incorrectly interpret the type of the string and could interpret it as a DATE type instead. (Bug#25846)

  • Connector/ODBC may insert the wrong parameter values when using prepared statements under 64-bit Linux. (Bug#22446)

  • Using Connector/ODBC, with SQLBindCol and binding the length to the return value from SQL_LEN_DATA_AT_EXEC fails with a memory allocation error. (Bug#20547)

  • Using DataAdapter, Connector/ODBC may continually consume memory when reading the same records within a loop (Windows Server 2003 SP1/SP2 only). (Bug#20459)

  • When retrieving data from columns that have been compressed using COMPRESS(), the retrieved data would be truncated to 8KB. (Bug#20208)

  • The ODBC driver name and version number were incorrectly reported by the driver. (Bug#19740)

  • A string format exception would be raised when using iODBC, Connector/ODBC and the embedded MySQL server. (Bug#16535)

  • The SQLDriverConnect() ODBC method did not work with recent Connector/ODBC releases. (Bug#12393)

C.2.31. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.13 (Never released)

Connector/ODBC 3.51.13 was an internal implementation and testing release.

C.2.32. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.12 (11 Febrauary 2005)

Functionality added or changed:

  • N/A

Bugs fixed:

  • Using stored procedures with ADO, where the CommantType has been set correctly to adCmdStoredProc, calls to stored procedures would fail. (Bug#15635)

  • File DSNs could not be saved. (Bug#12019)

  • SQLColumns() returned no information for tables that had a column named using a reserved word. (Bug#9539)

C.2.33. Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.11 (28 January 2005)

Bugs fixed:

  • mysql_list_dbcolumns() and insert_fields() were retrieving all rows from a table. Fixed the queries generated by these functions to return no rows. (Bug#8198)

  • SQLGetTypoInfo() returned tinyblob for SQL_VARBINARY and nothing for SQL_BINARY. Fixed to return varbinary for SQL_VARBINARY, binary for SQL_BINARY, and longblob for SQL_LONGVARBINARY. (Bug#8138)

C.3. MySQL Connector/NET Change History

C.3.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.3.0 (Not yet released)
C.3.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.2.3 (Not yet released)
C.3.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.2.2 (12 May 2008)
C.3.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.2.1 (27 February 2008)
C.3.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.2.0 (11 February 2008)
C.3.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.7 (Not yet released)
C.3.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.6 (12 May 2008)
C.3.8. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.5 (Not yet released)
C.3.9. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.4 (20 November 2007)
C.3.10. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.3 (21 September 2007)
C.3.11. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.2 (18 June 2007)
C.3.12. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.1 (23 May 2007)
C.3.13. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.0 (01 May 2007)
C.3.14. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.10 (Not yet released)
C.3.15. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.9 (Not yet released)
C.3.16. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.8 (21 August 2007)
C.3.17. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.7 (18 May 2007)
C.3.18. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.6 (22 March 2007)
C.3.19. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.5 (07 March 2007)
C.3.20. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.4 (Not released)
C.3.21. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.3 (05 January 2007)
C.3.22. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.2 (06 November 2006)
C.3.23. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.1 (01 October 2006)
C.3.24. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.0 (08 August 2006)
C.3.25. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.11 (Not yet released)
C.3.26. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.10 (24 August 2007)
C.3.27. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.9 (02 February 2007)
C.3.28. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.8 (20 October 2006)
C.3.29. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.7 (21 November 2005)
C.3.30. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.6 (03 October 2005)
C.3.31. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.5 (29 August 2005)
C.3.32. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.4 (20 January 2005)
C.3.33. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.3 (12 October 2004)
C.3.34. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.2 (15 November 2004)
C.3.35. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.1 (27 October 2004)
C.3.36. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.0 (01 September 2004)
C.3.37. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.9.0 (30 August 2004)
C.3.38. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.76
C.3.39. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.75
C.3.40. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.74
C.3.41. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.71
C.3.42. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.70
C.3.43. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.68
C.3.44. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.65
C.3.45. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.60
C.3.46. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.50

C.3.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.3.0 (Not yet released)

Bugs fixed:

  • Possible overflow in MySqlPacket.ReadLong(). (Bug#36997)

  • The TokenizeSql method was adding query overhead and causing high CPU utilization for larger queries. (Bug#36836)

C.3.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.2.3 (Not yet released)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Changed how the procedure schema collection is retrieved. If the connection string contains “use procedure bodies=true” then a SELECT is performed on the mysql.proc table directly, as this is up to 50 times faster than the current Information Schema implementation. If the connection string contains “use procedure bodies=false”, then the Information Schema collection is queried. (Bug#36694)

  • Changed how the procedure schema collection is retrieved. If use procedure bodies=true then the mysql.proc table is selected directly as this is up to 50 times faster than the current information_schema implementation. If use procedure bodies=false, then the information_schema collection is queried. (Bug#36694)

Bugs fixed:

  • Executing a command that resulted in a fatal exception did not close the connection. (Bug#37991)

  • When a prepared insert query is run that contains an UNSIGNED TINYINT in the parameter list, the complete query and data that should be inserted is corrupted and no error is thrown. (Bug#37968)

  • In a .NET application MySQL Connector/NET modifies the connection string so that it contains several occurrences of the same option with different values. This is illustrated by the example that follows.

    The original connection string:

      host=localhost;database=test;uid=*****;pwd=*****;
      connect timeout=25; auto enlist=false;pooling=false;

    The connection string after after closing MySqlDataReader:

      host=localhost;database=test;uid=*****;pwd=*****;
      connect timeout=25;auto enlist=false;pooling=false; 
      Allow User Variables=True;Allow User Variables=False;
      Allow User Variables=True;Allow User Variables=False;

    (Bug#37955)

  • Unnecessary network traffic was generated for the normal case where the web provider schema was up to date. (Bug#37469)

  • MySqlReader.GetOrdinal() performance enhancements break existing functionality. (Bug#37239)

  • The autogenerateschema option produced tables with incorrect collations. (Bug#36444)

  • Using the MySQL Visual Studio plugin and a MySQL 4.1 server, certain field types (ENUM) would not be identified correctly. Also, when looking for tables, the plugin would list all tables matching a wildcard pattern of the database name supplied in the connection string, instead of only tables within the specified database. (Bug#30603)

C.3.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.2.2 (12 May 2008)

Bugs fixed:

  • An incorrect value for a bit field would returned in a multi-row query if a preceding value for the field returned NULL. (Bug#36313)

  • Tables with GEOMETRY field types would return an unknown datatype exception. (Bug#36081)

  • When using the MySQLProfileProvider, setting profile details and then reading back saved data would result in the default values being returned instead of the updated values. (Bug#36000)

  • When creating a connection, setting the ConnectionString property of MySqlConnection to NULL would throw an exception. (Bug#35619)

  • The DbCommandBuilder.QuoteIdentifer method was not implemented. (Bug#35492)

  • When using encrypted passwords, the GetPassword() function would return the wrong string. (Bug#35336)

  • An error would be raised when calling GetPassword() with a NULL value. (Bug#35332)

  • When retreiving data where a field has been identified as containing a GUID value, the incorrect value would be returned when a previous row contained a NULL value for that field. (Bug#35041)

  • Using the TableAdapter Wizard would fail when generating commands that used stored procedures due to the change in supported parameter characters. (Bug#34941)

  • When creating a new stored procedured, the new parameter code which allows the use of the @ symbol would interfere with the specification of a DEFINER. (Bug#34940)

  • When using SqlDataSource to open a connection, the connection would not automatically be closed when access had completed. (Bug#34460)

  • There was a high level of contention in the connection pooling code that could lead to delays when opening connections and submitting queries. The connection pooling code has been modified to try and limit the effects of the contention issue. (Bug#34001)

  • Using the TableAdaptor wizard in combination with a suitable SELECT statement, only the associated INSERT statement would also be created, rather than the required DELETE and UPDATE statements. (Bug#31338)

  • Fixed problem in datagrid code related to creating a new table. This problem may have been introduced with .NET 2.0 SP1.

  • Fixed profile provider that would throw an exception if you were updating a profile that already existed.

C.3.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.2.1 (27 February 2008)

Bugs fixed:

  • When using the provider to generate or update users and passwords, the password checking algorithm would not validate the password strength or requirements correctly. (Bug#34792)

  • When executing statements that used stored procedures and functions, the new parameter code could fail to identify the correct parameter format. (Bug#34699)

  • The installer would fail to the DDEX provider binary if the Visual Studio 2005 component was not selected. The result would lead to Connector/NET not loading properly when using the interface to a MySQL server within Visual Studio. (Bug#34674)

  • A number issues were identified in the case, connection and scema areas of the code for MembershipProvider, RoleProvider, ProfileProvider. (Bug#34495)

  • When using web providers, the Connector/NET would check the schema and cache the application id, even when the connection string had been set. The effect would be to break the memvership provider list. (Bug#34451)

  • Attempting to use an isolation level other than the default with a transaction scope would use the default isolation level. (Bug#34448)

  • When altering a stored procedure within Visual Studio, the parameters to the procedure could be lost. (Bug#34359)

  • A race condition could occur within the procedure cache resulting the cache contents overflowing beyond the configured cache size. (Bug#34338)

  • Fixed problem with Visual Studio 2008 integration that caused pop-up menus on server explorer nodes to not function

  • The provider code has been updated to fix a number of outstanding issues.

C.3.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.2.0 (11 February 2008)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Added support for DbDataAdapter UpdateBatchSize. Batching is fully supported including collapsing inserts down into the multi-value form if possible.

  • DDEX provider now works under Visual Studio 2008 beta 2.

  • Added ClearPool and ClearAllPools features.

Bugs fixed:

  • Some speed improvements have been implemented in the TokenizeSql process used to identify elements of SQL statements. (Bug#34220)

  • When accessing tables from different databases within the same TransactionScope, the same user/password combination would be used for each database connection. Connector/NET does not handle multiple connections within the same transaction scope. An error is now returned if you attempt this process, instead of using the incorrect authorization information. (Bug#34204)

  • The status of connections reported through the state change handler was not being updated correctly. (Bug#34082)

  • Incorporated some connection string cache optimizations sent to us by Maxim Mass. (Bug#34000)

  • In an open connection where the server had disconnected unexpectedly, the status information of the connection would not be updated properly. (Bug#33909)

  • Data cached from the connection string could return invalid information because the internal routines were not using case-sensitive semantics. This lead to updated connection string options not being recognized if they were of a different case than the existing cached values. (Bug#31433)

  • Column name metadata was not using the character set as deifned within the connection string being used. (Bug#31185)

  • Memory usage could increase and decrease significantly when updating or inserting a large number of rows. (Bug#31090)

  • Commands executed from within the state change handeler would fail with a NULL exception. (Bug#30964)

  • When running a stored procedure multiple times on the same connection, the memory usage could increase indefinitely. (Bug#30116)

  • Using compression in the MySQL connection with Connector/NET would be slower than using native (uncompressed) communication. (Bug#27865)

  • The MySqlDbType.Datetime has been replaced with MySqlDbType.DateTime. The old format has been obsoleted. (Bug#26344)

C.3.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.7 (Not yet released)

Bugs fixed:

  • Executing a command that resulted in a fatal exception did not close the connection. (Bug#37991)

  • In a .NET application MySQL Connector/NET modifies the connection string so that it contains several occurrences of the same option with different values. This is illustrated by the example that follows.

    The original connection string:

      host=localhost;database=test;uid=*****;pwd=*****;
      connect timeout=25; auto enlist=false;pooling=false;

    The connection string after after closing MySqlDataReader:

      host=localhost;database=test;uid=*****;pwd=*****;
      connect timeout=25;auto enlist=false;pooling=false; 
      Allow User Variables=True;Allow User Variables=False;
      Allow User Variables=True;Allow User Variables=False;

    (Bug#37955)

  • As MySqlDbType.DateTime is not available in VB.Net the warning The datetime enum value is obsolete was always shown during compilation. (Bug#37406)

  • An unknown MySqlErrorCode was encountered when opening a connection with an incorrect password. (Bug#37398)

  • SemaphoreFullException is generated when application is closed. (Bug#36688)

  • Using the MySQL Visual Studio plugin and a MySQL 4.1 server, certain field types (ENUM) would not be identified correctly. Also, when looking for tables, the plugin would list all tables matching a wildcard pattern of the database name supplied in the connection string, instead of only tables within the specified database. (Bug#30603)

C.3.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.6 (12 May 2008)

Bugs fixed:

  • When creating a connection pool, specifying an invalid IP address will cause the entire application to crash, instead of providing an exception. (Bug#36432)

  • An incorrect value for a bit field would returned in a multi-row query if a preceding value for the field returned NULL. (Bug#36313)

  • The MembershipProvider will raise an exception when the connection string is configured with enablePasswordRetrival = true and RequireQuestionAndAnswer = false. (Bug#36159)

  • When calling GetNumberOfUsersOnline an exception is raised on the submitted query due to a missing parameter. (Bug#36157)

  • Tables with GEOMETRY field types would return an unknown datatype exception. (Bug#36081)

  • When creating a connection, setting the ConnectionString property of MySqlConnection to NULL would throw an exception. (Bug#35619)

  • The DbCommandBuilder.QuoteIdentifer method was not implemented. (Bug#35492)

  • When using SqlDataSource to open a connection, the connection would not automatically be closed when access had completed. (Bug#34460)

  • Attempting to use an isolation level other than the default with a transaction scope would use the default isolation level. (Bug#34448)

  • When altering a stored procedure within Visual Studio, the parameters to the procedure could be lost. (Bug#34359)

  • A race condition could occur within the procedure cache resulting the cache contents overflowing beyond the configured cache size. (Bug#34338)

  • Using the TableAdaptor wizard in combination with a suitable SELECT statement, only the associated INSERT statement would also be created, rather than the required DELETE and UPDATE statements. (Bug#31338)

C.3.8. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.5 (Not yet released)

Bugs fixed:

  • Some speed improvements have been implemented in the TokenizeSql process used to identify elements of SQL statements. (Bug#34220)

  • When accessing tables from different databases within the same TransactionScope, the same user/password combination would be used for each database connection. Connector/NET does not handle multiple connections within the same transaction scope. An error is now returned if you attempt this process, instead of using the incorrect authorization information. (Bug#34204)

  • The status of connections reported through the state change handler was not being updated correctly. (Bug#34082)

  • Incorporated some connection string cache optimizations sent to us by Maxim Mass. (Bug#34000)

  • In an open connection where the server had disconnected unexpectedly, the status information of the connection would not be updated properly. (Bug#33909)

  • Connector/NET would fail to compile properly with nant. (Bug#33508)

  • Problem with membership provider would mean that FindUserByEmail would fail with a MySqlException because it was trying to add a second parameter with the same name as the first. (Bug#33347)

  • Using compression in the MySQL connection with Connector/NET would be slower than using native (uncompressed) communication. (Bug#27865)

C.3.9. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.4 (20 November 2007)

Bugs fixed:

  • Setting the size of a string parameter after the value could cause an exception. (Bug#32094)

  • Creation of parameter objects with non-input direction using a constructor would fail. This was cause by some old legacy code preventing their use. (Bug#32093)

  • A date string could be returned incorrectly by MySqlDataTime.ToString() when the date returned by MySQL was 0000-00-00 00:00:00. (Bug#32010)

  • A syntax error in a set of batch statements could leave the data adapter in a state that appears hung. (Bug#31930)

  • Installing over a failed uninstall of a previous version could result in multiple clients being registered in the machine.config. This would prevent certain aspects of the MySQL connection within Visual Studio to work properly. (Bug#31731)

  • Connector/NET would incorrectly report success when enlisting in a distributed transaction, although distributed transactions are not supported. (Bug#31703)

  • Data cached from the connection string could return invalid information because the internal routines were not using case-sensitive semantics. This lead to updated connection string options not being recognized if they were of a different case than the existing cached values. (Bug#31433)

  • Trying to use a connection that was not open could return an ambiguous and misleading error message. (Bug#31262)

  • Column name metadata was not using the character set as deifned within the connection string being used. (Bug#31185)

  • Memory usage could increase and decrease significantly when updating or inserting a large number of rows. (Bug#31090)

  • Commands executed from within the state change handeler would fail with a NULL exception. (Bug#30964)

  • Extracting data through XML functions within a query returns the data as System.Byte[]. This was due to Connector/NET incorrectly identifying BLOB fields as binary, rather than text. (Bug#30233)

  • When running a stored procedure multiple times on the same connection, the memory usage could increase indefinitely. (Bug#30116)

  • Column types with only 1-bit (such as BOOLEAN and TINYINT(1) were not returned as boolean fields. (Bug#27959)

  • When accessing certain statements, the command would timeout before the command completed. Because this cannot always be controlled through the individual command timeout options, a default command timeout has been added to the connection string options. (Bug#27958)

  • The server error code was not updated in the Data[] hash, which prevented DbProviderFactory users from accessing the server error code. (Bug#27436)

  • The MySqlDbType.Datetime has been replaced with MySqlDbType.DateTime. The old format has been obsoleted. (Bug#26344)

  • Changing the connection string of a connection to one that changes the parameter marker after the connection had been assigned to a command but before the connection is opened could cause parameters to not be found. (Bug#13991)

C.3.10. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.3 (21 September 2007)

This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs.

Bugs fixed:

  • An incorrect ConstraintException could be raised on an INSERT when adding rows to a table with a multiple-column unique key index. (Bug#30204)

  • A DATE field would be updated with a date/time value, causing a MySqlDataAdapter.Update() exception. (Bug#30077)

  • The Saudi Hijri calendar was not supported. (Bug#29931)

  • Calling SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE for routines with a hyphen in the catalog name produced a syntax error. (Bug#29526)

  • Connecting to a MySQL server earlier than version 4.1 would raise a NullException. (Bug#29476)

  • The availability of a MySQL server would not be reset when using pooled connections (pooling=true). This would lead to the server being reported as unavailable, even if the server become available while the application was still running. (Bug#29409)

  • A FormatException error would be raised if a parameter had not been found, instead of Resources.ParameterMustBeDefined. (Bug#29312)

  • An exception would be thrown when using the Manage Role functionality within the web administrator to assign a role to a user. (Bug#29236)

  • Using the membership/role providers when validationKey or decryptionKey parameters are set to AutoGenerate, an exception would be raised when accessing the corresponding values. (Bug#29235)

  • Certain operations would not check the UsageAdvisor setting, causing log messages from the Usage Advisor even when it was disabled. (Bug#29124)

  • Using the same connection string multiple times would result in Database=dbname appearing multiple times in the resulting string. (Bug#29123)

  • Visual Studio Plugin: Adding a new query based on a stored procedure that uses the SELECT statement would terminate the query/TableAdapter wizard. (Bug#29098)

  • Using TransactionScope would cause an InvalidOperationException. (Bug#28709)

C.3.11. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.2 (18 June 2007)

This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs.

Bugs fixed:

  • Log messages would be truncated to 300 bytes. (Bug#28706)

  • Creating a user would fail due to the application name being set incorrectly. (Bug#28648)

  • Visual Studio Plugin: Adding a new query based on a stored procedure that used a UPDATE, INSERT or DELETE statement would terminate the query/TableAdapter wizard. (Bug#28536)

  • Visual Studio Plugin: Query Builder would fail to show TINYTEXT columns, and any columns listed after a TINYTEXT column correctly. (Bug#28437)

  • Accessing the results from a large query when using data compression in the connection would fail to return all the data. (Bug#28204)

  • Visual Studio Plugin: Update commands would not be generated correctly when using the TableAdapter wizard. (Bug#26347)

C.3.12. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.1 (23 May 2007)

Bugs fixed:

  • Running the statement SHOW PROCESSLIST would return columns as byte arrays instead of native columns. (Bug#28448)

  • Installation of the Connector/NET on Windows would fail if VisualStudio had not already been installed. (Bug#28260)

  • Connector/NET would look for the wrong table when executing User.IsRole(). (Bug#28251)

  • Building a connection string within a tight loop would show slow peformance. (Bug#28167)

  • The UNSIGNED flag for parameters in a stored procedure would be ignored when using MySqlCommandBuilder to obtain the parameter information. (Bug#27679)

  • Using MySQLDataAdapter.FillSchema() on a stored procedure would raise an exception: Invalid attempt to access a field before calling Read(). (Bug#27668)

  • DATETIME fields from versions of MySQL bgefore 4.1 would be incorrectly parsed, resulting in a exception. (Bug#23342)

  • Fixed password property on MySqlConnectionStringBuilder to use PasswordPropertyText attribute. This causes dots to show instead of actual password text.

C.3.13. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.1.0 (01 May 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Now compiles for .NET CF 2.0.

  • Rewrote stored procedure parsing code using a new SQL tokenizer. Really nasty procedures including nested comments are now supported.

  • GetSchema will now report objects relative to the currently selected database. What this means is that passing in null as a database restriction will report objects on the currently selected database only.

  • Added Membership and Role provider contributed by Sean Wright (thanks!).

C.3.14. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.10 (Not yet released)

Bugs fixed:

  • Executing a command that resulted in a fatal exception did not close the connection. (Bug#37991)

  • When a prepared insert query is run that contains an UNSIGNED TINYINT in the parameter list, the complete query and data that should be inserted is corrupted and no error is thrown. (Bug#37968)

  • In a .NET application MySQL Connector/NET modifies the connection string so that it contains several occurrences of the same option with different values. This is illustrated by the example that follows.

    The original connection string:

      host=localhost;database=test;uid=*****;pwd=*****;
      connect timeout=25; auto enlist=false;pooling=false;

    The connection string after after closing MySqlDataReader:

      host=localhost;database=test;uid=*****;pwd=*****;
      connect timeout=25;auto enlist=false;pooling=false; 
      Allow User Variables=True;Allow User Variables=False;
      Allow User Variables=True;Allow User Variables=False;

    (Bug#37955)

  • When creating a connection pool, specifying an invalid IP address will cause the entire application to crash, instead of providing an exception. (Bug#36432)

C.3.15. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.9 (Not yet released)

Bugs fixed:

  • The DbCommandBuilder.QuoteIdentifer method was not implemented. (Bug#35492)

  • Setting the size of a string parameter after the value could cause an exception. (Bug#32094)

  • Creation of parameter objects with non-input direction using a constructor would fail. This was cause by some old legacy code preventing their use. (Bug#32093)

  • A date string could be returned incorrectly by MySqlDataTime.ToString() when the date returned by MySQL was 0000-00-00 00:00:00. (Bug#32010)

  • A syntax error in a set of batch statements could leave the data adapter in a state that appears hung. (Bug#31930)

  • Installing over a failed uninstall of a previous version could result in multiple clients being registered in the machine.config. This would prevent certain aspects of the MySQL connection within Visual Studio to work properly. (Bug#31731)

  • Data cached from the connection string could return invalid information because the internal routines were not using case-sensitive semantics. This lead to updated connection string options not being recognized if they were of a different case than the existing cached values. (Bug#31433)

  • Column name metadata was not using the character set as deifned within the connection string being used. (Bug#31185)

  • Memory usage could increase and decrease significantly when updating or inserting a large number of rows. (Bug#31090)

  • Commands executed from within the state change handeler would fail with a NULL exception. (Bug#30964)

  • When running a stored procedure multiple times on the same connection, the memory usage could increase indefinitely. (Bug#30116)

  • The server error code was not updated in the Data[] hash, which prevented DbProviderFactory users from accessing the server error code. (Bug#27436)

  • Changing the connection string of a connection to one that changes the parameter marker after the connection had been assigned to a command but before the connection is opened could cause parameters to not be found. (Bug#13991)

C.3.16. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.8 (21 August 2007)

Note

This version introduces a new installer technology.

Bugs fixed:

  • Extracting data through XML functions within a query returns the data as System.Byte[]. This was due to Connector/NET incorrectly identifying BLOB fields as binary, rather than text. (Bug#30233)

  • An incorrect ConstraintException could be raised on an INSERT when adding rows to a table with a multiple-column unique key index. (Bug#30204)

  • A DATE field would be updated with a date/time value, causing a MySqlDataAdapter.Update() exception. (Bug#30077)

  • Fixed bug where Connector/Net was hand building some date time patterns rather than using the patterns provided under CultureInfo. This caused problems with some calendars that do not support the same ranges as Gregorian.. (Bug#29931)

  • Calling SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE for routines with a hyphen in the catalog name produced a syntax error. (Bug#29526)

  • The availability of a MySQL server would not be reset when using pooled connections (pooling=true). This would lead to the server being reported as unavailable, even if the server become available while the application was still running. (Bug#29409)

  • A FormatException error would be raised if a parameter had not been found, instead of Resources.ParameterMustBeDefined. (Bug#29312)

  • Certain operations would not check the UsageAdvisor setting, causing log messages from the Usage Advisor even when it was disabled. (Bug#29124)

  • Using the same connection string multiple times would result in Database=dbname appearing multiple times in the resulting string. (Bug#29123)

  • Log messages would be truncated to 300 bytes. (Bug#28706)

  • Accessing the results from a large query when using data compression in the connection will fail to return all the data. (Bug#28204)

  • Fixed problem where MySqlConnection.BeginTransaction checked the drivers status var before checking if the connection was open. The result was that the driver could report an invalid condition on a previously opened connection.

  • Fixed problem where we were not closing prepared statement handles when commands are disposed. This could lead to using up all prepared statement handles on the server.

  • Fixed the database schema collection so that it works on servers that are not properly respecting the lower_case_table_names setting.

  • Fixed problem where any attempt to not read all the records returned from a select where each row of the select is greater than 1024 bytes would hang the driver.

  • Fixed problem where a command timing out just after it actually finished would cause an exception to be thrown on the command timeout thread which would then be seen as an unhandled exception.

  • Fixed some serious issues with command timeout and cancel that could present as exceptions about thread ownership. The issue was that not all queries cancel the same. Some produce resultsets while others don't. ExecuteReader had to be changed to check for this.

C.3.17. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.7 (18 May 2007)

Bugs fixed:

  • Running the statement SHOW PROCESSLIST would return columns as byte arrays instead of native columns. (Bug#28448)

  • Building a connection string within a tight loop would show slow peformance. (Bug#28167)

  • Using logging (with the logging=true parameter to the connection string) would not generate a log file. (Bug#27765)

  • The UNSIGNED flag for parameters in a stored procedure would be ignored when using MySqlCommandBuilder to obtain the parameter information. (Bug#27679)

  • Using MySQLDataAdapter.FillSchema() on a stored procedure would raise an exception: Invalid attempt to access a field before calling Read(). (Bug#27668)

  • If you close an open connection with an active transaction, the transaction is not automatically rolled back. (Bug#27289)

  • When cloning an open MySqlClient.MySqlConnection with the Persist Security Info=False option set, the cloned connection is not usable because the security information has not been cloned. (Bug#27269)

  • Enlisting a null transaction would affect the current connection object, such that further enlistment operations to the transaction are not possible. (Bug#26754)

  • Attempting to change the the Connection Protocol property within a PropertyGrid control would raise an exception. (Bug#26472)

  • The characterset property would not be identified during a connection (also affected Visual Studion Plugin). (Bug#26147, Bug#27240)

  • The CreateFormat column of the DataTypes collection did not contain a format specification for creating a new column type. (Bug#25947)

  • DATETIME fields from versions of MySQL bgefore 4.1 would be incorrectly parsed, resulting in a exception. (Bug#23342)

C.3.18. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.6 (22 March 2007)

Bugs fixed:

  • Publisher listed in "Add/Remove Programs" is not consistent with other MySQL products. (Bug#27253)

  • DESCRIBE .... SQL statement returns byte arrays rather than data on MySQL versions older than 4.1.15. (Bug#27221)

  • cmd.Parameters.RemoveAt("Id") will cause an error if the last item is requested. (Bug#27187)

  • MySqlParameterCollection and parameters added with Insert method can not be retrieved later using ParameterName. (Bug#27135)

  • Exception thrown when using large values in UInt64 parameters. (Bug#27093)

  • MySQL Visual Studio Plugin 1.1.2 does not work with Connector/Net 5.0.5. (Bug#26960)

C.3.19. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.5 (07 March 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Reverted behavior that required parameter names to start with the parameter marker. We apologize for this back and forth but we mistakenly changed the behavior to not match what SqlClient supports. We now support using either syntax for adding parameters however we also respond exactly like SqlClient in that if you ask for the index of a parameter using a syntax different from when you added the parameter, the result will be -1.

  • Assembly now properly appears in the Visual Studio 2005 Add/Remove Reference dialog.

  • Fixed problem that prevented use of SchemaOnly or SingleRow command behaviors with stored procedures or prepared statements.

  • Added MySqlParameterCollection.AddWithValue and marked the Add(name, value) method as obsolete.

  • Return parameters created with DeriveParameters now have the name RETURN_VALUE.

  • Fixed problem with parameter name hashing where the hashes were not getting updated when parameters were removed from the collection.

  • Fixed problem with calling stored functions when a return parameter was not given.

  • Added Use Procedure Bodies connection string option to allow calling procedures without using procedure metadata.

