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The major difference between release 3.23 and releases 3.22 and 3.21 is that 3.23 contains a new ISAM library (MyISAM), which is more tuned for SQL than the old ISAM was.
The 3.23 release is under development, and things will be added at a fast pace to it. For the moment we recommend this version only for users that desperately need a new feature that is found only in this release (like big file support and machine-independent tables). (Note that all new functionality in MySQL 3.23 is extensively tested, but as this release involves much new code, it's difficult to test everything). This version should start to stabilize as soon as we get subselects included in it.
INSERT DELAYED. See section 4.11.5
Linux notes (all Linux versions) MyISAM with keys > 250 characters. MyISAM one can now do an INSERT at the same time as other
threads are reading from the table. max_write_lock_count to mysqld to force a READ
lock after a certain number of WRITE locks. delayed_key_write on show variables. concurrency to thread_concurrency. LOCATE(substr,str), POSITION(substr
IN str), LOCATE(substr,str,pos), INSTR(str,substr), LEFT(str,len),
RIGHT(str,len), SUBSTRING(str,pos,len), SUBSTRING(str FROM
pos FOR len), MID(str,pos,len), SUBSTRING(str,pos), SUBSTRING(str
FROM pos), SUBSTRING_INDEX(str,delim,count), RTRIM(str), TRIM([[BOTH
| TRAILING] [remstr] FROM] str), REPLACE(str,from_str,to_str), REVERSE(str),
INSERT(str,pos,len,newstr), LCASE(str), LOWER(str),
UCASE(str) and UPPER(str); Patch by Wei He. FULL to SHOW PROCESSLIST. --verbose to mysqladmin. REPLACE() and LOAD DATA INFILE. mysqld variable interactive_timeout. mysql_data_seek() from ulong to ulonglong.
mysqld option -O lower_case_table_names={0|1} to allow
users to force table names to lower case. SELECT ... INTO DUMPFILE. --ansi to make some functions ANSI SQL
compatible. #sql. ` (" in --ansi
mode). [floor() overflow safe on FREEBSD. --quote-names to mysqldump PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL. encrypt() to be thread safe and not reuse buffer. mysql_odbc_escape_string() function to support big5 characters in
MyOBC. FLOAT and DOUBLE (without any length modifiers)
are not anymore fixed decimal point numbers. FLOAT(X): Now this is the same as FLOAT
if X <= 24 and a DOUBLE if 24 < X <= 53. DECIMAL(X) is now an alias for DECIMAL(X,0) and DECIMAL
is now an alias for DECIMAL(10,0). The same goes for NUMERIC. ROW_FORMAT={default | dynamic | static | compressed} to CREATE_TABLE.
DELETE FROM table_name didn't work on temporary tables. CHAR_LENGTH() to be multi-byte character safe. ORD(string). SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY RAND(). ALTER TABLE + adding a column after the last field didn't work. CREATE TABLE
foo (a int not null auto_increment, b char(5), primary key (b,a)) AS on fieldname with CREATE TABLE table_name SELECT ... didn't
work. NATIONAL and NCHAR when defining character
columns. This is the same as not using BINARY. NULL columns in a PRIMARY KEY (only in UNIQUE
keys). LAST_INSERT_ID if in uses this in ODBC: WHERE
auto_increment_column IS NULL. This seams to fix some problems with Access. SET SQL_AUTO_IS_NULL=0|1 now turns off/on the handling of searching after
the last inserted row with WHERE auto_increment_column IS NULL. concurrency for Solaris. --relative to mysqladmin to make extended-status
more useful to monitor changes. COUNT(DISTINCT..) on an empty table. LOAD DATA INFILE and BLOB columns. ~ (negation). UDF functions. DATETIME into a TIME column will not anymore try
to store 'days' in it. SUM().)
LIKE "%" on a index that may have NULL
values. REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES didn't revoke all privileges. SHOW GRANTS FOR user (by Sinisa). date_add syntax: date/datetime + INTERVAL # interval_type.
By Joshua Chamas. LOAD DATA REPLACE. REGEXP is now case insensitive if you use not binary strings. Added patches for MIT-pthreads on NetBSD.
ASC is now the default again for ORDER BY. LIMIT to UPDATE. mysql_change_user(). SHOW VARIABLES. --[whitespace] comments. INSERT into tbl_name VALUES (), that is, you may now specify an empty
value list to insert a row in which each column is set to its default value. SUBSTRING(text FROM pos) to conform to ANSI SQL. (Before this
construct returned the rightmost 'pos' characters). SUM(..) with GROUP BY returned 0 on some systems. SHOW TABLE STATUS. DELAY_KEY_WRITE option to CREATE TABLE. AUTO_INCREMENT on any key part. YEAR(NOW()) and YEAR(CURDATE()). CASE construct. COALESCE(). SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE key_part1 >= const
AND (key_part2 = const OR key_part2 = const). The bug was that some rows could be
duplicated in the result. myisamchk without -a updated the index distribution
wrong. SET SQL_LOW_PRIORITY_UPDATES=1 gave parse error before. WHERE clause. UPDATE
tbl_name SET KEY=KEY+1 WHERE KEY > 100 SELECT ... WHERE key_part1=const1 AND key_part_2=const2 AND
key_part1=const4 AND key_part2=const4 ; Indextype should be range
instead of ref. egcs 1.1.2 optimizer bug (when using BLOBs) on Linux
Alpha. LOCK TABLES combined with DELETE FROM table.
NULL and BLOB/TEXT columns. SELECT ... FROM t1 LEFT JOIN t2 ON ...
WHERE t2.not_null_column IS NULL. ORDER BY and GROUP BY can be done on functions. ORDER BY RAND(). WHERE key_column = function. WHERE key_column = column_name even if the columns
are not identically packed. WHERE column_name IS NULL. --init-file=file_name to mysqld. COUNT(DISTINCT value,[value,...]) CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE now creates a temporary table, in its own namespace,
that is automatically deleted if connection is dropped. CASE): CASE, THEN, WHEN, ELSE and END.
EXPORT_SET() and MD5(). A new table handler library (MyISAM) with a lot of new features. See
section 9.4 MySQL table types.
