Appendix聽E.聽MySQL Change History - MySQL 5.0参考手册英文版

The output generated by the server when using the --xml option has changed with regard to null values. It now matches the output from mysqldump --xml. That is, a column containing a NULL value is now reported as

<field name="column_name" xsi:nil="true" />

whereas a column containing the string value 'NULL' is reported as

<field name="column_name">NULL</field>

and a column containing an empty string is reported as

<field name="column_name">>/field>

(Bug#21263)

The source distribution has been updated so that the UDF example can be compiled under Windows with CMake. See Section聽24.2.4.5, 鈥淐ompiling and Installing User-Defined Functions鈥�. (Bug#19121)

The LOAD DATA FROM MASTER and LOAD TABLE FROM MASTER statements are deprecated. See Section聽13.6.2.2, 鈥�LOAD DATA FROM MASTER Syntax鈥�, for recommended alternatives. (Bug#18822, Bug#9125, Bug#12187, Bug#14399, Bug#15025, Bug#20596)

LOAD DATA INFILE no longer causes an implicit commit for all storage engines. It now causes an implicit commit only for tables using the NDB storage engine. (Bug#11151)

mysqldump now has a --flush-privileges option. It causes mysqldump to emit a FLUSH PRIVILEGES statement after dumping the mysql database. This option should be used any time the dump contains the mysql database and any other database that depends on the data in the mysql database for proper restoration. (Bug#21424)

The number of InnoDB threads is no longer limited to 1,000 on Windows. (Bug#22268)

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)

mysql_config --libmysqld-libs did not produce any SSL options necessary for linking libmysqld with SSL support enabled. (Bug#21239)

The parser rejected queries that selected from a table twice using a UNION within a subquery. The parser now supports arbitrary subquery, join, and parenthesis operations within EXISTS subqueries. A limitation still exists for scalar subqueries: If the subquery contains UNION, the first SELECT of the UNION cannot be within parentheses. For example, SELECT (SELECT a FROM t1 UNION SELECT b FROM t2) will work, but SELECT ((SELECT a FROM t1) UNION (SELECT b FROM t2)) will not. (Bug#14654)

Subqueries with aggregate functions but no FROM clause could return incorrect results. (Bug#21540)

The presence of a subquery in the ON clause of a join in a view definition prevented the MERGE algorithm from being used for the view in cases where it should be allowed. (Bug#21646)

Conversion of values inserted into a BIT column could affect adjacent columns. (Bug#22271)

The URL into the online manual that is printed in the stack trace message by the server was out of date. (Bug#21449)

PROCEDURE ANALYSE() returned incorrect values of M FLOAT(M, D) and DOUBLE(M, D). (Bug#20305)

Join conditions using index prefixes on utf8 columns of InnoDB tables incorrectly ignored rows where the length of the actual value was greater than the length of the index prefix. (Bug#19960)

On an INSERT into an updatable but non-insertable view, an error message was issued stating that the view was not updatable. Now the message says the view is not insertable-into. (Bug#5505)

INSERT DELAYED did not honor SET INSERT_ID or the auto_increment_* system variables. (Bug#20627, Bug # 20830)

For character sets having a mbmaxlen value of 2, any ALTER TABLE statement changed TEXT columns to MEDIUMTEXT. (Bug#21620)

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)

mysql_com.h unnecessarily referred to the ulong type. (Bug#22227)

Incorporated some portability fixes into the definition of __attribute__ in my_global.h. (Bug#2717)

Linking the pthreads library to single-threaded MySQL libraries caused dlopen() to fail at runtime on HP-UX. (Bug#18267)

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)

mysql_ftdump produced bad counts for common words. (Bug#22326)

yaSSL had a conflicting definition for socklen_t on hurd-i386 systems. (Bug#22326)

When records are merged from the insert buffer and the page needs to be reorganized, InnoDB used incorrect column length information when interpreting the records of the page. This caused a server crash due to apparent corruption of secondary indexes in ROW_FORMAT=COMPACT that contain prefix indexes of fixed-length columns. Data files should not be corrupted, but the crash was likely to repeat every time the server was restarted. (Bug#21638)

Using GROUP_CONCAT() on the result of a subquery in the FROM clause that itself used GROUP_CONCAT() could cause a server crash. (Bug#22015)

Execution of a prepared statement that uses an IN subquery with aggregate functions in the HAVING clause could cause a server crash. (Bug#22085)

The value of LAST_INSERT_ID() was not always updated correctly within stored routines. (Bug#21726)

If mysqld was linked against a system-installed zlib library compiled without large-file support, it would likely exit with a SIGXFSZ (file size exceeded) signal if an ARCHIVE table reached 2GB. The server now checks for space before writing. (Bug#21675)

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)

make install tried to build files that should already have been built by make all, causing a failure if installation was performed using a different account than the one used for the initial build. (Bug#19738)

The source distribution would not build on Windows due to a spurious dependency on ib_config.h. (Bug#22224)

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)

Within stored routines, some error messages were printed incorrectly. A non-null-terminated string was passed to a message-printing routine that expected a null-terminated string. (Bug#20778)

SUBSTR() results sometimes were stored improperly into a temporary table when multi-byte character sets were used. (Bug#20204)

On Windows, inserting into a MERGE table after renaming an underlying MyISAM table caused a server crash. (Bug#20789)

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)

With TRADITIONAL SQL mode, assignment of out-of-bound values and rounding of assigned values was done correctly, but assignment of the same numbers represented as strings sometimes was handled differently. (Bug#6147)

The source distribution failed to compile when configured with the --without-geometry option. (Bug#12991)

The source distribution failed to compile when configured with the --with-libwrap option. (Bug#18246)

For INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, use of VALUES(col_name) within the UPDATE clause sometimes was handled incorrectly. (Bug#21555)

Row equalities (such as WHERE (a,b) = (c,d) were not taken into account by the optimizer, resulting in slow query execution. Now they are treated as conjunctions of equalities between row elements. (Bug#16081)

Column names supplied for a view created on a master server could be lost on a slave server. (Bug#19419)

For a MyISAM table locked with LOCK TABLES ...WRITE, queries optimized using the index_merge method did not show rows inserted with the lock in place. (Bug#20256)

Table aliases in multiple-table DELETE statements sometimes were not resolved. (Bug#21392)

A function result in a comparison was replaced with a constant by the optimizer under some circumstances when this optimization was invalid. (Bug#21698)

A subquery that uses an index for both the WHERE and ORDER BY clauses produced an empty result. (Bug#21180)

If the auto_increment_offset setting causes MySQL to generate a value larger than the column's maximum possible value, the INSERT statement is accepted in strict SQL mode, whereas but should fail with an error. (Bug#20573)

Queries containing a subquery that used aggregate functions could return incorrect results. (Bug#16792)

EXPLAIN sometimes returned an incorrect select_type for a SELECT from a view, compared to the select_type for the equivalent SELECT from the base table. (Bug#5500)

For a MyISAM table with a FULLTEXT index, compression with myisampack or a check with myisamchk after compression resulted in table corruption. (Bug#19702)

BIN(), OCT(), and CONV() did not work with BIT values. (Bug#15583)

The server could crash for the second execution of a function containing a SELECT statement that uses an aggregating IN subquery. (Bug#21493)

UPGRADE was treated as a reserved word, although it is not. (Bug#21772)

mysql_upgrade produced a malformed upgrade_defaults file by overwriting the [client] group header with a password option. This prevented mysqlcheck from running successfully when invoked by mysql_upgrade. (Bug#21011)

Usernames have a maximum length of 16 characters (even if they contain multi-byte characters), but were being truncated to 16 bytes. (Bug#20393)

mysql displayed an empty string for NULL values. (Bug#21618)

For the mysql client, typing Control-C causes mysql to attempt to kill the current statement. If this cannot be done, or Control-C is typed again before the statement is killed, mysql exits. Previously, Control-C caused mysql to exit in all cases. (Bug#17926; see also Bug#1989)

For mysqlshow, if a database name argument contains wildcard characters (such as 鈥�_鈥�) but matches a single database name exactly, treat the name as a literal name. This allows a command such as mysqlshow information_schema work without having to escape the wildcard character. (Bug#19147)

If a DROP VIEW statement named multiple views, it stopped with an error if a non-existent view was named and did not drop the remaining views. Now it continues on and reports an error at the end, similar to DROP TABLE. (Bug#16614)

Table comments longer than 60 characters and column comments longer than 255 characters were truncated silently. Now a warning is issued, or an error in strict mode. (Bug#13934)

The bundled yaSSL library was upgraded to version 1.3.7.

The bundled yaSSL library licensing has added a FLOSS exception similar to MySQL to resolve licensing incompatibilities with MySQL. (See the extra/yassl/FLOSS-EXCEPTIONS file in a MySQL source distribution for details.) (Bug#16755)

The server now issues a warning if it removes leading spaces from an alias. (Bug#10977)

The VIEW_DEFINITION column of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA VIEWS table now contains information about the view algorithm. (Bug#16832)

For a successful dump, mysqldump now writes a SQL comment to the end of the dump file in the following format:

-- Dump completed on YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss

(Bug#10877)

The mysqld and mysqlmanager manpages have been reclassified from volume 1 to volume 8. (Bug#21220)

configure now defines the symbol DBUG_ON in config.h to indicate whether the source tree is configured to be compiled with debugging support. (Bug#19517)

The MySQL distribution now compiles on UnixWare 7.13. (Bug#20190)

The mysql client used the default character set if it automatically reconnected to the server, which is incorrect if the character set had been changed. To enable the character set to remain synchronized on the client and server, the mysql command charset (or \C) that changes the default character set and now also issues a SET NAMES statement. The changed character set is used for reconnects. (Bug#11972)

mysql_upgrade no longer reads the [client] option file group because it is not a client and did not understand client options such as host. Now it reads only the [mysql_upgrade] group. (Bug#19452)

MySQL now can do stack dumps on x86_64 and i386/NPTL systems. (Bug#21250)

TIMESTAMP columns that are NOT NULL now are reported that way by SHOW COLUMNS and INFORMATION_SCHEMA. (Bug#20910)

Using --with-debug to configure MySQL with debugging support enables you to use the --debug="d,parser_debug" option when you start the server. This causes the Bison parser that is used to process SQL statements to dump a parser trace to the server's standard error output. Typically, this output is written to the error log.

A new system variable, lc_time_names, specifies the locale that controls the language used to display day and month names and abbreviations. This variable affects the output from the DATE_FORMAT(), DAYNAME() and MONTHNAME() functions. See Section聽5.10.9, 鈥淢ySQL Server Locale Support鈥�.

Security fix: On Linux, and possibly other platforms using case-sensitive filesystems, it was possible for a user granted rights on a database to create or access a database whose name differed only from that of the first by the case of one or more letters. (CVE-2006-4226, Bug#17647)

Security fix: A stored routine created by one user and then made accessible to a different user using GRANT EXECUTE could be executed by that user with the privileges of the routine's definer. (CVE-2006-4227, Bug#18630)

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)

The optimizer did not take advantage of indexes on columns used for the second or third arguments of BETWEEN. (Bug#18165)

Successive invocations of a COUNT(*) query containing a join on two MyISAM tables and a WHERE clause of the form WHERE (table1.column1 = table2.column2) OR table2.column2 IS NULL yielded different results. (Bug#21019)

CREATE TABLE ... SELECT statements that selected GEOMETRY values resulted in a table that contained BLOB columns, not GEOMETRY columns. (Bug#14807)

A DATE can be represented as an integer (such as 20060101) or as a string (such as '2006.01.01'). When a DATE (or TIME) column is compared in one SELECT against both representations, constant propagation by the optimizer led to comparison of DATE as a string against DATE as an integer. This could result in integer comparisons such as 2006 against 20060101, erroneously producing a false result. (Bug#21475)

A query result could be sorted improperly when using ORDER BY for the second table in a join. (Bug#21302)

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)

The index_merge/Intersection optimizer could have a memory overrrun when the number of table columns covered by an index is sufficiently large, possibly resulting in a server crash. (Bug#16201)

With max_sp_recursion set to 0, a stored procedure that executed a SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE statement for itself triggered a recursion limit exceeded error, though the statement involves no recursion. (Bug#21416)

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)

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) This patch was reverted in MySQL 5.0.26.

character_set_results can be NULL to signify 鈥�no conversion,鈥� but some code did not check for NULL, resulting in a server crash. (Bug#21913)

InnoDB was slow with more than 100,000 .idb files. (Bug#21112)

SHOW INNODB STATUS contained some duplicate output. (Bug#21113)

Using cursors with READ COMMITTED isolation level could cause InnoDB to crash. (Bug#19834)

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)

A query could produce different results with and without and index, if the WHERE clause contained a range condition that used an invalid DATETIME constant. (Bug#16249)

libmysqld produced some warnings to stderr which could not be silenced. These warnings now are suppressed. (Bug#13717)

If a query had a condition of the form tableX.key = tableY.key, which participated in equality propagation and also was used for ref access, then early ref-access NULL filtering was not peformed for the condition. This could make query execution slower. (Bug#19649)

The optimizer sometimes produced an incorrect row-count estimate after elimination of const tables. This resulted in choosing extremely inefficient execution plans in same cases when distribution of data in joins were skewed. (Bug#21390)

Query results could be incorrect if the WHERE clause contained t.key_part NOT IN (val_list), where val_list is a list of more than 1000 constants. (Bug#21282)

STR_TO_DATE() sometimes would return NULL if the %D format specifier was not the last specifier in the format string. (Bug#20987)

The myisam_stats_method variable was mishandled when set from an option file or on the command line. (Bug#21054)

The optimizer assumed that if (a=x AND b=x) is true, (a=x AND b=x) AND a=b is also true. But that is not always so if a and b have different data types. (Bug#21159)

InnoDB did not honor IGNORE INDEX, which prevented using IGNORE INDEX in cases where an index sort would be slower than a filesort. (Bug#21174) This patch was reverted in MySQL 5.0.26. Hint operation was revised further in MySQL 5.0.40.