Bugs fixed:

  • MySqlConnection.GetSchema fails with NullReferenceException for Foreign Keys. (Bug#26660)

  • Connector/NET would fail to install under Windows Vista. (Bug#26430)

  • Opening a connection would be slow due to hostname lookup. (Bug#26152)

  • Incorrect values/formats would be applied when the OldSyntax connection string option was used. (Bug#25950)

  • Registry would be incorrectly populated with installation locations. (Bug#25928)

  • Times with negative values would be returned incorrectly. (Bug#25912)

  • Returned data types of a DataTypes collection do not contain the right correctl CLR Datatype. (Bug#25907)

  • GetSchema and DataTypes would throw an exception due to an incorrect table name. (Bug#25906)

  • MySqlConnection throws an exception when connecting to MySQL v4.1.7. (Bug#25726)

  • SELECT did not work correctly when using a WHERE clause containing a UTF-8 string. (Bug#25651)

  • When closing and then re-opening a connection to a database, the character set specification is lost. (Bug#25614)

  • Filling a table schema through a stored procedure triggers a runtime error. (Bug#25609)

  • BINARY and VARBINARY columns would be returned as a string, not binary, datatype. (Bug#25605)

  • A critical ConnectionPool error would result in repeated System.NullReferenceException. (Bug#25603)

  • The UpdateRowSource.FirstReturnedRecord method does not work. (Bug#25569)

  • When connecting to a MySQL Server earlier than version 4.1, the connection would hang when reading data. (Bug#25458)

  • Using ExecuteScalar() with more than one query, where one query fails, will hang the connection. (Bug#25443)

  • When a MySqlConversionException is raised on a remote object, the client application would receive a SerializationException instead. (Bug#24957)

  • When connecting to a server, the return code from the connection could be zero, even though the hostname was incorrect. (Bug#24802)

  • High CPU utilization would be experienced when there is no idle connection waiting when using pooled connections through MySqlPool.GetConnection. (Bug#24373)

  • Connector/NET would not compile properly when used with Mono 1.2. (Bug#24263)

  • Applications would crash when calling with CommandType set to StoredProcedure.

C.3.20. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.4 (Not released)

This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs.

C.3.21. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.3 (05 January 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Usage Advisor has been implemented. The Usage Advisor checks your queries and will report if you are using the connection inefficiently.

  • PerfMon hooks have been added to monitor the stored procedure cache hits and misses.

  • The MySqlCommand object now supports asynchronous query methods. This is implemented useg the BeginExecuteNonQuery and EndExecuteNonQuery methods.

  • Metadata from storaed procedures and stored function execution are cached.

  • The CommandBuilder.DeriveParameters function has been updated to the procedure cache.

  • The ViewColumns GetSchema collection has been updated.

  • Improved speed and performance by re-architecting certain sections of the code.

  • Support for the embedded server and client library have been removed from this release. Support will be added back to a later release.

  • The ShapZipLib library has been replaced with the deflate support provided within .NET 2.0.

  • SSL support has been updated.

Bugs fixed:

  • Additional text added to error message (Bug#25178)

  • An exception would be raised, or the process would hang, if SELECT privileges on a database were not granted and a stored procedure was used. (Bug#25033)

  • When adding parameter objects to a command object, if the parameter direction is set to ReturnValue before the parameter is added to the command object then when the command is executed it throws an error. (Bug#25013)

  • Using Driver.IsTooOld() would return the wrong value. (Bug#24661)

  • When using a DbNull.Value as the value for a parameter value, and then later setting a specific value type, the command would fail with an exception because the wrong type was implied from the DbNull.Value. (Bug#24565)

  • Stored procedure executions are not thread safe. (Bug#23905)

  • Deleting a connection to a disconnected server when using the Visual Studio Plugin would cause an assertion failure. (Bug#23687)

  • Nested transactions (which are unsupported)do not raise an error or warning. (Bug#22400)

C.3.22. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.2 (06 November 2006)

Functionality added or changed:

  • An Ignore Prepare option has been added to the connection string options. If enabled, prepared statements will be disabled application-wide. The default for this option is true.

  • Implemented a stored procedure cache. By default, the connector caches the metadata for the last 25 procedures that are seen. You can change the numbver of procedures that are cacheds by using the procedure cache connection string.

  • Important change: Due to a number of issues with the use of server-side prepared statements, Connector/NET 5.0.2 has disabled their use by default. The disabling of server-side prepared statements does not affect the operation of the connector in any way.

    To enable server-side prepared statements you must add the following configuration property to your connector string properties:

    ignore prepare=false

    The default value of this property is true.

Bugs fixed:

  • One system where IPv6 was enabled, Connector/NET would incorrectly resolve hostnames. (Bug#23758)

  • Column names with accented characters were not parsed properly causing malformed column names in result sets. (Bug#23657)

  • An exception would be thrown when calling GetSchemaTable and fields was null. (Bug#23538)

  • A System.FormatException exception would be raised when invoking a stored procedure with an ENUM input parameter. (Bug#23268)

  • During installation, an antivirus error message would be raised (indicating a malicious script problem). (Bug#23245)

  • Creating a connection through the Server Explorer when using the Visual Studio Plugin would fail. The installer for the Visual Studio Plugin has been updated to ensure that Connector/NET 5.0.2 must be installed. (Bug#23071)

  • Using Windows Vista (RC2) as a non-privileged user would raise a Registry key 'Global' access denied. (Bug#22882)

  • Within Mono, using the PreparedStatement interface could result in an error due to a BitArray copying error. (Bug#18186)

  • Connector/NET did not work as a data source for the SqlDataSource object used by ASP.NET 2.0. (Bug#16126)

C.3.23. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.1 (01 October 2006)

Bugs fixed:

  • Connector/NET on a Tukish operating system, may fail to execute certain SQL statements correctly. (Bug#22452)

  • Starting a transaction on a connection created by MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlClientFactory, using BeginTransaction without specifying an isolation level, causes the SQL statement to fail with a syntax error. (Bug#22042)

  • The MySqlexception class is now derived from the DbException class. (Bug#21874)

  • The # would not be accepted within column/table names, even though it was valid. (Bug#21521)

  • You can now install the Connector/NET MSI package from the command line using the /passive, /quiet, /q options. (Bug#19994)

  • Submitting an empty string to a command object through prepare raises an System.IndexOutOfRangeException, rather than a Connector/Net exception. (Bug#18391)

  • Using ExecuteScalar with a datetime field, where the value of the field is "0000-00-00 00:00:00", a MySqlConversionException exception would be raised. (Bug#11991)

  • An MySql.Data.Types.MySqlConversionException would be raised when trying to update a row that contained a date field, where the date field contained a zero value (0000-00-00 00:00:00). (Bug#9619)

  • Executing multiple queries as part of a transaction returns There is already an openDataReader associated with this Connection which must be closed first. (Bug#7248)

  • Incorrect field/data lengths could be returned for VARCHAR UTF8 columns. Bug (#14592)

C.3.24. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 5.0.0 (08 August 2006)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Replaced use of ICSharpCode with .NET 2.0 internal deflate support.

  • Refactored test suite to test all protocols in a single pass.

  • Added usage advisor warnings for requesting column values by the wrong type.

  • Reimplemented PacketReader/PacketWriter support into MySqlStream class.

  • Reworked connection string classes to be simpler and faster.

  • Added procedure metadata caching.

  • Added internal implemention of SHA1 so we don't have to distribute the OpenNetCF on mobile devices.

  • Implemented MySqlClientFactory class.

  • Added perfmon hooks for stored procedure cache hits and misses.

  • Implemented classes and interfaces for ADO.Net 2.0 support.

  • Added Async query methods.

  • Implemented Usage Advisor.

  • Completely refactored how column values are handled to avoid boxing in some cases.

  • Implemented MySqlConnectionBuilder class.

Bugs fixed:

  • CommandText: Question mark in comment line is being parsed as a parameter. (Bug#6214)

C.3.25. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.11 (Not yet released)

Bugs fixed:

  • Attempting to utilize MySQL Connector .Net version 1.0.10 throws a fatal exception under Mono when pooling is enabled. (Bug#33682)

  • Setting the size of a string parameter after the value could cause an exception. (Bug#32094)

  • Creation of parameter objects with non-input direction using a constructor would fail. This was cause by some old legacy code preventing their use. (Bug#32093)

  • Memory usage could increase and decrease significantly when updating or inserting a large number of rows. (Bug#31090)

  • Commands executed from within the state change handeler would fail with a NULL exception. (Bug#30964)

  • Extracting data through XML functions within a query returns the data as System.Byte[]. This was due to Connector/NET incorrectly identifying BLOB fields as binary, rather than text. (Bug#30233)

  • Using compression in the MySQL connection with Connector/NET would be slower than using native (uncompressed) communication. (Bug#27865)

  • Changing the connection string of a connection to one that changes the parameter marker after the connection had been assigned to a command but before the connection is opened could cause parameters to not be found. (Bug#13991)

C.3.26. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.10 (24 August 2007)

Bugs fixed:

  • An incorrect ConstraintException could be raised on an INSERT when adding rows to a table with a multiple-column unique key index. (Bug#30204)

  • The availability of a MySQL server would not be reset when using pooled connections (pooling=true). This would lead to the server being reported as unavailable, even if the server become available while the application was still running. (Bug#29409)

  • Publisher listed in "Add/Remove Programs" is not consistent with other MySQL products. (Bug#27253)

  • MySqlParameterCollection and parameters added with Insert method can not be retrieved later using ParameterName. (Bug#27135)

  • BINARY and VARBINARY columns would be returned as a string, not binary, datatype. (Bug#25605)

  • A critical ConnectionPool error would result in repeated System.NullReferenceException. (Bug#25603)

  • When a MySqlConversionException is raised on a remote object, the client application would receive a SerializationException instead. (Bug#24957)

  • High CPU utilization would be experienced when there is no idle connection waiting when using pooled connections through MySqlPool.GetConnection. (Bug#24373)

C.3.27. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.9 (02 February 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

  • The ICSharpCode ZipLib is no longer used by the Connector, and is no longer distributed with it.

  • Important change: Binaries for .NET 1.0 are no longer supplied with this release. If you need support for .NET 1.0, you must build from source.

  • Improved CommandBuilder.DeriveParameters to first try and use the procedure cache before querying for the stored procedure metadata. Return parameters created with DeriveParameters now have the name RETURN_VALUE.

  • An Ignore Prepare option has been added to the connection string options. If enabled, prepared statements will be disabled application-wide. The default for this option is true.

  • Implemented a stored procedure cache. By default, the connector caches the metadata for the last 25 procedures that are seen. You can change the numbver of procedures that are cacheds by using the procedure cache connection string.

  • Important change: Due to a number of issues with the use of server-side prepared statements, Connector/NET 5.0.2 has disabled their use by default. The disabling of server-side prepared statements does not affect the operation of the connector in any way.

    To enable server-side prepared statements you must add the following configuration property to your connector string properties:

    ignore prepare=false

    The default value of this property is true.

Bugs fixed:

  • Times with negative values would be returned incorrectly. (Bug#25912)

  • MySqlConnection throws a NullReferenceException and ArgumentNullException when connecting to MySQL v4.1.7. (Bug#25726)

  • SELECT did not work correctly when using a WHERE clause containing a UTF-8 string. (Bug#25651)

  • When closing and then re-opening a connection to a database, the character set specification is lost. (Bug#25614)

  • Trying to fill a table schema through a stored procedure triggers a runtime error. (Bug#25609)

  • Using ExecuteScalar() with more than one query, where one query fails, will hang the connection. (Bug#25443)

  • Additional text added to error message. (Bug#25178)

  • When adding parameter objects to a command object, if the parameter direction is set to ReturnValue before the parameter is added to the command object then when the command is executed it throws an error. (Bug#25013)

  • When connecting to a server, the return code from the connection could be zero, even though the hostname was incorrect. (Bug#24802)

  • Using Driver.IsTooOld() would return the wrong value. (Bug#24661)

  • When using a DbNull.Value as the value for a parameter value, and then later setting a specific value type, the command would fail with an exception because the wrong type was implied from the DbNull.Value. (Bug#24565)

  • Stored procedure executions are not thread safe. (Bug#23905)

  • The CommandBuilder would mistakenly add insert parameters for a table column with auto incrementation enabled. (Bug#23862)

  • One system where IPv6 was enabled, Connector/NET would incorrectly resolve hostnames. (Bug#23758)

  • Nested transactions do not raise an error or warning. (Bug#22400)

  • An System.OverflowException would be raised when accessing a varchar field over 255 bytes. Bug (#23749)

  • Within Mono, using the PreparedStatement interface could result in an error due to a BitArray copying error. (Bug 18186)

C.3.28. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.8 (20 October 2006)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Stored procedures are now cached.

  • The method for retrieving stored procedured metadata has been changed so that users without SELECT privileges on the mysql.proc table can use a stored procedure.

Bugs fixed:

  • Connector/NET on a Tukish operating system, may fail to execute certain SQL statements correctly. (Bug#22452)

  • The # would not be accepted within column/table names, even though it was valid. (Bug#21521)

  • Calling Close on a connection after calling a stored procedure would trigger a NullReferenceException. (Bug#20581)

  • You can now install the Connector/NET MSI package from the command line using the /passive, /quiet, /q options. (Bug#19994)

  • The DiscoverParameters function would fail when a stored procedure used a NUMERIC parameter type. (Bug#19515)

  • When running a query that included a date comparison, a DateReader error would be raised. (Bug#19481)

  • IDataRecord.GetString would raise NullPointerException for null values in returned rows. Method now throws SqlNullValueException. (Bug#19294)

  • Parameter substitution in queries where the order of parameters and table fields did not match would substitute incorrect values. (Bug#19261)

  • Submitting an empty string to a command object through prepare raises an System.IndexOutOfRangeException, rather than a Connector/Net exception. (Bug#18391)

  • An exception would be raised when using an output parameter to a System.String value. (Bug#17814)

  • CHAR type added to MySqlDbType. (Bug#17749)

  • A SELECT query on a table with a date with a value of '0000-00-00' would hang the application. (Bug#17736)

  • The CommandBuilder ignored Unsigned flag at Parameter creation. (Bug#17375)

  • When working with multiple threads, character set initialization would generate errors. (Bug#17106)

  • When using an unsigned 64-bit integer in a stored procedure, the unsigned bit would be lost stored. (Bug#16934)

  • DataReader would show the value of the previous row (or last row with non-null data) if the current row contained a datetime field with a null value. (Bug#16884)

  • Unsigned data types were not properly supported. (Bug#16788)

  • The connection string parser did not allow single or double quotes in the password. (Bug#16659)

  • The MySqlDateTime class did not contain constructors. (Bug#15112)

  • Called MySqlCommandBuilder.DeriveParameters for a stored procedure that has no paramers would cause an application crash. (Bug#15077)

  • Using ExecuteScalar with a datetime field, where the value of the field is "0000-00-00 00:00:00", a MySqlConversionException exception would be raised. (Bug#11991)

  • An MySql.Data.Types.MySqlConversionException would be raised when trying to update a row that contained a date field, where the date field contained a zero value (0000-00-00 00:00:00). (Bug#9619)

  • When using MySqlDataAdapter, connections to a MySQL server may remain open and active, even though the use of the connection has been completed and the data received. (Bug#8131)

  • Executing multiple queries as part of a transaction returns There is already an openDataReader associated with this Connection which must be closed first. (Bug#7248)

  • Incorrect field/data lengths could be returned for VARCHAR UTF8 columns. Bug (#14592)

C.3.29. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.7 (21 November 2005)

Bugs fixed:

  • Unsigned tinyint (NET byte) would lead to and incorrectly determined parameter type from the parameter value. (Bug#18570)

  • A #42000Query was empty exception occurred when executing a query built with MySqlCommandBuilder, if the query string ended with a semicolon. (Bug#14631)

  • The parameter collection object's Add() method added parameters to the list without first checking to see whether they already existed. Now it updates the value of the existing parameter object if it exists. (Bug#13927)

  • Added support for the cp932 character set. (Bug#13806)

  • Calling a stored procedure where a parameter contained special characters (such as '@') would produce an exception. Note that ANSI_QUOTES had to be enabled to make this possible. (Bug#13753)

  • The Ping() method did not update the State property of the Connection object. (Bug#13658)

  • Implemented the MySqlCommandBuilder.DeriveParameters method that is used to discover the parameters for a stored procedure. (Bug#13632)

  • A statement that contained multiple references to the same parameter could not be prepared. (Bug#13541)

C.3.30. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.6 (03 October 2005)

Bugs fixed:

  • Connector/NET 1.0.5 could not connect on Mono. (Bug#13345)

  • Serializing a parameter failed if the first value passed in was NULL. (Bug#13276)

  • Field names that contained the following characters caused errors: ()%<>/ (Bug#13036)

  • The nant build sequence had problems. (Bug#12978)

  • The Connector/NET 1.0.5 installer would not install alongside Connector/NET 1.0.4. (Bug#12835)

C.3.31. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.5 (29 August 2005)

Bugs fixed:

  • Connector/NET could not connect to MySQL 4.1.14. (Bug#12771)

  • With multiple hosts in the connection string, Connector/NET would not connect to the last host in the list. (Bug#12628)

  • The ConnectionString property could not be set when a MySqlConnection object was added with the designer. (Bug#12551, Bug#8724)

  • The cp1250 character set was not supported. (Bug#11621)

  • A call to a stored procedure caused an exception if the stored procedure had no parameters. (Bug#11542)

  • Certain malformed queries would trigger a Connection must be valid and open error message. (Bug#11490)

  • Trying to use a stored procedure when Connection.Database was not populated generated an exception. (Bug#11450)

  • Connector/NET interpreted the new decimal data type as a byte array. (Bug#11294)

  • Added support to call a stored function from Connector/NET. (Bug#10644)

  • Connection could fail when .NET thread pool had no available worker threads. (Bug#10637)

  • Calling MySqlConnection.clone when a connection string had not yet been set on the original connection would generate an error. (Bug#10281)

  • Decimal parameters caused syntax errors. (Bug#10152, Bug#11550, Bug#10486)

  • Parameters were not recognized when they were separated by linefeeds. (Bug#9722)

  • The MySqlCommandBuilder class could not handle queries that referenced tables in a database other than the default database. (Bug#8382)

  • Trying to read a TIMESTAMP column generated an exception. (Bug#7951)

  • Connector/NET could not work properly with certain regional settings. (WL#8228)

C.3.32. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.4 (20 January 2005)

Bugs fixed:

  • MySqlReader.GetInt32 throws exception if column is unsigned. (Bug#7755)

  • Quote character \222 not quoted in EscapeString. (Bug#7724)

  • GetBytes is working no more. (Bug#7704)

  • MySqlDataReader.GetString(index) returns non-Null value when field is Null. (Bug#7612)

  • Clone method bug in MySqlCommand. (Bug#7478)

  • Problem with Multiple resultsets. (Bug#7436)

  • MySqlAdapter.Fill method throws error message Non-negative number required. (Bug#7345)

  • MySqlCommand.Connection returns an IDbConnection. (Bug#7258)

  • Calling prepare causing exception. (Bug#7243)

  • Fixed problem with shared memory connections.

  • Added or filled out several more topics in the API reference documentation.

  • Fixed another small problem with prepared statements.

  • Fixed problem that causes named pipes to not work with some blob functionality.

C.3.33. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.3 (12 October 2004)

Bugs fixed:

  • Invalid query string when using inout parameters (Bug#7133)

  • Inserting DateTime causes System.InvalidCastException to be thrown. (Bug#7132)

  • MySqlDateTime in Datatables sorting by Text, not Date. (Bug#7032)

  • Exception stack trace lost when re-throwing exceptions. (Bug#6983)

  • Errors in parsing stored procedure parameters. (Bug#6902)

  • InvalidCast when using DATE_ADD-function. (Bug#6879)

  • Int64 Support in MySqlCommand Parameters. (Bug#6863)

  • Test suite fails with MySQL 4.0 because of case sensitivity of table names. (Bug#6831)

  • MySqlDataReader.GetChar(int i) throws IndexOutOfRange exception. (Bug#6770)

  • Integer "out" parameter from stored procedure returned as string. (Bug#6668)

  • An Open Connection has been Closed by the Host System. (Bug#6634)

  • Fixed Invalid character set index: 200. (Bug#6547)

  • Connections now do not have to give a database on the connection string.

  • Installer now includes options to install into GAC and create Start Menu items.

  • Fixed major problem with detecting null values when using prepared statements.

  • Fixed problem where multiple resultsets having different numbers of columns would cause a problem.

  • Added ServerThread property to MySqlConnection to expose server thread id.

  • Added Ping method to MySqlConnection.

  • Changed the name of the test suite to MySql.Data.Tests.dll.

  • Now SHOW COLLATION is used upon connection to retrieve the full list of charset ids.

  • Made MySQL the default named pipe name.

C.3.34. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.2 (15 November 2004)

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed Objects not being disposed (Bug#6649)

  • Fixed Charset-map for UCS-2 (Bug#6541)

  • Fixed Zero date "0000-00-00" is returned wrong when filling Dataset (Bug#6429)

  • Fixed double type handling in MySqlParameter(string parameterName, object value) (Bug#6428)

  • Fixed Installation directory ignored using custom installation (Bug#6329)

  • Fixed #HY000 Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ (Bug#6322)

  • Added the TableEditor CS and VB sample

  • Added charset connection string option

  • Fixed problem with MySqlBinary where string values could not be used to update extended text columns

  • Provider is now using character set specified by server as default

  • Updated the installer to include the new samples

  • Fixed problem where setting command text leaves the command in a prepared state

  • Fixed Long inserts take very long time (Bu #5453)

  • Fixed problem where calling stored procedures might cause an "Illegal mix of collations" problem.

C.3.35. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.1 (27 October 2004)

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed IndexOutOfBounds when reading BLOB with DataReader with GetString(index) (Bug#6230)

  • Fixed GetBoolean returns wrong values (Bug#6227)

  • Fixed Method TokenizeSql() uses only a limited set of valid characters for parameters (Bug#6217)

  • Fixed NET Connector source missing resx files (Bug#6216)

  • Fixed System.OverflowException when using YEAR datatype (Bug#6036)

  • Fixed MySqlDateTime sets IsZero property on all subseq.records after first zero found (Bug#6006)

  • Fixed serializing of floating point parameters (double, numeric, single, decimal) (Bug#5900)

  • Fixed missing Reference in DbType setter (Bug#5897)

  • Fixed Parsing the ';' char (Bug#5876)

  • Fixed DBNull Values causing problems with retrieving/updating queries. (Bug#5798)

  • IsNullable error (Bug#5796)

  • Fixed problem where MySqlParameterCollection.Add() would throw unclear exception when given a null value (Bug#5621)

  • Fixed construtor initialize problems in MySqlCommand() (Bug#5613)

  • Fixed Yet Another "object reference not set to an instance of an object" (Bug#5496)

  • Fixed Can't display Chinese correctly (Bug#5288)

  • Fixed MySqlDataReader and 'show tables from ...' behavior (Bug#5256)

  • Fixed problem in PacketReader where it could try to allocate the wrong buffer size in EnsureCapacity

  • Fixed problem where using old syntax while using the interfaces caused problems

  • Fixed Bug#5458 Calling GetChars on a longtext column throws an exception

  • Added test case for resetting the command text on a prepared command

  • Fixed Bug#5388 DataReader reports all rows as NULL if one row is NULL

  • Fixed problem where connection lifetime on the connect string was not being respected

  • Fixed Bug#5602 Possible bug in MySqlParameter(string, object) constructor

  • Field buffers being reused to decrease memory allocations and increase speed

  • Fixed Bug#5392 MySqlCommand sees "?" as parameters in string literals

  • Added Aggregate function test (wasn't really a bug)

  • Using PacketWriter instead of Packet for writing to streams

  • Implemented SequentialAccess

  • Fixed problem with ConnectionInternal where a key might be added more than once

  • Fixed Russian character support as well

  • Fixed Bug#5474 cannot run a stored procedure populating mysqlcommand.parameters

  • Fixed problem where connector was not issuing a CMD_QUIT before closing the socket

  • Fixed problem where Min Pool Size was not being respected

  • Refactored compression code into CompressedStream to clean up NativeDriver

  • CP1252 is now used for Latin1 only when the server is 4.1.2 and later

  • Fixed Bug#5469 Setting DbType throws NullReferenceException

  • Virtualized driver subsystem so future releases could easily support client or embedded server support

C.3.36. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 1.0.0 (01 September 2004)

Bugs fixed:

  • Thai encoding not correctly supported. (Bug#3889)

  • Bumped version number to 1.0.0 for beta 1 release.

  • Removed all of the XML comment warnings.

  • Added COPYING.rtf file for use in installer.

  • Updated many of the test cases.

  • Fixed problem with using compression.

  • Removed some last references to ByteFX.

C.3.37. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.9.0 (30 August 2004)

  • Added test fixture for prepared statements.

  • All type classes now implement a SerializeBinary method for sending their data to a PacketWriter.

  • Added PacketWriter class that will enable future low-memory large object handling.

  • Fixed many small bugs in running prepared statements and stored procedures.

  • Changed command so that an exception will not be thrown in executing a stored procedure with parameters in old syntax mode.

  • SingleRow behavior now working right even with limit.

  • GetBytes now only works on binary columns.

  • Logger now truncates long sql commands so blob columns don't blow out our log.

  • host and database now have a default value of "" unless otherwise set.

  • Connection Timeout seems to be ignored. (Bug#5214)

  • Added test case for bug# 5051: GetSchema not working correctly.

  • Fixed problem where GetSchema would return false for IsUnique when the column is key.

  • MySqlDataReader GetXXX methods now using the field level MySqlValue object and not performing conversions.

  • DataReader returning NULL for time column. (Bug#5097)

  • Added test case for LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE.

  • Added replacetext custom nant task.

  • Added CommandBuilderTest fixture.

  • Added Last One Wins feature to CommandBuilder.

  • Fixed persist security info case problem.

  • Fixed GetBool so that 1, true, "true", and "yes" all count as true.

  • Make parameter mark configurable.

  • Added the "old syntax" connection string parameter to allow use of @ parameter marker.

  • MySqlCommandBuilder. (Bug#4658)

  • ByteFX.MySqlClient caches passwords if Persist Security Info is false. (Bug#4864)

  • Updated license banner in all source files to include FLOSS exception.

  • Added new .Types namespace and implementations for most current MySql types.

  • Added MySqlField41 as a subclass of MySqlField.

  • Changed many classes to now use the new .Types types.

  • Changed type enum int to Int32, short to Int16, and bigint to Int64.

  • Added dummy types UInt16, UInt32, and UInt64 to allow an unsigned parameter to be made.

  • Connections are now reset when they are pulled from the connection pool.

  • Refactored auth code in driver so it can be used for both auth and reset.

  • Added UserReset test in PoolingTests.cs.

  • Connections are now reset using COM_CHANGE_USER when pulled from the pool.

  • Implemented SingleResultSet behavior.

  • Implemented support of unicode.

  • Added char set mappings for utf-8 and ucs-2.

  • Time fields overflow using bytefx .net mysql driver (Bug#4520)

  • Modified time test in data type test fixture to check for time spans where hours > 24.

  • Wrong string with backslash escaping in ByteFx.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlParameter. (Bug#4505)

  • Added code to Parameter test case TestQuoting to test for backslashes.

  • MySqlCommandBuilder fails with multi-word column names. (Bug#4486)

  • Fixed bug in TokenizeSql where underscore would terminate character capture in parameter name.

  • Added test case for spaces in column names.

  • MySqlDataReader.GetBytes don't works correctly. (Bug#4324)

  • Added GetBytes() test case to DataReader test fixture.

  • Now reading all server variables in InternalConnection.Configure into Hashtable.

  • Now using string[] for index map in CharSetMap.

  • Added CRInSQL test case for carriage returns in SQL.

  • Setting maxPacketSize to default value in Driver.ctor.

  • Setting MySqlDbType on a parameter doesn't set generic type. (Bug#4442)

  • Removed obsolete data types Long and LongLong.

  • Overflow exception thrown when using "use pipe" on connection string. (Bug#4071)

  • Changed "use pipe" keyword to "pipe name" or just "pipe".

  • Allow reading multiple resultsets from a single query.

  • Added flags attribute to ServerStatusFlags enum.

  • Changed name of ServerStatus enum to ServerStatusFlags.

  • Inserted data row doesn't update properly.

  • Error processing show create table. (Bug#4074)

  • Change Packet.ReadLenInteger to ReadPackedLong and added packet.ReadPackedInteger that always reads integers packed with 2,3,4.

  • Added syntax.cs test fixture to test various SQL syntax bugs.

  • Improper handling of time values. Now time value of 00:00:00 is not treated as null. (Bug#4149)

  • Moved all test suite files into TestSuite folder.

  • Fixed bug where null column would move the result packet pointer backward.

  • Added new nant build script.

  • Clear tablename so it will be regen'ed properly during the next GenerateSchema. (Bug#3917)

  • GetValues was always returning zero and was also always trying to copy all fields rather than respecting the size of the array passed in. (Bug#3915)

  • Implemented shared memory access protocol.

  • Implemented prepared statements for MySQL 4.1.

  • Implemented stored procedures for MySQL 5.0.

  • Renamed MySqlInternalConnection to InternalConnection.

  • SQL is now parsed as chars, fixes problems with other languages.

  • Added logging and allow batch connection string options.

  • RowUpdating event not set when setting the DataAdapter property. (Bug#3888)

  • Fixed bug in char set mapping.

  • Implemented 4.1 authentication.

  • Improved open/auth code in driver.

  • Improved how connection bits are set during connection.

  • Database name is now passed to server during initial handshake.

  • Changed namespace for client to MySql.Data.MySqlClient.

  • Changed assembly name of client to MySql.Data.dll.

  • Changed license text in all source files to GPL.

  • Added the MySqlClient.build Nant file.

  • Removed the mono batch files.

  • Moved some of the unused files into notused folder so nant build file can use wildcards.

  • Implemented shared memory access.

  • Major revamp in code structure.

  • Prepared statements now working for MySql 4.1.1 and later.

  • Finished implementing auth for 4.0, 4.1.0, and 4.1.1.

  • Changed namespace from MySQL.Data.MySQLClient back to MySql.Data.MySqlClient.