HEAP tables which are extremely fast for lookups. LOAD_FILE(filename) to get the contents of a file as a string
value. <=> which will act as = but will return
TRUE if both arguments are NULL. This is useful for comparing changes between
tables. EXTRACT(interval FROM datetime) function. FLOAT(X) is not rounded on storage and may be in
scientific notation (1.0 E+10) when retrieved. REPLACE is now faster than before. LIKE character comparison to behave as =; This means
that 'e' LIKE ''e' is now true. SHOW TABLE STATUS returns a lot of information about the tables. LIKE to the SHOW STATUS command. SHOW COLUMNS. packed and comment to SHOW INDEX. CREATE TABLE ... COMMENT "xxx"). UNIQUE, as in CREATE TABLE table_name (col int not null UNIQUE)
CREATE TABLE table_name SELECT .... CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ... CHAR(0) columns. DATE_FORMAT() now requires `%' before any format character. DELAYED is now a reserved word (sorry about that :( ). analyse, file: `sql_analyse.c'.
This will describe the data in your query. Try the following: SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE ... PROCEDURE ANALYSE([max elements,[max memory]])
This procedure is extremely useful when you want to check the data in your table!
BINARY cast to force a string to be compared case sensitively. --skip-show-database to mysqld. UPDATE now also works with BLOB/TEXT
columns. INNER join syntax. NOTE: This made INNER
an reserved word! IP/NETMASK syntax. NOT NULL DATE/DATETIME column with IS NULL,
this is changed to a compare against 0 to satisfy some ODBC applications. (By
[email protected]). NULL IN (...) now returns NULL instead of 0. This
will ensure that null_column NOT IN (...) doesn't match NULL
values. TIME columns. TIME strings to be more strict. Now the fractional
second part is detected (and currently skipped). The following formats are supported: [[DAYS] [H]H:]MM:]SS[.fraction] [[[[[H]H]H]H]MM]SS[.fraction] DATETIME. LOW_PRIORITY attribute to LOAD DATA INFILE. LOAD DATA INFILE. DECIMAL(x,y) now works according to ANSI SQL. LAST_INSERT_ID() is now updated for INSERT INTO ... SELECT. SELECT DISTINCT is much faster; It uses the new UNIQUE
functionality in MyISAM. One difference compared to MySQL
3.22 is that the output of DISTINCT is not sorted anymore. mysql_num_fields() on a MYSQL
object, you must use mysql_field_count() instead. LIBEWRAP; Patch by Henning P . Schmiedehausen. AUTO_INCREMENT for other than numerical columns. AUTO_INCREMENT will now automatically make the column NOT NULL.
NULL as the default value for AUTO_INCREMENT columns. SQL_BIG_RESULT; SQL_SMALL_RESULT is now default. --enable-large-files/--disable-large-files switch to configure.
See `configure.in' for some systems where this is automatically turned off
because of broken implementations. readline to 4.0. CREATE TABLE options: PACK_KEYS and CHECKSUM.
mysqld option --default-table-type. The 3.22 version has faster and safer connect code and a lot of new nice enhancements. The reason for not including these changes in the 3.21 version is mainly that we are trying to avoid big changes to 3.21 to keep it as stable as possible. As there aren't really any MAJOR changes, upgrading to 3.22 should be very easy and painless. See section 4.16.2 Upgrading from a 3.21 version to 3.22.
3.22 should also be used with the new DBD-mysql (1.20xx) driver that can
use the new connect protocol!
LEFT JOIN and COUNT() on a column which was
declared NULL + and it had a DEFAULT value. CONCAT() in a WHERE clause.
AVG() and STD() with NULL
values. ROUND() will now work on Win32. BLOB/TEXT column to REVERSE(). /*! */ with version numbers. SUBSTRING(text FROM pos) to conform to ANSI SQL. (Before this
construct returned the rightmost 'pos' characters). LOCK TABLES combined with DELETE FROM table
SET SQL_LOW_PRIORITY_UPDATES=# didn't work. GRANT ...
IDENTIFIED BY SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE key_part1 >= const
AND (key_part2 = const OR key_part2 = const) DATA is not a reserved word anymore. LOCK TABLES table_name READ; FLUSH TABLES; isamchk should now work on Win32. libtool 1.3.2. configure. --defaults-file=### to option file handling to force use of
only one specific option file. CREATE syntax to ignore MySQL 3.23 keywords. INSERT DELAYED on a table locked with LOCK
TABLES. DROP TABLE on a table that was locked by
another thread. GRANT/REVOKE commands in the update log. isamchk to detect a new error condition. NATURAL LEFT JOIN. mysql_close() directly after mysql_init().
delayed_insert_thread counting when you couldn't create a new
delayed_insert thread. CONCAT() with many arguments. DELETE FROM TABLE when table was locked by another
thread. LEFT JOIN involving empty tables. mysql.db column from char(32) to char(60).
MODIFY and DELAYED are not reserved words anymore. TIME column. Host '..' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server
after one had inserted a new MySQL user with a GRANT
command. TCP_NODELAY also on Linux (Should give faster TCP/IP
connections). STD() for big tables when result should be 0. INSERT DELAYED had some garbage at end in the update log. mysql_install_db (from 3.22.17). BLOB columns. shutdown all threads
didn't die properly. -O flush-time=# to mysqld. This is mostly useful
on Win32 and tells how often MySQL should close all unused tables and
flush all updated tables to disk. VARCHAR column compared with CHAR column
didn't use keys efficiently. --log-update and connecting without a
default database. configure and portability problems. LEFT JOIN on tables that had circular dependencies caused mysqld
to hang forever. mysqladmin processlist could kill the server if a new user logged in. DELETE FROM tbl_name WHERE key_column=col_name didn't find any matching
rows. Fixed. DATE_ADD(column,...) didn't work. INSERT DELAYED could deadlock with status 'upgrading lock' ENCRYPT() to take longer salt strings than 2 characters. longlong2str is now much faster than before. For Intel x86
platforms, this function is written in optimized assembler. MODIFY keyword to ALTER TABLE. GRANT used with IDENTIFIED BY didn't take effect until
privileges were flushed. SHOW STATUS. ORDER BY with 'only index' optimzation when there were
multiple key definitions for a used column. DATE and DATETIME columns are now up to 5 times faster than
before. INSERT DELAYED can be used to let the client do other things while the
server inserts rows into a table. LEFT JOIN USING (col1,col2) didn't work if one used it with tables from 2
different databases. LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE didn't work in the Unix version because of a missing
file. VARCHAR/BLOB on very short rows (< 4
bytes); error 127 could occur when deleting rows. BLOB/TEXT through formulas didn't work for short (< 256 char)
strings. GRANT on a new host, mysqld could die on the
first connect from this host. ORDER BY on column name that was the same name as
an alias. BENCHMARK(loop_count,expression) function to time expressions. mysqld to make it easier to start from shell
scripts. TIMESTAMP column to NULL didn't record the timestamp
value in the update log. INSERT INTO TABLE ... SELECT ... GROUP BY.