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)

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 connections that required a SUBJECT value, a check was performed to verify that the value was correct, but the connection was not refused if not. (Bug#20411)

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)

INSERT ... SELECT sometimes generated a spurious Column count doesn't match value count error. (Bug#21774)

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)

Some user-level errors were being written to the server's error log, which is for server errors. (Bug#20402)

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)

N'xxx' and _utf8'xxx' were not treated as equivalent because N'xxx' failed to unescape backslashes (\) and doubled apostrophe/single quote characters (''). (Bug#17313)

ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1 always set a user variable to the last possible value from the table. (Bug#16861)

A subquery in the WHERE clause of the outer query and using IN and GROUP BY returned an incorrect result. (Bug#16255)

When NOW() was used in a BETWEEN clause of the definition for a view, it was replaced with a constant in the view. (Bug#15950)

A stored procedure with a CONTINUE handler that encountered an error continued to execute a statement that caused an error, rather with the next statement following the one that caused the error. (Bug#8153)

libmysqlclient defined a symbol BN_bin2bn which belongs to OpenSSL. This could break applications that also linked against OpenSSL's libcrypto library. The fix required correcting an error in a build script that was failing to add rename macros for some functions. (Bug#21930)

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.

Memory overruns could occur for certain kinds of subqueries. (Bug#21477)

The SELECT privilege was required for an insert on a view, instead of the INSERT privilege. (Bug#21261)

Note: This fixes a regression that was introduced by the fix for Bug#20989.

Running SHOW MASTER LOGS at the same time as binary log files were being switched would cause mysqld to hang. (Bug#21965)

A server or network failure with an open client connection would cause the client to hang even though the server was no longer available. (Bug#9678)

Inserts into BIT columns of FEDERATED tables did not work. (Bug#14532)

The yaSSL library bundled with libmysqlclient had some conflicts with OpenSSL. Now macros are used to rename the conflicting symbols to have a prefix of ya. (Bug#19810)

It is possible to create MERGE tables into which data cannot be inserted (by not specifying a UNION clause. However, when an insert was attempted, the error message was confusing. Now an error occurs indicating that the table is read-only. (Bug#17766)

A NUL byte within a prepared statement string caused the rest of the string not to be written to the query log, allowing logging to be bypassed. (Bug#21813)

mysql_upgrade created temporary files in a possibly insecure way. (Bug#21224)

Some prepared statements caused a server crash when executed a second time. (Bug#21166)

With query_cache_type set to 0, RESET QUERY CACHE was very slow and other threads were blocked during the operation. Now a cache reset is faster and non-blocking. (Bug#21051)

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: A vague error message was returned when reading of both schema files occurred during a restart of the cluster. (Bug#20860)

NDB Cluster: The server did not honor the value set for ndb_cache_check_time in the my.cnf file. (Bug#20708)

NDB Cluster: The server failed with a non-descriptive error message when out of data memory. (Bug#18475)

NDB Cluster: ndb_size.pl and ndb_error_reporter were missing from RPM packages. (Bug#20426)

When DROP DATABASE or SHOW OPEN TABLES was issued while concurrently issuing DROP TABLE (or RENAME TABLE, CREATE TABLE LIKE or any other statement that required a name lock) in another connection, the server crashed. (Bug#21216)

Use of zero-length variable names caused a server crash. (Bug#20908)

Prepared statements caused general log and server memory corruption. (Bug#14346)

mysqldump incorrectly tried to use LOCK TABLES for tables in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database. (Bug#21527)

Adding ORDER BY to a SELECT DISTINCT(expr) query could produce incorrect results. (Bug#21456)

For InnoDB tables, the server could crash when executing NOT IN () subqueries. (Bug#21077)

Use of the --prompt option or prompt command caused mysql to be unable to connect to the Instance Manager. (Bug#17485)

The server crashed if it tried to access a CSV table for which the data file had been removed. (Bug#15205)

CREATE USER did not respect the 16-character username limit. (Bug#10668)

On Windows, a definition for mysql_set_server_option() was missing from the C client library. (Bug#16513)

For the CSV storage engine, memory-mapped pages of the data file were not invalidated when new data was appended to the file via traditional (file descriptor-based) I/O primitives. (Bug#15669)

In debugging mode, mysqld printed server_init rather than network_init during network initialization. (Bug#20968)

For user-defined functions created with CREATE FUNCTION, the DEFINER clause is not legal, but no error was generated. (Bug#21269)

mysqld --flush failed to flush MyISAM table changes to disk following an UPDATE statement for which no updated column had an index. (Bug#20060)

When not running in strict mode, the server failed to convert the invalid years portion of a DATE or DATETIME value to '0000' when inserting it into a table. (Bug#19370)

This patch was reverted in MySQL 5.0.42.

The --with-collation option was not honored for client connections. (Bug#7192)

Users who had the SHOW VIEW privilege for a view and privileges on one of the view's base table could not see records in INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables relating to the base table. (Bug#20543)

An issue with yaSSL prevented Connector/J clients from connecting to the server using a certificate. (Bug#19705)

Some server errors were not reported to the client, causing both to try to read from the connection until a hang or crash resulted. (Bug#16581)

When setting a column to its implicit default value as the result of inserting a NULL into a NOT NULL column as part of a multi-row insert or LOAD DATA operation, the server returned a misleading warning message. (Bug#14770)

DECIMAL columns were handled incorrectly in two respects (Bug#16172):

Tables created with the FEDERATED storage engine did not permit indexes using NULL columns. (Bug#15133)

The Instance Manager allowed STOP INSTANCE to be used on a server instance that was not running. (Bug#12673)

On Windows, mysql_upgrade.exe could not find mysqlcheck.exe. (Bug#20950)

FEDERATED tables raised invalid duplicate key errors when attempting on one server to insert rows having the same primary key values as rows that had been deleted from the linked table on the other server. (Bug#18764)

The C API failed to return a status message when invoking a stored procedure. (Bug#15752)

A stored procedure that created and invoked a prepared statement was not executed when called in a mysqld init-file. (Bug#17843)

Stored procedures did not use the character set defined for the database in which they were created. (Bug#16676)

CREATE PROCEDURE, CREATE FUNTION, CREATE TRIGGER, and CREATE VIEW statements containing multi-line comments (/* ... */) could not be replicated. (Bug#20438)

The final parenthesis of a CREATE INDEX statement occurring in a stored procedure was omitted from the binary log when the stored procedure was called. (Bug#19207)

Attempting to insert a string of greater than 4096 bytes into a FEDERATED table resulted in the error ERROR 1296 (HY000) at line 2: Got error 10000 'Error on remote system: 1054: Unknown column 'string-value' from FEDERATED. This error was raised regardless of the type of column involved (VARCHAR, TEXT, and so on.) (Bug#17608)

Performance during an import on a table with a trigger that called a stored procedure was severely degraded. This issue first arose in MySQL 5.0.18. (Bug#21013)

Repeated DROP TABLE statements in a stored procedure could sometimes cause the server to crash. (Bug#19399)

The value returned by a stored function returning a string value was not of the declared character set. (Bug#16211)

For mysql, escaping with backslash sometimes did not work. (Bug#20103)

Under certain circumstances, AVG(key_val) returned a value but MAX(key_val) returned an empty set due to incorrect application of 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)

A query using WHERE column = constant OR column IS NULL did not return consistent results on successive invocations. The column 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)

The PASSWORD() function returned invalid results when used in some UNION queries. (Bug#16881)

USE did not refresh database privileges when employed to re-select the current database. (Bug#10979)

A query using WHERE NOT (column < ANY (subquery)) yielded a different result from the same query using the same column and subquery with WHERE (column > ANY (subquery)). (Bug#20975)

A user variable set to a value selected from an unsigned column was stored as a signed value. (Bug#7498)

SELECT statements using GROUP BY against a view could have missing columns in the output when there was a trigger defined on one of the base tables for the view. (Bug#20466)

A SELECT with a subquery that was bound to the outer query over multiple columns returned different results when a constant was used instead of one of the dependant columns. (Bug#18925)

When performing a GROUP_CONCAT(), the server transformed BLOB columns VARCHAR columns, which could cause erroneous results when using Connector/J and possibly other MySQL APIs. (Bug#16712)

The type of the value returned by the VARIANCE() function varied according to the type of the input value. The function should always return a DOUBLE value. (Bug#10966)

Performing an INSERT on a view that was defined using a SELECT that specified a collation and a column alias caused the server to crash (Bug#21086).

A query of the form shown here caused the server to crash:

SELECT * FROM t1 NATURAL JOIN (
    t2 JOIN (
        t3 NATURAL JOIN t4,
        t5 NATURAL JOIN t6
    )
    ON (t3.id3 = t2.id3 AND t5.id5 = t2.id5)
);

(Bug#21007)

NDB Cluster (Direct APIs): Invoking the MGM API function ndb_mgm_listen_event() caused a memory leak. (Bug#21671)

NDB Cluster (Direct APIs): The MGM API function ndb_logevent_get_fd() was not actually implemented. (Bug#21129)

A memory leak was found when running ndb_mgm -e "SHOW". (Bug#21670)

NDB Cluster: Restarting a data node while DDL operations were in progress on the cluster could cause other data nodes to fail. This could also lead to mysqld hanging or crashing under some circumstances. (Bug#21017, Bug#21050)

NDB Cluster: An issue that arose from a patch for Bug#19852 made in MySQL 5.0.23 was corrected. (See Section聽E.1.6, 鈥淐hanges in release 5.0.23 (Not released)鈥�.)

NDB Cluster: The management client ALL STATUS command could sometimes report the status of some data nodes incorrectly. (Bug#13985)

NDB Cluster: Some queries involving joins on very large NDB tables could crash the MySQL server. (Bug#21059)

NDB Cluster: SELECT ... FOR UPDATE failed to lock the selected rows. (Bug#18184)

NDB Cluster: A Cluster whose storage nodes were installed from the MySQL-ndb-storage-* RPMs could not perform CREATE or ALTER operations that made use of non-default character sets or collations. (Bug#14918)

NDB Cluster: REPLACE statements did not work correctly on an NDB table having both a primary key and a unique key. In such cases, proper values were not set for columns which were not explicitly referenced in the statement. (Bug#20728)

NDB Cluster: Trying to create or drop a table while a node was restarting caused the node to crash. This is now handled by raising an error. (Bug#18781)

NDB Cluster: Running ndbd --nowait-nodes=id where id was the node ID of a node that was already running would fail with an invalid error message. (Bug#20419)

NDB Cluster: Incorrect values were inserted into AUTO_INCREMENT columns of tables restored from a cluster backup. (Bug#20820)

NDB Cluster: When attempting to restart the cluster following a data import, the cluster would fail during Phase 4 of the restart with Error 2334: Job buffer congestion. (Bug#20774)

NDB Cluster: A node failure during a scan could sometime cause the node to crash when restarting too quickly following the failure. (Bug#20197)

NDB Cluster: It was possible to use port numbers greater than 65535 for ServerPort in the config.ini file. (Bug#19164)

NDB Cluster: Under certain circumstances, a node that was shut down then restarted could hang during the restart. (Bug#18863)

NDB Cluster (Replication): In some cases, a large number of MySQL servers sending requests to the cluster simultaneously could cause the cluster to crash. This could also be triggered by many NDB API clients making simultaneous event subscriptions or unsubscriptions. (Bug#20683)

NDB Cluster (Direct APIs): NdbScanOperation::readTuples() and NdbIndexScanOperation::readTuples() ignored the batch parameter. (Bug#20252)

The implementation for UNCOMPRESS() did not indicate that it could return NULL, causing the optimizer to do the wrong thing. (Bug#18539)

TIMESTAMPDIFF() examined only the date and ignored the time when the requested difference unit was months or quarters. (Bug#16226)

perror did not properly report NDB error codes. (Bug#16561)

mysqlimport sends a set @@character_set_database=binary statement to the server, but this is not understood by pre-4.1 servers. Now mysqlimport encloses the statement within a /*!40101 ... */ comment so that old servers will ignore it. (Bug#15690)

The character set was not being properly initialized for CAST() with a type like CHAR(2) BINARY, which resulted in incorrect results or even a server crash. (Bug#17903)

For ODBC compatibility, MySQL supports use of WHERE col_name IS NULL for DATE or DATETIME columns that are NOT NULL, to allow column values of '0000-00-00' or '0000-00-00 00:00:00' to be selected. However, this was not working for WHERE clauses in DELETE statements. (Bug#8143)

The --master-data option for mysqldump requires certain privileges, but mysqldump generated a truncated dump file without producing an appropriate error message or exit status if the invoking user did not have those privileges. (Bug#21215)

ALTER VIEW did not retain existing values of attributes that had been originally specified but were not changed in the ALTER VIEW statement. (Bug#21080)

mysql crashed for very long arguments to the connect command. (Bug#21042)

perror crashed on Solaris due to NULL return value of strerror() system call. (Bug#20145)

The query command for mysqltest did not work. (Bug#19890)

For certain queries, the server incorrectly resolved a reference to an aggregate function and crashed. (Bug#20868)

When executing a SELECT with ORDER BY on a view that is constructed from a SELECT statement containing a stored function, the stored function was evaluated too many times. (Bug#19862)

Subqueries on INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables could erroneously return an empty result. (Bug#21231)

On 64-bit Windows, a missing table generated error 1017, not the correct value of 1146. (Bug#21396)

The same trigger error message was produced under two conditions: The trigger duplicated an existing trigger name, or the trigger duplicated an existing combination of action and event. Now different messages are produced for the two conditions so as to be more informative. (Bug#10946)

Multiplication of DECIMAL values could produce incorrect fractional part and trailing garbage caused by signed overflow. (Bug#20569)

A subquery that contained LIMIT N,1 could return more than one row. (Bug#20519)

DESCRIBE returned the type BIGINT for a column of a view if the column was specified by an expression over values of the type INT. (Bug#19714)

Multiple invocations of the REVERSE() function could return different results. (Bug#18243)

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 鈥�non-table鈥� subqueries such as SELECT 1 yielded incorrect results under certain circumstances due to incorrect application of MIN()/MAX() optimization. (Bug#16302)

