MySQL Reference Manual for version 4.0.18.
C.4.6 Changes in release 3.23.54 (05 Dec 2002)
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Fixed a bug, that allowed to crash
mysqld
with a specially crafted packet.
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Fixed a rare crash (double
free'd pointer) when altering a
temporary table.
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Fixed buffer overrun in
libmysqlclient library
that allowed malicious MySQL server to crash the client
application.
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Fixed security-related bug in
mysql_change_user() handling.
All users are strongly recommended to upgrade to the version 3.23.54.
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Fixed bug that prevented
--chroot command-line option of mysqld
from working.
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Fixed bug that made
OPTIMIZE TABLE to corrupt the table
under some rare circumstances.
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Fixed
mysqlcheck so it can deal with table names containing dashes.
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Fixed shutdown problem on Mac OS X.
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Fixed bug with comparing an indexed
NULL field with <=> NULL.
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Fixed bug that caused
IGNORE INDEX and USE INDEX sometimes
to be ignored.
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Fixed rare core dump problem in complicated
GROUP BY queries that
didn't return any result.
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Fixed a bug where
MATCH ... AGAINST () >=0 was treated as if it was
>.
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Fixed core dump in
SHOW PROCESSLIST when running with an
active slave (unlikely timing bug).
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Make it possible to use multiple MySQL servers on Windows (code backported
from 4.0.2).
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One can create
TEMPORARY MERGE tables now.
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Fixed that
--core-file works on Linux (at least on kernel 2.4.18).
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Fixed a problem with
BDB and ALTER TABLE.
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Fixed reference to freed memory when doing complicated
GROUP BY
... ORDER BY queries. Symptom was that mysqld died in function
send_fields.
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Allocate heap rows in smaller blocks to get better memory usage.
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Fixed memory allocation bug when storing
BLOB values in internal
temporary tables used for some (unlikely) GROUP BY queries.
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Fixed a bug in key optimizing handling where the expression
WHERE column_name = key_column_name was calculated as true
for NULL values.
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Fixed core dump bug when doing
LEFT JOIN ... WHERE key_column=NULL.
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Fixed
MyISAM crash when using dynamic-row tables with huge numbers of
packed fields.
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Updated source tree to be built using
automake 1.5 and
libtool 1.4.
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