  • Fixed bug in CharSetMapping where it was trying to use text names as ints.

  • Changed namespace to MySQL.Data.MySQLClient.

  • Integrated auth changes from UC2004.

  • Fixed bug where calling any of the GetXXX methods on a datareader before or after reading data would not throw the appropriate exception (thanks Luca Morelli).

  • Added TimeSpan code in parameter.cs to properly serialize a timespan object to mysql time format (thanks Gianluca Colombo).

  • Added TimeStamp to parameter serialization code. Prevented DataAdatper updates from working right (thanks Michael King).

  • Fixed a misspelling in MySqlHelper.cs (thanks Patrick Kristiansen).

C.3.38. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.76

  • Driver now using charset number given in handshake to create encoding.

  • Changed command editor to point to MySqlClient.Design.

  • Fixed bug in Version.isAtLeast.

  • Changed DBConnectionString to support changes done to MySqlConnectionString.

  • Removed SqlCommandEditor and DataAdapterPreviewDialog.

  • Using new long return values in many places.

  • Integrated new CompressedStream class.

  • Changed ConnectionString and added attributes to allow it to be used in MySqlClient.Design.

  • Changed packet.cs to support newer lengths in ReadLenInteger.

  • Changed other classes to use new properties and fields of MySqlConnectionString.

  • ConnectionInternal is now using PING to see whether the server is alive.

  • Moved toolbox bitmaps into resource folder.

  • Changed field.cs to allow values to come directly from row buffer.

  • Changed to use the new driver.Send syntax.

  • Using a new packet queueing system.

  • Started work handling the "broken" compression packet handling.

  • Fixed bug in StreamCreator where failure to connect to a host would continue to loop infinitly (thanks Kevin Casella).

  • Improved connectstring handling.

  • Moved designers into Pro product.

  • Removed some old commented out code from command.cs.

  • Fixed a problem with compression.

  • Fixed connection object where an exception throw prior to the connection opening would not leave the connection in the connecting state (thanks Chris Cline).

  • Added GUID support.

  • Fixed sequence out of order bug (thanks Mark Reay).

C.3.39. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.75

  • Enum values now supported as parameter values (thanks Philipp Sumi).

  • Year datatype now supported.

  • Fixed compression.

  • Fixed bug where a parameter with a TimeSpan as the value would not serialize properly.

  • Fixed bug where default constructor would not set default connection string values.

  • Added some XML comments to some members.

  • Work to fix/improve compression handling.

  • Improved ConnectionString handling so that it better matches the standard set by SqlClient.

  • A MySqlException is now thrown if a username is not included in the connection string.

  • Localhost is now used as the default if not specified on the connection string.

  • An exception is now thrown if an attempt is made to set the connection string while the connection is open.

  • Small changes to ConnectionString docs.

  • Removed MultiHostStream and MySqlStream. Replaced it with Common/StreamCreator.

  • Added support for Use Pipe connection string value.

  • Added Platform class for easier access to platform utility functions.

  • Fixed small pooling bug where new connection was not getting created after IsAlive fails.

  • Added Platform.cs and StreamCreator.cs.

  • Fixed Field.cs to properly handle 4.1 style timestamps.

  • Changed Common.Version to Common.DBVersion to avoid name conflict.

  • Fixed field.cs so that text columns return the right field type.

  • Added MySqlError class to provide some reference for error codes (thanks Geert Veenstra).

C.3.40. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.74

  • Added Unix socket support (thanks Mohammad DAMT).

  • Only calling Thread.Sleep when no data is available.

  • Improved escaping of quote characters in parameter data.

  • Removed misleading comments from parameter.cs.

  • Fixed pooling bug.

  • Fixed ConnectionString editor dialog (thanks marco p (pomarc)).

  • UserId now supported in connection strings (thanks Jeff Neeley).

  • Attempting to create a parameter that is not input throws an exception (thanks Ryan Gregg).

  • Added much documentation.

  • Checked in new MultiHostStream capability. Big thanks to Dan Guisinger for this. he originally submitted the code and idea of supporting multiple machines on the connect string.

  • Added a lot of documentation.

  • Fixed speed issue with 0.73.

  • Changed to Thread.Sleep(0) in MySqlDataStream to help optimize the case where it doesn't need to wait (thanks Todd German).

  • Prepopulating the idlepools to MinPoolSize.

  • Fixed MySqlPool deadlock condition as well as stupid bug where CreateNewPooledConnection was not ever adding new connections to the pool. Also fixed MySqlStream.ReadBytes and ReadByte to not use TicksPerSecond which does not appear to always be right. (thanks Matthew J. Peddlesden)

  • Fix for precision and scale (thanks Matthew J. Peddlesden).

  • Added Thread.Sleep(1) to stream reading methods to be more cpu friendly (thanks Sean McGinnis).

  • Fixed problem where ExecuteReader would sometime return null (thanks Lloyd Dupont).

  • Fixed major bug with null field handling (thanks Naucki).

  • Enclosed queries for max_allowed_packet and characterset inside try catch (and set defaults).

  • Fixed problem where socket was not getting closed properly (thanks Steve!).

  • Fixed problem where ExecuteNonQuery was not always returning the right value.

  • Fixed InternalConnection to not use @@session.max_allowed_packet but use @@max_allowed_packet. (Thanks Miguel)

  • Added many new XML doc lines.

  • Fixed sql parsing to not send empty queries (thanks Rory).

  • Fixed problem where the reader was not unpeeking the packet on close.

  • Fixed problem where user variables were not being handled (thanks Sami Vaaraniemi).

  • Fixed loop checking in the MySqlPool (thanks Steve M. Brown)

  • Fixed ParameterCollection.Add method to match SqlClient (thanks Joshua Mouch).

  • Fixed ConnectionString parsing to handle no and yes for boolean and not lowercase values (thanks Naucki).

  • Added InternalConnection class, changes to pooling.

  • Implemented Persist Security Info.

  • Added security.cs and version.cs to project

  • Fixed DateTime handling in Parameter.cs (thanks Burkhard Perkens-Golomb).

  • Fixed parameter serialization where some types would throw a cast exception.

  • Fixed DataReader to convert all returned values to prevent casting errors (thanks Keith Murray).

  • Added code to Command.ExecuteReader to return null if the initial SQL statement throws an exception (thanks Burkhard Perkens-Golomb).

  • Fixed ExecuteScalar bug introduced with restructure.

  • Restructure to allow for LOCAL DATA INFILE and better sequencing of packets.

  • Fixed several bugs related to restructure.

  • Early work done to support more secure passwords in Mysql 4.1. Old passwords in 4.1 not supported yet.

  • Parameters appearing after system parameters are now handled correctly (Adam M. (adammil)).

  • Strings can now be assigned directly to blob fields (Adam M.).

  • Fixed float parameters (thanks Pent).

  • Improved Parameter constructor and ParameterCollection.Add methods to better match SqlClient (thanks Joshua Mouch).

  • Corrected Connection.CreateCommand to return a MySqlCommand type.

  • Fixed connection string designer dialog box problem (thanks Abraham Guyt).

  • Fixed problem with sending commands not always reading the response packet (thanks Joshua Mouch).

  • Fixed parameter serialization where some blobs types were not being handled (thanks Sean McGinnis).

  • Removed spurious MessageBox.show from DataReader code (thanks Joshua Mouch).

  • Fixed a nasty bug in the split sql code (thanks everyone!).

C.3.41. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.71

  • Fixed bug in MySqlStream where too much data could attempt to be read (thanks Peter Belbin)

  • Implemented HasRows (thanks Nash Pherson).

  • Fixed bug where tables with more than 252 columns cause an exception (thanks Joshua Kessler).

  • Fixed bug where SQL statements ending in ; would cause a problem (thanks Shane Krueger).

  • Fixed bug in driver where error messages were getting truncated by 1 character (thanks Shane Krueger).

  • Made MySqlException serializable (thanks Mathias Hasselmann).

C.3.42. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.70

  • Updated some of the character code pages to be more accurate.

  • Fixed problem where readers could be opened on connections that had readers open.

  • Moved test to separate assembly MySqlClientTests.

  • Fixed stupid problem in driver with sequence out of order (Thanks Peter Belbin).

  • Added some pipe tests.

  • Increased default max pool size to 50.

  • Compiles with Mono 0-24.

  • Fixed connection and data reader dispose problems.

  • Added String datatype handling to parameter serialization.

  • Fixed sequence problem in driver that occurred after thrown exception (thanks Burkhard Perkens-Golomb).

  • Added support for CommandBehavior.SingleRow to DataReader.

  • Fixed command sql processing so quotes are better handled (thanks Theo Spears).

  • Fixed parsing of double, single, and decimal values to account for non-English separators. You still have to use the right syntax if you using hard coded sql, but if you use parameters the code will convert floating point types to use '.' appropriately internal both into the server and out.

  • Added MySqlStream class to simplify timeouts and driver coding.

  • Fixed DataReader so that it is closed properly when the associated connection is closed. [thanks smishra]

  • Made client more SqlClient compliant so that DataReaders have to be closed before the connection can be used to run another command.

  • Improved DBNull.Value handling in the fields.

  • Added several unit tests.

  • Fixed MySqlException base class.

  • Improved driver coding

  • Fixed bug where NextResult was returning false on the last resultset.

  • Added more tests for MySQL.

  • Improved casting problems by equating unsigned 32bit values to Int64 and unsigned 16bit values to Int32, and so forth.

  • Added new constructor for MySqlParameter for (name, type, size, srccol)

  • Fixed bug in MySqlDataReader where it didn't check for null fieldlist before returning field count.

  • Started adding MySqlClient unit tests (added MySqlClient/Tests folder and some test cases).

  • Fixed some things in Connection String handling.

  • Moved INIT_DB to MySqlPool. I may move it again, this is in preparation of the conference.

  • Fixed bug inside CommandBuilder that prevented inserts from happening properly.

  • Reworked some of the internals so that all three execute methods of Command worked properly.

  • Fixed many small bugs found during benchmarking.

  • The first cut of CoonectionPooling is working. "min pool size" and "max pool size" are respected.

  • Work to enable multiple resultsets to be returned.

  • Character sets are handled much more intelligently now. The driver queries MySQL at startup for the default character set. That character set is then used for conversions if that code page can be loaded. If not, then the default code page for the current OS is used.

  • Added code to save the inferred type in the name,value constructor of Parameter.

  • Also, inferred type if value of null parameter is changed using Value property.

  • Converted all files to use proper Camel case. MySQL is now MySql in all files. PgSQL is now PgSql.

  • Added attribute to PgSql code to prevent designer from trying to show.

  • Added MySQLDbType property to Parameter object and added proper conversion code to convert from DbType to MySQLDbType).

  • Removed unused ObjectToString method from MySQLParameter.cs.

  • Fixed Add(..) method in ParameterCollection so that it doesn't use Add(name, value) instead.

  • Fixed IndexOf and Contains in ParameterCollection to be aware that parameter names are now stored without @.

  • Fixed Command.ConvertSQLToBytes so it only allows characters that can be in MySQL variable names.

  • Fixed DataReader and Field so that blob fields read their data from Field.cs and GetBytes works right.

  • Added simple query builder editor to CommandText property of MySQLCommand.

  • Fixed CommandBuilder and Parameter serialization to account for Parameters not storing @ in their names.

  • Removed MySQLFieldType enum from Field.cs. Now using MySQLDbType enum.

  • Added Designer attribute to several classes to prevent designer view when using VS.Net.

  • Fixed Initial catalog typo in ConnectionString designer.

  • Removed 3 parameter constructor for MySQLParameter that conflicted with (name, type, value).

  • Changed MySQLParameter so paramName is now stored without leading @ (this fixed null inserts when using designer).

  • Changed TypeConverter for MySQLParameter to use the constructor with all properties.

C.3.43. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.68

  • Fixed sequence issue in driver.

  • Added DbParametersEditor to make parameter editing more like SqlClient.

  • Fixed Command class so that parameters can be edited using the designer

  • Update connection string designer to support Use Compression flag.

  • Fixed string encoding so that European characters will work correctly.

  • Creating base classes to aid in building new data providers.

  • Added support for UID key in connection string.

  • Field, parameter, command now using DBNull.Value instead of null.

  • CommandBuilder using DBNull.Value.

  • CommandBuilder now builds insert command correctly when an auto_insert field is not present.

  • Field now uses typeof keyword to return System.Types (performance).

C.3.44. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.65

  • MySQLCommandBuilder now implemented.

  • Transaction support now implemented (not all table types support this).

  • GetSchemaTable fixed to not use xsd (for Mono).

  • Driver is now Mono-compatible.

  • TIME data type now supported.

  • More work to improve Timestamp data type handling.

  • Changed signatures of all classes to match corresponding SqlClient classes.

C.3.45. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.60

  • Protocol compression using SharpZipLib (www.icsharpcode.net).

  • Named pipes on Windows now working properly.

  • Work done to improve Timestamp data type handling.

  • Implemented IEnumerable on DataReader so DataGrid would work.

C.3.46. Changes in MySQL Connector/NET Version 0.50

  • Speed increased dramatically by removing bugging network sync code.

  • Driver no longer buffers rows of data (more ADO.Net compliant).

  • Conversion bugs related to TIMESTAMP and DATETIME fields fixed.

C.4. MySQL Visual Studio Plugin Change History

Note

As of Connector/NET 5.1.2 (14 June 2007), the Visual Studion Plugin is part of the main Connector/NET package. For the change history for the Visual Studio Plugin, see Section C.3, “MySQL Connector/NET Change History”.

C.4.1. Changes in MySQL Visual Studio Plugin 1.0.3 (Not yet released)

Bugs fixed:

  • Running queries based on a stored procedure would cause the data set designer to terminate. (Bugs #26364)

  • DataSet wizard would show all tables instead of only the tables available within the selected database. (Bugs #26348)

C.4.2. Changes in MySQL Visual Studio Plugin 1.0.2 (Not yet released)

Bugs fixed:

  • The Add Connection dialog of the Server Explorer would freeze when accessing databases with capitalized characters in their name. (Bug#24875)

  • Creating a connection through the Server Explorer when using the Visual Studio Plugin would fail. The installer for the Visual Studio Plugin has been updated to ensure that Connector/NET 5.0.2 must be installed. (Bug#23071)

C.4.3. Changes in MySQL Visual Studio Plugin 1.0.1 (4 October 2006)

This is a bug fix release to resolve an incompatibility issue with Connector/NET 5.0.1.

It is critical that this release only be used with Connector/NET 5.0.1. After installing Connector/NET 5.0.1, you will need to make a small change in your machine.config file. This file should be located at %win%\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config (%win% should be the location of your Windows folder). Near the bottom of the file you will see a line like this:

<add name="MySQL Data Provider" invariant="MySql.Data.MySqlClient"
description=".Net Framework Data Provider for MySQL"
type="MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlClientFactory, MySql.Data"/>

It needs to be changed to be like this:

<add name="MySQL Data Provider" invariant="MySql.Data.MySqlClient"
description=".Net Framework Data Provider for MySQL"
type="MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlClientFactory, MySql.Data,
Version=5.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c5687fc88969c44d"/>
 

C.4.4. Changes in MySQL Visual Studio Plugin 1.0.0 (4 October 2006)

Bugs fixed:

  • Ability to work with MySQL objects (tables, views, stored procedures, etc) from within Server Explorer.

  • DDEX (Data Designer Extensibility) compatibility.

C.5. MySQL Connector/J Change History

C.5.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.x

C.5.1.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.7 (Not yet released)

Bugs fixed:

  • Incorrect result is returned from isAfterLast() in streaming ResultSet when using setFetchSize(Integer.MIN_VALUE). (Bug#35170)

C.5.1.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.6 (07 March 2008)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Multiple result sets were not supported when using streaming mode to return data. Both normal statements and the resul sets from stored procedures now return multiple results sets, with the exception of result sets using registered OUTPUT paramaters. (Bug#33678)

  • XAConnections and datasources have been updated to the JDBC-4.0 standard.

  • The profiler event handling has been made extensible via the profilerEventHandler connection property.

  • Add the verifyServerCertificate propery. If set to "false" the driver will not verify the server's certificate when useSSL is set to "true"

    When using this feature, the keystore parameters should be specified by the clientCertificateKeyStore* properties, rather than system properties, as the JSSE doesn't it straightforward to have a non-verifying trust store and the "default" key store.

Bugs fixed:

  • DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() returns incorrect COLUMN_SIZE value for SET column. (Bug#36830)

  • When trying to read Time values like “00:00:00” with ResultSet.getTime(int) an exception is thrown. (Bug#36051)

  • JDBC connection URL parameters is ignored when using MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource. (Bug#35810)

  • When useServerPrepStmts=true and slow query logging is enabled, the connector throws a NullPointerException when it encounters a slow query. (Bug#35666)

  • When using the keyword “loadbalance” in the connection string and trying to perform load balancing between two databases, the driver appears to hang. (Bug#35660)

  • JDBC data type getter method was changed to accept only column name, whereas previously it accepted column label. (Bug#35610)

  • In calling a stored function returning a bigint, an exception is encountered beginning:

    java.sql.SQLException: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string:

    followed by the text of the stored function starting after the argument list. (Bug#35199)

  • The JDBC driver uses a different method for evaluating column names in resultsetmetadata.getColumnName() and when looking for a column in resultset.getObject(columnName). This causes Hibernate to fail in queries where the two methods yield different results, for example in queries that use alias names:

    SELECT column AS aliasName from table

    (Bug#35150)

  • MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource does not support ReplicationConnection. Notice that we implemented com.mysql.jdbc.Connection for ReplicationConnection, however, only accessors from ConnectionProperties are implemented (not the mutators), and they return values from the currently active connection. All other methods from com.mysql.jdbc.Connection are implemented, and operate on the currently active connection, with the exception of resetServerState() and changeUser(). (Bug#34937)

  • ResultSet.getTimestamp() returns incorrect values for month/day of TIMESTAMPs when using server-side prepared statements (not enabled by default). (Bug#34913)

  • RowDataStatic does't always set the metadata in ResultSetRow, which can lead to failures when unpacking DATE, TIME, DATETIME and TIMESTAMP types when using absolute, relative, and previous result set navigation methods. (Bug#34762)

  • When calling isValid() on an active connection, if the timeout is non-zero then the Connection is invalidated even if the Connection is valid. (Bug#34703)

  • It was not possible to truncate a BLOB using Blog.truncate() when using 0 as an argument. (Bug#34677)

  • When using a cursor fetch for a statement, the internal prepared statement could cause a memory leak until the connection was closed. The internal prepared statement is now deleted when the corresponding result set is closed. (Bug#34518)

  • When retrieving the column type name of a geometry field, the driver would return UNKNOWN instead of GEOMETRY. (Bug#34194)

  • Statements with batched values do not return correct values for getGeneratedKeys() when rewriteBatchedStatements is set to true, and the statement has an ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE clause. (Bug#34093)

  • The internal class ResultSetInternalMethods referenced the non-public class com.mysql.jdbc.CachedResultSetMetaData. (Bug#33823)

  • A NullPointerException could be raised when using client-side prepared statements and enabled the prepared statement cache using the cachePrepStmts. (Bug#33734)

  • Using server side cursors and cursor fetch, the table metadata information would return the data type name instead of the column name. (Bug#33594)

  • ResultSet.getTimestamp() would throw a NullPointerException instead of a SQLException when called on an empty ResultSet. (Bug#33162)

  • Load balancing connection using best response time would incorrectly "stick" to hosts that were down when the connection was first created.

    We solve this problem with a black list that is used during the picking of new hosts. If the black list ends up including all configured hosts, the driver will retry for a configurable number of times (the retriesAllDown configuration property, with a default of 120 times), sleeping 250ms between attempts to pick a new connection.

    We've also went ahead and made the balancing strategy extensible. To create a new strategy, implement the interface com.mysql.jdbc.BalanceStrategy (which also includes our standard "extension" interface), and tell the driver to use it by passing in the class name via the loadBalanceStrategy configuration property. (Bug#32877)

  • During a Daylight Savings Time (DST) switchover, there was no way to store two timestamp/datetime values , as the hours end up being the same when sent as the literal that MySQL requires.

    Note that to get this scenario to work with MySQL (since it doesn't support per-value timezones), you need to configure your server (or session) to be in UTC, and tell the driver not to use the legacy date/time code by setting useLegacyDatetimeCode to "false". This will cause the driver to always convert to/from the server and client timezone consistently.

    This bug fix also fixes Bug#15604, by adding entirely new date/time handling code that can be switched on by useLegacyDatetimeCode being set to "false" as a JDBC configuration property. For Connector/J 5.1.x, the default is "true", in trunk and beyond it will be "false" (i.e. the old date/time handling code will be deprecated) (Bug#32577, Bug#15604)

  • When unpacking rows directly, we don't hand off error message packets to the internal method which decodes them correctly, so no exception is raised, and the driver than hangs trying to read rows that aren't there. This tends to happen when calling stored procedures, as normal SELECTs won't have an error in this spot in the protocol unless an I/O error occurs. (Bug#32246)

  • When using a connection from ConnectionPoolDataSource, some Connection.prepareStatement() methods would return null instead of the prepared statement. (Bug#32101)

  • Using CallableStatement.setNull() on a stored function would throw an ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exception when setting the last parameter to null. (Bug#31823)

  • MysqlValidConnectionChecker doesn't properly handle connections created using ReplicationConnection. (Bug#31790)

  • Retrieving the server version information for an active connection could return invalid information if the default character encoding on the host was not ASCII compatible. (Bug#31192)

  • Further fixes have been made to this bug in the event that a node is non-responsive. Connector/J will now try a different random node instead of waiting for the node to recover before continuing. (Bug#31053)

  • ResultSet returned by Statement.getGeneratedKeys() is not closed automatically when statement that created it is closed. (Bug#30508)

  • DatabaseMetadata.getColumns() doesn't return the correct column names if the connection character isn't UTF-8. A bug in MySQL server compounded the issue, but was fixed within the MySQL 5.0 release cycle. The fix includes changes to all the sections of the code that access the server metadata. (Bug#20491)

  • Fixed ResultSetMetadata.getColumnName() for result sets returned from Statement.getGeneratedKeys() - it was returning null instead of "GENERATED_KEY" as in 5.0.x.

C.5.1.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.5 (09 October 2007)

The following features are new, compared to the 5.0 series of Connector/J

  • Support for JDBC-4.0 NCHAR, NVARCHAR and NCLOB types.

  • JDBC-4.0 support for setting per-connection client information (which can be viewed in the comments section of a query via SHOW PROCESSLIST on a MySQL server, or can be extended to support custom persistence of the information via a public interface).

  • Support for JDBC-4.0 XML processing via JAXP interfaces to DOM, SAX and StAX.

  • JDBC-4.0 standardized unwrapping to interfaces that include vendor extensions.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Added autoSlowLog configuration property, overrides slowQueryThreshold* properties, driver determines slow queries by those that are slower than 5 * stddev of the mean query time (outside the 96% percentile).

Bugs fixed:

  • When a connection is in read-only mode, queries that are wrapped in parentheses were incorrectly identified DML statements. (Bug#28256)

C.5.1.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.4 (Not Released)

Only released internally.

C.5.1.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.3 (10 September 2007)

The following features are new, compared to the 5.0 series of Connector/J

  • Support for JDBC-4.0 NCHAR, NVARCHAR and NCLOB types.

  • JDBC-4.0 support for setting per-connection client information (which can be viewed in the comments section of a query via SHOW PROCESSLIST on a MySQL server, or can be extended to support custom persistence of the information via a public interface).

  • Support for JDBC-4.0 XML processing via JAXP interfaces to DOM, SAX and StAX.

  • JDBC-4.0 standardized unwrapping to interfaces that include vendor extensions.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Connector/J now connects using an initial character set of utf-8 solely for the purpose of authentication to allow user names or database names in any character set to be used in the JDBC connection URL. (Bug#29853)

  • Added two configuration parameters:

    • blobsAreStrings — Should the driver always treat BLOBs as Strings. Added specifically to work around dubious metadata returned by the server for GROUP BY clauses. Defaults to false.

    • functionsNeverReturnBlobs — Should the driver always treat data from functions returning BLOBs as Strings. Added specifically to work around dubious metadata returned by the server for GROUP BY clauses. Defaults to false.

  • Setting rewriteBatchedStatements to true now causes CallableStatements with batched arguments to be re-written in the form "CALL (...); CALL (...); ..." to send the batch in as few client-server round trips as possible.

  • The driver now picks appropriate internal row representation (whole row in one buffer, or individual byte[]s for each column value) depending on heuristics, including whether or not the row has BLOB or TEXT types and the overall row-size. The threshold for row size that will cause the driver to use a buffer rather than individual byte[]s is configured by the configuration property largeRowSizeThreshold, which has a default value of 2KB.

  • The data (and how it's stored) for ResultSet rows are now behind an interface which allows us (in some cases) to allocate less memory per row, in that for "streaming" result sets, we re-use the packet used to read rows, since only one row at a time is ever active.

  • Added experimental support for statement "interceptors" via the com.mysql.jdbc.StatementInterceptor interface, examples are in com/mysql/jdbc/interceptors. Implement this interface to be placed "in between" query execution, so that it can be influenced (currently experimental).

  • The driver will automatically adjust the server session variable net_write_timeout when it determines its been asked for a "streaming" result, and resets it to the previous value when the result set has been consumed. (The configuration property is named netTimeoutForStreamingResults, with a unit of seconds, the value '0' means the driver will not try and adjust this value).

  • JDBC-4.0 ease-of-development features including auto-registration with the DriverManager via the service provider mechanism, standardized Connection validity checks and categorized SQLExceptions based on recoverability/retry-ability and class of the underlying error.

  • Statement.setQueryTimeout()s now affect the entire batch for batched statements, rather than the individual statements that make up the batch.

  • Errors encountered during Statement/PreparedStatement/CallableStatement.executeBatch() when rewriteBatchStatements has been set to true now return BatchUpdateExceptions according to the setting of continueBatchOnError.

    If continueBatchOnError is set to true, the update counts for the "chunk" that were sent as one unit will all be set to EXECUTE_FAILED, but the driver will attempt to process the remainder of the batch. You can determine which "chunk" failed by looking at the update counts returned in the BatchUpdateException.

    If continueBatchOnError is set to "false", the update counts returned will contain all updates up-to and including the failed "chunk", with all counts for the failed "chunk" set to EXECUTE_FAILED.

    Since MySQL doesn't return multiple error codes for multiple-statements, or for multi-value INSERT/REPLACE, it is the application's responsibility to handle determining which item(s) in the "chunk" actually failed.

  • New methods on com.mysql.jdbc.Statement: setLocalInfileInputStream() and getLocalInfileInputStream():

    • setLocalInfileInputStream() sets an InputStream instance that will be used to send data to the MySQL server for a LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE statement rather than a FileInputStream or URLInputStream that represents the path given as an argument to the statement.

      This stream will be read to completion upon execution of a LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE statement, and will automatically be closed by the driver, so it needs to be reset before each call to execute*() that would cause the MySQL server to request data to fulfill the request for LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE.

      If this value is set to NULL, the driver will revert to using a FileInputStream or URLInputStream as required.

    • getLocalInfileInputStream() returns the InputStream instance that will be used to send data in response to a LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE statement.

      This method returns NULL if no such stream has been set via setLocalInfileInputStream().

  • Setting useBlobToStoreUTF8OutsideBMP to true tells the driver to treat [MEDIUM/LONG]BLOB columns as [LONG]VARCHAR columns holding text encoded in UTF-8 that has characters outside the BMP (4-byte encodings), which MySQL server can't handle natively.

    Set utf8OutsideBmpExcludedColumnNamePattern to a regex so that column names matching the given regex will still be treated as BLOBs The regex must follow the patterns used for the java.util.regexpackage. The default is to exclude no columns, and include all columns.

    Set utf8OutsideBmpIncludedColumnNamePattern to specify exclusion rules to utf8OutsideBmpExcludedColumnNamePattern". The regex must follow the patterns used for the java.util.regex package.

Bugs fixed:

  • setObject(int, Object, int, int) delegate in PreparedStatmentWrapper delegates to wrong method. (Bug#30892)

  • NPE with null column values when padCharsWithSpace is set to true. (Bug#30851)

  • Collation on VARBINARY column types would be misidentified. A fix has been added, but this fix only works for MySQL server versions 5.0.25 and newer, since earlier versions didn't consistently return correct metadata for functions, and thus results from subqueries and functions were indistinguishable from each other, leading to type-related bugs. (Bug#30664)

  • An ArithmeticException or NullPointerException would be raised when the batch had zero members and rewriteBatchedStatements=true when addBatch() was never called, or executeBatch() was called immediately after clearBatch(). (Bug#30550)

  • Closing a load-balanced connection would cause a ClassCastException. (Bug#29852)

  • Connection checker for JBoss didn't use same method parameters via reflection, causing connections to always seem "bad". (Bug#29106)

  • DatabaseMetaData.getTypeInfo() for the types DECIMAL and NUMERIC will return a precision of 254 for server versions older than 5.0.3, 64 for versions 5.0.3-5.0.5 and 65 for versions newer than 5.0.5. (Bug#28972)

  • CallableStatement.executeBatch() doesn't work when connection property noAccessToProcedureBodies has been set to true.

