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Functionality added or changed:
The mysqld manpage has been reclassified from volume 1 to volume 8. (Bug#21220)
MySQL now can do stack dumps on x86_64 and
i386/NPTL systems. (Bug#21250)
The LOAD DATA FROM MASTER and LOAD
TABLE FROM MASTER statements are deprecated. See
Section 13.6.2.2, “LOAD DATA FROM MASTER Syntax”, for recommended
alternatives. (Bug#18822, Bug#9125, Bug#12187, Bug#14399,
Bug#15025, Bug#20596)
A warning now is issued if the client attempts to set the
SQL_LOG_OFF variable without the
SUPER privilege. (Bug#16180)
Bugs fixed:
Deleting entries from a large MyISAM index
could cause index corruption when it needed to shrink. Deletes
from an index can happen when a record is deleted, when a key
changes and must be moved, and when a key must be un-inserted
because of a duplicate key. This can also happen in
REPAIR TABLE when a duplicate key is found
and in myisamchk when sorting the records
by an index. (Bug#22384)
Setting myisam_repair_threads caused any
repair operation on a MyISAM table to fail
to update the cardinality of indexes, instead making them
always equal to 1. (Bug#18874)
Within a prepared statement, SELECT (COUNT(*) =
1) (or similar use of other aggregate functions) did
not return the correct result for statement re-execution. (Bug#21354)
DELETE IGNORE could hang for foreign key
parent deletes. (Bug#18819)
Redundant binary log LAST_INSERT_ID events
could be generated;
LAST_INSERT_ID(
didn't return the value of expr)expr;
LAST_INSERT_ID() could return the value
generated by the current statement if the call happens after
value generation, as in:
CREATE TABLE t1 (i INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, j INT); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (NULL, 0), (NULL, LAST_INSERT_ID());
FROM_UNIXTIME() did not accept arguments up
to POWER(2,31)-1, which it had previously.
(Bug#9191)
A literal string in a GROUP BY clause could
be interpreted as a column name. (Bug#14019)
WITH ROLLUP could group unequal values.
(Bug#20825)
LIKE searches failed for indexed
utf8 character columns. (Bug#20471)
The optimizer sometimes mishandled R-tree indexes for
GEOMETRY data types, resulting in a server
crash. (Bug#21888)
Entries in the slow query log could have an incorrect
Rows_examined value. (Bug#12240)
Insufficient memory
(myisam_sort_buffer_size) could cause a
server crash for several operations on
MyISAM tables: repair table, create index
by sort, repair by sort, parallel repair, bulk insert. (Bug#23175)
REPAIR TABLE ... USE_FRM could cause a
server crash or hang when used for a MyISAM
table in a database other than the default database. (Bug#22562)
OPTIMIZE TABLE with
myisam_repair_threads > 1 could result
in MyISAM table corruption. (Bug#8283)
The result for CAST() when casting a value
to UNSIGNED was limited to the maximum
signed BIGINT value (9223372036854775808),
not the maximum unsigned value (18446744073709551615). (Bug#8663)
For multiple-table UPDATE statements,
storage engines were not notified of duplicate-key errors.
(Bug#21381)
Successive invocations of a COUNT(*) query
containing a join on two MyISAM tables and
a WHERE clause of the form WHERE
( yielded different results. (Bug#21019)
table1.column1
=
table2.column2)
OR
table2.column2
IS NULL
Using ALTER TABLE to add an
ENUM column with an enumeration value
containing 0xFF caused the name of the
first table column to be lost. (Bug#20922)
PROCEDURE ANALYSE() returned incorrect
values of M
FLOAT( and
M,
D)DOUBLE(. (Bug#20305)
M,
D)
A query that used GROUP BY and an
ALL or ANY quantified
subquery in a HAVING clause could trigger
an assertion failure. (Bug#21853)
For an ENUM column that used the
ucs2 character set, using ALTER
TABLE to modify the column definition caused the
default value to be lost. (Bug#20108)
Creating a TEMPORARY table with the same
name as an existing table that was locked by another client
could result in a lock conflict for DROP TEMPORARY
TABLE because the server unnecessarily tried to
acquire a name lock. (Bug#21096)
Incorporated some portability fixes into the definition of
__attribute__ in
my_global.h. (Bug#2717)
In the package of pre-built time zone tables that is available
for download at
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/timezones.html, the tables
now explicitly use the utf8 character set
so that they work the same way regardless of the system
character set value. (Bug#21208)
The build process incorrectly tried to overwrite
sql/lex_hash.h. This caused the build to
fail when using a shadow link tree pointing to original
sources that were owned by another account. (Bug#18888)
Execution of a prepared statement that uses an
IN subquery with aggregate functions in the
HAVING clause could cause a server crash.