When a row was inserted through a view but did not specify a value for a column that had no default value in the base table, no warning or error occurred. Now a warning occurs, or an error in strict SQL mode. (Bug#16110)

The use of WHERE col_name IS NULL in SELECT statements reset the value of LAST_INSERT_ID() to zero. (Bug#14553)

The server crashed when using the range access method to execut a subquery with a ORDER BY DESC clause. (Bug#20869)

Use of the join cache in favor of an index for ORDER BY operations could cause incorrect result sorting. (Bug#17212)

A user-defined function that is called on each row of a returned result set, could receive an in_null state that is set, if it was set previously. Now, the is_null state is reset to false before each invocation of a UDF. (Bug#19904)

Referring to a stored function qualified with the name of one database and tables in another database caused a 鈥�table doesn't exist鈥� error. (Bug#18444)

For NDB and possibly InnoDB tables, a BEFORE UPDATE trigger could insert incorrect values. (Bug#18437)

Triggers on tables in the mysql database caused a server crash. Triggers for tables in this database now are disallowed. (Bug#18361)

The length of the pattern string prefix for LIKE operations was calculated incorrectly for multi-byte character sets. As a result, the scanned range was wider than necessary if the prefix contained any multi-byte characters, and rows could be missing from the result set. (Bug#16674, Bug#18359)

For very complex SELECT statements could create temporary tables that were too big, but for which the temporary files did not get removed, causing subsequent queries to fail. (Bug#11824)

For spatial data types, the server formerly returned these as VARSTRING values with a binary collation. Now the server returns spatial values as BLOB values. (Bug#10166)

Using SELECT and a table join while running a concurrent INSERT operation would join incorrect rows. (Bug#14400)

Using SELECT on a corrupt MyISAM table using the dynamic record format could cause a server crash. (Bug#19835)

Using tables from MySQL 4.x in MySQL 5.x, in particular those with VARCHAR fields and using INSERT DELAYED to update data in the table would result in either data corruption or a server crash. (Bug#16611, Bug#16218, Bug#17294)

Checking a MyISAM table (using CHECK TABLE) having a spatial index and only one row would wrongly indicate that the table was corrupted. (Bug#17877)

SHOW GRANTS FOR CURRENT_USER did not return definer grants when executed in DEFINER context (such as within a stored prodedure defined with SQL SECURITY DEFINER), it returned the invoker grants. (Bug#15298)

For SELECT ... FOR UPDATE statements that used DISTINCT or GROUP BY over all key parts of a unique index (or primary key), the optimizer unnecessarily created a temporary table, thus losing the linkage to the underlying unique index values. This caused a Result set not updatable error. (The temporary table is unnecessary because under these circumstances the distinct or grouped columns must also be unique.) (Bug#16458)

The first time a user who had been granted the CREATE ROUTINE privilege used that privilege to create a stored function or procedure, the Password column in that user's row in the mysql.user table was set to NULL. (Bug#19857)

Creation of a view as a join of views or tables could fail if the views or tables are in different databases. (Bug#20482)

Use of MIN() or MAX() with GROUP BY on a ucs2 column could cause a server crash. (Bug#20076)

INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... LIMIT 1 could be slow because the LIMIT was ignored when selecting candidate rows. (Bug#9676)

Certain queries having a WHERE clause that included conditions on multi-part keys with more than 2 key parts could produce incorrect results and send [Note] Use_count: Wrong count for key at... messages to STDERR. (Bug#16168)

The mysql_list_fields() C API function returned the incorrect table name for views. (Bug#19671)

A cast problem caused incorrect results for prepared statements that returned float values when MySQL was compiled with gcc 4.0. (Bug#19694)

Updating a column of a FEDERATED table to NULL sometimes failed. (Bug#16494)

MySQL 5.0.24 introduced an ABI incompatibility, which this release reverts. Programs compiled against 5.0.24 are not compatible with any other version and must be recompiled. (Bug#21543)

Closing of temporary tables failed if binary logging was not enabled. (Bug#20919)

For statements that have a DEFINER clause such as CREATE TRIGGER or CREATE VIEW, long usernames or hostnames could cause a buffer overflow. (Bug#16899)

Pathname separator and device characters were not correctly parameterized for NetWare, causing mysqld startup errors. (Bug#21537)

mysqld could crash when closing temporary tables. (Bug#21582)

The shared compatibility RPM files were missing some files. (Bug#22251)

The LEFT() and RIGHT() functions return NULL if any argument is NULL. (Bug#11728)

In the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES table the ROUTINE_DEFINITION column now is defined as NULL rather than NOT NULL. Also, NULL rather than the empty string is returned as the column value if the user does not have sufficient privileges to see the routine definition. (Bug#20230)

Security fix: If a user has access to MyISAM table t, that user can create a MERGE table m that accesses t. However, if the user's privileges on t are subsequently revoked, the user can continue to access t by doing so through m. If this behavior is undesirable, you can start the server with the new --skip-merge option to disable the MERGE storage engine. (Bug#15195)

Using the extended syntax for TRIM() 鈥� that is, TRIM(... FROM ...) 鈥� in a SELECT statement defining a view caused an invalid syntax error when selecting from the view. (Bug#17526)

Assignments of values to variables of type TEXT were handled incorrectly in stored routines. (Bug#17225)

NDB Cluster: The repeated creating and dropping of a table would eventually lead to NDB Error 826, Too many tables and attributes ... Insufficient space. (Bug#20847)

Issuing a SHOW CREATE FUNCTION or SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE statement without sufficient privileges could crash the mysql client. (Bug#20664)

In a view defined with SQL SECURITY DEFINER, the CURRENT_USER() function returned the invoker, not the definer. (Bug#20570)

DATE_ADD() and DATE_SUB() returned NULL when the result date was on the day '9999-12-31'. (Bug#12356)

For a DATE parameter sent via a MYSQL_TIME data structure, mysql_stmt_execute() zeroed the hour, minute, and second members of the structure rather than treating them as read-only. (Bug#20152)

The DATA DIRECTORY table option did not work for TEMPORARY tables. (Bug#8706)

With the auto_increment_increment system variable set larger than 1, if the next generated AUTO_INCREMENT value would be larger than the column's maximum value, the value would be clipped down to that maximum value and inserted, even if the resulting value would not be in the generated sequence. This could cause problems for master-master replication. Now the server clips the value down to the previous value in the sequence, which correctly produces a duplicate-key error if that value already exists in the column. (Bug#20524)

If a table on a slave server had a higher AUTO_INCREMENT counter than the corresponding master table (even though all rows of the two tables were identical), in some cases REPLACE or INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE would not replicate properly using statement-based logging. (Different values would be inserted on the master and slave.) (Bug#20188)

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. Use of more than 1024 simultaneous cursors server wide also could lead to memory corruption. (This applies both to stored procedure and C API cursors.) (Bug#21206)

A race condition during slave server shutdown caused an assert failure. (Bug#20850)

mysqldump produced a malformed dump file when dumping multiple databases that contained views. (Bug#20221)

SELECT @@INSERT_ID displayed a value unrelated to a preceding SET INSERT_ID. (It was returning LAST_INSERT_ID instead.) (Bug#20392)

Performing INSERT ... SELECT ... JOIN ... USING without qualifying the column names caused ERROR 1052 "column 'x' in field list is ambiguous" even in cases where the column references were unambiguous. (Bug#18080)

Bug#10952 may cause inadvertent data loss. A fix for this bug was included in MySQL 5.0.23, but the approach used caused a loss of intended functionality. Because of this, that fix has been reverted in MySQL 5.0.24. As a consequence, the risk of inadvertent data loss still exists (see Bug#10952).

A SELECT that used a subquery in the FROM clause that did not select from a table failed when the subquery was used in a join. (Bug#21002)

REPLACE ... SELECT for a view required the INSERT privilege for tables other than the table being modified. (Bug#20989)

The mysql client did not understand help commands that had spaces at the end. (Bug#20328)

Failure to account for a NULL table pointer on big-endian machines could cause a server crash during type conversion. (Bug#21135)

mysqldump sometimes did not select the correct database before trying to dump views from it, resulting in an empty result set that caused mysqldump to die with a segmentation fault. (Bug#21014)

NDB Cluster: The limit of 2048 ordered indexes per cluster has been lifted. There is now no upper limit on the number of ordered indexes (including AUTO_INCREMENT columns) that may be used. (Bug#14509)

NDB Cluster: The status variables Ndb_connected_host and Ndb_connected_port were renamed to Ndb_config_from_host and Ndb_config_from_port, respectively.

The mysql_upgrade command has been converted from a shell script to a C program, so it is available on non-Unix systems such as Windows. This program should be run for each MySQL upgrade. See Section聽5.5.8, 鈥�mysql_upgrade 鈥� Check Tables for MySQL Upgrade鈥�.

Binary distributions that include SSL support now are built using yaSSL when possible.

Added the --ssl-verify-server-cert option to MySQL client programs. This option causes the server's Common Name value in its certificate to be verified against the hostname used when connecting to the server, and the connection is rejected if there is a mismatch. Added MYSQL_OPT_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT option for the mysql_options() C API function to enable this verification. This feature can be used to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. Verification is disabled by default. (Bug#17208)

Added the ssl_ca, ssl_capath, ssl_cert, ssl_cipher, and ssl_key system variables, which display the values given via the corresponding command options. See Section聽5.8.7.3, 鈥淪SL Command Options鈥�. (Bug#19606)

Added the log_queries_not_using_indexes system variable. (Bug#19616)

Added the --angel-pid-file option to mysqlmanager for specifying the file in which the angel process records its process ID when mysqlmanager runs in daemon mode. (Bug#14106)

The ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY SQL mode now also applies to the HAVING clause. That is, columns not named in the GROUP BY clause cannot be used in the HAVING clause if not used in an aggregate function. (Bug#18739)

SQL syntax for prepared statements now supports ANALYZE TABLE, OPTIMIZE TABLE, and REPAIR TABLE. (Bug#19308)

The bundled yaSSL library was upgraded to version 1.3.5. This improves handling of certain problems with SSL-related command options. (Bug#17737)

Added the --set-charset option to mysqlbinlog to allow the character set to be specified for processing binary log files. (Bug#18351)

For a table with an AUTO_INCREMENT column, SHOW CREATE TABLE now shows the next AUTO_INCREMENT value to be generated. (Bug#19025)

It is now possible to use NEW.var_name values within triggers as INOUT parameters to stored procedures. (Bug#14635)

The mysqldumpslow script has been moved from client RPM packages to server RPM packages. This corrects a problem where mysqldumpslow could not be used with a client-only RPM install, because it depends on my_print_defaults which is in the server RPM. (Bug#20216)

The mysql_get_ssl_cipher() C API function was added.

An invalid GRANT statement for which Ok was returned on a replication master caused an error on the slave and replication to fail. (Bug#6774)

Use of the --no-pager option caused mysql to crash. (Bug#19363)

mysqlcheck tried to check views instead of ignoring them. (Bug#16502)

Long multiple-row INSERT statements could take a very long time for some multi-byte character sets. (Bug#15811)

Re-executing a stored procedure with a complex stored procedure cursor query could lead to a server crash. (Bug#15217)

Views created from prepared statements inside of stored procedures were created with a definition that included both SQL_CACHE and SQL_NO_CACHE. (Bug#17203)

mysqldump did not dump the table name correctly for some table identifiers that contained unusual characters such as 鈥�:鈥�. (Bug#19479)

mysqldump would not dump views that had become invalid because a table named in the view definition had been dropped. Instead, it quit with an error message. Now you can specify the --force option to cause mysqldump to keep going and write a SQL comment containing the view definition to the dump output. (Bug#17371)

The WITH CHECK OPTION was not enforced when a REPLACE statement was executed against a view. (Bug#19789)

The use of MIN() and MAX() on columns with an index prefix produced incorrect results in some queries. (Bug#18206)

Concatenating the results of multiple constant subselects produced incorrect results. (Bug#16716)

A Table ... doesn't exist error could occur for statements that called a function defined in another database. (Bug#17199)

A buffer overwrite error in Instance Manager caused a crash. (Bug#20622)

Re-execution of a prepared multiple-table DELETE statement that involves a trigger or stored function can result in a server crash. (Bug#19634)

On Windows, corrected a crash stemming from differences in Visual C runtime library routines from POSIX behavior regarding invalid file descriptors. (Bug#18275)

Multiple-table updates with FEDERATED tables could cause a server crash. (Bug#19773)

On Windows, terminating mysqld with Control-C could result in a crash during shutdown. (Bug#18235)

On Windows, removal of binary log files would fail if the files were already open. (Bug#19208)

mysqldump produced garbled output for view definitions. (Bug#18462)

The omission of leading zeros in dates could lead to erroneous results when these were compared with the output of certain date and time functions. (Bug#16377)

An invalid comparison between keys with index prefixes over multi-byte character fields could lead to incorrect result sets if the selected query execution plan used a range scan by an index prefix over a UTF8 character field. This also caused incorrect results under similar circumstances with many other character sets. (Bug#14896)

NDB Cluster: Cluster system status variables were not updated. (Bug#11459)

NDB Cluster: The cluster's data nodes would fail while trying to load data when NoOfFrangmentLogFiles was equal to 1. (Bug#19894)

NDB Cluster: A problem with error handling when ndb_use_exact_count was enabled could lead to incorrect values returned from queries using COUNT(). A warning is now returned in such cases. (Bug#19202)

NDB Cluster: Restoring a backup made using ndb_restore failed when the backup had been taken from a cluster whose data memory was full. (Bug#19852)

NDB Cluster: TEXT columns in Cluster tables having both an explicit primary key and a unique key were not correctly updated by REPLACE statements. (Bug#19906)

NDB Cluster: An internal formatting error caused some management client error messages to be unreadable. (Bug#20016)

NDB Cluster: Running management client commands while mgmd was in the process of disconnecting could cause the management server to fail. (Bug#19932)

NDB Cluster (NDBAPI): Update operations on blobs were not checked for illegal operations.

Note: Read locks with blob update operations are now upgraded from read committed to read shared.