    The fix involves changing the behavior of noAccessToProcedureBodies,in that the driver will now report all paramters as "IN" paramters but allow callers to call registerOutParameter() on them without throwing an exception. (Bug#28689)

  • DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() doesn't contain SCOPE_* or IS_AUTOINCREMENT columns. (Bug#27915)

  • Schema objects with identifiers other than the connection character aren't retrieved correctly in ResultSetMetadata. (Bug#27867)

  • Connection.getServerCharacterEncoding() doesn't work for servers with version >= 4.1. (Bug#27182)

  • The automated SVN revisions in DBMD.getDriverVersion(). The SVN revision of the directory is now inserted into the version information during the build. (Bug#21116)

  • Specifying a "validation query" in your connection pool that starts with "/* ping */" _exactly_ will cause the driver to instead send a ping to the server and return a fake result set (much lighter weight), and when using a ReplicationConnection or a LoadBalancedConnection, will send the ping across all active connections.

C.5.1.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.2 (29 June 2007)

This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Setting the configuration property rewriteBatchedStatements to true will now cause the driver to rewrite batched prepared statements with more than 3 parameter sets in a batch into multi-statements (separated by ";") if they are not plain (that is, without SELECT or ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE clauses) INSERT or REPLACE statements.

C.5.1.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.1 (22 June 2007)

This is a new Alpha development release, adding new features and fixing recently discovered bugs.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Incompatible Change: Pulled vendor-extension methods of Connection implementation out into an interface to support java.sql.Wrapper functionality from ConnectionPoolDataSource. The vendor extensions are javadoc'd in the com.mysql.jdbc.Connection interface.

    For those looking further into the driver implementation, it is not an API that is used for plugability of implementations inside our driver (which is why there are still references to ConnectionImpl throughout the code).

    We've also added server and client prepareStatement() methods that cover all of the variants in the JDBC API.

    Connection.serverPrepare(String) has been re-named to Connection.serverPrepareStatement() for consistency with Connection.clientPrepareStatement().

  • Row navigation now causes any streams/readers open on the result set to be closed, as in some cases we're reading directly from a shared network packet and it will be overwritten by the "next" row.

  • Made it possible to retrieve prepared statement parameter bindings (to be used in StatementInterceptors, primarily).

  • Externalized the descriptions of connection properties.

  • The data (and how it's stored) for ResultSet rows are now behind an interface which allows us (in some cases) to allocate less memory per row, in that for "streaming" result sets, we re-use the packet used to read rows, since only one row at a time is ever active.

  • Similar to Connection, we pulled out vendor extensions to Statement into an interface named com.mysql.Statement, and moved the Statement class into com.mysql.StatementImpl. The two methods (javadoc'd in com.mysql.Statement are enableStreamingResults(), which already existed, and disableStreamingResults() which sets the statement instance back to the fetch size and result set type it had before enableStreamingResults() was called.

  • Driver now picks appropriate internal row representation (whole row in one buffer, or individual byte[]s for each column value) depending on heuristics, including whether or not the row has BLOB or TEXT types and the overall row-size. The threshold for row size that will cause the driver to use a buffer rather than individual byte[]s is configured by the configuration property largeRowSizeThreshold, which has a default value of 2KB.

  • Added experimental support for statement "interceptors" via the com.mysql.jdbc.StatementInterceptor interface, examples are in com/mysql/jdbc/interceptors.

    Implement this interface to be placed "in between" query execution, so that you can influence it. (currently experimental).

    StatementInterceptors are "chainable" when configured by the user, the results returned by the "current" interceptor will be passed on to the next on in the chain, from left-to-right order, as specified by the user in the JDBC configuration property statementInterceptors.

  • See the sources (fully javadoc'd) for com.mysql.jdbc.StatementInterceptor for more details until we iron out the API and get it documented in the manual.

  • Setting rewriteBatchedStatements to true now causes CallableStatements with batched arguments to be re-written in the form CALL (...); CALL (...); ... to send the batch in as few client-server round trips as possible.

C.5.1.8. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.0 (11 April 2007)

This is the first public alpha release of the current Connector/J 5.1 development branch, providing an insight to upcoming features. Although some of these are still under development, this release includes the following new features and changes (in comparison to the current Connector/J 5.0 production release):

Important change: Due to a number of issues with the use of server-side prepared statements, Connector/J 5.0.5 has disabled their use by default. The disabling of server-side prepared statements does not affect the operation of the connector in any way.

To enable server-side prepared statements you must add the following configuration property to your connector string:

useServerPrepStmts=true

The default value of this property is false (that is, Connector/J does not use server-side prepared statements).

Note

The disabling of server-side prepared statements does not affect the operation of the connector. However, if you use the useTimezone=true connection option and use client-side prepared statements (instead of server-side prepared statements) you should also set useSSPSCompatibleTimezoneShift=true.

Functionality added or changed:

  • Refactored CommunicationsException into a JDBC-3.0 version, and a JDBC-4.0 version (which extends SQLRecoverableException, now that it exists).

    Note

    This change means that if you were catching com.mysql.jdbc.CommunicationsException in your applications instead of looking at the SQLState class of 08, and are moving to Java 6 (or newer), you need to change your imports to that exception to be com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException, as the old class will not be instantiated for communications link-related errors under Java 6.

  • Added support for JDBC-4.0 categorized SQLExceptions.

  • Added support for JDBC-4.0's NCLOB, and NCHAR/NVARCHAR types.

  • com.mysql.jdbc.java6.javac — full path to your Java-6 javac executable

  • Added support for JDBC-4.0's SQLXML interfaces.

  • Re-worked Ant buildfile to build JDBC-4.0 classes separately, as well as support building under Eclipse (since Eclipse can't mix/match JDKs).

    To build, you must set JAVA_HOME to J2SDK-1.4.2 or Java-5, and set the following properties on your Ant command line:

    • com.mysql.jdbc.java6.javac — full path to your Java-6 javac executable

    • com.mysql.jdbc.java6.rtjar — full path to your Java-6 rt.jar file

  • New feature — driver will automatically adjust session variable net_write_timeout when it determines it has been asked for a "streaming" result, and resets it to the previous value when the result set has been consumed. (configuration property is named netTimeoutForStreamingResults value and has a unit of seconds, the value 0 means the driver will not try and adjust this value).

  • Added support for JDBC-4.0's client information. The backend storage of information provided via Connection.setClientInfo() and retrieved by Connection.getClientInfo() is pluggable by any class that implements the com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4ClientInfoProvider interface and has a no-args constructor.

    The implementation used by the driver is configured using the clientInfoProvider configuration property (with a default of value of com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4CommentClientInfoProvider, an implementation which lists the client information as a comment prepended to every query sent to the server).

    This functionality is only available when using Java-6 or newer.

  • com.mysql.jdbc.java6.rtjar — full path to your Java-6 rt.jar file

  • Added support for JDBC-4.0's Wrapper interface.

C.5.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.x

C.5.2.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.8 (09 October 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

  • blobsAreStrings — Should the driver always treat BLOBs as Strings. Added specifically to work around dubious metadata returned by the server for GROUP BY clauses. Defaults to false.

  • Added two configuration parameters:

    • blobsAreStrings — Should the driver always treat BLOBs as Strings. Added specifically to work around dubious metadata returned by the server for GROUP BY clauses. Defaults to false.

    • functionsNeverReturnBlobs — Should the driver always treat data from functions returning BLOBs as Strings. Added specifically to work around dubious metadata returned by the server for GROUP BY clauses. Defaults to false.

  • functionsNeverReturnBlobs — Should the driver always treat data from functions returning BLOBs as Strings. Added specifically to work around dubious metadata returned by the server for GROUP BY clauses. Defaults to false.

  • XAConnections now start in auto-commit mode (as per JDBC-4.0 specification clarification).

  • Driver will now fall back to sane defaults for max_allowed_packet and net_buffer_length if the server reports them incorrectly (and will log this situation at WARN level, since it's actually an error condition).

Bugs fixed:

  • Connections established using URLs of the form jdbc:mysql:loadbalance:// weren't doing failover if they tried to connect to a MySQL server that was down. The driver now attempts connections to the next "best" (depending on the load balance strategy in use) server, and continues to attempt connecting to the next "best" server every 250 milliseconds until one is found that is up and running or 5 minutes has passed.

    If the driver gives up, it will throw the last-received SQLException. (Bug#31053)

  • setObject(int, Object, int, int) delegate in PreparedStatmentWrapper delegates to wrong method. (Bug#30892)

  • NPE with null column values when padCharsWithSpace is set to true. (Bug#30851)

  • Collation on VARBINARY column types would be misidentified. A fix has been added, but this fix only works for MySQL server versions 5.0.25 and newer, since earlier versions didn't consistently return correct metadata for functions, and thus results from subqueries and functions were indistinguishable from each other, leading to type-related bugs. (Bug#30664)

  • An ArithmeticException or NullPointerException would be raised when the batch had zero members and rewriteBatchedStatements=true when addBatch() was never called, or executeBatch() was called immediately after clearBatch(). (Bug#30550)

  • Closing a load-balanced connection would cause a ClassCastException. (Bug#29852)

  • Connection checker for JBoss didn't use same method parameters via reflection, causing connections to always seem "bad". (Bug#29106)

  • DatabaseMetaData.getTypeInfo() for the types DECIMAL and NUMERIC will return a precision of 254 for server versions older than 5.0.3, 64 for versions 5.0.3-5.0.5 and 65 for versions newer than 5.0.5. (Bug#28972)

  • CallableStatement.executeBatch() doesn't work when connection property noAccessToProcedureBodies has been set to true.

    The fix involves changing the behavior of noAccessToProcedureBodies,in that the driver will now report all paramters as "IN" paramters but allow callers to call registerOutParameter() on them without throwing an exception. (Bug#28689)

  • When a connection is in read-only mode, queries that are wrapped in parentheses were incorrectly identified DML statements. (Bug#28256)

  • UNSIGNED types not reported via DBMD.getTypeInfo(), and capitalization of type names is not consistent between DBMD.getColumns(), RSMD.getColumnTypeName() and DBMD.getTypeInfo().

    This fix also ensures that the precision of UNSIGNED MEDIUMINT and UNSIGNED BIGINT is reported correctly via DBMD.getColumns(). (Bug#27916)

  • DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() doesn't contain SCOPE_* or IS_AUTOINCREMENT columns. (Bug#27915)

  • Schema objects with identifiers other than the connection character aren't retrieved correctly in ResultSetMetadata. (Bug#27867)

  • Cached metadata with PreparedStatement.execute() throws NullPointerException. (Bug#27412)

  • Connection.getServerCharacterEncoding() doesn't work for servers with version >= 4.1. (Bug#27182)

  • The automated SVN revisions in DBMD.getDriverVersion(). The SVN revision of the directory is now inserted into the version information during the build. (Bug#21116)

  • Specifying a "validation query" in your connection pool that starts with "/* ping */" _exactly_ will cause the driver to instead send a ping to the server and return a fake result set (much lighter weight), and when using a ReplicationConnection or a LoadBalancedConnection, will send the ping across all active connections.

C.5.2.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.7 (20 July 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

  • The driver will now automatically set useServerPrepStmts to true when useCursorFetch has been set to true, since the feature requires server-side prepared statements in order to function.

  • tcpKeepAlive - Should the driver set SO_KEEPALIVE (default true)?

  • Give more information in EOFExceptions thrown out of MysqlIO (how many bytes the driver expected to read, how many it actually read, say that communications with the server were unexpectedly lost).

  • Driver detects when it is running in a ColdFusion MX server (tested with version 7), and uses the configuration bundle coldFusion, which sets useDynamicCharsetInfo to false (see previous entry), and sets useLocalSessionState and autoReconnect to true.

  • tcpNoDelay - Should the driver set SO_TCP_NODELAY (disabling the Nagle Algorithm, default true)?

  • Added configuration property slowQueryThresholdNanos - if useNanosForElapsedTime is set to true, and this property is set to a non-zero value the driver will use this threshold (in nanosecond units) to determine if a query was slow, instead of using millisecond units.

  • tcpRcvBuf - Should the driver set SO_RCV_BUF to the given value? The default value of '0', means use the platform default value for this property.

  • Setting useDynamicCharsetInfo to false now causes driver to use static lookups for collations as well (makes ResultSetMetadata.isCaseSensitive() much more efficient, which leads to performance increase for ColdFusion, which calls this method for every column on every table it sees, it appears).

  • Added configuration properties to allow tuning of TCP/IP socket parameters:

    • tcpNoDelay - Should the driver set SO_TCP_NODELAY (disabling the Nagle Algorithm, default true)?

    • tcpKeepAlive - Should the driver set SO_KEEPALIVE (default true)?

    • tcpRcvBuf - Should the driver set SO_RCV_BUF to the given value? The default value of '0', means use the platform default value for this property.

    • tcpSndBuf - Should the driver set SO_SND_BUF to the given value? The default value of '0', means use the platform default value for this property.

    • tcpTrafficClass - Should the driver set traffic class or type-of-service fields? See the documentation for java.net.Socket.setTrafficClass() for more information.

  • Setting the configuration parameter useCursorFetch to true for MySQL-5.0+ enables the use of cursors that allow Connector/J to save memory by fetching result set rows in chunks (where the chunk size is set by calling setFetchSize() on a Statement or ResultSet) by using fully-materialized cursors on the server.

  • tcpSndBuf - Should the driver set SO_SND_BUF to the given value? The default value of '0', means use the platform default value for this property.

  • tcpTrafficClass - Should the driver set traffic class or type-of-service fields? See the documentation for java.net.Socket.setTrafficClass() for more information.

  • Added new debugging functionality - Setting configuration property includeInnodbStatusInDeadlockExceptions to true will cause the driver to append the output of SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS to deadlock-related exceptions, which will enumerate the current locks held inside InnoDB.

  • Added configuration property useNanosForElapsedTime - for profiling/debugging functionality that measures elapsed time, should the driver try to use nanoseconds resolution if available (requires JDK >= 1.5)?

    Note

    If useNanosForElapsedTime is set to true, and this property is set to "0" (or left default), then elapsed times will still be measured in nanoseconds (if possible), but the slow query threshold will be converted from milliseconds to nanoseconds, and thus have an upper bound of approximately 2000 milliseconds (as that threshold is represented as an integer, not a long).

Bugs fixed:

  • Don't send any file data in response to LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE if the feature is disabled at the client side. This is to prevent a malicious server or man-in-the-middle from asking the client for data that the client is not expecting. Thanks to Jan Kneschke for discovering the exploit and Andrey "Poohie" Hristov, Konstantin Osipov and Sergei Golubchik for discussions about implications and possible fixes. (Bug#29605)

  • Parser in client-side prepared statements runs to end of statement, rather than end-of-line for '#' comments. Also added support for '--' single-line comments. (Bug#28956)

  • Parser in client-side prepared statements eats character following '/' if it's not a multi-line comment. (Bug#28851)

  • PreparedStatement.getMetaData() for statements containing leading one-line comments is not returned correctly.

    As part of this fix, we also overhauled detection of DML for executeQuery() and SELECTs for executeUpdate() in plain and prepared statements to be aware of the same types of comments. (Bug#28469)

C.5.2.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.6 (15 May 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Added an experimental load-balanced connection designed for use with SQL nodes in a MySQL Cluster/NDB environment (This is not for master-slave replication. For that, we suggest you look at ReplicationConnection or lbpool).

    If the JDBC URL starts with jdbc:mysql:loadbalance://host-1,host-2,...host-n, the driver will create an implementation of java.sql.Connection that load balances requests across a series of MySQL JDBC connections to the given hosts, where the balancing takes place after transaction commit.

    Therefore, for this to work (at all), you must use transactions, even if only reading data.

    Physical connections to the given hosts will not be created until needed.

    The driver will invalidate connections that it detects have had communication errors when processing a request. A new connection to the problematic host will be attempted the next time it is selected by the load balancing algorithm.

    There are two choices for load balancing algorithms, which may be specified by the loadBalanceStrategy JDBC URL configuration property:

    • random — the driver will pick a random host for each request. This tends to work better than round-robin, as the randomness will somewhat account for spreading loads where requests vary in response time, while round-robin can sometimes lead to overloaded nodes if there are variations in response times across the workload.

    • bestResponseTime — the driver will route the request to the host that had the best response time for the previous transaction.

  • bestResponseTime — the driver will route the request to the host that had the best response time for the previous transaction.

  • Added configuration property padCharsWithSpace (defaults to false). If set to true, and a result set column has the CHAR type and the value does not fill the amount of characters specified in the DDL for the column, the driver will pad the remaining characters with space (for ANSI compliance).

  • When useLocalSessionState is set to true and connected to a MySQL-5.0 or later server, the JDBC driver will now determine whether an actual commit or rollback statement needs to be sent to the database when Connection.commit() or Connection.rollback() is called.

    This is especially helpful for high-load situations with connection pools that always call Connection.rollback() on connection check-in/check-out because it avoids a round-trip to the server.

  • Added configuration property useDynamicCharsetInfo. If set to false (the default), the driver will use a per-connection cache of character set information queried from the server when necessary, or when set to true, use a built-in static mapping that is more efficient, but isn't aware of custom character sets or character sets implemented after the release of the JDBC driver.

    Note

    This only affects the padCharsWithSpace configuration property and the ResultSetMetaData.getColumnDisplayWidth() method.

  • New configuration property, enableQueryTimeouts (default true).

    When enabled, query timeouts set via Statement.setQueryTimeout() use a shared java.util.Timer instance for scheduling. Even if the timeout doesn't expire before the query is processed, there will be memory used by the TimerTask for the given timeout which won't be reclaimed until the time the timeout would have expired if it hadn't been cancelled by the driver. High-load environments might want to consider disabling this functionality. (this configuration property is part of the maxPerformance configuration bundle).

  • Give better error message when "streaming" result sets, and the connection gets clobbered because of exceeding net_write_timeout on the server.

  • random — the driver will pick a random host for each request. This tends to work better than round-robin, as the randomness will somewhat account for spreading loads where requests vary in response time, while round-robin can sometimes lead to overloaded nodes if there are variations in response times across the workload.

  • com.mysql.jdbc.[NonRegistering]Driver now understands URLs of the format jdbc:mysql:replication:// and jdbc:mysql:loadbalance:// which will create a ReplicationConnection (exactly like when using [NonRegistering]ReplicationDriver) and an experimental load-balanced connection designed for use with SQL nodes in a MySQL Cluster/NDB environment, respectively.

    In an effort to simplify things, we're working on deprecating multiple drivers, and instead specifying different core behavior based upon JDBC URL prefixes, so watch for [NonRegistering]ReplicationDriver to eventually disappear, to be replaced with com.mysql.jdbc[NonRegistering]Driver with the new URL prefix.

  • Fixed issue where a failed-over connection would let an application call setReadOnly(false), when that call should be ignored until the connection is reconnected to a writable master unless failoverReadOnly had been set to false.

  • Driver will now use INSERT INTO ... VALUES (DEFAULT)form of statement for updatable result sets for ResultSet.insertRow(), rather than pre-populating the insert row with values from DatabaseMetaData.getColumns()(which results in a SHOW FULL COLUMNS on the server for every result set). If an application requires access to the default values before insertRow() has been called, the JDBC URL should be configured with populateInsertRowWithDefaultValues set to true.

    This fix specifically targets performance issues with ColdFusion and the fact that it seems to ask for updatable result sets no matter what the application does with them.

  • More intelligent initial packet sizes for the "shared" packets are used (512 bytes, rather than 16K), and initial packets used during handshake are now sized appropriately as to not require reallocation.

Bugs fixed:

  • More useful error messages are generated when the driver thinks a result set is not updatable. (Thanks to Ashley Martens for the patch). (Bug#28085)

  • Connection.getTransactionIsolation() uses "SHOW VARIABLES LIKE" which is very inefficient on MySQL-5.0+ servers. (Bug#27655)

  • Fixed issue where calling getGeneratedKeys() on a prepared statement after calling execute() didn't always return the generated keys (executeUpdate() worked fine however). (Bug#27655)

  • CALL /* ... */ some_proc() doesn't work. As a side effect of this fix, you can now use /* */ and # comments when preparing statements using client-side prepared statement emulation.

    If the comments happen to contain parameter markers (?), they will be treated as belonging to the comment (that is, not recognized) rather than being a parameter of the statement.

    Note

    The statement when sent to the server will contain the comments as-is, they're not stripped during the process of preparing the PreparedStatement or CallableStatement.

    (Bug#27400)

  • ResultSet.get*() with a column index < 1 returns misleading error message. (Bug#27317)

  • Using ResultSet.get*() with a column index less than 1 returns a misleading error message. (Bug#27317)

  • Comments in DDL of stored procedures/functions confuse procedure parser, and thus metadata about them can not be created, leading to inability to retrieve said metadata, or execute procedures that have certain comments in them. (Bug#26959)

  • Fast date/time parsing doesn't take into account 00:00:00 as a legal value. (Bug#26789)

  • PreparedStatement is not closed in BlobFromLocator.getBytes(). (Bug#26592)

  • When the configuration property useCursorFetch was set to true, sometimes server would return new, more exact metadata during the execution of the server-side prepared statement that enables this functionality, which the driver ignored (using the original metadata returned during prepare()), causing corrupt reading of data due to type mismatch when the actual rows were returned. (Bug#26173)

  • CallableStatements with OUT/INOUT parameters that are "binary" (BLOB, BIT, (VAR)BINARY, JAVA_OBJECT) have extra 7 bytes. (Bug#25715)

  • Whitespace surrounding storage/size specifiers in stored procedure parameters declaration causes NumberFormatException to be thrown when calling stored procedure on JDK-1.5 or newer, as the Number classes in JDK-1.5+ are whitespace intolerant. (Bug#25624)

  • Client options not sent correctly when using SSL, leading to stored procedures not being able to return results. Thanks to Don Cohen for the bug report, testcase and patch. (Bug#25545)

  • Statement.setMaxRows() is not effective on result sets materialized from cursors. (Bug#25517)

  • BIT(> 1) is returned as java.lang.String from ResultSet.getObject() rather than byte[]. (Bug#25328)

C.5.2.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.5 (02 March 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Usage Advisor will now issue warnings for result sets with large numbers of rows. You can configure the trigger value by using the resultSetSizeThreshold parameter, which has a default value of 100.

  • The rewriteBatchedStatements feature can now be used with server-side prepared statements.

  • Important change: Due to a number of issues with the use of server-side prepared statements, Connector/J 5.0.5 has disabled their use by default. The disabling of server-side prepared statements does not affect the operation of the connector in any way.

    To enable server-side prepared statements you must add the following configuration property to your connector string:

    useServerPrepStmts=true

    The default value of this property is false (that is, Connector/J does not use server-side prepared statements).

  • Improved speed of datetime parsing for ResultSets that come from plain or non-server-side prepared statements. You can enable old implementation with useFastDateParsing=false as a configuration parameter.

  • Usage Advisor now detects empty results sets and does not report on columns not referenced in those empty sets.

  • Fixed logging of XA commands sent to server, it's now configurable via logXaCommands property (defaults to false).

  • Added configuration property localSocketAddress,which is the hostname or IP address given to explicitly configure the interface that the driver will bind the client side of the TCP/IP connection to when connecting.

  • We've added a new configuration option treatUtilDateAsTimestamp, which is false by default, as (1) We already had specific behavior to treat java.util.Date as a java.sql.Timestamp because it's useful to many folks, and (2) that behavior will very likely be required for drivers JDBC-post-4.0.

Bugs fixed:

  • Connection property socketFactory wasn't exposed via correctly named mutator/accessor, causing data source implementations that use JavaBean naming conventions to set properties to fail to set the property (and in the case of SJAS, fail silently when trying to set this parameter). (Bug#26326)

  • A query execution which timed out did not always throw a MySQLTimeoutException. (Bug#25836)

  • Storing a java.util.Date object in a BLOB column would not be serialized correctly during setObject. (Bug#25787)

  • Timer instance used for Statement.setQueryTimeout() created per-connection, rather than per-VM, causing memory leak. (Bug#25514)

  • EscapeProcessor gets confused by multiple backslashes. We now push the responsibility of syntax errors back on to the server for most escape sequences. (Bug#25399)

  • INOUT parameters in CallableStatements get doubly-escaped. (Bug#25379)

  • When using the rewriteBatchedStatements connection option with PreparedState.executeBatch() an internal memory leak would occur. (Bug#25073)

  • Fixed issue where field-level for metadata from DatabaseMetaData when using INFORMATION_SCHEMA didn't have references to current connections, sometimes leading to Null Pointer Exceptions (NPEs) when introspecting them via ResultSetMetaData. (Bug#25073)

  • StringUtils.indexOfIgnoreCaseRespectQuotes() isn't case-insensitive on the first character of the target. This bug also affected rewriteBatchedStatements functionality when prepared statements did not use uppercase for the VALUES clause. (Bug#25047)

  • Client-side prepared statement parser gets confused by in-line comments /*...*/ and therefore cannot rewrite batch statements or reliably detect the type of statements when they are used. (Bug#25025)

  • Results sets from UPDATE statements that are part of multi-statement queries would cause an SQLException error, "Result is from UPDATE". (Bug#25009)

  • Specifying US-ASCII as the character set in a connection to a MySQL 4.1 or newer server does not map correctly. (Bug#24840)

  • Using DatabaseMetaData.getSQLKeywords() does not return a all of the of the reserved keywords for the current MySQL version. Current implementation returns the list of reserved words for MySQL 5.1, and does not distinguish between versions. (Bug#24794)

  • Calling Statement.cancel() could result in a Null Pointer Exception (NPE). (Bug#24721)

  • Using setFetchSize() breaks prepared SHOW and other commands. (Bug#24360)

  • Calendars and timezones are now lazily instantiated when required. (Bug#24351)

  • Using DATETIME columns would result in time shifts when useServerPrepStmts was true. The reason was due to different behavior when using client-side compared to server-side prepared statements and the useJDBCCompliantTimezoneShift option. This is now fixed if moving from server-side prepared statements to client-side prepared statements by setting useSSPSCompatibleTimezoneShift to true, as the driver can't tell if this is a new deployment that never used server-side prepared statements, or if it is an existing deployment that is switching to client-side prepared statements from server-side prepared statements. (Bug#24344)

  • Connector/J now returns a better error message when server doesn't return enough information to determine stored procedure/function parameter types. (Bug#24065)

  • A connection error would occur when connecting to a MySQL server with certain character sets. Some collations/character sets reported as "unknown" (specifically cias variants of existing character sets), and inability to override the detected server character set. (Bug#23645)

  • Inconsistency between getSchemas and INFORMATION_SCHEMA. (Bug#23304)

  • DatabaseMetaData.getSchemas() doesn't return a TABLE_CATALOG column. (Bug#23303)

  • When using a JDBC connection URL that is malformed, the NonRegisteringDriver.getPropertyInfo method will throw a Null Pointer Exception (NPE). (Bug#22628)

  • Some exceptions thrown out of StandardSocketFactory were needlessly wrapped, obscuring their true cause, especially when using socket timeouts. (Bug#21480)

  • When using a server-side prepared statement the driver would send timestamps to the server using nanoseconds instead of milliseconds. (Bug#21438)

  • When using server-side prepared statements and timestamp columns, value would be incorrectly populated (with nanoseconds, not microseconds). (Bug#21438)

  • ParameterMetaData throws NullPointerException when prepared SQL has a syntax error. Added generateSimpleParameterMetadata configuration property, which when set to true will generate metadata reflecting VARCHAR for every parameter (the default is false, which will cause an exception to be thrown if no parameter metadata for the statement is actually available). (Bug#21267)

  • Fixed an issue where XADataSources couldn't be bound into JNDI, as the DataSourceFactory didn't know how to create instances of them.

Other changes:

  • Avoid static synchronized code in JVM class libraries for dealing with default timezones.

  • Performance enhancement of initial character set configuration, driver will only send commands required to configure connection character set session variables if the current values on the server do not match what is required.

  • Re-worked stored procedure parameter parser to be more robust. Driver no longer requires BEGIN in stored procedure definition, but does have requirement that if a stored function begins with a label directly after the "returns" clause, that the label is not a quoted identifier.

  • Throw exceptions encountered during timeout to thread calling Statement.execute*(), rather than RuntimeException.

  • Changed cached result set metadata (when using cacheResultSetMetadata=true) to be cached per-connection rather than per-statement as previously implemented.

  • Reverted back to internal character conversion routines for single-byte character sets, as the ones internal to the JVM are using much more CPU time than our internal implementation.

  • When extracting foreign key information from SHOW CREATE TABLE in DatabaseMetaData, ignore exceptions relating to tables being missing (which could happen for cross-reference or imported-key requests, as the list of tables is generated first, then iterated).

  • Fixed some Null Pointer Exceptions (NPEs) when cached metadata was used with UpdatableResultSets.

  • Take localSocketAddress property into account when creating instances of CommunicationsException when the underyling exception is a java.net.BindException, so that a friendlier error message is given with a little internal diagnostics.

  • Fixed cases where ServerPreparedStatements weren't using cached metadata when cacheResultSetMetadata=true was used.

  • Use a java.util.TreeMap to map column names to ordinal indexes for ResultSet.findColumn() instead of a HashMap. This allows us to have case-insensitive lookups (required by the JDBC specification) without resorting to the many transient object instances needed to support this requirement with a normal HashMap with either case-adjusted keys, or case-insensitive keys. (In the worst case scenario for lookups of a 1000 column result set, TreeMaps are about half as fast wall-clock time as a HashMap, however in normal applications their use gives many orders of magnitude reduction in transient object instance creation which pays off later for CPU usage in garbage collection).

  • When using cached metadata, skip field-level metadata packets coming from the server, rather than reading them and discarding them without creating com.mysql.jdbc.Field instances.