(Bug#22085)
Selecting from a MERGE table could result
in a server crash if the underlying tables had fewer indexes
than the MERGE table itself. (Bug#21617,
Bug#22937)
SUBSTR() results sometimes were stored
improperly into a temporary table when multi-byte character
sets were used. (Bug#20204)
Parallel builds occasionally failed on Solaris. (Bug#16282)
The source distribution failed to compile when configured with
the --without-geometry option. (Bug#12991)
The server returns a more informative error message when it
attempts to open a MERGE table that has
been defined to use non-MyISAM tables. (Bug#10974)
On Mac OS X, zero-byte read() or
write() calls to an SMB-mounted filesystem
could return a non-standard return value, leading to data
corruption. Now such calls are avoided. (Bug#12620)
For INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, use
of
VALUES(
within the col_name)UPDATE clause sometimes was
handled incorrectly. (Bug#21555)
Table aliases in multiple-table DELETE
statements sometimes were not resolved. (Bug#21392)
EXPORT_SET() did not accept arguments with
coercible character sets. (Bug#21531)
The --collation-server server option was
being ignored. With the fix for this problem, if you choose a
non-default character set with
--character-set-server, you should also use
--collation-server to specify the collation.
(Bug#15276)
A subquery that uses an index for both the
WHERE and ORDER BY
clauses produced an empty result. (Bug#21180)
Queries containing a subquery that used aggregate functions could return incorrect results. (Bug#16792)
The MD5(), SHA1(), and
ENCRYPT() functions should return a binary
string, but the result sometimes was converted to the
character set of the argument. MAKE_SET()
and EXPORT_SET() now use the correct
character set for their default separators, resulting in
consistent result strings which can be coerced according to
normal character set rules. (Bug#20536)
For a MyISAM table with a
FULLTEXT index, compression with
myisampack or a check with
myisamchk after compression resulted in
table corruption. (Bug#19702)
The optimizer could produce an incorrect result after
AND with collations such as
latin1_german2_ci,
utf8_czech_ci, and
utf8_lithianian_ci. (Bug#9509)
character_set_results can be
NULL to signify “no
conversion,” but some code did not check for
NULL, resulting in a server crash. (Bug#21913)
The myisam_stats_method variable was
mishandled when set from an option file or on the command
line. (Bug#21054)
libmysqld produced some warnings to
stderr which could not be silenced. These
warnings now are suppressed. (Bug#13717)
If a column definition contained a character set declaration,
but a DEFAULT value began with an
introducer, the introducer character set was used as the
column character set. (Bug#20695)
Some Linux-x86_64-icc packages (of previous releases) mistakenly contained 32-bit binaries. Only ICC builds are affected, not gcc builds. Solaris and FreeBSD x86_64 builds are not affected. (Bug#22238)
For TIME_FORMAT(), the
%H and %k format
specifiers can return values larger than two digits (if the
hour is greater than 99), but for some query results that
contained three-character hours, column values were truncated.
