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diff --git a/sql/table.cc b/sql/table.cc
index 939690395d4..9238d8aa68e 100644
--- a/sql/table.cc
+++ b/sql/table.cc
@@ -149,6 +149,15 @@ int openfrm(THD *thd, const char *name, const char *alias, uint db_stat,
*fn_ext(index_file)='\0'; // Remove .frm extension
share->frm_version= head[2];
+ /*
+ Check if .frm file created by MySQL 5.0. In this case we want to
+ display CHAR fields as CHAR and not as VARCHAR.
+ We do it this way as we want to keep the old frm version to enable
+ MySQL 4.1 to read these files.
+ */
+ if (share->frm_version == FRM_VER_TRUE_VARCHAR -1 && head[33] == 5)
+ share->frm_version= FRM_VER_TRUE_VARCHAR;
+
share->db_type= ha_checktype((enum db_type) (uint) *(head+3));
share->db_create_options= db_create_options=uint2korr(head+30);
share->db_options_in_use= share->db_create_options;
@@ -1317,6 +1326,7 @@ File create_frm(register my_string name, uint reclength, uchar *fileinfo,
create_info->table_options|=HA_OPTION_LONG_BLOB_PTR; // Use portable blob pointers
int2store(fileinfo+30,create_info->table_options);
fileinfo[32]=0; // No filename anymore
+ fileinfo[33]=5; // Mark for 5.0 frm file
int4store(fileinfo+34,create_info->avg_row_length);
fileinfo[38]= (create_info->default_table_charset ?
create_info->default_table_charset->number : 0);