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MySQL Reference Manual for version 3.23.51. - F MySQL change history Go to the first, previous, next, last section, table of contents.

F MySQL change history

This appendix lists the changes from version to version in the MySQL source code.

Note that we tend to update the manual at the same time we make changes to MySQL. If you find a version listed below that you can't find on the MySQL download page, this means that the version has not yet been released!

F.1 Changes in release 4.0.x (Development; Alpha)

We have now started to work on MySQL 4.0. We will update this section as we add new features, so that others can follow our development.

Our TODO section contains what we plan to have in 4.0. See section 1.6.1 Things that should be in 4.0.

F.1.1 Changes in release 4.0.0

  • Multi-table DELETE.
  • Don't support old client protocols prior to MySQL 3.21 any more.
  • Don't include the old C API functions mysql_drop_db, mysql_create_db and mysql_connect, unless compiled with USE_OLD_FUNCTIONS.
  • Renamed safe_mysqld to mysqld_safe.
  • Allow IN as a synonym for FROM in SHOW commands.
  • SHOW INDEXES is now a synonym for SHOW INDEX.
  • Added support for symbolic links to MyISAM tables. Symlink handling is now enabled by default for Windows.
  • LOAD DATA FROM MASTER ``auto-magically'' sets up a slave.
  • A new HANDLER interface to MyISAM tables.
  • COUNT(DISTINCT) is about 30% faster.
  • FULLTEXT index creation now is much faster.
  • Searching on packed (CHAR/VARCHAR) keys now is much faster.
  • Added SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS and FOUND_ROWS(). This makes it possible to know how many rows a query would have returned without a LIMIT clause.
  • Changed output format of SHOW OPEN TABLES.
  • Allow SELECT expression LIMIT ....
  • Added IDENTITY as a synonym for AUTO_INCREMENT (like Sybase).
  • Added ORDER BY syntax to UPDATE and DELETE.
  • Optimized queries of type: SELECT DISTINCT * from table_name ORDER by key_part1 LIMIT #

F.2 Changes in release 3.23.x (Stable)

The 3.23 release has several major features that are not present in previous versions. We have added three new table types:

MyISAM
A new ISAM library which is tuned for SQL and supports large files.
BerkeleyDB or BDB
Uses the Berkeley DB library from Sleepycat Software to implement transaction-safe tables.
InnoDB
A transaction-safe table handler that supports row level locking, and many Oracle-like features.

Note that only MyISAM is available in the standard binary distribution.

The 3.23 release also includes support for database replication between a master and many slaves, full-text indexing, and much more.

All new features are being developed in the 4.0 version. Only bug fixes and minor enhancements to existing features will be added to 3.23.

The replication code and BerkeleyDB code is still not as tested and as the rest of the code, so we will probably need to do a couple of future releases of 3.23 with small fixes for this part of the code. As long as you don't use these features, you should be quite safe with MySQL 3.23!

Note that the above doesn't mean that replication or Berkeley DB don't work; We have done a lot of testing of all code, including replication and BDB without finding any problems. It only means that not as many users use this code as the rest of the code and because of this we are not yet 100% confident in this code.

F.2.1 Changes in release 3.23.51

  • Cleaned up NULL handling for default values in DESCRIBE table_name.
  • Fixed truncate() to round up negative values to the nearest integer.
  • Remove end space from enum values. (This fixed a problem with SHOW CREATE TABLE).
  • Fixed bug in CONCAT_WS() that cut the result.
  • Changed name of variables Com_show_master_stat to Com_show_master_status and Com_show_slave_stat to Com_show_slave_status.
  • Changed handling of gethostbyname() to make the client library threadsafe even if gethostbyname_r doesn't exists.
  • Fixed core-dump problem when giving a wrong password string to GRANT.
  • Fixed bug in DROP DATABASE with symlinked directory.
  • Fixed optimization problem with DATETIME and value outside DATETIME range.
  • Removed BDB documentation.
  • Fixed mit-pthreads to compile with glibc 2.2 (needed for make dist).
  • Fixed the FLOAT(X+1,X) is not converted to FLOAT(X+2,X). (This also affected DECIMAL, DOUBLE and REAL types)
  • Fixed the result from IF() is case in-sensitive if the 2 and third arguments are case sensitive.
  • Fixed core dump problem on OSF in gethostbyname_r.
  • Fixed that underflowed decimal fields is not zero filled.
  • If we get an overflow when inserting '+11111' for decimal(5,0) unsigned columns, we will just drop the sign.
  • Fixed optimization bug with ISNULL(expression_which_cannot_be_null) and ISNULL(constant_expression).
  • Fixed host lookup bug in the glibc library that we used with the 3.23.50 Linux-x86 binaries.

F.2.2 Changes in release 3.23.50

  • Fixed problem with crash-me and gcc 3.0.4.
  • Fixed that @@unknown_variable doesn't hang server.
  • Added @@VERSION as a synonym for VERSION().
  • SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'xxx' is now case insensitive.
  • Fixed timeout for GET_LOCK() on HPUX with DCE threads.
  • Fixed memory allocation bug in the glibc library used to build Linux binaries, which caused mysqld to die in 'free()'.
  • Fixed SIGINT and SIGQUIT problems in mysql.
  • Fixed bug in character table converts when used with big ( > 64K) strings.
  • InnoDB now retains foreign key constraints through ALTER TABLE and CREATE/DROP INDEX.
  • InnoDB now allows foreign key constraints to be added through the ALTER TABLE syntax.
  • InnoDB tables can now be set to automatically grow in size (autoextend).
  • Fixed some buffer overflow problems when reading startup parameters.
  • Because of problems on shutdown we have now disabled named pipes on windows by default. One can enable named pipes by starting mysqld with --enable-named-pipe.
  • Fixed bug when using WHERE key_column = 'J' or key_column='j'.
  • Fixed core-dump bug when using --log-bin with LOAD DATA INFILE without an active database.
  • Fixed bug in RENAME TABLE when used with lower_case_table_names=1 (default on Windows).
  • Fixed unlikely core-dump bug when using DROP TABLE on a table that was in use by a thread that also used queries on only temporary tables.
  • Fixed problem with SHOW CREATE TABLE and PRIMARY KEY when using 32 indexes.
  • Fixed that one can use SET PASSWORD for the anonymous user.
  • Fixed core-dump bug when reading client groups from option files using mysql_options().
  • Memory leak (16 bytes per every corrupted table) closed.
  • Fixed binary builds to use --enable-local-infile.
  • Update source to work with new bison version.
  • Updated shell scripts to new agree with new POSIX standard.
  • Fixed bug where DATE_FORMAT() returned empty string when used with GROUP BY.

F.2.3 Changes in release 3.23.49

  • Don't give warning for statement that is only a comment; This is needed for mysqldump --disable-keys to work.
  • Fixed unlikely caching bug when doing a join without keys. In this case the last used column for a table always returned NULL.
  • Added options to make LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE more secure.
  • MySQL binary release 3.23.48 for Linux contained a new glibc library, which has serious problems under high load and RedHat 7.2. The 3.23.49 binary release doesn't have this problem.
  • Fixed shutdown problem on NT.

F.2.4 Changes in release 3.23.48

  • Changed to use autoconf 2.52 (from autoconf 2.13)
  • Fixed bug in complicated join with const tables.
  • Added internal safety checks for InnoDB.
  • Some InnoDB variables was always shown in SHOW VARIABLES as OFF on high-byte-first systems (like sparc).
  • Fixed problem with one thread using an InnoDB table and another thread doing an ALTER TABLE on the same table. Before that, mysqld could crash with an assertion failure in row0row.c, line 474.
  • Tuned the InnoDB SQL optimizer to favor more often index searches over table scans.
  • Fixed a performance problem with InnoDB tables when several large SELECT queries are run concurrently on a multiprocessor Linux computer. Large CPU-bound SELECT queries will now also generally run faster on all platforms.
  • If MySQL binlogging is used, InnoDB now prints after crash recovery the latest MySQL binlog name and the offset InnoDB was able to recover to. This is useful, for example, when resynchronizing a master and a slave database in replication.
  • Added better error messages to help in installation problems of InnoDB tables.
  • One can now recover also MySQL temporary tables which have become orphaned inside the InnoDB tablespace.
  • InnoDB now prevents a FOREIGN KEY declaration where the signedness is not the same in the referencing and referenced integer columns.
  • Calling SHOW CREATE TABLE or SHOW TABLE STATUS could cause memory corruption and make mysqld to crash. Especially at risk was mysqldump, because it calls frequently SHOW CREATE TABLE.
  • If inserts to several tables containing an auto-inc column were wrapped inside one LOCK TABLES, InnoDB asserted in lock0lock.c.
  • In 3.23.47 we allowed several NULLS in a UNIQUE secondary index for an InnoDB table. But CHECK TABLE was not relaxed: it reports the table as corrupt. CHECK TABLE no longer complains in this situation.
  • SHOW GRANTS now shows REFERENCES instead of REFERENCE.

F.2.5 Changes in release 3.23.47

  • Fixed in when using the following construct: SELECT ... WHERE key=@var_name OR $key=@var_name2
  • Restrict InnoDB keys to 500 bytes.
  • InnoDB now supports NULL in keys.
  • Fixed shutdown problem on HPUX. (Introduced in 3.23.46)
  • Fixed core-dump bug in replication when using SELECT RELEASE_LOCK();
  • Added new command: DO expression,[expression]
  • Added slave-skip-errors option
  • Added statistics variables for all MySQL commands. (SHOW STATUS is now much longer).
  • Fixed default values for InnoDB tables.
  • Fixed that GROUP BY expr DESC works.
  • Fixed bug when using t1 LEFT JOIN t2 ON t2.key=constant.
  • mysql_config now also work with binary (relocated) distributions.

F.2.6 Changes in release 3.23.46

  • Fixed problem with aliased temporary tables replication
  • InnoDB and BDB tables will now use index when doing an ORDER BY on the whole table.
  • Fixed bug where one got an empty set instead of a DEADLOCK error when using BDB tables.
  • One can now kill ANALYZE,REPAIR and OPTIMIZE TABLE when the thread is waiting to get a lock on the table.
  • Fixed race condition in ANALYZE TABLE.
  • Fixed bug when joining with caching (unlikely to happen).
  • Fixed race condition when using the binary log and INSERT DELAYED which could cause the binary log to have rows that was not yet written to MyISAM tables.
  • Changed caching of binary log to make replication slightly faster.
  • Fixed bug in replication on Mac OS X.

F.2.7 Changes in release 3.23.45

  • (UPDATE|DELETE) ...WHERE MATCH bugfix
  • shutdown should now work on Darwin (Mac OS X).
  • Fixed core-dump when repairing corrupted packed MyISAM files.
  • --core-file now works on Solaris.
  • Fix a bug which could cause InnoDB to complain if it cannot find free blocks from the buffer cache during recovery.
  • Fixed bug in InnoDB insert buffer B-tree handling that could cause crashes.
  • Fixed bug in InnoDB lock timeout handling.
  • Fixed core dump bug in ALTER TABLE on a TEMPORARY InnoDB table.
  • Fixed bug in OPTIMIZE TABLE that reset index cardinality if it was up to date.
  • Fixed problem with t1 LEFT_JOIN t2 ... WHERE t2.date_column IS NULL when date_column was declared as NOT NULL.
  • Fixed bug with BDB tables and keys on BLOB's.
  • Fixed bug in MERGE tables on OS with 32 bit file pointers.
  • Fixed bug in TIME_TO_SEC() when using negative values.

F.2.8 Changes in release 3.23.44

  • Fixed Rows_examined count in slow query log.
  • Fixed bug when using a reference to a AVG() column in HAVING.
  • Fixed that date functions that require correct dates, like DAYOFYEAR(column) will return NULL for 0000-00-00 dates.
  • Fixed bug in const-propagation when comparing columns of different types. (SELECT * FROM date_col="2001-01-01" and date_col=time_col)
  • Fixed bug that caused error message Can't write, because of unique constraint with some GROUP BY queries.
  • Fixed problem with sjis character strings used within quoted table names.
  • Fixed coredump when using CREATE ... FULLTEXT keys with other table handlers than MyISAM.
  • Don't use signal() on windows because this appears to not be 100 % reliable.
  • Fixed bug when doing WHERE column_name=NULL on an indexed column that had NULL values.
  • Fixed bug when doing LEFT JOIN ... ON (column_name = constant) WHERE column_name = constant.
  • When using replications, aborted queries that contained % could cause a core dump.
  • TCP_NODELAY was not used on some systems. (Speed problem).
  • Applied portability fixes for OS/2 (Patch by Yuri Dario).

The following changes are for InnoDB tables:

  • Add missing InnoDB variables to SHOW VARIABLES.
  • Foreign keys checking is now done for InnoDB tables.
  • DROP DATABASE now works also for InnoDB tables.
  • InnoDB now supports data files and raw disk partitions bigger than 4 GB on those operating systems which have big files.
  • InnoDB calculates better table cardinality estimates for the MySQL optimizer.
  • Accent characters in the default character set latin1 are ordered according to the MySQL ordering. NOTE: if you are using latin1 and have inserted characters whose code is > 127 to an indexed CHAR column, you should run CHECK TABLE on your table when you upgrade to 3.23.44, and drop and reimport the table if CHECK TABLE reports an error!
  • A new `my.cnf' parameter innodb_thread_concurrency helps in performance tuning in heavily concurrent environments.
  • A new my.cnf parameter innodb_fast_shutdown speeds up server shutdown.
  • A new my.cnf parameter innodb_force_recovery helps to save your data in case the disk image of the database becomes corrupt.
  • innodb_monitor has been improved and a new innodb_table_monitor added.
  • Increased maximum key length from 500 to 7000 bytes.
  • Fixed a bug in replication of auto-inc columns with multiline inserts.
  • Fixed a bug when the case of letters changes in an update of an indexed secondary column.
  • Fixed a hang when there are > 24 data files.
  • Fixed a crash when MAX(col) is selected from an empty table, and col is a not the first column in a multi-column index.
  • Fixed a bug in purge which could cause crashes.

F.2.9 Changes in release 3.23.43

  • Fixed a bug in INSERT DELAYED and FLUSH TABLES introduced in 3.23.42.
  • Fixed unlikely bug, which returned not matching rows, in SELECT with many tables and multi-column indexes and 'range' type.
  • Fixed a unlikely core-dump bug when doing EXPLAIN SELECT when using many tables and ORDER BY.
  • Fixed bug in LOAD DATA FROM MASTER when using table with CHECKSUM=1.
  • Added unique error message when one gets a DEADLOCK during a transaction with BDB tables.
  • Fixed problem with BDB tables and UNIQUE columns defined as NULL.
  • Fixed problem with myisampack when using pre-space filled CHAR columns.
  • Applied patch from Yuri Dario for OS2.
  • Fixed bug in --safe-user-create

F.2.10 Changes in release 3.23.42

  • Fixed problem when using LOCK TABLES and BDB tables.
  • Fixed problem with REPAIR TABLE on MyISAM tables with row lengths between 65517 - 65520 bytes
  • Fixed rare hang when doing mysqladmin shutdown when there was a lot of activity in other threads.
  • Fixed problem with INSERT DELAYED where delay thread could be hanging on upgrading locks without any apparent reasons.
  • Fixed problem with myisampack and BLOB.
  • Fixes problem when one edited .MRG tables by hand. (Patch from Benjamin Pflugmann).
  • Enforce that all tables in a MERGE table come from the same database.
  • Fixed bug with LOAD DATA INFILE and transactional tables.
  • Fix bug when using INSERT DELAYED with wrong column definition.
  • Fixed coredump during REPAIR of some particularly broken tables.
  • Fixed bug in InnoDB and AUTO_INCREMENT columns.
  • Fixed bug in InnoDB and RENAME TABLE columns.
  • Fixed critical bug in InnoDB and BLOB columns. If one has used BLOB columns larger than 8000 bytes in an InnoDB table, one must dump the table with mysqldump, drop it and restore it from the dump.
  • Applied large patch for OS/2 from Yuri Dario.
  • Fixed problem with InnoDB when one could get the error Can't execute the given command... even when one didn't have an active transaction.
  • Applied some minor fixes that concern Gemini.
  • Use real arithmetic operations even in integer context if not all arguments are integers. (Fixes uncommon bug in some integer contexts).
  • Don't force everything to lower cases on Windows. (To fix problem with Windows and ALTER TABLE). Now --lower_case_names also works on Unix.
  • Fixed that automatic rollback that is done when thread end doesn't lock other threads.

F.2.11 Changes in release 3.23.41

  • Added option --sql-mode=option[,option[,option]]. See section 4.1.1 mysqld Command-line Options.
  • Fixed possible problem with shutdown on Solaris where the `.pid' file wasn't deleted.
  • InnoDB now supports < 4 GB rows. The former limit was 8000 bytes.
  • The doublewrite file flush method is used in InnoDB. It reduces the need for Unix fsync calls to a fraction and improves performance on most Unix flavors.
  • You can now use the InnoDB Monitor to print a lot of InnoDB state information, including locks, to the standard output; useful in performance tuning.
  • Several bugs which could cause hangs in InnoDB have been fixed.
  • Split record_buffer to record_buffer and record_rnd_buffer. To make things compatible to previous MySQL versions, if record_rnd_buffer is not set, then it takes the value of record_buffer.
  • Fixed optimizing bug in ORDER BY where some ORDER BY parts where wrongly removed.
  • Fixed overflow bug with ALTER TABLE and MERGE tables.
  • Added prototypes for my_thread_init() and my_thread_end() to `mysql_com.h'
  • Added option --safe-user-create to mysqld.
  • Fixed bug in SELECT DISTINCT ... HAVING that casued error message Can't find record in '#...