localtime_r() on Win32 so that it will not crash anymore
if your date is > 2039, but instead will return a time of all zero. ^Z (ASCII 26) to \Z as ^Z doesn't
work with pipes on Win32. mysql_fix_privileges adds a new column to the mysql.func to
support aggregate UDF functions in future MySQL releases. NOW(), CURDATE() or CURTIME() directly in
a column didn't work. SELECT COUNT(*) ... LEFT JOIN ... didn't work with no WHERE
part. pthread_cond() on the Win32 version. get_lock()
now correctly times out on Win32! DATE_ADD() and DATE_SUB() in a WHERE
clause. GRANT ... TO user IDENTIFIED BY
'password' syntax. GRANT checking with SELECT on many tables. mysql_fix_privilege_tables to the RPM distribution. This
is not run by default since it relies on the client package. SQL_SMALL_RESULT to SELECT to force use of fast
temporary tables when you know that the result set will be small. DATE_ADD/DATE_SUB()
doesn't have enough days. GRANT compares columns in case-insensitive fashion. ALTER TABLE dump core in
some contexts. user@hostname can now include `.' and `-'
without quotes in the context of the GRANT, REVOKE and SET
PASSWORD FOR ... statements. isamchk for tables which need big temporary files. mysql_fix_privilege_tables
script when you upgrade to this version! This is needed because of the new GRANT
system. If you don't do this, you will get Access denied when you try to use ALTER
TABLE, CREATE INDEX or DROP INDEX. GRANT to allow/deny users table and column access. USER() to return user@host PASSWORD for another user. FLUSH STATUS that sets most status variables to zero. aborted_threads, aborted_connects. connection_timeout. SET SQL_WARNINGS=1 to get a warning count also for simple
inserts. SIGTERM instead of SIGQUIT
with shutdown to work better on FreeBSD. \G (print vertically) to mysql. SELECT HIGH_PRIORITY ... killed mysqld. IS NULL on a AUTO_INCREMENT column in a LEFT JOIN
didn't work as expected. MAKE_SET(). mysql_install_db no longer starts the MySQL server! You
should start mysqld with safe_mysqld after installing it! The MySQL
RPM will however start the server as before. --bootstrap option to mysqld and recoded mysql_install_db
to use it. This will make it easier to install MySQL with RPMs. +, - (sign and minus), *, /,
%, ABS() and MOD() to be BIGINT aware
(64-bit safe). ALTER TABLE that caused mysqld to crash. INSERT). INSERT INTO tbl_name SET col_name=value,col_name=value,... MYSQL_INIT_COMMAND to mysql_options() to make a
query on connect or reconnect. MYSQL_READ_DEFAULT_FILE and MYSQL_READ_DEFAULT_GROUP
to mysql_options() to read the following parameters from the MySQL
option files: port, socket, compress, password,
pipe, timeout, user, init-command, host
and database. maybe_null to the UDF structure. IGNORE to INSERT statemants with many rows. isamchk -rq on each table that has an index on a CHAR or VARCHAR
column. mysql_setpermission, by Luuk de Boer, allows one to easily
create new users with permissions for specific databases. LOAD DATA INFILE). SHOW STATUS and changed format of output to be like
SHOW VARIABLES. extended-status command to mysqladmin which will show
the new status variables. SET SQL_LOG_UPDATE=0 caused a lockup of the server. FLUSH [ TABLES | HOSTS | LOGS | PRIVILEGES ] [, ...] KILL thread_id. ALTER TABLE from a INT to
a short CHAR() column. SELECT HIGH_PRIORITY; This will get a lock for the SELECT
even if there is a thread waiting for another SELECT to get a WRITE
LOCK. LIKE on BLOB/TEXT
columns with \0. ESCAPE option to LIKE. mysqladmin debug. mysqld on Win32 with the --flush option.
This will flush all tables to disk after each update. This makes things much safer on
NT/Win98 but also MUCH slower. my_strcoll()!
The patch should always be safe to install (for any system), but as this patch changes
ISAM internals it's not yet in the default distribution. DATE_ADD() and DATE_SUB() didn't work with group functions. mysql will now also try to reconnect on USE DATABASE commands.
ORDER BY and LEFT JOIN and const
tables. ORDER BY if the first ORDER BY column was a
key and the rest of the ORDER BY columns wasn't part of the key. OPTIMIZE TABLE. DROP TABLE and mysqladmin shutdown on
Win32 (a fatal bug from 3.22.6). TIME columns and negative strings. LIMIT clause for the DELETE statement. /*! ... */ syntax to hide MySQL-specific
keywords when you write portable code. MySQL will parse the code inside
the comments as if the surrounding /*! and */ comment characters
didn't exist. OPTIMIZE TABLE tbl_name can now be used to reclaim disk space after many
deletes. Currently, this uses ALTER TABLE to re-generate the table, but in
the future it will use an integrated isamchk for more speed. libtool to get the configure more portable. UPDATE and DELETE operations when using DATETIME
or DATE keys. mysqladmin proc to display information about your own
threads. Only users with the Process_priv privilege can get information
about all threads. YYMMDD, YYYYMMDD, YYMMDDHHMMSS
for numbers when using DATETIME and TIMESTAMP types. (Formerly
these formats only worked with strings.) CLIENT_IGNORE_SPACE to allow use of spaces after
function names and before `(' (Powerbuilder requires this). This will make
all function names reserved words. --log-long-format option to mysqld to enable
timestamps and INSERT_ID's in the update log. --where option to mysqldump (patch by Jim Faucette). mysqldump. LOAD DATA INFILE statement, you can now use the new LOCAL
keyword to read the file from the client. mysqlimport will automatically use LOCAL
when importing with the TCP/IP protocol. DROP
TABLE, ALTER TABLE, DELETE FROM TABLE and mysqladmin
flush-tables under heavy usage. Changed locking code to get better handling of
locks of different types. DBI to 1.00 and DBD to 1.2.0. mysqld. (To avoid errors if you accidentally try to use an
old error message file.) affected_rows(), insert_id(),...)
are now of type BIGINT to allow 64-bit values to be used. This required a
minor change in the MySQL protocol which should affect only old clients
when using tables with AUTO_INCREMENT values > 24M. mysql_fetch_lengths() has changed from uint *
to ulong *. This may give a warning for old clients but should work on most
machines. mysys and dbug libraries to allocate all thread
variables in one struct. This makes it easier to make a threaded `libmysql.dll'
library. gethostname() (instead of uname()) when
constructing `.pid' file names. COUNT(), STD() and AVG() are extended to handle
more than 4G rows. -838:59:59 <= x <= 838:59:59
in a TIME column. TIME column to
too short a value, MySQL now assumes the value is given as: [[[D
]HH:]MM:]SS instead of HH[:MM[:SS]]. TIME_TO_SEC() and SEC_TO_TIME() can now handle negative times
and hours up to 32767. SET OPTION SQL_LOG_UPDATE={0|1} to allow users with the process
privilege to bypass the update log. (Modified patch from Sergey A Mukhin [email protected].) LPAD(). BLOB reading from
pipes safer. -O max_connect_errors=# option to mysqld. Connect errors
are now reset for each correct connection. max_allowed_packet to 1M in mysqld.
