This release includes InnoDB Plugin 1.0.6. This version is considered of Release Candidate (RC) quality.

This release includes InnoDB Plugin 1.0.6. This version is considered of Release Candidate (RC) quality.

Replication: Introduced the --binlog-direct-non-transactional-updates server option. This option causes updates using the statement-based logging format to tables using non-transactional engines to be written directly to the binary log, rather than to the transaction cache.

Before using this option, be certain that you have no dependencies between transactional and non-transactional tables. A statement that both selects from an InnoDB table and inserts into a MyISAM table is an example of such a dependency. For more information, see Section 16.1.3.4, “Binary Log Options and Variables”. (Bug#46364)

See also Bug#28976, Bug#40116.

Partitioning: When an ALTER TABLE ... REORGANIZE PARTITION statement on an InnoDB table failed due to innodb_lock_wait_timeout expiring while waiting for a lock, InnoDB did not clean up any temporary files or tables which it had created. Attempting to reissue the ALTER TABLE statement following the timeout could lead to storage engine errors, or possibly a crash of the server. (Bug#47343)

Replication: In some cases, inserting into a table with many columns could cause the binary log to become corrupted. (Bug#50018)

See also Bug#42749.

Replication: When using row-based replication, setting a BIT or CHAR column of a MyISAM table to NULL, then trying to delete from the table, caused the slave to fail with the error Can't find record in table. (Bug#49481, Bug#49482)

Replication: When logging in row-based mode, DDL statements are actually logged as statements; however, statements that affected temporary tables and followed DDL statements failed to reset the binary log format to ROW, with the result that these statements were logged using the statement-based format. Now the state of binlog_format is restored after a DDL statement has been written to the binary log. (Bug#49132)

Replication: When using row-based logging, the statement CREATE TABLE t IF NOT EXIST ... SELECT was logged as CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE t IF NOT EXIST ... SELECT when t already existed as a temporary table. This was caused by the fact that the temporary table was opened and the results of the SELECT were inserted into it when a temporary table existed and had the same name.

Now, when this statement is executed, t is created as a base table, the results of the SELECT are inserted into it — even if there already exists a temporary table having the same name — and the statement is logged correctly. (Bug#47418)

See also Bug#47442.

Replication: Due to a change in the size of event representations in the binary log, when replicating from a MySQL 4.1 master to a slave running MySQL 5.0.60 or later, the START SLAVE UNTIL statement did not function correctly, stopping at the wrong position in the log. Now the slave detects that the master is using the older version of the binary log format, and corrects for the difference in event size, so that the slave stops in the correct position. (Bug#47142)

The SSL certificates in the test suite were about to expire. They have been updated with expiration dates in the year 2015. (Bug#50642)

The printstack function does not exist ong Solaris 8 or earlier, which would lead to a compilation failure. (Bug#50409)

A user could see tables in INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES without appropriate privileges for them. (Bug#50276)

Debug output for join structures was garbled. (Bug#50271)

The filesort sorting method applied to a CHAR(0) column could lead to a server crash. (Bug#49897)

sql_buffer_result had an effect on non-SELECT statements, contrary to the documentation. (Bug#49552)

In some cases a subquery need not be evaluated because it returns only aggregate values that can be calculated from table metadata. This sometimes was not handled by the enclosing subquery, resulting in a server crash. (Bug#49512)

The method for comparing INFORMATION_SCHEMA names and database names was nonoptimal and an improvement was made: When the database name length is already known, a length check is made first and content comparison skipped if the lengths are unequal. (Bug#49501)

The MD5() and SHA1() functions had excessive overhead for short strings. (Bug#49491)

Mixing full-text searches and row expressions caused a crash. (Bug#49445)

Creating or dropping a table with 1023 transactions active caused an assertion failure. (Bug#49238)

mysql-test-run.pl now recognizes the MTR_TESTCASE_TIMEOUT, MTR_SUITE_TIMEOUT, MTR_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT, and MTR_START_TIMEOUT environment variables. If they are set, their values are used to set the --testcase-timeout, --suite-timeout, --shutdown-timeout, and --start-timeout options, respectively. (Bug#49210)

This release includes InnoDB Plugin 1.0.6. This version is considered of Release Candidate (RC) quality.

Partitioning: The UNIX_TIMESTAMP() function is now supported in partitioning expressions using TIMESTAMP columns. For example, it now possible to create a partitioned table such as this one:

CREATE TABLE t (c TIMESTAMP) 
PARTITION BY RANGE ( UNIX_TIMESTAMP(c) ) (
    PARTITION p0 VALUES LESS THAN (631148400),
    PARTITION p1 VALUES LESS THAN (946681200),
    PARTITION p2 VALUES LESS THAN (MAXVALUE)
);

All other expressions involving TIMESTAMP values are now rejected with an error when attempting to create a new partitioned table or to alter an existing partitioned table.

When accessing an existing partitioned table having a timezone-dependent partitioning function (where the table was using a previous version of MySQL), a warning rather than an error is issued. In such cases, you should fix the table. One way of doing this is to alter the table's partitioning expression so that it uses UNIX_TIMESTAMP(). (Bug#42849)

Security Fix: For servers built with yaSSL, a preauthorization buffer overflow could cause memory corruption or a server crash. We thank Evgeny Legerov from Intevydis for providing us with a proof-of-concept script that allowed us to reproduce this bug. (Bug#50227, CVE-2009-4484)

Important Change: Replication: The RAND() function is now marked as unsafe for statement-based replication. Using this function now generates a warning when binlog_format=STATEMENT and causes the the format to switch to row-based logging when binlog_format=MIXED.

This change is being introduced because, when RAND() was logged in statement mode, the seed was also written to the binary log, so the replication slave generated the same sequence of random numbers as was generated on the master. While this could make replication work in some cases, the order of affected rows was still not guaranteed when this function was used in statements that could update multiple rows, such as UPDATE or INSERT ... SELECT; if the master and the slave retrieved rows in different order, they began to diverge. (Bug#49222)

Partitioning: When used on partitioned tables, the records_in_range handler call checked all partitions, rather than the unpruned partitions only. (Bug#48846)

See also Bug#37252, Bug#47261.

Partitioning: A query that searched on a ucs2 column failed if the table was partitioned. (Bug#48737)

Replication: A LOAD DATA INFILE statement that loaded data into a table having a column name that had to be escaped (such as `key` INT) caused replication to fail when logging in mixed or statement mode. In such cases, the master wrote the LOAD DATA event into the binary log without escaping the column names. (Bug#49479)

See also Bug#47927.

Replication: Spatial data types caused row-based replication to crash. (Bug#48776)

Replication: A flaw in the implementation of the purging of binary logs could result in orphaned files being left behind in the following circumstances:

In addition, if the slave was not connected during the purge operation, it was possible for a log file that was in use to be removed; this could lead data loss and possible inconsistencies between the master and slave. (Bug#45292)

Replication: When using the STATEMENT or MIXED logging format, the statements LOAD DATA CONCURRENT LOCAL INFILE and LOAD DATA CONCURRENT INFILE were logged as LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE and LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE, respectively (in other words, the CONCURRENT keyword was omitted). As a result, when using replication with either of these logging modes, queries on the slaves were blocked by the replication SQL thread while trying to execute the affected statements. (Bug#34628)

Replication: Manually removing entries from the binary log index file on a replication master could cause the server to repeatedly send the same binary log file to slaves. (Bug#28421)

Cluster Replication: When expire_logs_days was set, the thread performing the purge of the log files could deadlock, causing all binary log operations to stop. (Bug#49536)

Within a stored routine, selecting the result of CONCAT_WS() with a routine parameter argument into a user variable could return incorrect results. (Bug#50096)

The IBMDB2I storage engine was missing from the i5os 64-bit distribution of MySQL 5.1.42. It is now included again. (Bug#50059)

EXPLAIN EXTENDED UNION ... ORDER BY caused a crash when the ORDER BY referred to a nonconstant or full-text function or a subquery. (Bug#49734)

The push_warning_printf() function was being called with an invalid error level MYSQL_ERROR::WARN_LEVEL_ERROR, causing an assertion failure. To fix the problem, MYSQL_ERROR::WARN_LEVEL_ERROR has been replaced by MYSQL_ERROR::WARN_LEVEL_WARN. (Bug#49638)

Some prepared statements could raise an assertion when re-executed. (Bug#49570)

A Valgrind error in make_cond_for_table_from_pred() was corrected. Thanks to Sergey Petrunya for the patch to fix this bug. (Bug#49506)

When compiling on Windows, an error in the CMake definitions for InnoDB would cause the engine to be built incorrectly. (Bug#49502)

Valgrind warnings for CHECKSUM TABLE were corrected. (Bug#49465)

Specifying an index algorithm (such as BTREE) for SPATIAL or FULLTEXT indexes caused a server crash. These index types do not support algorithm specification, and it is now disallowed to do so. (Bug#49250)

The optimizer sometimes incorrectly handled conditions of the form WHERE col_name='const1' AND col_name='const2'. (Bug#49199)

Execution of DECODE() and ENCODE() could be inefficient because multiple executions within a single statement reinitialized the random generator multiple times even with constant parameters. (Bug#49141)

MySQL 5.1 does not support 2-byte collation numbers, but did not check the number and crashed for out-of-range values. (Bug#49134)

With binary logging enabled, REVOKE ... ON {PROCEDURE|FUNCTION} FROM ... could cause a crash. (Bug#49119)

The LIKE operator did not work correctly when using an index for a ucs2 column. (Bug#49028)

check_key_in_view() was missing a DBUG_RETURN in one code branch, causing a crash in debug builds. (Bug#48995)

Several strmake() calls had an incorrect length argument (too large by one). (Bug#48983)

On Fedora 12, strmov() did not guarantee correct operation for overlapping source and destination buffer. Calls were fixed to use an overlap-safe version instead. (Bug#48866)

Incomplete reset of internal TABLE structures could cause a crash with eq_ref table access in subqueries. (Bug#48709)

Re-execution of a prepared statement could cause a server crash. (Bug#48508)

The error message for ER_UPDATE_INFO was subject to buffer overflow or truncation. (Bug#48500)

SHOW BINLOG EVENTS could fail with a error: Wrong offset or I/O error. (Bug#48357)

Valgrind warnings related to binary logging of LOAD DATA INFILE statements were corrected. (Bug#48340)

An aliasing violation in the C API could lead to a crash. (Bug#48284)

With one thread waiting for a lock on a table, if another thread dropped the table and created a new table with the same name and structure, the first thread would not notice that the table had been re-created and would try to used cached metadata that belonged to the old table but had been freed. (Bug#48157)

The InnoDB Monitor could fail to print diagnostic information after a long lock wait. (Bug#47814)

Queries containing GROUP BY ... WITH ROLLUP that did not use indexes could return incorrect results. (Bug#47650)

If an invocation of a stored procedure failed in the table-open stage, subsequent invocations that did not fail in that stage could cause a crash. (Bug#47649)

On Solaris, no stack trace was printed to the error log after a crash. (Bug#47391)

A crash occurred when a user variable that was assigned to a subquery result was used as a result field in a SELECT statement with aggregate functions. (Bug#47371)

The first execution of STOP SLAVE UNTIL stopped too early. (Bug#47210)

When the mysql client was invoked with the --vertical option, it ignored the --skip-column-names option. (Bug#47147)

It was possible for init_available_charsets() not to initialize correctly. (Bug#45058)

Comparison with NULL values sometimes did not produce a correct result. (Bug#42760)

Crash recovery did not work for InnoDB temporary tables. (Bug#41609)

The mysql_upgrade command would create three additional fields to the mysql.proc table (character_set_client, collation_connection, and db_collation), but did not populate the fields with correct values. This would lead to error messages reported during stored procedure execution. (Bug#41569)

When compressed MyISAM files were opened, they were always memory mapped, sometimes causing memory-swapping problems. To deal with this, a new system variable, myisam_mmap_size, was added to limit the amount of memory used for memory mapping of MyISAM files. (Bug#37408)

A race condition on the privilege hash tables allowed one thread to try to delete elements that had already been deleted by another thread. A consequence was that SET PASSWORD or FLUSH PRIVILEGES could cause a crash. (Bug#35589, Bug#35591)

ALTER TABLE with both DROP COLUMN and ADD COLUMN clauses could crash or lock up the server. (Bug#31145)

InnoDB Plugin has been upgraded to version 1.0.6. This version is considered of Release Candidate (RC) quality. The InnoDB Plugin Change History may contain information in addition to those changes reported here.

MySQL Server 5.1 is available on the following new platforms starting with the 5.1.42 release:

Performance: When the query cache is fragmented, the size of the free block lists in the memory bins grows, which causes query cache invalidation to become slow. There is now a 50ms timeout for a SELECT statement waiting for the query cache lock. If the timeout expires, the statement executes without using the query cache. (Bug#39253)

See also Bug#21074.

Important Change: Replication: The following functions have been marked unsafe for statement-based replication:

None of the functions just listed are guaranteed to replicate correctly when using the statement-based format, because they can produce different results on the master and the slave. The use of any of these functions while binlog_format is set to STATEMENT is logged with the warning, Statement is not safe to log in statement format. When binlog_format is set to MIXED, the binary logging format is automatically switched to the row-based format whenever one of these functions is used. (Bug#47995)

Partitioning: In some cases, it was not possible to add a new column to a table that had subpartitions. (Bug#48276)

Partitioning: SELECT COUNT(*) from a partitioned table failed when using the ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY SQL mode. (Bug#46923)

This regression was introduced by Bug#45807.

Partitioning: SUBPARTITION BY KEY failed with DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8. (Bug#45904)

Replication: When using row-based logging, TRUNCATE TABLE was written to the binary log even if the affected table was temporary, causing replication to fail. (Bug#48350)

Replication: Replicating TEXT or VARCHAR columns declared as NULL on the master but NOT NULL on the slave caused the slave to crash. (Bug#43789)

See also Bug#38850, Bug#43783, Bug#43785, Bug#47741, Bug#48091.

Replication: When using row-based format, replication failed with the error Could not execute Write_rows event on table ...; Field '...' doesn't have a default value when an INSERT was made on the master without specifying a value for a column having no default, even if strict server SQL mode was not in use and the statement would otherwise have succeeded on the master. Now the SQL mode is checked, and the statement is replicated unless strict mode is in effect. For more information, see Section 5.1.8, “Server SQL Modes”. (Bug#38173)

See also Bug#38262, Bug#43992.

The result of comparison between nullable BIGINT and INT columns was inconsistent. (Bug#49517)

Incorrect cache initialization prevented storage of converted constant values and could produce incorrect comparison results. (Bug#49489)

Comparisons involving YEAR values could produce incorrect results. (Bug#49480)

See also Bug#43668.

InnoDB did not reset table AUTO_INCREMENT values to the last used values after a server restart. (Bug#49032)

If a query involving a table was terminated with KILL, a subsequent SHOW CREATE TABLE for that table caused a server crash. (Bug#48985)

Privileges for stored routines were ignored for mixed-case routine names. (Bug#48872)

See also Bug#41049.

Building MySQL on Fedora Core 12 64-bit would due to errors in comp_err. (Bug#48864)

Concurrent ALTER TABLE operations on an InnoDB table could raise an assertion. (Bug#48782)

Certain INTERVAL expressions could cause a crash on 64-bit systems. (Bug#48739)

During query execution, ranges could be merged incorrectly for OR operations and return an incorrect result. (Bug#48665)

The InnoDB Table Monitor reported the FLOAT and DOUBLE data types incorrectly. (Bug#48526)

With row-based binary logging, the server crashed for statements of the form CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS existing_view LIKE temporary_table. This occurred because the server handled the existing view as a table when logging the statement. (Bug#48506)

DISTINCT was ignored for queries with GROUP BY WITH ROLLUP and only const tables. (Bug#48475)

Loose index scan was inappropriately chosen for some WHERE conditions. (Bug#48472)

If the InnoDB tablespace was configured with too small a value, the server could crash and corrupt the tablespace. (Bug#48469)

Parts of the range optimizer could be initialized incorrectly, resulting in Valgrind errors. (Bug#48459)

A bad typecast could cause query execution to allocate large amounts of memory. (Bug#48458)

On Windows, InnoDB could not be built as a statically linked library. (Bug#48317)

mysql_secure_installation did not work on Solaris. (Bug#48086)

When running mysql_secure_installation, the command would fail if the root password contained multiple spaces, \, # or quote characters. (Bug#48031)

MATCH IN BOOLEAN MODE searches could return too many results inside a subquery. (Bug#47930)

Using REPLACE to update a previously inserted negative value in an AUTO_INCREMENT coumn in an InnoDB table caused the table auto-increment value to be updated to 2147483647. (Bug#47720)

If a session held a global read lock acquired with FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK, a lock for one table acquired with LOCK TABLES, and issued an INSERT DELAYED statement for another table, deadlock could occur. (Bug#47682)

The mysql client status command displayed an incorrect value for the server character set. (Bug#47671)

Connecting to a 4.1.x server from a 5.1.x or higher mysql client resulted in a memory-free error when disconnecting. (Bug#47655)

Assignment of a system variable sharing the same base name as a declared stored program variable in the same context could lead to a crash. (Bug#47627)

mysqladmin debug could crash on 64-bit systems. (Bug#47382)

The innodb_file_format_check system variable could not be set at runtime to DEFAULT or to the value of a user-defined variable. (Bug#47167)

After a binary upgrade to MySQL 5.1 from a MySQL 5.0 installation that contains ARCHIVE tables, accessing those tables caused the server to crash, even if you had run mysql_upgrade or CHECK TABLE ... FOR UPGRADE.

To work around this problem, use mysqldump to dump all ARCHIVE tables before upgrading, and reload them into MySQL 5.1 after upgrading. The same problem occurs for binary downgrades from MySQL 5.1 to 5.0. (Bug#47012)

The Mac OS X MySQL Preference Pane component was not built for 64-bit, which would trigger the System Preferences application to restart into 32-bit mode. (Bug#46935)

The IGNORE clause on a DELETE statement masked an SQL statement error that occurred during trigger processing. (Bug#46425)

On 64-bit systems, --skip-innodb did not skip InnoDB startup. (Bug#46043)

Valgrind errors for InnoDB Plugin were corrected. (Bug#45992, Bug#46656)

The return value was not checked for some my_hash_insert() calls. (Bug#45613)

Truncation of DECIMAL values could lead to assertion failures; for example, when deducing the type of a table column from a literal DECIMAL value. (Bug#45261)

See also Bug#48370.

For YEAR(2) values, MIN(), MAX(), and comparisons could yield incorrect results. (Bug#43668)

The server could crash when attempting to access a non-conformant mysql.proc system table. For example, the server could crash when invoking stored procedure-related statements after an upgrade from MySQL 5.0 to 5.1 without running mysql_upgrade. (Bug#41726)

Use of InnoDB monitoring (SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS or one of the InnoDB Monitor tables) could cause a server crash due to invalid access to a shared variable in a concurrent environment. This is a further fix for a regression introduced in MySQL 5.1.38 to the original fix in MySQL 5.1.31. (Bug#38883)

When running mysql_secure_installation on Windows, the command would fail to load a required module, Term::ReadKey, which was required for correct operation. (Bug#35106)

If the --log-bin server option was set to a directory name with a trailing component separator character, the basename of the binary log files was empty so that the created files were named .000001 and .index. The same thing occurred with the --log-bin-index, --relay-log, and --relay-log-index options. Now the server reports and error and exits. (Bug#34739)

If a comparison involved a constant value that required type conversion, the converted value might not be cached, resulting in repeated conversion and poorer performance. (Bug#34384)

Using the SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS statement when using partitions in InnoDB tables caused Invalid (old?) table or database name errors to be logged. (Bug#32430)

On some Windows systems, InnoDB could report Operating system error number 995 in a file operation due to transient driver or hardware problems. InnoDB now retries the operation and adds Retry attempt is made to the error message. (Bug#3139)

InnoDB Plugin has been upgraded to version 1.0.5. This version is considered of Release Candidate (RC) quality. The InnoDB Plugin Change History may contain information in addition to those changes reported here.

The InnoDB buffer pool is divided into two sublists: A new sublist containing blocks that are heavily used by queries, and an old sublist containing less-used blocks and from which candidates for eviction are taken. In the default operation of the buffer pool, a block when read in is loaded at the midpoint and then moved immediately to the head of the new sublist as soon as an access occurs. In the case of a table scan (such as performed for a mysqldump operation), each block read by the scan ends up moving to the head of the new sublist because multiple rows are accessed from each block. This occurs even for a one-time scan, where the blocks are not otherwise used by other queries. Blocks may also be loaded by the read-ahead background thread and then moved to the head of the new sublist by a single access. These effects can be disadvantageous because they push blocks that are in heavy use by other queries out of the new sublist to the old sublist where they become subject to eviction.