F.2.12 Changes in release 3.23.40

  • Fixed problem with --low-priority-updates and INSERT's.
  • Fixed bug in slave thread when under some rare circumstances it could get 22 bytes ahead on the offset in the master.
  • Added slave_wait_timeout for replication.
  • Fixed problem with UPDATE and BDB tables.
  • Fixed hard bug in BDB tables when using key parts.
  • Fixed problem when using the GRANT FILE ON database.* ...; Previously we added the DROP privilege for the database.
  • Fixed DELETE FROM table_name ... LIMIT 0 and UPDATE FROM table_name ... LIMIT 0 acted as though the LIMIT clause was not present (they deleted or updated all selected rows).
  • CHECK TABLE now checks if an AUTO_INCREMENT column contains the value 0.
  • Sending a SIGHUP to mysqld will now only flush the logs, not reset the replication.
  • Fixed parser to allow floats of type 1.0e1 (no sign after e).
  • Option --force to myisamchk now also updates states.
  • Added option --warnings to mysqld. Now mysqld only prints the error Aborted connection if this option is used.
  • Fixed problem with SHOW CREATE TABLE when you didn't have a PRIMARY KEY.
  • Properly fixed the rename of innodb_unix_file_flush_method to innodb_flush_method.
  • Fixed bug when converting UNSIGNED BIGINT to DOUBLE. This caused a problem when doing comparisons with BIGINT values outside of the signed range.
  • Fixed bug in BDB tables when querying empty tables.
  • Fixed a bug when using COUNT(DISTINCT) with LEFT JOIN and there wasn't any matching rows.
  • Removed all documentation referring to the GEMINI table type. GEMINI is not released under an Open Source license.

F.2.13 Changes in release 3.23.39

  • The AUTO_INCREMENT sequence wasn't reset when dropping and adding an AUTO_INCREMENT column.
  • CREATE ... SELECT now creates non-unique indexes delayed.
  • Fixed problem where LOCK TABLES table_name READ followed by FLUSH TABLES put an exclusive lock on the table.
  • REAL @variables with was represented with 2 digits when converted to strings.
  • Fixed problem that client 'hung' when LOAD TABLE FROM MASTER failed.
  • Running myisamchk --fast --force will no longer repair tables that only had the open count wrong.
  • Added functions to handle symbolic links to make life easier in 4.0.
  • We are now using the -lcma thread library on HP-UX 10.20 so that MySQL will be more stable on HP-UX.
  • Fixed problem with IF() and number of decimals in the result.
  • Fixed date-part extraction functions to work with dates where day and/or month is 0.
  • Extended argument length in option files from 256 to 512 chars.
  • Fixed problem with shutdown when INSERT DELAYED was waiting for a LOCK TABLE.
  • Fixed coredump bug in InnoDB when tablespace was full.
  • Fixed problem with MERGE tables and big tables (> 4G) when using ORDER BY.

F.2.14 Changes in release 3.23.38

  • Fixed a bug when SELECT from MERGE table sometimes results in incorrectly ordered rows.
  • Fixed a bug in REPLACE() when using the ujis character set.
  • Applied Sleepycat BDB patches 3.2.9.1 and 3.2.9.2.
  • Added option --skip-stack-trace to mysqld.
  • CREATE TEMPORARY now works with InnoDB tables.
  • InnoDB now promotes sub keys to whole keys.
  • Added option CONCURRENT to LOAD DATA.
  • Better error message when slave max_allowed_packet is too low to read a very long log event from the master.
  • Fixed bug when too many rows where removed when using SELECT DISTINCT ... HAVING.
  • SHOW CREATE TABLE now returns TEMPORARY for temporary tables.
  • Added Rows_examined to slow query log.
  • Fixed problems with function returning empty string when using together with a group functions and a WHERE that didn't match any rows.
  • New program mysqlcheck.
  • Added database name to output for administrative commands like CHECK, REPAIR, OPTIMIZE.
  • Lots of portability fixes for InnoDB.
  • Changed optimizer so that queries like SELECT * FROM table_name,table_name2 ... ORDER BY key_part1 LIMIT # will use index on key_part1 instead of filesort.
  • Fixed bug when doing LOCK TABLE to_table WRITE,...; INSERT INTO to_table... SELECT ... when to_table was empty.
  • Fixed bug with LOCK TABLE and BDB tables.

F.2.15 Changes in release 3.23.37

  • Fixed a bug when using MATCH in HAVING clause.
  • Fixed a bug when using HEAP tables with LIKE.
  • Added --mysql-version to safe_mysqld
  • Changed INNOBASE to InnoDB (because the INNOBASE name was already used). All configure options and mysqld start options are now using innodb instead of innobase. This means that you have to change any configuration files where you have used innobase options before upgrading to this version!
  • Fixed bug when using indexes on CHAR(255) NULL columns.
  • Slave thread will now be started even if master-host is not set, as long as server-id is set and valid master.info is present
  • Partial updates (terminated with kill) are now logged with a special error code to the binary log. Slave will refuse to execute them if the error code indicates the update was terminated abnormally, and will have to be recovered with SET SQL_SLAVE_SKIP_COUNTER=1; SLAVE START after a manual sanity check/correction of data integrity.
  • Fixed bug that erroneously logged a drop of internal temporary table on thread termination to the binary log - bug affected replication.
  • Fixed a bug in REGEXP() on 64-bit machines.
  • UPDATE and DELETE with WHERE unique_key_part IS NULL didn't update/delete all rows.
  • Disabled INSERT DELAYED for tables that support transactions.
  • Fixed bug when using date functions on TEXT/BLOB column with wrong date format.
  • UDFs now also work on Windows. (Patch by Ralph Mason)
  • Fixed bug in ALTER TABLE and LOAD DATA INFILE that disabled key-sorting. These commands should now be faster in most cases.
  • Fixed performance bug where reopened tables (tables that had been waiting for FLUSH or REPAIR) would not use indexes for the next query.
  • Fixed problem with ALTER TABLE to Innobase tables on FreeBSD.
  • Added mysqld variables myisam_max_sort_file_size and myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size.
  • Initialize signals early to avoid problem with signals in Innobase.
  • Applied patch for the tis620 character set to make comparisons case-independent and to fix a bug in LIKE for this character set. NOTE: All tables that uses the tis620 character set must be fixed with myisamchk -r or REPAIR TABLE !
  • Added --skip-safemalloc option to mysqld.

F.2.16 Changes in release 3.23.36

  • Fixed a bug that allowed you to use database names containing a `.' character. This fixes a serious security issue when mysqld is run as root.
  • Fixed bug when thread creation failed (could happen when doing a LOT of connections in a short time).
  • Fixed some problems with FLUSH TABLES and TEMPORARY tables. (Problem with freeing the key cache and error Can't reopen table...).
  • Fixed a problem in Innobase with other character sets than latin1 and another problem when using many columns.
  • Fixed bug that caused a core dump when using a very complex query involving DISTINCT and summary functions.
  • Added SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL ...
  • Added SELECT ... FOR UPDATE.
  • Fixed bug where the number of affected rows was not returned when MySQL was compiled without transaction support.
  • Fixed a bug in UPDATE where keys weren't always used to find the rows to be updated.
  • Fixed a bug in CONCAT_WS() where it returned wrong results.
  • Changed CREATE ... INSERT and INSERT ... SELECT to not allow concurrent inserts as this could make the binary log hard to repeat. (Concurrent inserts are enabled if you are not using the binary or update log).
  • Changed some macros to be able to use fast mutex with glibc 2.2.

F.2.17 Changes in release 3.23.35

  • Fixed newly introduced bug in ORDER BY.
  • Fixed wrong define CLIENT_TRANSACTIONS.
  • Fixed bug in SHOW VARIABLES when using INNOBASE tables.
  • Setting and using user variables in SELECT DISTINCT didn't work.
  • Tuned SHOW ANALYZE for small tables.
  • Fixed handling of arguments in the benchmark script `run-all-tests'.

F.2.18 Changes in release 3.23.34a

  • Added extra files to the distribution to allow INNOBASE support to be compiled.

F.2.19 Changes in release 3.23.34

  • Added the INNOBASE table handler and the BDB table handler to the MySQL source distribution.
  • Updated the documentation about GEMINI tables.
  • Fixed a bug in INSERT DELAYED that caused threads to hang when inserting NULL into an AUTO_INCREMENT column.
  • Fixed a bug in CHECK TABLE / REPAIR TABLE that could cause a thread to hang.
  • REPLACE will not replace a row that conflicts with an auto_increment generated key.
  • mysqld now only sets CLIENT_TRANSACTIONS in mysql->server_capabilities if the server supports a transaction-safe handler.
  • Fixed LOAD DATA INFILE to allow numeric values to be read into ENUM and SET columns.
  • Improved error diagnostic for slave thread exit.
  • Fixed bug in ALTER TABLE ... ORDER BY.
  • Added option max_user_connections to mysqld.
  • Limit query length for replication by max_allowed_packet, not the arbitrary limit of 4 MB.
  • Allow space around = in argument to --set-variable.
  • Fixed problem in automatic repair that could leave some threads in state Waiting for table.
  • SHOW CREATE TABLE now dumps the UNION() for MERGE tables.
  • ALTER TABLE now remembers the old UNION() definition.
  • Fixed bug when replicating timestamps.
  • Fixed bug in bidirectional replication.
  • Fixed bug in the BDB table handler that occurred when using an index on multi-part key where a key part may be NULL.
  • Fixed MAX() optimization on sub-key for BDB tables.
  • Fixed problem where garbage results were returned when using BDB tables and BLOB or TEXT fields when joining many tables.
  • Fixed a problem with BDB tables and TEXT columns.
  • Fixed bug when using a BLOB key where a const row wasn't found.
  • Fixed that mysqlbinlog writes the timestamp value for each query. This ensures that one gets same values for date functions like NOW() when using mysqlbinlog to pipe the queries to another server.
  • Allow one to use --skip-gemini, --skip-bdb and --skip-innobase to mysqld even if these databases are not compiled in mysqld.
  • One can now do GROUP BY ... DESC.
  • Fixed a deadlock in the SET code, when one ran SET @foo=bar, where bar is a column reference, an error was not properly generated.

F.2.20 Changes in release 3.23.33

  • Fixed that DNS lookups are not using the same mutex as the hostname cache. This will enable known hosts to be quickly resolved even if a DNS lookup takes a long time.
  • Added --character-sets-dir to myisampack.
  • Removed warnings when running REPAIR TABLE ... EXTENDED.
  • Fixed a bug that caused a core dump when using GROUP BY on an alias, where the alias was the same as an existing column name.
  • Added SEQUENCE() as an example UDF function.
  • Changed mysql_install_db to use BINARY for CHAR columns in the privilege tables.
  • Changed TRUNCATE table_name to TRUNCATE TABLE table_name to use the same syntax as Oracle. Until 4.0 we will also allow TRUNCATE table_name to not crash old code.
  • Fixed 'no found rows' bug in MyISAM tables when a BLOB was first part of a multi-part key.
  • Fixed bug where CASE didn't work with GROUP BY.
  • Added option --sort-recover to myisamchk.
  • myisamchk -S and OPTIMIZE TABLE now work on Windows.
  • Fixed bug when using DISTINCT on results from functions that referred to a group function, like: 
    SELECT a, DISTINCT SEC_TO_TIME(sum(a)) from table_name GROUP BY a, b;
  • Fixed buffer overrun in libmysqlclient library. Fixed bug in handling STOP event after ROTATE event in replication.
  • Fixed another buffer overrun in DROP DATABASE.
  • Added Table_locks_immediate and Table_locks_waited status variables.
  • Fixed bug in replication that broke slave server start with existing master.info. This fixes a bug introduced in 3.23.32.
  • Added SET SQL_SLAVE_SKIP_COUNTER=n command to recover from replication glitches without a full database copy.
  • Added max_binlog_size variable; the binary log will be rotated automatically when the size crosses the limit.
  • Added Last_error, Last_errno, and Slave_skip_counter to SHOW SLAVE STATUS.
  • Fixed bug in MASTER_POS_WAIT() function.
  • Execute coredump handler on SIGILL, and SIGBUS in addition to SIGSEGV.
  • On x86 Linux, print the current query and thread (connection) id, if available, in the coredump handler.
  • Fixed several timing bugs in the test suite.
  • Extended mysqltest to take care of the timing issues in the test suite.
  • ALTER TABLE can now be used to change the definition for a MERGE table.
  • Fixed creation of MERGE tables on Windows.
  • Portability fixes for OpenBSD and OS2.
  • Added --temp-pool option to mysqld. Using this option will cause most temporary files created to use a small set of names, rather than a unique name for each new file. This is to work around a problem in the Linux kernel dealing with creating a bunch of new files with different names. With the old behavior, Linux seems to "leak" memory, as it's being allocated to the directory entry cache instead of the disk cache.

F.2.21 Changes in release 3.23.32

  • Changed code to get around compiler bug in Compaq C++ on OSF1, that broke BACKUP, RESTORE, CHECK, REPAIR, and ANALYZE TABLE.
  • Added option FULL to SHOW COLUMNS. Now we show the privilege list for the columns only if this option is given.
  • Fixed bug in SHOW LOGS when there weren't any BDB logs.
  • Fixed a timing problem in replication that could delay sending an update to the client until a new update was done.
  • Don't convert field names when using mysql_list_fields(). This is to keep this code compatible with SHOW FIELDS.
  • MERGE tables didn't work on Windows.
  • Fixed problem with SET PASSWORD=... on Windows.
  • Added missing `my_config.h' to RPM distribution.
  • TRIM("foo" from "foo") didn't return an empty string.
  • Added --with-version-suffix to configure.
  • Fixed coredump when client aborted connection without mysql_close().
  • Fixed a bug in RESTORE TABLE when trying to restore from a non-existent directory.
  • Fixed a bug which caused a core dump on the slave when replicating SET PASSWORD.
  • Added MASTER_POS_WAIT().

F.2.22 Changes in release 3.23.31

  • The test suite now tests all reachable BDB interface code. During testing we found and fixed many errors in the interface code.
  • Using HAVING on an empty table could produce one result row when it shouldn't.
  • Fixed that the MySQL RPM is not dependent on Perl5 anymore.
  • Fixed some problems with HEAP tables on Windows.
  • SHOW TABLE STATUS didn't show correct average row length for tables larger than 4G.
  • CHECK TABLE ... EXTENDED didn't check row links for fixed size tables.
  • Added option MEDIUM to CHECK TABLE.
  • Fixed problem when using DECIMAL() keys on negative numbers.
  • HOUR() (and some other TIME functions) on a CHAR column always returned NULL.
  • Fixed security bug in something (please upgrade if you are using a earlier MySQL 3.23 version).
  • Fixed buffer overflow bug when writing a certain error message.
  • Added usage of setrlimit() on Linux to get -O --open-files-limit=# to work on Linux.
  • Added new mysqld variable: bdb_version.
  • Fixed bug when using expression of type: 
    SELECT ... FROM t1 LEFT JOIN t2 ON (t1.a=t2.a) WHERE t1.a=t2.a
    In this case the test in the WHERE clause was wrongly optimized away.
  • Fixed bug in MyISAM when deleting keys with possible NULL values, but the first key-column was not a prefix-compressed text column.
  • Fixed mysql.server to read the mysql.server option section instead of mysql_server.
  • Fixed safe_mysqld and mysql.server to also read the server option section.
  • Added Threads_created status variable to mysqld.

F.2.23 Changes in release 3.23.30

  • Added SHOW OPEN TABLES command.
  • Fixed that myisamdump works against old mysqld servers.
  • Fixed myisamchk -k# so that it works again.
  • Fixed a problem with replication when the binary log file went over 2G on 32-bit systems.
  • LOCK TABLES will now automatically start a new transaction.
  • Changed BDB tables to not use internal subtransactions and reuse open files to get more speed.
  • Added option --mysqld=# to safe_mysqld.
  • Allow hex constants in the --fields-*-by and --lines-terminated-by options to mysqldump and mysqlimport. By Paul DuBois.
  • Added option --safe-show-database to mysqld.
  • Added have_bdb, have_gemini, have_innobase, have_raid and have_ssl to SHOW VARIABLES to make it easy to test for supported extensions.
  • Added option --open-files-limit to mysqld.
  • Changed option --open-files to --open-files-limit in safe_mysqld.
  • Fixed a bug where some rows were not found with HEAP tables that had many keys.
  • Fixed that --bdb-no-sync works.
  • Changed --bdb-recover to --bdb-no-recover as recover should be on by default.
  • Changed the default number of BDB locks to 10000.
  • Fixed a bug from 3.23.29 when allocating the shared structure needed for BDB tables.
  • Changed `mysqld_multi.sh' to use configure variables. Patch by Christopher McCrory.
  • Added fixing of include files for Solaris 2.8.
  • Fixed bug with --skip-networking on Debian Linux.
  • Fixed problem that some temporary files where reported as having the name UNOPENED in error messages.
  • Fixed bug when running two simultaneous SHOW LOGS queries.