NDB Cluster: The management client ALL STOP command shut down mgmd processes (as well as ndbd processes). (Bug#18966)

NDB Cluster: LOAD DATA LOCAL failed to ignore duplicate keys in Cluster tables. (Bug#19496)

NDB Cluster: Repeated CREATE - INSERT - DROP operations tables could in some circumstances cause the MySQL table definition cache to become corrupt, so that some mysqld processes could access table information but others could not. (Bug#18595)

NDB Cluster: The mgm client command ALL CLUSTERLOG STATISTICS=15; had no effect. (Bug#20336)

NDB Cluster: TRUNCATE TABLE failed to reset the AUTO_INCREMENT counter. (Bug#18864)

NDB Cluster: The failure of a data node when preparing to commit a transaction (that is, while the node's status was CS_PREPARE_TO_COMMIT) could cause the failure of other cluster data nodes. (Bug#20185)

NDB Cluster: Renaming a table in such a way as to move it to a different database failed to move the table's indexes. (Bug#19967)

NDB Cluster: Resources for unique indexes on Cluster table columns were incorrectly allocated, so that only one-fourth as many unique indexes as indicated by the value of UniqueHashIndexes could be created. (Bug#19623)

NDB Cluster: Running ALL START in the NDB management client or restarting multiple nodes simultaneously could under some circumstances cause the cluster to crash. (Bug#19930)

NDB Cluster (NDBAPI): On big-endian platforms, NdbOperation::write_attr() did not update 32-bit fields correctly. (Bug#19537)

NDB Cluster: Some queries having a WHERE clause of the form c1=val1 OR c2 LIKE 'val2' were not evaluated correctly. (Bug # 17421)

NDB Cluster: Using 鈥�stale鈥� mysqld .FRM files could cause a newly-restored cluster to fail. This situation could arise when restarting a MySQL Cluster using the --intial option while leaving connected mysqld processes running. (Bug#16875)

NDB Cluster: Repeated use of the SHOW and ALL STATUS commands in the ndb_mgm client could cause the mgmd process to crash. (Bug#18591)

NDB Cluster: An issue with ndb_mgmd prevented more than 27 mysqld processes from connecting to a single cluster at one time. (Bug#17150)

NDB Cluster: Data node failures could cause excessive CPU usage by ndb_mgmd. (Bug#13987)

NDB Cluster: TRUNCATE failed on tables having BLOB or TEXT columns with the error Lock wait timeout exceeded. (Bug#19201)

NDB Cluster: Stopping multiple nodes could cause node failure handling not to be completed. (Bug#19039)

NDB Cluster: ndbd could sometimes fail to start with the error Node failure handling not completed following a graceful restart. (Bug#18550)

NDB Cluster: Backups could fail for large clusters with many tables, where the number of tables approached MaxNoOfTables. (Bug#17607)

On Windows, temporary tables containing 鈥�:鈥� in the name could not be created. (Bug#20616)

The --core-file-size option for mysqld_safe was effective only for root. (Bug#17353)

Some queries that used ORDER BY and LIMIT performed quickly in MySQL 3.23, but slowly in MySQL 4.x/5.x due to an optimizer problem. (Bug#4981)

mysql_upgrade was missing from binary MySQL distributions. (Bug#18516, Bug#20403)

Queries using an indexed column as the argument for the MIN() and MAX() functions following an ALTER TABLE .. DISABLE KEYS statement returned Got error 124 from storage engine until ALTER TABLE ... ENABLE KEYS was run on the table. (Bug#20357)

A number of dependency issues in the RPM bench and test packages caused installation of these packages to fail. (Bug#20078)

Nested natural joins worked executed correctly when executed as a non-prepared statement could fail with an Unknown column 'col_name' in 'field list' error when executed as a prepared statement, due to a name resolution problem. (Bug#15355)

GROUP BY on an expression that contained a cast to DECIMAL produced an incorrect result. (Bug#19667)

The max_length metadata value for columns created from CONCAT() could be incorrect when the collation of an argument differed from the collation of the CONCAT() itself. In some contexts such as UNION, this could lead to truncation of the column contents. (Bug#15962)

The MD5() and SHA() functions treat their arguments as case-sensitive strings. But when they are compared, their arguments were compared as case-insensitive strings, which leads to two function calls with different arguments (and thus different results) compared as being identical. This can lead to a wrong decision made in the range optimizer and thus to an incorrect result set. (Bug#15351)

For BOOLEAN mode full-text searches on non-indexed columns, NULL rows generated by a LEFT JOIN caused incorrect query results. (Bug#14708)

BIT columns in a table could cause joins that use the table to fail. (Bug#18895)

A UNION over more than 128 SELECT statements that use an aggregate function failed. (Bug#18175)

InnoDB unlocked its data directory before committing a transaction, potentially resulting in non-recoverable tables if a server crash occurred before the commit. (Bug#19727)

Multiple-table DELETE statements containing a subquery that selected from one of the tables being modified caused a server crash. (Bug#19225)

With settings of read_buffer_size >= 2G and read_rnd_buffer_size >=2G, LOAD DATA INFILE failed with no error message or caused a server crash for files larger than 2GB. (Bug#12982)

REPLACE statements caused activation of UPDATE triggers, not DELETE and INSERT triggers. (Bug#13479)

The thread for INSERT DELAYED rows was maintaining a separate AUTO_INCREMENT counter, resulting in incorrect values being assigned if DELAYED and non-DELAYED inserts were mixed. (Bug#20195)

mysqldump wrote an extra pair of DROP DATABASE and CREATE DATABASE statements if run with the --add-drop-database option and the database contained views. (Bug#17201)

On 64-bit Windows systems, REGEXP for regular expressions with exactly 31 characters did not work. (Bug#19407)

For mysqld, Valgrind revealed problems that were corrected: A dangling stack pointer being overwritten (Bug#20769); possible uninitialized data in a string comparison (Bug#20783); memory corruption in replication slaves when switching databases (Bug#19022); syscall write parameter pointing to uninitialized byte (Bug#20579).

For ndb_mgmd, Valgrind revealed problems that were corrected: A memory leak (Bug#19318); a dependency on an uninitialized variable (Bug#20333).

An update that used a join of a table to itself and modified the table on both sides of the join reported the table as crashed. (Bug#18036)

SSL connections using yaSSL on OpenBSD could fail. (Bug#19191)

On Windows, multiple clients simultaneously attempting to perform ALTER TABLE operations on an InnoDB table could deadlock. (Bug#17264)

The fill_help_tables.sql file did not load properly if the ANSI_QUOTES SQL mode was enabled. (Bug#20542)

The fill_help_tables.sql file did not contain a SET NAMES 'utf8' statement to indicate its encoding. This caused problems for some settings of the MySQL character set such as big5. (Bug#20551)

The MySQL server startup script /etc/init.d/mysql (created from mysql.server) is now marked to ensure that the system services ypbind, nscd, ldap, and NTP are started first (if these are configured on the machine). (Bug#18810)

MERGE tables did not work reliably with BIT columns. (Bug#19648)

For a reference to a non-existent index in FORCE INDEX, the error message referred to a column, not an index. (Bug#17873)

Some yaSSL public function names conflicted with those from OpenSSL, causing conflicts for applications that linked against both OpenSSL and a version of libmysqlclient that was built with yaSSL support. The yaSSL public functions now are renamed to avoid this conflict. (Bug#19575)

CHECK TABLE on a MyISAM table briefly cleared its AUTO_INCREMENT value, while holding only a read lock. Concurrent inserts to that table could use the wrong AUTO_INCREMENT value. CHECK TABLE no longer modifies the AUTO_INCREMENT value. (Bug#19604)

If there is a global read lock, CREATE DATABASE, RENAME DATABASE, and DROP DATABASE could deadlock. (Bug#19815)

On Linux, libmysqlclient when compiled with yaSSL using the icc compiler had a spurious dependency on C++ libraries. (Bug#20119)

Using CONCAT(@user_var, col_name), where col_name is a column in an INFORMATION_SCHEMA table, could cause erroneous duplication of data in the query result. (Bug#19599)

Results from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA could contain uppercase information when lower_case_table_names was not 0. (Bug#17661)

Grant table modifications sometimes did not refresh the in-memory tables if the hostname was '' or not specified. (Bug#16297)

Invalid escape sequences in option files caused MySQL programs that read them to abort. (Bug#15328)

InnoDB did not increment the handler_read_prev counter. (Bug#19542)

Race conditions on certain platforms could cause the Instance Manager to fail to initialize. (Bug#19391)

ALTER TABLE on a table created prior to 5.0.3 would cause table corruption if the ALTER TABLE did one of the following:

(Bug#17001)

An ALTER TABLE operation that does not need to copy data, when executed on a table created prior to MySQL 4.0.25, could result in a server crash for subsequent accesses to the table. (Bug#19192)

The binary log lacked character set information for table name when dropping temporary tables. (Bug#14157)

A B-TREE index on a MEMORY table erroneously reported duplicate entry error for multiple NULL values. (Bug#12873)

Race conditions on certain platforms could cause the Instance Manager to try to restart the same instance multiple times. (Bug#18023)

A CREATE TABLE statement that created a table from a materialized view did not inherit default values from the underlying table. (Bug#19089)

The COM_STATISTICS command was changed in 5.0.3 to display session status variable values rather than global values. This causes mysqladmin status information not to be useful for the Slow queries and Opens values. Now COM_STATISTICS displays the global values for Slow queries and Opens. (Bug#18669)

INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES provided inconsistent info about invalid views. This could cause server crashes or result in incorrect data being returned for queries that attempt to obtain information from INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables about views using stored functions. (Bug#18282)

Multiple calls to a stored procedure that selects from INFORMATION_SCHEMA could cause a server crash. (Bug#17204)

Premature optimization of nested subqueries in the FROM clause that refer to aggregate functions could lead to incorrect results. (Bug#19077)

A view definition that referred to an alias in the HAVING clause could be saved in the .frm file with the alias replaced by the expression that it referred to, causing failure of subsequent SELECT * FROM view_name statements. (Bug#19573)

Several aspects of view privileges were being checked incorrectly. (Bug#18681, Bug#20363)

A view with a non-existent account in the DEFINER clause caused SHOW CREATE VIEW to fail. Now SHOW CREATE VIEW issues a warning instead. (Bug#14875)

A compatibility issue with NPTL (Native POSIX Thread Library) on Linux could result in a deadlock with FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK under some conditions. (Bug#20048)

MyISAM table deadlock was possible if one thread issued a LOCK TABLES request for write locks and then an administrative statement such as OPTIMIZE TABLE, if between the two statements another client meanwhile issued a multiple-table SELECT for some of the locked tables. (Bug#16986)

Subqueries that produced a BIGINT UNSIGNED value were being treated as returning a signed value. (Bug#19700)

The patch for Bug#17164 introduced the problem that some outer joins were incorrectly converted to inner joins. (Bug#19816)

BLOB or TEXT arguments to or values returned from stored functions were not copied properly if too long and could become garbled. (Bug#18587)

Selecting data from a MEMORY table with a VARCHAR column and a HASH index over it returned only the first row matched. (Bug#18233)

CREATE TABLE ... SELECT did not always produce the proper column default value in TRADITIONAL SQL mode. (Bug#17626)

Privilege checking on the contents of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS table was insufficiently restrictive. (Bug#16681)

The result from CONV() is a string, but was not always treated the same way as a string when converted to a real value for an arithmetic operation. (Bug#13975)

CREATE TABLE ... SELECT ... statements that used a stored function explicitly or implicitly (through a view) resulted in a Table not locked error. (Bug#12472, Bug#15137)

Within a trigger, SET used the SQL mode of the invoking statement, not the mode in effect at trigger creation time. (Bug#6951)

The server no longer uses a signal handler for signal 0 because it could cause a crash on some platforms. (Bug#15869)

Revised memory allocation for local objects within stored functions and triggers to avoid memory leak for repeated function or trigger invocation. (Bug#17260)

EXPLAIN ... SELECT INTO caused the client to hang. (Bug#15463)

Symlinking .mysql_history to /dev/null to suppress statement history saving by mysql did not work. (mysql deleted the symlink and recreated .mysql_history as a regular file, and then wrote history to it.) (Bug#16803)

The basedir and tmpdir system variables could not be accessed via @@var_name syntax. (Bug#1039)

For certain CREATE VIEW statements, the server did not detect invalid subqueries within the SELECT part. (Bug#7549)

The range operator failed and caused a server crash for clauses of the form tbl_name.unsigned_keypart NOT IN (negative_const, ...). (Bug#19618)

Returning the value of a system variable from a stored function caused a server crash. (Bug#18037)

Updates to a MEMORY table caused the size of BTREE indexes for the table to increase. (Bug#18160)

REPAIR TABLE did not restore the length for packed keys in tables created under MySQL 4.x, which caused them to appear corrupt to CHECK TABLE but not to REPAIR TABLE. (Bug#17810)

Selecting from a view that used GROUP BY on a non-constant temporal interval (such as DATE(col) + INTERVAL TIME_TO_SEC(col) SECOND could cause a server crash. (Bug#19490)

An outer join of two views that was written using { OJ ... } syntax could cause a server crash. (Bug#19396)

LOAD_FILE() returned an error if the file did not exist, rather than NULL as it should according to the manual. (Bug#10418)

For certain CREATE TABLE ... SELECT statements, the selected values were truncated when inserted into the new table. (Bug#17048)

Use of uninitialized user variables in a subquery in the FROM clause results in bad entries in the binary log. (Bug#19136)

In the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS table, the values for the CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH and CHARACTER_OCTET_LENGTH columns were incorrect for multi-byte character sets. (Bug#19236)

An entry in the mysql.proc table with an empty routine name caused access to the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES table to crash the server. (Bug#18177)

A range access optimizer heuristic was invalid, causing some queries to be much slower in MySQL 5.0 than in 4.0. (Bug#17379, Bug#18940)

IS_USED_LOCK() could return an incorrect connection identifier. (Bug#16501)

mysql displayed NULL for strings that are empty or contain only spaces. (Bug#19564)