--low-priority-updates option to mysqld, to give
table-modifying operations (INSERT, REPLACE, UPDATE,
DELETE) lower priority than retrievals. You can now use {INSERT |
REPLACE | UPDATE | DELETE} LOW_PRIORITY ... You can also use SET OPTION
SQL_LOW_PRIORITY_UPDATES={0|1} to change the priority for one thread. One side
effect is that LOW_PRIORITY is now a reserved word. :( INSERT INTO table ... VALUES(...),(...),(...), to allow
inserting multiple rows with a single statement. INSERT INTO tbl_name is now also cached when used with LOCK TABLES.
(Previously only INSERT ... SELECT and LOAD DATA INFILE were
cached.) GROUP BY functions with HAVING: mysql> SELECT col FROM table GROUP BY col HAVING COUNT(*)>0;
mysqld will now ignore trailing `;' characters in queries.
This is to make it easier to migrate from some other SQL servers that require the trailing
`;'. SELECT INTO OUTFILE. GREATEST() and
LEAST() functions. You must now use these instead of the MAX()
and MIN() functions to get the largest/smallest value from a list of values.
These can now handle REAL, BIGINT and string (CHAR
or VARCHAR) values. DAYOFWEEK() had offset 0
for Sunday. Changed the offset to 1. GROUP BY columns and fields when there
is no GROUP BY specification. --vertical option to mysql, for printing results in
vertical mode. --tmpdir option to mysqld, for specifying the location
of the temporary file directory. SELECT ... FROM table WHERE auto_increment_column IS NULL
to:
SELECT ... FROM table WHERE auto_increment_column == LAST_INSERT_ID()
This allows some ODBC programs (Delphi, Access) to retrieve the newly inserted row to
fetch the AUTO_INCREMENT id.
DROP TABLE now waits for all users to free a table before deleting it. BIN(), OCT(), HEX() and CONV()
for converting between different number bases. SUBSTRING() with 2 arguments. ORDER BY and GROUP
BY. mysqld now automatically disables system locking on Linux and Win32, and
for systems that use MIT-pthreads. You can force the use of locking with the --enable-locking
option. --console option to mysqld, to force a console window
(for error messages) when using Win32. DATE_ADD() and DATE_SUB() functions. mysql_ping() to the client library. --compress option to all MySQL clients. byte to char in `mysql.h' and `mysql_com.h'.
<<, >>, RPAD() and LPAD().
ORDER BY to work when no records are found
when using fields that are not in GROUP BY (MySQL
extension). --chroot option to mysqld, to start mysqld
in a chroot environment (by Nikki Chumakov [email protected]).
--one-thread option to mysqld, for debugging with
LinuxThreads (or glibc). (This replaces the -T32 flag) DROP TABLE IF EXISTS to prevent an error from occurring if the table
doesn't exist. IF and EXISTS are now reserved words (they would have to be
sooner or later). mysqldump. mysql_ping(). mysql_init() and mysql_options(). You
now MUST call mysql_init() before you call mysql_real_connect().
You don't have to call mysql_init() if you only use mysql_connect().
mysql_options(...,MYSQL_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT,...) so you can set a
timeout for connecting to a server. --timeout option to mysqladmin, as a test of mysql_options().
AFTER column and FIRST options to ALTER TABLE ...
ADD columns. This makes it possible to add a new column at some specific location
within a row in an existing table. WEEK() now takes an optional argument to allow handling of weeks when the
week starts on Monday (some European countries). By default, WEEK() assumes
the week starts on Sunday. TIME columns weren't stored properly (bug in MySQL
3.22.0). UPDATE now returns information about how many rows were matched and
updated, and how many ``warnings'' occurred when doing the update. FORMAT(-100,2). ENUM and SET columns were compared in binary (case-sensitive)
fashion; changed to be case insensitive. mysql_real_connect()
call is changed to: mysql_real_connect(MYSQL *mysql, const char *host, const char *user,
const char *passwd, const char *db, uint port,
const char *unix_socket, uint client_flag)
accept()
thread. This fixes permanently the telnet bug that was a topic on the mail list some time
ago. mysqld now has a local hostname resolver cache so
connections should actually be faster than before, even with this feature. tbl_name@db_name
or db_name.tbl_name. This makes it possible to give a user read access to
some tables and write access to others simply by keeping them in different databases! --user option to mysqld, to allow it to run as another
Unix user (if it is started as the Unix root user). mysqladmin
password 'new_password'. This uses encrypted passwords that are not logged in the
normal MySQL log! SELECT code to handle some very specific queries involving
group functions (like COUNT(*)) without a GROUP BY but with HAVING.
The following now works: mysql> SELECT count(*) as C FROM table HAVING C > 1;
malloc().
-T32 option to mysqld, for running all queries under the
main thread. This makes it possible to debug mysqld under Linux with gdb!
not_null_column IS NULL (needed for some Access
queries). STRAIGHT_JOIN to be used between two tables to force the optimizer to
join them in a specific order. VARCHAR rather than CHAR and the
column type is now VARCHAR for fields saved as VARCHAR. This
should make the MyODBC driver better, but may break some old MySQL
clients that don't handle FIELD_TYPE_VARCHAR the same way as FIELD_TYPE_CHAR.
CREATE INDEX and DROP INDEX are now implemented through ALTER
TABLE. CREATE TABLE is still the recommended (fast) way to create
indexes. --set-variable option wait_timeout to mysqld.
mysqladmin processlist to show how long a query has
taken or how long a thread has slept. show variables and some new to show
status. YEAR. YEAR is stored in 1 byte with allowable
values of 0, and 1901 to 2155. DATE type that is stored in 3 bytes rather than 4 bytes. All new
tables are created with the new date type if you don't use the --old-protocol
option to mysqld. Error from table
handler: # on some operating systems. --enable-assembler option to configure, for x86 machines
(tested on Linux + gcc). This will enable assembler functions for the most
important string functions for more speed! SIGHUP to mysqld; mysqld
core dumped when starting from boot on some systems. DELETE FROM tbl_name without a WHERE condition is now done the
long way when you use LOCK TABLES or if the table is in use, to avoid race
conditions. INSERT INTO TABLE (timestamp_column) VALUES (NULL); didn't set timestamp. mysqladmin refresh often.