InnoDB Plugin now provides two system variables that enable LRU algorithm tuning:

For additional information, see Section 7.4.6, “The InnoDB Buffer Pool”. (Bug#45015)

For InnoDB Plugin, two status variables have been added to SHOW STATUS output. Innodb_buffer_pool_read_ahead and Innodb_buffer_pool_read_ahead_evicted indicate the number of pages read in by the InnoDB read-ahead background thread, and the number of such pages evicted without ever being accessed, respectively. Also, the status variables Innodb_buffer_pool_read_ahead_rnd and Innodb_buffer_pool_read_ahead_seq status variables have been removed.

The built-in version of InnoDB is not affected by these changes. (Bug#42885)

The server now supports a Debug Sync facility for thread synchronization during testing and debugging. To compile in this facility, configure MySQL with the --enable-debug-sync option. The debug_sync system variable provides the user interface Debug Sync. mysqld and mysql-test-run.pl support a --debug-sync-timeout option to enable the facility and set the default synchronization point timeout.

Important Change: Security Fix: Additional corrections were made for the symlink-related privilege problem originally addressed in MySQL 5.1.24. The original fix did not correctly handle the data directory path name if it contained symlinked directories in its path, and the check was made only at table-creation time, not at table-opening time later. (Bug#32167, CVE-2008-2079)

See also Bug#39277.

Security Fix: MySQL clients linked against OpenSSL can be tricked not to check server certificates. (Bug#47320, CVE-2009-4028)

Partitioning: An ALTER TABLE ... ADD PARTITION statement that caused open_files_limit to be exceeded led to a crash of the MySQL server. (Bug#46922)

See also Bug#47343.

Partitioning: The cardinality of indexes on partitioned tables was calculated using the first partition in the table, which could result in suboptimal query execution plans being chosen. Now the partition having the most records is used instead, which should result in better use of indexes and thus improved performance of queries against partitioned tables in many if not most cases. (Bug#44059)

Replication: This issue occurred in MySQL 5.1.40 only. (Bug#48297)

Replication: When a session was closed on the master, temporary tables belonging to that session were logged with the wrong database names when either of the following conditions was true:

(Bug#48216)

See also Bug#46861, Bug#48297.

Replication: When using row-based replication, changes to non-transactional tables that occurred early in a transaction were not immediately flushed upon committing a statement. This behavior could break consistency since changes made to non-transactional tables become immediately visible to other connections. (Bug#47678)

See also Bug#47287, Bug#46864, Bug#43929, Bug#46129.

Replication: When mysqlbinlog --verbose was used to read a binary log that had been recorded using the row-based format, the output for events that updated some but not all columns of tables was not correct. (Bug#47323)

Replication: When using the row-based format to replicate a transaction involving both transactional and non-transactional engines, which contained a DML statement affecting multiple rows, the statement failed; if this transaction was followed by a COMMIT, the master and the slave could diverge, because the statement was correctly rolled back on the master, but was applied on the slave. (Bug#47287)

See also Bug#46864.

Replication: A problem with the BINLOG statement in the output of mysqlbinlog could break replication; statements could be logged with the server ID stored within events by the BINLOG statement rather than the ID of the running server. With this fix, the server ID of the server executing the statements can no longer be overridden by the server ID stored in the binary log's format description statement. (Bug#46640)

This regression was introduced by Bug#32407.

Replication: When using statement-based replication and the transaction isolation level was set to READ COMMITTED or a less strict level, InnoDB returned an error even if the statement in question was filtered out according to the --binlog-do-db or --binlog-ignore-db rules in effect at the time. (Bug#42829)

Replication: FLUSH LOGS did not actually close and reopen the binary log index file. (Bug#34582)

See also Bug#5.0.90.

SUM() artificially increased the precision of a DECIMAL argument, which was truncated when a temporary table was created to hold the results. (Bug#48370)

See also Bug#45261.

If an outer query was invalid, a subquery might not even be set up. EXPLAIN EXTENDED did not expect this and caused a crash by trying to dereference improperly set up information. (Bug#48295)

A query containing a view using temporary tables and multiple tables in the FROM clause and PROCEDURE ANALYSE() caused a server crash.

As a result of this bug fix, PROCEDURE ANALYSE() is legal only in a top-level SELECT. (Bug#48293)

See also Bug#46184.

Error handling was missing for SELECT statements containing subqueries in the WHERE clause and that assigned a SELECT result to a user variable. The server could crash as a result. (Bug#48291)

An assertion could fail if the optimizer used a SPATIAL index. (Bug#48258, Bug#47019)

Memory-allocation failures were handled incorrectly in the InnoDB os_mem_alloc_large() function. (Bug#48237)

WHERE clauses with outer_value_list NOT IN subquery were handled incorrectly if the outer value list contained multiple items at least one of which could be NULL. (Bug#48177)

A combination of GROUP BY WITH ROLLUP, DISTINCT and the const join type in a query caused a server crash when the optimizer chose to employ a temporary table to resolve DISTINCT. (Bug#48131)

In some cases, using a null microsecond part in a WHERE condition (for example, WHERE date_time_field <= 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.0000') could lead to incorrect results due to improper DATETIME comparison. (Bug#47963)

A build configured using the --without-server option did not compile the yaSSL code, so if --with-ssl was also used, the build failed. (Bug#47957)

When a query used a DATE or DATETIME value formatted using any separator characters other than hyphen ('-') and a >= condition matching only the greatest value in an indexed column, the result was empty if an index range scan was employed. (Bug#47925)

mysys/mf_keycache.c requires threading, but no test was made for thread support. (Bug#47923)

For debug builds, an assertion could fail during the next statement executed for a temporary table after a multiple-table UPDATE involving that table and modified an AUTO_INCREMENT column with a user-supplied value. (Bug#47919)

The mysys/mf_strip.c file, which defines the strip_sp() function, has been removed from the MySQL source. The function was no longer used within the main build, and the supplied function was causing symbol errors on Windows builds. (Bug#47857)

The Windows build for MySQL would compile the split.c and debug.c files unnecessarily, causing additional symbols to be included in mysqld. (Bug#47850)

When building storage engines on Windows it was not possible to specify additional libraries within the CMake file required for the build. An ${engine}_LIBS macro has been added to the files to support these additional storage-engine specific libraries. (Bug#47797)

When building a pluggable storage engine on Windows, the engine name could be based on the directory name where the engine was located, rather than the configured storage engine name. (Bug#47795)

During cleanup of a stored procedure's internal structures, the flag to ignore the errors for INSERT IGNORE or UPDATE IGNORE was not cleaned up, which could result in a server crash. (Bug#47788)

If the first argument to GeomFromWKB() function was a geometry value, the function just returned its value. However, it failed to preserve the argument's null_value flag, which caused an unexpected NULL value to be returned to the caller, resulting in a server crash. (Bug#47780)

InnoDB could crash when updating spatial values. (Bug#47777)

On WIndows, when an idle named pipe connection was forcibly closed with a KILL statement or because the server was being shut down, the thread that was closing the connection would hang infinitely. (Bug#47571, Bug#31621)

A function call could end without throwing an error or setting the return value. For example, this could happen when an error occurred while calculating the return value. This is fixed by setting the value to NULL when an error occurs during evaluation of an expression. (Bug#47412)

A simple SELECT with implicit grouping could return many rows rather than a single row if the query was ordered by the aggregated column in the select list. (Bug#47280)

An assertion could be raised for CREATE TABLE if there was a pending INSERT DELAYED or REPLACE DELAYED for the same table. (Bug#47274)

InnoDB raised errors in some cases in a manner not compatible with SIGNAL and RESIGNAL. (Bug#47233)

If an InnoDB table was created with the AUTO_INCREMENT table option to specify an initial auto-increment value, and an index was added in a separate operation later, the auto-increment value was lost (subsequent inserts began at 1 rather than the specified value). (Bug#47125)

Incorrect handling of predicates involving NULL by the range optimizer could lead to an infinite loop during query execution. (Bug#47123)

Repair by sort or parallel repair of MyISAM tables could fail to fail over to repair with key cache. (Bug#47073)

InnoDB Plugin did not compile on some Solaris systems. (Bug#47058)

On WIndows, when a failed I/O operation occurred with return code of ERROR_WORKING_SET_QUOTA, InnoDB intentionally crashed the server. Now InnoDB sleeps for 100ms and retries the failed operation. (Bug#47055)

InnoDB now ignores negative values supplied by a user for an AUTO_INCREMENT column when calculating the next value to store in the data dictionary. Setting AUTO_INCREMENT columns to negative values is undefined behavior and this change should bring the behavior of InnoDB closer to what users expect. (Bug#46965)

When MySQL crashed (or a snapshot was taken that simulates a crash), it was possible that internal XA transactions (used to synchronize the binary log and InnoDB) could be left in a PREPARED state, whereas they should be rolled back. This occurred when the server_id value changed before the restart, because that value was used to construct XID values.

Now the restriction is relaxed that the server_id value be consistent for XID values to be considered valid. The rollback phase should then be able to clean up all pending XA transactions. (Bug#46944)

InnoDB Plugin did not compile using gcc 4.1 on PPC systems. (Bug#46718)

If InnoDB Plugin 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#46672)

See also Bug#18828.

A Valgrind error during index creation by InnoDB Plugin was corrected. (Bug#46657)

Concurrent INSERT INTO ... SELECT statements for an InnoDB table could cause an AUTO_INCREMENT assertion failure. (Bug#46650)

If a transaction was rolled back inside InnoDB due to a deadlock or lock wait timeout, and a statement in the transaction had an IGNORE clause, the server could crash at the end of the statement or on shutdown. (Bug#46539)

Trailing spaces were not ignored for user-defined collations that mapped spaces to a character other than 0x20. (Bug#46448)

See also Bug#29468.

The GPL and commercial license headers had different sizes, so that error log, backtrace, core dump, and cluster trace file line numbers could be off by one if they were not checked against the version of the source used for the build. (For example, checking a GPL build backtrace against commercial sources.) (Bug#46216)

InnoDB did not disallow creation of an index with the name GEN_CLUST_INDEX, which is used internally. (Bug#46000)

During the build of the Red Hat IA64 MySQL server RPM, the system library link order was incorrect. This made the resulting Red Hat IA64 RPM depend on "libc.so.6.1(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit)", thus preventing installation of the package. (Bug#45706)

The caseinfo member of the CHARSET_INFO structure was not initialized for user-defined Unicode collations, leading to a server crash. (Bug#45645)

With InnoDB Plugin, renaming a table column and then creating an index on the renamed column caused a server crash to the .frm file and the InnoDB data directory going out of sync. Now InnoDB Plugin 1.0.5 returns an error instead: ERROR 1034 (HY000): Incorrect key file for table 'tbl_name'; try to repair it. To work around the problem, create another table with the same structure and copy the original table to it. (Bug#44571)

An InnoDB error message incorrectly referred to the nonexistent innodb_max_files_open variable rather than to innodb_open_files. (Bug#44338)

For ALTER TABLE, renaming a DATETIME or TIMESTAMP column unnecessarily caused a table copy operation. (Bug#43508)

The weekday names for the Romanian lc_time_names locale 'ro_RO' were incorrect. Thanks to Andrei Boros for the patch to fix this bug. (Bug#43207)

XA START could cause an assertion failure or server crash when it is called after a unilateral rollback issued by the Resource Manager (both in a regular transaction and after an XA transaction). (Bug#43171)

The FORCE INDEX FOR ORDER BY index hint was ignored when join buffering was used. (Bug#43029)

Incorrect handling of range predicates combined with OR operators could yield incorrect results. (Bug#42846)

Failure to treat BIT values as unsigned could lead to unpredictable results. (Bug#42803)

For the embedded server on Windows, InnoDB crashed when innodb_file_per_table was enabled and a table name was in full path format. (Bug#42383)

Some queries with nested outer joins could lead to crashes or incorrect results because an internal data structure was handled improperly. (Bug#42116)

In a replication scenario with innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog enabled on the slave, where rows were changed only on the slave (not through replication), in some rare cases, many messages of the following form were written to the slave error log: InnoDB: Error: unlock row could not find a 4 mode lock on the record. (Bug#41756)

After renaming a user, granting that user privileges could result in the user having additional privileges other than those granted. (Bug#41597)

With a nonstandard InnoDB page size, some error messages became inaccurate.

(Bug#41490)

In some cases, the server did not recognize lettercase differences between GRANT attributes such as table name or user name. For example, a user was able to perform operations on a table with privileges of another user with the same user name but in a different lettercase.

In consequence of this bug fix, the collation for the Routine_name column of the mysql.proc table is changed from utf8_bin to utf8_general_ci. (Bug#41049)

See also Bug#48872.

Simultaneous ANALYZE TABLE operations for an InnoDB tables could be subject to a race condition. (Bug#38996)

Previously, InnoDB performed REPLACE INTO T SELECT ... FROM S WHERE ... by setting shared next-key locks on rows from S. Now InnoDB selects rows from S with shared locks or as a consistent read, as for INSERT ... SELECT. This reduces lock contention between sessions. (Bug#37232)

When an InnoDB tablespace filled up, an error was logged to the client, but not to the error log. Also, the error message was misleading and did not indicate the real source of the problem. (Bug#31183)

In mysql, using Control-C to kill the current query resulted in a ERROR 1053 (08S01): Server shutdown in progress" message if the query was waiting for a lock. (Bug#28141)

Replication: When using statement-based or mixed-format replication, the database name was not written to the binary log when executing a LOAD DATA statement. This caused problems when the table being loaded belonged to a database other than the current database; data could be loaded into the wrong table (if a table having the same name existed in the current database) or replication could fail (if no table having that name existed in the current database). Now a table referenced in a LOAD DATA statement is always logged using its fully qualified name when the database to which it belongs is not the current database. (Bug#48297)

Replication: When a session was closed on the master, temporary tables belonging to that session were logged with the wrong database names when either of the following conditions was true:

(Bug#48216)

See also Bug#46861, Bug#48297.

SUM() artificially increased the precision of a DECIMAL argument, which was truncated when a temporary table was created to hold the results. (Bug#48370)

See also Bug#45261.

If an outer query was invalid, a subquery might not even be set up. EXPLAIN EXTENDED did not expect this and caused a crash by trying to dereference improperly set up information. (Bug#48295)

A query containing a view using temporary tables and multiple tables in the FROM clause and PROCEDURE ANALYSE() caused a server crash.

As a result of this bug fix, PROCEDURE ANALYSE() is legal only in a top-level SELECT. (Bug#48293)

See also Bug#46184.

Error handling was missing for SELECT statements containing subqueries in the WHERE clause and that assigned a SELECT result to a user variable. The server could crash as a result. (Bug#48291)

An assertion could fail if the optimizer used a SPATIAL index. (Bug#48258, Bug#47019)

A combination of GROUP BY WITH ROLLUP, DISTINCT and the const join type in a query caused a server crash when the optimizer chose to employ a temporary table to resolve DISTINCT. (Bug#48131)

In some cases, using a null microsecond part in a WHERE condition (for example, WHERE date_time_field <= 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.0000') could lead to incorrect results due to improper DATETIME comparison. (Bug#47963)

When a query used a DATE or DATETIME value formatted using any separator characters other than hyphen ('-') and a >= condition matching only the greatest value in an indexed column, the result was empty if an index range scan was employed. (Bug#47925)

During cleanup of a stored procedure's internal structures, the flag to ignore the errors for INSERT IGNORE or UPDATE IGNORE was not cleaned up, which could result in a server crash. (Bug#47788)

If the first argument to GeomFromWKB() function was a geometry value, the function just returned its value. However, it failed to preserve the argument's null_value flag, which caused an unexpected NULL value to be returned to the caller, resulting in a server crash. (Bug#47780)

InnoDB could crash when updating spatial values. (Bug#47777)

Incorrect handling of predicates involving NULL by the range optimizer could lead to an infinite loop during query execution. (Bug#47123)

InnoDB now ignores negative values supplied by a user for an AUTO_INCREMENT column when calculating the next value to store in the data dictionary. Setting AUTO_INCREMENT columns to negative values is undefined behavior and this change should bring the behavior of InnoDB closer to what users expect. (Bug#46965)

In a replication scenario with innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog enabled on the slave, where rows were changed only on the slave (not through replication), in some rare cases, many messages of the following form were written to the slave error log: InnoDB: Error: unlock row could not find a 4 mode lock on the record. (Bug#41756)

In this release, the InnoDB Plugin is included in source and binary distributions, except RHEL3, RHEL4, SuSE 9 (x86, x86_64, ia64), and generic Linux RPM packages. It also does not work for FreeBSD 6 and HP-UX or for Linux on S/390, PowerPC, and generic ia64.

Incompatible Change: In binary installations of MySQL, the supplied binary-configure script would start and configure MySQL, even when command help was requested with the --help command-line option. The --help, if provided, will no longer start and install the server. (Bug#30954)

Partitioning: When reorganizing partitions, not all affected subpartitions were removed prior to renaming. One way in which the issue was visible was that attempting to reorganize two partitions into a single partition having the same name as one of the original partitions could lead to a crash of the server. (Bug#47029)

See also Bug#45961, Bug#43729.

Partitioning: An online or fast ALTER TABLE of a partitioned table could leave behind temporary files in the database directory.

This issue was observed in MySQL 5.1.31 and later only. (Bug#46483)

Partitioning: When performing an INSERT ... SELECT into a partitioned table, read_buffer_size bytes of memory were allocated for every partition in the target table, resulting in consumption of large amounts of memory when the table had many partitions (more than 100).

This fix changes the method used to estimate the buffer size required for each partition and limits the total buffer size to a maximum of approximately 10 times read_buffer_size. (Bug#45840)

Partitioning: Inserting negative values into an AUTO_INCREMENT column of a partitioned table could lead to apparently unrelated errors or a crash of the server. (Bug#45823)

Partitioning: Unnecessary calls were made in the server code for performing bulk inserts on partitions for which no inserts needed to be made. (Bug#35845)

See also Bug#35843.

Replication: Performing ALTER TABLE ... DISABLE KEYS on a slave table caused row-based replication to fail. (Bug#47312)

Replication: BEGIN statements were not included in the output of mysqlbinlog. (Bug#46998)

Replication: When using row-based replication, DROP TEMPORARY TABLE IF EXISTS was written to the binary log if the table named in the statement did not exist, even though a DROP TEMPORARY TABLE statement should never be logged in row-based logging mode, whether the table exists or not. (Bug#46572)

Replication: When using row-based replication, importing a dump made with mysqldump and replicating a row with an AUTO_INCREMENT column set to 0, with NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO active on the master, the row was inserted successfully on the master; however any setting for NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO was ignored on the slave. When the AUTO_INCREMENT column was incremented, this caused replication to fail on the slave due to a duplicate key error. In some cases it could also cause the slave to crash. (Bug#45999)

Replication: Concurrent transactions that inserted rows into a table with an AUTO_INCREMENT column could break statement-based or mixed-format replication error 1062 Duplicate entry '...' for key 'PRIMARY' on the slave. This was especially likely to happen when one of the transactions activated a trigger that inserted rows into the table with the AUTO_INCREMENT column, although other conditions could also cause the issue to manifest. (Bug#45677)

Replication: By default, all statements executed by the mysql_upgrade program on the master are written to the binary log, then replicated to the slave. In some cases, this can result in problems; for example, it attempted to alter log tables on replicated databases (this failed due to logging being enabled).

As part of this fix, a mysql_upgrade option, --write-binlog, is added. Its inverse, --skip-write-binlog, can be used to disable binary logging while the upgrade is in progress. (Bug#43579)

Replication: On the master, if a binary log event is larger than max_allowed_packet, the error message ER_MASTER_FATAL_ERROR_READING_BINLOG is sent to a slave when it requests a dump from the master, thus leading the I/O thread to stop. On a slave, the I/O thread stops when receiving a packet larger than max_allowed_packet.

In both cases, however, there was no Last_IO_Error reported, which made it difficult to determine why the slave had stopped in such cases. Now, Last_IO_Error is reported when max_allowed_packet is exceeded, and provides the reason for which the slave I/O thread stopped. (Bug#42914)

See also Bug#14068, Bug#47200, Bug#47303.