Concurrent reading and writing of privilege structures could crash the server. (Bug#16372)

A NUL byte within a comment in a statement string caused the rest of the string not to be written to the query log, allowing logging to be bypassed. (CVE-2006-0903, Bug#17667)

mysql-test-run.pl started NDB even for test cases that didn't need it. (Bug#19083)

SELECT DISTINCT queries sometimes returned only the last row. (Bug#18068)

Use of CONVERT_TZ() in a stored function or trigger (or in a stored procedure called from a stored function or trigger) caused an error. (Bug#11081)

Some queries were slower in 5.0 than in 4.1 because some 4.1 cost-evaluation code had not been merged into 5.0. (Bug#14292)

Index prefixes for utf8 VARCHAR columns did not work for UPDATE statements. (Bug#19080)

InnoDB does not support SPATIAL indexes, but did not prevent creation of such an index. (Bug#15860)

The configuration information for building the embedded server on Windows was missing a file. (Bug#18455)

The parser leaked memory when its stack needed to be extended. (Bug#18930)

When myisamchk needed to rebuild a table, AUTO_INCREMENT information was lost. (Bug#10405)

LOAD DATA FROM MASTER would fail when trying to load the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database from the master, because the INFORMATION_SCHEMA system database would already exist on the slave. (Bug#18607)

The binary log would create an incorrect DROP query when creating temporary tables during replication. (Bug#17263)

The IN-to-EXISTS transformation was making a reference to a parse tree fragment that was left out of the parse tree. This caused problems with prepared statements. (Bug#18492)

In mysqltest, --sleep=0 had no effect. Now it correctly causes sleep commands in test case files to sleep for 0 seconds. (Bug#18312)

Attempting to set the default value of an ENUM or SET column to NULL caused a server crash. (Bug#19145)

The sql_notes and sql_warnings system variables were not always displayed correctly by SHOW VARIABLES (for example, they were displayed as ON after being set to OFF). (Bug#16195)

The sql_big_selects system variable was not displayed by SHOW VARIABLES. (Bug#17849)

The system_time_zone and version_* system variables could not be accessed via SELECT @@var_name syntax. (Bug#12792, Bug#15684)

Flushing the compression buffer (via FLUSH TABLE) no longer increases the size of an unmodified ARCHIVE table. (Bug#19204)

RPM packages had spurious dependencies on Perl modules and other programs. (Bug#13634)

SHOW CREATE TABLE did not display the AUTO_INCREMENT column attribute if the SQL mode was MYSQL323 or MYSQL40. This also affected mysqldump, which uses SHOW CREATE TABLE to get table definitions. (Bug#14515)

Security fix: An SQL-injection security hole has been found in multi-byte encoding processing. The bug was in the server, incorrectly parsing the string escaped with the mysql_real_escape_string() C API function. (CVE-2006-2753, Bug#8378)

This vulnerability was discovered and reported by Josh Berkus <josh@postgresql.org> and Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> as part of the inter-project security collaboration of the OSDB consortium. For more information about SQL injection, please see the following text.

Discussion: An SQL-injection security hole has been found in multi-byte encoding processing. An SQL-injection security hole can include a situation whereby when a user supplied data to be inserted into a database, the user might inject SQL statements into the data that the server will execute. With regards to this vulnerability, when character set unaware-escaping is used (for example, addslashes() in PHP), it is possible to bypass the escaping in some multi-byte character sets (for example, SJIS, BIG5 and GBK). As a result, a function such as addslashes() is not able to prevent SQL-injection attacks. It is impossible to fix this on the server side. The best solution is for applications to use character set-aware escaping offered by a function such mysql_real_escape_string().

However, a bug was detected in how the MySQL server parses the output of mysql_real_escape_string(). As a result, even when the character set-aware function mysql_real_escape_string() was used, SQL injection was possible. This bug has been fixed.

Workarounds: If you are unable to upgrade MySQL to a version that includes the fix for the bug in mysql_real_escape_string() parsing, but run MySQL 5.0.1 or higher, you can use the NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES SQL mode as a workaround. (This mode was introduced in MySQL 5.0.1.) NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES enables an SQL standard compatibility mode, where backslash is not considered a special character. The result will be that queries will fail.

To set this mode for the current connection, enter the following SQL statement:

SET sql_mode='NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES';

You can also set the mode globally for all clients:

SET GLOBAL sql_mode='NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES';

This SQL mode also can be enabled automatically when the server starts by using the command-line option --sql-mode=NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES or by setting sql-mode=NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES in the server option file (for example, my.cnf or my.ini, depending on your system).

The dropping of a temporary table whose name contained a backtick ('`') character was not correctly written to the binary log, which also caused it not to be replicated correctly. (Bug#19188)

The patch for Bug#8303 broke the fix for Bug#8378 and was undone. (In string literals with an escape character (\) followed by a multi-byte character that has a second byte of (\), the literal was not interpreted correctly. The next byte now is escaped, not the entire multi-byte character. This means it a strict reverse of the mysql_real_escape_string() function.)

The client libraries had not been compiled for position-indpendent code on Solaris-SPARC and AMD x86_64 platforms. (Bug#13159, Bug#14202, Bug#18091)

Running myisampack followed by myisamchk with the --unpack option would corrupt the auto_increment key. (Bug#12633)

Security enhancement: Added the global max_prepared_stmt_count system variable to limit the total number of prepared statements in the server. This limits the potential for denial-of-service attacks based on running the server out of memory by preparing huge numbers of statements. The current number of prepared statements is available through the prepared_stmt_count system variable. (Bug#16365)

The MySQL-shared-compat-5.0.X-.i386.rpm shared compatibility RPMs no longer contain libraries for MySQL 5.1. This avoids a conflict because the 5.0 and 5.1 libraries share the same soname number. It contains libraries for 3.23, 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0. (Bug#19288)

Creating a table in an InnoDB database with a column name that matched the name of an internal InnoDB column (including DB_ROW_ID, DB_TRX_ID, DB_ROLL_PTR and DB_MIX_ID) would cause a crash. MySQL now returns error 1005 (cannot create table) with errno set to -1. (Bug#18934)

NDB Cluster: It is now possible to perform a partial start of a cluster. That is, it is now possible to bring up the cluster without running ndbd --initial on all configured data nodes first. (Bug#18606)

NDB Cluster: A new --nowait-nodes startup option for ndbd makes it possible to 鈥�skip鈥� specific nodes without waiting for them to start when starting the cluster. See Section聽15.6.5.2, 鈥淐ommand Options for ndbd鈥�.

NDB Cluster: It is now possible to install MySQL with Cluster support to a non-default location and change the search path for font description files using either the --basedir or --character-sets-dir options. (Previously in MySQL 5.0, ndbd searched only the default path for character sets.)

In result set metadata, the MYSQL_FIELD.length value for BIT columns now is reported in number of bits. For example, the value for a BIT(9) column is 9. (Formerly, the value was related to number of bytes.) (Bug#13601)

The default for the innodb_thread_concurrency system variable was changed to 8. (Bug#15868)

Security fix: A malicious client, using specially crafted invalid login or COM_TABLE_DUMP packets was able to read uninitialized memory, which potentially, though unlikely in MySQL, could have led to an information disclosure. (CVE-2006-1516, CVE-2006-1517) Thanks to Stefano Di Paola <stefano.dipaola@wisec.it> for finding and reporting this bug.

Security fix: A malicious client, using specially crafted invalid COM_TABLE_DUMP packets was able to trigger an exploitable buffer overflow on the server. (CVE-2006-1518) Thanks to Stefano Di Paola <stefano.dipaola@wisec.it> for finding and reporting this bug.

Security fix: Invalid arguments to DATE_FORMAT() caused a server crash. (CVE-2006-3469, Bug#20729) Thanks to Jean-David Maillefer for discovering and reporting this problem to the Debian project and to Christian Hammers from the Debian Team for notifying us of it.

NDB Cluster: A simultaneous DROP TABLE and table update operation utilising a table scan could trigger a node failure. (Bug#18597)

mysql-test-run could not be run as root. (Bug#17002)

MySQL-shared-compat-5.0.13-0.i386.rpm, MySQL-shared-compat-5.0.15-0.i386.rpm, MySQL-shared-compat-5.0.18-0.i386.rpm, MySQL-shared-compat-5.0.19-0.i386.rpm, MySQL-shared-compat-5.0.20-0.i386.rpm, and MySQL-shared-compat-5.0.20a-0.i386.rpm incorrectly depended on glibc 2.3 and could not be installed on a glibc 2.2 system. (Bug#16539)

IA-64 RPM packages for Red Hat and SuSE Linux that were built with the icc compiler incorrectly depended on icc runtime libraries. (Bug#16662)

After calling FLUSH STATUS, the max_used_connections variable did not increment for existing connections and connections which use the thread cache. (Bug#15933)

MySQL would not compile on Linux distributions that use the tinfo library. (Bug#18912)

Within a trigger, CONNECTION_ID() did not return the connection ID of the thread that caused the trigger to be activated. (Bug#16461)

The yaSSL library returned a cipher list in a manner incompatible with OpenSSL. (Bug#18399)

For single-SELECT union constructs of the form (SELECT ... ORDER BY order_list1 [LIMIT n]) ORDER BY order_list2, the ORDER BY lists were concatenated and the LIMIT clause was ignored. (Bug#18767)

CREATE VIEW statements would not be replicated to the slave if the --replicate-wild-ignore-table rule was enabled. (Bug#18715)

Index corruption could occur in cases when key_cache_block_size was not a multiple of myisam_block_size (for example, with key_cache_block_size=1536 and myisam_block_size=1024). (Bug#19079)

LAST_INSERT_ID() in a stored function or trigger returned zero. . (Bug#15728)

Use of CONVERT_TZ() in a view definition could result in spurious syntax or access errors. (Bug#15153)

UNCOMPRESS(NULL) could cause subsequent UNCOMPRESS() calls to return NULL for legal non-NULL arguments. (Bug#18643)

Conversion of a number to a CHAR UNICODE string returned an invalid result. (Bug#18691)

DELETE and UPDATE statements that used large NOT IN (value_list) clauses could use large amounts of memory. (Bug#15872)

Prevent recursive views caused by using RENAME TABLE on a view after creating it. (Bug#14308)

A LOCK TABLES statement that failed could cause MyISAM not to update table statistics properly, causing a subsequent CHECK TABLE to report table corruption. (Bug#18544)

For a reference to a non-existent stored function in a stored routine that had a CONTINUE handler, the server continued as though a useful result had been returned, possibly resulting in a server crash. (Bug#18787)

InnoDB did not use a consistent read for CREATE ... SELECT when innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog was set. (Bug#18350)

InnoDB could read a delete mark from its system tables incorrectly. (Bug#19217)

Corrected a syntax error in mysql-test-run.sh. (Bug#19190)

A missing DBUG_RETURN() caused the server to emit a spurious error message: missing DBUG_RETURN or DBUG_VOID_RETURN macro in function "open_table". (Bug#18964)

DROP DATABASE did not drop stored routines associated with the database if the database name was longer than 21 characters. (Bug#18344)

Avoid trying to include <asm/atomic.h> when it doesn't work in C++ code. (Bug#13621)

Executing SELECT on a large table that had been compressed within myisampack could cause a crash. (Bug#17917)

NDB Cluster: When attempting to create an index on a BIT or BLOB column, Error 743: Unsupported character set in table or index was returned instead of Error 906: Unsupported attribute type in index.

Within stored routines, usernames were parsed incorrectly if they were enclosed within quotes. (Bug#13310)

Casting a string to DECIMAL worked, but casting a trimmed string (using LTRIM() or RTRIM()) resulted in loss of decimal digits. (Bug#17043)

NDB Cluster: On slow networks or CPUs, the management client SHOW command could sometimes erroneously show all data nodes as being master nodes belonging to nodegroup 0. (Bug#15530)

If the second or third argument to BETWEEN was a constant expression such as '2005-09-01 - INTERVAL 6 MONTH and the other two arguments were columns, BETWEEN was evaluated incorrectly. (Bug#18618)

If the first argument to BETWEEN was a DATE or TIME column of a view and the other arguments were constants, BETWEEN did not perform conversion of the constants to the appropriate temporary type, resulting in incorrect evaluation. (Bug#16069)

Server and clients ignored the --sysconfdir option that was passed to configure. (Bug#15069)

NDB Cluster: In a 2-node cluster with a node failure, restarting the node with a low value for StartPartialTimeout could cause the cluster to come up partitioned (鈥�split-brain鈥� issue). (Bug#16447)

A similar issue could occur when the cluster was first started with a sufficiently low value for this parameter. (Bug#18612)

NDB Cluster: On systems with multiple network interfaces, data nodes would get 鈥�stuck鈥� in startup phase 2 if the interface connecting them to the management server was working on node startup while the interface interconnecting the data nodes experienced a temporary outage. (Bug#15695)

NDB Cluster: Unused open handlers for tables in which the metadata had changed were not properly closed. This could result in stale results from Cluster tables following an ALTER TABLE. (Bug#13228)

NDB Cluster: Uninitialized internal variables could lead to unexpected results. (Bug#11033, Bug#11034)

For InnoDB tables, an expression of the form col_name BETWEEN col_name2 - INTERVAL x DAY AND col_name2 + INTERVAL x DAY when used in a join returned incorrect results. (Bug#14360)

INSERT DELAYED into a view caused an infinite loop. (Bug#13683)

Lettercase in database name qualifiers was not consistently handled properly in queries when lower_case_table_names was set to 1. (Bug#15917)

The optimizer could cause a server crash or use a non-optimal subset of indexes when evaluating whether to use Index Merge/Intersection variant of index_merge optimization. (Bug#19021)

The presence of multiple equalities in a condition after reading a constant table could cause the optimizer not to use an index. This resulted in certain queries being much slower than in MySQL 4.1. (Bug#16504)

A recent change caused the mysql client not to display NULL values correctly and to display numeric columns left-justified rather than right-justified. The problems have been corrected. (Bug#18265)

mysql_reconnect() sent a SET NAMES statement to the server, even for pre-4.1 servers that do not understand the statement. (Bug#18830)

COUNT(*) on a MyISAM table could return different results for the base table and a view on the base table. (Bug#18237)

DELETE with LEFT JOIN for InnoDB tables could crash the server if innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog was enabled. (Bug#15650)

InnoDB failure to release an adaptive hash index latch could cause a server crash if the query cache was enabled. (Bug#15758)

For mysql.server, if the basedir option was specified after datadir in an option file, the setting for datadir was ignored and assumed to be located under basedir. (Bug#16240)

The euro sign (鈧�) was not stored correctly in columns using the latin1_german1_ci or latin1_general_ci collation. (Bug#18321)

EXTRACT(QUARTER FROM date) returned unexpected results. (Bug#18100)

TRUNCATE did not reset the AUTO_INCREMENT counter for MyISAM tables when issued inside a stored procedure. (Bug#14945)

Note: This bug did not affect InnoDB tables. Also, TRUNCATE does not reset the AUTO_INCREMENT counter for NDBCluster tables regardless of when it is called (see Bug#18864).