This could in some very rare cases corrupt the header of the index file and cause error
126 or 138. refresh() when running with the --skip-locking
option. There was a ``very small'' time gap after a mysqladmin refresh when a
table could be corrupted if one thread updated a table while another thread did mysqladmin
refresh and another thread started a new update ont the same table before the first
thread had finished. A refresh (or --flush-tables) will now not return until
all used tables are closed! SELECT DISTINCT with a WHERE clause that didn't match any rows
returned a row in some contexts (bug only in 3.21.31). GROUP BY + ORDER BY returned one empty row when no rows where
found. Use_count: Wrong count for ...
in the error log file. TINYINT type on Irix. LEFT("constant_string",function). FIND_IN_SET(). LEFT JOIN core dumped if the second table is used with a constant WHERE/ON
expression that uniquely identifies one record. DATE_FORMAT() and incorrect dates. DATE_FORMAT()
now ignores '%' to make it possible to extend it more easily in the future. mysql now returns an exit code > 0 if the query returned an error. mysql client. By Tommy Larsen [email protected]. safe_mysqld to redirect startup messages to 'hostname'.err
instead of 'hostname'.log to reclaim file space on mysqladmin refresh.
ENUM always had the first entry as default value. ALTER TABLE wrote two entries to the update log. sql_acc() now closes the mysql grant tables after a reload to
save table space and memory. LOAD DATA to use less memory with tables and BLOB
columns. SELECT problem with LEFT() when using the czech
character set. isamchk; it couldn't repair a packed table in a very
unusual case. SELECT statements with & or | (bit functions)
failed on columns with NULL values. LOCK TABLES + DELETE from tbl_name never removed locks
properly. OR function. umask() and creating new databases. SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE ... MIN(integer) or MAX(integer) in GROUP
BY. WEEK("XXXX-xx-01"). Error from table
handler: # on some operating systems. GET_LOCK(string,timeout), RELEASE_LOCK(string).
opened_tables to show status. mysqld
through telnet + TCP/IP. WHERE key_part_1 >= something AND
key_part_2 <= something_else. configure for detection of FreeBSD 3.0 9803xx and above WHERE with string_column_key = constant_string didn't always find all rows
if the column had many values differing only with characters of the same sort value (like
e and 'e). umask() to make log files non-readable for normal users. --old-protocol
option to mysqld. SELECT which matched all key fields returned the values in the case of the
matched values, not of the found values. (Minor problem.) FROM_DAYS(0) now returns "0000-00-00". DATE_FORMAT(), PM and AM were swapped for hours 00 and 12. BLOB/TEXT in GROUP BY with
many tables. ENUM field that is not declared NOT NULL has NULL
as the default value. (Previously, the default value was the first enumeration value.) INDEX
(Organization,Surname(35),Initials(35)). SELECT ...
FROM many_tables much faster. accept() to possibly fix some problems on some
Linux machines. typedef 'string' to typedef 'my_string' for better
portability. isamchk. Try isamchk --help. filesort() didn't work.
Affects DISTINCT, ORDER BY and GROUP BY on 64-bit
processors. SELECT on the table. OR operators on key parts
inside each other. MIN() and MAX() to work properly with strings and HAVING.
0664 to 0660. LEFT JOIN and constant expressions in the ON
part. configure now works better on OSF1 (tested on 4.0D). LIKE optimization with international character
support. DBI to 0.93. TIME, DATE, TIMESTAMP,
TEXT, BIT, ENUM, NO, ACTION,
CHECK, YEAR, MONTH, DAY, HOUR,
MINUTE, SECOND, STATUS, VARIABLES. TIMESTAMP to NULL in LOAD DATA INFILE ...
didn't set the current time for the TIMESTAMP. BETWEEN to recognize binary strings. Now BETWEEN is case
sensitive. --skip-thread-priority option to mysqld, for systems
where mysqld's thread scheduling doesn't work properly (BSDI 3.1). DAYNAME() and MONTHNAME(). TIME_FORMAT(). This works like DATE_FORMAT(),
but takes a time string ('HH:MM:DD') as argument. ORs of key parts inside ANDs.
variables to mysqladmin. ALTER TABLE to work with Win32 (Win32 can't rename open files).
Also fixed a couple of small bugs in the Win32 version. crash-me and the benchmarks on the following
platforms: SunOS 5.6 sun4u, SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u, SunOS 4.14 sun4c, SunOS 5.6 i86pc, Irix 6.3
mips5k, HP-UX 10.20 hppa, AIX 4.2.1 ppc, OSF1 V4.0 alpha, FreeBSD 2.2.2 i86pc and BSDI 3.1
i386. COUNT(*) problems when the WHERE clause didn't match any
records. (Bug from 3.21.17.) NULL = NULL is true. Now you must use IS NULL or IS
NOT NULL to test whether or not a value is NULL. (This is according to
ANSI SQL but may break old applications that are ported from mSQL.) You can
get the old behavior by compiling with -DmSQL_COMPLIANT. LEFT OUTER JOIN clauses. ORDER BY on string formula with possible NULL
values. DAYOFYEAR(), DAYOFMONTH(), MONTH(),
YEAR(), WEEK(), QUARTER(), HOUR(), MINUTE(),
SECOND() and FIND_IN_SET(). SHOW VARIABLES. mysql> SELECT 'first ' 'second'; -> 'first second'
mysqlaccess to 2.02. LIKE. WHERE data_field = date_field2 AND date_field2 =
constant. SHOW STATUS. mysqladmin stat to return the right number of queries. AUTO_INCREMENT
attribute or is a TIMESTAMP. This is needed for the new Java driver. configure bugs and increased maximum table size from 2G
to 4G. DBD to 1823. This version implements mysql_use_result
in DBD-Mysql. REVERSE() (by Zeev Suraski). DBI to 0.91. LEFT OUTER JOIN. CROSS JOIN syntax. CROSS is now a reserved word. yacc/bison stack allocation to be even safer and to
allow MySQL to handle even bigger expressions. ORDER BY was slow when used with key ranges. --with-unix-socket-path to avoid confusion.
LEFT OUTER JOIN. LEFT, NATURAL, USING.
MYSQL_HOST
as the default host if it's defined. SELECT col_name, SUM(expr) now returns NULL for col_name
when there are matching rows. BLOBs with ASCII characters
over 127. mysqld restart if one thread was reading
data that another thread modified. LIMIT offset,count didn't work in INSERT ... SELECT. POWER(), SPACE(), COT(),
DEGREES(), RADIANS(), ROUND(2 arg) and TRUNCATE().