API: The fix for Bug#24507 could lead in some cases to client application failures due to a race condition. Now the server waits for the “dummy” thread to return before exiting, thus making sure that only one thread can initialize the POSIX threads library. (Bug#42850)

The pthread_cond_wait() implementations for Windows could deadlock in some rare circumstances. (Bug#47768)

On Mac OS X or Windows, sending a SIGHUP signal to the server or an asynchronous flush (triggered by flush_time) caused the server to crash. (Bug#47525)

Debug builds could not be compiled with the Sun Studio compiler. (Bug#47474)

A multiple-table UPDATE involving a natural join and a mergeable view raised an assertion. (Bug#47150)

Solaris binary packages now are compiled with -g0 rather than -g. (Bug#47137)

EXPLAIN caused a server crash for certain valid queries. (Bug#47106)

The configure option --without-server did not work. (Bug#46980)

The ARCHIVE storage engine lost records during a bulk insert. (Bug#46961)

Failed multiple-table DELETE statements could raise an assertion. (Bug#46958)

When creating a new instance on Windows using mysqld-nt and the --install parameter, the value of the service would be set incorrectly, resulting in a failure to start the configured service. (Bug#46917)

CONCAT_WS() could return incorrect results due to an argument buffer also being used as a result buffer. (Bug#46815)

The server crashed when re-using outer column references in correlated subqueries when the enclosing query used a temp table. (Bug#46791)

For InnoDB tables, an unnecessary table rebuild for ALTER TABLE could sometimes occur for metadata-only changes. (Bug#46760)

Assertion failure could result from repeated execution of a stored procedure containing an incorrect query with a subselect. (Bug#46629)

The server ignored the setting of sync_frm for CREATE TABLE ... LIKE. (Bug#46591)

An attempt to create a table with the same name as an existing view could cause a server crash. (Bug#46384)

A parser problem prevented properly stripping backquotes from an argument to a user-defined function (UDF). If the UDF was in an ORDER BY clause, its name would not be properly resolved against an alias with the same name in the select list. (Bug#46259)

Dropping an InnoDB table that used an unknown collation (created on a different server, for example) caused a server crash. (Bug#46256)

Certain SELECT statements containing DISTINCT, GROUP BY, and HAVING clauses could hang in an infinite loop. (Bug#46159)

InnoDB did not disallow creation of an index with the name GEN_CLUST_INDEX, which is used internally. (Bug#46000)

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE failed for InnoDB tables on systems with case-insensitive file systems when lower_case_table_names = 2 and the pathname of the temporary file directory contained uppercase characters. (Bug#45638)

Appending values to an ENUM or SET definition is a metadata change for which ALTER TABLE need not rebuild the table, but it was being rebuilt anyway. (Bug#45567)

The socket system variable was unavailable on Windows. (Bug#45498)

When re-installing MySQL on Windows on a server that has a data directory from a previous MySQL installation, the installer would fail to identify the existence of the installation and the password configured for the root user. (Bug#45200)

Client flags were incorrectly initialized for the embedded server, causing several tests in the jp test suite to fail. (Bug#45159)

InnoDB did not always disallow creating tables containing columns with names that match the names of internal columns, such as DB_ROW_ID, DB_TRX_ID, DB_ROLL_PTR, and DB_MIX_ID. (Bug#44369)

SELECT ... WHERE ... IN (NULL, ...) was executed using a full table scan, even if the same query without the NULL used an efficient range scan. (Bug#44139)

See also Bug#18360.

InnoDB use of SELECT MAX(autoinc_column) could cause a crash when MySQL data dictionaries went out of sync. (Bug#44030)

LOAD DATA INFILE statements were written to the binary log in such a way that parsing problems could occur when re-executing the statement from the log. (Bug#43746)

Selecting from the process list in the embedded server caused a crash. (Bug#43733)

See also Bug#47304.

Attempts to enable large_pages with a shared memory segment larger than 4GB caused a server crash. (Bug#43606)

A test for stack growth failed on some platforms, leading to server crashes. (Bug#42213)

The server used the wrong lock type (always TL_READ instead of TL_READ_NO_INSERT when appropriate) for tables used in subqueries of UPDATE statements. This led in some cases to replication failure because statements were written in the wrong order to the binary log. (Bug#42108)

The mysql-stress-test.pl test script was missing from the noinstall packages on Windows. (Bug#41546)

Privileges for SHOW CREATE VIEW were not being checked correctly. (Bug#35996)

Different invocations of CHECKSUM TABLE could return different results for a table containing columns with spatial data types. (Bug#35570)

Concurrent execution of FLUSH TABLES along with SHOW FUNCTION STATUS or SHOW PROCEDURE STATUS could cause a server crash. (Bug#34895)

myisamchk performed parameter value casting at startup that generated unnecessary warning messages. (Bug#33785)

When using the ARCHIVE storage engine, SHOW TABLE STATUS displayed incorrect information for Max_data_length, Data_length and Avg_row_length. (Bug#29203)

When building MySQL on Windows from source, the WITH_BERKELEY_STORAGE_ENGINE option would fail to configure BDB support correctly. (Bug#27693)

Performance: For MyISAM tables with bulk_insert_buffer_size values larger than 256KB, the performance of bulk insert operations such as multiple-row INSERT and INSERT ... SELECT operations has been improved greatly when up to a hundred rows are inserted at the same time. (Bug#44723)

Partitioning: An INSERT ... SELECT statement on an empty partition of a partitioned table failed with ERROR 1030 (HY000): Got error 124 from storage engine. This issue also caused queries run against a partitioned table while a LOAD DATA CONCURRENT INFILE statement was in progress to fail with the same error. (Bug#46639)

See also Bug#35845, Bug#44657, Bug#45840.

Partitioning: A partitioned table having a TIMESTAMP column with a default value of CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and this column was not defined using an ON UPDATE option, an ALTER TABLE ... REORGANIZE PARTITION statement on the table caused the TIMESTAMP column value to be set to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP regardless. (Bug#46478)

Partitioning: Partition pruning did not always work correctly when the table's partitioning key used the TO_DAYS() function. (Bug#46362)

Partitioning: Attempting to access a partitioned table when partitioning support was disabled in a MySQL server binary that had been compiled with partitioning support caused the server to crash. (Bug#39893)

Partitioning: The use of TO_DAYS() in the partitioning expression led to selection failures when the column having the date value contained invalid dates. This occurred because the function returns NULL in such cases, and the partition containing NULL values was pruned away. For example, this problem occurred if '2001-02-00' was inserted into a DATE column of such a table, and a subsequent query on this table used WHERE date_col < '2001-02-00' — while '2001-01-01' is less than '2001-02-00', TO_DAYS('2001-02-00') evaluates as NULL, and so the row containing '2001-01-01' was not returned. Now, for tables using RANGE or LIST partitioning and having TO_DAYS() in the partitioning expression, the NULL partition is also scanned instead of being ignored.

The fix for this issue also corrects misbehavior such that a query of the form SELECT * FROM table WHERE date_col < date_val on a table partitioned by RANGE or LIST was handled as though the server SQL mode included ALLOW_INVALID_DATES even if this was not actually part of the server SQL mode at the time the query was issued. (Bug#20577)

See also Bug#18198, Bug#32021, Bug#46362.

Replication: Performing a multi-row update of the AUTO_INCREMENT column of a transactional table could result in an inconsistency between master and slave when there was a trigger on the transactional table that updated a non-transactional table. When such an update failed on the master, no rows were updated on the master, but some rows could (erroneously) be updated on the slave. (Bug#46864)

Replication: When using the --replicate-rewrite-db option and the database referenced by this option on the master was the current database when the connection to the slave was closed, any temporary tables existing in this database were not properly dropped. (Bug#46861)

Replication: When a statement that changed both transactional and non-transactional tables failed, the transactional changes were automatically rolled back on the master but the slave ignored the error and did not roll them back, thus leading to inconsistencies between master and slave.

This issue is fixed by automatically rolling back a statement that fails on the slave; however, the transaction is not rolled back unless a corresponding ROLLBACK statement is found in the relay log file. (Bug#46130)

See also Bug#33864.

Replication: When slave_transaction_retries is set, a statement that replicates, but is then rolled back due to a deadlock on the slave, should be retried. However, in certain cases, replication was stopped with error 1213 (Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction) instead, even when this variable was set. (Bug#45694)

Replication: The binary logging behavior (and thus, the replication behavior) of CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS, CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS, and CREATE EVENT IF NOT EXISTS was not consistent among these statements, nor with that of DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS, DROP TABLE IF EXISTS, and DROP EVENT IF EXISTS: A DROP ... IF EXISTS statement is always logged even if the database object named in the statement does not exist. However, of the CREATE ... IF NOT EXISTS statements, only the CREATE EVENT IF NOT EXISTS statement was logged when the database object named in the statement already existed.

Now, every CREATE ... IF NOT EXISTS statement is written to the binary log (and thus replicated), whether the database object named in the statement exists or not. For more information, see Section 16.3.1.3, “Replication of CREATE ... IF NOT EXISTS Statements”.

Exception.  Replication and logging of CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ... SELECT continues to be handled according to existing rules. See Section 16.3.1.4, “Replication of CREATE TABLE ... SELECT Statements”, for more information.

(Bug#45574)

Replication: When using statement-based replication, database-level character sets were not always honored by the replication SQL thread. This could cause data inserted on the master using LOAD DATA to be replicated using the wrong character set.

(Bug#45516)

Replication: In some cases, a STOP SLAVE statement could cause the replication slave to crash. This issue was specific to MySQL on Windows or Macintosh platforms. (Bug#45238, Bug#45242, Bug#45243, Bug#46013, Bug#46014, Bug#46030)

See also Bug#40796.

Replication: Creating a scheduled event whose DEFINER clause was either set to CURRENT_USER or not set explicitly caused the master and the slave to become inconsistent. This issue stems from the fact that, in both cases, the DEFINER is set to the CURRENT_USER of the current thread. (On the master, the CURRENT_USER is the mysqld user; on the slave, the CURRENT_USER is empty.)

This behavior has been modified as follows:

(Bug#44331)

See also Bug#42217.

Replication: When using the statement-based logging format, the only possible safe combination of transactional and non-transactional statements within the same transaction is to perform any updates on non-transactional tables (such as MyISAM tables) first, before updating any transactional tables (such as those using the InnoDB storage engine). This is due to the fact that, although a modification made to a non-transactional table is immediately visible to other connections, the update is not immediately written to the binary log, which can lead to inconsistencies between master and slave. (Other combinations may hide a causal dependency, thus making it impossible to write statements updating non-transactional tables to the binary log in the correct order.)

However, in some cases, this situation was not handled properly, and the determination whether a given statement was safe or not under these conditions was not always correct. In particular, a multi-table update that affected both transactional and non-transactional tables or a statement modifying data in a non-transactional table having a trigger that operated on a transactional table (or the reverse) was not determined to be unsafe when it should have been.

With this fix, the following determinations regarding replication safety are made when combining updates to transactional and non-transactional tables within the same transaction in statement-based logging mode:

(Bug#28976)

Stack overflow checking did not account for the size of the structure stored in the heap. (Bug#46807)

The server could crash for queries with the following elements: 1. An “impossible where” in the outermost SELECT; 2. An aggregate in the outermost SELECT; 3. A correlated subquery with a WHERE clause that includes an outer field reference as a top-level WHERE sargable predicate; (Bug#46749)

CREATE TABLE ... SELECT could cause assertion failure if a table already existed with the same name and contained an AUTO_INCREMENT column. (Bug#46616)

SHOW CREATE TRIGGER for a MERGE table trigger caused an assertion failure. (Bug#46614)

In queries for which the loose index scan access method was chosen, using a condition of the form col_name rather than the equivalent col_name <> 0 caused an assertion failure. (Bug#46607)

TRUNCATE TABLE for a table that was opened with HANDLER did not close the handler and left it in an inconsistent state that could lead to a server crash. Now TRUNCATE TABLE for a table closes all open handlers for the table. (Bug#46456)

A query containing a subquery in the FROM clause and PROCEDURE ANALYSE() caused a server crash. (Bug#46184)

See also Bug#48293.

Killing a query that was performing a sort could result in a memory leak. (Bug#45962)

Truncation of DECIMAL values could lead to assertion failures; for example, when deducing the type of a table column from a literal DECIMAL value. (Bug#45261)

See also Bug#48370.

A buffer overflow could occur during handling of IS NULL ranges. (Bug#37044)

mysqladmin --wait ping crashed on Windows systems. (Bug#35132)

Installation of MySQL on Windows would fail to set the correct location for the character set files, which could lead to mysqld and mysql failing to initialize properly. (Bug#17270)

As of MySQL 5.1.38, the InnoDB Plugin is included in MySQL 5.1 releases, in addition to the built-in version of InnoDB that has been included in previous releases. The version of the InnoDB Plugin in this release is 1.0.4 and is considered of Beta quality.

The InnoDB Plugin offers new features, improved performance and scalability, enhanced reliability and new capabilities for flexibility and ease of use. Among the features of the InnoDB Plugin are “Fast index creation,” table and index compression, file format management, new INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables, capacity tuning, multiple background I/O threads, and group commit.

For information about these features, see the InnoDB Plugin Manual at http://www.innodb.com/products/innodb_plugin/plugin-documentation. For general information about using InnoDB in MySQL, see Section 13.6, “The InnoDB Storage Engine”.

The InnoDB Plugin is included in source and binary distributions, except RHEL3, RHEL4, SuSE 9 (x86, x86_64, ia64), and generic Linux RPM packages.

To use the InnoDB Plugin, you must disable the built-in version of InnoDB that is also included and instruct the server to use InnoDB Plugin instead. To accomplish this, use the following lines in your my.cnf file:

[mysqld]
ignore-builtin-innodb
plugin-load=innodb=ha_innodb_plugin.so

For the plugin-load option, innodb is the name to associate with the plugin and ha_innodb_plugin.so is the name of the shared object library that contains the plugin code. The extension of .so applies for Unix (and similar) systems. For HP-UX on HPPA (11.11) or Windows, the extension should be .sl or .dll, respectively, rather than .so.

If the server has problems finding the plugin when it starts up, specify the pathname to the plugin directory. For example, if plugins are located in the lib/mysql/plugin directory under the MySQL installation directory and you have installed MySQL at /usr/local/mysql, use these lines in your my.cnf file:

[mysqld]
ignore-builtin-innodb
plugin-load=innodb=ha_innodb_plugin.so
plugin_dir=/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/plugin

The previous examples show how to activate the storage engine part of InnoDB Plugin, but the plugin also implements several InnoDB-related INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables. (For information about these tables, see http://www.innodb.com/doc/innodb_plugin-1.0/innodb-information-schema.html.) To enable these tables, include additional name=library pairs in the value of the plugin-load option:

[mysqld]
ignore-builtin-innodb
plugin-load=innodb=ha_innodb_plugin.so
  ;innodb_trx=ha_innodb_plugin.so
  ;innodb_locks=ha_innodb_plugin.so
  ;innodb_lock_waits=ha_innodb_plugin.so
  ;innodb_cmp=ha_innodb_plugin.so
  ;innodb_cmp_reset=ha_innodb_plugin.so
  ;innodb_cmpmem=ha_innodb_plugin.so
  ;innodb_cmpmem_reset=ha_innodb_plugin.so

The plugin-load option value as shown here is formatted on multiple lines for display purposes but should be written in my.cnf using a single line without spaces in the option value. On Windows, substitute .dll for each instance of the .so extension.

After the server starts, verify that InnoDB Plugin has been loaded by using the SHOW PLUGINS statement. For example, if you have loaded the storage engine and the INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables, the output should include lines similar to these:

mysql> SHOW PLUGINS;
+---------------------+--------+--------------------+---------------------...
| Name                | Status | Type               | Library             ...
+---------------------+--------+--------------------+---------------------...
...
| InnoDB              | ACTIVE | STORAGE ENGINE     | ha_innodb_plugin.so ...
| INNODB_TRX          | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | ha_innodb_plugin.so ...
| INNODB_LOCKS        | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | ha_innodb_plugin.so ...
| INNODB_LOCK_WAITS   | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | ha_innodb_plugin.so ...
| INNODB_CMP          | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | ha_innodb_plugin.so ...
| INNODB_CMP_RESET    | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | ha_innodb_plugin.so ...
| INNODB_CMPMEM       | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | ha_innodb_plugin.so ...
| INNODB_CMPMEM_RESET | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | ha_innodb_plugin.so ...
+---------------------+--------+--------------------+---------------------...

An alternative to using the plugin-load option at server startup is to use the INSTALL PLUGIN statement at runtime. First start the server with the ignore-builtin-innodb option to disable the built-in version of InnoDB:

[mysqld]
ignore-builtin-innodb

Then issue an INSTALL PLUGIN statement for each plugin that you want to load:

mysql> INSTALL PLUGIN InnoDB SONAME 'ha_innodb_plugin.so';
mysql> INSTALL PLUGIN INNODB_TRX SONAME 'ha_innodb_plugin.so';
mysql> INSTALL PLUGIN INNODB_LOCKS SONAME 'ha_innodb_plugin.so';
...

INSTALL PLUGIN need be issued only once for each plugin. Installed plugins will be loaded automatically on subsequent server restarts.

If you build MySQL from a source distribution, InnoDB Plugin is one of the storage engines that is built by default. Build MySQL the way you normally do; for example, by using the instructions at Section 2.3, “MySQL Installation Using a Source Distribution”. After the build completes, you should find the plugin shared object file under the storage/innodb_plugin directory, and make install should install it in the plugin directory. Configure MySQL to use InnoDB Plugin as described earlier for binary distributions.

If you use gcc, InnoDB Plugin cannot be compiled with gcc 3.x; you must use gcc 4.x instead.

Replication: With statement-based logging (SBL), repeatedly calling statements that are unsafe for SBL caused a warning message to be written to the error log for each statement, and there was no way to disable this behavior. Now the server logs messages about statements that are unsafe for statement-based logging only if the log_warnings variable is greater than 0. (Bug#46265)

The undocumented TRANSACTIONAL and PAGE_CHECKSUM keywords were removed from the grammar. (Bug#45829)

Previously, mysqldump would not dump the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database and ignored it if it was named on the command line. Now, mysqldump will dump INFORMATION_SCHEMA if it is named on the command line. Currently, this requires that the --skip-lock-tables (or --skip-opt) option be given. (Bug#33762)

Previously, SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE dumped column values without character set conversion, which could produce data files that cannot be imported without error if different columns used different character sets. A consequence of this is that mysqldump ignored the --default-character-set option if the --tab option was given (which causes SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE to be used to dump data.)

INTO OUTFILE now can be followed by a CHARACTER SET clause indicating the character set to which dumped values should be converted. Also, mysqldump adds a CHARACTER SET clause to the SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE statement used to dump data, so that --default-character-set is no longer ignored if --tab is given.

Other changes are that SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE enforces that ENCLOSED BY and ESCAPED BY arguments must be a single character, and SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE and LOAD DATA INFILE produce warnings if non-ASCII field or line separators are specified. (Bug#30946)

Pluggable storage engines now can be built for Windows.

The MySQL euckr character set now can store extended codes [81...FE][41..5A,61..7A,81..FE], which makes euckr compatible with the Microsoft cp949 character set.

Performance: The table cache lock (LOCK_open) is now an adaptive mutex, which should improve performance in workloads where this lock is heavily contended. (Bug#43435)

Partitioning: Attempting to create a table using an invalid or inconsistent subpartition definition caused the server to crash. An example of such a statement is shown here:

CREATE TABLE t2 (s1 INT, s2 INT)
PARTITION BY LIST (s1) SUBPARTITION BY HASH (s2) SUBPARTITIONS 1
(
    PARTITION p1 VALUES IN (1),
    PARTITION p2 VALUES IN (2) (SUBPARTITION p3)  
);

(Bug#46354)

Partitioning: When using a debug build of MySQL, if a query against a partitioned table having an index on one or more DOUBLE columns used that index, the server failed with an assertion. (Bug#45816)

Partitioning: A failed RENAME TABLE operation on a table with user-defined partitioning left the table in an unusable state, due to only some of the table files having been renamed. (Bug#30102)

Replication: When a statement that changes a non-transactional table failed, the transactional cache was flushed, causing a mismatch between the execution and logging histories. Now we avoid flushing the transactional cache unless a COMMIT or ROLLBACK is issued. (Bug#46129)

Replication: The internal function get_master_version_and_clock() (defined in sql/slave.cc) ignored errors and passed directly when queries failed, or when queries succeeded but the result retrieved was empty. Now this function tries to reconnect the master if a query fails due to transient network problems, and to fail otherwise. The I/O thread now prints a warning if the same system variables do not exist on master (in the event the master is a very old version of MySQL, compared to the slave.) (Bug#45214)

Replication: When using the MIXED logging format, after creating a temporary table and performing an update that switched the logging format to ROW, the format switch persisted following the update. This prevented any subsequent DDL statements on temporary tables from being written to the binary log until the temporary table was dropped. (Bug#43046)

See also Bug#40013.