F.2.24 Changes in release 3.23.29

  • Configure updates for Tru64, large file support, and better TCP wrapper support. By Albert Chin-A-Young.
  • Fixed bug in <=> operator.
  • Fixed bug in REPLACE with BDB tables.
  • LPAD() and RPAD() will shorten the result string if it's longer than the length argument.
  • Added SHOW LOGS command.
  • Remove not used BDB logs on shutdown.
  • When creating a table, put PRIMARY keys first, followed by UNIQUE keys.
  • Fixed a bug in UPDATE involving multi-part keys where one specified all key parts both in the update and the WHERE part. In this case MySQL could try to update a record that didn't match the whole WHERE part.
  • Changed drop table to first drop the tables and then the `.frm' file.
  • Fixed a bug in the hostname cache which caused mysqld to report the hostname as '' in some error messages.
  • Fixed a bug with HEAP type tables; the variable max_heap_table_size wasn't used. Now either MAX_ROWS or max_heap_table_size can be used to limit the size of a HEAP type table.
  • Changed the default server-id to 1 for masters and 2 for slaves to make it easier to use the binary log.
  • Renamed variable bdb_lock_max to bdb_max_lock.
  • Added support for auto_increment on sub-fields for BDB tables.
  • Added ANALYZE of BDB tables.
  • In BDB tables, we now store the number of rows; This helps to optimize queries when we need an approximation of the number of rows.
  • If we get an error in a multi-row statement, we now only rollback the last statement, not the entire transaction.
  • If you do a ROLLBACK when you have updated a non-transactional table you will get an error as a warning.
  • Added option --bdb-shared-data to mysqld.
  • Added status variable Slave_open_temp_tables.
  • Added variables binlog_cache_size and max_binlog_cache_size to mysqld.
  • DROP TABLE, RENAME TABLE, CREATE INDEX and DROP INDEX are now transaction endpoints.
  • If you do a DROP DATABASE on a symbolic linked database, both the link and the original database is deleted.
  • Fixed that DROP DATABASE works on OS/2.
  • Fixed bug when doing a SELECT DISTINCT ... table1 LEFT JOIN table2 ... when table2 was empty.
  • Added --abort-slave-event-count and --disconnect-slave-event-count options to mysqld for debugging and testing of replication.
  • Fixed replication of temporary tables. Handles everything except slave server restart.
  • SHOW KEYS now shows whether or not key is FULLTEXT.
  • New script `mysqld_multi'. See section 4.7.3 mysqld_multi, program for managing multiple MySQL servers.
  • Added new script, `mysql-multi.server.sh'. Thanks to Tim Bunce Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk for modifying `mysql.server' to easily handle hosts running many mysqld processes.
  • `safe_mysqld', `mysql.server', and `mysql_install_db' have been modified to use mysql_print_defaults instead of various hacks to read the `my.cnf' files. In addition, the handling of various paths has been made more consistent with how mysqld handles them by default.
  • Automatically remove Berkeley DB transaction logs that no longer are in use.
  • Fixed bug with several FULLTEXT indexes in one table.
  • Added a warning if number of rows changes on REPAIR/OPTIMIZE.
  • Applied patches for OS/2 by Yuri Dario.
  • FLUSH TABLES table_name didn't always flush the index tree to disk properly.
  • --bootstrap is now run in a separate thread. This fixes a problem that caused mysql_install_db to core dump on some Linux machines.
  • Changed mi_create() to use less stack space.
  • Fixed bug with optimizer trying to over-optimize MATCH when used with UNIQUE key.
  • Changed crash-me and the MySQL benchmarks to also work with FrontBase.
  • Allow RESTRICT and CASCADE after DROP TABLE to make porting easier.
  • Reset status variable which could cause problem if one used --slow-log.
  • Added variable connect_timeout to mysql and mysqladmin.
  • Added connect_timeout as an alias for timeout for option files read by mysql_options().

F.2.25 Changes in release 3.23.28

  • Added new options --pager[=...], --no-pager, --tee=... and --no-tee to the mysql client. The new corresponding interactive commands are pager, nopager, tee and notee. See section 4.8.2 The Command-line Tool, mysql --help and the interactive help for more information.
  • Fixed crash when automatic repair of MyISAM table failed.
  • Fixed a major performance bug in the table locking code when one constantly had a LOT of SELECT, UPDATE and INSERT statements running. The symptom was that the UPDATE and INSERT queries were locked for a long time while new SELECT statements were executed before the updates.
  • When reading options_files with mysql_options() the return-found-rows option was ignored.
  • One can now specify interactive-timeout in the option file that is read by mysql_options(). This makes it possible to force programs that run for a long time (like mysqlhotcopy) to use interactive_timeout instead of wait_timeout.
  • Added to the slow query log the time and the user name for each logged query. If you are using --log-long-format then also queries that do not use an index are logged, even if the query takes less than long_query_time seconds.
  • Fixed a problem in LEFT JOIN which caused all columns in a reference table to be NULL.
  • Fixed a problem when using NATURAL JOIN without keys.
  • Fixed a bug when using a multi-part keys where the first part was of type TEXT or BLOB.
  • DROP of temporary tables wasn't stored in the update/binary log.
  • Fixed a bug where SELECT DISTINCT * ... LIMIT # only returned one row.
  • Fixed a bug in the assembler code in strstr() for sparc and cleaned up the `global.h' header file to avoid a problem with bad aliasing with the compiler submitted with RedHat 7.0. (Reported by Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
  • The option --skip-networking now works properly on NT.
  • Fixed a long outstanding bug in the ISAM tables when a row with a length of more than 65K was shortened by a single byte.
  • Fixed a bug in MyISAM when running multiple updating processes on the same table.
  • Allow one to use FLUSH TABLE tablename.
  • Added --replicate-ignore-table, --replicate-do-table, --replicate-wild-ignore-table, --replicate-wild-do-table.
  • Changed all log files to use our own IO_CACHE mechanism instead of FILE to avoid OS problems when there are many files open.
  • Added options --open-files and --timezone to safe_mysqld.
  • Fixed a fatal bug in CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE ... SELECT ....
  • Fixed a problem with CREATE TABLE ... SELECT NULL.
  • Added variables large_file_support,net_read_timeout, net_write_timeout and query_buffer_size to SHOW VARIABLES.
  • Added status variables created_tmp_files and sort_merge_passes to SHOW STATUS.
  • Fixed a bug where we didn't allow an index name after the FOREIGN KEY definition.
  • Added TRUNCATE table_name as a synonym for DELETE FROM table_name.
  • Fixed a bug in a BDB key compare function when comparing part keys.
  • Added variable bdb_lock_max to mysqld.
  • Added more tests to the benchmark suite.
  • Fixed an overflow bug in the client code when using overly long database names.
  • mysql_connect() now aborts on Linux if the server doesn't answer in timeout seconds.
  • SLAVE START did not work if you started with --skip-slave-start and had not explicitly run CHANGE MASTER TO.
  • Fixed the output of SHOW MASTER STATUS to be consistent with SHOW SLAVE STATUS. (It now has no directory in the log name.)
  • Added PURGE MASTER LOGS TO.
  • Added SHOW MASTER LOGS.
  • Added --safemalloc-mem-limit option to mysqld to simulate memory shortage when compiled --with-debug=full.
  • Fixed several coredumps in out-of-memory conditions.
  • SHOW SLAVE STATUS was using an uninitialized mutex if the slave had not been started yet.
  • Fixed bug in ELT() and MAKE_SET() when the query used a temporary table.
  • CHANGE MASTER TO without specifying MASTER_LOG_POS would set it to 0 instead of 4 and hit the magic number in the master binlog.
  • ALTER TABLE ... ORDER BY ... syntax added. This will create the new table with the rows in a specific order.

F.2.26 Changes in release 3.23.27

  • Fixed a bug where the automatic repair of MyISAM tables sometimes failed when the data file was corrupt.
  • Fixed a bug in SHOW CREATE when using AUTO_INCREMENT columns.
  • Changed BDB tables to use new compare function in Berkeley DB 3.2.3.
  • You can now use Unix sockets with mit-pthreads.
  • Added the latin5 (turkish) character set.
  • Small portability fixes.

F.2.27 Changes in release 3.23.26

  • Fixed <> to work properly with NULL.
  • Fixed a problem with SUBSTRING_INDEX() and REPLACE(). (Patch by Alexander Igonitchev)
  • Fix CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS not to give an error if the table exists.
  • If you don't create a PRIMARY KEY in a BDB table, a hidden PRIMARY KEY will be created.
  • Added read-only-key optimization to BDB tables.
  • LEFT JOIN in some cases preferred a full table scan when there was no WHERE clause.
  • When using --log-slow-queries, don't count the time waiting for a lock.
  • Fixed bug in lock code on Windows which could cause the key cache to report that the key file was crashed even if it was okay.
  • Automatic repair of MyISAM tables if you start mysqld with --myisam-recover.
  • Removed the TYPE= keyword from CHECK and REPAIR. Allow CHECK options to be combined. (You can still use TYPE= but this usage is deprecated.)
  • Fixed mutex bug in the binary replication log - long update queries could be read only in part by the slave if it did it at the wrong time, which was not fatal, but resulted in a performance-degrading reconnect and a scary message in the error log.
  • Changed the format of the binary log - added magic number, server version, binlog version. Added server id and query error code for each query event.
  • Replication thread from the slave now will kill all the stale threads from the same server.
  • Long replication user names were not being handled properly.
  • Added --replicate-rewrite-db option to mysqld.
  • Added --skip-slave-start option to mysqld.
  • Updates that generated an error code (such as INSERT INTO foo(some_key) values (1),(1)) erroneously terminated the slave thread.
  • Added optimization of queries where DISTINCT is only used on columns from some of the tables.
  • Allow floating-point numbers where there is no sign after the exponent (like 1e1).
  • SHOW GRANTS didn't always show all column grants.
  • Added --default-extra-file=# to all MySQL clients.
  • Columns referenced in INSERT statements now are initialized properly.
  • UPDATE didn't always work when used with a range on a timestamp that was part of the key that was used to find rows.
  • Fixed a bug in FULLTEXT index when inserting a NULL column.
  • Changed to use mkstemp() instead of tempnam(). Based on a patch from John Jones.

F.2.28 Changes in release 3.23.25

  • Fixed that databasename works as second argument to mysqlhotcopy.
  • UMASK and UMASK_DIR can now be specified in octal.
  • Added RIGHT JOIN. This makes RIGHT a reserved word.
  • Added @@IDENTITY as a synonym for LAST_INSERT_ID(). (This is for Visual Basic compatibility.)
  • Fixed a bug in myisamchk and REPAIR when using FULLTEXT index.
  • LOAD DATA INFILE now works with FIFOs. (Patch by Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford.)
  • FLUSH LOGS broke replication if you specified a log name with an explicit extension as the value of the log-bin option.
  • Fixed a bug in MyISAM with packed multi-part keys.
  • Fixed crash when using CHECK TABLE on Windows.
  • Fixed a bug where FULLTEXT index always used the koi8_ukr character set.
  • Fixed privilege checking for CHECK TABLE.
  • The MyISAM repair/reindex code didn't use the --tempdir option for its temporary files.
  • Added BACKUP TABLE/RESTORE TABLE.
  • Fixed coredump on CHANGE MASTER TO when the slave did not have the master to start with.
  • Fixed incorrect Time in the processlist for Connect of the slave thread.
  • The slave now logs when it connects to the master.
  • Fixed a core dump bug when doing FLUSH MASTER if you didn't specify a filename argument to --log-bin.
  • Added missing `ha_berkeley.x' files to the MySQL Windows
  • Fixed some mutex bugs in the log code that could cause thread blocks if new log files couldn't be created.
  • Added lock time and number of selected processed rows to slow query log.
  • Added --memlock option to mysqld to lock mysqld in memory on systems with the mlockall() call (like in Solaris).
  • HEAP tables didn't use keys properly. (Bug from 3.23.23.)
  • Added better support for MERGE tables (keys, mapping, creation, documentation...). See section 7.2 MERGE Tables.
  • Fixed bug in mysqldump from 3.23 which caused some CHAR columns not to be quoted.
  • Merged analyze, check, optimize and repair code.
  • OPTIMIZE TABLE is now mapped to REPAIR with statistics and sorting of the index tree. This means that for the moment it only works on MyISAM tables.
  • Added a pre-alloced block to root_malloc to get fewer mallocs.
  • Added a lot of new statistics variables.
  • Fixed ORDER BY bug with BDB tables.
  • Removed warning that mysqld couldn't remove the `.pid' file under Windows.
  • Changed --log-isam to log MyISAM tables instead of isam tables.
  • Fixed CHECK TABLE to work on Windows.
  • Added file mutexes to make pwrite() safe on Windows.

F.2.29 Changes in release 3.23.24

  • Added mysqld variable created_tmp_disk_tables.
  • To make it possible to reliably dump and restore tables with TIMESTAMP(X) columns, MySQL now reports columns with X other than 14 or 8 to be strings.
  • Changed sort order for latin1 as it was before MySQL Version 3.23.23. Any table with CHAR columns that may have characters with ASCII values greater than 128 that was created or modified with 3.23.22 must be repaired!
  • Fixed small memory leak introduced from 3.23.22 when creating a temporary table.
  • Fixed problem with BDB tables and reading on a unique (not primary) key.
  • Restored the win1251 character set (it's now only marked deprecated).

F.2.30 Changes in release 3.23.23

  • Changed sort order for 'German'; All tables created with 'German' sortorder must be repaired with REPAIR TABLE or myisamchk before use!
  • Added option --core-file to mysqld to get a core file on Linux if mysqld dies on the SIGSEGV signal.
  • MySQL client mysql now starts with option --no-named-commands (-g) by default. This option can be disabled with --enable-named-commands (-G). This may cause incompatibility problems in some cases, for example, in SQL scripts that use named commands without a semicolon, etc. ! Long format commands still work from the first line.
  • Fixed a problem when using many pending DROP TABLE statements at the same time.
  • Optimizer didn't use keys properly when using LEFT JOIN on an empty table.
  • Added shorter help text when invoking mysqld with incorrect options.
  • Fixed non-fatal free() bug in mysqlimport.
  • Fixed bug in MyISAM index handling of DECIMAL/NUMERIC keys.
  • Fixed a bug in concurrent insert in MyISAM tables; In some contexts, usage of MIN(key_part) or MAX(key_part) returned an empty set.
  • Updated mysqlhotcopy to use the new FLUSH TABLES table_list syntax. Only tables which are being backed up are flushed now.
  • Changed behavior of --enable-thread-safe-client so that both non-threaded (-lmysqlclient) and threaded (-lmysqlclient_r) libraries are built. Users who linked against a threaded -lmysqlclient will need to link against libmysqlclient_r now.
  • Added atomic RENAME command.
  • Don't count entries with NULL in COUNT(DISTINCT ...).
  • Changed ALTER TABLE, LOAD DATA INFILE on empty tables and INSERT ... SELECT ... on empty tables to create non-unique indexes in a separate batch with sorting. This will make the above calls much faster when you have many indexes.
  • ALTER TABLE now logs the first used insert_id correctly.
  • Fixed crash when adding a default value to a BLOB column.
  • Fixed a bug with DATE_ADD/DATE_SUB where it returned a datetime instead of a date.
  • Fixed a problem with the thread cache which made some threads show up as ***DEAD*** in SHOW PROCESSLIST.
  • Fixed a lock in our thr_rwlock code, which could make selects that run at the same time as concurrent inserts crash. This only affects systems that don't have the pthread_rwlock_rdlock code.
  • When deleting rows with a non-unique key in a HEAP table, all rows weren't always deleted.
  • Fixed bug in range optimizer for HEAP tables for searches on a part index.
  • Fixed that SELECT on part keys works with BDB tables.
  • Fixed INSERT INTO bdb_table ... SELECT to work with BDB tables.
  • CHECK TABLE now updates key statistics for the table.
  • ANALYZE TABLE will now only update tables that have been changed since thee last ANALYZE. Note that this is a new feature and tables will not be marked to be analyzed until they are updated in any way with 3.23.23 or newer. For older tables, you have to do CHECK TABLE to update the key distribution.
  • Fixed some minor privilege problems with CHECK, ANALYZE, REPAIR and SHOW CREATE commands.
  • Added CHANGE MASTER TO command.
  • Added FAST, QUICK EXTENDED check types to CHECK TABLES.
  • Changed myisamchk so that --fast and --check-changed-tables are also honored with --sort-index and --analyze.
  • Fixed fatal bug in LOAD TABLE FROM MASTER that did not lock the table during index re-build.
  • LOAD DATA INFILE broke replication if the database was excluded from replication.
  • More variables in SHOW SLAVE STATUS and SHOW MASTER STATUS.
  • SLAVE STOP now will not return until the slave thread actually exits.
  • Full text search via the MATCH function and FULLTEXT index type. (For MyISAM files). This makes FULLTEXT a reserved word.

