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authorKonstantin Osipov <kostja@sun.com>2009-10-22 12:46:07 +0400
committerKonstantin Osipov <kostja@sun.com>2009-10-22 12:46:07 +0400
commit11f8ddc7b31486951f9351e74469f4f4b20247fd (patch)
treea95283cd66786801d4ce585e3240e9280e2fd10c /include
parentd4632dff5aea3eacfe3c6a126c6b8ca9c839b5ec (diff)
parentd18a9e5f542b1fd5a279f3c226e9cda064c87b96 (diff)
downloadmariadb-git-11f8ddc7b31486951f9351e74469f4f4b20247fd.tar.gz
Merge with next-mr-runtime.
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diff --git a/include/my_base.h b/include/my_base.h
index a01b2ec9b82..70bd9b5e073 100644
--- a/include/my_base.h
+++ b/include/my_base.h
@@ -255,7 +255,17 @@ enum ha_base_keytype {
HA_BINARY_PACK_KEY | HA_FULLTEXT | HA_UNIQUE_CHECK | \
HA_SPATIAL | HA_NULL_ARE_EQUAL | HA_GENERATED_KEY)
-#define HA_KEY_HAS_PART_KEY_SEG 65536 /* Key contains partial segments */
+/*
+ Key contains partial segments.
+
+ This flag is internal to the MySQL server by design. It is not supposed
+ neither to be saved in FRM-files, nor to be passed to storage engines.
+ It is intended to pass information into internal static sort_keys(KEY *,
+ KEY *) function.
+
+ This flag can be calculated -- it's based on key lengths comparison.
+*/
+#define HA_KEY_HAS_PART_KEY_SEG 65536
/* Automatic bits in key-flag */