This regression was introduced by Bug#20499.

Replication: If the --log-bin-trust-function-creators option is not enabled, CREATE FUNCTION requires one of the modifiers DETERMINISTIC, NO SQL, or READS SQL DATA. When using statement-based mode, the execution of a stored function should follow the same rules; however, only functions defined with DETERMINISTIC could actually be executed. In addition, the wrong error was generated (ER_BINLOG_ROW_RBR_TO_SBR instead of ER_BINLOG_UNSAFE_ROUTINE).

Now execution of stored functions is compatible with creation in this regard; when a stored function without one of the modifiers above is executed in STATEMENT mode, the correct error is raised, and functions defined using NO SQL, READS SQL DATA, or both (that is, without using DETERMINISTIC) can be excuted. (Bug#41166)

The test suite was missing from RPM packages. (Bug#46834)

Incorrect index optimization could lead to incorrect results or server crashes. (Bug#46454)

The server printed warnings at startup about adjusting the value of the max_join_size system variable. (These were harmless, but might be seen by users as significant.) (Bug#46385)

mysql did not handle backspace properly for multi-byte characters. This has been fixed now if mysql is linked with the readline library. It is not fixed if mysql is linked with libedit, which does not contain the necessary support for multi-byte character sets. (Bug#46310)

After an error such as a table-full condition, INSERT IGNORE could cause an assertion failure for debug builds. (Bug#46075)

An optimization that moved an item from a subquery to an outer query could cause a server crash. (Bug#46051)

Several Valgrind warnings were corrected. (Bug#46003, Bug#46034, Bug#46042)

CREATE TABLE ... SELECT could cause a server crash if no default database was selected. (Bug#45998)

The MySQL Server crashed when performing a REPLACE into a MERGE table if there was a duplicate. (Bug#45800)

An infinite hang and 100% CPU usage occurred after handler tried to open a merge table.

If the command mysqladmin shutdown was executed during the hang, the debug server generated the following assert:

mysqld: table.cc:407: void free_table_share(TABLE_SHARE*): Assertion `share->ref_count ==
0' failed.
090610 14:54:04 - mysqld got signal 6 ;

(Bug#45781)

For problems reading SSL files during SSL initialization, the server wrote error messages to stderr rather than to the error log. (Bug#45770)

The vendor name change from MySQL AB to Sun Microsystems, Inc. in RPM packages was not handled gracefully when upgrading MySQL using an RPM package. (Bug#45534)

A Windows Installation using the GUI installer would fail with:

MySQL Server 5.1 Setup Wizard ended prematurely

The wizard was interrupted before MySQL Server 5.1. could be completely installed.

Your system has not been modified. To complete installation at another time, please run
setup again.

Click Finish to exit the wizard

This was due to an step in the MSI installer that could fail to execute correctly on some environments. (Bug#45418)

Invalid memory reads could occur using the compressed client/server protocol. (Bug#45031)

The mysql_real_connect() C API function only attempted to connect to the first IP address returned for a hostname. This could be a problem if a hostname mapped to multiple IP address and the server was not bound to the first one returned. Now mysql_real_connect() attempts to connect to all IPv4 or IPv6 addresses that a domain name maps to. (Bug#45017)

See also Bug#47757.

Invalid input could cause invalid memory reads by the parser. (Bug#45010)

Some files in an AIX tar file distribution unpacked with incorrect permissions. (Bug#44647)

For debug builds, executing a stored procedure as a prepared statement could sometimes cause an assertion failure. (Bug#44521)

Using mysql_stmt_execute() to call a stored procedure could cause a server crash. (Bug#44495)

Creating a new instance after previously removing an instance would fail to complete the installation properly because the security settings could not be applied correctly. (Bug#44428)

mysqlslap ignored the --csv option if it was given without an argument. (Bug#44412)

Enabling the event scheduler from within the file specified by --init-file caused a server crash. (Bug#43587)

The server did not always check the return value of calls to the hash_init() function. (Bug#43572)

mysqladmin --count=X --sleep=Y incorrectly delayed Y seconds after the last iteration before exiting. (Bug#42639)

A test for stack growth failed on some platforms, leading to server crashes. (Bug#42213)

mysqladmin did not have enough space allocated for tracking all variables when using --vertical or --relative with extended-status. (Bug#40395)

Partitioning a log table caused a server crash. (Bug#40281)

When using quick access methods to search for rows in UPDATE and DELETE statements, there was no check whether a fatal error had already been sent to the client while evaluating the quick condition. Consequently, a false OK (following the error) was sent to the client, causing the error to be incorrectly transformed into a warning. (Bug#40113)

SHOW PROCESSLIST could access freed memory of a stored procedure run in a concurrent session. (Bug#38816)

During installation on Windows, the MySQL Instance Configuration Wizard window could be opened at a size too small to be usable. (Bug#38723)

make_binary_distribution did not always generate correct distribution names. (Bug#37808)

The server crashed when executing a prepared statement containing a duplicated MATCH() function call in the select list and ORDER BY clause; for example, SELECT MATCH(a) AGAINST('test') FROM t1 ORDER BY MATCH(a) AGAINST('test'). (Bug#37740)

The output of mysqldump --tab for views included a DROP TABLE statement without the IF EXISTS qualifier. (Bug#37377)

mysql_upgrade silently ignored the --basedir and --datadir options, which it accepts for backward compatibility. Now it prints a warning. (Bug#36558)

mysqlimport was not always compiled correctly to enable thread support, which is required for the --use-threads option. (Bug#32991)

mysqlcheck failed to fix table names when the --fix-table-names and --all-in-1 options were both specified. (Bug#31821)

If the MySQL server was killed without the PID file being removed, attempts to stop the server with mysql.server stop waited 900 seconds before giving up. (Bug#31785)

When performing an installation on Windows using the GUI installer, the installer would fail to wait long enough during installation for the MySQL service to be installed, which would cause the installation to fail and may cause security settings, such as the root password to not be applied correctly. (Bug#30525)

mysql included extra spaces at the end of some result set lines. (Bug#29622)

The mysql client inconsistently handled NUL bytes in column data in various output formats. (Bug#28203)

mysqlimport did not correctly quote and escape table identifiers and file names. (Bug#28071)

When installing the Windows service, using quotes around command-line configuration parameters could cause the quotes to incorrectly placed around the entire command-line option, and not just the value. (Bug#27535)

If the mysql client was built with the readline library and the .inputrc file mapped Space to the magic-space function, it became impossible to enter spaces. (Bug#27439)

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)

See also Bug#46672.

The test suite was missing from RPM packages. (Bug#46834)

The server could crash for queries with the following elements: 1. An “impossible where” in the outermost SELECT; 2. An aggregate in the outermost SELECT; 3. A correlated subquery with a WHERE clause that includes an outer field reference as a top-level WHERE sargable predicate; (Bug#46749)

SHOW CREATE TRIGGER for a MERGE table trigger caused an assertion failure. (Bug#46614)

Incorrect index optimization could lead to incorrect results or server crashes. (Bug#46454)

A query containing a subquery in the FROM clause and PROCEDURE ANALYSE() caused a server crash. (Bug#46184)

See also Bug#48293.

CREATE TABLE ... SELECT could cause a server crash if no default database was selected. (Bug#45998)

A Windows Installation using the GUI installer would fail with:

MySQL Server 5.1 Setup Wizard ended prematurely

The wizard was interrupted before MySQL Server 5.1. could be completely installed.

Your system has not been modified. To complete installation at another time, please run
setup again.

Click Finish to exit the wizard

This was due to an step in the MSI installer that could fail to execute correctly on some environments. (Bug#45418)

For debug builds, executing a stored procedure as a prepared statement could sometimes cause an assertion failure. (Bug#44521)

Using mysql_stmt_execute() to call a stored procedure could cause a server crash. (Bug#44495)

Important Change: Replication: RESET MASTER and RESET SLAVE now reset the values shown for Last_IO_Error, Last_IO_Errno, Last_SQL_Error, and Last_SQL_Errno in the output of SHOW SLAVE STATUS. (Bug#44270)

See also Bug#34654.

Performance: With InnoDB tables, MySQL used a less-selective secondary index to avoid a filesort even if a prefix of the primary key was much more selective.

The fix for this problem might cause other queries to run more slowly. (Bug#45828)

Partitioning: Security Fix: Accessing a table having user-defined partitioning when the server SQL mode included ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY caused the MySQL server to crash. For example, the following sequence of statements crashed the server:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t1;

SET SESSION SQL_MODE='ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY';

CREATE TABLE t1 (id INT, KEY(id))
    PARTITION BY HASH(id) PARTITIONS 2;

(Bug#45807)

Security Fix: The strxnmov() library function could write a null byte after the end of the destination buffer. (Bug#44834)

Important Change: Replication: When using STATEMENT or MIXED binary logging format, a statement that changes both non-transactional and transactional tables must be written to the binary log whenever there are changes to non-transactional tables. This means that the statement goes into the binary log even when the changes to the transactional tables fail. In particular, in the event of a failure such statement is annotated with the error number and wrapped inside a pair of BEGIN and ROLLBACK statements.

On the slave, while applying the statement, it is expected that the same failure and the rollback prevent the transactional changes from persisting. However, statements that fail due to concurrency issues such as deadlocks and timeouts are logged in the same way, causing the slave to stop since the statements are applied sequentially by the SQL thread.

To address this issue, we ignore concurrency failures on the slave. Specifically, the following failures are now ignored: ER_LOCK_WAIT_TIMEOUT, ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK, and ER_XA_RBDEADLOCK. (Bug#44581)

Partitioning: Truncating a partitioned MyISAM table did not reset the AUTO_INCREMENT value. (Bug#35111)

Replication: The SHOW SLAVE STATUS connection thread competed with the slave SQL thread for use of the error message buffer. As a result, the connection thread sometimes received incomplete messages. This issue was uncovered with valgrind when message strings were passed without NULL terminators, causing the error Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s). (Bug#45511)

See also Bug#43076.

Replication: For replication of a stored procedure that uses the gbk character set, the result on the master and slave differed. (Bug#45485)

Replication: The internal function purge_relay_logs() did not propagate an error occurring in another internal function count_relay_log_space(). (Bug#44115)

Replication: Large transactions and statements could corrupt the binary log if the size of the cache (as set by max_binlog_cache_size) was not large enough to store the changes.

Now, for transactions that do not fit into the cache, the statement is not logged, and the statement generates an error instead.

For non-transactional changes that do not fit into the cache, the statement is also not logged — an incident event is logged after committing or rolling back any pending transaction, and the statement then raises an error.

(Bug#43929)

See also Bug#37148.

Replication: The --database option for mysqlbinlog was ignored when using the row-based logging format. (Bug#42941)

Replication: Statements using LIMIT generated spurious Statement is not safe to log in statement format warnings in the error log, causing the log to grow rapidly in size. (Bug#42851)

See also Bug#46265, Bug#42415.

This regression was introduced by Bug#34768.

Replication: Shutting down the slave while executing FLUSH LOGS, CHANGE MASTER TO, or STOP SLAVE could sometimes cause it to crash. (Bug#38240)

Replication: When reading a binary log that was in use by a master or that had not been properly closed (possibly due to a crash), the following message was printed: Warning: this binlog was not closed properly. Most probably mysqld crashed writing it. This message did not take into account the possibility that the file was merely in use by the master, which caused some users concern who were not aware that this could happen.

To make this clear, the original message has been replaced with Warning: this binlog is either is use or was not closed properly. (Bug#34687)

The server crashed if evaluation of GROUP_CONCAT(... ORDER BY) required allocation of a sort buffer but allocation failed. (Bug#46080)

When creating tables using the IBMDB2I storage engine with the ibmdb2i_create_index_option option set to 1, creating an IBMDB2I table with a primary key should produce an additional index that uses EBCDIC hexadecimal sorting, but this index was not created. (Bug#45983)

The server crashed for attempts to use REPLACE or INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE with a view defined using a join. (Bug#45806)

Some collations were causing IBMDB2I to report inaccurate key range estimations to the optimizer for LIKE clauses that select substrings. This can be seen by running EXPLAIN. This problem primarily affects multi-byte and unicode character sets. (Bug#45803)

Invalid memory reads and writes were generated when altering merge and base tables. This could lead to a crash or Valgrind errors:

==28038== Invalid write of size 1
at: memset (mc_replace_strmem.c:479)
by: myrg_attach_children (myrg_open.c:433)
by: ha_myisammrg::attach_children() (ha_myisammrg.cc:546)
by: ha_myisammrg::extra(ha_extra_function) (ha_myisammrg.cc:944)
by: attach_merge_children(TABLE_LIST*) (sql_base.cc:4147)
by: open_tables(THD*, TABLE_LIST**, unsigned*, unsigned) (sql_base.cc:4709)
by: open_and_lock_tables_derived(THD*, TABLE_LIST*, bool) (sql_base.cc:4977)
by: open_n_lock_single_table (mysql_priv.h:1550)
by: mysql_alter_table(sql_table.cc:6428)
by: mysql_execute_command(THD*) (sql_parse.cc:2860)
by: mysql_parse(THD*, char const*, unsigned, char const**) (sql_parse.cc:5933)
by: dispatch_command (sql_parse.cc:1213)

(Bug#45796)

Inserting data into a table using the macce character set with the IBMDB2I storage engine would fail. (Bug#45793)

There was a race condition when changing innodb_commit_concurrency at runtime to the value DEFAULT. (Bug#45749)

See also Bug#42101.

Performing an empty XA transaction caused the server to crash for the next XA transaction. (Bug#45548)

SHOW CREATE TRIGGER requires the TRIGGER privilege but was not checking privileges. (Bug#45412)

An assertion failure could occur if InnoDB tried to unlock a record when the clustered index record was unknown. (Bug#45357)

--enable-plugin_name options (for example, --enable-innodb) did not work correctly. (Bug#45336)

See also Bug#19027.

If autocommit was enabled, InnoDB did not roll back DELETE or UPDATE statements if the statement was killed. (Bug#45309)

The optimizer mishandled “impossible range” conditions and returned empty results due to an uninitialized variable. (Bug#45266)

Use of DECIMAL constants with more than 65 digits in CREATE TABLE ... SELECT statements led to spurious errors or assertion failures. (Bug#45262)

The mysql client could misinterpret some character sequences as commands under some circumstances. (Bug#45236)

Use of CONVERT() with an empty SET value could cause an assertion failure. (Bug#45168)

InnoDB recovery could hang due to redo logging of doublewrite buffer pages. (Bug#45097)

When reading binary data, the concatenation function for geometry data collections did not rigorously check for available data, leading to invalid reads and server crashes. (Bug#44684)

If an error occurred during the creation of a table (for example, the table already existed) having an AUTO_INCREMENT column and a BEFORE trigger that used the INSERT ... SELECT construct, an internal flag was not reset properly. This led to a crash the next time the table was opened again. (Bug#44653)

configure.in contained references to literal instances of nm and libc, rather than to variables parameterized for the proper values on the current platform. (Bug#42721)

configure.in did not properly check for the pthread_setschedprio() function. (Bug#42599)

SHOW ERRORS returned an empty result set after an attempt to drop a nonexistent table. (Bug#42364)

A workaround for a Sun Studio bug was instituted. (Bug#41710)

For queries with a sufficient number of subqueries in the FROM clause of this form:

SELECT * FROM (SELECT 1) AS t1,
              (SELECT 2) AS t2,
              (SELECT 3) AS t3, ...

The query failed with a Too high level of nesting for select error, as though the query had this form:

SELECT * FROM (SELECT 1 FROM (SELECT 2 FROM (SELECT 3 FROM ...

(Bug#41156)

Some UPDATE statements that affected no rows returned a rows-affected count of one. (Bug#40565)

Valgrind warnings that occurred for SHOW TABLE STATUS with InnoDB tables were silenced. (Bug#38479)

In the mysql client, if the server connection was lost during repeated status commands, the client would fail to detect this and command output would be inconsistent. (Bug#37274)

A Valgrind error during subquery execution was corrected. (Bug#36995)

When invoked to start multiple server instances, mysqld_multi sometimes would fail to start them all due to not changing location into the base directory for each instance. (Bug#36654)

Rows written to the slow query log could have an indeterminate Rows_examined value due to improper initialization. (Bug#34002)

Renaming a column that appeared in a foreign key definition did not update the foreign key definition with the new column name. (Bug#21704)

Important Change: Replication: Previously, incident log events were represented as comments in the output from mysqlbinlog, making them effectively silent when playing back the binlog.

(An incident log event represents an incident that could cause the contents of the database to change without that event being recorded in the binary log.)

This meant that, if the SQL were applied to a server, it could potentially lead to the master and the slave having different data. To make it possible to handle incident log events without breaking applications that expect the previous behavior, the nonsense statement RELOAD DATABASE is added to the SQL output for that incident log event, which causes an error.

To use this functionality currently requires hand editing of the dump file and handling of each case on an individual basis by a database administrator before applying the output to a server. (Bug#44442)

mysql_upgrade now displays a message indicating the connection parameters it uses when invoking mysqlcheck. (Bug#44638)

The time zone tables for Windows available at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/timezones.html have been updated. (Bug#39923)

The mysqltest program now has a move_file from_file to_file command for renaming files. This should be used in test cases rather than invoking an external command that might be platform specific. (Bug#39542)

The maximum value for max_binlog_cache_size has been increased from 2³² – 1 to 2⁶⁴ – 1 (even on 32-bit platforms), which enables transactions 4GB and larger to be performed when binary logging is enabled. (Bug#10206)

Performance: The InnoDB adaptive hash latch is released (if held) for several potentially long-running operations. This improves throughput for other queries if the current query is removing a temporary table, changing a temporary table from memory to disk, using CREATE TABLE ... SELECT, or performing a MyISAM repair on a table used within a transaction. (Bug#32149)

Security Fix: The server crashed if an account with the CREATE ROUTINE privilege but not the EXECUTE privilege attempted to create a stored procedure. (Bug#44798)

Security Fix: The server crashed if an account without the proper privileges attempted to create a stored procedure. (Bug#44658)

Security Fix: Four potential format string vulnerabilities were fixed (discovered by the Veracode code analysis). (Bug#44166)

Incompatible Change: The server can load plugins under the control of startup options. For example, many storage engines can be built in pluggable form and loaded when the server starts. In the following descriptions, plugin_name stands for a plugin name such as innodb.

Previously, plugin options were handled like other boolean options (see Section 4.2.3.2, “Program Option Modifiers”). That is, any of these options enabled the plugin:

--plugin_name
--plugin_name=1
--enable-plugin_name

And these options disabled the plugin:

--plugin_name=0
--disable-plugin_name
--skip-plugin_name

However, use of a boolean option for plugin loading did not provide control over what to do if the plugin failed to start properly: Should the server exit, or start with the plugin disabled? The actual behavior has been that the server starts with the plugin disabled, which can be problematic. For example, if InnoDB fails to start, existing InnoDB tables become inaccessible, and attempts to create new InnoDB tables result in tables that use the default storage engine unless the NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION SQL mode has been enabled to cause an error to occur instead.

Now, there is a change in the options used to control plugin loading, such that they have a tristate format:

The values OFF, ON, and FORCE are not case sensitive.

Suppose that CSV and InnoDB have been built as pluggable storage engines and that you want the server to load them at startup, subject to these conditions: The server is allowed to run if CSV initialization fails, but must require that InnoDB initialization succeed. To accomplish that, use these lines in an option file:

[mysqld]
csv=ON
innodb=FORCE

This change is incompatible with the previous implementation if you used options of the form --plugin_name=0 or --plugin_name=1, which should be changed to --plugin_name=OFF or --plugin_name=ON, respectively.

--enable-plugin_name is still supported and is the same as --plugin_name=ON. --disable-plugin_name and --skip-plugin_name are still supported and are the same as --plugin_name=OFF. (Bug#19027)

See also Bug#45336.

Important Change: Replication: BEGIN, COMMIT, and ROLLBACK statements are no longer affected by --replicate-do-db or --replicate-ignore-db rules. (Bug#43263)

Partitioning: Queries using DISTINCT on multiple columns or GROUP BY on multiple columns did not return correct results with partitioned tables. (Bug#44821)

See also Bug#41136.

Replication: When using row-based logging, the length of an event for which the field metadata exceeded 255 bytes in size was incorrectly calculated. This could lead to corruption of the binary log, or cause the server to hang. (Bug#42749)

See also Bug#44548, Bug#44672, Bug#44752.