(Bug#19844)
For table-format output, mysql did not always calculate columns widths correctly for columns containing multi-byte characters in the column name or contents. (Bug#17939)
Views could not be updated within a stored function or trigger. (Bug#17591)
Usernames have a maximum length of 16 characters (even if they contain multi-byte characters), but were being truncated to 16 bytes. (Bug#20393)
Database and table names have a maximum length of 64 characters (even if they contain multi-byte characters), but were being truncated to 64 bytes. (Bug#21432)
When using tables created under MySQL 4.1 with a 5.0 server,
if the tables contained VARCHAR columns,
for some queries the metadata sent to the client could have an
empty column name. (Bug#14897)
On 64-bit systems, use of the cp1250
character set with a primary key column in a
LIKE clause caused a server crash for
patterns having letters in the range 128..255. (Bug#19741)
A subquery in the WHERE clause of the outer
query and using IN and GROUP
BY returned an incorrect result. (Bug#16255)
COUNT(*) queries with ORDER
BY and LIMIT could return the
wrong result. (Bug#21787)
Note: This problem was
introduced by the fix for Bug#9676, which limited the rows
stored in a temporary table to the LIMIT
clause. This optimization is not applicable to non-group
queries with aggregate functions. The current fix disables the
optimization in such cases.
Running SHOW MASTER LOGS at the same time
as binary log files were being switched would cause
mysqld to hang. (Bug#21965)
Adding ORDER BY to a SELECT
DISTINCT( query
could produce incorrect results. (Bug#21456)
expr)
For InnoDB tables, the server could crash
when executing NOT IN () subqueries. (Bug#21077)
mysqld --flush failed to flush
MyISAM table changes to disk following an
UPDATE statement for which no updated
column had an index. (Bug#20060)
The --with-collation option was not honored
for client connections. (Bug#7192)
NDB Cluster: Attempting to create an
NDB table on a MySQL with an existing
non-Cluster table with the same name in the same database
could result in data loss or corruption. MySQL now issues a
warning when a SHOW TABLES or other
statement causing table discovery finds such a table. (Bug#21378)
NDB Cluster (NDB API): Attempting to read a
nonexistent tuple using Commit mode for
NdbTransaction::execute() caused node
failures. (Bug#22672)
NDB Cluster: Restoring a cluster failed if
there were any tables with 128 or more columns. (Bug#23502)
NDB Cluster: INSERT ... ON
DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE on an NDB
table could lead to deadlocks and memory leaks. (Bug#23200)
NDB Cluster: If a node restart could not be
performed from the REDO log, no node takeover took place. This
could cause partitions to be left empty during a system
restart. (Bug#22893)
NDB Cluster: Multiple node restarts in
rapid succession could cause a system restart to fail (Bug#22892), or induce a race condition (Bug#23210).
NDB Cluster: The node recovery algorithm
was missing a version check for tables in the
ALTER_TABLE_COMMITTED state (as opposed to
the TABLE_ADD_COMMITTED state, which has
the version check). This could cause inconsistent schemas
across nodes following node recovery. (Bug#21756)
NDB Cluster: The output for the
--help option used with
NDB executable programs
(ndbd, ndb_mgm,
ndb_restore, ndb_config,
and so on) referred to the Ndb.cfg file,
instead of my.cnf. (Bug#21585)
NDB Cluster: The ndb_mgm
management client did not set the exit status on errors,
always returning 0 instead. (Bug#21530)
NDB Cluster: Cluster logs were not rotated
following the first rotation cycle. (Bug#21345)
NDB Cluster: When inserting a row into an
NDB table with a duplicate value for a
non-primary unique key, the error issued would reference the
wrong key. (Bug#21072)
NDB Cluster: Under some circumstances,
local checkpointing would hang, keeping any unstarted nodes
from being started. (Bug#20895)
NDB Cluster: In some cases where
SELECT COUNT(*) from an
NDB table should have yielded an error,
MAX_INT was returned instead. (Bug#19914)
NDB Cluster: ndb_restore
did not always make clear that it had recovered successfully
from temporary errors while restoring a cluster backup. (Bug#19651)
NDB Cluster: A problem with takeover during
a system restart caused ordered indexes to be rebuilt
incorrectly. (Bug#15303)
NDB Cluster: The ndb_mgm
program was included in both the
MySQL-ndb-tools and
MySQL-ndb-management RPM packages,
resulting in a conflict if both were installed. Now
ndb_mgm is included only in
MySQL-ndb-tools. (Bug#21058)
NDB Cluster: ndb_size.pl
and ndb_error_reporter were missing from
RPM packages. (Bug#20426)
NDB Cluster: Setting
TransactionDeadlockDetectionTimeout to a
value greater than 12000 would cause scans to deadlock, time
out, fail to release scan records, until the cluster ran out
of scan records and stopped processing. (Bug#21800)
NDB Cluster: The server provided a
non-descriptive error message when encountering a fatally
corrupted REDO log. (Bug#21615)
NDB Cluster: A partial rollback could lead
to node restart failures. (Bug#21536)
NDB Cluster: The failure of a unique index
read due to an invalid schema version could be handled
incorrectly in some cases, leading to unpredictable results.