LOCATE() parameters were
swapped according to ODBC standard. Fixed. TIME_TO_SEC(). NOT NULL fields. UPDATE SET ... statements. BLOB and TEXT, to be
compatible with mysqldump. mysqlperl is now from
Msql-Mysql-modules. This means that connect() now takes host, database,
user, password arguments! The old version took host,
database, password, user. DATE '1997-01-01', TIME '12:10:10' and TIMESTAMP
'1997-01-01 12:10:10' formats required by ANSI SQL. WARNING: INCOMPATIBLE
CHANGE!! This has the unfortunate side-effect that you no longer can have columns
named DATE, TIME or TIMESTAMP. :( Old columns can
still be accessed through tablename.columnname!) make programs
trying to rebuild it. readline library upgraded to version 2.1. DBI/DBD is now included in the distribution. DBI
is now the recommended way to connect to MySQL from Perl. DBD, with test results from mSQL
2.0.3, MySQL, PostgreSQL 6.2.1 and Solid server 2.2. crash-me is now included with the benchmarks; This is a Perl program
designed to find as many limits as possible in a SQL server. Tested with mSQL,
PostgreSQL, Solid and MySQL. mysql command line tool, by Zeev
Suraski and Andi Gutmans. REPLACE that works like INSERT but replaces
conflicting records with the new record. REPLACE INTO TABLE ... SELECT ...
works also. CREATE DATABASE db_name and DROP DATABASE db_name.
RENAME option to ALTER TABLE: ALTER TABLE name
RENAME AS new_name. make_binary_distribution now includes `libgcc.a' in `libmysqlclient.a'.
This should make linking work for people who don't have gcc. net_write() to my_net_write() because of a name
conflict with Sybase. DAYOFWEEK()
compatible with ODBC. bison memory overrun checking to make MySQL
safer with weird queries. configure problems on some platforms. DATE_FORMAT(). NOT IN. {fn now() } DATE and TIME values with NULL.
FLOAT. Previously, the
values were converted to INTs before sorting. key_column=constant.
DOUBLE values sorted on integer results instead. mysql no longer needs a database argument. HAVING should be. According to ANSI, it should be
after GROUP BY but before ORDER BY. MySQL 3.20
incorrectly had it last. USE DATABASE to start using another database. mysqld
doesn't crash even if you haven't done a ulimit -n 256 before starting mysqld.
errno. This makes Linux
systems much safer! SELECT.
LIKE on number key. --table option to mysql to print in table format. Moved
time and row information after query result. Added automatic reconnect of lost
connections. != as a synonym for <>. VERSION() to make easier logs. ftruncate() call in MIT-pthreads. This made isamchk
destroy the `.ISM' files on (Free)BSD 2.x systems. __P_ patch in MIT-pthreads. NULL if the
returned string should be longer than max_allowed_packet bytes. INTERVAL type to ENUM, because INTERVAL
is used in ANSI SQL. JOIN + GROUP + INTO OUTFILE,
the result wasn't grouped. LIKE with '_' as last character didn't work. Fixed. TRIM() function. CURTIME(). ENCRYPT() function by Zeev Suraski. FOREIGN KEY syntax skipping. New reserved words: MATCH,
FULL, PARTIAL. mysqld now allows IP number and hostname to the --bind-address
option. SET OPTION CHARACTER SET cp1251_koi8 to enable conversions of data
to/from cp1251_koi8. CREATE COLUMN syntax of NOT NULL columns to be
after the DEFAULT value, as specified in the ANSI SQL standard. This will
make mysqldump with NOT NULL and default values incompatible
with MySQL 3.20. ALTER TABLE tbl_name ALTER COLUMN col_name SET DEFAULT NULL.
CHAR and BIT as synonyms for CHAR(1). INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP BY didn't work in some cases. An Invalid
use of group function error occurred. LIMIT, SELECT now always uses keys instead of
record scan. This will give better performance on SELECT and a WHERE
that matches many rows. BIT_OR() and BIT_AND(). CHECK and REFERENCES. CHECK
is now a reserved word. ALL option to GRANT for better compatibility. (GRANT
is still a dummy function.) ORDER BY and GROUP BY with NULL
columns. last_insert_id() to retrieve last AUTO_INCREMENT
value. This is intended for clients to ODBC that can't use the mysql_insert_id()
API function, but can be used by any client. --flush-logs option to mysqladmin. STATUS to mysql. ORDER BY/GROUP BY because of bug in gcc.
INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP BY. mysqlaccess. CREATE now supports all ODBC types and the mSQL TEXT
type. All ODBC 2.5 functions are also supported (added REPEAT). This provides
better portability. TINYTEXT, TEXT, MEDIUMTEXT and LONGTEXT.
These are actually BLOBtypes, but all searching is done in case-insensitive
fashion. BLOB fields are now TEXT fields. This only changes
that all searching on strings is done in case-sensitive fashion. You must do an ALTER
TABLE and change the field type to BLOB if you want to have tests done
in case-sensitive fashion. configure issues. test-select
works. --enable-unix-socket=pathname option to configure. SUM() functions. For example, you can now
use SUM(column)/COUNT(column). PI(), ACOS(), ASIN(),
ATAN(), COS(), SIN() and TAN(). net_print() in `procedure.cc'. SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE syntax. GROUP BY and SELECT on key with many values. mysql_fetch_lengths() sometimes returned incorrect lengths when you used mysql_use_result().
This affected at least some cases of mysqldump --quick. WHERE const op field. NULL fields. --pid-file=# option to mysqld. FROM_UNIXTIME(), originally by Zeev Suraski. BETWEEN in range optimizer (Did only test = of the first
argument). mysql_errno(), to get the error number of the
error message. This makes error checking in the client much easier. This makes the new
server incompatible with the 3.20.x server when running without --old-protocol.
The client code is backward compatible. More information can be found in the `README'
file! sigwait and sigset
defines). configure should now be able to detect the last argument to accept().
-O tmp_table_size=# to mysqld. FROM_UNIXTIME(timestamp) which returns a date string in
'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:DD' format. SEC_TO_TIME(seconds) which returns a string in 'HH:MM:SS'
format. SUBSTRING_INDEX(), originally by Zeev Suraski. mysqld
doesn't work on it yet. pthread_create
to work. mysqld doesn't accept hostnames that start with digits followed by a '.',
because the hostname may look like an IP number. --skip-networking option to mysqld, to only allow socket
connections. (This will not work with MIT-pthreads!) free() that killed the server on CREATE DATABASE
or DROP DATABASE. mysqld -O options to better names. -O join_cache_size=# option to mysqld. -O max_join_size=# option to mysqld, to be able to set a
limit how big queries (in this case big = slow) one should be able to handle without
specifying SET OPTION SQL_BIG_SELECTS=1. A # = is about 10 examined records.