F.2.31 Changes in release 3.23.22

  • Fixed that lex_hash.h is created properly for each MySQL distribution.
  • Fixed that MASTER and COLLECTION are not reserved words.
  • The log generated by --slow-query-log didn't contain the whole queries.
  • Fixed that open transactions in BDB tables are rolled back if the connection is closed unexpectedly.
  • Added workaround for a bug in gcc 2.96 (intel) and gcc 2.9 (Ia64) in gen_lex_hash.c.
  • Fixed memory leak in the client library when using host= in the my.cnf file.
  • Optimized functions that manipulate the hours/minutes/seconds.
  • Fixed bug when comparing the result of DATE_ADD()/DATE_SUB() against a number.
  • Changed the meaning of -F, --fast for myisamchk. Added option -C, --check-only-changed to myisamchk.
  • Added ANALYZE table_name to update key statistics for tables.
  • Changed binary items 0x... to be regarded as integers by default.
  • Fix for SCO and SHOW PROCESSLIST.
  • Added auto-rehash on reconnect for the mysql client.
  • Fixed a newly introduced bug in MyISAM, where the index file couldn't get bigger than 64M.
  • Added SHOW MASTER STATUS and SHOW SLAVE STATUS.

F.2.32 Changes in release 3.23.21

  • Added mysql_character_set_name(MYSQL *mysql) function to the MySQL C API.
  • Made the update log ASCII 0 safe.
  • Added the mysql_config script.
  • Fixed problem when using < or > with a char column that was only partly indexed.
  • One would get a core dump if the log file was not readable by the MySQL user.
  • Changed mysqladmin to use the CREATE DATABASE/DROP DATABASE commands instead of the old deprecated API calls.
  • Fixed chown warning in safe_mysqld.
  • Fixed a bug in ORDER BY that was introduced in 3.23.19.
  • Only optimize the DELETE FROM tbl_name to do a drop+create of the table if we are in AUTOCOMMIT mode. (Needed for BDB tables).
  • Added extra checks to avoid index corruption when the ISAM/MyISAM index files gets full during an INSERT/UPDATE.
  • myisamchk didn't correctly update row checksum when used with -ro (This only gave an warning in subsequent runs).
  • Fixed bug in REPAIR TABLE so that it works with tables without indexes.
  • Fixed buffer overrun in DROP DATABASE
  • LOAD TABLE FROM MASTER is sufficiently bug-free to announce it as a feature.
  • MATCH and AGAINST are now reserved words.

F.2.33 Changes in release 3.23.20

  • Fixed bug in 3.23.19; DELETE FROM tbl_name removed the .frm file.
  • Added SHOW CREATE TABLE.

F.2.34 Changes in release 3.23.19

  • Changed copyright for all files to GPL for the server code and utilities and LGPL for the client libraries.
  • Fixed bug where all rows matching weren't updated on a MyISAM table when doing update based on key on a table with many keys and some key changed values.
  • The Linux MySQL RPM's and binaries are now statically linked with a linuxthread version that has faster mutex handling when used with MySQL.
  • ORDER BY can now uses REF keys to find subset the rows that needs to be sorted.
  • Changed name of print_defaults to my_print_defaults to avoid name confusion.
  • Fixed NULLIF() to work according to ANSI SQL99.
  • Added net_read_timeout and net_write_timeout as startup parameters to mysqld.
  • Fixed bug that destroyed index when doing myisamchk --sort-records on a table with prefix compressed index.
  • Added pack_isam and myisampack to the standard MySQL distribution.
  • Added the syntax BEGIN WORK (the same as BEGIN).
  • Fixed core dump bug when using ORDER BY on a CONV() expression.
  • Added LOAD TABLE FROM MASTER
  • Added FLUSH MASTER and FLUSH SLAVE
  • Fixed big/little endian problem in the replication

F.2.35 Changes in release 3.23.18

  • Fixed a problem from 3.23.17 when choosing character set on the client side.
  • Added FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK to make a global lock suitable to make a copy of MySQL data files.
  • CREATE TABLE ... SELECT ... PROCEDURE now works.
  • Internal temporary tables will now uses compressed index when using GROUP BY on VARCHAR/CHAR columns.
  • Fixed a problem when locking the same table with both a READ and a WRITE lock.
  • Fixed problem with myisamchk and RAID tables.

F.2.36 Changes in release 3.23.17

  • Fixed a bug in find_in_set() when the first argument was NULL.
  • Added table locks to Berkeley DB.
  • Fixed a bug with LEFT JOIN and ORDER BY where the first table had only one matching row.
  • Added 4 sample my.cnf example files in the `support-files' directory.
  • Fixed duplicated key problem when doing big GROUP BY's. (This bug was probably introduced in 3.23.15).
  • Changed syntax for INNER JOIN to match ANSI SQL.
  • Added NATURAL JOIN syntax.
  • A lot of fixes in the BDB interface.
  • Added handling of --no-defaults and --defaults-file to safe_mysqld.sh and mysql_install_db.sh.
  • Fixed bug in reading compressed tables with many threads.
  • Fixed that USE INDEX works with PRIMARY keys.
  • Added BEGIN statement to start a transaction in AUTOCOMMIT mode.
  • Added symbolic links support for Windows.
  • Changed protocol to let client know if the server is in AUTOCOMMIT mode and if there is a pending transaction. If there is a pending transaction the client library will give an error before reconnecting to the server to let the client know that the server did a rollback. The protocol is still backward compatible with old clients
  • KILL now works on a thread that is locked on a 'write' to a dead client.
  • Fixed memory leak in the replication slave thread.
  • Added new option log-slave-updates to allow daisy-chaining the slaves.
  • Fixed compile error on FreeBSD and other systems where pthread_t is not the same as int.
  • Fixed master shutdown aborting the slave thread.
  • Fixed a race condition in INSERT DELAYED code when doing ALTER TABLE.
  • Added deadlock detection sanity checks to INSERT DELAYED

F.2.37 Changes in release 3.23.16

  • Added option TYPE=QUICK to CHECK and REPAIR.
  • Fixed bug in REPAIR TABLE when the table was in use by other threads.
  • Added a thread cache to make it possible to debug MySQL with gdb when one does a lot of reconnects. This will also improve systems where you can't use persistent connections.
  • Lots of fixes in the Berkeley DB interface.
  • UPDATE IGNORE will not abort if an update results in a DUPLICATE_KEY error.
  • Put CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE commands in the update log.
  • Fixed bug in handling of masked IP numbers in the privilege tables.
  • Fixed bug with delayed_key_writes tables and CHECK TABLE.
  • Added replicate-do-db and replicate-ignore-db options to restrict which databases get replicated
  • Added SQL_LOG_BIN option

F.2.38 Changes in release 3.23.15

  • To start mysqld as root, you must now use the --user=root option.
  • Added interface to Berkeley DB. (This is not yet functional; Play with it at your own risk!)
  • Replication between master and slaves.
  • Fixed bug that other threads could steal a lock when a thread had a lock on a table and did a FLUSH TABLES command.
  • Added the slow_launch_time variable and the Slow_launch_threads status variable to mysqld. These can be examined with mysqladmin variables and mysqladmin extended-status.
  • Added functions INET_NTOA() and INET_ATON().
  • The default type of IF() now depends on the second and third arguments and not only on the second argument.
  • Fixed case when myisamchk could go into a loop when trying to repair a crashed table.
  • Don't write INSERT DELAYED to update log if SQL_LOG_UPDATE=0.
  • Fixed problem with REPLACE on HEAP tables.
  • Added possible character sets and time zone to SHOW VARIABLES.
  • Fixed bug in locking code that could result it locking problems with concurrent inserts under high load.
  • Fixed a problem with DELETE of many rows on a table with compressed keys where MySQL scanned the index to find the rows.
  • Fixed problem with CHECK on table with deleted keyblocks.
  • Fixed a bug in reconnect (at the client side) where it didn't free memory properly in some contexts.
  • Fixed problems in update log when using LAST_INSERT_ID() to update a table with an auto_increment key.
  • Added function NULLIF().
  • Fixed bug when using LOAD DATA INFILE on a table with BLOB/TEXT columns.
  • Optimised MyISAM to be faster when inserting keys in sorted order.
  • EXPLAIN SELECT ... now also prints out whether MySQL needs to create a temporary table or use file sorting when resolving the SELECT.
  • Added optimization to skip ORDER BY parts where the part is a constant expression in the WHERE part. Indexes can now be used even if the ORDER BY doesn't match the index exactly, as long as all the not used index parts and all the extra ORDER BY columns are constants in the WHERE clause. See section 5.4.3 How MySQL Uses Indexes.
  • UPDATE and DELETE on a whole unique key in the WHERE part, is now faster than before.
  • Changed RAID_CHUNKSIZE to be in 1024 byte increments.
  • Fixed coredump in LOAD_FILE(NULL).

F.2.39 Changes in release 3.23.14

  • Fixed a bug in CONCAT() where one of the arguments was a function that returned a modified argument.
  • Fixed a critical bug in myisamchk, where it updated the header in the index file when one only checked the table. This confused the mysqld daemon if it updated the same table at the same time. Now the status in the index file is only updated if one uses --update-state. With older myisamchk versions you should use --read-only when only checking tables, if there is the slightest chance that the mysqld server is working on the table at the same time!
  • Fixed that DROP TABLE is logged in the update log.
  • Fixed problem when searching on DECIMAL() key field where the column data contained leading zeros.
  • Fix bug in myisamchk when the auto_increment isn't the first key.
  • Allow DATETIME in ISO8601 format: 2000-03-12T12:00:00
  • Dynamic character sets. A mysqld binary can now handle many different character sets (you can choose which when starting mysqld).
  • Added command REPAIR TABLE.
  • Added C API function mysql_thread_safe().
  • Added the UMASK_DIR environment variable.
  • Added function CONNECTION_ID().
  • When using = on BLOB or VARCHAR BINARY keys, where only a part of the column was indexed, the whole column of the result row wasn't compared.
  • Fix for sjis character set and ORDER BY.
  • When running in ANSI mode, don't allow columns to be used that aren't in the GROUP BY part.

F.2.40 Changes in release 3.23.13

  • Fixed problem when doing locks on the same table more than 2 times in the same LOCK TABLE command; This fixed the problem one got when running the test-ATIS test with --fast or --check-only-changed.
  • Added option SQL_BUFFER_RESULT to SELECT.
  • Removed end space from double/float numbers in results from temporary tables. Added CHECK TABLE command.
  • Added changes for MyISAM in 3.23.12 that didn't get into the source distribution because of CVS problems.
  • Fixed bug so that mysqladmin shutdown will wait for the local server to close down.
  • Fixed a possible endless loop when calculating timestamp.
  • Added print_defaults to the `.rpm' files. Removed mysqlbug from the client `.rpm' file.

F.2.41 Changes in release 3.23.12

  • Fixed bug in MyISAM involving REPLACE ... SELECT ... which could give a corrupted table.
  • Fixed bug in myisamchk where it wrongly reset the auto_increment value.
  • LOTS of patches for Linux Alpha. MySQL now appears to be relatively stable on Alpha.
  • Changed DISTINCT on HEAP temporary tables to use hashed keys to quickly find duplicated rows. This mostly concerns queries of type SELECT DISTINCT ... GROUP BY .... This fixes a problem where not all duplicates were removed in queries of the above type. In addition, the new code is MUCH faster.
  • Added patches to make MySQL compile on Mac OS X.
  • Added option IF NOT EXISTS to CREATE DATABASE.
  • Added options --all-databases and --databases to mysqldump to allow dumping of many databases at the same time.
  • Fixed bug in compressed DECIMAL() index in MyISAM tables.
  • Fixed bug when storing 0 into a timestamp.
  • When doing mysqladmin shutdown on a local connection, mysqladmin now waits until the pidfile is gone before terminating.
  • Fixed core dump with some COUNT(DISTINCT ...) queries.
  • Fixed that myisamchk works properly with RAID:ed tables.
  • Fixed problem with LEFT JOIN and key_field IS NULL.
  • Fixed bug in net_clear() which could give the error Aborted connection in the MySQL clients.
  • Added options USE INDEX (key_list) and IGNORE INDEX (key_list) as join parameters in SELECT.
  • DELETE and RENAME should now work on RAID tables.

F.2.42 Changes in release 3.23.11

  • Allow the ALTER TABLE tbl_name ADD (field_list) syntax.
  • Fixed problem with optimizer that could sometimes use wrong keys.
  • Fixed that GRANT/REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES doesn't affect GRANT OPTION.
  • Removed extra ) from the output of SHOW GRANTS
  • Fixed problem when storing numbers in timestamps.
  • Fix problem with timezones that have half hour offsets.
  • Allow the syntax UNIQUE INDEX in CREATE statements.
  • mysqlhotcopy - fast on-line hot-backup utility for local MySQL databases. By Tim Bunce.
  • New more secure mysqlaccess. Thanks to Steve Harvey for this.
  • Added options --i-am-a-dummy and --safe-updates to mysql.
  • Added variables select_limit and max_join_size to mysql.
  • Added sql variables: SQL_MAX_JOIN_SIZE and SQL_SAFE_UPDATES.
  • Added READ LOCAL lock that doesn't lock the table for concurrent inserts. (This is used by mysqldump).
  • Changed that LOCK TABLES ... READ doesn't anymore allow concurrent inserts.
  • Added option --skip-delay-key-write to mysqld.
  • Fixed security problem in the protocol regarding password checking.
  • _rowid can now be used as an alias for an integer type unique indexed column.
  • Added back blocking of SIGPIPE when compiling with --thread-safe-clients to make things safe for old clients.

F.2.43 Changes in release 3.23.10

  • Fixed bug in 3.23.9 where memory wasn't properly freed when doing LOCK TABLES.

F.2.44 Changes in release 3.23.9

  • Fixed problem that affected queries that did arithmetic on group functions.
  • Fixed problem with timestamps and INSERT DELAYED.
  • Fixed that date_column BETWEEN const_date AND const_date works.
  • Fixed problem when only changing a 0 to NULL in a table with BLOB/TEXT columns.
  • Fixed bug in range optimizer when using many key parts and or on the middle key parts: WHERE K1=1 and K3=2 and (K2=2 and K4=4 or K2=3 and K4=5)
  • Added command source to mysql to allow reading of batch files inside the mysql client. Original patch by Matthew Vanecek.
  • Fixed critical problem with the WITH GRANT OPTION option.
  • Don't give an unnecessary GRANT error when using tables from many databases in the same query.
  • Added VIO wrapper (needed for SSL support ; By Andrei Errapart and Tõnu Samuel).
  • Fixed optimizer problem on SELECT when using many overlapping indexes. MySQL should now be able to choose keys even better when there is many keys to choose from.
  • Changed optimizer to prefer a range key instead of a ref key when the range key can uses more columns than the ref key (which only can use columns with =). For example, the following type of queries should now be faster: SELECT * from key_part_1=const and key_part_2 > const2
  • Fixed bug that a change of all VARCHAR columns to CHAR columns didn't change row type from dynamic to fixed.
  • Disabled floating-point exceptions for FreeBSD to fix core dump when doing SELECT floor(pow(2,63)).
  • Changed mysqld startup option --delay-key-write to --delay-key-write-for-all-tables
  • Added read-next-on-key to HEAP tables. This should fix all problems with HEAP tables when using not UNIQUE keys.
  • Added print of default arguments options to all clients.
  • Added --log-slow-queries to mysqld to log all queries that take a long time to a separate log file with a time of how long the query took.
  • Fixed core dump when doing WHERE key_column=RAND(...)
  • Fixed optimization bug in SELECT ... LEFT JOIN ... key_column IS NULL, when key_column could contain NULL values.
  • Fixed problem with 8-bit characters as separators in LOAD DATA INFILE.

F.2.45 Changes in release 3.23.8

  • Fixed problem when handling indexfiles larger than 8G.
  • Added latest patches to mit-pthreads for NetBSD.
  • Fixed problem with timezones that are < GMT -11.
  • Fixed a bug when deleting packed keys in NISAM.
  • Fixed problem with ISAM when doing some ORDER BY ... DESC queries.
  • Fixed bug when doing a join on a text key which didn't cover the whole key.
  • Option --delay-key-write didn't enable delayed key writing.
  • Fixed update of TEXT column which only involved case changes.
  • Fixed that INSERT DELAYED doesn't update timestamps that are given.
  • Added function YEARWEEK() and options x, X, v and V to DATE_FORMAT().
  • Fixed problem with MAX(indexed_column) and HEAP tables.
  • Fixed problem with BLOB NULL keys and LIKE "prefix%".
  • Fixed problem with MyISAM and fixed-length rows < 5 bytes.
  • Fixed problem that could cause MySQL to touch freed memory when doing very complicated GROUP BY queries.
  • Fixed core dump if you got a crashed table where an ENUM field value was too big.

F.2.46 Changes in release 3.23.7

  • Fixed workaround under Linux to avoid problems with pthread_mutex_timedwait, which is used with INSERT DELAYED. See section 2.6.1 Linux Notes (All Linux Versions).
  • Fixed that one will get a 'disk full' error message if one gets disk full when doing sorting (instead of waiting until we got more disk space).
  • Fixed a bug in MyISAM with keys > 250 characters.
  • In MyISAM one can now do an INSERT at the same time as other threads are reading from the table.
  • Added variable max_write_lock_count to mysqld to force a READ lock after a certain number of WRITE locks.
  • Inverted flag delayed_key_write on show variables.
  • Renamed variable concurrency to thread_concurrency.
  • The following functions are now multi-byte-safe: 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.
  • Fix core dump when releasing a lock from a non-existent table.
  • Remove locks on tables before starting to remove duplicates.
  • Added option FULL to SHOW PROCESSLIST.
  • Added option --verbose to mysqladmin.
  • Fixed problem when automatically converting HEAP to MyISAM.
  • Fixed bug in HEAP tables when doing insert + delete + insert + scan the table.
  • Fixed bugs on Alpha with REPLACE() and LOAD DATA INFILE.
  • Added mysqld variable interactive_timeout.
  • Changed the argument to mysql_data_seek() from ulong to ulonglong.

