MySQL Reference Manual for version 4.0.18.
C.3.17 Changes in release 4.0.3 (26 Aug 2002: Beta)
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Fixed problem with types of user variables. (Bug #551)
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Fixed problem with
configure ... --localstatedir=....
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Cleaned up
mysql.server script.
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Fixed a bug in
mysqladmin shutdown when pid file was modified
while mysqladmin was still waiting for the previous one to
disappear. This could happen during a very quick restart and caused
mysqladmin to hang until shutdown_timeout seconds had
passed.
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Don't increment warnings when setting
AUTO_INCREMENT columns to
NULL in LOAD DATA INFILE.
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Fixed all boolean type variables/options to work with the old syntax,
for example, all of these work:
--lower-case-table-names,
--lower-case-table-names=1,
-O lower-case-table-names=1,
--set-variable=lower-case-table-names=1
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Fixed shutdown problem (SIGTERM signal handling) on Solaris. (Bug from 4.0.2).
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SHOW MASTER STATUS now returns an empty set if binary log is not
enabled.
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SHOW SLAVE STATUS now returns an empty set if slave is not initialized.
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Don't update MyISAM index file on update if not strictly necessary.
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Fixed bug in
SELECT DISTINCT ... FROM many_tables ORDER BY
not-used-column.
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Fixed a bug with
BIGINT values and quoted strings.
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Added
QUOTE() function that performs SQL quoting to produce values
that can be used as data values in queries.
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Changed variable
DELAY_KEY_WRITE to an enum to allow one set
DELAY_KEY_WRITE for all tables without taking down the server.
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Changed behavior of
IF(condition,column,NULL) so that it returns
the value of the column type.
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Made
safe_mysqld a symlink to mysqld_safe in binary distribution.
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Fixed security bug when having an empty database name in the
user.db
table.
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Fixed some problems with
CREATE TABLE ... SELECT function().
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mysqld now has the option --temp-pool enabled by default as this
gives better performance with some operating systems.
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Fixed problem with too many allocated alarms on slave when connecting to
master many times (normally not a very critical error).
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Fixed hang in
CHANGE MASTER TO if the slave thread died very quickly.
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Big cleanup in replication code (less logging, better error messages, etc..)
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If the
--code-file option is specified, the server calls
setrlimit() to set the maximum allowed core file size to unlimited,
so core files can be generated.
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Fixed bug in query cache after temporary table creation.
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Added
--count=N (-c) option to mysqladmin, to make the
program do only N iterations. To be used with --sleep (-i).
Useful in scripts.
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Fixed bug in multiple-table
UPDATE: when updating a table,
do_select() became confused about reading records from a cache.
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Fixed bug in multiple-table
UPDATE when several fields were referenced
from a single table
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Fixed bug in truncating nonexisting table.
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Fixed bug in
REVOKE that caused user resources to be randomly set.
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Fixed bug in
GRANT for the new CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE privilege.
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Fixed bug in multiple-table
DELETE when tables are re-ordered in the
table initialization method and ref_lengths are of different sizes.
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Fixed two bugs in
SELECT DISTINCT with large tables.
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Fixed bug in query cache initialization with very small query cache size.
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Allow
DEFAULT with INSERT statement.
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The startup parameters
myisam_max_sort_file_size and
myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size are now given in bytes, not megabytes.
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External system locking of
MyISAM/ISAM files is now turned
off by default. One can turn this on with --external-locking.
(For most users this is never needed).
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Fixed core dump bug with
INSERT ... SET db_name.table_name.colname=".
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Fixed client hangup bug when using some SQL commands with incorrect syntax.
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Fixed a timing bug in
DROP DATABASE
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New
SET [GLOBAL | SESSION] syntax to change thread-specific and global
server variables at runtime.
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Added variable
slave_compressed_protocol.
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Renamed variable
query_cache_startup_type to query_cache_type,
myisam_bulk_insert_tree_size to bulk_insert_buffer_size,
record_buffer to read_buffer_size and
record_rnd_buffer to read_rnd_buffer_size.
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Renamed some SQL variables, but old names will still work until 5.0.
See section 2.5.3 Upgrading from Version 3.23 to 4.0.
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Renamed
--skip-locking to --skip-external-locking.
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Removed unused variable
query_buffer_size.
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Fixed a bug that made the pager option in the
mysql client
non-functional.
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Added full
AUTO_INCREMENT support to MERGE tables.
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Extended
LOG() function to accept an optional arbitrary base
parameter.
See section 12.3.2 Mathematical Functions.
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Added
LOG2() function (useful for finding out how many bits
a number would require for storage).
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Added
LN() natural logarithm function for compatibility with
other databases. It is synonymous with LOG(X).
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