The default is ``unlimited''. TIME, DATE, DATETIME or TIMESTAMP
column to a constant, the constant is converted to a time value before performing the
comparison. This will make it easier to get ODBC (particularly Access97) to work with the
above types. It should also make dates easier to use and the comparisons should be quicker
than before. query() in mysqlperl
to take a query with \0 in it. YYMMDD) didn't work. UPDATE clause.
SELECT * INTO OUTFILE, which didn't correctly if the outfile already
existed. mysql now shows the thread ID when starting or doing a reconnect. --new,
but it crashes core a lot yet... isam
library should be relatively 64-bit clean. isamchk which can detect and fix more problems. isamlog. mysqladmin: you can now do mysqladmin kill 5,6,7,8 to kill
multiple threads. -O backlog=# option to mysqld. ALTER TABLE now returns warnings from field conversions. ASCII(). BETWEEN(a,b,c). Use the standard ANSI synax instead: expr
BETWEEN expr AND expr. SUM() functions. tbl_name.field_name in UPDATE.
SELECT DISTINCT when using 'hidden group'. For example: mysql> SELECT DISTINCT MOD(some_field,10) FROM test
GROUP BY some_field;
Note: some_field is normally in the SELECT part. ANSI SQL
should require it.
INTERVAL, EXPLAIN, READ, WRITE,
BINARY. CHAR(num,...). IN. This uses a binary search to find a match. LOCK TABLES tbl_name [AS alias] {READ|WRITE} ... --log-update option to mysqld, to get a log suitable for
incremental updates. EXPLAIN SELECT ... to get information about how the optimizer
will do the join. FIELD_TYPE_TINY_BLOB,
FIELD_TYPE_MEDIUM_BLOB, FIELD_TYPE_LONG_BLOB or FIELD_TYPE_VAR_STRING
(as previously returned by mysql_list_fields). You should instead only use FIELD_TYPE_BLOB
or FIELD_TYPE_STRING. If you want exact types, you should use the command SHOW
FIELDS. 0x###### which can be used as a string (default) or
a number. FIELD_TYPE_CHAR is renamed to FIELD_TYPE_TINY. DEFAULT values no longer need to be NOT NULL. ENUM SET double or long long.
This will provide the full 64-bit range with bit functions and fix some conversions that
previously could result in precision losses. One should avoid using unsigned long
long columns with full 64-bit range (numbers bigger than 9223372036854775807)
because calculations are done with signed long long. ORDER BY will now put NULL field values first. GROUP BY
will also work with NULL values. WHERE with expressions. mysql> SELECT * FROM tbl_name
WHERE key_part_1="customer"
AND key_part_2>=10 AND key_part_2<=10;
Changes from 3.20.18 to 3.20.32b are not documented here since the 3.21 release branched here. And the relevant changes are also documented as changes to the 3.21 version.
-p# (remove # directories from path) to isamlog.
All files are written with a relative path from the database directory Now mysqld
shouldn't crash on shutdown when using the --log-isam option. mysqlperl version. It is now compatible with msqlperl-0.63.
DBD module available at http://www.mysql.com/Contrib
site. STD() (standard deviation). mysqld server is now compiled by default without debugging information.
This will make the daemon smaller and faster. --basedir option to mysqld.
All other paths are relative in a normal installation. BLOB columns sometimes contained garbage when used with a SELECT
on more than one table and ORDER BY. GROUP BY work as expected (ANSI SQL
extension). Example: mysql> SELECT id,id+1 FROM table GROUP BY id;
MYSQL_PWD was reversed. Now MYSQL_PWD is
enabled as default in the default release. mysqld to core dump with Arithmetic error
on Sparc-386. --unbuffered option to mysql, for new mysqlaccess.
BLOB columns and the functions IS NULL and IS
NOT NULL in the WHERE clause. max_allowed_packet is now 64K for the server and 512K for
the client. This is mainly used to catch incorrect packets that could trash all memory.
The server limit may be changed when it is started. safe_mysqld to check for running daemon. ELT() function is renamed to FIELD(). The new ELT()
function returns a value based on an index: FIELD() is the inverse of ELT()
Example: ELT(2,"A","B","C") returns "B".
FIELD("B","A","B","C") returns 2.
COUNT(field), where field could have a NULL
value, now works. SELECT ... GROUP BY. WHERE with many unoptimizable brace levels. get_hostname, only the IP is checked.
Previously, you got Access denied. INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... WHERE could give the error Duplicated
field. safe_mysqld to make it ``safer''. LIKE was case sensitive in some places and case insensitive in others. Now LIKE
is always case insensitive. '#' anywhere on the line. SET OPTION SQL_SELECT_LIMIT=#. See the FAQ for more details. mysqlaccess script. FROM_DAYS() and WEEKDAY() to also take a full TIMESTAMP
or DATETIME as argument. Before they only took a number of type YYYYMMDD
or YYMMDD. UNIX_TIMESTAMP(timestamp_column). mysqld to work around a bug in MIT-pthreads. This makes multiple
small SELECT operations 20 times faster. Now lock_test.pl should
work. mysql_FetchHash(handle) to mysqlperl. mysqlbug script is now distributed built to allow for reporting bugs
that appear during the build with it. getpwuid() instead of cuserid().
SELECT optimizer when using many tables with the same column
used as key to different tables. GRANT command to satisfy Powerbuilder. packets out of order when using MIT-pthreads. fcntl()
fails. Thanks to Mike Bretz for finding this bug. termbits from `mysql.cc'. This conflicted with glibc
2.0. SELECT as superuser without a database. SELECT with group calculation to outfile. -p or --password option to mysql
without an argument, the user is solicited for the password from the tty. MYSQL_PWD (by Elmar Haneke). kill to mysqladmin to kill a specific MySQL
thread. AUTO_INCREMENT key with ALTER_TABLE. AVG() gave too small value on some SELECTs with GROUP BY
and ORDER BY. DATETIME type (by Giovanni Maruzzelli DONT_USE_DEFAULT_FIELDS works. CREATE INDEX. DATE, TIME and TIMESTAMP.