Replication: The warning Statement is not safe to log in statement format, issued in situations when it cannot be determined that a statement or other database event can be written reliably to the binary log using the statement-based format, has been changed to Statement may not be safe to log in statement format. (Bug#42415)

Replication: The Query_log_event used by replication to transfer a query to the slave has been refactored. Query_log_event also stores and sends the error code resulting from the execution since it, in some cases, is necessary to execute the statement on the slave as well, which should result in the same error code. The Query_log_event constructor previously worked out for itself the error code using a complex routine, the result of which was often set aside within the constructor itself. This was also involved with at least 2 known bugs relating to invalid errors, and taken as a clear sign that the constructor was not well-designed and needed to be re-written. (Bug#41948)

See also Bug#37145.

Replication: When stopping and restarting the slave while it was replicating temporary tables, the slave server could crash or raise an assertion failure. This was due to the fact that, although temporary tables were saved between slave thread restarts, the reference to the thread being used (table->in_use) was not being properly updated when restarting, continuing to reference the old thread instead of the new one. This issue affected statement-based replication only. (Bug#41725)

The combination of MIN() or MAX() in the select list with WHERE and GROUP BY clauses could lead to incorrect results. (Bug#45386)

Linker failures with libmysqld on VC++ 2008 were fixed. (Bug#45326)

Compiler warnings on Mac OS X were fixed. (Bug#45286)

Running a SELECT query over an IBMDB2I table using the cp1250 character set would produce an error

ibmdb2i error 2027: Error converting single-byte sort sequence to UCS-2 

(Bug#45197)

Use of ROUND() on a LONGTEXT or LONGBLOB column of a derived table could cause a server crash. (Bug#45152)

DROP USER could fail to drop all privileges for an account if the PAD_CHAR_TO_FULL_LENGTH SQL mode was enabled. (Bug#45100)

GROUP BY on a constant (single-row) InnoDB table joined to other tables caused a server crash. (Bug#44886)

ALTER TABLE on a view crashed the server. (Bug#44860)

When using partitioning with the IBMDB2I storage engine, the engine could report that a valid character set was not supported. (Bug#44856)

Running queries on tables with the IBMDB2I storage engine using the utf8 character would fail when using the 64-bit version of MySQL. (Bug#44811)

Index Merge followed by a filesort could result in a server crash if sort_buffer_size was not large enough for all sort keys. (Bug#44810)

See also Bug#40974.

UNCOMPRESSED_LENGTH() returned a garbage result when passed a string shorter than 5 bytes. Now UNCOMPRESSED_LENGTH() returns NULL and generates a warning. (Bug#44796)

Several Valgrind warnings were silenced. (Bug#44774, Bug#44792)

Selecting RAND(N) function where N is a column of a constant table (table with a single row) failed with a SIGFPE signal. (Bug#44768)

The PASSWORD() and OLD_PASSWORD() functions could read memory outside of an internal buffer when used with BLOB arguments. (Bug#44767)

Conversion of a string to a different character set could use the same buffer for input and output, leading to incorrect results or warnings. (Bug#44743, Bug#44766)

mysqld_safe could fail to find the logger program. (Bug#44736)

Code that optimized a read-only XA transaction failed to reset the XID once the transaction was no longer active. (Bug#44672)

A Valgrind warning related to transaction processing was silenced. (Bug#44664)

Some Perl scripts in AIX packages contained an incorrect path to the perl executable. (Bug#44643)

When creating tables using the IBMDB2I storage engine, the RCDFMT (record format) that would be applied to the corresponding files within the IBM i would be set according to the table name. During whole table operations, the name could get modified to a value inconsistent with the table name. In addition, the record format would be inconsistent compared to the file content. The IBMDB2I storage engine now adds an explicit RCDFMT clause to the CREATE TABLE statement passed down to the DB2 storage engine layer. (Bug#44610)

innochecksum could incorrectly determine the input file name from the arguments. (Bug#44484)

Incorrect time was reported at the end of mysqldump output. (Bug#44424)

Caching of GROUP BY expressions could lead to mismatches between compile-time and runtime calculations and cause a server crash. (Bug#44399)

Lettercase conversion in multibyte cp932 or sjis character sequences could produce incorrect results. (Bug#44352)

InnoDB was missing DB_ROLL_PTR information in Table Monitor COLUMNS output. (Bug#44320)

Assertion failure could occur for duplicate-key errors in INSERT INTO ... SELECT statements. (Bug#44306)

Trying to use an unsupported character set on an IBMDB2I table would produce DB2 error 2501 or 2511. The error has been updated to produce Error 2504 (Character set is unsupported). (Bug#44232)

On 64-bit Windows systems, myisamchk did not handle key_buffer_size values larger than 4GB. (Bug#43940)

For user-defined utf8 collations, attempts to store values too long for a column could cause a server crash. (Bug#43827)

Invalidation of query cache entries due to table modifications could cause threads to hang inside the query cache with state “freeing items”. (Bug#43758)

EXPLAIN EXTENDED could crash for UNION queries in which the last SELECT was not parenthesized and included an ORDER BY clause. (Bug#43612)

Multiple-table updates for InnoDB tables could produce unexpected results. (Bug#43580)

If the client lost the connection to the MySQL server after mysql_stmt_prepare(), the first call to mysql_stmt_execute() returned an error (as expected) but consecutive calls to mysql_stmt_execute() or mysql_stmt_close() crashed the client. (Bug#43560)

For DELETE statements with ORDER BY var, where var was a global system variable with a NULL value, the server could crash. (Bug#42778)

Builds linked against OpenSSL had a memory leak in association with use of X509 certificates. (Bug#42158)

There was a race condition when changing innodb_commit_concurrency at runtime from zero to nonzero or from nonzero to zero. Now this variable cannot be changed at runtime from zero to nonzero or vice versa. The value can still be changed from one nonzero value to another. (Bug#42101)

See also Bug#45749.

SELECT ... INTO @var could produce values different from SELECT ... without the INTO clause. (Bug#42009)

mysql_zap did not work on Mac OS X. (Bug#41883)

A crash occurred due to a race condition between the merge table and table_cache evictions.

00000001403C452F    mysqld.exe!memcpy()[memcpy.asm:151]
00000001402A275F    mysqld.exe!ha_myisammrg::info()[ha_myisammrg.cc:854]
00000001402A2471    mysqld.exe!ha_myisammrg::attach_children()[ha_myisammrg.cc:488]
00000001402A2788    mysqld.exe!ha_myisammrg::extra()[ha_myisammrg.cc:863]
000000014015FC5D    mysqld.exe!attach_merge_children()[sql_base.cc:4135]
000000014016A4C1    mysqld.exe!open_tables()[sql_base.cc:4697]
000000014016A898    mysqld.exe!open_and_lock_tables_derived()[sql_base.cc:4956]
000000014018BB54    mysqld.exe!mysql_insert()[sql_insert.cc:613]
000000014019EDD3    mysqld.exe!mysql_execute_command()[sql_parse.cc:3066]
00000001401A2F06    mysqld.exe!mysql_parse()[sql_parse.cc:5791]
00000001401A3C1A    mysqld.exe!dispatch_command()[sql_parse.cc:1202]
00000001401A4CD7    mysqld.exe!do_command()[sql_parse.cc:857]
0000000140246327    mysqld.exe!handle_one_connection()[sql_connect.cc:1115]
00000001402B82C5    mysqld.exe!pthread_start()[my_winthread.c:85]
00000001403CAC37    mysqld.exe!_callthreadstart()[thread.c:295]
00000001403CAD05    mysqld.exe!_threadstart()[thread.c:275]
0000000077D6B69A    kernel32.dll!BaseThreadStart()
Trying to get some variables.
Some pointers may be invalid and cause the dump to abort...

(Bug#41212)

Shared-memory connections did not work in Vista if mysqld was started from the command line. (Bug#41190)

For views created with a column list clause, column aliases were not substituted when selecting through the view using a HAVING clause. (Bug#40825)

A multiple-table DELETE involving a table self-join could cause a server crash. (Bug#39918)

Creating an InnoDB table with a comment containing a '#' character caused foreign key constraints to be omitted. (Bug#39793)

ALTER TABLE neglected to preserve ROW_FORMAT information from the original table, which could cause subsequent ALTER TABLE and OPTIMIZE TABLE statements to lose the row format for InnoDB tables. (Bug#39200)

The mysql option --ignore-spaces was nonfunctional. (Bug#39101)

If a query was such as to produce the error 1054 Unknown column '...' in 'field list', using EXPLAIN EXTENDED with the query could cause a server crash. (Bug#37362)

In the mysql client, using a default character set of binary caused internal commands such as DELIMITER to become case sensitive. (Bug#37268)

mysqldump --tab dumped triggers to stdout rather than to the .sql file for the corresponding table. (Bug#34861)

If the MYSQL_HISTFILE environment variable was set to /dev/null, the mysql client overwrote the /dev/null device file as a normal file. (Bug#34224)

mysqld_safe mishandled certain parameters if they contained spaces. (Bug#33685)

mysqladmin kill did not work for thread IDs larger than 32 bits. (Bug#32457)

Several client programs failed to interpret --skip-password as “send no password.” (Bug#28479)

Output from mysql --html did not encode the <, >, or & characters. (Bug#27884)

mysql_convert_table_format did not prevent conversion of tables to MEMORY or BLACKHOLE tables, which could result in data loss. (Bug#27149)

This release of MySQL has two known outstanding issues for Windows:

Performance: InnoDB uses random numbers to generate dives into indexes for calculating index cardinality. However, under certain conditions, the algorithm did not generate random numbers, so ANALYZE TABLE did not update cardinality estimates properly. A new algorithm has been introduced with better randomization properties, together with a system variable, innodb_use_legacy_cardinality_algorithm, that controls which algorithm to use. The default value of the variable is 1 (ON), to use the original algorithm for compatibility with existing applications. The variable can be set to 0 (OFF) to use the new algorithm with improved randomness. (Bug#43660)

Performance: If the character set for a column being compared was neither the default server character set nor latin1, InnoDB was slower than necessary due to excessive contention for a character set mutex.

As a workaround for earlier versions, set the default server character set to the character set other than latin1 that is most often used in indexed columns. (Bug#42649)

Important Change: Replication: The transactional behavior of STOP SLAVE has changed. Formerly, it took effect immediately, even inside a transaction; now, it waits until the current replication event group (if any) has finished executing, or until the user issues a KILL QUERY or KILL CONNECTION statement.

This was done in order to solve the problem encountered when replication was stopped while a nontransactional slave was replicating a transaction on the master. (It was impossible to roll back a mixed-engines transaction when one of the engines was nontransactional, which meant that the slave could not safely re-apply any transaction that had been interrupted by STOP SLAVE.) (Bug#319, Bug#38205)

See also Bug#43217.

Partitioning: When a value was equal to a PARTITION ... VALUES LESS THAN (value) value other than MAXVALUE, the corresponding partition was not pruned. (Bug#42944)

Replication: Unrelated errors occurring during the execution of RESET SLAVE could cause the slave to crash. (Bug#44179)

Replication: The --slave-skip-errors option had no effect when using row-based logging format. (Bug#39393)

Replication: The following errors were not correctly reported:

Information about these types of failures can now be found in the output of SHOW SLAVE STATUS. (Bug#38197)

Replication: Killing the thread executing a DDL statement, after it had finished its execution but before it had written the binlog event, caused the error code in the binlog event to be set (incorrectly) to ER_SERVER_SHUTDOWN or ER_QUERY_INTERRUPTED, which caused replication to fail. (Bug#37145)

See also Bug#27571, Bug#22725.

Replication: Column aliases used inside subqueries were ignored in the binary log. (Bug#35515)

Valgrind warnings for the DECODE(), ENCRYPT(), and FIND_IN_SET() functions were corrected. (Bug#44358, Bug#44365, Bug#44367)

On Windows, entries for build-vs9.bat and build-vs9_x64.bat were missing in win/Makefile.am. (Bug#44353)

Incomplete cleanup of JOIN_TAB::select during the filesort of rows for a GROUP BY clause inside a subquery caused a server crash. (Bug#44290)

Not all lock types had proper descriptive strings, resulting in garbage output from mysqladmin debug. (Bug#44164)

Use of HANDLER statements with INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables caused a server crash. Now HANDLER is prohibited with such tables. (Bug#44151)

MySQL Server allowed the creation of a merge table based on views but crashed when attempts were made to read from that table. The following example demonstrates this:

#Create a test table
CREATE TABLE tmp (id int, c char(2));                                           

#Create two VIEWs upon it
CREATE VIEW v1 AS SELECT * FROM tmp;                                            
CREATE VIEW v2 AS SELECT * FROM tmp;                                            

#Finally create a MERGE table upon the VIEWs
CREATE TABLE merge (id int, c char(2))
ENGINE=MERGE UNION(v1, v2);

#Reading from the merge table lead to a crash
SELECT * FROM merge;

The final line of the code generated the crash. (Bug#44040)

Some schema names longer than 8 characters were not supported by IBMDB2I. The engine has been updated to allow digits and underscore characters to be used in names longer than 8 characters. (Bug#44025)

In some circumstances, when a table is created with the IBMDB2I engine, the CREATE TABLE statement will return successfully but the table will not exist. (Bug#44022)

The ucs2_swedish_ci and utf8_swedish_ci collations did not work with indexes using the IBMDB2I storage engine. Support is now provided for MySQL when running on IBM i 6.1 or higher. (Bug#44020)

Invoking SHOW TABLE STATUS from within a stored procedure could cause a Packets out of order error. (Bug#43962)

myisamchk could display a negative Max keyfile length value. (Bug#43950)

On 64-bit systems, a key_buffer_size value larger than 4GB could couse MyISAM index corruption. (Bug#43932)

mysqld_multi incorrectly passed --no-defaults to mysqld_safe. (Bug#43876)

SHOW VARIABLES did not properly display the value of slave_skip_errors. (Bug#43835)

On Windows, a server crash occurred for attempts to insert a floating-point value into a CHAR column with a maximum length less than the converted floating-point value length. (Bug#43833)

Incorrect initialization of MyISAM table indexes could cause incorrect query results. (Bug#43737)

libmysqld crashed when it was reinitialized. (Bug#43706, Bug#44091)

UNION of floating-point numbers did unnecessary rounding. (Bug#43432)

ALTER DATABASE ... UPGRADE DATA DIRECTORY NAME failed when the database contained views. (Bug#43385)

Certain statements might open a table and then wait for an impending global read lock without noticing whether they hold a table being waiting for by the global read lock, causing a hang. Affected statements are SELECT ... FOR UPDATE, LOCK TABLES ... WRITE, TRUNCATE TABLE, and LOAD DATA INFILE. (Bug#43230)

Using an XML function such as ExtractValue() more than once in a single query could produce erroneous results. (Bug#43183)

See also Bug#43937.

Full-text prefix searches could hang the connection and cause 100% CPU consumption. (Bug#42907)

Incorrect elevation of warning messages to error messages for unsafe statements caused a server crash. (Bug#42640)

CHECK TABLE suggested use of REPAIR TABLE for corrupt tables for storage engines not supported by REPAIR TABLE. Now CHECK TABLE suggests that the user dump and reload the table. (Bug#42563)

Compressing a table with the myisampack utility caused the server to produce Valgrind warnings when it opened the table. (Bug#41541)

For a MyISAM table with DELAY_KEY_WRITE enabled, the index file could be corrupted without the table being marked as crashed if the server was killed. (Bug#41330)

For some queries, an equality propagation problem could cause a = b and b = a to be handled differently. (Bug#40925)

Killing an INSERT ... SELECT statement for a MyISAM table could cause table corruption if the table had indexes. (Bug#40827)

A multiple-table DELETE IGNORE statement involving a foreign key constraint caused an assertion failure. (Bug#40127)

Multiple-table UPDATE statements did not properly activate triggers. (Bug#39953)

The mysql_setpermission operation for removing database privileges removed global privileges instead. (Bug#39852)

A stored routine contain a C-style comment could not be dumped and reloaded. (Bug#39559)

In an UPDATE or DELETE via a secondary index, InnoDB did not store the cursor position. This made InnoDB crash in semi-consistent read while attempting to unlock a nonmatching record. (Bug#39320)

The functions listed in Section 11.13.4.2.3, “Creating Geometry Values Using MySQL-Specific Functions”, previously accepted WKB arguments and returned WKB values. They now accept WKB or geometry arguments and return geometry values.

The functions listed in Section 11.13.4.2.2, “Creating Geometry Values Using WKB Functions”, previously accepted WKB arguments and returned geometry values. They now accept WKB or geometry arguments and return geometry values. (Bug#38990)

On WIndows, running the server with myisam_use_mmap enabled caused MyISAM table corruption. (Bug#38848)

CHECK TABLE did not properly check whether MyISAM tables created by servers from MySQL 4.0 or older needed to be upgraded. This could cause problems upgrading to MySQL 5.1 or higher. (Bug#37631)

An UPDATE statement that updated a column using the same DES_ENCRYPT() value for each row actually updated different rows with different values. (Bug#35087)

For shared-memory connections, the read and write methods did not properly handle asynchronous close events, which could lead to the client locking up waiting for a server response. For example, a call to mysql_real_query() would block forever on the client side if the executed statement was aborted on the server side. Thanks to Armin Sch?ffmann for the bug report and patch. (Bug#33899)

CHECKSUM TABLE was not killable with KILL QUERY. (Bug#33146)

myisamchk and myisampack were not being linked with the library that enabled support for * filename pattern expansion. (Bug#29248)

For InnoDB tables that have their own .ibd tablespace file, a superfluous ibuf cursor restoration fails! message could be written to the error log. This warning has been suppressed. (Bug#27276)

COMMIT did not delete savepoints if there were no changes in the transaction. (Bug#26288)

Several memory allocation functions were not being checked for out-of-memory return values. (Bug#25058)

Incomplete cleanup of JOIN_TAB::select during the filesort of rows for a GROUP BY clause inside a subquery caused a server crash. (Bug#44290)

Use of HANDLER statements with INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables caused a server crash. Now HANDLER is prohibited with such tables. (Bug#44151)

On 64-bit systems, a key_buffer_size value larger than 4GB could couse MyISAM index corruption. (Bug#43932)

On Windows, a server crash occurred for attempts to insert a floating-point value into a CHAR column with a maximum length less than the converted floating-point value length. (Bug#43833)

libmysqld crashed when it was reinitialized. (Bug#43706, Bug#44091)

Certain statements might open a table and then wait for an impending global read lock without noticing whether they hold a table being waiting for by the global read lock, causing a hang. Affected statements are SELECT ... FOR UPDATE, LOCK TABLES ... WRITE, TRUNCATE TABLE, and LOAD DATA INFILE. (Bug#43230)

Using an XML function such as ExtractValue() more than once in a single query could produce erroneous results. (Bug#43183)

See also Bug#43937.

Incorrect elevation of warning messages to error messages for unsafe statements caused a server crash. (Bug#42640)

In an UPDATE or DELETE via a secondary index, InnoDB did not store the cursor position. This made InnoDB crash in semi-consistent read while attempting to unlock a nonmatching record. (Bug#39320)

The functions listed in Section 11.13.4.2.3, “Creating Geometry Values Using MySQL-Specific Functions”, previously accepted WKB arguments and returned WKB values. They now accept WKB or geometry arguments and return geometry values.

The functions listed in Section 11.13.4.2.2, “Creating Geometry Values Using WKB Functions”, previously accepted WKB arguments and returned geometry values. They now accept WKB or geometry arguments and return geometry values. (Bug#38990)

Support Ending for AIX 5.2: Per the http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/lifecycle/ regarding ending support for OS versions that have reached vendor end of life, we plan to discontinue building or supporting MySQL binaries for AIX 5.2 as of April 30, 2009. This release of MySQL 5.1 (5.1.34) is the last MySQL 5.1 release with support for AIX 5.2. For more information, see the March 24, 2009 note at MySQL Product Support EOL Announcements.

The optimizer_switch system variable is now available to control optimizations that can be switched on and off. See Section 7.2.18, “Using optimizer_switch to Control the Optimizer”.

Replication: Important Note: Binary logging with --binlog-format=ROW failed when a change to be logged included more than 251 columns. This issue was not known to occur with mixed-format or statement-based logging. (Bug#42977)

See also Bug#42914.