The server was always built as though --with-extra-charsets=complex had been specified. (Bug#12076)

A query using WHERE (column_1, column_2) IN ((value_1, value_2)[, (..., ...), ...]) would return incorrect results. (Bug#16248)

Queries of the form SELECT DISTINCT timestamp_column WHERE date_function(timestamp_col) = constant did not return all matching rows. (Bug#16710)

When running a query that contained a GROUP_CONCAT( SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(...) ), the result was NULL except in the ROLLUP part of the result, if there was one. (Bug#15560)

For tables created in a MySQL 4.1 installation upgraded to MySQL 5.0 and up, multiple-table updates could update only the first matching row. (Bug#16281)

NDB Cluster: When multiple node restarts were attempted without allowing each restart to complete, the error message returned was Array index out of bounds rather than Too many crashed replicas. (Bug#18349)

CAST(double AS SIGNED INT) for large double values outside the signed integer range truncates the result to be within range, but the result sometimes had the wrong sign, and no warning was generated. (Bug#15098)

Updating a field value when also requesting a lock with GET_LOCK() would cause slave servers in a replication environment to terminate. (Bug#17284)

The fix for 鈥�Command line options are ignored for mysql client鈥� (Bug#16855) has been revoked because it introduced an incompatible change in the way the mysql command-line client selects the server to connect to. In the worst case, this might have led to a client issuing commands to a server for which they were not intended, and this must not happen. To help all users in understanding this subject, Section聽4.2, 鈥淚nvoking MySQL Programs鈥� now includes additional explanation of how command options with regard to host selection.

The code of the yaSSL library has been improved to avoid the dependency on a C++ runtime library, so a link with pure C applications is now possible on additional (but not yet all) platforms. We are working on fixing the remaining issues.

With version 5.0.20a, SSL support is contained in all binaries for all Unix (including Linux) and Windows platforms except AIX, HP-UX, OpenServer 6, and the RPMs specific for RHAS3/RHAS4/SLES9 on Itanium CPUs (ia64); It is also not contained in those for Novell Netware. We are trying to add these platforms in future versions.

Please note that the original 5.0.20 announcement included inexact wording: SSL support is 鈥�included鈥� in both server and client, but by default not 鈥�enabled鈥�. SSL can be enabled by passing the SSL-related options (--ssl, --ssl-key=..., --ssl-cert=..., --ssl-ca=...) when starting the server and the client or by specifying these options in an option file. For more information, see Section聽5.8.7, 鈥淯sing Secure Connections鈥�.

Added the --sysdate-is-now option to mysqld to enable SYSDATE() to be treated as an alias for NOW(). See Section聽12.6, 鈥淒ate and Time Functions鈥�. (Bug#15101)

InnoDB: The InnoDB storage engine now provides a descriptive error message if ibdata file information is omitted from my.cnf. (Bug#16827)

The NDBCluster storage engine now supports INSERT IGNORE and REPLACE statements. Previously, these statements failed with an error. (Bug#17431)

Builds for Windows, Linux, and Unix (except AIX) platforms now have SSL support enabled, in the server as well as in the client libraries. Because part of the SSL code is written in C++, this does introduce dependencies on the system's C++ runtime libraries in several cases, depending on compiler specifics. (Bug#18195)

The syntax for CREATE PROCEDURE and CREATE FUNCTION statements now includes a DEFINER clause. The DEFINER value specifies the security context to be used when checking access privileges at routine invocation time if the routine has the SQL SECURITY DEFINER characteristic. See Section聽17.2.1, 鈥�CREATE PROCEDURE and CREATE FUNCTION Syntax鈥�, for more information.

When mysqldump is invoked with the --routines option, it now dumps the DEFINER value for stored routines.

Large file support added to build for QNX platform. (Bug#17336)

Large file support was re-enabled for the MySQL server binary for the AIX 5.2 platform. (Bug#13571)

If the WHERE condition of a query contained an OR-ed FALSE term, the set of tables whose rows cannot serve for null-complements in outer joins was determined incorrectly. This resulted in blocking possible conversions of outer joins into joins by the optimizer for such queries. (Bug#17164)

mysql_config returned incorrect libraries on x86_64 systems. (Bug#13158)

Stored routine names longer than 64 characters were silently truncated. Now the limit is properly enforced and an error occurs. (Bug#17015)

During conversion from one character set to ucs2, multi-byte characters with no ucs2 equivalent were converted to multiple characters, rather than to 0x003F QUESTION MARK. (Bug#15375)

The mysql_close() C API function leaked handles for shared-memory connections on Windows. (Bug#15846)

Checks for permissions on database operations could be performed in a case-insensitive manner (a user with permissions on database MYDATABASE could by accident get permissions on database myDataBase), if the privilege data were still cached from a previous check. (Bug#17279)

If InnoDB ran out of buffer space for row locks and adaptive hashes, the server would crash. Now InnoDB rolls back the transaction. (Bug#18238)

InnoDB tables with an adaptive hash blocked other queries during CHECK TABLE statements while the entire hash was checked. This could be a long time for a large hash. (Bug#17126)

For InnoDB tables created in MySQL 4.1 or earlier, or created in 5.0 or later with compact format, updating a row so that a long column is updated or the length of some column changes, InnoDB later would fail to reclaim the BLOB storage space if the row was deleted. (Bug#18252)

InnoDB had a memory leak for duplicate-key errors with tables having 90 columns or more. (Bug#18384)

InnoDB: The LATEST FOREIGN KEY ERROR section in the output of SHOW INNODB STATUS was sometimes formatted incorrectly, causing problems with scripts that parsed the output of this statement. (Bug#16814)

When using ORDER BY with a non-string column inside GROUP_CONCAT() the result's character set was converted to binary. (Bug#18281)

See also Bug#14169.

SELECT ... WHERE column LIKE 'A%', when column had a key and used the latin2_czech_cs collation, caused the wrong number of rows to be returned. (Bug#17374)

Complex queries with nested joins could cause a server crash. (Bug#18279)

The server could deadlock under heavy load while writing to the binary log. (Bug#18116)

A SELECT ... ORDER BY ... from a view defined using a function could crash the server. An example of such a view might be CREATE VIEW AS SELECT SQRT(c1) FROM t1. (Bug#18386)

A DELETE using a subquery could crash the server. (Bug#18306)

REPAIR TABLE, OPTIMIZE TABLE, and ALTER TABLE operations on transactional tables (or on tables of any type on Windows) could corrupt triggers associated with those tables. (Bug#18153)

MyISAM: Performing a bulk insert on a table referenced by a trigger would crash the table. (Bug#17764)

MyISAM: Keys for which the first part of the key was a CHAR or VARCHAR column using the UTF-8 character set and longer than 254 bytes could become corrupted. (Bug#17705)

Using ORDER BY intvar within a stored procedure (where intvar is an integer variable or expression) would crash the server. (Bug#16474)

Note: The use of an integer i in an ORDER BY i clause for sorting the result by the i^th column is deprecated (and non-standard). It should not be used in new applications. See Section聽13.2.7, 鈥�SELECT Syntax鈥�.

Triggers created in MySQL 5.0.16 and earlier could not be dropped after upgrading the server to 5.0.17 or later. (Bug#15921)

A SELECT using a function against a nested view would crash the server. (Bug#15683)

NDB Cluster: Certain queries using ORDER BY ... ASC in the WHERE clause could return incorrect results. (Bug#17729)

NDB Cluster: A timeout in the handling of an ABORT condition with more that 32 operations could yield a node failure. (Bug#18414)

NDB Cluster: A node restart immediately following a CREATE TABLE would fail. Important: This fix supports 2-node Clusters only. (Bug#18385)

NDB Cluster: In event of a node failure during a rollback, a 鈥�false鈥� lock could be established on the backup for that node, which lock could not be removed without restarting the node. (Bug#18352)

NDB Cluster: The cluster created a crashed replica of a table having an ordered index 鈥� or when logging was not enabled, of a table having a table or unique index 鈥� leading to a crash of the cluster following 8 successibe restarts. (Bug#18298)

NDB Cluster: When replacing a failed master node, the replacement node could cause the cluster to crash from a buffer overflow if it had an excessively large amount of data to write to the cluster log. (Bug#18118)

NDB Cluster: If a mysql or other client could not parse the result set returned from a mysqld process acting as an SQL node in a cluster, the client would crash instead of returning the appropriate error. For example, this could happen when the client attempted to use a character set was not available to the mysqld. (Bug#17380)

NDB Cluster: Restarting nodes were allowed to start and join the cluster too early. (Bug#16772)

If a row was inserted inside a stored procedure using the parameters passed to the procedure in the INSERT statement, the resulting binlog entry was not escaped properly. (Bug#18293)

If InnoDB encountered a HA_ERR_LOCK_TABLE_FULL error and rolled-back a transaction, the transaction was still written to the binary log. (Bug#18283)

Stored procedures that call UDFs and pass local string variables caused server crashes. (Bug#17261)

Connecting to a server with a UCS2 default character set with a client using a non-UCS2 character set crashed the server. (Bug#18004)

Loading of UDFs in a statically linked MySQL caused a server crash. UDF loading is now blocked if the MySQL server is statically linked. (Bug#11835)

Views that incorporated tables from the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database resulted in a server crash when queried. (Bug#18224)

A SELECT * query on an INFORMATION_SCHEMA table by a user with limited privileges resulted in a server crash. (Bug#18113)

Attempting to access an InnoDB table after starting the server with --skip-innodb caused a server crash. (Bug#14575)

Replication slaves could not replicate triggers from older servers that included no DEFINER clause in the trigger definition. Now the trigger executes with the privileges of the invoker (which on the slave is the slave SQL thread). (Bug#16266)

Character set conversion of string constants for UNION of constant and table column was not done when it was safe to do so. (Bug#15949)

The DEFINER value for stored routines was not replicated. (Bug#15963)

Use of stored functions with DISTINCT or GROUP BY can produce incorrect results when ORDER BY is also used. (Bug#13575)

Use of TRUNCATE TABLE for a TEMPORARY table on a master server was propagated to slaves properly, but slaves did not decrement the Slave_open_temp_tables counter properly. (Bug#17137)

SELECT COUNT(*) for a MyISAM table could return different results depending on whether an index was used. (Bug#14980)

A LEFT JOIN with a UNION that selects literal values could crash the server. (Bug#17366)

Large file support did not work in AIX server binaries. (Bug#10776)

Updating a view that filters certain rows to set a filtered out row to be included in the table caused infinite loop. For example, if the view has a WHERE clause of salary > 100 then issuing an UPDATE statement of SET salary = 200 WHERE id = 10, caused an infinite loop. (Bug#17726)

Certain combinations of joins with mixed ON and USING clauses caused unknown column errors. (Bug#15229)

NDB Cluster: Inserting and deleting BLOB column values while a backup was in process could cause the loss of an ndbd node. (Bug#14028)

If the server was started with the --skip-grant-tables option, it was impossible to create a trigger or a view without explicitly specifying a DEFINER clause. (Bug#16777)

COUNT(DISTINCT col1, col2) and COUNT(DISTINCT CONCAT(col1, col2)) operations produced different results if one of the columns was an indexed DECIMAL column. (Bug#15745)

The server displayed garbage in the error message warning about bad assignments to DECIMAL columns or routine variables. (Bug#15480)

The server would execute stored routines that had a non-existent definer. (Bug#13198)

For FEDERATED tables, a SELECT statement with an ORDER BY clause did not return rows in the proper order. (Bug#17377)

The FORMAT() function returned an incorrect result when the client's character_set_connection value was utf8. (Bug#16678)

NDB Cluster: Some query cache statistics were not always correctly reported for Cluster tables. (Bug#16795)

Updating the value of a Unicode VARCHAR column with the result returned by a stored function would cause the insertion of ASCII characters into the column instead of Unicode, even where the function's return type was also declared as Unicode. (Bug#17615)

Incompatible change: The InnoDB storage engine no longer ignores trailing spaces when comparing BINARY or VARBINARY column values. This means that (for example) the binary values 'a' and 'a ' are now regarded as unequal any time they are compared, as they are in MyISAM tables. (Bug#14189)

See Section聽11.4.2, 鈥淭he BINARY and VARBINARY Types鈥� for more information about the BINARY and VARBINARY types.

Several changes were made to make upgrades easier:

NDB Cluster: The ndb_mgm client commands node_id START and node_id STOP now work with management nodes as well as data nodes. (However, using ALL for the node_id continues to affect all data nodes only.)

When using the GROUP_CONCAT() function where the group_concat_max_len system variable was greater than 512, the type of the result was BLOB only if the query included an ORDER BY clause; otherwise the result was a VARCHAR.