OR of multiple tables (gave empty set). DATE and TIME types. SELECT with AND-OR levels. LIMIT and ORDER BY. ORDER BY and GROUP BY on items that aren't in the SELECT
list. (Thanks to Wim Bonis [email protected], for pointing
this out.) INSERT. SELECT ... WHERE ... = NULL. glibc 2.0. To get glibc to work, you should
add the `gibc-2.0-sigwait-patch' before compiling glibc. ALTER TABLE when changing a NOT NULL field to
allow NULL values. CREATE TABLE. CREATE
TABLE now allows FLOAT(4) and FLOAT(8) to mean FLOAT
and DOUBLE. mysqlaccess by [email protected].
This program shows the access rights for a specific user and the grant rows that determine
this grant. WHERE const op field (by [email protected]).
SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE, all temporary tables are ISAM instead
of HEAP to allow big dumps. ALTER TABLE according to SQL92. --port and --socket options to all utility programs and mysqld.
readdir_r(). Now mysqladmin create database
and mysqladmin drop database should work. tempnam(). This should fix the ``sort
aborted'' bug. sql_update. This fixed slow updates on first
connection. (Thanks to Vaclav Bittner for the test.) INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... MEDIUMBLOB fixed. ALTER TABLE and BLOBs. SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE now creates the file in the current database
directory. DROP TABLE now can take a list of tables. DESCRIBE (DESC). make_binary_distribution. configure's C++ link
test. --without-perl option to configure. ALTER TABLE didn't copy null bit. As a result, fields that were allowed to
have NULL values were always NULL. CREATE didn't take numbers as DEFAULT. ALTER TABLE and multi-part keys. ALTER TABLE, SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE and LOAD
DATA INFILE. NOW(). mysql/user table. add_file_priv which adds the new field file_priv
to the user table. This script must be executed if you want to use the new SELECT
... INTO and LOAD DATA INFILE ... commands with a version of MySQL
earlier than 3.20.7. lock_test.pl test fail. status to mysqladmin for short logging. -k option to mysqlshow, to get key information for a
table. mysqldump. configure
cannot find a -lpthreads library. program
--help. RAND([init]). sql_lex to handle \0 unquoted, but the client can't
send the query through the C API, because it takes a str pointer. You must use mysql_real_query()
to send the query. mysql_get_client_info(). mysqld now uses the N_MAX_KEY_LENGTH from `nisam.h'
as the maximum allowed key length. mysql> SELECT filter_nr,filter_nr FROM filter ORDER BY filter_nr;
Previously, this resulted in the error: Column: 'filter_nr' in order clause is
ambiguous.
mysql now outputs '\0', '\t', '\n'
and '\\' when encountering ASCII 0, tab, newline or '\' while
writing tab-separated output. This is to allow printing of binary data in a portable
format. To get the old behavior, use -r (or --raw). mysql_fetch_lengths(MYSQL_RES *), which returns an
array of of column lengths (of type uint). IS NULL in WHERE clause. SELECT option STRAIGHT_JOIN to tell the optimizer that
it should join tables in the given order. '--' in `mysql.cc'
(Postgres syntax). SELECT expressions and table columns in a SELECT
which are not used in the group part. This makes it efficient to implement lookups. The
column that is used should be a constant for each group because the value is calculated
only once for the first row that is found for a group. mysql> SELECT id,lookup.text,sum(*) FROM test,lookup
WHERE test.id=lookup.id GROUP BY id;
SUM(function) (could cause a core dump). AUTO_INCREMENT placement in the SQL query: INSERT into table (auto_field) values (0);
inserted 0, but it should insert an AUTO_INCREMENT value.
mysql now allows doubled '' or ""
within strings for embedded ' or ". EXP(), LOG(), SQRT(), ROUND(),
CEILING(). configure source now compiles a thread-free client library -lmysqlclient.
This is the only library that needs to be linked with client applications. When using the
binary releases, you must link with -lmysql -lmysys -ldbug -lstrings as
before. readline library from bash-2.0. configure and makefiles (and related source). VPATH.
Tested with GNU Make 3.75. safe_mysqld and mysql.server changed to be more compatible
between the source and the binary releases. LIMIT now takes one or two numeric arguments. If one argument is given, it
indicates the maximum number of rows in a result. If two arguments are given, the first
argument indicates the offset of the first row to return, the second is the maximum number
of rows. With this it's easy to do a poor man's next page/previous page WWW application. FIELDS() to ELT(). Changed SQL
function INTERVALL() to INTERVAL(). SHOW COLUMNS a synonym for SHOW FIELDS. Added
compatibility syntax FRIEND KEY to CREATE TABLE. In MySQL,
this creates a non-unique key on the given columns. CREATE INDEX and DROP INDEX as compatibility functions.
In MySQL, CREATE INDEX only checks if the index exists and
issues an error if it doesn't exist. DROP INDEX always succeeds. sql_acl (core on new connection). host, user and db tables from database test
in the distribution. FIELD_TYPE_CHAR can now be signed (-128 - 127) or unsigned (0 - 255)
Previously, it was always unsigned. CONCAT() and WEEKDAY(). mysqld to be compiled with SunPro compiler. '(' immediately after the function name (no
intervening space). For example, 'user(' is regarded as beginning a function
call, and 'user (' is regarded as an identifier user followed by
a '(', not as a function call. configure and Automake. It will make
porting much easier. The readline library is included in the distribution. DBD will follow when the new DBD code is ported. mysqld can now be started with Swedish or English
(default) error messages. INSERT(), RTRIM(), LTRIM() and FORMAT().
mysqldump now works correctly for all field types (even AUTO_INCREMENT).
The format for SHOW FIELDS FROM tbl_name is changed so the Type
column contains information suitable for CREATE TABLE. In previous releases,
some CREATE TABLE information had to be patched when recreating tables. BLOB and TIMESTAMP) are
corrected. TIMESTAMP now returns different date information depending on its
create length. '_'.
DATABASE(), USER(), POW(), LOG10()
(needed for ODBC). WHERE with an ORDER BY on fields from only one table, the
table is now preferred as first table in a multi-join. HAVING and IS NULL or IS NOT NULL now works. SUM(), AVG()...)
didn't work together. Fixed. mysqldump: Didn't send password to server. 'Locked' to process list as info if a query is locked by
another query. IF(arg,syntax_error,syntax_error) crashed. CEILING(), ROUND(), EXP(), LOG()
and SQRT(). BETWEEN to handle strings. SELECT with grouping on BLOB columns not to return
incorrect BLOB info. Grouping, sorting and distinct on BLOB
columns will not yet work as expected (probably it will group/sort by the first 7
characters in the BLOB). Grouping on formulas with a fixed string size (use MID()
on a BLOB) should work. BLOB
fields, the BLOB was garbage on output. DISTINCT with calculated columns. Go to the first, previous, next, last section, table of contents.