(Bug#21384)
NDB Cluster: In a cluster with more than 2
replicas, a manual restart of one of the data nodes could fail
and cause the other nodes in its nodegroup to shut down. (Bug#21213)
NDB Cluster: When the redo buffer ran out
of space, a Pointer too large error was
raised and the cluster could become unusable until restarted
with --initial. (Bug#20892)
NDB Cluster: In some situations with a high
disk-load, writing of the redo log could hang, causing a crash
with the error message GCP STOP
detected. (Bug#20904)
NDB Cluster: ndb_size.pl
and ndb_error_reporter were missing from
RPM packages. (Bug#20426)
NDB Cluster: The server failed with a
non-descriptive error message when out of data memory. (Bug#18475)
NDB Cluster: SELECT ... FOR
UPDATE failed to lock the selected rows. (Bug#18184)
NDB Cluster: Some queries involving joins
on very large NDB tables could crash the
MySQL server. (Bug#21059)
Character set collation was ignored in GROUP
BY clauses. (Bug#20709)
A query using WHERE did not
return consistent results on successive invocations. The
column
= constant OR
column IS NULLcolumn in each part of the
WHERE clause could be either the same
column, or two different columns, for the effect to be
observed. (Bug#21019)
A query using WHERE NOT
( yielded a
different result from the same query using the same
column < ANY
(subquery))column and
subquery with WHERE
(. (Bug#20975)
column > ANY
(subquery))
Using the extended syntax for TRIM()
— that is, TRIM(... FROM ...) —
caused erroneous output from EXPLAIN
EXTENDED statements. (Bug#17526)
DELETE with WHERE
condition on a BTREE-indexed column for a
MEMORY table deleted only the first matched
row. (Bug#9719)
For cross-database multiple-table UPDATE
statements, a user with all privileges for the default
database could update tables in another database for which the
user did not have UPDATE privileges. (Bug#7391)
mysql_install_db incorrectly had a blank first line. (Bug#20721)
Under heavy load (executing more than 1024 simultaneous complex queries), a problem in the code that handles internal temporary tables could lead to writing beyond allocated space and memory corruption. (Bug#21206)
Multiple invocations of the REVERSE()
function could return different results. (Bug#18243)
Conversion of TIMESTAMP values between UTC
and the local time zone resulted in some values having the
year 2069 rather than 1969. (Bug#16327)
Under certain circumstances,
AVG(
returned a value but
key_val)MAX(
returned an empty set due to incorrect application of
key_val)MIN()/MAX() optimization. (Bug#20954)
Using aggregate functions in subqueries yielded incorrect
results under certain circumstances due to incorrect
application of MIN()/MAX() optimization.
(Bug#20792)
Using > ALL with subqueries that return
no rows yielded incorrect results under certain circumstances
due to incorrect application of MIN()/MAX()
optimization. (Bug#18503)
Using ANY with “non-table”
subqueries such as SELECT 1 yielded
incorrect results under certain circumstances due to incorrect
application of MIN()/MAX() optimization.
(Bug#16302)
The use of WHERE in col_name
IS NULLSELECT statements
reset the value of LAST_INSERT_ID() to
zero. (Bug#14553)
Use of the join cache in favor of an index for ORDER
BY operations could cause incorrect result sorting.
(Bug#17212)
libmysqld returned TEXT
columns to the client as number of bytes, not number of
characters (which can be different for multi-byte character
sets). (Bug#19983)

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