F.2.47 Changes in release 3.23.6

  • Added mysqld option -O lower_case_table_names={0|1} to allow users to force table names to lowercase.
  • Added SELECT ... INTO DUMPFILE.
  • Added mysqld option --ansi to make some functions ANSI SQL compatible.
  • Temporary tables now starts with #sql.
  • Added quoting of identifiers with ` (" in --ansi mode).
  • Changed to use snprintf() when printing floats to avoid some buffer overflows on FreeBSD.
  • Made [floor() overflow safe on FreeBSD.
  • Added option --quote-names to mysqldump
  • Fixed bug that one could make a part of a PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL.
  • Fixed encrypt() to be thread safe and not reuse buffer.
  • Added mysql_odbc_escape_string() function to support big5 characters in MyODBC.
  • Rewrote the table handler to use classes. This introduces a lot of new code, but will make table handling faster and better.
  • Added patch by Sasha for user-defined variables.
  • Changed that FLOAT and DOUBLE (without any length modifiers) are not anymore fixed decimal point numbers.
  • Changed the meaning of 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.
  • Added option ROW_FORMAT={default | dynamic | static | compressed} to CREATE_TABLE.
  • DELETE FROM table_name didn't work on temporary tables.
  • Changed function CHAR_LENGTH() to be multi-byte character safe.
  • Added function ORD(string).

F.2.48 Changes in release 3.23.5

  • Fixed some Y2K problems in the new date handling in 3.23.
  • Fixed problem with SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY RAND().
  • Added patches by Sergei A. Golubchik for text searching on the MyISAM level.
  • Fixed cache overflow problem when using full joins without keys.
  • Fixed some configure issues.
  • Some small changes to make parsing faster.
  • ALTER TABLE + adding a column after the last field didn't work.
  • Fixed problem when using an auto_increment column in two keys
  • One can now with MyISAM have the auto_increment part as a sub part: CREATE TABLE foo (a int not null auto_increment, b char(5), primary key (b,a))
  • Fixed bug in MyISAM with packed char keys that could be NULL.
  • AS on fieldname with CREATE TABLE table_name SELECT ... didn't work.
  • Allow use of NATIONAL and NCHAR when defining character columns. This is the same as not using BINARY.
  • Don't allow NULL columns in a PRIMARY KEY (only in UNIQUE keys).
  • Clear LAST_INSERT_ID if one uses this in ODBC: WHERE auto_increment_column IS NULL. This seems to fix some problems with Access.
  • SET SQL_AUTO_IS_NULL=0|1 now turns on/off the handling of searching after the last inserted row with WHERE auto_increment_column IS NULL.
  • Added new mysqld variable concurrency for Solaris.
  • Added option --relative to mysqladmin to make extended-status more useful to monitor changes.
  • Fixed bug when using COUNT(DISTINCT ...) on an empty table.
  • Added support for the Chinese character set GBK.
  • Fixed problem with LOAD DATA INFILE and BLOB columns.
  • Added bit operator ~ (negation).
  • Fixed problem with UDF functions.

F.2.49 Changes in release 3.23.4

  • Inserting a DATETIME into a TIME column will not anymore try to store 'days' in it.
  • Fixed problem with storage of float/double on little endian machines. (This affected SUM().)
  • Added connect timeout on TCP/IP connections.
  • Fixed problem with LIKE "%" on an index that may have NULL values.
  • REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES didn't revoke all privileges.
  • Allow creation of temporary tables with same name as the original table.
  • When granting a user a grant option for a database, he couldn't grant privileges to other users.
  • New command: SHOW GRANTS FOR user (by Sinisa).
  • New date_add syntax: date/datetime + INTERVAL # interval_type. By Joshua Chamas.
  • Fixed privilege check for LOAD DATA REPLACE.
  • Automatic fixing of broken include files on Solaris 2.7
  • Some configure issues to fix problems with big file system detection.
  • REGEXP is now case insensitive if you use non-binary strings.

F.2.50 Changes in release 3.23.3

  • Added patches for MIT-pthreads on NetBSD.
  • Fixed range bug in MyISAM.
  • ASC is now the default again for ORDER BY.
  • Added LIMIT to UPDATE.
  • New client function: mysql_change_user().
  • Added character set to SHOW VARIABLES.
  • Added support of --[whitespace] comments.
  • Allow 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.
  • Changed 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.
  • Changed output for SHOW TABLE STATUS.
  • Added DELAY_KEY_WRITE option to CREATE TABLE.
  • Allow AUTO_INCREMENT on any key part.
  • Fixed problem with YEAR(NOW()) and YEAR(CURDATE()).
  • Added CASE construct.
  • New function COALESCE().

F.2.51 Changes in release 3.23.2

  • Fixed range optimizer bug: 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.
  • Running myisamchk without -a updated the index distribution wrong.
  • SET SQL_LOW_PRIORITY_UPDATES=1 gave parse error before.
  • You can now update indexes columns that are used in the WHERE clause. UPDATE tbl_name SET KEY=KEY+1 WHERE KEY > 100
  • Date handling should now be a bit faster.
  • Added handling of fuzzy dates (dates where day or month is 0): (Like: 1999-01-00)
  • Fixed optimization of 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.
  • Fixed egcs 1.1.2 optimizer bug (when using BLOBs) on Linux Alpha.
  • Fixed problem with LOCK TABLES combined with DELETE FROM table.
  • MyISAM tables now allow keys on NULL and BLOB/TEXT columns.
  • The following join is now much faster: SELECT ... FROM t1 LEFT JOIN t2 ON ... WHERE t2.not_null_column IS NULL.
  • ORDER BY and GROUP BY can be done on functions.
  • Changed handling of 'const_item' to allow handling of ORDER BY RAND().
  • Indexes are now used for WHERE key_column = function.
  • Indexes are now used for WHERE key_column = column_name even if the columns are not identically packed.
  • Indexes are now used for WHERE column_name IS NULL.
  • Changed heap tables to be stored in low_byte_first order (to make it easy to convert to MyISAM tables)
  • Automatic change of HEAP temporary tables to MyISAM tables in case of 'table is full' errors.
  • Added option --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.
  • New reserved words (required for CASE): CASE, THEN, WHEN, ELSE and END.
  • New functions EXPORT_SET() and MD5().
  • Support for the GB2312 Chinese character set.

F.2.52 Changes in release 3.23.1

  • Fixed some compilation problems.

F.2.53 Changes in release 3.23.0

  • A new table handler library (MyISAM) with a lot of new features. See section 7.1 MyISAM Tables.
  • You can create in-memory HEAP tables which are extremely fast for lookups.
  • Support for big files (63 bit) on OSes that support big files.
  • New function LOAD_FILE(filename) to get the contents of a file as a string value.
  • New operator <=> which will act as = but will return TRUE if both arguments are NULL. This is useful for comparing changes between tables.
  • Added the ODBC 3.0 EXTRACT(interval FROM datetime) function.
  • Columns defined as 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.
  • Changed LIKE character comparison to behave as =; This means that 'e' LIKE ''e' (if the line doesn't display correctly, the latter 'e' means a French 'e' with a dot above) is now true.
  • SHOW TABLE STATUS returns a lot of information about the tables.
  • Added LIKE to the SHOW STATUS command.
  • Added privilege column to SHOW COLUMNS.
  • Added columns packed and comment to SHOW INDEX.
  • Added comments to tables (with CREATE TABLE ... COMMENT "xxx").
  • Added UNIQUE, as in CREATE TABLE table_name (col int not null UNIQUE)
  • New create syntax: CREATE TABLE table_name SELECT ...
  • New create syntax: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ...
  • Allow creation of CHAR(0) columns.
  • DATE_FORMAT() now requires `%' before any format character.
  • DELAYED is now a reserved word (sorry about that :( ).
  • An example procedure is added: 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.
  • Added option --skip-show-database to mysqld.
  • Check if a row has changed in an UPDATE now also works with BLOB/TEXT columns.
  • Added the INNER join syntax. NOTE: This made INNER a reserved word!
  • Added support for netmasks to the hostname in the MySQL tables. You can specify a netmask using the IP/NETMASK syntax.
  • If you compare a NOT NULL DATE/DATETIME column with IS NULL, this is changed to a compare against 0 to satisfy some ODBC applications. (By shreeve@uci.edu).
  • NULL IN (...) now returns NULL instead of 0. This will ensure that null_column NOT IN (...) doesn't match NULL values.
  • Fix storage of floating-point values in TIME columns.
  • Changed parsing of 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]
  • Detect (and ignore) second fraction part from DATETIME.
  • Added the LOW_PRIORITY attribute to LOAD DATA INFILE.
  • The default index name now uses the same case as the used column name.
  • Changed default number of connections to 100.
  • Use bigger buffers when using LOAD DATA INFILE.
  • DECIMAL(x,y) now works according to ANSI SQL.
  • Added aggregate UDF functions. Thanks to Andreas F. Bobak bobak@relog.ch for this!
  • LAST_INSERT_ID() is now updated for INSERT INTO ... SELECT.
  • Some small changes to the join table optimizer to make some joins faster.
  • SELECT DISTINCT is much faster; It uses the new UNIQUE functionality in MyISAM. One difference compared to MySQL Version 3.22 is that the output of DISTINCT is not sorted anymore.
  • All C client API macros are now functions to make shared libraries more reliable. Because of this, you can no longer call mysql_num_fields() on a MYSQL object, you must use mysql_field_count() instead.
  • Added use of LIBEWRAP; Patch by Henning P . Schmiedehausen.
  • Don't allow AUTO_INCREMENT for other than numerical columns.
  • Using AUTO_INCREMENT will now automatically make the column NOT NULL.
  • Show NULL as the default value for AUTO_INCREMENT columns.
  • Added SQL_BIG_RESULT; SQL_SMALL_RESULT is now default.
  • Added a shared library RPM. This enhancement was contributed by David Fox (dsfox@cogsci.ucsd.edu).
  • Added a --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.
  • Upgraded readline to 4.0.
  • New CREATE TABLE options: PACK_KEYS and CHECKSUM.
  • Added mysqld option --default-table-type.

F.3 Changes in release 3.22.x (Older; Still supported)

The 3.22 version has faster and safer connect code than version 3.21, as well as a lot of new nice enhancements. The reason for not including these changes As there aren't really any MAJOR changes, upgrading from 3.21 to 3.22 should be very easy and painless. See section 2.5.2 Upgrading from Version 3.21 to Version 3.22.

F.3.1 Changes in release 3.22.35

  • Fixed problem with STD().
  • Merged changes from the newest ISAM library from 3.23.
  • Fixed problem with INSERT DELAYED.
  • Fixed a bug core dump when using a LEFT JOIN/STRAIGHT_JOIN on a table with only one row.

F.3.2 Changes in release 3.22.34

  • Fixed problem with GROUP BY on TINYBLOB columns; This caused bugzilla to not show rows in some queries.
  • Had to do total recompile of the Windows binary version as VC++ didn't compile all relevant files for 3.22.33 :(

F.3.3 Changes in release 3.22.33

  • Fixed problems in Windows when locking tables with LOCK TABLE
  • Quicker kill of SELECT DISTINCT queries.

F.3.4 Changes in release 3.22.32

  • Fixed problem when storing numbers in timestamps.
  • Fix problem with timezones that have half hour offsets.
  • mysqlhotcopy - fast on-line hot-backup utility for local MySQL databases. By Tim Bunce.
  • New more secure mysqlaccess. Thanks to Steve Harvey for this.
  • Fixed security problem in the protocol regarding password checking.
  • Fixed problem that affected queries that did arithmetic on GROUP functions.
  • Fixed a bug in the ISAM code when deleting rows on tables with packed indexes.

F.3.5 Changes in release 3.22.31

  • A few small fixes for the Windows version.

F.3.6 Changes in release 3.22.30

  • Fixed optimizer problem on SELECT when using many overlapping indexes.
  • Disabled floating-point exceptions for FreeBSD to fix core dump when doing SELECT floor(pow(2,63)).
  • Added print of default arguments options to all clients.
  • Fixed critical problem with the WITH GRANT OPTION option.
  • Fixed non-critical Y2K problem when writing short date to log files.

F.3.7 Changes in release 3.22.29

  • Upgraded the configure and include files to match the latest 3.23 version. This should increase portability and make it easier to build shared libraries.
  • Added latest patches to mit-pthreads for NetBSD.
  • Fixed problem with timezones that are < GMT -11.
  • Fixed a bug when deleting packed keys in NISAM.
  • Fixed problem that could cause MySQL to touch freed memory when doing very complicated GROUP BY queries.
  • Fixed core dump if you got a crashed table where an ENUM field value was too big.
  • Added mysqlshutdown.exe and mysqlwatch.exe to the Windows distribution.
  • Fixed problem when doing ORDER BY on a reference key.
  • Fixed that INSERT DELAYED doesn't update timestamps that are given.

F.3.8 Changes in release 3.22.28

  • Fixed problem with LEFT JOIN and COUNT() on a column which was declared NULL + and it had a DEFAULT value.
  • Fixed core dump problem when using CONCAT() in a WHERE clause.
  • Fixed problem with AVG() and STD() with NULL values.

F.3.9 Changes in release 3.22.27

  • Fixed prototype in `my_ctype.h' when using other character sets.
  • Some configure issues to fix problems with big file system detection.
  • Fixed problem when sorting on big blob columns.
  • ROUND() will now work on Windows.

F.3.10 Changes in release 3.22.26

  • Fixed core dump with empty BLOB/TEXT column to REVERSE().
  • Extended /*! */ with version numbers.
  • Changed SUBSTRING(text FROM pos) to conform to ANSI SQL. (Before this construct returned the rightmost 'pos' characters).
  • Fixed problem with LOCK TABLES combined with DELETE FROM table
  • Fixed problem that INSERT ... SELECT didn't use SQL_BIG_TABLES.
  • SET SQL_LOW_PRIORITY_UPDATES=# didn't work.
  • Password wasn't updated correctly if privileges didn't change on: GRANT ... IDENTIFIED BY
  • Fixed range optimizer bug in SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE key_part1 >= const AND (key_part2 = const OR key_part2 = const)
  • Fixed bug in compression key handling in ISAM.

F.3.11 Changes in release 3.22.25

  • Fixed some small problems with the installation.

F.3.12 Changes in release 3.22.24

  • DATA is not a reserved word anymore.
  • Fixed optimizer bug with tables with only one row.
  • Fixed bug when using LOCK TABLES table_name READ; FLUSH TABLES;
  • Applied some patches for HP-UX.
  • isamchk should now work on Windows.
  • Changed `configure' to not use big file handling on Linux as this crashes some RedHat 6.0 systems

F.3.13 Changes in release 3.22.23

  • Upgraded to use Autoconf 2.13, Automake 1.4 and libtool 1.3.2.
  • Better support for SCO in configure.
  • Added option --defaults-file=### to option file handling to force use of only one specific option file.
  • Extended CREATE syntax to ignore MySQL Version 3.23 keywords.
  • Fixed deadlock problem when using INSERT DELAYED on a table locked with LOCK TABLES.
  • Fixed deadlock problem when using DROP TABLE on a table that was locked by another thread.
  • Add logging of GRANT/REVOKE commands in the update log.
  • Fixed isamchk to detect a new error condition.
  • Fixed bug in NATURAL LEFT JOIN.

F.3.14 Changes in release 3.22.22

  • Fixed problem in the C API when you called mysql_close() directly after mysql_init().
  • Better client error message when you can't open socket.
  • Fixed delayed_insert_thread counting when you couldn't create a new delayed_insert thread.
  • Fixed bug in CONCAT() with many arguments.
  • Added patches for DEC 3.2 and SCO.
  • Fixed path-bug when installing MySQL as a service on NT.
  • The MySQL-Windows version is now compiled with VC++ 6.0 instead of with VC++ 5.0.
  • New installation setup for MySQL-Windows.

F.3.15 Changes in release 3.22.21

  • Fixed problem with DELETE FROM TABLE when table was locked by another thread.
  • Fixed bug in LEFT JOIN involving empty tables.
  • Changed the mysql.db column from char(32) to char(60).
  • MODIFY and DELAYED are not reserved words anymore.
  • Fixed a bug when storing days in a TIME column.
  • Fixed a problem with Host '...' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server after one had inserted a new MySQL user with a GRANT command.
  • Changed to use TCP_NODELAY also on Linux (Should give faster TCP/IP connections).

F.3.16 Changes in release 3.22.20

  • Fixed STD() for big tables when result should be 0.
  • The update log didn't have newlines on some operating systems.
  • INSERT DELAYED had some garbage at end in the update log.

F.3.17 Changes in release 3.22.19

  • Fixed bug in mysql_install_db (from 3.22.17).
  • Changed default key cache size to 8M.
  • Fixed problem with queries that needed temporary tables with BLOB columns.