Replication: Assigning an invalid directory for the --slave-load-tmpdir caused the replication slave to crash. (Bug#42861)

Replication: The mysql.procs_priv system table was not replicated. (Bug#42217)

Replication: An INSERT DELAYED into a TIMESTAMP column issued concurrently with an insert on the same column not using DELAYED, but applied after the other insert, was logged using the same timestamp as generated by the other (non-DELAYED) insert. (Bug#41719)

Replication: The MIXED binary logging format did not switch to row-based mode for statements containing the LOAD_FILE() function. (Bug#39701)

Replication: When the server SQL mode included IGNORE_SPACE, statement-based replication of LOAD DATA INFILE ... INTO tbl_name failed because the statement was read incorrectly from the binary log; a trailing space was omitted, causing the statement to fail with a syntax error when run on the slave. (Bug#22504)

See also Bug#43746.

An attempt by a user who did not have the SUPER privilege to kill a system thread could cause a server crash. (Bug#43748)

On Windows, incorrectly specified link dependencies in CMakeLists.txt resulted in link errors for mysql_embedded, mysqltest_embedded, and mysql_client_test_embedded. (Bug#43715)

mysql crashed if a request for the current database name returned an empty result, such as after the client has executed a preceding SET sql_select_limit=0 statement. (Bug#43254)

If the value of the version_comment system variable was too long, the mysql client displayed a truncated startup message. (Bug#43153)

Queries of the following form returned an empty result:

SELECT ... WHERE ... (col=col AND col=col) OR ... (false expression)

(Bug#42957)

The strings/CHARSET_INFO.txt file was not included in source distributions. (Bug#42937)

A dangling pointer in mysys/my_error.c could lead to client crashes. (Bug#42675)

Passing an unknown time zone specification to CONVERT_TZ() resulted in a memory leak. (Bug#42502)

The MySQL Instance Configuration Wizard would fail to start correctly on Windows Vista. (Bug#42386)

With more than two arguments, LEAST(), GREATEST(), and CASE could unnecessarily return Illegal mix of collations errors. (Bug#41627)

The mysql client could misinterpret its input if a line was longer than an internal buffer. (Bug#41486)

In the help command output displayed by mysql, the description for the \c (clear) command was misleading. (Bug#41268)

The load_defaults(), my_search_option_files() and my_print_default_files() functions in the C client library were subject to a race condition in multi-threaded operation. (Bug#40552)

If --basedir was specified, mysqld_safe did not use it when attempting to locate my_print_defaults. (Bug#39326)

When running the MySQL Instance Configuration Wizard in command-line only mode, the service name would be ignored (effectively creating all instances with the default MySQL service name), irrespective of the name specified on the command line. However, the wizard would attempt to start the service with the specified name, and would fail. (Bug#38379)

When MySQL was configured with the --with-max-indexes=128 option, mysqld crashed. (Bug#36751)

Setting the join_buffer_size variable to its minimum value produced spurious warnings. (Bug#36446)

The use of NAME_CONST() can result in a problem for CREATE TABLE ... SELECT statements when the source column expressions refer to local variables. Converting these references to NAME_CONST() expressions can result in column names that are different on the master and slave servers, or names that are too long to be legal column identifiers. A workaround is to supply aliases for columns that refer to local variables.

Now a warning is issued in such cases that indicate possible problems. (Bug#35383)

An attempt to check or repair an ARCHIVE table that had been subjected to a server crash returned a 144 internal error. The data appeared to be irrecoverable. (Bug#32880)

The Time column for SHOW PROCESSLIST output and the value of the TIME column of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PROCESSLIST table now can have negative values. Previously, the column was unsigned and negative values were displayed incorrectly as large positive values. Negative values can occur if a thread alters the time into the future with SET TIMESTAMP = value or the thread is executing on a slave and processing events from a master that has its clock set ahead of the slave. (Bug#22047)

Restoring a mysqldump dump file containing FEDERATED tables failed because the file contained the data for the table. Now only the table definition is dumped (because the data is located elsewhere). (Bug#21360)

Support Ending for AIX 5.2: Per the http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/lifecycle/ regarding ending support for OS versions that have reached vendor end of life, we plan to discontinue building or supporting MySQL binaries for AIX 5.2 as of April 30, 2009. The next release of MySQL 5.1 (5.1.34) will be the last MySQL 5.1 release with support for AIX 5.2. For more information, see the March 24, 2009 note at MySQL Product Support EOL Announcements.

Performance: The query cache now checks whether a SELECT statement begins with SQL_NO_CACHE to determine whether it can skip checking for the query result in the query cache. This is not supported when SQL_NO_CACHE occurs within a comment. (Bug#37416)

mysql-test-run.pl now supports an --experimental=file_name option. It enables you to specify a file that contains a list of test cases that should be displayed with the [ exp-fail ] code rather than [ fail ] if they fail. (Bug#42888)

The MD5 algorithm now uses the Xfree implementation. (Bug#42434)

Partitioning: A duplicate key error raised when inserting into a partitioned table using a different error code from that returned by such an error raised when inserting into a table that was not partitioned. (Bug#38719)

See also Bug#28842.

Partitioning: Several error messages relating to partitioned tables were incorrect or missing. (Bug#36001)

Replication: When binlog_format was set to STATEMENT, a statement unsafe for statement-based logging caused an error or warning to be issued even if sql_log_bin was set to 0. (Bug#41980)

Replication: When using MIXED replication format and temporary tables were created in statement-based mode, but a later operation in the same session caused a switch to row-based mode, the temporary tables were not dropped on the slave at the end of the session. (Bug#40013)

See also Bug#43046.

This regression was introduced by Bug#20499.

Replication: When using the MIXED replication format, UPDATE and DELETE statements that searched for rows where part of the key had nullable BIT columns failed. This occurred because operations that inserted the data were replicated as statements, but UPDATE and DELETE statements affecting the same data were replicated using row-based format.

This issue did not occur when using statement-based replication (only) or row-based replication (only). (Bug#39753)

See also Bug#39648.

Replication: The server SQL mode in effect when a stored procedure was created was not retained in the binary log. This could cause a CREATE PROCEDURE statement that succeeded on the master to fail on the slave.

This issue was first noticed when a stored procedure was created when ANSI_QUOTES was in effect on the master, but could possibly cause failed CREATE PROCEDURE statements and other problems on the slave when using other server SQL modes as well. (Bug#39526)

Replication: If --secure-file-priv was set on the slave, it was unable to execute LOAD DATA INFILE statements sent from the master when using mixed-format or statement-based replication.

As a result of this fix, this security restriction is now ignored on the slave in such cases; instead the slave checks whether the files were created and should be read by the slave in its --slave-load-tmpdir. (Bug#38174)

Replication: Server IDs greater than 2147483647 (2³² – 1) were represented by negative numbers in the binary log. (Bug#37313)

Replication: When its disk becomes full, a replication slave may wait while writing the binary log, relay log or MyISAM tables, continuing after space has been made available. The error message provided in such cases was not clear about the frequency with which checking for free space is done (once every 60 seconds), and how long the server waits after space has been freed before continuing (also 60 seconds); this caused users to think that the server had hung.

These issues have been addressed by making the error message clearer, and dividing it into two separate messages:

(Bug#22082)

Replication: The statements DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS and DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS were not written to the binary log if the procedure or function to be dropped did not exist. (Bug#13684)

See also Bug#25705.

The IBM DB2i storage engine has been added to this release for the IBM i Series platform. For more information, see Section 13.7, “The IBMDB2I Storage Engine”. (Bug#44217)

On 64-bit debug builds, code in safemalloc resulted in errors due to use of a 32-bit value for 64-bit allocations. (Bug#43885)

make distcheck failed to properly handle subdirectories of storage/ndb. (Bug#43614)

Use of USE INDEX hints could cause EXPLAIN EXTENDED to crash. (Bug#43354)

For InnoDB tables, overflow in an AUTO_INCREMENT column could cause a server crash. (Bug#43203)

On 32-bit Windows, mysqld could not use large buffers due to a 2GB user mode address limit. (Bug#43082)

stderr should be unbuffered, but when the server redirected stderr to a file, it became buffered. (Bug#42790)

The DATA_TYPE column of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS table displayed the UNSIGNED attribute for floating-point data types. (The column should contain only the data type name.) (Bug#42758)

For InnoDB tables, spurious duplicate-key errors could occur when inserting into an AUTO_INCREMENT column. (Bug#42714)

mysqldump included views that were excluded with the --ignore-table option. (Bug#42635)

An earlier bug fix resulted in the problem that the InnoDB plugin could not be used with a server that was compiled with the built-in InnoDB. To handle this two changes were made:

(Bug#42610)

This regression was introduced by Bug#29263.

With the ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY SQL mode enabled, some legal queries failed. (Bug#42567)

Tables could enter open table cache for a thread without being properly cleaned up, leading to a server crash. (Bug#42419)

For InnoDB tables, inserting into floating-point AUTO_INCREMENT columns failed. (Bug#42400)

The InnoDB btr_search_drop_page_hash_when_freed() function had a race condition. (Bug#42279)

For InnoDB tables, there was a race condition for ALTER TABLE, OPTIMIZE TABLE, CREATE INDEX, and DROP INDEX operations when periodically checking whether table copying can be committed. (Bug#42152)

Parsing of the optional microsecond component of DATETIME values did not fail gracefully when that component width was larger than the allowed six places. (Bug#42146)

In InnoDB recovery after a server crash, table lookup could fail and corrupt the data dictionary cache. (Bug#42075)

mysqldumpslow parsed the --debug and --verbose options incorrectly. (Bug#42027)

Queries that used the loose index scan access method could return no rows. (Bug#41610)

In InnoDB recovery after a server crash, rollback of a transaction that updated a column from NULL to NULL could cause another crash. (Bug#41571)

The error message for a too-long column comment was Unknown error rather than a more appropriate message. (Bug#41465)

Use of SELECT * allowed users with rights to only some columns of a view to access all columns. (Bug#41354)

If the tables underlying a MERGE table had a primary key but the MERGE table itself did not, inserting a duplicate row into the MERGE table caused a server crash. (Bug#41305)

The server did not robustly handle problems hang if a table opened with HANDLER needed to be re-opened because it had been altered to use a different storage engine that does not support HANDLER. The server also failed to set an error if the re-open attempt failed. These problems could cause the server to crash or hang. (Bug#41110, Bug#41112)

SELECT statements executed concurrently with INSERT statements for a MyISAM table could cause incorrect results to be returned from the query cache. (Bug#41098)

For prepared statements, multibyte character sets were not taking into account when calculating max_length for string values and mysql_stmt_fetch() could return truncated strings. (Bug#41078)

Deprecation warnings that referred to MySQL 5.2 were changed to refer to MySQL 6.0. (Bug#41077)

For user-defined variables in a query result, incorrect length values were returned in the result metadata. (Bug#41030)

On Windows, starting the server with an invalid value for innodb_flush_method caused a crash. (Bug#40757)

MySQL 5.1 crashed with index merge algorithm and merge tables.

A query in the MyISAM merge table caused a crash if the index merge algorithm was being used. (Bug#40675)

With strict SQL mode enabled, setting a system variable to an out-of-bounds value caused an assertion failure. (Bug#40657)

Table temporary scans were slower than necessary due to use of mmap rather than caching, even with the myisam_use_mmap system variable disabled. (Bug#40634)

For a view that references a table in another database, mysqldump wrote the view name qualified with the current database name. This makes it impossible to reload the dump file into a different database. (Bug#40345)

On platforms where long and pointer variables have different sizes, MyISAM could copy key statistics incorrectly, resulting in a server crash or incorrect cardinality values. (Bug#40321)

DELETE tried to acquire write (not read) locks for tables accessed within a subquery of the WHERE clause. (Bug#39843)

perror did not produce correct output for error codes 153 to 163. (Bug#39370)

Several functions in libmysqld called exit() when an error occurred rather than returning an error to the caller. (Bug#39289)

The innodb_log_arch_dir system variable is no longer available but was present in some of the sample option files included with MySQL distributions (such as my-huge.cnf). The line was present as a comment but uncommenting it would cause server startup failure so the line has been removed. (Bug#38249)

Setting a savepoint with the same name as an existing savepoint incorrectly deleted any other savepoints that had been set in the meantime. For example, setting savepoints named a, b, c, b resulted in savepoints a, b, rather than the correct savepoints a, c, b. (Bug#38187)

--help output for myisamchk did not list the --HELP option. (Bug#38103)

Comparisons between row constructors, such as (a, b) = (c, d) resulted in unnecessary Illegal mix of collations errors for string columns. (Bug#37601)

If a user created a view that referenced tables for which the user had disjoint privileges, an assertion failure occurred. (Bug#37191)

An argument to the MATCH() function that was an alias for an expression other than a column name caused a server crash. (Bug#36737)

The event, general_log, and slow_log tables in the mysql database store server_id values, but did not use an UNSIGNED column and thus were not able to store the full range of ID values. (Bug#36540)

On Windows, the _PC macro in my_global.h was causing problems for modern compilers. It has been removed because it is no longer used. (Bug#34309)

For DROP FUNCTION with names that were qualified with a database name, the database name was handled in case-sensitive fashion even with lower_case_table_names set to 1. (Bug#33813)

mysqldump --compatible=mysql40 emitted statements referring to the character_set_client system variable, which is unknown before MySQL 4.1. Now the statements are enclosed in version-specific comments. (Bug#33550)

Detection by configure of several functions such as setsockopt(), bind(), sched_yield(), and gtty() could fail. (Bug#31506)

Use of MBR spatial functions such as MBRTouches() with columns of InnoDB tables caused a server crash rather than an error. (Bug#31435)

The mysql client mishandled input parsing if a delimiter command was not first on the line. (Bug#31060)

SHOW PRIVILEGES listed the CREATE ROUTINE privilege as having a context of Functions,Procedures, but it is a database-level privilege. (Bug#30305)

mysqld --help did not work as root. (Bug#30261)

CHECK TABLE, REPAIR TABLE, ANALYZE TABLE, and OPTIMIZE TABLE erroneously reported a table to be corrupt if the table did not exist or the statement was terminated with KILL. (Bug#29458)

SHOW TABLE STATUS could fail to produce output for tables with non-ASCII characters in their name. (Bug#25830)

Allocation of stack space for error messages could be too small on HP-UX, leading to stack overflow crashes. (Bug#21476)

Floating-point numbers could be handled with different numbers of digits depending on whether the text or prepared-statement protocol was used. (Bug#21205)

Incorrect length metadata could be returned for LONG TEXT columns when a multibyte server character set was used. (Bug#19829)

ROUND() sometimes returned different results on different platforms. (Bug#15936)

The libedit library was upgraded to version 2.11. (Bug#42433)

Security Fix: Using an XPath expression employing a scalar expression as a FilterExpr with ExtractValue() or UpdateXML() caused the server to crash. Such expressions now cause an error instead. (Bug#42495)

Incompatible Change: The fix for Bug#33699 introduced a change to the UPDATE statement such that assigning NULL to a NOT NULL column caused an error even when strict SQL mode was not enabled. The original behavior before was that such assignments caused an error only in strict SQL mode, and otherwise set the column to the implicit default value for the column data type and generated a warning. (For information about implicit default values, see Section 10.1.4, “Data Type Default Values”.)

The change caused compatibility problems for applications that relied on the original behavior. It also caused replication problems between servers that had the original behavior and those that did not, for applications that assigned NULL to NOT NULL columns in UPDATE statements without strict SQL mode enabled. This change has been reverted so that UPDATE again had the original behavior. Problems can still occur if you replicate between servers that have the modified UPDATE behavior and those that do not. (Bug#39265)

Important Change: When using the MySQL Instance Configuration Wizard with a configuration where you already have an existing installation with a custom datadir, the wizard could reset the data to the default data directory. When performing an upgrade installation in this situation, you must re-specify your custom settings, including the datadir, to ensure that your configuration file is not reset to the default values. (Bug#37534)

Important Change: Uninstalling MySQL using the MySQL installer on Windows would delete the my.ini file. The file is no longer deleted. In addition, when a new installation is conducted, any existing cofiguration file will be renamed to myDATETIME.ini.bak during configuration. (Bug#36493)

Important Change: When installing MySQL on Windows, it was possible to install multiple editions (Complete, and Essential, for example) of the same version of MySQL, leading to two separate entries in the installed packages which were impossible to isolate. This could lead to problems with installation and uninstallation. The MySQL installer on Windows no longers allow multiple installations of the same version of MySQL on a single machine. (Bug#4217)

Replication: START SLAVE UNTIL did not work correctly with --replicate-same-server-id enabled; when started with this option, the slave did not perform events recorded in the relay log and that originated from a different master.

Log rotation events are automatically generated and written when rotating the binary log or relay log. Such events for relay logs are usually ignored by the slave SQL thread because they have the same server ID as that of the slave. However, when --replicate-same-server-id was enabled, the rotation event for the relay log was treated as if it originated on the master, because the log's name and position were incorrectly updated. This caused the MASTER_POS_WAIT() function always to return NULL and thus to fail. (Bug#38734, Bug#38934)

Replication: TRUNCATE TABLE statements failed to replicate when statement-based binary logging mode was not available. The issue was observed when using InnoDB with the transaction isolation level set to READ UNCOMMITTED (thus forcing InnoDB not to allow statement-based logging). However, the same behavior could be reproduced using any transactional storage engine supporting only row-based logging, regardless of the isolation level. This was due to two separate problems:

As a result of this fix, TRUNCATE TABLE is now treated as DDL for purposes of binary logging and replication; that is, it is always logged as a statement and so no longer causes an error when replicated using a transactional storage engine such as InnoDB. (Bug#36763)

See also Bug#42643.

Replication: mysqlbinlog replay of CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE ... LIKE statements and of TRUNCATE TABLE statements used on temporary tables failed with Error 1146 (Table ... doesn't exist). (Bug#35583)

Replication: In statement mode, mysqlbinlog failed to issue a SET @@autommit statement when the autocommit mode was changed. (Bug#34541)

Replication: LOAD DATA INFILE statements did not replicate correctly from a master running MySQL 4.1 to a slave running MySQL 5.1 or later. (Bug#31240)

The use by libedit of the __weak_reference() macro caused compilation failure on FreeBSD. (Bug#42817)

A '%' character in SQL statements could cause the server to crash. (Bug#42634)

An optimization introduced for Bug#37553 required an explicit cast to be added for some uses of TIMEDIFF() because automatic casting could produce incorrect results. (It was necessary to use TIME(TIMEDIFF(...)).) (Bug#42525)

On the IBM i5 platform, the MySQL configuration process caused the system version of pthread_setschedprio() to be used. This function returns SIGILL on i5 because it is not supported, causing the server to crash. Now the my_pthread_setprio() function in the mysys library is used instead. (Bug#42524)

The SSL certficates included with MySQL distributions were regenerated because the previous ones had expired. (Bug#42366)

User variables within triggers could cause a crash if the mysql_change_user() C API function was invoked. (Bug#42188)

Dependent subqueries such as the following caused a memory leak proportional to the number of outer rows:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t1, t2 WHERE t2.b
  IN (SELECT DISTINCT t2.b FROM t2 WHERE t2.b = t1.a);

(Bug#42037)

Some queries using NAME_CONST(.. COLLATE ...) led to a server crash due to a failed type cast. (Bug#42014)

On Mac OS X, some of the universal client libraries were not actually universal and were missing code for one or more architectures. (Bug#41940)

String reallocation could cause memory overruns. (Bug#41868)

mysql_install_db did not pass some relevant options to mysqld. (Bug#41828)

Setting innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog should be equivalent to setting the transaction isolation level to READ COMMITTED. However, if both of those things were done, nonmatching semi-consistently read rows were not unlocked when they should have been. (Bug#41671)

REPAIR TABLE crashed for compressed MyISAM tables. (Bug#41574)

For a TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT ... column, storing NULL as the return value from some functions caused a “cannot be NULL” error. NULL returns now correctly cause the column default value to be stored. (Bug#41370)

The server cannot execute INSERT DELAYED statements when statement-based binary logging is enabled, but the error message displayed only the table name, not the entire statement. (Bug#41121)

FULLTEXT indexes did not work for Unicode columns that used a custom UCA collation. (Bug#41084)

The Windows installer displayed incorrect product names in some images. (Bug#40845)

Changing innodb_thread_concurrency at runtime could cause errors. (Bug#40760)

SELECT statements could be blocked by INSERT DELAYED statements that were waiting for a lock, even with low_priority_updates enabled. (Bug#40536)

For InnoDB tables that used ROW_FORMAT=REDUNDANT, storage size of NULL columns could be determined incorrectly. (Bug#40369)

The query cache stored only partial query results if a statement failed while the results were being sent to the client. This could cause other clients to hang when trying to read the cached result. Now if a statement fails, the result is not cached. (Bug#40264)