The result type of the GROUP_CONCAT() function is now VARCHAR only if the value of the group_concat_max_len system variable is less than or equal to 512. Otherwise, this function returns a BLOB. (Bug#14169)

mysql no longer terminates data value display when it encounters a NUL byte. Instead, it displays NUL bytes as spaces. (Bug#16859)

Added the --wait-timeout option to mysqlmanager to allow configuration of the timeout for dropping an inactive connection, and increased the default timeout from 30 seconds to 28,800 seconds (8 hours). (Bug#12674, Bug#15980)

A number of performance issues were resolved that had previously been encountered when using statements that repeatedly invoked stored functions. For example, calling BENCHMARK() using a stored function executed much more slowly than when invoking it with inline code that accomplished the same task. In most cases the two should now execute with approximately the same speed. (Bug#15014, Bug#14946)

libmysqlclient now uses versioned symbols with GNU ld. (Bug#3074)

NDB Cluster: More descriptive warnings are now issued when inappropriate logging parameters are set in config.ini. (Formerly, the warning issued was simply Could not add logfile destination.) (Bug#11331)

Added the --port-open-timeout option to mysqld to control how many seconds the server should wait for the TCP/IP port to become free if it cannot be opened. (Bug#15591)

Repeated invocation of my_init() and my_end() caused corruption of character set data and connection failure. (Bug#6536)

Two new Hungarian collations are included: utf8_hungarian_ci and ucs2_hungarian_ci. These support the correct sort order for Hungarian vowels. However, they do not support the correct order for sorting Hungarian consonant contractions; this issue will be fixed in a future release.

Wording of error 1329 changed to No data - zero rows fetched, selected, or processed. (Bug#15206)

The INFORMATION_SCHEMA now skips data contained in unlistable/unreadable directories rather than returning an error. (Bug#15851)

InnoDB now caches a list of unflushed files instead of scanning for unflushed files during a table flush operation. This improves performance when --innodb-file-per-table is set on a system with a large number of InnoDB tables. (Bug#15653)

The message for error 1109 changed from Unknown table ... in order clause to Unknown table ... in field list. (Bug#15091)

The mysqltest utility now converts all CR/LF combinations to LF to allow test cases intended for Windows to work properly on UNIX-like systems. (Bug#13809)

The mysql_ping function will now retry if the reconnect flag is set and error CR_SERVER_LOST is encountered during the first attempt to ping the server. (Bug#14057)

mysqldump now surrounds the DEFINER, SQL SECURITY DEFINER and WITH CHECK OPTION clauses of a CREATE VIEW statement with "not in version" comments to prevent errors in earlier versions of MySQL. (Bug#14871)

New charset command added to mysql command-line client. By typing charset name or \C name (such as \C UTF8), the client character set can be changed without reconnecting. (Bug#16217)

Client API will now attempt reconnect on TCP/IP if the reconnect flag is set, as is the case with sockets. (Bug#2845)

Generating an AUTO_INCREMENT value through a FEDERATED table did not set the value returned by LAST_INSERT_ID(). (Bug#14768)

Cursors in stored routines could cause a server crash. (Bug#16887)

Setting the myisam_repair_threads system variable to a value larger than 1 could cause corruption of large MyISAM tables. (Bug#11527)

The length of a VARCHAR() column that used the utf8 character set would increase each time the table was re-created in a stored procedure or prepared statement, eventually causing the CREATE TABLE statement to fail. (Bug#13134)

type_decimal failed with the prepared statement protocol. (Bug#17826)

The MySQL server could crash with out of memory errors when performing aggregate functions on a DECIMAL column. (Bug#17602)

A stored procedure failed to return data the first time it was called per connection. (Bug#17476)

Using DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS func_name to drop a user-defined function caused a server crash if the server was running with the --skip-grant-tables option. (Bug#17595)

Using ALTER TABLE to increase the length of a BINARY(M) column caused column values to be padded with spaces rather than 0x00 bytes. (Bug#16857)

A large BIGINT value specified in a WHERE clause could be treated differently depending on whether it is specified as a quoted string. (For example, WHERE bigint_col = 17666000000000000000 versus WHERE bigint_col = '17666000000000000000'). (Bug#9088)

A natural join between INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables failed. (Bug#17523)

A memory leak caused warnings on slaves for certain statements that executed without warning on the master. (Bug#16175)

The embedded server did not allow binding of columns to the MYSQL_TYPE_VAR_STRING data type in prepared statements. (Bug#12070)

The embedded server failed various tests in the automated test suite. (Bug#9630, Bug#9631, Bug#9633, Bug#10801, Bug#10911, Bug#10924, Bug#10925, Bug#10926, Bug#10930, Bug#15433)

Instance Manager erroneously accepted a list of instance identifiers for the START INSTANCE and STOP INSTANCE commands (should accept only a single identifier). (Bug#12813)

For a transaction that used MyISAM and InnoDB tables, interruption of the transaction due to a dropped connection on a master server caused slaves to lose synchrony. (Bug#16559)

SELECT with GROUP BY on a view can cause a server crash. (Bug#16382)

If the query optimizer transformed a GROUP BY clause in a subquery, it did not also transform the HAVING clause if there was one, producing incorrect results. (Bug#16603)

SUBSTRING_INDEX() could yield inconsistent results when applied with the same arguments to consecutive rows in a query. (Bug#14676)

The parser allowed CREATE AGGREGATE FUNCTION for creating stored functions, even though AGGREGATE does not apply. (It is used only for CREATE FUNCTION only when creating user-defined functions.) (Bug#16896)

Data truncations on non-UNIQUE indexes could crash InnoDB when using multi-byte character sets. (Bug#17530)

Triggers created without BEGIN and END clauses resulted in 鈥�You have an error in your SQL syntax鈥� errors when dumping and replaying a binary log. (Bug#16878)

The RENAME TABLE statement did not move triggers to the new table. (Bug#13525)

Clients compiled from source with the --without-readline did not save command history from session to session. (Bug#16557)

Stored routines that contained only a single statement were not written properly to the dumpfile when using mysqldump. (Bug#14857)

For certain MERGE tables, the optimizer wrongly assumed that using index_merge/intersection was too expensive. (Bug#17314)

Executing a SHOW CREATE VIEW query of an invalid view caused the mysql_next_result function of libMySQL.dll to hang. (Bug#15943)

BIT fields were not properly handled when using row-based replication. (Bug#13418)

Issuing GRANT EXECUTE on a procedure would display any warnings related to the creation of the procedure. (Bug#7787)

NDB Cluster: ndb_delete_all would run out of memory on tables containing BLOB columns. (Bug#16693)

NDB Cluster: UNIQUE keys in Cluster tables were limited to 225 bytes in length. (Bug#15918)

In a highly concurrent environment, a server crash or deadlock could result from execution of a statement that used stored functions or activated triggers coincident with alteration of the tables used by these functions or triggers. (Bug#16593)

Previously, a stored function invocation was written to the binary log as DO func_name() if the invocation changes data and occurs within a non-logged statement, or if the function invokes a stored procedure that produces an error. These invocations now are logged as SELECT func_name() instead for better control over error code checking (slave servers could stop due to detecting a different error than occurred on the master). (Bug#14769)

CHECKSUM TABLE returned different values on MyISAM table depending on whether the QUICK or EXTENDED options were used. (Bug#8841)

MySQL server dropped client connection for certain SELECT statements against views defined that used MERGE algorithm. (Bug#16260)

A call to the IF() function using decimal arguments could return incorrect results. (Bug#16272)

A statement containing GROUP BY and HAVING clauses could return incorrect results when the HAVING clause contained logic that returned FALSE for every row. (Bug#14927)

Using GROUP BY on column used in WHERE clause could cause empty set to be returned. (Bug#16203)

For a MySQL 5.0 server, using MySQL 4.1 tables in queries with a GROUP BY clause could result in buffer overrun or a server crash. (Bug#16752)

SET sql_mode = N, where N > 31, did not work properly. (Bug#13897)

NDB Cluster: Cluster log file paths were truncated to 128 characters. They may now be as long as MAX_PATH (the maximum path length permitted by the operating system). (Bug#17411)

The mysql_stmt_store_result() C API function could not be used for a prepared statement if a cursor had been opened for the statement. (Bug#14013)

The mysql_stmt_sqlstate() C API function incorrectly returned an empty string rather than '00000' when no error occurred. (Bug#16143)

Using the TRUNCATE() function with a negative number for the second argument on a BIGINT column returned incorrect results. (Bug#8461)

Instance Manager searched wrong location for password file on some platforms. (Bug#16499)

NDB Cluster: Following multiple forced shutdowns and restarts of data nodes, DROP DATABASE could fail. (Bug#17325)

NDB Cluster: An UPDATE with an inner join failed to match any records if both tables in the join did not have a primary key. (Bug#17257)

NDB Cluster: A DELETE with a join in the WHERE clause failed to retrieve any records if both tables in the join did not have a primary key. (Bug#17249)

The error message returned by perror --ndb was prefixed with OS error code: instead of NDB error code:. (Bug#17235)

NDB Cluster: In some cases, LOAD DATA INFILE did not load all data into NDB tables. (Bug#17081)

NDB Cluster: The REDO log would become corrupted (and thus unreadable) in some circumstances, due to a failure in the query handler. (Bug#17295)

NDB Cluster: No error message was generated for setting NoOfFragmentLogFiles too low. (Bug#13966)

NDB Cluster: No error message was generated for setting MaxNoOfAttributes too low. (Bug#13965)

Binary distributions for Solaris contained files with group ownership set to the non-existing wheel group. Now the bin group is used. (Bug#15562)

The DECIMAL data type was not being handled correctly with prepared statements. (Bug#16511)

The SELECT privilege was required for triggers that performed no selects. (Bug#15196)

The UPDATE privilege was required for triggers that performed no updates. (Bug#15166)

CAST(... AS TIME) operations returned different results when using versus not using prepared-statement protocol. (Bug#15805)

Improper memory handling for stored routine variables could cause memory overruns and binary log corruption. (Bug#15588)

Killing a long-running query containing a subquery could cause a server crash. (Bug#14851)

A FULLTEXT query in a prepared statement could result in unexpected behavior. (Bug#14496)

A RETURN statement within a trigger caused a server crash. RETURN now is disallowed within triggers. To exit immediately, use LEAVE. (Bug#16829)

STR_TO_DATE(1,NULL) caused a server crash. (CVE-2006-3081, Bug#15828)

An invalid stored routine could not be dropped. (Bug#16303)

When evaluation of the test in a CASE failed in a stored procedure that contained a CONTINUE handler, execution resumed at the beginning of the CASE statement instead of at the end. (Bug#16568)

An INSERT statement in a stored procedure corrupted the binary log. (Bug#16621)

When MyODBC or any other client called my_init()/my_end() several times, it caused corruption of charset data stored in once_mem_pool. (Bug#11892)

When multiple handlers are created for the same MySQL error number within nested blocks, the outermost handler took precedence. (Bug#15011)

Certain LEAVE statements in stored procedures were not properly optimized. (Bug#15737)

Setting InnoDB path settings to an empty string caused InnoDB storage engine to crash upon server startup. (Bug#16157)

InnoDB used full explicit table locks in trigger processing. (Bug#16229)

Server crash when dropping InnoDB constraints named TABLENAME_ibfk_0. (Bug#16387)

Corrected race condition when dropping the adaptive hash index for a B-tree page in InnoDB. (Bug#16582)

The mysql_real_connect() C API function incorrectly reset the MYSQL_OPT_RECONNECT option to its default value. (Bug#15719)

InnoDB: After upgrading an InnoDB table having a VARCHAR BINARY column created in MySQL 4.0 to MySQL 5.0, update operations on the table would cause the server to crash. (Bug#16298)

Trying to compile the server on Windows generated a stack overflow warning due to a recursive definition of the internal Field_date::store() method. (Bug#15634)

The use of LOAD INDEX within a stored routine was permitted and caused the server to crash. Note: LOAD INDEX statements within stored routines are not supported, and now yield an error if attempted. This behavior is intended. (Bug#14270)

The mysqlbinlog utility did not output DELIMITER statements, causing syntax errors for stored routine creation statements. (Bug#11312)

NDB Cluster returned incorrect Can't find file error for OS error 24, changed to Too many open files. (Bug#15020)

Performing a RENAME TABLE on an InnoDB table when the server is started with the --innodb-file-per-table option and the data directory is a symlink caused a server crash. (Bug#15991)

Multi-byte path names for LOAD DATA and SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE caused errors. Added the character_set_filesystem system variable, which controls the interpretation of string literals that refer to filenames. (Bug#12448)

Certain subqueries where the inner query is the result of a aggregate function would return different results on MySQL 5.0 than on MySQL 4.1. (Bug#15347)

Attempts to create FULLTEXT indexes on VARCHAR columns larger than 1000 bytes resulted in error. (Bug#13835)

Characters in the gb2312 and euckr character sets which did not have Unicode mappings were truncated. (Bug#15377)

Certain nested LEFT JOIN operations were not properly optimized. (Bug#16393)

GRANT statements specifying schema names that included underscore characters (i.e. my_schema) did not match if the underscore was escaped in the GRANT statement (i.e. GRANT ALL ON `my\_schema` ...). (Bug#14834)

Running out of diskspace in the location specified by the tmpdir option resulted in incorrect error message. (Bug#14634)

Test suite sp test left behind tables when the test failed that could cause future tests to fail. (Bug#15866)

UPDATE statement crashed multi-byte character set FULLTEXT index if update value was almost identical to initial value only differing in some spaces being changed to  . (Bug#16489)

A SELECT query which contained a GROUP_CONCAT() and an ORDER BY clause against the INFORMATION_SCHEMA resulted in an empty result set. (Bug#15307)

The --replicate-do and --replicate-ignore options were not being enforced on multiple-table statements. (Bug#15699, Bug#16487)

A prepared statement created from a SELECT ... LIKE query (such as PREPARE stmt1 FROM 'SELECT col_1 FROM tedd_test WHERE col_1 LIKE ?';) would begin to produce erratic results after being executed repeatedly numerous (thousands) of times. (Bug#12734)

The server would crash when the size of an ARCHIVE table grew beyond 2GB. (Bug#15787)

Created a user function with an empty string (that is, CREATE FUNCTION ''()), was accepted by the server. Following this, calling SHOW FUNCTION STATUS would cause the server to crash. (Bug#15658)

In some cases the query optimizer did not properly perform multiple joins where inner joins followed left joins, resulting in corrupted result sets. (Bug#15633)