F.3.18 Changes in release 3.22.18

  • Fixes a fatal problem in 3.22.17 on Linux; After shutdown all threads didn't die properly.
  • Added option -O flush_time=# to mysqld. This is mostly useful on Windows and tells how often MySQL should close all unused tables and flush all updated tables to disk.
  • Fixed problem that a VARCHAR column compared with CHAR column didn't use keys efficiently.

F.3.19 Changes in release 3.22.17

  • Fixed a core dump problem when using --log-update and connecting without a default database.
  • Fixed some configure and portability problems.
  • Using LEFT JOIN on tables that had circular dependencies caused mysqld to hang forever.

F.3.20 Changes in release 3.22.16

  • 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'
  • Extended 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.
  • Added the MODIFY keyword to ALTER TABLE.

F.3.21 Changes in release 3.22.15

  • GRANT used with IDENTIFIED BY didn't take effect until privileges were flushed.
  • Name change of some variables in SHOW STATUS.
  • Fixed problem with ORDER BY with 'only index' optimization 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.
  • Fixed problems with VARCHAR/BLOB on very short rows (< 4 bytes); error 127 could occur when deleting rows.
  • Updating BLOB/TEXT through formulas didn't work for short (< 256 char) strings.
  • When you did a GRANT on a new host, mysqld could die on the first connect from this host.
  • Fixed bug when one used ORDER BY on column name that was the same name as an alias.
  • Added BENCHMARK(loop_count,expression) function to time expressions.

F.3.22 Changes in release 3.22.14

  • Allow empty arguments to mysqld to make it easier to start from shell scripts.
  • Setting a TIMESTAMP column to NULL didn't record the timestamp value in the update log.
  • Fixed lock handler bug when one did INSERT INTO TABLE ... SELECT ... GROUP BY.
  • Added a patch for localtime_r() on Windows so that it will not crash anymore if your date is > 2039, but instead will return a time of all zero.
  • Names for user-defined functions are no longer case sensitive.
  • Added escape of ^Z (ASCII 26) to \Z as ^Z doesn't work with pipes on Windows.
  • mysql_fix_privileges adds a new column to the mysql.func to support aggregate UDF functions in future MySQL releases.

F.3.23 Changes in release 3.22.13

  • Saving NOW(), CURDATE() or CURTIME() directly in a column didn't work.
  • SELECT COUNT(*) ... LEFT JOIN ... didn't work with no WHERE part.
  • Updated `config.guess' to allow MySQL to configure on UnixWare 7.0.x.
  • Changed the implementation of pthread_cond() on the Windows version. get_lock() now correctly times out on Windows!

F.3.24 Changes in release 3.22.12

  • Fixed problem when using DATE_ADD() and DATE_SUB() in a WHERE clause.
  • You can now set the password for a user with the GRANT ... TO user IDENTIFIED BY 'password' syntax.
  • Fixed bug in GRANT checking with SELECT on many tables.
  • Added missing file mysql_fix_privilege_tables to the RPM distribution. This is not run by default because it relies on the client package.
  • Added option SQL_SMALL_RESULT to SELECT to force use of fast temporary tables when you know that the result set will be small.
  • Allow use of negative real numbers without a decimal point.
  • Day number is now adjusted to maximum days in month if the resulting month after DATE_ADD/DATE_SUB() doesn't have enough days.
  • Fix that GRANT compares columns in case-insensitive fashion.
  • Fixed a bug in `sql_list.h' that made ALTER TABLE dump core in some contexts.
  • The hostname in user@hostname can now include `.' and `-' without quotes in the context of the GRANT, REVOKE and SET PASSWORD FOR ... statements.
  • Fix for isamchk for tables which need big temporary files.

F.3.25 Changes in release 3.22.11

  • IMPORTANT: You must run the 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.
  • Changed USER() to return user@host
  • Changed the syntax for how to set PASSWORD for another user.
  • New command FLUSH STATUS that sets most status variables to zero.
  • New status variables: aborted_threads, aborted_connects.
  • New option variable: connection_timeout.
  • Added support for Thai sorting (by Pruet Boonma pruet@ds90.intanon.nectec.or.th).
  • Slovak and japanese error messages.
  • Configuration and portability fixes.
  • Added option SET SQL_WARNINGS=1 to get a warning count also for simple inserts.
  • MySQL now uses SIGTERM instead of SIGQUIT with shutdown to work better on FreeBSD.
  • Added option \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.
  • New function MAKE_SET().

F.3.26 Changes in release 3.22.10

  • 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.
  • Added --bootstrap option to mysqld and recoded mysql_install_db to use it. This will make it easier to install MySQL with RPMs.
  • Changed +, - (sign and minus), *, /, %, ABS() and MOD() to be BIGINT aware (64-bit safe).
  • Fixed a bug in ALTER TABLE that caused mysqld to crash.
  • MySQL now always reports the conflicting key values when a duplicate key entry occurs. (Before this was only reported for INSERT).
  • New syntax: INSERT INTO tbl_name SET col_name=value, col_name=value, ...
  • Most errors in the `.err' log are now prefixed with a time stamp.
  • Added option MYSQL_INIT_COMMAND to mysql_options() to make a query on connect or reconnect.
  • Added option 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.
  • Added maybe_null to the UDF structure.
  • Added option IGNORE to INSERT statements with many rows.
  • Fixed some problems with sorting of the koi8 character sets; Users of koi8 MUST run isamchk -rq on each table that has an index on a CHAR or VARCHAR column.
  • New script mysql_setpermission, by Luuk de Boer, allows one to easily create new users with permissions for specific databases.
  • Allow use of hexadecimal strings (0x...) when specifying a constant string (like in the column separators with LOAD DATA INFILE).
  • Ported to OS/2 (thanks to Antony T. Curtis antony.curtis@olcs.net).
  • Added more variables to SHOW STATUS and changed format of output to be like SHOW VARIABLES.
  • Added extended-status command to mysqladmin which will show the new status variables.

F.3.27 Changes in release 3.22.9

  • SET SQL_LOG_UPDATE=0 caused a lockup of the server.
  • New SQL command: FLUSH [ TABLES | HOSTS | LOGS | PRIVILEGES ] [, ...]
  • New SQL command: KILL thread_id.
  • Added casts and changed include files to make MySQL easier to compile on AIX and DEC OSF1 4.x
  • Fixed conversion problem when using ALTER TABLE from a INT to a short CHAR() column.
  • Added 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.
  • Moved wild_compare to string class to be able to use LIKE on BLOB/TEXT columns with \0.
  • Added ESCAPE option to LIKE.
  • Added a lot more output to mysqladmin debug.
  • You can now start mysqld on Windows 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.

F.3.28 Changes in release 3.22.8

  • Czech character sets should now work much better. You must also install http://www.mysql.com/Downloads/Patches/czech-3.22.8-patch. This patch should also be installed if you are using a character set with uses 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.
  • Fix problem with ORDER BY and LEFT JOIN and const tables.
  • Fixed problem with 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.
  • Fixed a big problem with OPTIMIZE TABLE.
  • MySQL clients on NT will now by default first try to connect with named pipes and after this with TCP/IP.
  • Fixed a problem with DROP TABLE and mysqladmin shutdown on Windows (a fatal bug from 3.22.6).
  • Fixed problems with TIME columns and negative strings.
  • Added an extra thread signal loop on shutdown to avoid some error messages from the client.
  • MySQL now uses the next available number as extension for the update log file.
  • Added patches for UNIXWARE 7.

F.3.29 Changes in release 3.22.7

  • Added LIMIT clause for the DELETE statement.
  • You can now use the /*! ... */ 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 regenerate the table, but in the future it will use an integrated isamchk for more speed.
  • Upgraded libtool to get the configure more portable.
  • Fixed slow UPDATE and DELETE operations when using DATETIME or DATE keys.
  • Changed optimizer to make it better at deciding when to do a full join and when using keys.
  • You can now use mysqladmin proc to display information about your own threads. Only users with the Process_priv privilege can get information about all threads.
  • Added handling of formats YYMMDD, YYYYMMDD, YYMMDDHHMMSS for numbers when using DATETIME and TIMESTAMP types. (Formerly these formats only worked with strings.)
  • Added connect option CLIENT_IGNORE_SPACE to allow use of spaces after function names and before `(' (Powerbuilder requires this). This will make all function names reserved words.
  • Added the --log-long-format option to mysqld to enable timestamps and INSERT_ID's in the update log.
  • Added --where option to mysqldump (patch by Jim Faucette).
  • The lexical analyzer now uses ``perfect hashing'' for faster parsing of SQL statements.

F.3.30 Changes in release 3.22.6

  • Faster mysqldump.
  • For the 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.
  • Fixed small optimize problem when updating keys.
  • Changed makefiles to support shared libraries.
  • MySQL-NT can now use named pipes, which means that you can now use MySQL-NT without having to install TCP/IP.

F.3.31 Changes in release 3.22.5

  • All table lock handing is changed to avoid some very subtle deadlocks when using 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.
  • Updated DBI to 1.00 and DBD to 1.2.0.
  • Added a check that the error message file contains error messages suitable for the current version of mysqld. (To avoid errors if you accidentally try to use an old error message file.)
  • All count structures in the client (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 > 16M.
  • The return type of mysql_fetch_lengths() has changed from uint * to ulong *. This may give a warning for old clients but should work on most machines.
  • Change mysys and dbug libraries to allocate all thread variables in one struct. This makes it easier to make a threaded `libmysql.dll' library.
  • Use the result from gethostname() (instead of uname()) when constructing `.pid' file names.
  • New better compressed server/client protocol.
  • COUNT(), STD() and AVG() are extended to handle more than 4G rows.
  • You can now store values in the range -838:59:59 <= x <= 838:59:59 in a TIME column.
  • WARNING: INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE!! If you set a 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.
  • Added new option 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 violet@rosnet.net.)
  • Fixed fatal bug in LPAD().
  • Initialize line buffer in `mysql.cc' to make BLOB reading from pipes safer.
  • Added -O max_connect_errors=# option to mysqld. Connect errors are now reset for each correct connection.
  • Increased the default value of max_allowed_packet to 1M in mysqld.
  • Added --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. :(
  • Add support for 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.)
  • Allow 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 `;'.
  • Fix for corrupted fixed-format output generated by SELECT INTO OUTFILE.
  • WARNING: INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE!! Added Oracle 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.
  • WARNING: INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE!! DAYOFWEEK() had offset 0 for Sunday. Changed the offset to 1.
  • Give an error for queries that mix GROUP BY columns and fields when there is no GROUP BY specification.
  • Added --vertical option to mysql, for printing results in vertical mode.
  • Index-only optimization; some queries are now resolved using only indexes. Until MySQL 4.0, this works only for numeric columns. See section 5.4.3 How MySQL Uses Indexes.
  • Lots of new benchmarks.
  • A new C API chapter and lots of other improvements in the manual.

F.3.32 Changes in release 3.22.4

  • Added --tmpdir option to mysqld, for specifying the location of the temporary file directory.
  • MySQL now automatically changes a query from an ODBC client: 
    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.
  • Fixed small memory leak in the new connect protocol.
  • New functions BIN(), OCT(), HEX() and CONV() for converting between different number bases.
  • Added function SUBSTRING() with 2 arguments.
  • If you created a table with a record length smaller than 5, you couldn't delete rows from the table.
  • Added optimization to remove const reference tables from ORDER BY and GROUP BY.
  • mysqld now automatically disables system locking on Linux and Windows, and for systems that use MIT-pthreads. You can force the use of locking with the --enable-locking option.
  • Added --console option to mysqld, to force a console window (for error messages) when using Windows.
  • Fixed table locks for Windows.
  • Allow `$' in identifiers.
  • Changed name of user-specific configuration file from `my.cnf' to `.my.cnf' (Unix only).
  • Added DATE_ADD() and DATE_SUB() functions.

F.3.33 Changes in release 3.22.3

  • Fixed a lock problem (bug in MySQL Version 3.22.1) when closing temporary tables.
  • Added missing mysql_ping() to the client library.
  • Added --compress option to all MySQL clients.
  • Changed byte to char in `mysql.h' and `mysql_com.h'.

F.3.34 Changes in release 3.22.2

  • Searching on multiple constant keys that matched more than 30% of the rows didn't always use the best possible key.
  • New functions <<, >>, RPAD() and LPAD().
  • You can now save default options (like passwords) in a configuration file (`my.cnf').
  • Lots of small changes to get ORDER BY to work when no records are found when using fields that are not in GROUP BY (MySQL extension).
  • Added --chroot option to mysqld, to start mysqld in a chroot environment (by Nikki Chumakov nikkic@cityline.ru).
  • Trailing spaces are now ignored when comparing case-sensitive strings; this should fix some problems with ODBC and flag 512!
  • Fixed a core-dump bug in the range optimizer.
  • Added --one-thread option to mysqld, for debugging with LinuxThreads (or glibc). (This replaces the -T32 flag)
  • Added 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).
  • Added lots of new options to mysqldump.
  • Server error messages are now in `mysqld_error.h'.
  • The server/client protocol now supports compression.
  • All bug fixes from MySQL Version 3.21.32.

F.3.35 Changes in release 3.22.1

  • Added new C API function mysql_ping().
  • Added new API functions 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().
  • Added mysql_options(...,MYSQL_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT,...) so you can set a timeout for connecting to a server.
  • Added --timeout option to mysqladmin, as a test of mysql_options().
  • Added 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 Version 3.22.0).
  • UPDATE now returns information about how many rows were matched and updated, and how many ``warnings'' occurred when doing the update.
  • Fixed incorrect result from FORMAT(-100,2).
  • ENUM and SET columns were compared in binary (case-sensitive) fashion; changed to be case insensitive.

F.3.36 Changes in release 3.22.0

  • New (backward compatible) connect protocol that allows you to specify the database to use when connecting, to get much faster connections to a specific database. The 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)
  • Each connection is handled by its own thread, rather than by the master accept() thread. This fixes permanently the telnet bug that was a topic on the mail list some time ago.
  • All TCP/IP connections are now checked with backward resolution of the hostname to get better security. mysqld now has a local hostname resolver cache so connections should actually be faster than before, even with this feature.
  • A site automatically will be blocked from future connections if someone repeatedly connects with an ``improper header'' (like when one uses telnet).
  • You can now refer to tables in different databases with references of the form 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!
  • Added --user option to mysqld, to allow it to run as another Unix user (if it is started as the Unix root user).
  • Added caching of users and access rights (for faster access rights checking)
  • Normal users (not anonymous ones) can change their password with mysqladmin password 'new_password'. This uses encrypted passwords that are not logged in the normal MySQL log!
  • All important string functions are now coded in assembler for x86 Linux machines. This gives a speedup of 10% in many cases.
  • For tables that have many columns, the column names are now hashed for much faster column name lookup (this will speed up some benchmark tests a lot!)
  • Some benchmarks are changed to get better individual timing. (Some loops were so short that a specific test took < 2 seconds. The loops have been changed to take about 20 seconds to make it easier to compare different databases. A test that took 1-2 seconds before now takes 11-24 seconds, which is much better)
  • Re-arranged 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;
  • Changed the protocol for field functions to be faster and avoid some calls to malloc().
  • Added -T32 option to mysqld, for running all queries under the main thread. This makes it possible to debug mysqld under Linux with gdb!
  • Added optimization of not_null_column IS NULL (needed for some Access queries).
  • Allow STRAIGHT_JOIN to be used between two tables to force the optimizer to join them in a specific order.
  • String functions now return 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.
  • Added --set-variable option wait_timeout to mysqld.
  • Added time column to mysqladmin processlist to show how long a query has taken or how long a thread has slept.
  • Added lots of new variables to show variables and some new to show status.
  • Added new type YEAR. YEAR is stored in 1 byte with allowable values of 0, and 1901 to 2155.
  • Added new 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.
  • Fixed bug in record caches; for some queries, you could get Error from table handler: # on some operating systems.
  • Added --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!

F.4 Changes in release 3.21.x

Version 3.21 is quite old now, and should be avoided if possible. This information is kept here for historical purposes only.

F.4.1 Changes in release 3.21.33

  • Fixed problem when sending SIGHUP to mysqld; mysqld core dumped when starting from boot on some systems.
  • Fixed problem with losing a little memory for some connections.
  • 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.

F.4.2 Changes in release 3.21.32

  • Fixed some possible race conditions when doing many reopen/close on the same tables under heavy load! This can happen if you execute mysqladmin refresh often. This could in some very rare cases corrupt the header of the index file and cause error 126 or 138.
  • Fixed fatal bug in 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.
  • Fixed a bug in the range optimizer that wrote Use_count: Wrong count for ... in the error log file.

F.4.3 Changes in release 3.21.31

  • Fixed a sign extension problem for the TINYINT type on Irix.
  • Fixed problem with LEFT("constant_string",function).
  • Fixed problem with FIND_IN_SET().
  • LEFT JOIN core dumped if the second table is used with a constant WHERE/ON expression that uniquely identifies one record.
  • Fixed problems with DATE_FORMAT() and incorrect dates. DATE_FORMAT() now ignores '%' to make it possible to extend it more easily in the future.

