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Diffstat (limited to 'sql')
| -rw-r--r-- | sql/field.cc | 27 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/sql/field.cc b/sql/field.cc index 921148e8f0f..05eb7d2d744 100644 --- a/sql/field.cc +++ b/sql/field.cc @@ -6154,15 +6154,26 @@ Field *Field_string::new_field(MEM_ROOT *root, struct st_table *new_table, Field *new_field; if (type() != MYSQL_TYPE_VAR_STRING || keep_type) - return Field::new_field(root, new_table, keep_type); + new_field= Field::new_field(root, new_table, keep_type); + else + { - /* - Old VARCHAR field which should be modified to a VARCHAR on copy - This is done to ensure that ALTER TABLE will convert old VARCHAR fields - to now VARCHAR fields. - */ - return new Field_varstring(field_length, maybe_null(), - field_name, new_table, charset()); + /* + Old VARCHAR field which should be modified to a VARCHAR on copy + This is done to ensure that ALTER TABLE will convert old VARCHAR fields + to now VARCHAR fields. + */ + new_field= new Field_varstring(field_length, maybe_null(), + field_name, new_table, charset()); + /* + Normally orig_table is different from table only if field was created + via ::new_field. Here we alter the type of field, so ::new_field is + not applicable. But we still need to preserve the original field + metadata for the client-server protocol. + */ + new_field->orig_table= orig_table; + } + return new_field; } /**************************************************************************** |