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authorunknown <svoj@april.(none)>2006-05-24 15:13:49 +0500
committerunknown <svoj@april.(none)>2006-05-24 15:13:49 +0500
commitc06d757e8ea31afb7b7dd4f857deda6daafb1f0e (patch)
treefd0eccf58ba87450abc126a3df4e5ff4434da527 /sql/sql_table.cc
parent89fdbbeb36a3dbc48fd56d8880fd8e910931c680 (diff)
parent7f20ecc7ec8714a473d644784efb7ca3a276b99f (diff)
downloadmariadb-git-c06d757e8ea31afb7b7dd4f857deda6daafb1f0e.tar.gz
Merge svojtovich@bk-internal.mysql.com:/home/bk/mysql-5.0
into april.(none):/home/svoj/devel/mysql/BUG17001/mysql-5.0 sql/sql_table.cc: Auto merged
Diffstat (limited to 'sql/sql_table.cc')
-rw-r--r--sql/sql_table.cc12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sql/sql_table.cc b/sql/sql_table.cc
index 32a86b0f39a..476d5536581 100644
--- a/sql/sql_table.cc
+++ b/sql/sql_table.cc
@@ -3140,7 +3140,7 @@ bool mysql_alter_table(THD *thd,char *new_db, char *new_name,
uint db_create_options, used_fields;
enum db_type old_db_type,new_db_type;
bool need_copy_table;
- bool no_table_reopen= FALSE;
+ bool no_table_reopen= FALSE, varchar= FALSE;
DBUG_ENTER("mysql_alter_table");
thd->proc_info="init";
@@ -3344,6 +3344,8 @@ bool mysql_alter_table(THD *thd,char *new_db, char *new_name,
Field **f_ptr,*field;
for (f_ptr=table->field ; (field= *f_ptr) ; f_ptr++)
{
+ if (field->type() == MYSQL_TYPE_STRING)
+ varchar= TRUE;
/* Check if field should be dropped */
Alter_drop *drop;
drop_it.rewind();
@@ -3605,12 +3607,18 @@ bool mysql_alter_table(THD *thd,char *new_db, char *new_name,
better have a negative test here, instead of positive, like
alter_info->flags & ALTER_ADD_COLUMN|ALTER_ADD_INDEX|...
so that ALTER TABLE won't break when somebody will add new flag
+
+ MySQL uses frm version to determine the type of the data fields and
+ their layout. See Field_string::type() for details.
+ Thus, if the table is too old we may have to rebuild the data to
+ update the layout.
*/
need_copy_table= (alter_info->flags &
~(ALTER_CHANGE_COLUMN_DEFAULT|ALTER_OPTIONS) ||
(create_info->used_fields &
~(HA_CREATE_USED_COMMENT|HA_CREATE_USED_PASSWORD)) ||
- table->s->tmp_table);
+ table->s->tmp_table ||
+ (table->s->frm_version < FRM_VER_TRUE_VARCHAR && varchar));
create_info->frm_only= !need_copy_table;
/*