F.4.4 Changes in release 3.21.30

  • mysql now returns an exit code > 0 if the query returned an error.
  • Saving of command line history to file in mysql client. By Tommy Larsen tommy@mix.hive.no.
  • Fixed problem with empty lines that were ignored in `mysql.cc'.
  • Save the pid of the signal handler thread in the pid file instead of the pid of the main thread.
  • Added patch by tommy@valley.ne.jp to support Japanese characters SJIS and UJIS.
  • Changed 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.
  • Changed LOAD DATA to use less memory with tables and BLOB columns.
  • Sorting on a function which made a division / 0 produced a wrong set in some cases.
  • Fixed SELECT problem with LEFT() when using the czech character set.
  • Fixed problem in 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.
  • When comparing a field = field, where one of the fields was a part key, only the length of the part key was compared.

F.4.5 Changes in release 3.21.29

  • LOCK TABLES + DELETE from tbl_name never removed locks properly.
  • Fixed problem when grouping on an OR function.
  • Fixed permission problem with umask() and creating new databases.
  • Fixed permission problem on result file with SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE ...
  • Fixed problem in range optimizer (core dump) for a very complex query.
  • Fixed problem when using MIN(integer) or MAX(integer) in GROUP BY.
  • Fixed bug on Alpha when using integer keys. (Other keys worked on Alpha).
  • Fixed bug in WEEK("XXXX-xx-01").

F.4.6 Changes in release 3.21.28

  • Fixed socket permission (clients couldn't connect to Unix socket on Linux).
  • Fixed bug in record caches; for some queries, you could get Error from table handler: # on some operating systems.

F.4.7 Changes in release 3.21.27

  • Added user level lock functions GET_LOCK(string,timeout), RELEASE_LOCK(string).
  • Added opened_tables to show status.
  • Changed connect timeout to 3 seconds to make it somewhat harder for crackers to kill mysqld through telnet + TCP/IP.
  • Fixed bug in range optimizer when using WHERE key_part_1 >= something AND key_part_2 <= something_else.
  • Changed 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).
  • Strings keys looked up with 'ref' were not compared in case-sensitive fashion.
  • Added umask() to make log files non-readable for normal users.
  • Ignore users with old (8-byte) password on startup if not using --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.)

F.4.8 Changes in release 3.21.26

  • FROM_DAYS(0) now returns "0000-00-00".
  • In DATE_FORMAT(), PM and AM were swapped for hours 00 and 12.
  • Extended the default maximum key size to 256.
  • Fixed bug when using BLOB/TEXT in GROUP BY with many tables.
  • An ENUM field that is not declared NOT NULL has NULL as the default value. (Previously, the default value was the first enumeration value.)
  • Fixed bug in the join optimizer code when using many part keys on the same key: INDEX (Organization,Surname(35),Initials(35)).
  • Added some tests to the table order optimizer to get some cases with SELECT ... FROM many_tables much faster.
  • Added a retry loop around accept() to possibly fix some problems on some Linux machines.

F.4.9 Changes in release 3.21.25

  • Changed typedef 'string' to typedef 'my_string' for better portability.
  • You can now kill threads that are waiting on a disk-full condition.
  • Fixed some problems with UDF functions.
  • Added long options to isamchk. Try isamchk --help.
  • Fixed a bug when using 8 bytes long (alpha); filesort() didn't work. Affects DISTINCT, ORDER BY and GROUP BY on 64-bit processors.

F.4.10 Changes in release 3.21.24

  • Dynamic loadable functions. Based on source from Alexis Mikhailov.
  • You couldn't delete from a table if no one had done a SELECT on the table.
  • Fixed problem with range optimizer with many OR operators on key parts inside each other.
  • Recoded MIN() and MAX() to work properly with strings and HAVING.
  • Changed default umask value for new files from 0664 to 0660.
  • Fixed problem with LEFT JOIN and constant expressions in the ON part.
  • Added Italian error messages from brenno@dewinter.com.
  • configure now works better on OSF1 (tested on 4.0D).
  • Added hooks to allow LIKE optimization with international character support.
  • Upgraded DBI to 0.93.

F.4.11 Changes in release 3.21.23

  • The following symbols are now reserved words: TIME, DATE, TIMESTAMP, TEXT, BIT, ENUM, NO, ACTION, CHECK, YEAR, MONTH, DAY, HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND, STATUS, VARIABLES.
  • Setting a TIMESTAMP to NULL in LOAD DATA INFILE ... didn't set the current time for the TIMESTAMP.
  • Fix BETWEEN to recognize binary strings. Now BETWEEN is case sensitive.
  • Added --skip-thread-priority option to mysqld, for systems where mysqld's thread scheduling doesn't work properly (BSDI 3.1).
  • Added ODBC functions DAYNAME() and MONTHNAME().
  • Added function TIME_FORMAT(). This works like DATE_FORMAT(), but takes a time string ('HH:MM:DD') as argument.
  • Fixed unlikely(?) key optimizer bug when using ORs of key parts inside ANDs.
  • Added command variables to mysqladmin.
  • A lot of small changes to the binary releases.
  • Fixed a bug in the new protocol from MySQL Version 3.21.20.
  • Changed ALTER TABLE to work with Windows (Windows can't rename open files). Also fixed a couple of small bugs in the Windows version.
  • All standard MySQL clients are now ported to MySQL-Windows.
  • MySQL can now be started as a service on NT.

F.4.12 Changes in release 3.21.22

  • Starting with this version, all MySQL distributions will be configured, compiled and tested with 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.
  • Fix COUNT(*) problems when the WHERE clause didn't match any records. (Bug from 3.21.17.)
  • Removed that 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.
  • Fixed bug that core dumped when using many LEFT OUTER JOIN clauses.
  • Fixed bug in ORDER BY on string formula with possible NULL values.
  • Fixed problem in range optimizer when using <= on sub index.
  • Added functions DAYOFYEAR(), DAYOFMONTH(), MONTH(), YEAR(), WEEK(), QUARTER(), HOUR(), MINUTE(), SECOND() and FIND_IN_SET().
  • Added command SHOW VARIABLES.
  • Added support of ``long constant strings'' from ANSI SQL: 
    mysql> SELECT 'first ' 'second';       -> 'first second'
  • Upgraded mSQL-Mysql-modules to 1.1825.
  • Upgraded mysqlaccess to 2.02.
  • Fixed problem with Russian character set and LIKE.
  • Ported to OpenBSD 2.1.
  • New Dutch error messages.

F.4.13 Changes in release 3.21.21a

  • Configure changes for some operating systems.

F.4.14 Changes in release 3.21.21

  • Fixed optimizer bug when using WHERE data_field = date_field2 AND date_field2 = constant.
  • Added command SHOW STATUS.
  • Removed `manual.ps' from the source distribution to make it smaller.

F.4.15 Changes in release 3.21.20

  • Changed the maximum table name and column name lengths from 32 to 64.
  • Aliases can now be of ``any'' length.
  • Fixed mysqladmin stat to return the right number of queries.
  • Changed protocol (downward compatible) to mark if a column has the AUTO_INCREMENT attribute or is a TIMESTAMP. This is needed for the new Java driver.
  • Added Hebrew sorting order by Zeev Suraski.
  • Solaris 2.6: Fixed configure bugs and increased maximum table size from 2G to 4G.

F.4.16 Changes in release 3.21.19

  • Upgraded DBD to 1823. This version implements mysql_use_result in DBD-Mysql.
  • Benchmarks updated for empress (by Luuk).
  • Fixed a case of slow range searching.
  • Configure fixes (`Docs' directory).
  • Added function REVERSE() (by Zeev Suraski).

F.4.17 Changes in release 3.21.18

  • Issue error message if client C functions are called in wrong order.
  • Added automatic reconnect to the `libmysql.c' library. If a write command fails, an automatic reconnect is done.
  • Small sort sets no longer use temporary files.
  • Upgraded DBI to 0.91.
  • Fixed a couple of problems with LEFT OUTER JOIN.
  • Added CROSS JOIN syntax. CROSS is now a reserved word.
  • Recoded yacc/bison stack allocation to be even safer and to allow MySQL to handle even bigger expressions.
  • Fixed a couple of problems with the update log.
  • ORDER BY was slow when used with key ranges.

F.4.18 Changes in release 3.21.17

  • Changed documentation string of --with-unix-socket-path to avoid confusion.
  • Added ODBC and ANSI SQL style LEFT OUTER JOIN.
  • The following are new reserved words: LEFT, NATURAL, USING.
  • The client library now uses the value of the environment variable 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.
  • Fixed problem with comparing binary strings and BLOBs with ASCII characters over 127.
  • Fixed lock problem: when freeing a read lock on a table with multiple read locks, a thread waiting for a write lock would have been given the lock. This shouldn't affect data integrity, but could possibly make mysqld restart if one thread was reading data that another thread modified.
  • LIMIT offset,count didn't work in INSERT ... SELECT.
  • Optimized key block caching. This will be quicker than the old algorithm when using bigger key caches.

F.4.19 Changes in release 3.21.16

  • Added ODBC 2.0 & 3.0 functions POWER(), SPACE(), COT(), DEGREES(), RADIANS(), ROUND(2 arg) and TRUNCATE().
  • WARNING: INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE!! LOCATE() parameters were swapped according to ODBC standard. Fixed.
  • Added function TIME_TO_SEC().
  • In some cases, default values were not used for NOT NULL fields.
  • Timestamp wasn't always updated properly in UPDATE SET ... statements.
  • Allow empty strings as default values for BLOB and TEXT, to be compatible with mysqldump.

F.4.20 Changes in release 3.21.15

  • WARNING: INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE!! 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.
  • Allow 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!)
  • Changed Makefiles to hopefully work better with BSD systems. Also, `manual.dvi' is now included in the distribution to avoid having stupid make programs trying to rebuild it.
  • readline library upgraded to version 2.1.
  • A new sortorder german-1. That is a normal ISO-Latin1 with a german sort order.
  • Perl DBI/DBD is now included in the distribution. DBI is now the recommended way to connect to MySQL from Perl.
  • New portable benchmark suite with 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.
  • Fixed bug in range-optimizer that crashed MySQL on some queries.
  • Table and column name completion for mysql command line tool, by Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans.
  • Added new command REPLACE that works like INSERT but replaces conflicting records with the new record. REPLACE INTO TABLE ... SELECT ... works also.
  • Added new commands CREATE DATABASE db_name and DROP DATABASE db_name.
  • Added RENAME option to ALTER TABLE: ALTER TABLE name RENAME TO new_name.
  • make_binary_distribution now includes `libgcc.a' in `libmysqlclient.a'. This should make linking work for people who don't have gcc.
  • Changed net_write() to my_net_write() because of a name conflict with Sybase.
  • New function DAYOFWEEK() compatible with ODBC.
  • Stack checking and bison memory overrun checking to make MySQL safer with weird queries.

F.4.21 Changes in release 3.21.14b

  • Fixed a couple of small configure problems on some platforms.

F.4.22 Changes in release 3.21.14a

  • Ported to SCO Openserver 5.0.4 with FSU Pthreads.
  • HP-UX 10.20 should work.
  • Added new function DATE_FORMAT().
  • Added NOT IN.
  • Added automatic removal of 'ODBC function conversions': {fn now() }
  • Handle ODBC 2.50.3 option flags.
  • Fixed comparison of DATE and TIME values with NULL.
  • Changed language name from germany to german to be consistent with the other language names.
  • Fixed sorting problem on functions returning a FLOAT. Previously, the values were converted to INTs before sorting.
  • Fixed slow sorting when sorting on key field when using key_column=constant.
  • Sorting on calculated DOUBLE values sorted on integer results instead.
  • mysql no longer needs a database argument.
  • Changed the place where HAVING should be. According to ANSI, it should be after GROUP BY but before ORDER BY. MySQL Version 3.20 incorrectly had it last.
  • Added Sybase command USE DATABASE to start using another database.
  • Added automatic adjusting of number of connections and table cache size if the maximum number of files that can be opened is less than needed. This should fix that mysqld doesn't crash even if you haven't done a ulimit -n 256 before starting mysqld.
  • Added lots of limit checks to make it safer when running with too little memory or when doing weird queries.

F.4.23 Changes in release 3.21.13

  • Added retry of interrupted reads and clearing of errno. This makes Linux systems much safer!
  • Fixed locking bug when using many aliases on the same table in the same SELECT.
  • Fixed bug with LIKE on number key.
  • New error message so you can check whether the connection was lost while the command was running or whether the connection was down from the start.
  • Added --table option to mysql to print in table format. Moved time and row information after query result. Added automatic reconnect of lost connections.
  • Added != as a synonym for <>.
  • Added function VERSION() to make easier logs.
  • New multi-user test `tests/fork_test.pl' to put some strain on the thread library.

F.4.24 Changes in release 3.21.12

  • Fixed ftruncate() call in MIT-pthreads. This made isamchk destroy the `.ISM' files on (Free)BSD 2.x systems.
  • Fixed broken __P_ patch in MIT-pthreads.
  • Many memory overrun checks. All string functions now return NULL if the returned string should be longer than max_allowed_packet bytes.
  • Changed the name of the INTERVAL type to ENUM, because INTERVAL is used in ANSI SQL.
  • In some cases, doing a JOIN + GROUP + INTO OUTFILE, the result wasn't grouped.
  • LIKE with '_' as last character didn't work. Fixed.
  • Added extended ANSI SQL TRIM() function.
  • Added CURTIME().
  • Added ENCRYPT() function by Zeev Suraski.
  • Fixed better FOREIGN KEY syntax skipping. New reserved words: MATCH, FULL, PARTIAL.
  • mysqld now allows IP number and hostname to the --bind-address option.
  • Added SET OPTION CHARACTER SET cp1251_koi8 to enable conversions of data to/from cp1251_koi8.
  • Lots of changes for Win95 port. In theory, this version should now be easily portable to Win95.
  • Changed the 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 Version 3.20.
  • Added many function name aliases so the functions can be used with ODBC or ANSI SQL92 syntax.
  • Fixed syntax of ALTER TABLE tbl_name ALTER COLUMN col_name SET DEFAULT NULL.
  • Added CHAR and BIT as synonyms for CHAR(1).
  • Fixed core dump when updating as a user who has only select privilege.
  • INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP BY didn't work in some cases. An Invalid use of group function error occurred.
  • When using LIMIT, SELECT now always uses keys instead of record scan. This will give better performance on SELECT and a WHERE that matches many rows.
  • Added Russian error messages.

F.4.25 Changes in release 3.21.11

  • Configure changes.
  • MySQL now works with the new thread library on BSD/OS 3.0.
  • Added new group functions BIT_OR() and BIT_AND().
  • Added compatibility functions CHECK and REFERENCES. CHECK is now a reserved word.
  • Added ALL option to GRANT for better compatibility. (GRANT is still a dummy function.)
  • Added partly-translated dutch messages.
  • Fixed bug in ORDER BY and GROUP BY with NULL columns.
  • Added function 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.
  • Added --flush-logs option to mysqladmin.
  • Added command STATUS to mysql.
  • Fixed problem with ORDER BY/GROUP BY because of bug in gcc.
  • Fixed problem with INSERT ... SELECT ... GROUP BY.

F.4.26 Changes in release 3.21.10

  • New 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.
  • Added text types TINYTEXT, TEXT, MEDIUMTEXT and LONGTEXT. These are actually BLOBtypes, but all searching is done in case-insensitive fashion.
  • All old 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.
  • Fixed some configure issues.
  • Made the locking code a bit safer. Fixed very unlikely deadlock situation.
  • Fixed a couple of bugs in the range optimizer. Now the new range benchmark test-select works.

F.4.27 Changes in release 3.21.9

  • Added --enable-unix-socket=pathname option to configure.
  • Fixed a couple of portability problems with include files.
  • Fixed bug in range calculation that could return empty set when searching on multiple key with only one entry (very rare).
  • Most things ported to FSU Pthreads, which should allow MySQL to run on SCO. See section 2.6.6.9 SCO Notes.

F.4.28 Changes in release 3.21.8

  • Works now in Solaris 2.6.
  • Added handling of calculation of SUM() functions. For example, you can now use SUM(column)/COUNT(column).
  • Added handling of trigometric functions: PI(), ACOS(), ASIN(), ATAN(), COS(), SIN() and TAN().
  • New languages: norwegian, norwegian-ny and portuguese.
  • Fixed parameter bug in net_print() in `procedure.cc'.
  • Fixed a couple of memory leaks.
  • Now allow also the old SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE syntax.
  • Fixed bug with 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.
  • Fixed bug in optimization of WHERE const op field.
  • Fixed problem when sorting on NULL fields.
  • Fixed a couple of 64-bit (Alpha) problems.
  • Added --pid-file=# option to mysqld.
  • Added date formatting to FROM_UNIXTIME(), originally by Zeev Suraski.
  • Fixed bug in BETWEEN in range optimizer (Did only test = of the first argument).
  • Added machine-dependent files for MIT-pthreads i386-SCO. There is probably more to do to get this to work on SCO 3.5.

F.4.29 Changes in release 3.21.7

  • Changed `Makefile.am' to take advantage of Automake 1.2.
  • Added the beginnings of a benchmark suite.
  • Added more secure password handling.
  • Added new client function 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!
  • Fixed some problems when using very long, illegal names.

F.4.30 Changes in release 3.21.6

  • Fixed more portability issues (incorrect sigwait and sigset defines).
  • configure should now be able to detect the last argument to accept().