C.5.2.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.4 (20 October 2006)

Bugs fixed:

  • DBMD.getColumns() does not return expected COLUMN_SIZE for the SET type, now returns length of largest possible set disregarding whitespace or the "," delimitters to be consistent with the ODBC driver. (Bug#22613)

  • Added new _ci collations to CharsetMapping - utf8_unicode_ci not working. (Bug#22456)

  • Driver was using milliseconds for Statement.setQueryTimeout() when specification says argument is to be in seconds. (Bug#22359)

  • Workaround for server crash when calling stored procedures via a server-side prepared statement (driver now detects prepare(stored procedure) and substitutes client-side prepared statement). (Bug#22297)

  • Driver issues truncation on write exception when it shouldn't (due to sending big decimal incorrectly to server with server-side prepared statement). (Bug#22290)

  • Newlines causing whitespace to span confuse procedure parser when getting parameter metadata for stored procedures. (Bug#22024)

  • When using information_schema for metadata, COLUMN_SIZE for getColumns() is not clamped to range of java.lang.Integer as is the case when not using information_schema, thus leading to a truncation exception that isn't present when not using information_schema. (Bug#21544)

  • Column names don't match metadata in cases where server doesn't return original column names (column functions) thus breaking compatibility with applications that expect 1-1 mappings between findColumn() and rsmd.getColumnName(), usually manifests itself as "Can't find column ('')" exceptions. (Bug#21379)

  • Driver now sends numeric 1 or 0 for client-prepared statement setBoolean() calls instead of '1' or '0'.

  • Fixed configuration property jdbcCompliantTruncation was not being used for reads of result set values.

  • DatabaseMetaData correctly reports true for supportsCatalog*() methods.

  • Driver now supports {call sp} (without "()" if procedure has no arguments).

C.5.2.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.3 (26 July 2006)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Added configuration option noAccessToProcedureBodies which will cause the driver to create basic parameter metadata for CallableStatements when the user does not have access to procedure bodies via SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE or selecting from mysql.proc instead of throwing an exception. The default value for this option is false

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed Statement.cancel() causes NullPointerException if underlying connection has been closed due to server failure. (Bug#20650)

  • If the connection to the server has been closed due to a server failure, then the cleanup process will call Statement.cancel(), triggering a NullPointerException, even though there is no active connection. (Bug#20650)

C.5.2.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.2 (11 July 2006)

Bugs fixed:

  • MysqlXaConnection.recover(int flags) now allows combinations of XAResource.TMSTARTRSCAN and TMENDRSCAN. To simulate the “scanning” nature of the interface, we return all prepared XIDs for TMSTARTRSCAN, and no new XIDs for calls with TMNOFLAGS, or TMENDRSCAN when not in combination with TMSTARTRSCAN. This change was made for API compliance, as well as integration with IBM WebSphere's transaction manager. (Bug#20242)

  • Fixed MysqlValidConnectionChecker for JBoss doesn't work with MySQLXADataSources. (Bug#20242)

  • Added connection/datasource property pinGlobalTxToPhysicalConnection (defaults to false). When set to true, when using XAConnections, the driver ensures that operations on a given XID are always routed to the same physical connection. This allows the XAConnection to support XA START ... JOIN after XA END has been called, and is also a workaround for transaction managers that don't maintain thread affinity for a global transaction (most either always maintain thread affinity, or have it as a configuration option). (Bug#20242)

  • Better caching of character set converters (per-connection) to remove a bottleneck for multibyte character sets. (Bug#20242)

  • Fixed ConnectionProperties (and thus some subclasses) are not serializable, even though some J2EE containers expect them to be. (Bug#19169)

  • Fixed driver fails on non-ASCII platforms. The driver was assuming that the platform character set would be a superset of MySQL's latin1 when doing the handshake for authentication, and when reading error messages. We now use Cp1252 for all strings sent to the server during the handshake phase, and a hard-coded mapping of the language systtem variable to the character set that is used for error messages. (Bug#18086)

  • Fixed can't use XAConnection for local transactions when no global transaction is in progress. (Bug#17401)

C.5.2.8. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.1 (Not Released)

Not released due to a packaging error

C.5.2.9. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.0.0 (22 December 2005)

Bugs fixed:

  • Added support for Connector/MXJ integration via url subprotocol jdbc:mysql:mxj://.... (Bug#14729)

  • Idle timeouts cause XAConnections to whine about rolling themselves back. (Bug#14729)

  • When fix for Bug#14562 was merged from 3.1.12, added functionality for CallableStatement's parameter metadata to return correct information for .getParameterClassName(). (Bug#14729)

  • Added service-provider entry to META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver for JDBC-4.0 support. (Bug#14729)

  • Fuller synchronization of Connection to avoid deadlocks when using multithreaded frameworks that multithread a single connection (usually not recommended, but the JDBC spec allows it anyways), part of fix to Bug#14972). (Bug#14729)

  • Moved all SQLException constructor usage to a factory in SQLError (ground-work for JDBC-4.0 SQLState-based exception classes). (Bug#14729)

  • Removed Java5-specific calls to BigDecimal constructor (when result set value is '', (int)0 was being used as an argument indirectly via method return value. This signature doesn't exist prior to Java5.) (Bug#14729)

  • Implementation of Statement.cancel() and Statement.setQueryTimeout(). Both require MySQL-5.0.0 or newer server, require a separate connection to issue the KILL QUERY statement, and in the case of setQueryTimeout() creates an additional thread to handle the timeout functionality.

    Note: Failures to cancel the statement for setQueryTimeout() may manifest themselves as RuntimeExceptions rather than failing silently, as there is currently no way to unblock the thread that is executing the query being cancelled due to timeout expiration and have it throw the exception instead. (Bug#14729)

  • Return "[VAR]BINARY" for RSMD.getColumnTypeName() when that is actually the type, and it can be distinguished (MySQL-4.1 and newer). (Bug#14729)

  • Attempt detection of the MySQL type BINARY (it's an alias, so this isn't always reliable), and use the java.sql.Types.BINARY type mapping for it.

  • Added unit tests for XADatasource, as well as friendlier exceptions for XA failures compared to the "stock" XAException (which has no messages).

  • If the connection useTimezone is set to true, then also respect time zone conversions in escape-processed string literals (for example, "{ts ...}" and "{t ...}").

  • Don't allow .setAutoCommit(true), or .commit() or .rollback() on an XA-managed connection as per the JDBC specification.

  • XADataSource implemented (ported from 3.2 branch which won't be released as a product). Use com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlXADataSource as your datasource class name in your application server to utilize XA transactions in MySQL-5.0.10 and newer.

  • Moved -bin-g.jar file into separate debug subdirectory to avoid confusion.

  • Return original column name for RSMD.getColumnName() if the column was aliased, alias name for .getColumnLabel() (if aliased), and original table name for .getTableName(). Note this only works for MySQL-4.1 and newer, as older servers don't make this information available to clients.

  • Setting useJDBCCompliantTimezoneShift=true (it's not the default) causes the driver to use GMT for all TIMESTAMP/DATETIME time zones, and the current VM time zone for any other type that refers to time zones. This feature can not be used when useTimezone=true to convert between server and client time zones.

  • PreparedStatement.setString() didn't work correctly when sql_mode on server contained NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES and no characters that needed escaping were present in the string.

  • Add one level of indirection of internal representation of CallableStatement parameter metadata to avoid class not found issues on JDK-1.3 for ParameterMetadata interface (which doesn't exist prior to JDBC-3.0).

C.5.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.x

C.5.3.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.15 (Not yet released)

Important change: Due to a number of issues with the use of server-side prepared statements, Connector/J 5.0.5 has disabled their use by default. The disabling of server-side prepared statements does not affect the operation of the connector in any way.

To enable server-side prepared statements you must add the following configuration property to your connector string:

useServerPrepStmts=true

The default value of this property is false (that is, Connector/J does not use server-side prepared statements).

Bugs fixed:

  • Specifying US-ASCII as the character set in a connection to a MySQL 4.1 or newer server does not map correctly. (Bug#24840)

C.5.3.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.14 (10-19-2006)

Bugs fixed:

  • Check and store value for continueBatchOnError property in constructor of Statements, rather than when executing batches, so that Connections closed out from underneath statements don't cause NullPointerExceptions when it's required to check this property. (Bug#22290)

  • Fixed Bug#18258 - DatabaseMetaData.getTables(), columns() with bad catalog parameter threw exception rather than return empty result set (as required by spec). (Bug#22290)

  • Driver now sends numeric 1 or 0 for client-prepared statement setBoolean() calls instead of '1' or '0'. (Bug#22290)

  • Fixed bug where driver would not advance to next host if roundRobinLoadBalance=true and the last host in the list is down. (Bug#22290)

  • Driver issues truncation on write exception when it shouldn't (due to sending big decimal incorrectly to server with server-side prepared statement). (Bug#22290)

  • Fixed bug when calling stored functions, where parameters weren't numbered correctly (first parameter is now the return value, subsequent parameters if specified start at index "2"). (Bug#22290)

  • Removed logger autodetection altogether, must now specify logger explicitly if you want to use a logger other than one that logs to STDERR. (Bug#21207)

  • DDriver throws NPE when tracing prepared statements that have been closed (in asSQL()). (Bug#21207)

  • ResultSet.getSomeInteger() doesn't work for BIT(>1). (Bug#21062)

  • Escape of quotes in client-side prepared statements parsing not respected. Patch covers more than bug report, including NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES being set, and stacked quote characters forms of escaping (that is, '' or ""). (Bug#20888)

  • Fixed can't pool server-side prepared statements, exception raised when re-using them. (Bug#20687)

  • Fixed Updatable result set that contains a BIT column fails when server-side prepared statements are used. (Bug#20485)

  • Fixed updatable result set throws ClassCastException when there is row data and moveToInsertRow() is called. (Bug#20479)

  • Fixed ResultSet.getShort() for UNSIGNED TINYINT returns incorrect values when using server-side prepared statements. (Bug#20306)

  • ReplicationDriver does not always round-robin load balance depending on URL used for slaves list. (Bug#19993)

  • Fixed calling toString() on ResultSetMetaData for driver-generated (that is, from DatabaseMetaData method calls, or from getGeneratedKeys()) result sets would raise a NullPointerException. (Bug#19993)

  • Connection fails to localhost when using timeout and IPv6 is configured. (Bug#19726)

  • ResultSet.getFloatFromString() can't retrieve values near Float.MIN/MAX_VALUE. (Bug#18880)

  • Fixed memory leak with profileSQL=true. (Bug#16987)

  • Fixed NullPointerException in MysqlDataSourceFactory due to Reference containing RefAddrs with null content. (Bug#16791)

C.5.3.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.13 (26 May 2006)

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed PreparedStatement.setObject(int, Object, int) doesn't respect scale of BigDecimals. (Bug#19615)

  • Fixed ResultSet.wasNull() returns incorrect value when extracting native string from server-side prepared statement generated result set. (Bug#19282)

  • Fixed invalid classname returned for ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName() for BIGINT type. (Bug#19282)

  • Fixed case where driver wasn't reading server status correctly when fetching server-side prepared statement rows, which in some cases could cause warning counts to be off, or multiple result sets to not be read off the wire. (Bug#19282)

  • Fixed data truncation and getWarnings() only returns last warning in set. (Bug#18740)

  • Fixed aliased column names where length of name > 251 are corrupted. (Bug#18554)

  • Improved performance of retrieving BigDecimal, Time, Timestamp and Date values from server-side prepared statements by creating fewer short-lived instances of Strings when the native type is not an exact match for the requested type. (Bug#18496)

  • Added performance feature, re-writing of batched executes for Statement.executeBatch() (for all DML statements) and PreparedStatement.executeBatch() (for INSERTs with VALUE clauses only). Enable by using "rewriteBatchedStatements=true" in your JDBC URL. (Bug#18041)

  • Fixed issue where server-side prepared statements don't cause truncation exceptions to be thrown when truncation happens. (Bug#18041)

  • Fixed CallableStatement.registerOutParameter() not working when some parameters pre-populated. Still waiting for feedback from JDBC experts group to determine what correct parameter count from getMetaData() should be, however. (Bug#17898)

  • Fixed calling clearParameters() on a closed prepared statement causes NPE. (Bug#17587)

  • Map "latin1" on MySQL server to CP1252 for MySQL > 4.1.0. (Bug#17587)

  • Added additional accessor and mutator methods on ConnectionProperties so that DataSource users can use same naming as regular URL properties. (Bug#17587)

  • Fixed ResultSet.wasNull() not always reset correctly for booleans when done via conversion for server-side prepared statements. (Bug#17450)

  • Fixed Statement.getGeneratedKeys() throws NullPointerException when no query has been processed. (Bug#17099)

  • Fixed updatable result set doesn't return AUTO_INCREMENT values for insertRow() when multiple column primary keys are used. (the driver was checking for the existence of single-column primary keys and an autoincrement value > 0 instead of a straightforward isAutoIncrement() check). (Bug#16841)

  • DBMD.getColumns() returns wrong type for BIT. (Bug#15854)

  • lib-nodist directory missing from package breaks out-of-box build. (Bug#15676)

  • Fixed issue with ReplicationConnection incorrectly copying state, doesn't transfer connection context correctly when transitioning between the same read-only states. (Bug#15570)

  • No "dos" character set in MySQL > 4.1.0. (Bug#15544)

  • INOUT parameter does not store IN value. (Bug#15464)

  • PreparedStatement.setObject() serializes BigInteger as object, rather than sending as numeric value (and is thus not complementary to .getObject() on an UNSIGNED LONG type). (Bug#15383)

  • Fixed issue where driver was unable to initialize character set mapping tables. Removed reliance on .properties files to hold this information, as it turns out to be too problematic to code around class loader hierarchies that change depending on how an application is deployed. Moved information back into the CharsetMapping class. (Bug#14938)

  • Exception thrown for new decimal type when using updatable result sets. (Bug#14609)

  • Driver now aware of fix for BIT type metadata that went into MySQL-5.0.21 for server not reporting length consistently . (Bug#13601)

  • Added support for Apache Commons logging, use "com.mysql.jdbc.log.CommonsLogger" as the value for the "logger" configuration property. (Bug#13469)

  • Fixed driver trying to call methods that don't exist on older and newer versions of Log4j. The fix is not trying to auto-detect presence of log4j, too many different incompatible versions out there in the wild to do this reliably.

    If you relied on autodetection before, you will need to add "logger=com.mysql.jdbc.log.Log4JLogger" to your JDBC URL to enable Log4J usage, or alternatively use the new "CommonsLogger" class to take care of this. (Bug#13469)

  • LogFactory now prepends "com.mysql.jdbc.log" to log class name if it can't be found as-specified. This allows you to use "short names" for the built-in log factories, for example "logger=CommonsLogger" instead of "logger=com.mysql.jdbc.log.CommonsLogger". (Bug#13469)

  • ResultSet.getShort() for UNSIGNED TINYINT returned wrong values. (Bug#11874)

C.5.3.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.12 (30 November 2005)

Bugs fixed:

  • Process escape tokens in Connection.prepareStatement(...). You can disable this behavior by setting the JDBC URL configuration property processEscapeCodesForPrepStmts to false. (Bug#15141)

  • Usage advisor complains about unreferenced columns, even though they've been referenced. (Bug#15065)

  • Driver incorrectly closes streams passed as arguments to PreparedStatements. Reverts to legacy behavior by setting the JDBC configuration property autoClosePStmtStreams to true (also included in the 3-0-Compat configuration “bundle”). (Bug#15024)

  • Deadlock while closing server-side prepared statements from multiple threads sharing one connection. (Bug#14972)

  • Unable to initialize character set mapping tables (due to J2EE classloader differences). (Bug#14938)

  • Escape processor replaces quote character in quoted string with string delimiter. (Bug#14909)

  • DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() doesn't return TABLE_NAME correctly. (Bug#14815)

  • storesMixedCaseIdentifiers() returns false (Bug#14562)

  • storesLowerCaseIdentifiers() returns true (Bug#14562)

  • storesMixedCaseQuotedIdentifiers() returns false (Bug#14562)

  • storesMixedCaseQuotedIdentifiers() returns true (Bug#14562)

  • If lower_case_table_names=0 (on server):

    • storesLowerCaseIdentifiers() returns false

    • storesLowerCaseQuotedIdentifiers() returns false

    • storesMixedCaseIdentifiers() returns true

    • storesMixedCaseQuotedIdentifiers() returns true

    • storesUpperCaseIdentifiers() returns false

    • storesUpperCaseQuotedIdentifiers() returns true

    (Bug#14562)

  • storesUpperCaseIdentifiers() returns false (Bug#14562)

  • storesUpperCaseQuotedIdentifiers() returns true (Bug#14562)

  • If lower_case_table_names=1 (on server):

    • storesLowerCaseIdentifiers() returns true

    • storesLowerCaseQuotedIdentifiers() returns true

    • storesMixedCaseIdentifiers() returns false

    • storesMixedCaseQuotedIdentifiers() returns false

    • storesUpperCaseIdentifiers() returns false

    • storesUpperCaseQuotedIdentifiers() returns true

    (Bug#14562)

  • storesLowerCaseQuotedIdentifiers() returns true (Bug#14562)

  • Fixed DatabaseMetaData.stores*Identifiers():

    • If lower_case_table_names=0 (on server):

      • storesLowerCaseIdentifiers() returns false

      • storesLowerCaseQuotedIdentifiers() returns false

      • storesMixedCaseIdentifiers() returns true

      • storesMixedCaseQuotedIdentifiers() returns true

      • storesUpperCaseIdentifiers() returns false

      • storesUpperCaseQuotedIdentifiers() returns true

    • If lower_case_table_names=1 (on server):

      • storesLowerCaseIdentifiers() returns true

      • storesLowerCaseQuotedIdentifiers() returns true

      • storesMixedCaseIdentifiers() returns false

      • storesMixedCaseQuotedIdentifiers() returns false

      • storesUpperCaseIdentifiers() returns false

      • storesUpperCaseQuotedIdentifiers() returns true

    (Bug#14562)

  • storesMixedCaseIdentifiers() returns true (Bug#14562)

  • storesLowerCaseQuotedIdentifiers() returns false (Bug#14562)

  • Java type conversion may be incorrect for MEDIUMINT. (Bug#14562)

  • storesLowerCaseIdentifiers() returns false (Bug#14562)

  • Added configuration property useGmtMillisForDatetimes which when set to true causes ResultSet.getDate(), .getTimestamp() to return correct millis-since GMT when .getTime() is called on the return value (currently default is false for legacy behavior). (Bug#14562)

  • Extraneous sleep on autoReconnect. (Bug#13775)

  • Reconnect during middle of executeBatch() should not occur if autoReconnect is enabled. (Bug#13255)

  • maxQuerySizeToLog is not respected. Added logging of bound values for execute() phase of server-side prepared statements when profileSQL=true as well. (Bug#13048)

  • OpenOffice expects DBMD.supportsIntegrityEnhancementFacility() to return true if foreign keys are supported by the datasource, even though this method also covers support for check constraints, which MySQL doesn't have. Setting the configuration property overrideSupportsIntegrityEnhancementFacility to true causes the driver to return true for this method. (Bug#12975)

  • Added com.mysql.jdbc.testsuite.url.default system property to set default JDBC url for testsuite (to speed up bug resolution when I'm working in Eclipse). (Bug#12975)

  • logSlowQueries should give better info. (Bug#12230)

  • Don't increase timeout for failover/reconnect. (Bug#6577)

  • Fixed client-side prepared statement bug with embedded ? characters inside quoted identifiers (it was recognized as a placeholder, when it was not).

  • Don't allow executeBatch() for CallableStatements with registered OUT/INOUT parameters (JDBC compliance).

  • Fall back to platform-encoding for URLDecoder.decode() when parsing driver URL properties if the platform doesn't have a two-argument version of this method.

C.5.3.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.11 (07 October 2005)

Bugs fixed:

  • The configuration property sessionVariables now allows you to specify variables that start with the “@” sign. (Bug#13453)

  • URL configuration parameters don't allow “&” or “=” in their values. The JDBC driver now parses configuration parameters as if they are encoded using the application/x-www-form-urlencoded format as specified by java.net.URLDecoder (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/net/URLDecoder.html).

    If the “%” character is present in a configuration property, it must now be represented as %25, which is the encoded form of “%” when using application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding. (Bug#13453)

  • Workaround for Bug#13374: ResultSet.getStatement() on closed result set returns NULL (as per JDBC 4.0 spec, but not backward-compatible). Set the connection property retainStatementAfterResultSetClose to true to be able to retrieve a ResultSet's statement after the ResultSet has been closed via .getStatement() (the default is false, to be JDBC-compliant and to reduce the chance that code using JDBC leaks Statement instances). (Bug#13277)

  • ResultSetMetaData from Statement.getGeneratedKeys() caused a NullPointerException to be thrown whenever a method that required a connection reference was called. (Bug#13277)

  • Backport of VAR[BINARY|CHAR] [BINARY] types detection from 5.0 branch. (Bug#13277)

  • Fixed NullPointerException when converting catalog parameter in many DatabaseMetaDataMethods to byte[]s (for the result set) when the parameter is null. (null isn't technically allowed by the JDBC specification, but we've historically allowed it). (Bug#13277)

  • Backport of Field class, ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName(), and ResultSet.getObject(int) changes from 5.0 branch to fix behavior surrounding VARCHAR BINARY/VARBINARY and related types. (Bug#13277)

  • Read response in MysqlIO.sendFileToServer(), even if the local file can't be opened, otherwise next query issued will fail, because it's reading the response to the empty LOAD DATA INFILE packet sent to the server. (Bug#13277)

  • When gatherPerfMetrics is enabled for servers older than 4.1.0, a NullPointerException is thrown from the constructor of ResultSet if the query doesn't use any tables. (Bug#13043)

  • java.sql.Types.OTHER returned for BINARY and VARBINARY columns when using DatabaseMetaData.getColumns(). (Bug#12970)

  • ServerPreparedStatement.getBinding() now checks if the statement is closed before attempting to reference the list of parameter bindings, to avoid throwing a NullPointerException. (Bug#12970)

  • Tokenizer for = in URL properties was causing sessionVariables=.... to be parameterized incorrectly. (Bug#12753)

  • cp1251 incorrectly mapped to win1251 for servers newer than 4.0.x. (Bug#12752)

  • getExportedKeys() (Bug#12541)

  • Specifying a catalog works as stated in the API docs. (Bug#12541)

  • Specifying NULL means that catalog will not be used to filter the results (thus all databases will be searched), unless you've set nullCatalogMeansCurrent=true in your JDBC URL properties. (Bug#12541)

  • getIndexInfo() (Bug#12541)

  • getProcedures() (and thus indirectly getProcedureColumns()) (Bug#12541)

  • getImportedKeys() (Bug#12541)

  • Specifying "" means “current” catalog, even though this isn't quite JDBC spec compliant, it's there for legacy users. (Bug#12541)

  • getCrossReference() (Bug#12541)

  • Added Connection.isMasterConnection() for clients to be able to determine if a multi-host master/slave connection is connected to the first host in the list. (Bug#12541)

  • getColumns() (Bug#12541)

  • Handling of catalog argument in DatabaseMetaData.getIndexInfo(), which also means changes to the following methods in DatabaseMetaData:

    • getBestRowIdentifier()

    • getColumns()

    • getCrossReference()

    • getExportedKeys()

    • getImportedKeys()

    • getIndexInfo()

    • getPrimaryKeys()

    • getProcedures() (and thus indirectly getProcedureColumns())

    • getTables()

    The catalog argument in all of these methods now behaves in the following way:

    • Specifying NULL means that catalog will not be used to filter the results (thus all databases will be searched), unless you've set nullCatalogMeansCurrent=true in your JDBC URL properties.

    • Specifying "" means “current” catalog, even though this isn't quite JDBC spec compliant, it's there for legacy users.

    • Specifying a catalog works as stated in the API docs.

    • Made Connection.clientPrepare() available from “wrapped” connections in the jdbc2.optional package (connections built by ConnectionPoolDataSource instances).

    (Bug#12541)

  • getBestRowIdentifier() (Bug#12541)

  • Made Connection.clientPrepare() available from “wrapped” connections in the jdbc2.optional package (connections built by ConnectionPoolDataSource instances). (Bug#12541)

  • getTables() (Bug#12541)

  • getPrimaryKeys() (Bug#12541)

  • Connection.prepareCall() is database name case-sensitive (on Windows systems). (Bug#12417)

  • explainSlowQueries hangs with server-side prepared statements. (Bug#12229)

  • Properties shared between master and slave with replication connection. (Bug#12218)

  • Geometry types not handled with server-side prepared statements. (Bug#12104)

  • maxPerformance.properties mis-spells “elideSetAutoCommits”. (Bug#11976)

  • ReplicationConnection won't switch to slave, throws “Catalog can't be null” exception. (Bug#11879)

  • Pstmt.setObject(...., Types.BOOLEAN) throws exception. (Bug#11798)

  • Escape tokenizer doesn't respect stacked single quotes for escapes. (Bug#11797)

  • GEOMETRY type not recognized when using server-side prepared statements. (Bug#11797)

  • Foreign key information that is quoted is parsed incorrectly when DatabaseMetaData methods use that information. (Bug#11781)

  • The sendBlobChunkSize property is now clamped to max_allowed_packet with consideration of stream buffer size and packet headers to avoid PacketTooBigExceptions when max_allowed_packet is similar in size to the default sendBlobChunkSize which is 1M. (Bug#11781)

  • CallableStatement.clearParameters() now clears resources associated with INOUT/OUTPUT parameters as well as INPUT parameters. (Bug#11781)

  • Fixed regression caused by fix for Bug#11552 that caused driver to return incorrect values for unsigned integers when those integers where within the range of the positive signed type. (Bug#11663)

  • Moved source code to Subversion repository. (Bug#11663)

  • Incorrect generation of testcase scripts for server-side prepared statements. (Bug#11663)

  • Fixed statements generated for testcases missing ; for “plain” statements. (Bug#11629)

  • Spurious ! on console when character encoding is utf8. (Bug#11629)

  • StringUtils.getBytes() doesn't work when using multi-byte character encodings and a length in characters is specified. (Bug#11614)

  • DBMD.storesLower/Mixed/UpperIdentifiers() reports incorrect values for servers deployed on Windows. (Bug#11575)

  • Reworked Field class, *Buffer, and MysqlIO to be aware of field lengths > Integer.MAX_VALUE. (Bug#11498)

  • Escape processor didn't honor strings demarcated with double quotes. (Bug#11498)

  • Updated DBMD.supportsCorrelatedQueries() to return true for versions > 4.1, supportsGroupByUnrelated() to return true and getResultSetHoldability() to return HOLD_CURSORS_OVER_COMMIT. (Bug#11498)

  • Lifted restriction of changing streaming parameters with server-side prepared statements. As long as all streaming parameters were set before execution, .clearParameters() does not have to be called. (due to limitation of client/server protocol, prepared statements can not reset individual stream data on the server side). (Bug#11498)

  • ResultSet.moveToCurrentRow() fails to work when preceded by a call to ResultSet.moveToInsertRow(). (Bug#11190)

  • VARBINARY data corrupted when using server-side prepared statements and .setBytes(). (Bug#11115)

  • Statement.getWarnings() fails with NPE if statement has been closed. (Bug#10630)

  • Only get char[] from SQL in PreparedStatement.ParseInfo() when needed. (Bug#10630)

C.5.3.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.10 (23 June 2005)

Bugs fixed:

  • Initial implemention of ParameterMetadata for PreparedStatement.getParameterMetadata(). Only works fully for CallableStatements, as current server-side prepared statements return every parameter as a VARCHAR type.

  • Fixed connecting without a database specified raised an exception in MysqlIO.changeDatabaseTo().