When a MEMORY table became full, the error generated was returned to the client but was not written to the error log. (Bug#39886)

With row-based binary logging, replication of InnoDB tables containing NULL-valued BIT columns could fail. (Bug#39648)

The expression ROW(...) IN (SELECT ... FROM DUAL) always returned TRUE. (Bug#39069)

The greedy optimizer could cause a server crash due to improper handling of nested outer joins. (Bug#38795)

Use of COUNT(DISTINCT) prevented NULL testing in the HAVING clause. (Bug#38637)

The innodb_stats_on_metadata system variable was not displayed by SHOW VARIABLES and was not settable at runtime. (Bug#38189)

Enabling the sync_frm system variable had no effect on the handling of .frm files for views. (Bug#38145)

The embedded server truncated some error messages. (Bug#37995)

For comparison of NULL to a subquery result inside IS NULL, the comparison could evaluate to NULL rather than to TRUE or FALSE. This occurred for expressions such as:

SELECT ... WHERE NULL IN (SELECT ...) IS NULL

(Bug#37822)

Setting myisam_repair_threads greater than 1 caused a server crash for table repair or alteration operations for MyISAM tables with multiple FULLTEXT indexes. (Bug#37756)

When using the MySQL MSI Installer on Windows and selecting Back after a choosing Repair, you would be returned to the Fresh Install section of the installer. You are now correctly returned to the Install, Repair, Modify screen. (Bug#37294)

The mysql client sometimes improperly interpreted string escape sequences in nonstring contexts. (Bug#36391)

The query cache stored packets containing the server status of the time when the cached statement was run. This might lead to an incorrect transaction status on the client side if a statement was cached during a transaction and later served outside a transaction context (or vice versa). (Bug#36326)

If the system time was adjusted backward during query execution, the apparent execution time could be negative. But in some cases these queries would be written to the slow query log, with the negative execution time written as a large unsigned number. Now statements with apparent negative execution time are not written to the slow query log. (Bug#35396)

libmysqld was not built with all character sets. (Bug#32831)

For mysqld_multi, using the --mysqld=mysqld_safe option caused the --defaults-file and --defaults-extra-file options to behave the same way. (Bug#32136)

Attempts to open a valid MERGE table sometimes resulted in a ER_WRONG_MRG_TABLE error. This happened after failure to open an invalid MERGE table had also generated an ER_WRONG_MRG_TABLE error. (Bug#32047)

For Solaris package installation using pkgadd, the postinstall script failed, causing the system tables in the mysql database not to be created. (Bug#31164)

If the default database was dropped, the value of character_set_database was not reset to character_set_server as it should have been. (Bug#27208)

The libedit library was upgraded to version 2.11. (Bug#42433)

Security Fix: Using an XPath expression employing a scalar expression as a FilterExpr with ExtractValue() or UpdateXML() caused the server to crash. Such expressions now cause an error instead. (Bug#42495)

On the IBM i5 platform, the MySQL configuration process caused the system version of pthread_setschedprio() to be used. This function returns SIGILL on i5 because it is not supported, causing the server to crash. Now the my_pthread_setprio() function in the mysys library is used instead. (Bug#42524)

The SSL certficates included with MySQL distributions were regenerated because the previous ones had expired. (Bug#42366)

User variables within triggers could cause a crash if the mysql_change_user() C API function was invoked. (Bug#42188)

Some queries using NAME_CONST(.. COLLATE ...) led to a server crash due to a failed type cast. (Bug#42014)

MySQL-shared-compat-advanced-gpl-5.1.31-0.*.rpm and MySQL-shared-compat-advanced-5.1.31-0.*.rpm packages are now available. These client library compatibility packages are like the MySQL-shared-compat package, but are for the “MySQL Enterprise Server –dash; Advanced Edition” products. Install these packages rather than the normal MySQL-shared-compat package if you want to included shared client libraries for older MySQL versions. (Bug#41838)

A new status variable, Queries, indicates the number of statements executed by the server. This includes statements executed within stored programs, unlike the Questions variable which includes only statements sent to the server by clients. (Bug#41131)

Performance of SELECT * retrievals from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS was improved slightly. (Bug#38918)

Previously, index hints did not work for FULLTEXT searches. Now they work as follows:

For natural language mode searches, index hints are silently ignored. For example, IGNORE INDEX(i) is ignored with no warning and the index is still used.

For boolean mode searches, index hints with FOR ORDER BY or FOR GROUP BY are silently ignored. Index hints with FOR JOIN or no FOR modifier are honored. In contrast to how hints apply for non-FULLTEXT searches, the hint is used for all phases of query execution (finding rows and retrieval, grouping, and ordering). This is true even if the hint is given for a non-FULLTEXT index. (Bug#38842)

Performance: For an InnoDB table, DROP TABLE or ALTER TABLE ... DISCARD TABLESPACE could take a long time or cause a server crash. (Bug#39939)

Important Change: Replication: If a trigger was defined on an InnoDB table and this trigger updated a nontransactional table, changes performed on the InnoDB table were replicated and were visible on the slave before they were committed on the master, and were not rolled back on the slave after a successful rollback of those changes on the master.

As a result of the fix for this issue, the semantics of mixing nontransactional and transactional tables in a transaction in the first statement of a transaction have changed. Previously, if the first statement in a transaction contained nontransactional changes, the statement was written directly to the binary log. Now, any statement appearing after a BEGIN (or immediately following a COMMIT if autocommit = 0) is always considered part of the transaction and cached. This means that nontransactional changes do not propagate to the slave until the transaction is committed and thus written to the binary log.

See Section 16.3.1.28, “Replication and Transactions”, for more information about this change in behavior. (Bug#40116)

Important Change: The MSI installer packages for Windows are now digitally signed with a certificate, allowing installation on Windows where only certified packages are allowed by group policy or configuration.

As part of this change, and to comply with the certified installer requirements, the Setup.exe versions of the MySQL installer have been discontinued. You must have Windows Installer support in your Windows installation to use the MSI install package. This is a standard component on Windows XP SP2 and higher. For earlier versions, you can download the Microsoft Installer support from Microsoft.com. (Bug#36409)

Partitioning: Replication: Changing the transaction isolation level while replicating partitioned InnoDB tables could cause statement-based logging to fail. (Bug#39084)

Partitioning: A comparison with an invalid DATE value in a query against a partitioned table could lead to a crash of the MySQL server.

(Bug#40972)

Partitioning: A query on a user-partitioned table caused MySQL to crash, where the query had the following characteristics:

Two examples of such a query are given here, where a represents an indexed column used in the table's partitioning key:

This bug was introduced in MySQL 5.1.29. (Bug#40954)

This regression was introduced by Bug#30573, Bug#33257, Bug#33555.

Partitioning: With READ COMMITTED transaction isolation level, InnoDB uses a semi-consistent read that releases nonmatching rows after MySQL has evaluated the WHERE clause. However, this was not happening if the table used partitions. (Bug#40595)

Partitioning: A query that timed out when run against a partitioned table failed silently, without providing any warnings or errors, rather than returning Lock wait timeout exceeded. (Bug#40515)

Partitioning: ALTER TABLE ... REORGANIZE PARTITION could crash the server when the number of partitions was not changed. (Bug#40389)

See also Bug#41945.

Partitioning: For a partitioned table having an AUTO_INCREMENT column: If the first statement following a start of the server or a FLUSH TABLES statement was an UPDATE statement, the AUTO_INCREMENT column was not incremented correctly. (Bug#40176)

Partitioning: The server attempted to execute the statements ALTER TABLE ... ANALYZE PARTITION, ALTER TABLE ... CHECK PARTITION, ALTER TABLE ... OPTIMIZE PARTITION, and ALTER TABLE ... REORGANIZE PARTITION on tables that were not partitioned. (Bug#39434)

See also Bug#20129.

Partitioning: The value of the CREATE_COLUMNS column in INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES was not partitioned for partitioned tables. (Bug#38909)

Partitioning: When executing an ORDER BY query on a partitioned InnoDB table using an index that was not in the partition expression, the results were sorted on a per-partition basis rather than for the table as a whole. (Bug#37721)

Partitioning: Dropping or creating an index on a partitioned table managed by the InnoDB Plugin locked the table. (Bug#37453)

Partitioning: Partitioned table checking sometimes returned a warning with an error code of 0, making proper response to errors impossible. The fix also renders the error message subject to translation in non-English deployments. (Bug#36768)

Partitioning: SHOW TABLE STATUS could show a nonzero value for the Mean record length of a partitioned InnoDB table, even if the table contained no rows. (Bug#36312)

Partitioning: When SHOW CREATE TABLE was used on a partitioned table, all of the table's PARTITION and SUBPARTITION clauses were output on a single line, making it difficult to read or parse. (Bug#14326)

Replication: Per-table AUTO_INCREMENT option values were not replicated correctly for InnoDB tables. (Bug#41986)

Replication: Some log_event types did not skip the post-header when reading. (Bug#41961)

Replication: Attempting to read a binary log containing an Incident_log_event having an invalid incident number could cause the debug server to crash. (Bug#40482)

Replication: When using row-based replication, an update of a primary key that was rolled back on the master due to a duplicate key error was not rolled back on the slave. (Bug#40221)

Replication: When rotating relay log files, the slave deletes relay log files and then edits the relay log index file. Formerly, if the slave shut down unexpectedly between these two events, the relay log index file could then reference relay logs that no longer existed. Depending on the circumstances, this could when restarting the slave cause either a race condition or the failure of replication. (Bug#38826, Bug#39325)

Replication: With row-based replication, UPDATE and DELETE statements using LIMIT and a table's primary key could produce different results on the master and slave. (Bug#38230)

resolve_stack_dump was unable to resolve the stack trace format produced by mysqld in MySQL 5.1 and up (see Section 22.5.1.5, “Using a Stack Trace”). (Bug#41612)

In example option files provided in MySQL distributions, the thread_stack value was increased from 64K to 128K. (Bug#41577)

The optimizer could ignore an error and rollback request during a filesort, causing an assertion failure. (Bug#41543)

DATE_FORMAT() could cause a server crash for year-zero dates. (Bug#41470)

SET PASSWORD caused a server crash if the account name was given as CURRENT_USER(). (Bug#41456)

When a repair operation was carried out on a CSV table, the debug server crashed. (Bug#41441)

When substituting system constant functions with a constant result, the server was not expecting NULL function return values and could crash. (Bug#41437)

Queries such as SELECT ... CASE AVG(...) WHEN ... that used aggregate functions in a CASE expression crashed the server. (Bug#41363)

INSERT INTO .. SELECT ... FROM and CREATE TABLE ... SELECT ... FROM a TEMPORARY table could inadvertently change the locking type of the temporary table from a write lock to a read lock, causing statement failure. (Bug#41348)

The INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMA_PRIVILEGES table was limited to 7680 rows. (Bug#41079)

In debug builds, obsolete debug code could be used to crash the server. (Bug#41041)

Some queries that used a “range checked for each record” scan could return incorrect results. (Bug#40974)

See also Bug#44810.

Certain SELECT queries could fail with a Duplicate entry error. (Bug#40953)

For debug servers, OPTIMIZE TABLE on a compressed table caused a server crash. (Bug#40949)

Accessing user variables within triggers could cause a server crash. (Bug#40770)

IF(..., CAST(longtext_val AS UNSIGNED), signed_val) as an argument to an aggregate function could cause an assertion failure. (Bug#40761)

For single-table UPDATE statements, an assertion failure resulted from a runtime error in a stored function (such as a recursive function call or an attempt to update the same table as in the UPDATE statement). (Bug#40745)

TRUNCATE TABLE for an InnoDB table did not flush cached queries for the table. (Bug#40386)

Prepared statements allowed invalid dates to be inserted when the ALLOW_INVALID_DATES SQL mode was not enabled. (Bug#40365)

mc.exe is no longer needed to compile MySQL on Windows. This makes it possible to build MySQL from source using Visual Studio Express 2008. (Bug#40280)

The ':' character was incorrectly disallowed in table names. (Bug#40104)

Support for the revision field in .frm files has been removed. This addresses the downgrading problem introduced by the fix for Bug#17823. (Bug#40021)

Retrieval speed from the following INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables was improved by shortening the VARIABLE_VALUE column to 1024 characters: GLOBAL_VARIABLES, SESSION_VARIABLES, GLOBAL_STATUS, and SESSION_STATUS.

As a result of this change, any variable value longer than 1024 characters will be truncated with a warning. This affects only the init_connect system variable. (Bug#39955)

If the operating system is configured to return leap seconds from OS time calls or if the MySQL server uses a time zone definition that has leap seconds, functions such as NOW() could return a value having a time part that ends with :59:60 or :59:61. If such values are inserted into a table, they would be dumped as is by mysqldump but considered invalid when reloaded, leading to backup/restore problems.

Now leap second values are returned with a time part that ends with :59:59. This means that a function such as NOW() can return the same value for two or three consecutive seconds during the leap second. It remains true that literal temporal values having a time part that ends with :59:60 or :59:61 are considered invalid.

For additional details about leap-second handling, see Section 9.7.2, “Time Zone Leap Second Support”. (Bug#39920)

The server could crash during a sort-order optimization of a dependent subquery. (Bug#39844)

For a server started with the --temp-pool option on Windows, temporary file creation could fail. This option now is ignored except on Linux systems, which was its original intended scope. (Bug#39750)

ALTER TABLE on a table with FULLTEXT index that used a pluggable FULLTEXT parser could cause debug servers to crash. (Bug#39746)

With the ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY SQL mode enabled, the check for nonaggregated columns in queries with aggregate functions, but without a GROUP BY clause was treating all the parts of the query as if they were in the select list. This is fixed by ignoring the nonaggregated columns in the WHERE clause. (Bug#39656)

The server crashed if an integer field in a CSV file did not have delimiting quotes. (Bug#39616)

Creating a table with a comment of 62 characters or longer caused a server crash. (Bug#39591)

The do_abi_check program run during the build process depends on mysql_version.h but that file was not created first, resulting in build failure. (Bug#39571)

CHECK TABLE failed for MyISAM INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables. (Bug#39541)

On 64-bit Windows systems, the server accepted key_buffer_size values larger than 4GB, but allocated less. (For example, specifying a value of 5GB resulted in 1GB being allocated.) (Bug#39494)

InnoDB could hang trying to open an adaptive hash index. (Bug#39483)

Following ALTER TABLE ... DISCARD TABLESPACE for an InnoDB table, an attempt to determine the free space for the table before the ALTER TABLE operation had completely finished could cause a server crash. (Bug#39438)

Use of the PACK_KEYS or MAX_ROWS table option in ALTER TABLE should have triggered table reconstruction but did not. (Bug#39372)

The server returned a column type of VARBINARY rather than DATE as the result from the COALESCE(), IFNULL(), IF(), GREATEST(), or LEAST() functions or CASE expression if the result was obtained using filesort in an anonymous temporary table during the query execution. (Bug#39283)

A server built using yaSSL for SSL support would crash if configured to use an RSA key and a client sent a cipher list containing a non-RSA key as acceptable. (Bug#39178)

When built with Valgrind, the server failed to access tables created with the DATA DIRECTORY or INDEX DIRECTORY table option. (Bug#39102)

With binary logging enabled CREATE VIEW was subject to possible buffer overwrite and a server crash. (Bug#39040)

The fast mutex implementation was subject to excessive lock contention. (Bug#38941)

Use of InnoDB monitoring (SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS or one of the InnoDB Monitor tables) could cause a server crash due to invalid access to a shared variable in a concurrent environment. (Bug#38883)

InnoDB could fail to generate AUTO_INCREMENT values after an UPDATE statement for the table. (Bug#38839)

If delayed insert failed to upgrade the lock, it did not free the temporary memory storage used to keep newly constructed BLOB values in memory, resulting in a memory leak. (Bug#38693)

On Windows, a five-second delay occurred at shutdown of applications that used the embedded server. (Bug#38522)

On Solaris, a scheduling policy applied to the main server process could be unintentionally overwritten in client-servicing threads. (Bug#38477)

Building MySQL on FreeBSD would result in a failure during the gen_lex_hash phase of the build. (Bug#38364)

On Windows, the embedded server would crash in mysql_library_init() if the language file was missing. (Bug#38293)

A mix of TRUNCATE TABLE with LOCK TABLES and UNLOCK TABLES for an InnoDB could cause a server crash. (Bug#38231)

The ExtractValue() function did not work correctly with XML documents containing a DOCTYPE declaration. (Bug#38227)

Queries with a HAVING clause could return a spurious row. (Bug#38072)

The Event Scheduler no longer logs “started in thread” or “executed” successfully messages to the error log. (Bug#38066)

Use of spatial data types in prepared statements could cause memory leaks or server crashes. (Bug#37956, Bug#37671)

An error in a debugging check caused crashes in debug servers. (Bug#37936)

A SELECT with a NULL NOT IN condition containing a complex subquery from the same table as in the outer select caused an assertion failure. (Bug#37894)

The presence of a /* ... */ comment preceding a query could cause InnoDB to use unnecessary gap locks. (Bug#37885)

Use of an uninitialized constant in EXPLAIN evaluation caused an assertion failure. (Bug#37870)

When using ALTER TABLE on an InnoDB table, the AUTO_INCREMENT value could be changed to an incorrect value. (Bug#37788)

Primary keys were treated as part of a covering index even if only a prefix of a key column was used. (Bug#37742)

Renaming an ARCHIVE table to the same name with different lettercase and then selecting from it could cause a server crash. (Bug#37719)

The MONTHNAME() and DAYNAME() functions returned a binary string, so that using LOWER() or UPPER() had no effect. Now MONTHNAME() and DAYNAME() return a value in character_set_connection character set. (Bug#37575)

TIMEDIFF() was erroneously treated as always returning a positive result. Also, CAST() of TIME values to DECIMAL dropped the sign of negative values. (Bug#37553)

See also Bug#42525.

SHOW PROCESSLIST displayed “copy to tmp table” when no such copy was occurring. (Bug#37550)

mysqlcheck used SHOW FULL TABLES to get the list of tables in a database. For some problems, such as an empty .frm file for a table, this would fail and mysqlcheck then would neglect to check other tables in the database. (Bug#37527)

Updating a view with a subquery in the CHECK option could cause an assertion failure. (Bug#37460)

Statements that displayed the value of system variables (for example, SHOW VARIABLES) expect variable values to be encoded in character_set_system. However, variables set from the command line such as basedir or datadir were encoded using character_set_filesystem and not converted correctly. (Bug#37339)

CREATE INDEX could crash with InnoDB plugin 1.0.1. (Bug#37284)

Certain boolean-mode FULLTEXT searches that used the truncation operator did not return matching records and calculated relevance incorrectly. (Bug#37245)

On a 32-bit server built without big tables support, the offset argument in a LIMIT clause might be truncated due to a 64-bit to 32-bit cast. (Bug#37075)

For an InnoDB table with a FOREIGN KEY constraint, TRUNCATE TABLE may be performed using row by row deletion. If an error occurred during this deletion, the table would be only partially emptied. Now if an error occurs, the truncation operation is rolled back and the table is left unchanged. (Bug#37016)

The code for the ut_usectime() function in InnoDB did not handle errors from the gettimeofday() system call. Now it retries gettimeofday() several times and updates the value of the Innodb_row_lock_time_max status variable only if ut_usectime() was successful. (Bug#36819)

Use of CONVERT() with GROUP BY to convert numeric values to CHAR could return truncated results. (Bug#36772)

The mysql client, when built with Visual Studio 2005, did not display Japanese characters. (Bug#36279)

CREATE INDEX for InnoDB tables could under very rare circumstances cause the server to crash.. (Bug#36169)

A read past the end of the string could occur while parsing the value of the --innodb-data-file-path option. (Bug#36149)

Setting the slave_compressed_protocol system variable to DEFAULT failed in the embedded server. (Bug#35999)

For upgrades to MySQL 5.1 or higher, mysql_upgrade did not re-encode database or table names that contained nonalphanumeric characters. (They would still appear after the upgrade with the #mysql50# prefix described in Section 8.2.3, “Mapping of Identifiers to File Names”.) To correct this problem, it was necessary to run mysqlcheck --all-databases --check-upgrade --fix-db-names --fix-table-names manually. mysql_upgrade now runs that command automatically after performing the initial upgrade. (Bug#35934)

SHOW CREATE TABLE did not display a printable value for the default value of BIT columns. (Bug#35796)

The columns that store character set and collation names in several INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables were lengthened because they were not long enough to store some possible values: SCHEMATA, TABLES, COLUMNS, CHARACTER_SETS, COLLATIONS, and COLLATION_CHARACTER_SET_APPLICABILITY. (Bug#35789)

The max_length metadata value was calculated incorrectly for the FORMAT() function, which could cause incorrect result set metadata to be sent to clients. (Bug#35558)

InnoDB was not updating the Handler_delete or Handler_update status variables. (Bug#35537)

InnoDB could fail to generate AUTO_INCREMENT values if rows previously had been inserted containing literal values for the AUTO_INCREMENT column. (Bug#35498, Bug#36411, Bug#39830)

The CREATE_OPTIONS column for INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES did not display the KEY_BLOCK_SIZE option. (Bug#35275)

Selecting from an INFORMATION_SCHEMA table into an incorrectly defined MERGE table caused an assertion failure. (Bug#35068)

perror on Windows did not know about Win32 system error codes. (Bug#34825)

EXPLAIN EXTENDED evaluation of aggregate functions that required a temporary table caused a server crash. (Bug#34773)

SHOW GLOBAL STATUS shows values that aggregate the session status values for all threads. This did not work correctly for the embedded server. (Bug#34517)

mysqldumpslow did not aggregate times. (Bug#34129)

mysql_config did not output -ldl (or equivalent) when needed for --libmysqld-libs, so its output could be insufficient to build applications that use the embedded server. (Bug#34025)

The mysql client incorrectly parsed statements containing the word “delimiter” in mid-statement.