F.4.31 Changes in release 3.21.5

  • Should now work with FreeBSD 3.0 if used with `FreeBSD-3.0-libc_r-1.0.diff', which can be found at http://www.mysql.com/Downloads/Patches/.
  • Added new option -O tmp_table_size=# to mysqld.
  • New function FROM_UNIXTIME(timestamp) which returns a date string in 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:DD' format.
  • New function SEC_TO_TIME(seconds) which returns a string in 'HH:MM:SS' format.
  • New function SUBSTRING_INDEX(), originally by Zeev Suraski.

F.4.32 Changes in release 3.21.4

  • Should now configure and compile on OSF1 4.0 with the DEC compiler.
  • Configuration and compilation on BSD/OS 3.0 works, but due to some bugs in BSD/OS 3.0, mysqld doesn't work on it yet.
  • Configuration and compilation on FreeBSD 3.0 works, but I couldn't get pthread_create to work.

F.4.33 Changes in release 3.21.3

  • Added reverse check lookup of hostnames to get better security.
  • Fixed some possible buffer overflows if filenames that are too long are used.
  • mysqld doesn't accept hostnames that start with digits followed by a '.', because the hostname may look like an IP number.
  • Added --skip-networking option to mysqld, to only allow socket connections. (This will not work with MIT-pthreads!)
  • Added check of too long table names for alias.
  • Added check if database name is okay.
  • Added check if too long table names.
  • Removed incorrect free() that killed the server on CREATE DATABASE or DROP DATABASE.
  • Changed some mysqld -O options to better names.
  • Added -O join_cache_size=# option to mysqld.
  • Added -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''.
  • When comparing a 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.
  • Applied patch from Jochen Wiedmann that allows query() in mysqlperl to take a query with \0 in it.
  • Storing a timestamp with a 2-digit year (YYMMDD) didn't work.
  • Fix that timestamp wasn't automatically updated if set in an UPDATE clause.
  • Now the automatic timestamp field is the FIRST timestamp field.
  • SELECT * INTO OUTFILE, which didn't correctly if the outfile already existed.
  • mysql now shows the thread ID when starting or doing a reconnect.
  • Changed the default sort buffer size from 2M to 1M.

F.4.34 Changes in release 3.21.2

  • The range optimizer is coded, but only 85% tested. It can be enabled with --new, but it crashes core a lot yet...
  • More portable. Should compile on AIX and alpha-digital. At least the isam library should be relatively 64-bit clean.
  • New isamchk which can detect and fix more problems.
  • New options for isamlog.
  • Using new version of Automake.
  • Many small portability changes (from the AIX and alpha-digital port) Better checking of pthread(s) library.
  • czech error messages by snajdr@pvt.net.
  • Decreased size of some buffers to get fewer problems on systems with little memory. Also added more checks to handle ``out of memory'' problems.
  • mysqladmin: you can now do mysqladmin kill 5,6,7,8 to kill multiple threads.
  • When the maximum connection limit is reached, one extra connection by a user with the PROCESS_ACL privilege is granted.
  • Added -O backlog=# option to mysqld.
  • Increased maximum packet size from 512K to 1024K for client.
  • Almost all of the function code is now tested in the internal test suite.
  • ALTER TABLE now returns warnings from field conversions.
  • Port changed to 3306 (got it reserved from ISI).
  • Added a fix for Visual FoxBase so that any schema name from a table specification is automatically removed.
  • New function ASCII().
  • Removed function BETWEEN(a,b,c). Use the standard ANSI syntax instead: expr BETWEEN expr AND expr.
  • MySQL no longer has to use an extra temporary table when sorting on functions or SUM() functions.
  • Fixed bug that you couldn't use tbl_name.field_name in UPDATE.
  • Fixed 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.

F.4.35 Changes in release 3.21.0

  • New reserved words used: INTERVAL, EXPLAIN, READ, WRITE, BINARY.
  • Added ODBC function CHAR(num,...).
  • New operator IN. This uses a binary search to find a match.
  • New command LOCK TABLES tbl_name [AS alias] {READ|WRITE} ...
  • Added --log-update option to mysqld, to get a log suitable for incremental updates.
  • New command EXPLAIN SELECT ... to get information about how the optimizer will do the join.
  • For easier client code, the client should no longer use 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.
  • Added varbinary syntax: 0x###### which can be used as a string (default) or a number.
  • FIELD_TYPE_CHAR is renamed to FIELD_TYPE_TINY.
  • Changed all fields to C++ classes.
  • Removed FORM struct.
  • Fields with DEFAULT values no longer need to be NOT NULL.
  • New field types:
    ENUM
    A string which can take only a couple of defined values. The value is stored as a 1-3 byte number that is mapped automatically to a string. This is sorted according to string positions!
    SET
    A string which may have one or many string values separated with ','. The string is stored as a 1-, 2-, 3-, 4- or 8-byte number where each bit stands for a specific set member. This is sorted according to the unsigned value of the stored packed number.
  • Now all function calculation is done with 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.
  • Full WHERE with expressions.
  • New range optimizer that can resolve ranges when some keypart prefix is constant. Example: 
    mysql> SELECT * FROM tbl_name
           WHERE key_part_1="customer"
           AND key_part_2>=10 AND key_part_2<=10;

F.5 Changes in release 3.20.x

Version 3.20 is quite old now, and should be avoided if possible. This information is kept here for historical purposes only.

Changes from 3.20.18 to 3.20.32b are not documented here because the 3.21 release branched here. And the relevant changes are also documented as changes to the 3.21 version.

F.5.1 Changes in release 3.20.18

  • Added -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.
  • New mysqlperl version. It is now compatible with msqlperl-0.63.
  • New DBD module available at http://www.mysql.com/Downloads/Contrib/ site.
  • Added group function STD() (standard deviation).
  • The mysqld server is now compiled by default without debugging information. This will make the daemon smaller and faster.
  • Now one usually only has to specify the --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.
  • Fixed that calculations that are not in GROUP BY work as expected (ANSI SQL extension). Example: 
    mysql> SELECT id,id+1 FROM table GROUP BY id;
  • The test of using MYSQL_PWD was reversed. Now MYSQL_PWD is enabled as default in the default release.
  • Fixed conversion bug which caused mysqld to core dump with Arithmetic error on Sparc-386.
  • Added --unbuffered option to mysql, for new mysqlaccess.
  • When using overlapping (unnecessary) keys and join over many tables, the optimizer could get confused and return 0 records.

F.5.2 Changes in release 3.20.17

  • You can now use BLOB columns and the functions IS NULL and IS NOT NULL in the WHERE clause.
  • All communication packets and row buffers are now allocated dynamically on demand. The default value of 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.
  • Changed stack usage to use less memory.
  • Changed safe_mysqld to check for running daemon.
  • The 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.
  • A couple of bugs fixed in SELECT ... GROUP BY.
  • Fixed memory overrun bug in WHERE with many unoptimizable brace levels.
  • Fixed some small bugs in the grant code.
  • If hostname isn't found by get_hostname, only the IP is checked. Previously, you got Access denied.
  • Inserts of timestamps with values didn't always work.
  • INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... WHERE could give the error Duplicated field.
  • Added some tests to safe_mysqld to make it ``safer''.
  • LIKE was case sensitive in some places and case insensitive in others. Now LIKE is always case insensitive.
  • `mysql.cc': Allow '#' anywhere on the line.
  • New command SET OPTION SQL_SELECT_LIMIT=#. See the FAQ for more details.
  • New version of the mysqlaccess script.
  • Change 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.
  • Added new function UNIX_TIMESTAMP(timestamp_column).

F.5.3 Changes in release 3.20.16

  • More changes in MIT-pthreads to get them safer. Fixed also some link bugs at least in SunOS.
  • Changed mysqld to work around a bug in MIT-pthreads. This makes multiple small SELECT operations 20 times faster. Now lock_test.pl should work.
  • Added mysql_FetchHash(handle) to mysqlperl.
  • The mysqlbug script is now distributed built to allow for reporting bugs that appear during the build with it.
  • Changed `libmysql.c' to prefer getpwuid() instead of cuserid().
  • Fixed bug in SELECT optimizer when using many tables with the same column used as key to different tables.
  • Added new latin2 and Russian KOI8 character tables.
  • Added support for a dummy GRANT command to satisfy Powerbuilder.

F.5.4 Changes in release 3.20.15

  • Fixed fatal bug packets out of order when using MIT-pthreads.
  • Removed possible loop when a thread waits for command from client and fcntl() fails. Thanks to Mike Bretz for finding this bug.
  • Changed alarm loop in `mysqld.cc' because shutdown didn't always succeed in Linux.
  • Removed use of termbits from `mysql.cc'. This conflicted with glibc 2.0.
  • Fixed some syntax errors for at least BSD and Linux.
  • Fixed bug when doing a SELECT as superuser without a database.
  • Fixed bug when doing SELECT with group calculation to outfile.

F.5.5 Changes in release 3.20.14

  • If one gives -p or --password option to mysql without an argument, the user is solicited for the password from the tty.
  • Added default password from MYSQL_PWD (by Elmar Haneke).
  • Added command kill to mysqladmin to kill a specific MySQL thread.
  • Sometimes when doing a reconnect on a down connection this succeeded first on second try.
  • Fixed adding an AUTO_INCREMENT key with ALTER_TABLE.
  • AVG() gave too small value on some SELECTs with GROUP BY and ORDER BY.
  • Added new DATETIME type (by Giovanni Maruzzelli maruzz@matrice.it).
  • Fixed that define DONT_USE_DEFAULT_FIELDS works.
  • Changed to use a thread to handle alarms instead of signals on Solaris to avoid race conditions.
  • Fixed default length of signed numbers. (George Harvey georgeh@pinacl.co.uk.)
  • Allow anything for CREATE INDEX.
  • Add prezeros when packing numbers to DATE, TIME and TIMESTAMP.
  • Fixed a bug in OR of multiple tables (gave empty set).
  • Added many patches to MIT-pthreads. This fixes at least one lookup bug.

F.5.6 Changes in release 3.20.13

  • Added ANSI SQL94 DATE and TIME types.
  • Fixed bug in SELECT with AND-OR levels.
  • Added support for Slovenian characters. The `Contrib' directory contains source and instructions for adding other character sets.
  • Fixed bug with LIMIT and ORDER BY.
  • Allow ORDER BY and GROUP BY on items that aren't in the SELECT list. (Thanks to Wim Bonis bonis@kiss.de, for pointing this out.)
  • Allow setting of timestamp values in INSERT.
  • Fixed bug with SELECT ... WHERE ... = NULL.
  • Added changes for glibc 2.0. To get glibc to work, you should add the `gibc-2.0-sigwait-patch' before compiling glibc.
  • Fixed bug in ALTER TABLE when changing a NOT NULL field to allow NULL values.
  • Added some ANSI92 synonyms as field types to CREATE TABLE. CREATE TABLE now allows FLOAT(4) and FLOAT(8) to mean FLOAT and DOUBLE.
  • New utility program mysqlaccess by Yves.Carlier@rug.ac.be. This program shows the access rights for a specific user and the grant rows that determine this grant.
  • Added WHERE const op field (by bonis@kiss.de).

F.5.7 Changes in release 3.20.11

  • When using SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE, all temporary tables are ISAM instead of HEAP to allow big dumps.
  • Changed date functions to be string functions. This fixed some ``funny'' side effects when sorting on dates.
  • Extended ALTER TABLE according to SQL92.
  • Some minor compatibility changes.
  • Added --port and --socket options to all utility programs and mysqld.
  • Fixed MIT-pthreads readdir_r(). Now mysqladmin create database and mysqladmin drop database should work.
  • Changed MIT-pthreads to use our tempnam(). This should fix the ``sort aborted'' bug.
  • Added sync of records count in sql_update. This fixed slow updates on first connection. (Thanks to Vaclav Bittner for the test.)

F.5.8 Changes in release 3.20.10

  • New insert type: INSERT INTO ... SELECT ...
  • MEDIUMBLOB fixed.
  • Fixed bug in 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.
  • Oracle synonym DESCRIBE (DESC).
  • Changes to make_binary_distribution.
  • Added some comments to installation instructions about configure's C++ link test.
  • Added --without-perl option to configure.
  • Lots of small portability changes.

F.5.9 Changes in release 3.20.9

  • 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.
  • Some compatibility changes for SunOS.
  • Removed `config.cache' from old distribution.

F.5.10 Changes in release 3.20.8

  • Fixed bug with ALTER TABLE and multi-part keys.

F.5.11 Changes in release 3.20.7

  • New commands: ALTER TABLE, SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE and LOAD DATA INFILE.
  • New function: NOW().
  • Added new field file_priv to mysql/user table.
  • New script 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.
  • Fixed bug in locking code, which made lock_test.pl test fail.
  • New files `NEW' and `BUGS'.
  • Changed `select_test.c' and `insert_test.c' to include `config.h'.
  • Added command status to mysqladmin for short logging.
  • Increased maximum number of keys to 16 and maximum number of key parts to 15.
  • Use of sub keys. A key may now be a prefix of a string field.
  • Added -k option to mysqlshow, to get key information for a table.
  • Added long options to mysqldump.

F.5.12 Changes in release 3.20.6

  • Portable to more systems because of MIT-pthreads, which will be used automatically if configure cannot find a -lpthreads library.
  • Added GNU-style long options to almost all programs. Test with program --help.
  • Some shared library support for Linux.
  • The FAQ is now in `.texi' format and is available in `.html', `.txt' and `.ps' formats.
  • Added new SQL function RAND([init]).
  • Changed 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.
  • Added API function mysql_get_client_info().
  • mysqld now uses the N_MAX_KEY_LENGTH from `nisam.h' as the maximum allowed key length.
  • The following now works: 
    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).
  • Added german error messages (60 of 80 error messages translated).
  • Added new API function mysql_fetch_lengths(MYSQL_RES *), which returns an array of column lengths (of type uint).
  • Fixed bug with IS NULL in WHERE clause.
  • Changed the optimizer a little to get better results when searching on a key part.
  • Added SELECT option STRAIGHT_JOIN to tell the optimizer that it should join tables in the given order.
  • Added support for comments starting with '--' in `mysql.cc' (Postgres syntax).
  • You can have 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;
  • Fixed bug in SUM(function) (could cause a core dump).
  • Changed AUTO_INCREMENT placement in the SQL query: 
    INSERT into table (auto_field) values (0);
    inserted 0, but it should insert an AUTO_INCREMENT value.
  • `mysqlshow.c': Added number of records in table. Had to change the client code a little to fix this.
  • mysql now allows doubled '' or "" within strings for embedded ' or ".
  • New math functions: EXP(), LOG(), SQRT(), ROUND(), CEILING().

F.5.13 Changes in release 3.20.3

  • The 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.
  • New readline library from bash-2.0.
  • LOTS of small changes to configure and makefiles (and related source).
  • It should now be possible to compile in another directory using 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.
  • Changed name of SQL function FIELDS() to ELT(). Changed SQL function INTERVALL() to INTERVAL().
  • Made 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.
  • Added 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.
  • `mysqladmin.c': added client version to version information.
  • Fixed core dump bug in sql_acl (core on new connection).
  • Removed 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.
  • Bug fixes in CONCAT() and WEEKDAY().
  • Changed a lot of source to get mysqld to be compiled with SunPro compiler.
  • SQL functions must now have a '(' 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.

F.5.14 Changes in release 3.20.0

  • The source distribution is done with configure and Automake. It will make porting much easier. The readline library is included in the distribution.
  • Separate client compilation: the client code should be very easy to compile on systems which don't have threads.
  • The old Perl interface code is automatically compiled and installed. Automatic compiling of DBD will follow when the new DBD code is ported.
  • Dynamic language support: mysqld can now be started with Swedish or English (default) error messages.
  • New functions: 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 re-creating tables.
  • Some parser bugs from 3.19.5 (BLOB and TIMESTAMP) are corrected. TIMESTAMP now returns different date information depending on its create length.
  • Changed parser to allow a database, table or field name to start with a number or '_'.
  • All old C code from Unireg changed to C++ and cleaned up. This makes the daemon a little smaller and easier to understand.
  • A lot of small bug fixes done.
  • New `INSTALL' files (not final version) and some information regarding porting.

F.6 Changes in release 3.19.x

Version 3.19 is quite old now, and should be avoided if possible. This information is kept here for historical purposes only.

F.6.1 Changes in release 3.19.5

  • Some new functions, some more optimization on joins.
  • Should now compile clean on Linux (2.0.x).
  • Added functions DATABASE(), USER(), POW(), LOG10() (needed for ODBC).
  • In a 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.
  • A group on one column and a sort on a group function (SUM(), AVG()...) didn't work together. Fixed.
  • mysqldump: Didn't send password to server.

F.6.2 Changes in release 3.19.4

  • Fixed horrible locking bug when inserting in one thread and reading in another thread.
  • Fixed one-off decimal bug. 1.00 was output as 1.0.
  • Added attribute 'Locked' to process list as info if a query is locked by another query.
  • Fixed full magic timestamp. Timestamp length may now be 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4 or 2 bytes.
  • Sort on some numeric functions could sort incorrectly on last number.
  • IF(arg,syntax_error,syntax_error) crashed.
  • Added functions CEILING(), ROUND(), EXP(), LOG() and SQRT().
  • Enhanced BETWEEN to handle strings.

F.6.3 Changes in release 3.19.3

  • Fixed 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.
  • When doing a full join (no direct keys) on multiple tables with BLOB fields, the BLOB was garbage on output.
  • Fixed DISTINCT with calculated columns.

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