C.5.3.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.9 (22 June 2005)

Bugs fixed:

  • Production package doesn't include JBoss integration classes. (Bug#11411)

  • Removed nonsensical “costly type conversion” warnings when using usage advisor. (Bug#11411)

  • Fixed PreparedStatement.setClob() not accepting null as a parameter. (Bug#11360)

  • Connector/J dumping query into SQLException twice. (Bug#11360)

  • autoReconnect ping causes exception on connection startup. (Bug#11259)

  • Connection.setCatalog() is now aware of the useLocalSessionState configuration property, which when set to true will prevent the driver from sending USE ... to the server if the requested catalog is the same as the current catalog. (Bug#11115)

  • 3-0-Compat — Compatibility with Connector/J 3.0.x functionality (Bug#11115)

  • maxPerformance — maximum performance without being reckless (Bug#11115)

  • solarisMaxPerformance — maximum performance for Solaris, avoids syscalls where it can (Bug#11115)

  • Added maintainTimeStats configuration property (defaults to true), which tells the driver whether or not to keep track of the last query time and the last successful packet sent to the server's time. If set to false, removes two syscalls per query. (Bug#11115)

  • VARBINARY data corrupted when using server-side prepared statements and ResultSet.getBytes(). (Bug#11115)

  • Added the following configuration bundles, use one or many via the useConfigs configuration property:

    • maxPerformance — maximum performance without being reckless

    • solarisMaxPerformance — maximum performance for Solaris, avoids syscalls where it can

    • 3-0-Compat — Compatibility with Connector/J 3.0.x functionality

    (Bug#11115)

  • Try to handle OutOfMemoryErrors more gracefully. Although not much can be done, they will in most cases close the connection they happened on so that further operations don't run into a connection in some unknown state. When an OOM has happened, any further operations on the connection will fail with a “Connection closed” exception that will also list the OOM exception as the reason for the implicit connection close event. (Bug#10850)

  • Setting cachePrepStmts=true now causes the Connection to also cache the check the driver performs to determine if a prepared statement can be server-side or not, as well as caches server-side prepared statements for the lifetime of a connection. As before, the prepStmtCacheSize parameter controls the size of these caches. (Bug#10850)

  • Don't send COM_RESET_STMT for each execution of a server-side prepared statement if it isn't required. (Bug#10850)

  • 0-length streams not sent to server when using server-side prepared statements. (Bug#10850)

  • Driver detects if you're running MySQL-5.0.7 or later, and does not scan for LIMIT ?[,?] in statements being prepared, as the server supports those types of queries now. (Bug#10850)

  • Reorganized directory layout. Sources now are in src folder. Don't pollute parent directory when building, now output goes to ./build, distribution goes to ./dist. (Bug#10496)

  • Added support/bug hunting feature that generates .sql test scripts to STDERR when autoGenerateTestcaseScript is set to true. (Bug#10496)

  • SQLException is thrown when using property characterSetResults with cp932 or eucjpms. (Bug#10496)

  • The datatype returned for TINYINT(1) columns when tinyInt1isBit=true (the default) can be switched between Types.BOOLEAN and Types.BIT using the new configuration property transformedBitIsBoolean, which defaults to false. If set to false (the default), DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() and ResultSetMetaData.getColumnType() will return Types.BOOLEAN for TINYINT(1) columns. If true, Types.BOOLEAN will be returned instead. Regardless of this configuration property, if tinyInt1isBit is enabled, columns with the type TINYINT(1) will be returned as java.lang.Boolean instances from ResultSet.getObject(...), and ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName() will return java.lang.Boolean. (Bug#10485)

  • SQLException thrown when retrieving YEAR(2) with ResultSet.getString(). The driver will now always treat YEAR types as java.sql.Dates and return the correct values for getString(). Alternatively, the yearIsDateType connection property can be set to false and the values will be treated as SHORTs. (Bug#10485)

  • Driver doesn't support {?=CALL(...)} for calling stored functions. This involved adding support for function retrieval to DatabaseMetaData.getProcedures() and getProcedureColumns() as well. (Bug#10310)

  • Unsigned SMALLINT treated as signed for ResultSet.getInt(), fixed all cases for UNSIGNED integer values and server-side prepared statements, as well as ResultSet.getObject() for UNSIGNED TINYINT. (Bug#10156)

  • Made ServerPreparedStatement.asSql() work correctly so auto-explain functionality would work with server-side prepared statements. (Bug#10155)

  • Double quotes not recognized when parsing client-side prepared statements. (Bug#10155)

  • Made JDBC2-compliant wrappers public in order to allow access to vendor extensions. (Bug#10155)

  • DatabaseMetaData.supportsMultipleOpenResults() now returns true. The driver has supported this for some time, DBMD just missed that fact. (Bug#10155)

  • Cleaned up logging of profiler events, moved code to dump a profiler event as a string to com.mysql.jdbc.log.LogUtils so that third parties can use it. (Bug#10155)

  • Made enableStreamingResults() visible on com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.StatementWrapper. (Bug#10155)

  • Actually write manifest file to correct place so it ends up in the binary jar file. (Bug#10144)

  • Added createDatabaseIfNotExist property (default is false), which will cause the driver to ask the server to create the database specified in the URL if it doesn't exist. You must have the appropriate privileges for database creation for this to work. (Bug#10144)

  • Memory leak in ServerPreparedStatement if serverPrepare() fails. (Bug#10144)

  • com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.ParseInfo does unnecessary call to toCharArray(). (Bug#9064)

  • Driver now correctly uses CP932 if available on the server for Windows-31J, CP932 and MS932 java encoding names, otherwise it resorts to SJIS, which is only a close approximation. Currently only MySQL-5.0.3 and newer (and MySQL-4.1.12 or .13, depending on when the character set gets backported) can reliably support any variant of CP932.

  • Overhaul of character set configuration, everything now lives in a properties file.

C.5.3.8. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.8 (14 April 2005)

Bugs fixed:

  • Should accept null for catalog (meaning use current) in DBMD methods, even though it's not JDBC-compliant for legacy's sake. Disable by setting connection property nullCatalogMeansCurrent to false (which will be the default value in C/J 3.2.x). (Bug#9917)

  • Fixed driver not returning true for -1 when ResultSet.getBoolean() was called on result sets returned from server-side prepared statements. (Bug#9778)

  • Added a Manifest.MF file with implementation information to the .jar file. (Bug#9778)

  • More tests in Field.isOpaqueBinary() to distinguish opaque binary (that is, fields with type CHAR(n) and CHARACTER SET BINARY) from output of various scalar and aggregate functions that return strings. (Bug#9778)

  • DBMD.getTables() shouldn't return tables if views are asked for, even if the database version doesn't support views. (Bug#9778)

  • Should accept null for name patterns in DBMD (meaning “%”), even though it isn't JDBC compliant, for legacy's sake. Disable by setting connection property nullNamePatternMatchesAll to false (which will be the default value in C/J 3.2.x). (Bug#9769)

  • Then fallback to our STDERR logging. (Bug#9704)

  • The performance metrics feature now gathers information about number of tables referenced in a SELECT. (Bug#9704)

  • The logging system is now automatically configured. If the value has been set by the user, via the URL property logger or the system property com.mysql.jdbc.logger, then use that, otherwise, autodetect it using the following steps:

    1. Log4j, if it's available,

    2. Then JDK1.4 logging,

    3. Then fallback to our STDERR logging.

    (Bug#9704)

  • Then JDK1.4 logging, (Bug#9704)

  • Log4j, if it's available, (Bug#9704)

  • Statement.getMoreResults() could throw NPE when existing result set was .close()d. (Bug#9704)

  • Stored procedures with DECIMAL parameters with storage specifications that contained “,” in them would fail. (Bug#9682)

  • PreparedStatement.setObject(int, Object, int type, int scale) now uses scale value for BigDecimal instances. (Bug#9682)

  • Added support for the c3p0 connection pool's (http://c3p0.sf.net/) validation/connection checker interface which uses the lightweight COM_PING call to the server if available. To use it, configure your c3p0 connection pool's connectionTesterClassName property to use com.mysql.jdbc.integration.c3p0.MysqlConnectionTester. (Bug#9320)

  • PreparedStatement.getMetaData() inserts blank row in database under certain conditions when not using server-side prepared statements. (Bug#9320)

  • Better detection of LIMIT inside/outside of quoted strings so that the driver can more correctly determine whether a prepared statement can be prepared on the server or not. (Bug#9320)

  • Connection.canHandleAsPreparedStatement() now makes “best effort” to distinguish LIMIT clauses with placeholders in them from ones without in order to have fewer false positives when generating work-arounds for statements the server cannot currently handle as server-side prepared statements. (Bug#9320)

  • Fixed build.xml to not compile log4j logging if log4j not available. (Bug#9320)

  • Added finalizers to ResultSet and Statement implementations to be JDBC spec-compliant, which requires that if not explicitly closed, these resources should be closed upon garbage collection. (Bug#9319)

  • Stored procedures with same name in different databases confuse the driver when it tries to determine parameter counts/types. (Bug#9319)

  • A continuation of Bug#8868, where functions used in queries that should return non-string types when resolved by temporary tables suddenly become opaque binary strings (work-around for server limitation). Also fixed fields with type of CHAR(n) CHARACTER SET BINARY to return correct/matching classes for RSMD.getColumnClassName() and ResultSet.getObject(). (Bug#9236)

  • Cannot use UTF-8 for characterSetResults configuration property. (Bug#9206)

  • PreparedStatement.addBatch() doesn't work with server-side prepared statements and streaming BINARY data. (Bug#9040)

  • ServerPreparedStatements now correctly “streamBLOB/CLOB data to the server. You can configure the threshold chunk size using the JDBC URL property blobSendChunkSize (the default is 1MB). (Bug#8868)

  • DATE_FORMAT() queries returned as BLOBs from getObject(). (Bug#8868)

  • Server-side session variables can be preset at connection time by passing them as a comma-delimited list for the connection property sessionVariables. (Bug#8868)

  • BlobFromLocator now uses correct identifier quoting when generating prepared statements. (Bug#8868)

  • Fixed regression in ping() for users using autoReconnect=true. (Bug#8868)

  • Check for empty strings ('') when converting CHAR/VARCHAR column data to numbers, throw exception if emptyStringsConvertToZero configuration property is set to false (for backward-compatibility with 3.0, it is now set to true by default, but will most likely default to false in 3.2). (Bug#8803)

  • DATA_TYPE column from DBMD.getBestRowIdentifier() causes ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when accessed (and in fact, didn't return any value). (Bug#8803)

  • DBMD.supportsMixedCase*Identifiers() returns wrong value on servers running on case-sensitive filesystems. (Bug#8800)

  • DBMD.supportsResultSetConcurrency() not returning true for forward-only/read-only result sets (we obviously support this). (Bug#8792)

  • Fixed ResultSet.getTime() on a NULL value for server-side prepared statements throws NPE.

  • Made Connection.ping() a public method.

  • Added support for new precision-math DECIMAL type in MySQL 5.0.3 and up.

  • Fixed DatabaseMetaData.getTables() returning views when they were not asked for as one of the requested table types.

C.5.3.9. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.7 (18 February 2005)

Bugs fixed:

  • PreparedStatements not creating streaming result sets. (Bug#8487)

  • Don't pass NULL to String.valueOf() in ResultSet.getNativeConvertToString(), as it stringifies it (that is, returns null), which is not correct for the method in question. (Bug#8487)

  • Fixed NPE in ResultSet.realClose() when using usage advisor and result set was already closed. (Bug#8428)

  • ResultSet.getString() doesn't maintain format stored on server, bug fix only enabled when noDatetimeStringSync property is set to true (the default is false). (Bug#8428)

  • Added support for BIT type in MySQL-5.0.3. The driver will treat BIT(1-8) as the JDBC standard BIT type (which maps to java.lang.Boolean), as the server does not currently send enough information to determine the size of a bitfield when < 9 bits are declared. BIT(>9) will be treated as VARBINARY, and will return byte[] when getObject() is called. (Bug#8424)

  • Added useLocalSessionState configuration property, when set to true the JDBC driver trusts that the application is well-behaved and only sets autocommit and transaction isolation levels using the methods provided on java.sql.Connection, and therefore can manipulate these values in many cases without incurring round-trips to the database server. (Bug#8424)

  • Added enableStreamingResults() to Statement for connection pool implementations that check Statement.setFetchSize() for specification-compliant values. Call Statement.setFetchSize(>=0) to disable the streaming results for that statement. (Bug#8424)

  • ResultSet.getBigDecimal() throws exception when rounding would need to occur to set scale. The driver now chooses a rounding mode of “half up” if non-rounding BigDecimal.setScale() fails. (Bug#8424)

  • Fixed synchronization issue with ServerPreparedStatement.serverPrepare() that could cause deadlocks/crashes if connection was shared between threads. (Bug#8096)

  • Emulated locators corrupt binary data when using server-side prepared statements. (Bug#8096)

  • Infinite recursion when “falling back” to master in failover configuration. (Bug#7952)

  • Disable multi-statements (if enabled) for MySQL-4.1 versions prior to version 4.1.10 if the query cache is enabled, as the server returns wrong results in this configuration. (Bug#7952)

  • Removed dontUnpackBinaryResults functionality, the driver now always stores results from server-side prepared statements as is from the server and unpacks them on demand. (Bug#7952)

  • Fixed duplicated code in configureClientCharset() that prevented useOldUTF8Behavior=true from working properly. (Bug#7952)

  • Added holdResultsOpenOverStatementClose property (default is false), that keeps result sets open over statement.close() or new execution on same statement (suggested by Kevin Burton). (Bug#7715)

  • Detect new sql_mode variable in string form (it used to be integer) and adjust quoting method for strings appropriately. (Bug#7715)

  • Timestamps converted incorrectly to strings with server-side prepared statements and updatable result sets. (Bug#7715)

  • Timestamp key column data needed _binary stripped for UpdatableResultSet.refreshRow(). (Bug#7686)

  • Choose correct “direction” to apply time adjustments when both client and server are in GMT time zone when using ResultSet.get(..., cal) and PreparedStatement.set(...., cal). (Bug#4718)

  • Remove _binary introducer from parameters used as in/out parameters in CallableStatement. (Bug#4718)

  • Always return byte[]s for output parameters registered as *BINARY. (Bug#4718)

  • By default, the driver now scans SQL you are preparing via all variants of Connection.prepareStatement() to determine if it is a supported type of statement to prepare on the server side, and if it is not supported by the server, it instead prepares it as a client-side emulated prepared statement. You can disable this by passing emulateUnsupportedPstmts=false in your JDBC URL. (Bug#4718)

  • Added dontTrackOpenResources option (default is false, to be JDBC compliant), which helps with memory use for non-well-behaved apps (that is, applications that don't close Statement objects when they should). (Bug#4718)

  • Send correct value for “booleantrue to server for PreparedStatement.setObject(n, "true", Types.BIT). (Bug#4718)

  • Fixed bug with Connection not caching statements from prepareStatement() when the statement wasn't a server-side prepared statement. (Bug#4718)

C.5.3.10. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.6 (23 December 2004)

Bugs fixed:

  • DBMD.getProcedures() doesn't respect catalog parameter. (Bug#7026)

  • Fixed hang on SocketInputStream.read() with Statement.setMaxRows() and multiple result sets when driver has to truncate result set directly, rather than tacking a LIMIT n on the end of it.

C.5.3.11. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.5 (02 December 2004)

Bugs fixed:

  • Use 1MB packet for sending file for LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE if that is < max_allowed_packet on server. (Bug#6537)

  • SUM() on DECIMAL with server-side prepared statement ignores scale if zero-padding is needed (this ends up being due to conversion to DOUBLE by server, which when converted to a string to parse into BigDecimal, loses all “padding” zeros). (Bug#6537)

  • Use DatabaseMetaData.getIdentifierQuoteString() when building DBMD queries. (Bug#6537)

  • Use our own implementation of buffered input streams to get around blocking behavior of java.io.BufferedInputStream. Disable this with useReadAheadInput=false. (Bug#6399)

  • Make auto-deserialization of java.lang.Objects stored in BLOB columns configurable via autoDeserialize property (defaults to false). (Bug#6399)

  • ResultSetMetaData.getColumnDisplaySize() returns incorrect values for multi-byte charsets. (Bug#6399)

  • Re-work Field.isOpaqueBinary() to detect CHAR(n) CHARACTER SET BINARY to support fixed-length binary fields for ResultSet.getObject(). (Bug#6399)

  • Failing to connect to the server when one of the addresses for the given host name is IPV6 (which the server does not yet bind on). The driver now loops through all IP addresses for a given host, and stops on the first one that accepts() a socket.connect(). (Bug#6348)

  • Removed unwanted new Throwable() in ResultSet constructor due to bad merge (caused a new object instance that was never used for every result set created). Found while profiling for Bug#6359. (Bug#6225)

  • ServerSidePreparedStatement allocating short-lived objects unnecessarily. (Bug#6225)

  • Use null-safe-equals for key comparisons in updatable result sets. (Bug#6225)

  • Fixed too-early creation of StringBuffer in EscapeProcessor.escapeSQL(), also return String when escaping not needed (to avoid unnecessary object allocations). Found while profiling for Bug#6359. (Bug#6225)

  • UNSIGNED BIGINT unpacked incorrectly from server-side prepared statement result sets. (Bug#5729)

  • Added experimental configuration property dontUnpackBinaryResults, which delays unpacking binary result set values until they're asked for, and only creates object instances for non-numerical values (it is set to false by default). For some usecase/jvm combinations, this is friendlier on the garbage collector. (Bug#5706)

  • Don't throw exceptions for Connection.releaseSavepoint(). (Bug#5706)

  • Inefficient detection of pre-existing string instances in ResultSet.getNativeString(). (Bug#5706)

  • Use a per-session Calendar instance by default when decoding dates from ServerPreparedStatements (set to old, less performant behavior by setting property dynamicCalendars=true). (Bug#5706)

  • Fixed batched updates with server prepared statements weren't looking if the types had changed for a given batched set of parameters compared to the previous set, causing the server to return the error “Wrong arguments to mysql_stmt_execute()”. (Bug#5235)

  • Handle case when string representation of timestamp contains trailing “.” with no numbers following it. (Bug#5235)

  • Server-side prepared statements did not honor zeroDateTimeBehavior property, and would cause class-cast exceptions when using ResultSet.getObject(), as the all-zero string was always returned. (Bug#5235)

  • Fix comparisons made between string constants and dynamic strings that are converted with either toUpperCase() or toLowerCase() to use Locale.ENGLISH, as some locales “override” case rules for English. Also use StringUtils.indexOfIgnoreCase() instead of .toUpperCase().indexOf(), avoids creating a very short-lived transient String instance.

C.5.3.12. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.4 (04 September 2004)

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed ServerPreparedStatement to read prepared statement metadata off the wire, even though it's currently a placeholder instead of using MysqlIO.clearInputStream() which didn't work at various times because data wasn't available to read from the server yet. This fixes sporadic errors users were having with ServerPreparedStatements throwing ArrayIndexOutOfBoundExceptions. (Bug#5032)

  • Added three ways to deal with all-zero datetimes when reading them from a ResultSet: exception (the default), which throws an SQLException with an SQLState of S1009; convertToNull, which returns NULL instead of the date; and round, which rounds the date to the nearest closest value which is '0001-01-01'. (Bug#5032)

  • The driver is more strict about truncation of numerics on ResultSet.get*(), and will throw an SQLException when truncation is detected. You can disable this by setting jdbcCompliantTruncation to false (it is enabled by default, as this functionality is required for JDBC compliance). (Bug#5032)

  • You can now use URLs in LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE statements, and the driver will use Java's built-in handlers for retreiving the data and sending it to the server. This feature is not enabled by default, you must set the allowUrlInLocalInfile connection property to true. (Bug#5032)

  • ResultSet.getObject() doesn't return type Boolean for pseudo-bit types from prepared statements on 4.1.x (shortcut for avoiding extra type conversion when using binary-encoded result sets obscured test in getObject() for “pseudo” bit type). (Bug#5032)

  • Use com.mysql.jdbc.Message's classloader when loading resource bundle, should fix sporadic issues when the caller's classloader can't locate the resource bundle. (Bug#5032)

  • ServerPreparedStatements dealing with return of DECIMAL type don't work. (Bug#5012)

  • Track packet sequence numbers if enablePacketDebug=true, and throw an exception if packets received out-of-order. (Bug#4689)

  • ResultSet.wasNull() does not work for primatives if a previous null was returned. (Bug#4689)

  • Optimized integer number parsing, enable “old” slower integer parsing using JDK classes via useFastIntParsing=false property. (Bug#4642)

  • Added useOnlyServerErrorMessages property, which causes message text in exceptions generated by the server to only contain the text sent by the server (as opposed to the SQLState's “standard” description, followed by the server's error message). This property is set to true by default. (Bug#4642)

  • ServerPreparedStatement.execute*() sometimes threw ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when unpacking field metadata. (Bug#4642)

  • Connector/J 3.1.3 beta does not handle integers correctly (caused by changes to support unsigned reads in Buffer.readInt() -> Buffer.readShort()). (Bug#4510)

  • Added support in DatabaseMetaData.getTables() and getTableTypes() for views, which are now available in MySQL server 5.0.x. (Bug#4510)

  • ResultSet.getObject() returns wrong type for strings when using prepared statements. (Bug#4482)

  • Calling MysqlPooledConnection.close() twice (even though an application error), caused NPE. Fixed. (Bug#4482)

C.5.3.13. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.3 (07 July 2004)

Bugs fixed:

  • Support new time zone variables in MySQL-4.1.3 when useTimezone=true. (Bug#4311)

  • Error in retrieval of mediumint column with prepared statements and binary protocol. (Bug#4311)

  • Support for unsigned numerics as return types from prepared statements. This also causes a change in ResultSet.getObject() for the bigint unsigned type, which used to return BigDecimal instances, it now returns instances of java.lang.BigInteger. (Bug#4311)

  • Externalized more messages (on-going effort). (Bug#4119)

  • Null bitmask sent for server-side prepared statements was incorrect. (Bug#4119)

  • Added constants for MySQL error numbers (publicly accessible, see com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlErrorNumbers), and the ability to generate the mappings of vendor error codes to SQLStates that the driver uses (for documentation purposes). (Bug#4119)

  • Added packet debuging code (see the enablePacketDebug property documentation). (Bug#4119)

  • Use SQL Standard SQL states by default, unless useSqlStateCodes property is set to false. (Bug#4119)

  • Mangle output parameter names for CallableStatements so they will not clash with user variable names.

  • Added support for INOUT parameters in CallableStatements.

C.5.3.14. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.2 (09 June 2004)

Bugs fixed:

  • Don't enable server-side prepared statements for server version 5.0.0 or 5.0.1, as they aren't compatible with the '4.1.2+' style that the driver uses (the driver expects information to come back that isn't there, so it hangs). (Bug#3804)

  • getWarnings() returns SQLWarning instead of DataTruncation. (Bug#3804)

  • getProcedureColumns() doesn't work with wildcards for procedure name. (Bug#3540)

  • getProcedures() does not return any procedures in result set. (Bug#3539)

  • Fixed DatabaseMetaData.getProcedures() when run on MySQL-5.0.0 (output of SHOW PROCEDURE STATUS changed between 5.0.0 and 5.0.1. (Bug#3520)

  • Added connectionCollation property to cause driver to issue set collation_connection=... query on connection init if default collation for given charset is not appropriate. (Bug#3520)

  • DBMD.getSQLStateType() returns incorrect value. (Bug#3520)

  • Correctly map output parameters to position given in prepareCall() versus. order implied during registerOutParameter(). (Bug#3146)

  • Cleaned up detection of server properties. (Bug#3146)

  • Correctly detect initial character set for servers >= 4.1.0. (Bug#3146)

  • Support placeholder for parameter metadata for server >= 4.1.2. (Bug#3146)

  • Added gatherPerformanceMetrics property, along with properties to control when/where this info gets logged (see docs for more info).

  • Fixed case when no parameters could cause a NullPointerException in CallableStatement.setOutputParameters().

  • Enabled callable statement caching via cacheCallableStmts property.

  • Fixed sending of split packets for large queries, enabled nio ability to send large packets as well.

  • Added .toString() functionality to ServerPreparedStatement, which should help if you're trying to debug a query that is a prepared statement (it shows SQL as the server would process).

  • Added logSlowQueries property, along with slowQueriesThresholdMillis property to control when a query should be considered “slow.

  • Removed wrapping of exceptions in MysqlIO.changeUser().

  • Fixed stored procedure parameter parsing info when size was specified for a parameter (for example, char(), varchar()).

  • ServerPreparedStatements weren't actually de-allocating server-side resources when .close() was called.

  • Fixed case when no output parameters specified for a stored procedure caused a bogus query to be issued to retrieve out parameters, leading to a syntax error from the server.

C.5.3.15. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.1 (14 February 2004)

Bugs fixed:

  • Use DocBook version of docs for shipped versions of drivers. (Bug#2671)

  • NULL fields were not being encoded correctly in all cases in server-side prepared statements. (Bug#2671)

  • Fixed rare buffer underflow when writing numbers into buffers for sending prepared statement execution requests. (Bug#2671)

  • Fixed ConnectionProperties that weren't properly exposed via accessors, cleaned up ConnectionProperties code. (Bug#2623)

  • Class-cast exception when using scrolling result sets and server-side prepared statements. (Bug#2623)

  • Merged unbuffered input code from 3.0. (Bug#2623)

  • Enabled streaming of result sets from server-side prepared statements. (Bug#2606)

  • Server-side prepared statements were not returning datatype YEAR correctly. (Bug#2606)

  • Fixed charset conversion issue in getTables(). (Bug#2502)

  • Implemented multiple result sets returned from a statement or stored procedure. (Bug#2502)

  • Implemented Connection.prepareCall(), and DatabaseMetaData. getProcedures() and getProcedureColumns(). (Bug#2359)

  • Merged prepared statement caching, and .getMetaData() support from 3.0 branch. (Bug#2359)

  • Fixed off-by-1900 error in some cases for years in TimeUtil.fastDate/TimeCreate() when unpacking results from server-side prepared statements. (Bug#2359)

  • Reset long binary parameters in ServerPreparedStatement when clearParameters() is called, by sending COM_RESET_STMT to the server. (Bug#2359)

  • NULL values for numeric types in binary encoded result sets causing NullPointerExceptions. (Bug#2359)

  • Display where/why a connection was implicitly closed (to aid debugging). (Bug#1673)

  • DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() is not returning correct column ordinal info for non-'%' column name patterns. (Bug#1673)

  • Fixed NullPointerException in ServerPreparedStatement.setTimestamp(), as well as year and month descrepencies in ServerPreparedStatement.setTimestamp(), setDate(). (Bug#1673)

  • Added ability to have multiple database/JVM targets for compliance and regression/unit tests in build.xml. (Bug#1673)

  • Fixed sending of queries larger than 16M. (Bug#1673)

  • Merged fix of datatype mapping from MySQL type FLOAT to java.sql.Types.REAL from 3.0 branch. (Bug#1673)

  • Fixed NPE and year/month bad conversions when accessing some datetime functionality in ServerPreparedStatements and their resultant result sets. (Bug#1673)

  • Added named and indexed input/output parameter support to CallableStatement. MySQL-5.0.x or newer. (Bug#1673)

  • CommunicationsException implemented, that tries to determine why communications was lost with a server, and displays possible reasons when .getMessage() is called. (Bug#1673)

  • Detect collation of column for RSMD.isCaseSensitive(). (Bug#1673)

  • Optimized Buffer.readLenByteArray() to return shared empty byte array when length is 0.

  • Fix support for table aliases when checking for all primary keys in UpdatableResultSet.

  • Unpack “unknown” data types from server prepared statements as Strings.

  • Implemented Statement.getWarnings() for MySQL-4.1 and newer (using SHOW WARNINGS).

  • Ensure that warnings are cleared before executing queries on prepared statements, as-per JDBC spec (now that we support warnings).

  • Correctly initialize datasource properties from JNDI Refs, including explicitly specified URLs.

  • Implemented long data (Blobs, Clobs, InputStreams, Readers) for server prepared statements.

  • Deal with 0-length tokens in EscapeProcessor (caused by callable statement escape syntax).

  • DatabaseMetaData now reports supportsStoredProcedures() for MySQL versions >= 5.0.0

  • Support for mysql_change_user(). See the changeUser() method in com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.

  • Removed useFastDates connection property.

  • Support for NIO. Use useNIO=true on platforms that support NIO.

  • Check for closed connection on delete/update/insert row operations in UpdatableResultSet.

  • Support for transaction savepoints (MySQL >= 4.0.14 or 4.1.1).

  • Support “oldprofileSql capitalization in ConnectionProperties. This property is deprecated, you should use profileSQL if possible.

  • Fixed character encoding issues when converting bytes to ASCII when MySQL doesn't provide the character set, and the JVM is set to a multi-byte encoding (usually affecting retrieval of numeric values).

  • Centralized setting of result set type and concurrency.

  • Fixed bug with UpdatableResultSets not using client-side prepared statements.

  • Default result set type changed to TYPE_FORWARD_ONLY (JDBC compliance).

  • Fixed IllegalAccessError to Calendar.getTimeInMillis() in DateTimeValue (for JDK < 1.4).

  • Allow contents of PreparedStatement.setBlob() to be retained between calls to .execute*().

  • Fixed stack overflow in Connection.prepareCall() (bad merge).

  • Refactored how connection properties are set and exposed as DriverPropertyInfo as well as Connection and DataSource properties.

  • Reduced number of methods called in average query to be more efficient.

  • Prepared Statements will be re-prepared on auto-reconnect. Any errors encountered are postponed until first attempt to re-execute the re-prepared statement.

C.5.3.16. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.1.0 (18 February 2003)

Bugs fixed:

  • Added useServerPrepStmts property (default false). The driver will use server-side prepared statements when the server version supports them (4.1 and newer) when this property is set to true. It is currently set to false by default until all bind/fetch functionality has been implemented. Currently only DML prepared statements are implemented for 4.1 server-side prepared statements.

  • Added requireSSL property.

  • Track open Statements, close all when Connection.close() is called (JDBC compliance).