This fix is different from the one applied for this bug in MySQL 5.1.26. (Bug#33812)

See also Bug#38158.

For a stored procedure containing a SELECT * ... RIGHT JOIN query, execution failed for the second call. (Bug#33811)

Previously, use of index hints with views (which do not have indexes) produced the error ERROR 1221 (HY000): Incorrect usage of USE/IGNORE INDEX and VIEW. Now this produces ERROR 1176 (HY000): Key '...' doesn't exist in table '...', the same error as for base tables without an appropriate index. (Bug#33461)

Three conditions were discovered that could cause an upgrade from MySQL 5.0 to 5.1 to fail: 1) Triggers associated with a table that had a #mysql50# prefix in the name could cause assertion failure. 2) ALTER DATABASE ... UPGRADE DATA DIRECTORY NAME failed for databases that had a #mysql50# prefix if there were triggers in the database. 3) mysqlcheck --fix-table-name didn't use UTF8 as the default character set, resulting in parsing errors for tables with nonlatin symbols in their names and trigger definitions. (Bug#33094, Bug#41385)

Execution of a prepared statement that referred to a system variable caused a server crash. (Bug#32124)

Some division operations produced a result with incorrect precision. (Bug#31616)

Queries executed using join buffering of BIT columns could produce incorrect results. (Bug#31399)

ALTER TABLE CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET did not convert TINYTEXT or MEDIUMTEXT columns to a longer text type if necessary when converting the column to a different character set. (Bug#31291)

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

See also Bug#6958.

For installation on Solaris using pkgadd packages, the mysql_install_db script was generated in the scripts directory, but the temporary files used during the process were left there and not deleted. (Bug#31052)

Static storage engines and plugins that were disabled and dynamic plugins that were installed but disabled were not listed in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA appropriate PLUGINS or ENGINES table. (Bug#29263)

Some SHOW statements and retrievals from the INFORMATION_SCHEMA TRIGGERS and EVENTS tables used a temporary table and incremented the Created_tmp_disk_tables status variable, due to the way that TEXT columns are handled. The TRIGGERS.SQL_MODE, TRIGGERS.DEFINER, and EVENTS.SQL_MODE columns now are VARCHAR to avoid this problem. (Bug#29153)

For several read only system variables that were viewable with SHOW VARIABLES, attempting to view them with SELECT @@var_name or set their values with SET resulted in an unknown system variable error. Now they can be viewed with SELECT @@var_name and attempting to set their values results in a message indicating that they are read only. (Bug#28234)

On Windows, Visual Studio does not take into account some x86 hardware limitations, which led to incorrect results converting large DOUBLE values to unsigned BIGINT values. (Bug#27483)

SSL support was not included in some “generic” RPM packages. (Bug#26760)

The Questions status variable is intended as a count of statements sent by clients to the server, but was also counting statements executed within stored routines. (Bug#24289)

Setting the session value of the max_allowed_packet or net_buffer_length system variable was allowed but had no effect. The session value of these variables is now read only. (Bug#22891)

See also Bug#32223.

A race condition between the mysqld.exe server and the Windows service manager could lead to inability to stop the server from the service manager. (Bug#20430)

On Windows, moving an InnoDB .ibd file and then symlinking to it in the database directory using a .sym file caused a server crash. (Bug#11894)

Partitioning: A SELECT using a range WHERE condition with an ORDER BY on a partitioned table caused a server crash. (Bug#40494)

Replication: Row-based replication failed with nonpartitioned MyISAM tables having no indexes. (Bug#40004)

With statement-based binary logging format and a transaction isolation level of READ COMMITTED or stricter, InnoDB printed an error because statement-based logging might lead to inconsistency between master and slave databases. However, this error was printed even when binary logging was not enabled (in which case, no such inconsistency can occur). (Bug#40360)

The CHECK TABLE ... FOR UPGRADE statement did not check for incompatible collation changes made in MySQL 5.1.24 (Bug#27877). This also affects mysqlcheck and mysql_upgrade, which cause that statement to be executed. See Section 2.4.3, “Checking Whether Tables or Indexes Must Be Rebuilt”.

Prior to this fix, a binary upgrade (performed without dumping tables with mysqldump before the upgrade and reloading the dump file after the upgrade) would corrupt tables that have indexes that use the utf8_general_ci or ucs2_general_ci collation for columns that contain '?' LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S (German). After the fix, CHECK TABLE ... FOR UPGRADE properly detects the problem and warns about tables that need repair.

However, the fix is not backward compatible and can result in a downgrading problem under these circumstances:

The solution is to dump tables with mysqldump before the downgrade and reload the dump file after the downgrade. Alternatively, drop and recreate affected indexes. (Bug#40053)

Some recent releases for Solaris 10 were built on Solaris 10 U5, which included a new version of libnsl.so that does not work on U4 or earlier. To correct this, Solaris 10 builds now are created on machines that do not have that upgraded libnsl.so, so that they will work on Solaris 10 installations both with and without the upgraded libnsl.so. (Bug#39074)

With binary logging enabled, CREATE TABLE ... SELECT and INSERT INTO ... SELECT failed if the source table was a log table. (Bug#34306)

XA transaction rollbacks could result in corrupted transaction states and a server crash. (Bug#28323)

ALTER TABLE for an ENUM column could change column values. (Bug#23113)

Important Change: The --skip-thread-priority option is now deprecated such that the server won't change the thread priorities by default. Giving threads different priorities might yield marginal improvements in some platforms (where it actually works), but it might instead cause significant degradation depending on the thread count and number of processors. Meddling with the thread priorities is a not a safe bet as it is very dependent on the behavior of the CPU scheduler and system where MySQL is being run. (Bug#35164, Bug#37536)

Important Change: The --log option now is deprecated and will be removed (along with the log system variable) in the future. Instead, use the --general_log option to enable the general query log and the --general_log_file=file_name option to set the general query log file name. The values of these options are available in the general_log and general_log_file system variables, which can be changed at runtime.

Similar changes were made for the --log-slow-queries option and log_slow_queries system variable. You should use the --slow_query_log and --slow_query_log_file=file_name options instead (and the slow_query_log and slow_query_log_file system variables).

The BUILD/compile-solaris-* scripts now compile MySQL with the mtmalloc library rather than malloc. (Bug#38727)

Incompatible Change: Replication: The default binary logging mode has been changed from MIXED to STATEMENT for compatibility with MySQL 5.0. (Bug#39812)

Incompatible Change: CHECK TABLE ... FOR UPGRADE did not check for incompatible collation changes made in MySQL 5.1.21 (Bug#29499) and 5.1.23 (Bug#27562, Bug#29461). This also affects mysqlcheck and mysql_upgrade, which cause that statement to be executed. See Section 2.4.3, “Checking Whether Tables or Indexes Must Be Rebuilt”. (Bug#39585)

See also Bug#40984.

Incompatible Change: In connection with view creation, the server created arc directories inside database directories and maintained useless copies of .frm files there. Creation and renaming procedures of those copies as well as creation of arc directories has been discontinued.

This change does cause a problem when downgrading to older server versions which manifests itself under these circumstances:

As a workaround to avoid this problem, use either of these approaches:

The downgrade problem introduced by the fix for this bug has been addressed as Bug#40021. (Bug#17823)

Important Change: Replication: The SUPER privilege is now required to change the session value of binlog_format as well as its global value. For more information about binlog_format, see Section 16.1.2, “Replication Formats”. (Bug#39106)

Partitioning: Replication: Replication to partitioned MyISAM tables could be slow with row-based binary logging. (Bug#35843)

Partitioning: If an error occurred when evaluating a column of a partitioned table for the partitioning function, the row could be inserted anyway. (Bug#38083)

Partitioning: Using INSERT ... SELECT to insert records into a partitioned MyISAM table could fail if some partitions were empty and others are not. (Bug#38005)

Partitioning: Ordered range scans on partitioned tables were not always handled correctly. In some cases this caused some rows to be returned twice. The same issue also caused GROUP BY query results to be aggregated incorrectly. (Bug#30573, Bug#33257, Bug#33555)

Replication: Server code used in binary logging could in some cases be invoked even though binary logging was not actually enabled, leading to asserts and other server errors. (Bug#38798)

Replication: Replication of BLACKHOLE tables did not work with row-based binary logging. (Bug#38360)

Replication: In some cases, a replication master sent a special event to a reconnecting slave to keep the slave's temporary tables, but they still had references to the “old” slave SQL thread and used them to access that thread's data. (Bug#38269)

Replication: Replication filtering rules were inappropiately applied when executing BINLOG pseudo-queries. One way in which this problem showed itself was that, when replaying a binary log with mysqlbinlog, RBR events were sometimes not executed if the --replicate-do-db option was specified. Now replication rules are applied only to those events executed by the slave SQL thread. (Bug#36099)

Replication: For a CREATE TABLE ... SELECT statement that creates a table in a database other than the current one, the table could be created in the wrong database on replication slaves if row-based binary logging is used. (Bug#34707)

Replication: A statement did not always commit or roll back correctly when the server was shut down; the error could be triggered by having a failing UPDATE or INSERT statement on a transactional table, causing an implicit rollback. (Bug#32709)

See also Bug#38262.

The Sun Studio compiler failed to build debug versions of the server due to use of features specific to gcc. (Bug#39451)

For a TIMESTAMP column in an InnoDB table, testing the column with multiple conditions in the WHERE clause caused a server crash. (Bug#39353)

References to local variables in stored procedures are replaced with NAME_CONST(name, value) when written to the binary log. However, an “illegal mix of collation” error might occur when executing the log contents if the value's collation differed from that of the variable. Now information about the variable collation is written as well. (Bug#39182)

Queries of the form SELECT ... REGEXP BINARY NULL could lead to a hung or crashed server. (Bug#39021)

Statements of the form INSERT ... SELECT .. ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE col_name = DEFAULT could result in a server crash. (Bug#39002)

Column names constructed due to wild-card expansion done inside a stored procedure could point to freed memory if the expansion was performed after the first call to the stored procedure. (Bug#38823)

Repeated CREATE TABLE ... SELECT statements, where the created table contained an AUTO_INCREMENT column, could lead to an assertion failure. (Bug#38821)

For deadlock between two transactions that required a timeout to resolve, all server tables became inaccessible for the duration of the deadlock. (Bug#38804)

When inserting a string into a duplicate-key error message, the server could improperly interpret the string, resulting in a crash. (Bug#38701)

A race condition between threads sometimes caused unallocated memory to be addressed. (Bug#38692)

A server crash resulted from concurrent execution of a multiple-table UPDATE that used a NATURAL or USING join together with FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK or ALTER TABLE for the table being updated. (Bug#38691)

On ActiveState Perl, mysql-test-run.pl --start-and-exit started but did not exit. (Bug#38629)

An uninitialized variable in the query profiling code was corrected (detected by Valgrind). (Bug#38560)

A server crash resulted from execution of an UPDATE that used a derived table together with FLUSH TABLES. (Bug#38499)

Stored procedures involving substrings could crash the server on certain platforms due to invalid memory reads. (Bug#38469)

The handlerton-to-plugin mapping implementation did not free handler plugin references when the plugin was uninstalled, resulting in a server crash after several install/uninstall cycles. Also, on Mac OS X, the server crashed when trying to access an EXAMPLE table after the EXAMPLE plugin was installed. (Bug#37958)

The server crashed if an argument to a stored procedure was a subquery that returned more than one row. (Bug#37949)

When analyzing the possible index use cases, the server was incorrectly reusing an internal structure, leading to a server crash. (Bug#37943)

Access checks were skipped for SHOW PROCEDURE STATUS and SHOW FUNCTION STATUS, which could lead to a server crash or insufficient access checks in subsequent statements. (Bug#37908)

The <=> operator could return incorrect results when comparing NULL to DATE, TIME, or DATETIME values. (Bug#37526)

The combination of a subquery with a GROUP BY, an aggregate function calculated outside the subquery, and a GROUP BY on the outer SELECT could cause the server to crash. (Bug#37348)

The NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES SQL mode was ignored for LOAD DATA INFILE and SELECT INTO ... OUTFILE. The setting is taken into account now. (Bug#37114)

In some cases, references to views were confused with references to anonymous tables and privilege checking was not performed. (Bug#36086)

For crash reports on Windows, symbol names in stack traces were not correctly resolved. (Bug#35987)

ALTER EVENT changed the PRESERVE attribute of an event even when PRESERVE was not specified in the statement. (Bug#35981)

Host name values in SQL statements were not being checked for '@', which is illegal according to RFC952. (Bug#35924)

mysql_install_db failed on machines that had the host name set to localhost. (Bug#35754)

Dynamic plugins failed to load on i5/OS. (Bug#35743)

With the PAD_CHAR_TO_FULL_LENGTH SQL mode enabled, a ucs2 CHAR column returned additional garbage after trailing space characters. (Bug#35720)

A trigger for an InnoDB table activating multiple times could lead to AUTO_INCREMENT gaps. (Bug#31612)

mysqldump could fail to dump views containing a large number of columns. (Bug#31434)

The server could improperly type user-defined variables used in the select list of a query. (Bug#26020)

For access to the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS table, the server did not check the SHOW VIEW and SELECT privileges, leading to inconsistency between output from that table and the SHOW CREATE VIEW statement. (Bug#22763)

mysqld_safe would sometimes fail to remove the pid file for the old mysql process after a crash. As a result, the server would fail to start due to a false A mysqld process already exists... error. (Bug#11122)

Important Change: mysqlbinlog now supports --verbose and --base64-output=DECODE-ROWS options to display row events as commented SQL statements. (The default otherwise is to display row events encoded as base-64 strings using BINLOG statements.) See Section 4.6.7.2, “mysqlbinlog Row Event Display”. (Bug#31455)

MySQL source distributions are now available in Zip format. (Bug#27742)

Added the SHOW PROFILES and SHOW PROFILE statements to display statement profile data, and the accompanying INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PROFILING table. Profiling is controlled via the profiling and profiling_history_size session variables. see Section 12.5.5.33, “SHOW PROFILES Syntax”, and Section 20.26, “The INFORMATION_SCHEMA PROFILING Table”. (Community contribution by Jeremy Cole)

The profiling feature is enabled via the --enable-community-features and --enable-profiling options to configure. These options are enabled by default; to disable them, use --disable-community-features and --disable-profiling. (Bug#24795)

Performance: Incompatible Change: Some performance problems of SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS were reduced by removing used cells and Total number of lock structs in row lock hash table from the output. Now these values are present only if the UNIV_DEBUG symbol is defined at MySQL build time. (Bug#36941, Bug#36942)

Performance: Over-aggressive lock acquisition by InnoDB when calculating free space for tablespaces could result in performance degradation when multiple threads were executing statements on multi-core machines. (Bug#38185)

Important Change: Security Fix: Additional corrections were made for the symlink-related privilege problem originally addressed in MySQL 5.1.24. The original fix did not correctly handle the data directory path name if it contained symlinked directories in its path, and the check was made only at table-creation time, not at table-opening time later.

(Bug#32167, CVE-2008-2079)

See also Bug#39277.

Security Enhancement: The server consumed excess memory while parsing statements with hundreds or thousands of nested boolean conditions (such as OR (OR ... (OR ... ))). This could lead to a server crash or incorrect statement execution, or cause other client statements to fail due to lack of memory. The latter result constitutes a denial of service. (Bug#38296)

Incompatible Change: There were some problems using DllMain() hook functions on Windows that automatically do global and per-thread initialization for libmysqld.dll:

To correct these problems, DLL initialization code now is not invoked from libmysql.dll by default. To obtain the previous behavior (DLL initialization code will be called), set the LIBMYSQL_DLLINIT environment variable to any value. This variable exists only to prevent breakage of existing Windows-only applications that do not call mysql_thread_init() and work okay today. Use of LIBMYSQL_DLLINIT is discouraged and is removed in MySQL 6.0. (Bug#37226, Bug#33031)

Incompatible Change: SHOW STATUS took a lot of CPU time for calculating the value of the Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_latched status variable. Now this variable is calculated and included in the output of SHOW STATUS only if the UNIV_DEBUG symbol is defined at MySQL build time. (Bug#36600)

Incompatible Change: An additional correction to the original MySQL 5.1.23 fix was made to normalize directory names before adding them to the list of directories. This prevents /etc/ and /etc from being considered different, for example. (Bug#20748)

See also Bug#38180.

Partitioning: When a partitioned table had a TIMESTAMP column defined with CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as the default but with no ON UPDATE clause, the column's value was incorrectly set to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP when updating across partitions. (Bug#38272)

Partitioning: myisamchk failed with an assertion error when analyzing a partitioned MyISAM table. (Bug#37537)

Partitioning: A LIST partitioned MyISAM table returned erroneous results when an index was present on a column in the WHERE clause and NOT IN was used on that column.

Searches using the index were also much slower then if the index were not present. (Bug#35931)

Partitioning: SELECT COUNT(*) was not correct for some partitioned tables using a storage engine that did not support HA_STATS_RECORDS_IS_EXACT. Tables using the ARCHIVE storage engine were known to be affected.

This was because ha_partition::records() was not implemented, and so the default handler::records() was used in its place. However, this is not correct behavior if the storage engine does not support HA_STATS_RECORDS_IS_EXACT.

The solution was to implement ha_partition::records() as a wrapper around the underlying partition records.

As a result of this fix, the rows column in the output of EXPLAIN PARTITIONS now includes the total number of records in the partitioned table. (Bug#35745)

Partitioning: MyISAM recovery enabled with the --myisam-recover option did not work for partitioned MyISAM tables. (Bug#35161)

Partitioning: When one user was in the midst of a transaction on a partitioned table, a second user performing an ALTER TABLE on this table caused the server to hang. (Bug#34604)

Partitioning: Attempting to execute an INSERT DELAYED statement on a partitioned table produced the error Table storage engine for 'table' doesn't have this option, which did not reflect the source of the error accurately. The error message returned in such cases has been changed to DELAYED option not supported for table 'table'. (Bug#31210)

Replication: Some kinds of internal errors, such as Out of memory errors, could cause the server to crash when replicating statements with user variables.

certain internal errors. (Bug#37150)

Replication: Row-based replication did not correctly copy TIMESTAMP values from a big-endian storage engine to a little-endian storage engine. (Bug#37076)

Replication: INSTALL PLUGIN and UNINSTALL PLUGIN caused row-based replication to fail.

(Bug#35807)

Server-side cursors were not initialized properly, which could cause a server crash. (Bug#38486)

A server crash or Valgrind warnings could result when a stored procedure selected from a view that referenced a function. (Bug#38291)

A failure to clean up binary log events was corrected (detected by Valgrind). (Bug#38290)

Incorrect handling of aggregate functions when loose index scan was used caused a server crash. (Bug#38195)

Queries containing a subquery with DISTINCT and ORDER BY could cause a server crash. (Bug#38191)

The fix for Bug#20748 caused a problem such that on Unix, MySQL programs looked for options in ~/my.cnf rather than the standard location of ~/.my.cnf. (Bug#38180)

If the table definition cache contained tables with many BLOB columns, much memory could be allocated to caching BLOB values. Now a size limit on the cached BLOB values is enforced. (Bug#38002)

For InnoDB tables, ORDER BY ... DESC sometimes returned results in ascending order. (Bug#37830)