C.5.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.x

C.5.4.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.17 (23 June 2005)

Bugs fixed:

  • Workaround for server Bug#9098: Default values of CURRENT_* for DATE, TIME, DATETIME, and TIMESTAMP columns can't be distinguished from string values, so UpdatableResultSet.moveToInsertRow() generates bad SQL for inserting default values. (Bug#8812)

  • NON_UNIQUE column from DBMD.getIndexInfo() returned inverted value. (Bug#8812)

  • EUCKR charset is sent as SET NAMES euc_kr which MySQL-4.1 and newer doesn't understand. (Bug#8629)

  • Added support for the EUC_JP_Solaris character encoding, which maps to a MySQL encoding of eucjpms (backported from 3.1 branch). This only works on servers that support eucjpms, namely 5.0.3 or later. (Bug#8629)

  • Use hex escapes for PreparedStatement.setBytes() for double-byte charsets including “aliasesWindows-31J, CP934, MS932. (Bug#8629)

  • DatabaseMetaData.supportsSelectForUpdate() returns correct value based on server version. (Bug#8629)

  • Which requires hex escaping of binary data when using multi-byte charsets with prepared statements. (Bug#8064)

  • Fixed duplicated code in configureClientCharset() that prevented useOldUTF8Behavior=true from working properly. (Bug#7952)

  • Backported SQLState codes mapping from Connector/J 3.1, enable with useSqlStateCodes=true as a connection property, it defaults to false in this release, so that we don't break legacy applications (it defaults to true starting with Connector/J 3.1). (Bug#7686)

  • Timestamp key column data needed _binary stripped for UpdatableResultSet.refreshRow(). (Bug#7686)

  • MS932, SHIFT_JIS, and Windows_31J not recognized as aliases for sjis. (Bug#7607)

  • Handle streaming result sets with more than 2 billion rows properly by fixing wraparound of row number counter. (Bug#7601)

  • PreparedStatement.fixDecimalExponent() adding extra +, making number unparseable by MySQL server. (Bug#7601)

  • Escape sequence {fn convert(..., type)} now supports ODBC-style types that are prepended by SQL_. (Bug#7601)

  • Statements created from a pooled connection were returning physical connection instead of logical connection when getConnection() was called. (Bug#7316)

  • Support new protocol type MYSQL_TYPE_VARCHAR. (Bug#7081)

  • Added useOldUTF8Behavior' configuration property, which causes JDBC driver to act like it did with MySQL-4.0.x and earlier when the character encoding is utf-8 when connected to MySQL-4.1 or newer. (Bug#7081)

  • DatabaseMetaData.getIndexInfo() ignored unique parameter. (Bug#7081)

  • PreparedStatement.fixDecimalExponent() adding extra +, making number unparseable by MySQL server. (Bug#7061)

  • PreparedStatements don't encode Big5 (and other multi-byte) character sets correctly in static SQL strings. (Bug#7033)

  • Connections starting up failed-over (due to down master) never retry master. (Bug#6966)

  • Adding CP943 to aliases for sjis. (Bug#6549, Bug#7607)

  • Timestamp/Time conversion goes in the wrong “direction” when useTimeZone=true and server time zone differs from client time zone. (Bug#5874)

C.5.4.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.16 (15 November 2004)

Bugs fixed:

  • Made TINYINT(1) -> BIT/Boolean conversion configurable via tinyInt1isBit property (default true to be JDBC compliant out of the box). (Bug#5664)

  • Off-by-one bug in Buffer.readString(string). (Bug#5664)

  • ResultSet.updateByte() when on insert row throws ArrayOutOfBoundsException. (Bug#5664)

  • Fixed regression where useUnbufferedInput was defaulting to false. (Bug#5664)

  • ResultSet.getTimestamp() on a column with TIME in it fails. (Bug#5664)

  • Fixed DatabaseMetaData.getTypes() returning incorrect (this is, non-negative) scale for the NUMERIC type. (Bug#5664)

  • Only set character_set_results during connection establishment if server version >= 4.1.1. (Bug#5664)

  • Fixed ResultSetMetaData.isReadOnly() to detect non-writable columns when connected to MySQL-4.1 or newer, based on existence of “original” table and column names.

  • Re-issue character set configuration commands when re-using pooled connections and/or Connection.changeUser() when connected to MySQL-4.1 or newer.

C.5.4.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.15 (04 September 2004)

Bugs fixed:

  • ResultSet.getMetaData() should not return incorrectly initialized metadata if the result set has been closed, but should instead throw an SQLException. Also fixed for getRow() and getWarnings() and traversal methods by calling checkClosed() before operating on instance-level fields that are nullified during .close(). (Bug#5069)

  • Use _binary introducer for PreparedStatement.setBytes() and set*Stream() when connected to MySQL-4.1.x or newer to avoid misinterpretation during character conversion. (Bug#5069)

  • Parse new time zone variables from 4.1.x servers. (Bug#5069)

  • ResultSet should release Field[] instance in .close(). (Bug#5022)

  • RSMD.getPrecision() returning 0 for non-numeric types (should return max length in chars for non-binary types, max length in bytes for binary types). This fix also fixes mapping of RSMD.getColumnType() and RSMD.getColumnTypeName() for the BLOB types based on the length sent from the server (the server doesn't distinguish between TINYBLOB, BLOB, MEDIUMBLOB or LONGBLOB at the network protocol level). (Bug#4880)

  • Production” is now “GA” (General Availability) in naming scheme of distributions. (Bug#4860, Bug#4138)

  • DBMD.getColumns() returns incorrect JDBC type for unsigned columns. This affects type mappings for all numeric types in the RSMD.getColumnType() and RSMD.getColumnTypeNames() methods as well, to ensure that “like” types from DBMD.getColumns() match up with what RSMD.getColumnType() and getColumnTypeNames() return. (Bug#4860, Bug#4138)

  • Calling .close() twice on a PooledConnection causes NPE. (Bug#4808)

  • DOUBLE mapped twice in DBMD.getTypeInfo(). (Bug#4742)

  • Added FLOSS license exemption. (Bug#4742)

  • Removed redundant calls to checkRowPos() in ResultSet. (Bug#4334)

  • Failover for autoReconnect not using port numbers for any hosts, and not retrying all hosts.

    Warning

    This required a change to the SocketFactory connect() method signature, which is now public Socket connect(String host, int portNumber, Properties props); therefore, any third-party socket factories will have to be changed to support this signature.

    (Bug#4334)

  • Logical connections created by MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource will now issue a rollback() when they are closed and sent back to the pool. If your application server/connection pool already does this for you, you can set the rollbackOnPooledClose property to false to avoid the overhead of an extra rollback(). (Bug#4334)

  • StringUtils.escapeEasternUnicodeByteStream was still broken for GBK. (Bug#4010)

C.5.4.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.14 (28 May 2004)

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed URL parsing error.

C.5.4.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.13 (27 May 2004)

Bugs fixed:

  • No Database Selected when using MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource. (Bug#3920)

  • PreparedStatement.getGeneratedKeys() method returns only 1 result for batched insertions. (Bug#3873)

  • Using a MySQLDatasource without server name fails. (Bug#3848)

C.5.4.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.12 (18 May 2004)

Bugs fixed:

  • Inconsistent reporting of data type. The server still doesn't return all types for *BLOBs *TEXT correctly, so the driver won't return those correctly. (Bug#3570)

  • UpdatableResultSet not picking up default values for moveToInsertRow(). (Bug#3557)

  • Not specifying database in URL caused MalformedURL exception. (Bug#3554)

  • Auto-convert MySQL encoding names to Java encoding names if used for characterEncoding property. (Bug#3554)

  • Use junit.textui.TestRunner for all unit tests (to allow them to be run from the command line outside of Ant or Eclipse). (Bug#3554)

  • Added encoding names that are recognized on some JVMs to fix case where they were reverse-mapped to MySQL encoding names incorrectly. (Bug#3554)

  • Made StringRegressionTest 4.1-unicode aware. (Bug#3520)

  • Fixed regression in PreparedStatement.setString() and eastern character encodings. (Bug#3520)

  • DBMD.getSQLStateType() returns incorrect value. (Bug#3520)

  • Renamed StringUtils.escapeSJISByteStream() to more appropriate escapeEasternUnicodeByteStream(). (Bug#3511)

  • StringUtils.escapeSJISByteStream() not covering all eastern double-byte charsets correctly. (Bug#3511)

  • Return creating statement for ResultSets created by getGeneratedKeys(). (Bug#2957)

  • Use SET character_set_results during initialization to allow any charset to be returned to the driver for result sets. (Bug#2670)

  • Don't truncate BLOB or CLOB values when using setBytes() and/or setBinary/CharacterStream(). . (Bug#2670)

  • Dynamically configure character set mappings for field-level character sets on MySQL-4.1.0 and newer using SHOW COLLATION when connecting. (Bug#2670)

  • Map binary character set to US-ASCII to support DATETIME charset recognition for servers >= 4.1.2. (Bug#2670)

  • Use charsetnr returned during connect to encode queries before issuing SET NAMES on MySQL >= 4.1.0. (Bug#2670)

  • Add helper methods to ResultSetMetaData (getColumnCharacterEncoding() and getColumnCharacterSet()) to allow end-users to see what charset the driver thinks it should be using for the column. (Bug#2670)

  • Only set character_set_results for MySQL >= 4.1.0. (Bug#2670)

  • Allow url parameter for MysqlDataSource and MysqlConnectionPool DataSource so that passing of other properties is possible from inside appservers.

  • Don't escape SJIS/GBK/BIG5 when using MySQL-4.1 or newer.

  • Backport documentation tooling from 3.1 branch.

  • Added failOverReadOnly property, to allow end-user to configure state of connection (read-only/writable) when failed over.

  • Allow java.util.Date to be sent in as parameter to PreparedStatement.setObject(), converting it to a Timestamp to maintain full precision. . (Bug#103)

  • Add unsigned attribute to DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() output in the TYPE_NAME column.

  • Map duplicate key and foreign key errors to SQLState of 23000.

  • Backported “change user” and “reset server state” functionality from 3.1 branch, to allow clients of MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource to reset server state on getConnection() on a pooled connection.

C.5.4.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.11 (19 February 2004)

Bugs fixed:

  • Return java.lang.Double for FLOAT type from ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName(). (Bug#2855)

  • Return [B instead of java.lang.Object for BINARY, VARBINARY and LONGVARBINARY types from ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName() (JDBC compliance). (Bug#2855)

  • Issue connection events on all instances created from a ConnectionPoolDataSource. (Bug#2855)

  • Return java.lang.Integer for TINYINT and SMALLINT types from ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName(). (Bug#2852)

  • Added useUnbufferedInput parameter, and now use it by default (due to JVM issue http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4401235.html) (Bug#2578)

  • Fixed failover always going to last host in list. (Bug#2578)

  • Detect on/off or 1, 2, 3 form of lower_case_table_names value on server. (Bug#2578)

  • AutoReconnect time was growing faster than exponentially. (Bug#2447)

  • Trigger a SET NAMES utf8 when encoding is forced to utf8 or utf-8 via the characterEncoding property. Previously, only the Java-style encoding name of utf-8 would trigger this.

C.5.4.8. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.10 (13 January 2004)

Bugs fixed:

  • Enable caching of the parsing stage of prepared statements via the cachePrepStmts, prepStmtCacheSize, and prepStmtCacheSqlLimit properties (disabled by default). (Bug#2006)

  • Fixed security exception when used in Applets (applets can't read the system property file.encoding which is needed for LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE). (Bug#2006)

  • Speed up parsing of PreparedStatements, try to use one-pass whenever possible. (Bug#2006)

  • Fixed exception Unknown character set 'danish' on connect with JDK-1.4.0 (Bug#2006)

  • Fixed mappings in SQLError to report deadlocks with SQLStates of 41000. (Bug#2006)

  • Removed static synchronization bottleneck from instance factory method of SingleByteCharsetConverter. (Bug#2006)

  • Removed static synchronization bottleneck from PreparedStatement.setTimestamp(). (Bug#2006)

  • ResultSet.findColumn() should use first matching column name when there are duplicate column names in SELECT query (JDBC-compliance). (Bug#2006)

  • maxRows property would affect internal statements, so check it for all statement creation internal to the driver, and set to 0 when it is not. (Bug#2006)

  • Use constants for SQLStates. (Bug#2006)

  • Map charset ko18_ru to ko18r when connected to MySQL-4.1.0 or newer. (Bug#2006)

  • Ensure that Buffer.writeString() saves room for the \0. (Bug#2006)

  • ArrayIndexOutOfBounds when parameter number == number of parameters + 1. (Bug#1958)

  • Connection property maxRows not honored. (Bug#1933)

  • Statements being created too many times in DBMD.extractForeignKeyFromCreateTable(). (Bug#1925)

  • Support escape sequence {fn convert ... }. (Bug#1914)

  • Implement ResultSet.updateClob(). (Bug#1913)

  • Autoreconnect code didn't set catalog upon reconnect if it had been changed. (Bug#1913)

  • ResultSet.getObject() on TINYINT and SMALLINT columns should return Java type Integer. (Bug#1913)

  • Added more descriptive error message Server Configuration Denies Access to DataSource, as well as retrieval of message from server. (Bug#1913)

  • ResultSetMetaData.isCaseSensitive() returned wrong value for CHAR/VARCHAR columns. (Bug#1913)

  • Added alwaysClearStream connection property, which causes the driver to always empty any remaining data on the input stream before each query. (Bug#1913)

  • DatabaseMetaData.getSystemFunction() returning bad function VResultsSion. (Bug#1775)

  • Foreign Keys column sequence is not consistent in DatabaseMetaData.getImported/Exported/CrossReference(). (Bug#1731)

  • Fix for ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exception when using Statement.setMaxRows(). (Bug#1695)

  • Subsequent call to ResultSet.updateFoo() causes NPE if result set is not updatable. (Bug#1630)

  • Fix for 4.1.1-style authentication with no password. (Bug#1630)

  • Cross-database updatable result sets are not checked for updatability correctly. (Bug#1592)

  • DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() should return Types.LONGVARCHAR for MySQL LONGTEXT type. (Bug#1592)

  • Fixed regression of Statement.getGeneratedKeys() and REPLACE statements. (Bug#1576)

  • Barge blobs and split packets not being read correctly. (Bug#1576)

  • Backported fix for aliased tables and UpdatableResultSets in checkUpdatability() method from 3.1 branch. (Bug#1534)

  • Friendlier” exception message for PacketTooLargeException. (Bug#1534)

  • Don't count quoted IDs when inside a 'string' in PreparedStatement parsing. (Bug#1511)

C.5.4.9. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.9 (07 October 2003)

Bugs fixed:

  • ResultSet.get/setString mashing char 127. (Bug#1247)

  • Added property to “clobber” streaming results, by setting the clobberStreamingResults property to true (the default is false). This will cause a “streamingResultSet to be automatically closed, and any oustanding data still streaming from the server to be discarded if another query is executed before all the data has been read from the server. (Bug#1247)

  • Added com.mysql.jdbc.util.BaseBugReport to help creation of testcases for bug reports. (Bug#1247)

  • Backported authentication changes for 4.1.1 and newer from 3.1 branch. (Bug#1247)

  • Made databaseName, portNumber, and serverName optional parameters for MysqlDataSourceFactory. (Bug#1246)

  • Optimized CLOB.setChracterStream(). (Bug#1131)

  • Fixed CLOB.truncate(). (Bug#1130)

  • Fixed deadlock issue with Statement.setMaxRows(). (Bug#1099)

  • DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() getting confused about the keyword “set” in character columns. (Bug#1099)

  • Clip +/- INF (to smallest and largest representative values for the type in MySQL) and NaN (to 0) for setDouble/setFloat(), and issue a warning on the statement when the server does not support +/- INF or NaN. (Bug#884)

  • Don't fire connection closed events when closing pooled connections, or on PooledConnection.getConnection() with already open connections. (Bug#884)

  • Double-escaping of '\' when charset is SJIS or GBK and '\' appears in non-escaped input. (Bug#879)

  • When emptying input stream of unused rows for “streaming” result sets, have the current thread yield() every 100 rows in order to not monopolize CPU time. (Bug#879)

  • Issue exception on ResultSet.getXXX() on empty result set (wasn't caught in some cases). (Bug#848)

  • Don't hide messages from exceptions thrown in I/O layers. (Bug#848)

  • Fixed regression in large split-packet handling. (Bug#848)

  • Better diagnostic error messages in exceptions for “streaming” result sets. (Bug#848)

  • Don't change timestamp TZ twice if useTimezone==true. (Bug#774)

  • Don't wrap SQLExceptions in RowDataDynamic. (Bug#688)

  • Don't try and reset isolation level on reconnect if MySQL doesn't support them. (Bug#688)

  • The insertRow in an UpdatableResultSet is now loaded with the default column values when moveToInsertRow() is called. (Bug#688)

  • DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() wasn't returning NULL for default values that are specified as NULL. (Bug#688)

  • Change default statement type/concurrency to TYPE_FORWARD_ONLY and CONCUR_READ_ONLY (spec compliance). (Bug#688)

  • Fix UpdatableResultSet to return values for getXXX() when on insert row. (Bug#675)

  • Support InnoDB contraint names when extracting foreign key information in DatabaseMetaData (implementing ideas from Parwinder Sekhon). (Bug#664, Bug#517)

  • Backported 4.1 protocol changes from 3.1 branch (server-side SQL states, new field information, larger client capability flags, connect-with-database, and so forth). (Bug#664, Bug#517)

  • refreshRow didn't work when primary key values contained values that needed to be escaped (they ended up being doubly escaped). (Bug#661)

  • Fixed ResultSet.previous() behavior to move current position to before result set when on first row of result set. (Bug#496)

  • Fixed Statement and PreparedStatement issuing bogus queries when setMaxRows() had been used and a LIMIT clause was present in the query. (Bug#496)

  • Faster date handling code in ResultSet and PreparedStatement (no longer uses Date methods that synchronize on static calendars).

  • Fixed test for end of buffer in Buffer.readString().

C.5.4.10. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.8 (23 May 2003)

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed SJIS encoding bug, thanks to Naoto Sato. (Bug#378)

  • Fix problem detecting server character set in some cases. (Bug#378)

  • Allow multiple calls to Statement.close(). (Bug#378)

  • Return correct number of generated keys when using REPLACE statements. (Bug#378)

  • Unicode character 0xFFFF in a string would cause the driver to throw an ArrayOutOfBoundsException. . (Bug#378)

  • Fix row data decoding error when using very large packets. (Bug#378)

  • Optimized row data decoding. (Bug#378)

  • Issue exception when operating on an already closed prepared statement. (Bug#378)

  • Optimized usage of EscapeProcessor. (Bug#378)

  • Use JVM charset with filenames and LOAD DATA [LOCAL] INFILE.

  • Fix infinite loop with Connection.cleanup().

  • Changed Ant target compile-core to compile-driver, and made testsuite compilation a separate target.

  • Fixed result set not getting set for Statement.executeUpdate(), which affected getGeneratedKeys() and getUpdateCount() in some cases.

  • Return list of generated keys when using multi-value INSERTS with Statement.getGeneratedKeys().

  • Allow bogus URLs in Driver.getPropertyInfo().

C.5.4.11. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.7 (08 April 2003)

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed charset issues with database metadata (charset was not getting set correctly).

  • You can now toggle profiling on/off using Connection.setProfileSql(boolean).

  • 4.1 Column Metadata fixes.

  • Fixed MysqlPooledConnection.close() calling wrong event type.

  • Fixed StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in PreparedStatement.setClob().

  • IOExceptions during a transaction now cause the Connection to be closed.

  • Remove synchronization from Driver.connect() and Driver.acceptsUrl().

  • Fixed missing conversion for YEAR type in ResultSetMetaData.getColumnTypeName().

  • Updatable ResultSets can now be created for aliased tables/columns when connected to MySQL-4.1 or newer.

  • Fixed LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE bug when file > max_allowed_packet.

  • Don't pick up indexes that start with pri as primary keys for DBMD.getPrimaryKeys().

  • Ensure that packet size from alignPacketSize() does not exceed max_allowed_packet (JVM bug)

  • Don't reset Connection.isReadOnly() when autoReconnecting.

  • Fixed escaping of 0x5c ('\') character for GBK and Big5 charsets.

  • Fixed ResultSet.getTimestamp() when underlying field is of type DATE.

  • Throw SQLExceptions when trying to do operations on a forcefully closed Connection (that is, when a communication link failure occurs).

C.5.4.12. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.6 (18 February 2003)

Bugs fixed:

  • Backported 4.1 charset field info changes from Connector/J 3.1.

  • Fixed Statement.setMaxRows() to stop sending LIMIT type queries when not needed (performance).

  • Fixed DBMD.getTypeInfo() and DBMD.getColumns() returning different value for precision in TEXT and BLOB types.

  • Fixed SQLExceptions getting swallowed on initial connect.

  • Fixed ResultSetMetaData to return "" when catalog not known. Fixes NullPointerExceptions with Sun's CachedRowSet.

  • Allow ignoring of warning for “non transactional tables” during rollback (compliance/usability) by setting ignoreNonTxTables property to true.

  • Clean up Statement query/method mismatch tests (that is, INSERT not allowed with .executeQuery()).

  • Fixed ResultSetMetaData.isWritable() to return correct value.

  • More checks added in ResultSet traversal method to catch when in closed state.

  • Implemented Blob.setBytes(). You still need to pass the resultant Blob back into an updatable ResultSet or PreparedStatement to persist the changes, because MySQL does not support “locators”.

  • Add “window” of different NULL sorting behavior to DBMD.nullsAreSortedAtStart (4.0.2 to 4.0.10, true; otherwise, no).

C.5.4.13. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.5 (22 January 2003)

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed ResultSet.isBeforeFirst() for empty result sets.

  • Added missing LONGTEXT type to DBMD.getColumns().

  • Implemented an empty TypeMap for Connection.getTypeMap() so that some third-party apps work with MySQL (IBM WebSphere 5.0 Connection pool).

  • Added update options for foreign key metadata.

  • Fixed Buffer.fastSkipLenString() causing ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exceptions with some queries when unpacking fields.

  • Quote table names in DatabaseMetaData.getColumns(), getPrimaryKeys(), getIndexInfo(), getBestRowIdentifier().

  • Retrieve TX_ISOLATION from database for Connection.getTransactionIsolation() when the MySQL version supports it, instead of an instance variable.

  • Greatly reduce memory required for setBinaryStream() in PreparedStatements.

C.5.4.14. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.4 (06 January 2003)

Bugs fixed:

  • Streamlined character conversion and byte[] handling in PreparedStatements for setByte().

  • Fixed PreparedStatement.executeBatch() parameter overwriting.

  • Added quoted identifiers to database names for Connection.setCatalog.

  • Added support for 4.0.8-style large packets.

  • Reduce memory footprint of PreparedStatements by sharing outbound packet with MysqlIO.

  • Added strictUpdates property to allow control of amount of checking for “correctness” of updatable result sets. Set this to false if you want faster updatable result sets and you know that you create them from SELECT statements on tables with primary keys and that you have selected all primary keys in your query.

  • Added support for quoted identifiers in PreparedStatement parser.

C.5.4.15. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.3 (17 December 2002)

Bugs fixed:

  • Allow user to alter behavior of Statement/ PreparedStatement.executeBatch() via continueBatchOnError property (defaults to true).

  • More robust escape tokenizer: Recognize -- comments, and allow nested escape sequences (see testsuite.EscapeProcessingTest).

  • Fixed Buffer.isLastDataPacket() for 4.1 and newer servers.

  • NamedPipeSocketFactory now works (only intended for Windows), see README for instructions.

  • Changed charsToByte in SingleByteCharConverter to be non-static.

  • Use non-aliased table/column names and database names to fully qualify tables and columns in UpdatableResultSet (requires MySQL-4.1 or newer).

  • LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE ... now works, if your server is configured to allow it. Can be turned off with the allowLoadLocalInfile property (see the README).

  • Implemented Connection.nativeSQL().

  • Fixed ResultSetMetaData.getColumnTypeName() returning BLOB for TEXT and TEXT for BLOB types.

  • Fixed charset handling in Fields.java.

  • Because of above, implemented ResultSetMetaData.isAutoIncrement() to use Field.isAutoIncrement().

  • Substitute '?' for unknown character conversions in single-byte character sets instead of '\0'.

  • Added CLIENT_LONG_FLAG to be able to get more column flags (isAutoIncrement() being the most important).

  • Honor lower_case_table_names when enabled in the server when doing table name comparisons in DatabaseMetaData methods.

  • DBMD.getImported/ExportedKeys() now handles multiple foreign keys per table.

  • More robust implementation of updatable result sets. Checks that all primary keys of the table have been selected.

  • Some MySQL-4.1 protocol support (extended field info from selects).

  • Check for connection closed in more Connection methods (createStatement, prepareStatement, setTransactionIsolation, setAutoCommit).

  • Fixed ResultSetMetaData.getPrecision() returning incorrect values for some floating-point types.

  • Changed SingleByteCharConverter to use lazy initialization of each converter.

C.5.4.16. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.2 (08 November 2002)

Bugs fixed:

  • Implemented Clob.setString().

  • Added com.mysql.jdbc.MiniAdmin class, which allows you to send shutdown command to MySQL server. This is intended to be used when “embedding” Java and MySQL server together in an end-user application.

  • Added SSL support. See README for information on how to use it.

  • All DBMD result set columns describing schemas now return NULL to be more compliant with the behavior of other JDBC drivers for other database systems (MySQL does not support schemas).

  • Use SHOW CREATE TABLE when possible for determining foreign key information for DatabaseMetaData. Also allows cascade options for DELETE information to be returned.

  • Implemented Clob.setCharacterStream().

  • Failover and autoReconnect work only when the connection is in an autoCommit(false) state, in order to stay transaction-safe.

  • Fixed DBMD.supportsResultSetConcurrency() so that it returns true for ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_INSENSITIVE and ResultSet.CONCUR_READ_ONLY or ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE.

  • Implemented Clob.setAsciiStream().

  • Removed duplicate code from UpdatableResultSet (it can be inherited from ResultSet, the extra code for each method to handle updatability I thought might someday be necessary has not been needed).

  • Fixed UnsupportedEncodingException thrown when “forcing” a character encoding via properties.

  • Fixed incorrect conversion in ResultSet.getLong().

  • Implemented ResultSet.updateBlob().

  • Removed some not-needed temporary object creation by smarter use of Strings in EscapeProcessor, Connection and DatabaseMetaData classes.

  • Escape 0x5c character in strings for the SJIS charset.

  • PreparedStatement now honors stream lengths in setBinary/Ascii/Character Stream() unless you set the connection property useStreamLengthsInPrepStmts to false.

  • Fixed issue with updatable result sets and PreparedStatements not working.

  • Fixed start position off-by-1 error in Clob.getSubString().

  • Added connectTimeout parameter that allows users of JDK-1.4 and newer to specify a maximum time to wait to establish a connection.

  • Fixed various non-ASCII character encoding issues.

  • Fixed ResultSet.isLast() for empty result sets (should return false).

  • Added driver property useHostsInPrivileges. Defaults to true. Affects whether or not @hostname will be used in DBMD.getColumn/TablePrivileges.

  • Fixed ResultSet.setFetchDirection(FETCH_UNKNOWN).

  • Added queriesBeforeRetryMaster property that specifies how many queries to issue when failed over before attempting to reconnect to the master (defaults to 50).

  • Fixed issue when calling Statement.setFetchSize() when using arbitrary values.

  • Properly restore connection properties when autoReconnecting or failing-over, including autoCommit state, and isolation level.

  • Implemented Clob.truncate().

C.5.4.17. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.1 (21 September 2002)

Bugs fixed:

  • Charsets now automatically detected. Optimized code for single-byte character set conversion.

  • Fixed ResultSetMetaData.isSigned() for TINYINT and BIGINT.

  • Fixed RowDataStatic.getAt() off-by-one bug.

  • Fixed ResultSet.getRow() off-by-one bug.

  • Massive code clean-up to follow Java coding conventions (the time had come).

  • Implemented ResultSet.getCharacterStream().

  • Added limited Clob functionality (ResultSet.getClob(), PreparedStatemtent.setClob(), PreparedStatement.setObject(Clob).

  • Connection.isClosed() no longer “pings” the server.

  • Connection.close() issues rollback() when getAutoCommit() is false.

  • Added socketTimeout parameter to URL.

  • Added LOCAL TEMPORARY to table types in DatabaseMetaData.getTableTypes().

  • Added paranoid parameter, which sanitizes error messages by removing “sensitive” information from them (such as hostnames, ports, or usernames), as well as clearing “sensitive” data structures when possible.

C.5.4.18. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 3.0.0 (31 July 2002)

Bugs fixed:

  • General source-code cleanup.

  • The driver now only works with JDK-1.2 or newer.

  • Fix and sort primary key names in DBMetaData (SF bugs 582086 and 582086).

  • ResultSet.getTimestamp() now works for DATE types (SF bug 559134).

  • Float types now reported as java.sql.Types.FLOAT (SF bug 579573).

  • Support for streaming (row-by-row) result sets (see README) Thanks to Doron.

  • Testsuite now uses Junit (which you can get from http://www.junit.org.

  • JDBC Compliance: Passes all tests besides stored procedure tests.

  • ResultSet.getDate/Time/Timestamp now recognizes all forms of invalid values that have been set to all zeros by MySQL (SF bug 586058).

  • Added multi-host failover support (see README).

  • Repackaging: New driver name is com.mysql.jdbc.Driver, old name still works, though (the driver is now provided by MySQL-AB).

  • Support for large packets (new addition to MySQL-4.0 protocol), see README for more information.

  • Better checking for closed connections in Statement and PreparedStatement.

  • Performance improvements in string handling and field metadata creation (lazily instantiated) contributed by Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.

  • JDBC-3.0 functionality including Statement/PreparedStatement.getGeneratedKeys() and ResultSet.getURL().

  • Overall speed improvements via controlling transient object creation in MysqlIO class when reading packets.

  • !!! LICENSE CHANGE !!! The driver is now GPL. If you need non-GPL licenses, please contact me <[email protected]>.

  • Performance enchancements: Driver is now 50–100% faster in most situations, and creates fewer temporary objects.

C.5.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.x

C.5.5.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.14 (16 May 2002)

Bugs fixed:

  • ResultSet.getDouble() now uses code built into JDK to be more precise (but slower).

  • Fixed typo for relaxAutoCommit parameter.

  • LogicalHandle.isClosed() calls through to physical connection.

  • Added SQL profiling (to STDERR). Set profileSql=true in your JDBC URL. See README for more information.

  • PreparedStatement now releases resources on .close(). (SF bug 553268)

  • More code cleanup.

  • Quoted identifiers not used if server version does not support them. Also, if server started with --ansi or --sql-mode=ANSI_QUOTES, “"” will be used as an identifier quote character, otherwise “'” will be used.

C.5.5.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.13 (24 April 2002)

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed unicode chars being read incorrectly. (SF bug 541088)

  • Faster blob escaping for PrepStmt.

  • Added setURL() to MySQLXADataSource. (SF bug 546019)

  • Added set/getPortNumber() to DataSource(s). (SF bug 548167)

  • PreparedStatement.toString() fixed. (SF bug 534026)

  • More code cleanup.

  • Rudimentary version of Statement.getGeneratedKeys() from JDBC-3.0 now implemented (you need to be using JDK-1.4 for this to work, I believe).

  • DBMetaData.getIndexInfo() - bad PAGES fixed. (SF BUG 542201)

  • ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName() now implemented.

C.5.5.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.12 (07 April 2002)

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed testsuite.Traversal afterLast() bug, thanks to Igor Lastric.

  • Added new types to getTypeInfo(), fixed existing types thanks to Al Davis and Kid Kalanon.

  • Fixed time zone off-by-1-hour bug in PreparedStatement (538286, 528785).

  • Added identifier quoting to all DatabaseMetaData methods that need them (should fix 518108).

  • Added support for BIT types (51870) to PreparedStatement.

  • ResultSet.insertRow() should now detect auto_increment fields in most cases and use that value in the new row. This detection will not work in multi-valued keys, however, due to the fact that the MySQL protocol does not return this information.

  • Relaxed synchronization in all classes, should fix 520615 and 520393.

  • DataSources - fixed setUrl bug (511614, 525565), wrong datasource class name (532816, 528767).

  • Added support for YEAR type (533556).

  • Fixes for ResultSet updatability in PreparedStatement.

  • ResultSet: Fixed updatability (values being set to null if not updated).

  • Added getTable/ColumnPrivileges() to DBMD (fixes 484502).

  • Added getIdleFor() method to Connection and MysqlLogicalHandle.

  • ResultSet.refreshRow() implemented.

  • Fixed getRow() bug (527165) in ResultSet.

  • General code cleanup.

C.5.5.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.11 (27 January 2002)

Bugs fixed:

  • Full synchronization of Statement.java.

  • Fixed missing DELETE_RULE value in DBMD.getImported/ExportedKeys() and getCrossReference().

  • More changes to fix Unexpected end of input stream errors when reading BLOB values. This should be the last fix.

C.5.5.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.10 (24 January 2002)

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed null-pointer-exceptions when using MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource with Websphere 4 (bug 505839).

  • Fixed spurious Unexpected end of input stream errors in MysqlIO (bug 507456).

C.5.5.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.9 (13 January 2002)

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed extra memory allocation in MysqlIO.readPacket() (bug 488663).

  • Added detection of network connection being closed when reading packets (thanks to Todd Lizambri).

  • Fixed casting bug in PreparedStatement (bug 488663).

  • DataSource implementations moved to org.gjt.mm.mysql.jdbc2.optional package, and (initial) implementations of PooledConnectionDataSource and XADataSource are in place (thanks to Todd Wolff for the implementation and testing of PooledConnectionDataSource with IBM WebSphere 4).

  • Fixed quoting error with escape processor (bug 486265).

  • Removed concatenation support from driver (the || operator), as older versions of VisualAge seem to be the only thing that use it, and it conflicts with the logical || operator. You will need to start mysqld with the --ansi flag to use the || operator as concatenation (bug 491680).

  • Ant build was corrupting included jar files, fixed (bug 487669).

  • Report batch update support through DatabaseMetaData (bug 495101).

  • Implementation of DatabaseMetaData.getExported/ImportedKeys() and getCrossReference().

  • Fixed off-by-one-hour error in PreparedStatement.setTimestamp() (bug 491577).

  • Full synchronization on methods modifying instance and class-shared references, driver should be entirely thread-safe now (please let me know if you have problems).

C.5.5.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.8 (25 November 2001)

Bugs fixed:

  • XADataSource/ConnectionPoolDataSource code (experimental)

  • DatabaseMetaData.getPrimaryKeys() and getBestRowIdentifier() are now more robust in identifying primary keys (matches regardless of case or abbreviation/full spelling of Primary Key in Key_type column).

  • Batch updates now supported (thanks to some inspiration from Daniel Rall).

  • PreparedStatement.setAnyNumericType() now handles positive exponents correctly (adds + so MySQL can understand it).

C.5.5.8. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.7 (24 October 2001)

Bugs fixed:

  • Character sets read from database if useUnicode=true and characterEncoding is not set. (thanks to Dmitry Vereshchagin)

  • Initial transaction isolation level read from database (if avaialable). (thanks to Dmitry Vereshchagin)

  • Fixed PreparedStatement generating SQL that would end up with syntax errors for some queries.

  • PreparedStatement.setCharacterStream() now implemented

  • Captialize type names when captializeTypeNames=true is passed in URL or properties (for WebObjects. (thanks to Anjo Krank)

  • ResultSet.getBlob() now returns null if column value was null.

  • Fixed ResultSetMetaData.getPrecision() returning one less than actual on newer versions of MySQL.

  • Fixed dangling socket problem when in high availability (autoReconnect=true) mode, and finalizer for Connection will close any dangling sockets on GC.

  • Fixed time zone issue in PreparedStatement.setTimestamp(). (thanks to Erik Olofsson)

  • PreparedStatement.setDouble() now uses full-precision doubles (reverting a fix made earlier to truncate them).

  • Fixed DatabaseMetaData.supportsTransactions(), and supportsTransactionIsolationLevel() and getTypeInfo() SQL_DATETIME_SUB and SQL_DATA_TYPE fields not being readable.

  • Updatable result sets now correctly handle NULL values in fields.

  • PreparedStatement.setBoolean() will use 1/0 for values if your MySQL version is 3.21.23 or higher.

  • Fixed ResultSet.isAfterLast() always returning false.

C.5.5.9. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.6 (16 June 2001)

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed PreparedStatement parameter checking.

  • Fixed case-sensitive column names in ResultSet.java.

C.5.5.10. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.5 (13 June 2001)

Bugs fixed:

  • ResultSet.insertRow() works now, even if not all columns are set (they will be set to NULL).

  • Added Byte to PreparedStatement.setObject().

  • Fixed data parsing of TIMESTAMP values with 2-digit years.

  • Added ISOLATION level support to Connection.setIsolationLevel()

  • DataBaseMetaData.getCrossReference() no longer ArrayIndexOOB.

  • ResultSet.getBoolean() now recognizes -1 as true.

  • ResultSet has +/-Inf/inf support.

  • getObject() on ResultSet correctly does TINYINT->Byte and SMALLINT->Short.

  • Fixed ResultSetMetaData.getColumnTypeName for TEXT/BLOB.

  • Fixed ArrayIndexOutOfBounds when sending large BLOB queries. (Max size packet was not being set)

  • Fixed NPE on PreparedStatement.executeUpdate() when all columns have not been set.

  • Fixed ResultSet.getBlob() ArrayIndex out-of-bounds.

C.5.5.11. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.3 (03 December 2000)

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed composite key problem with updatable result sets.

  • Faster ASCII string operations.

  • Fixed off-by-one error in java.sql.Blob implementation code.

  • Fixed incorrect detection of MAX_ALLOWED_PACKET, so sending large blobs should work now.

  • Added detection of -/+INF for doubles.

  • Added ultraDevHack URL parameter, set to true to allow (broken) Macromedia UltraDev to use the driver.

  • Implemented getBigDecimal() without scale component for JDBC2.

C.5.5.12. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.1 (06 April 2000)

Bugs fixed:

  • Columns that are of type TEXT now return as Strings when you use getObject().

  • Cleaned up exception handling when driver connects.

  • Fixed RSMD.isWritable() returning wrong value. Thanks to Moritz Maass.

  • DatabaseMetaData.getPrimaryKeys() now works correctly with respect to key_seq. Thanks to Brian Slesinsky.

  • Fixed many JDBC-2.0 traversal, positioning bugs, especially with respect to empty result sets. Thanks to Ron Smits, Nick Brook, Cessar Garcia and Carlos Martinez.

  • No escape processing is done on PreparedStatements anymore per JDBC spec.

  • Fixed some issues with updatability support in ResultSet when using multiple primary keys.

C.5.5.13. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.0pre5 (21 February 2000)

  • Fixed Bad Handshake problem.

C.5.5.14. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.0pre4 (10 January 2000)

  • Fixes to ResultSet for insertRow() - Thanks to Cesar Garcia

  • Fix to Driver to recognize JDBC-2.0 by loading a JDBC-2.0 class, instead of relying on JDK version numbers. Thanks to John Baker.

  • Fixed ResultSet to return correct row numbers

  • Statement.getUpdateCount() now returns rows matched, instead of rows actually updated, which is more SQL-92 like.

10-29-99

  • Statement/PreparedStatement.getMoreResults() bug fixed. Thanks to Noel J. Bergman.

  • Added Short as a type to PreparedStatement.setObject(). Thanks to Jeff Crowder

  • Driver now automagically configures maximum/preferred packet sizes by querying server.

  • Autoreconnect code uses fast ping command if server supports it.

  • Fixed various bugs with respect to packet sizing when reading from the server and when alloc'ing to write to the server.

C.5.5.15. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 2.0.0pre (17 August 1999)

  • Now compiles under JDK-1.2. The driver supports both JDK-1.1 and JDK-1.2 at the same time through a core set of classes. The driver will load the appropriate interface classes at runtime by figuring out which JVM version you are using.

  • Fixes for result sets with all nulls in the first row. (Pointed out by Tim Endres)

  • Fixes to column numbers in SQLExceptions in ResultSet (Thanks to Blas Rodriguez Somoza)

  • The database no longer needs to specified to connect. (Thanks to Christian Motschke)

C.5.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.2b (04 July 1999)

  • Better Documentation (in progress), in doc/mm.doc/book1.html

  • DBMD now allows null for a column name pattern (not in spec), which it changes to '%'.

  • DBMD now has correct types/lengths for getXXX().

  • ResultSet.getDate(), getTime(), and getTimestamp() fixes. (contributed by Alan Wilken)

  • EscapeProcessor now handles \{ \} and { or } inside quotes correctly. (thanks to Alik for some ideas on how to fix it)

  • Fixes to properties handling in Connection. (contributed by Juho Tikkala)

  • ResultSet.getObject() now returns null for NULL columns in the table, rather than bombing out. (thanks to Ben Grosman)

  • ResultSet.getObject() now returns Strings for types from MySQL that it doesn't know about. (Suggested by Chris Perdue)

  • Removed DataInput/Output streams, not needed, 1/2 number of method calls per IO operation.

  • Use default character encoding if one is not specified. This is a work-around for broken JVMs, because according to spec, EVERY JVM must support "ISO8859_1", but they don't.

  • Fixed Connection to use the platform character encoding instead of "ISO8859_1" if one isn't explicitly set. This fixes problems people were having loading the character- converter classes that didn't always exist (JVM bug). (thanks to Fritz Elfert for pointing out this problem)

  • Changed MysqlIO to re-use packets where possible to reduce memory usage.

  • Fixed escape-processor bugs pertaining to {} inside quotes.

C.5.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.2.x and lower

C.5.7.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.2a (14 April 1999)

  • Fixed character-set support for non-Javasoft JVMs (thanks to many people for pointing it out)

  • Fixed ResultSet.getBoolean() to recognize 'y' & 'n' as well as '1' & '0' as boolean flags. (thanks to Tim Pizey)

  • Fixed ResultSet.getTimestamp() to give better performance. (thanks to Richard Swift)

  • Fixed getByte() for numeric types. (thanks to Ray Bellis)

  • Fixed DatabaseMetaData.getTypeInfo() for DATE type. (thanks to Paul Johnston)

  • Fixed EscapeProcessor for "fn" calls. (thanks to Piyush Shah at locomotive.org)

  • Fixed EscapeProcessor to not do extraneous work if there are no escape codes. (thanks to Ryan Gustafson)

  • Fixed Driver to parse URLs of the form "jdbc:mysql://host:port" (thanks to Richard Lobb)

C.5.7.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.1i (24 March 1999)

  • Fixed Timestamps for PreparedStatements

  • Fixed null pointer exceptions in RSMD and RS

  • Re-compiled with jikes for valid class files (thanks ms!)

C.5.7.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.1h (08 March 1999)

  • Fixed escape processor to deal with unmatched { and } (thanks to Craig Coles)

  • Fixed escape processor to create more portable (between DATETIME and TIMESTAMP types) representations so that it will work with BETWEEN clauses. (thanks to Craig Longman)

  • MysqlIO.quit() now closes the socket connection. Before, after many failed connections some OS's would run out of file descriptors. (thanks to Michael Brinkman)

  • Fixed NullPointerException in Driver.getPropertyInfo. (thanks to Dave Potts)

  • Fixes to MysqlDefs to allow all *text fields to be retrieved as Strings. (thanks to Chris at Leverage)

  • Fixed setDouble in PreparedStatement for large numbers to avoid sending scientific notation to the database. (thanks to J.S. Ferguson)

  • Fixed getScale() and getPrecision() in RSMD. (contrib'd by James Klicman)

  • Fixed getObject() when field was DECIMAL or NUMERIC (thanks to Bert Hobbs)

  • DBMD.getTables() bombed when passed a null table-name pattern. Fixed. (thanks to Richard Lobb)

  • Added check for "client not authorized" errors during connect. (thanks to Hannes Wallnoefer)

C.5.7.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.1g (19 February 1999)

  • Result set rows are now byte arrays. Blobs and Unicode work bidriectonally now. The useUnicode and encoding options are implemented now.

  • Fixes to PreparedStatement to send binary set by setXXXStream to be sent untouched to the MySQL server.

  • Fixes to getDriverPropertyInfo().

C.5.7.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.1f (31 December 1998)

  • Changed all ResultSet fields to Strings, this should allow Unicode to work, but your JVM must be able to convert between the character sets. This should also make reading data from the server be a bit quicker, because there is now no conversion from StringBuffer to String.

  • Changed PreparedStatement.streamToString() to be more efficient (code from Uwe Schaefer).

  • URL parsing is more robust (throws SQL exceptions on errors rather than NullPointerExceptions)

  • PreparedStatement now can convert Strings to Time/Date values via setObject() (code from Robert Currey).

  • IO no longer hangs in Buffer.readInt(), that bug was introduced in 1.1d when changing to all byte-arrays for result sets. (Pointed out by Samo Login)

C.5.7.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.1b (03 November 1998)

  • Fixes to DatabaseMetaData to allow both IBM VA and J-Builder to work. Let me know how it goes. (thanks to Jac Kersing)

  • Fix to ResultSet.getBoolean() for NULL strings (thanks to Barry Lagerweij)

  • Beginning of code cleanup, and formatting. Getting ready to branch this off to a parallel JDBC-2.0 source tree.

  • Added "final" modifier to critical sections in MysqlIO and Buffer to allow compiler to inline methods for speed.

9-29-98

  • If object references passed to setXXX() in PreparedStatement are null, setNull() is automatically called for you. (Thanks for the suggestion goes to Erik Ostrom)

  • setObject() in PreparedStatement will now attempt to write a serialized representation of the object to the database for objects of Types.OTHER and objects of unknown type.

  • Util now has a static method readObject() which given a ResultSet and a column index will re-instantiate an object serialized in the above manner.

C.5.7.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.1 (02 September 1998)

  • Got rid of "ugly hack" in MysqlIO.nextRow(). Rather than catch an exception, Buffer.isLastDataPacket() was fixed.

  • Connection.getCatalog() and Connection.setCatalog() should work now.

  • Statement.setMaxRows() works, as well as setting by property maxRows. Statement.setMaxRows() overrides maxRows set via properties or url parameters.

  • Automatic re-connection is available. Because it has to "ping" the database before each query, it is turned off by default. To use it, pass in "autoReconnect=true" in the connection URL. You may also change the number of reconnect tries, and the initial timeout value via "maxReconnects=n" (default 3) and "initialTimeout=n" (seconds, default 2) parameters. The timeout is an exponential backoff type of timeout; for example, if you have initial timeout of 2 seconds, and maxReconnects of 3, then the driver will timeout 2 seconds, 4 seconds, then 16 seconds between each re-connection attempt.

C.5.7.8. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 1.0 (24 August 1998)

  • Fixed handling of blob data in Buffer.java

  • Fixed bug with authentication packet being sized too small.

  • The JDBC Driver is now under the LPGL

8-14-98

  • Fixed Buffer.readLenString() to correctly read data for BLOBS.

  • Fixed PreparedStatement.stringToStream to correctly read data for BLOBS.

  • Fixed PreparedStatement.setDate() to not add a day. (above fixes thanks to Vincent Partington)

  • Added URL parameter parsing (?user=... and so forth).

C.5.7.9. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 0.9d (04 August 1998)

  • Big news! New package name. Tim Endres from ICE Engineering is starting a new source tree for GNU GPL'd Java software. He's graciously given me the org.gjt.mm package directory to use, so now the driver is in the org.gjt.mm.mysql package scheme. I'm "legal" now. Look for more information on Tim's project soon.

  • Now using dynamically sized packets to reduce memory usage when sending commands to the DB.

  • Small fixes to getTypeInfo() for parameters, and so forth.

  • DatabaseMetaData is now fully implemented. Let me know if these drivers work with the various IDEs out there. I've heard that they're working with JBuilder right now.

  • Added JavaDoc documentation to the package.

  • Package now available in .zip or .tar.gz.

C.5.7.10. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 0.9 (28 July 1998)

  • Implemented getTypeInfo(). Connection.rollback() now throws an SQLException per the JDBC spec.

  • Added PreparedStatement that supports all JDBC API methods for PreparedStatement including InputStreams. Please check this out and let me know if anything is broken.

  • Fixed a bug in ResultSet that would break some queries that only returned 1 row.

  • Fixed bugs in DatabaseMetaData.getTables(), DatabaseMetaData.getColumns() and DatabaseMetaData.getCatalogs().

  • Added functionality to Statement that allows executeUpdate() to store values for IDs that are automatically generated for AUTO_INCREMENT fields. Basically, after an executeUpdate(), look at the SQLWarnings for warnings like "LAST_INSERTED_ID = 'some number', COMMAND = 'your SQL query'". If you are using AUTO_INCREMENT fields in your tables and are executing a lot of executeUpdate()s on one Statement, be sure to clearWarnings() every so often to save memory.

C.5.7.11. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 0.8 (06 July 1998)

  • Split MysqlIO and Buffer to separate classes. Some ClassLoaders gave an IllegalAccess error for some fields in those two classes. Now mm.mysql works in applets and all classloaders. Thanks to Joe Ennis <[email protected]> for pointing out the problem and working on a fix with me.

C.5.7.12. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 0.7 (01 July 1998)

  • Fixed DatabaseMetadata problems in getColumns() and bug in switch statement in the Field constructor. Thanks to Costin Manolache <[email protected]> for pointing these out.

C.5.7.13. Changes in MySQL Connector/J 0.6 (21 May 1998)

  • Incorporated efficiency changes from Richard Swift <[email protected]> in MysqlIO.java and ResultSet.java:

  • We're now 15% faster than gwe's driver.

  • Started working on DatabaseMetaData.

  • The following methods are implemented:

    • getTables()

    • getTableTypes()

    • getColumns()

    • getCatalogs()

C.6. MySQL Connector/MXJ Change History

C.6.1. Changes in MySQL Connector/MXJ 5.0.6 (04 May 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Updated internal jar file names to include version information and be more consistent with Connector/J jar naming. For example, connector-mxj.jar is now mysql-connector-mxj-${mxj-version}.jar.

  • Updated commercial license files.

  • Added copyright notices to some classes which were missing them.

  • Added InitializeUser and QueryUtil classes to support new feature.

  • Added new tests for initial-user & expanded some existing tests.

  • ConnectorMXJUrlTestExample and ConnectorMXJObjectTestExample now demonstrate the initialization of user/password and creating the initial database (rather than using "test").

  • Added new connection property initialize-user which, if set to true will remove the default, un-passworded anonymous and root users, and create the user/password from the connection url.

  • Removed obsolete field SimpleMysqldDynamicMBean.lastInvocation.

  • Clarified code in DefaultsMap.entrySet().

  • Removed obsolete PatchedStandardSocketFactory java file.

  • Added main(String[]) to com/mysql/management/AllTestsSuite.java.

  • Errors reading portFile are now reported using stacktrace(err), previously System.err was used.

  • portFile now contains a new-line to be consistent with pidFile.

  • Fixed where versionString.trim() was ignored.

  • Removed references to File.deleteOnExit, a warning is printed instead.

Bugs fixed:

  • Changed tests to shutdown mysqld prior to deleting files.

  • Fixed port file to always be writen to datadir.

  • Added os.name-os.arch to resource directory mapping properties file.

  • Swapped out commercial binaries for v5.0.40.

  • Delete portFile on shutdown.

  • Moved platform-map.properties into db-files.jar.

  • Clarified the startup max wait numbers.

  • Updated build.xml in preperation for next beta build.

  • Removed use-default-architecture property replaced.

  • Added null-check to deal with C/MXJ being loaded by the bootstrap classloaders with JVMs for which getClassLoader() returns null.

  • Added robustness around reading portfile.

  • Removed PatchedStandardSocketFactory (fixed in Connetor/J 5.0.6).

  • Refactored duplication from tests and examples to QueryUtil.

  • Removed obsolete InitializePasswordExample

C.6.2. Changes in MySQL Connector/MXJ 5.0.5 (14 March 2007)

Bugs fixed:

  • Moved MysqldFactory to main package.

  • Reformatting: Added newlines some files which did not end in them.

  • Swapped out commercial binaries for v5.0.36.

  • Found and removed dynamic linking in mysql_kill; updated solution.

  • Changed protected constructor of SimpleMysqldDynamicMBean from taking a MysqldResource to taking a MysqldFactory, in order to lay groundwork for addressing BUG discovered by Andrew Rubinger. See: MySQL Forums (Actual testing with JBoss, and filing a bug, is still required.)

  • build.xml: usage now slightly more verbose; some reformatting.

  • Now incoporates Reggie Bernett's SafeTerminateProcess and only calls the unsafe TerminateProcess as a final last resort.

  • New windows kill.exe fixes bug where mysqld was being force terminated. Issue reported by bruno haleblian and others, see: MySQL Forums.

  • Replaced Boolean.parseBoolean with JDK 1.4 compliant valueOf.

  • Changed connector-mxj.properties default mysql version to 5.0.37.

  • In testing so far mysqld reliably shuts down cleanly much faster.

  • Added testcase to com.mysql.management.jmx.AcceptanceTest which demonstrats that dataDir is a mutable MBean property.

  • Updated build.xml in prep for next release.

  • Changed SimpleMysqldDynamicMBean to create MysqldResource on demand in order to allow setting of datadir. (Rubinger bug groundwork).

  • Clarified the synchronization of MysqldResource methods.

  • SIGHUP is replaced with MySQLShutdown<PID> event.

  • Clarified the immutability of baseDir, dataDir, pidFile, portFile.

  • Added 5.1.15 binaries to the repository.

  • Removed 5.1.14 binaries from the repository.

  • Added getDataDir() to interface MysqldResourceI.

  • Added 5.1.14 binaries to repository.

  • Replaced windows kill.exe resource with re-written version specific to mysqld.

  • Added Patched StandardSocketFactory from Connector/J 5-0 HEAD.

  • Ensured 5.1.14 compatibility.

  • Swapped out gpl binaries for v5.0.37.

  • Removed 5.0.22 binaries from the repository.

C.6.3. Changes in MySQL Connector/MXJ 5.0.4 (28 January 2007)

Bugs fixed:

  • Allow multiple calls to start server from URL connection on non-3306 port. (Bug#24004)

  • Updated build.xml to build to handle with different gpl and commercial mysld version numbers.

  • Only populate the options map from the help text if specifically requested or in the MBean case.

  • Introduced property for Linux & WinXX to default to 32bit versions.

  • Swapped out gpl binaries for v5.0.27.

  • Swapped out commercial binaries for v5.0.32.

  • Moved mysqld binary resourced into separate jar file NOTICE: CLASSPATH will now need to connector-mxj-db-files.jar.

  • Minor test robustness improvements.

  • Moved default version string out of java class into a text editable properties file (connector-mxj.properties) in the resources directory.

  • Fixed test to be tollerant of /tmp being a symlink to /foo/tmp.

C.6.4. Changes in MySQL Connector/MXJ 5.0.3 (24 June 2006)

Bugs fixed:

  • Removed unused imports, formatted code, made minor edits to tests.

  • Removed "TeeOutputStream" - no longer needed.

  • Swapped out the mysqld binaries for MySQL v5.0.22.

C.6.5. Changes in MySQL Connector/MXJ 5.0.2 (15 June 2006)

Bugs fixed:

  • Replaced string parsing with JDBC connection attempt for determining if a mysqld is "ready for connections" CLASSPATH will now need to include Connector/J jar.

  • "platform" directories replace spaces with underscores

  • extracted array and list printing to ListToString utility class

  • Swapped out the mysqld binaries for MySQL v5.0.21

  • Added trace level logging with Aspect/J. CLASSPATH will now need to include lib/aspectjrt.jar

  • reformatted code

  • altered to be "basedir" rather than "port" oriented.

  • help parsing test reflects current help options

  • insulated users from problems with "." in basedir

  • swapped out the mysqld binaries for MySQL v5.0.18

  • Made tests more robust be deleting the /tmp/test-c.mxj directory before running tests.

  • ServerLauncherSocketFactory.shutdown API change: now takes File parameter (basedir) instead of port.

  • socket is now "mysql.sock" in datadir

  • added ability to specify "mysql-version" as an url parameter

  • Extended timeout for help string parsing, to avoid cases where the help text was getting prematurely flushed, and thus truncated.

  • swapped out the mysqld binaries for MySQL v5.0.19

  • MysqldResource now tied to dataDir as well as basedir (API CHANGE)

  • moved PID file into datadir

  • ServerLauncherSocketFactory.shutdown now works across JVMs.

  • extracted splitLines(String) to Str utility class

  • ServerLauncherSocketFactory.shutdown(port) no longer throws, only reports to System.err

  • ServerLauncherSocketFactory now treats URL parameters in the form of &server.foo=null as serverOptionMap.put("foo", null)

  • ServerLauncherSocketFactory.shutdown API change: now takes 2 File parameters (basedir, datadir)

C.6.6. Changes in MySQL Connector/MXJ 5.0.1 (Never released)

This was an internal only release.

C.6.7. Changes in MySQL Connector/MXJ 5.0.0 (09 December 2005)

Bugs fixed:

  • Removed HelpOptionsParser's need to reference a MysqldResource.

  • Reorganized utils into a single "Utils" collaborator.

  • Minor test tweaks

  • Altered examples and tests to use new Connector/J 5.0 URL syntax for for launching Connector/MXJ ("jdbc:mysql:mxj://")

  • Swapped out the mysqld binaries for MySQL v5.0.16.

  • Ditched "ClassUtil" (merged with Str).

  • Minor refactorings for type casting and exception handling.

C.7. MySQL Proxy Change History

C.7.1. Changes in MySQL Proxy 0.6.0 (Not yet released)

Functionality added or changed:

  • When using read/write splitting and the rw-splitting.lua example script, connecting a second user to the proxy returns an error message. (Bug#30867)

  • Added support in read_query_result() to overwrite the result-set.

  • Added --no-daemon and --pid-file.

  • Added hooks for read_auth(), read_handshake() and read_auth_result().

  • Added handling of proxy.connection.backend_ndx in connect_server() and read_query() to support read/write splitting.

  • Added support for proxy.response.packets.

  • Added testcases.

  • Added --no-proxy to disable the proxy.

  • Added support for listening UNIX sockets.

  • Added a global lua-scope proxy.global.*.

  • Added connection pooling.

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed assertion on COM_BINLOG_DUMP. (Bug#29764)

  • Fixed assertion on result-packets like [ field-len | fields | EOF | ERR ]. (Bug#29732)

  • Fixed assertion at login with empty password + empty default db. (Bug#29719)

  • Fixed assertion at COM_SHUTDOWN. (Bug#29719)

  • Fixed crash if proxy.connection is used in connect_server().

  • Fixed check for glib2 to require at least 2.6.0.

  • Fixed assertion when all backends are down and we try to connect.

  • Fixed connection-stalling if read_query_result() throws an assert()ion.

  • Fixed len-encoding on proxy.resulsets.

  • Fixed compilation on win32.

  • Fixed assertion when connecting to the MySQL 6.0.1.

  • Fixed decoding of len-encoded ints for 3-byte notation.

  • Fixed inj.resultset.affected_rows on SELECT queries.

  • Fixed handling of (SQL) NULL in result-sets.

  • Fixed mem-leak with proxy.response.* is used.

C.7.2. Changes in MySQL Proxy 0.5.1 (30 June 2007)

Functionality added or changed:

  • Added resultset.affected_rows and resultset.insert_id.

  • Changed --proxy.profiling to --proxy-skip-profiling.

  • Added missing dependency to libmysqlclient-dev to the INSTALL file.

  • Added inj.query_time and inj.response_time into the lua scripts.

  • Added support for pre-4.1 passwords in a 4.1 connection.

  • Added script examples for rewriting and injection.

  • Added proxy.VERSION.

  • Added support for UNIX sockets.

  • Added protection against duplicate resultsets from a script.

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed mysql check in configure to die when mysql.h isn't detected.

  • Fixed handling of duplicate ERR on COM_CHANGE_USER in MySQL 5.1.18+.

  • Fixed compile error with MySQL 4.1.x on missing COM_STMT_*.

  • Fixed crash on fields > 250 bytes when the resultset is inspected.

  • Fixed warning if connect_server() is not provided.

  • Fixed assertion when a error occurs at initial script exec time.

  • Fixed assertion when read_query_result() is not provided when PROXY_SEND_QUERY is used.

C.7.3. Changes in MySQL Proxy 0.5.0 (19 June 2007)

This is the first beta release.

Bugs fixed:

  • Added automake/autoconf support.

  • Added cmake support.