The absence of a table in the left part of a left or right join was not checked prior to name resolution, which resulted in a server crash. (Bug#15538)

NDBCluster: A bitfield whose offset and length totaled 32 would crash the cluster. (Bug#16125)

NDBCluster: Upon the completion of a scan where a key request remained outstanding on the primary replica and a starting node died, the scan did not terminate. This caused incompleted error handling of the failed node. (Bug#15908)

NDBCluster: The ndb_autodiscover test failed sporadically due to a node not being permitted to connect to the cluster. (Bug#15619)

NDBCluster: When running more than one management process in a cluster:

(Bug#12045, Bug#12124)

The contents of fill_help_tables.sql could not be loaded in strict SQL mode. (Bug#15760)

fill_help_tables.sql was not included in binary distributions for several platforms. (Bug#15759)

An INSERT ... SELECT statement between tables in a MERGE set can return errors when statement involves insert into child table from merge table or vice-versa. (Bug#5390)

Certain permission management statements could create a NULL hostname for a user, resulting in a server crash. (Bug#15598)

A COMMIT statement followed by a ALTER TABLE statement on a BDB table caused server crash. (Bug#14212)

A DELETE statement involving a LEFT JOIN and an IS NULL test on the right-hand table of the join crashed the server when the innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog option was enabled. (Bug#15650)

Performing an ORDER BY on an indexed ENUM column returned error. (Bug#15308)

The NOT FOUND condition handler for stored procedures did not distinguish between a NOT FOUND condition and an exception or warning. (Bug#15231)

A stored procedure with an undefined variable and an exception handler would hang the client when called. (Bug#14498)

Subselect could return wrong results when records cache and grouping was involved. (Bug#15347)

Temporary table aliasing did not work inside stored functions. (Bug#12198)

MIN() and MAX() operations were not optimized for views. (Bug#16016)

Using an aggregate function as the argument for a HAVING clause would result in the aggregate function always returning FALSE. (Bug#14274)

Parallel builds occasionally failed on Solaris. (Bug#16282)

The FORCE INDEX keyword in a query would prevent an index merge from being used where an index merge would normally be chosen by the optimizer. (Bug#16166)

The COALESCE() function truncated data in a TINYTEXT column. (Bug#15581)

InnoDB: Comparison of indexed VARCHAR CHARACTER SET ucs2 COLLATE ucs2_bin columns using LIKE could fail. (Bug#14583)

An attempt to open a table that requires a disabled storage engine could cause a server crash. (Bug#15185)

Issuing a DROP USER command could cause some users to encounter a hostname is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server error. (Bug#15775)

Setting innodb_log_file_size to a value greater than 4G crashed the server. (Bug#15108)

A SELECT of a stored function that references the INFORMATION_SCHEMA could crash the server. (Bug#15533)

Tarball install package was missing a proper fill_help_tables.sql file. (Bug#15151)

It is now possible to build the server such that MyISAM tables can support up to 128 keys rather than the standard 64. This can be done by configuring the build using the option --with-max-indexes=N, where N鈮�128 is the maximum number of indexes to permit per table. (Bug#10932)

The server treats stored routine parameters and local variables (and stored function return values) according to standard SQL. Previously, parameters, variables, and return values were treated as items in expressions and were subject to automatic (silent) conversion and truncation. Now the data type is observed. Data type conversion and overflow problems that occur in assignments result in warnings, or errors in strict mode. The CHARACTER SET clause for character data type declarations is used. Parameters, variables, and return values must be scalars; it is no longer possible to assign a row value. Also, stored functions execute using the sql_mode value in force at function creation time rather than ignoring it. For more information, see Section聽17.2.1, 鈥�CREATE PROCEDURE and CREATE FUNCTION Syntax鈥�. (Bug#8702, Bug#8768, Bug#8769, Bug#9078, Bug#9572, Bug#12903, Bug#13705, Bug#13808, Bug#13909, Bug#14161, Bug#15148)

API function mysql_stmt_prepare returned wrong field length for TEXT columns. (Bug#15613)

The output of mysqldump --triggers did not contain the DEFINER clause in dumped trigger definitions. (Bug#15110)

The output of SHOW TRIGGERS contained extraneous whitespace. (Bug#15103)

Creating a trigger caused a server crash if the table or trigger database was not known because no default database had been selected. (Bug#14863)

SHOW [FULL] COLUMNS and SHOW INDEX FROM did not function with temporary tables. (Bug#14271, Bug#14387, Bug#15224)

The INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS table did not report the size of BINARY or VARBINARY columns. (Bug#14271)

The server would not compile under Cygwin. (Bug#13640)

DESCRIBE did not function with temporary tables. (Bug#12770)

Reversing the order of operands in a WHERE clause testing a simple equality (such as WHERE t1.col1 = t2.col2) would produce different output from EXPLAIN. (Bug#15106)

Column aliases were displayed incorrectly in a SELECT from a view following an update to a base table of the view. (Bug#14861)

Set functions could not be aggregated in outer subqueries. (Bug#12762)

When a connection using yaSSL was aborted, the server would continue to try to read the closed socket, and the thread continued to appear in the output of SHOW PROCESSLIST. Note that this issue did not affect secure connection attempts using OpenSSL. (Bug#15772)

InnoDB: Having two tables in a parent-child relationship enforced by a foreign key where one table used ROW_FORMAT=COMPACT and the other used ROW_FORMAT=REDUNDANT could result in a MySQL server crash. Note that this problem did not exist prior to MySQL 5.0.3, when the compact row format for InnoDB was introduced. (Bug#15550)

BDB: A DELETE, INSERT, or UPDATE of a BDB table could cause the server to crash where the query contained a subquery using an index read. (Bug#15536)

A left join on a column that having a NULL value could cause the server to crash. (Bug#15268)

A replication slave server could sometimes crash on a BEFORE UPDATE trigger if the UPDATE query was not executed in the same database as the table with the trigger. (Bug#14614)

A race condition when creating temporary files caused a deadlock on Windows with threads in Opening tables or Waiting for table states. (Bug#12071)

InnoDB: If FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS was 0, InnoDB allowed inconsistent foreign keys to be created. (Bug#13778)

NDB Cluster: Under some circumstances, it was possible for a restarting node to undergo a forced shutdown. (Bug#15632)

NDB Cluster: If an abort by the Transaction Coordinator timed out, the abort condition was incorrectly handled, causing the transaction record to be released prematurely. (Bug#15685)

NDB Cluster: The ndb_read_multi_range.test script failed to drop a table, causing the test to fail. (Bug#15675) (See also Bug#15401.)

NDB Cluster: A node which failed during cluster startup was sometimes not removed from the internal list of active nodes. (Bug#15587)

Resolution of the argument to the VALUES() function to a variable inside a stored routine caused a server crash. The argument must be a table column. (Bug#15441)

The original Linux RPM packages (5.0.17-0) had an issue with a zlib dependency that would result in an error during an install or upgrade. They were replaced by new binaries, 5.0.17-1. (Bug#15223) Here is a list of the new RPM binaries:

The syntax for CREATE TRIGGER now includes a DEFINER clause for specifying which access privileges to check at trigger invocation time. See Section聽18.1, 鈥�CREATE TRIGGER Syntax鈥�, for more information.

Known issue: If you attempt to replicate from a master server older than MySQL 5.0.17 to a slave running MySQL 5.0.17 through 5.0.19, replication of CREATE TRIGGER statements fails on the slave with a Definer not fully qualified error. A workaround is to create triggers on the master using a version-specific comment embedded in each CREATE TRIGGER statement:

CREATE /*!50017 DEFINER = 'root'@'localhost' */ TRIGGER ... ;

CREATE TRIGGER statements written this way will replicate to newer slaves, which pick up the DEFINER clause from the comment and execute successfully. (Bug#16266)

Added a DEFINER column to the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TRIGGERS table.

Invoking a stored function or trigger creates a new savepoint level. When the function or trigger finishes, the previous savepoint level is restored. (See Bug#13825 for more information.)

Recursion is allowed in stored procedures. Recursive stored functions and triggers still are disallowed. (Bug#10100)

In the latin5_turkish_ci collation, the order of the characters A WITH CIRCUMFLEX, I WITH CIRCUMLEX, and U WITH CIRCUMFLEX was changed. If you have used these characters in any indexed columns, you should rebuild those indexes. (Bug#13421)

Support files for compiling with Visual Studio 6 have been removed. (Bug#15094)

Added the SHOW FUNCTION CODE and SHOW PROCEDURE CODE statements (available only for servers that have been built with debugging support). See Section聽13.5.4.19, 鈥�SHOW PROCEDURE CODE and SHOW FUNCTION CODE Syntax鈥�.

RPM packages had an incorrect zlib dependency. (Bug#15223)

NDB Cluster: REPLACE failed when attempting to update a primary key value in a Cluster table. (Bug#14007)

make failed when attempting to build MySQL in different directory than source. (Bug#11827)

Corrected an error-handling problem within stored routines on 64-bit platforms. (Bug#15630)

Slave SQL thread cleanup was not handled properly on Mac OS X when a statement was killed, resulting in a slave crash. (Bug#15623, Bug#15668)

Symbolic links did not function properly on Windows platforms. (Bug#14960, Bug#14310)

mysqld would not start on Windows 9X operating systems including Windows Me. (Bug#15209)

InnoDB: During replication, There was a failure to record events in the binary log that still occurred even in the event of a ROLLBACK. For example, this sequence of commands:

BEGIN;
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE t1 (a INT) ENGINE=INNODB;
ROLLBACK;
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1);

would succeed on the replication master as expected. However, the INSERT would fail on the slave because the ROLLBACK would (erroneously) cause the CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE statement not to be written to the binlog. (Bug#7947)

A bug in mysql-test/t/mysqltest.test caused that test to fail. (Bug#15605)

The CREATE test case in mysql-test-run.pl failed on AIX and SCO. (Bug#15607)

NDB Cluster: Creating a table with packed keys failed silently. NDB now supports the PACK_KEYS option to CREATE TABLE correctly. (Bug#14514)

NDB Cluster: Using ORDER BY primary_key_column when selecting from a table having the primary key on a VARCHAR column caused a forced shutdown of the cluster. (Bug#14828, Bug#15240, Bug#15682, Bug#15517)

NDB Cluster: Under certain circumstances, when mysqld connects to a cluster management server, the connection would fail before a node ID could be allocated. (Bug#15215)

NDB Cluster: There was a small window for a node failure to occur during a backup without an error being reported. (Bug#15425)

mysql --help was missing a newline after the version string when the bundled readline library was not used. (Bug#15097)

Implicit versus explicit conversion of float to integer (such as inserting a float value into an integer column versus using CAST(... AS UNSIGNED before inserting the value) could produce different results. Implicit and explicit typecasts now are done the same way, with a value equal to the nearest integer according to the prevailing rounding mode. (Bug#12956)

GROUP BY on a view column did not correctly account for the possibility that the column could contain NULL values. (Bug#14850)

ANALYZE TABLE did not properly update table statistics for a MyISAM table with a FULLTEXT index containing stopwords, so a subsequent ANALYZE TABLE would not recognize the table as having already been analyzed. (Bug#14902)

The maximum value of MAX_ROWS was handled incorrectly on 64-bit systems. (Bug#14155)

NDB Cluster: A forced cluster shutdown occurred when the management daemon was restarted with a changed config.ini file that added an API/SQL node. (Bug#15512)

Multiple-table update operations were counting updates and not updated rows. As a result, if a row had several updates it was counted several times for the 鈥�rows matched鈥� value but updated only once. (Bug#15028)

A statement that produced a warning, when fetched via mysql_stmt_fetch(), did not produce a warning count according to mysql_warning_count(). (Bug#15510)

Manual manipulation of the mysql.proc table could cause a server crash. This should not happen, but it is also not supported that the server will notice such changes. (Bug#14233)

Revised table locking to allow proper assessment of view security. (Bug#11555)

Within a stored procedure, inserting with INSERT ... SELECT into a table with an AUTO_INCREMENT column did not generate the correct sequence number. (Bug#14304)

SELECT queries that began with an opening parenthesis were not being placed in the query cache. (Bug#14652)

Space truncation was being ignored when inserting into BINARY or VARBINARY columns. Now space truncation results in a warning, or an error in strict mode. (Bug#14299)

The database-changing code for stored routine handling caused an error-handling problem resulting in a server crash. (Bug#15392)

Selecting from a view processed with the temptable algorithm caused a server crash if the query cache was enabled. (Bug#15119)

REPAIR TABLES, BACKUP TABLES, RESTORE TABLES within a stored procedure caused a server crash. (Bug#13012)

Creating a view that referenced a stored function that selected from a view caused a crash upon selection from the view. (Bug#15096)

ALTER TABLE ... SET DEFAULT had no effect. (Bug#14693)

Creating a view within a stored procedure could result in an out of memory error or a server crash. (Bug#14885)

InnoDB: A race condition allowed two threads to drop a hash index simultaneously. (Bug#14747)

mysqlhotcopy tried to copy INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables. (Bug#14610)

CHAR(... USING ...) and CONVERT(CHAR(...) USING ...), though logically equivalent, could produce different results. (Bug#14146)

The value of INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES.TABLE_TYPE sometimes was reported as empty. (Bug#14476)

InnoDB: Activity on an InnoDB table caused execution time for SHOW CREATE TABLE for the table to increase. (Bug#13762)

DELETE from CSV tables reported an incorrect rows-affected value. (Bug#13406)

The server crashed if compiled without any transactional storage engines. (Bug#15047)

Declaring a stored routine variable to have a DEFAULT value that referred to a variable of the same name caused a server crash. (For example: DECLARE x INT DEFAULT x) Now the DEFAULT variable is interpreted as referring to a variable in an outer scope, if there is one. (Bug#14376)

Perform character set conversion of constant values whenever possible without data loss. (Bug#10446)

mysql ignored the MYSQL_TCP_PORT environment variable. (Bug#5792)

ROW_COUNT() returned an incorrect result after EXECUTE of a prepared statement. (Bug#14956)

A UNION of DECIMAL columns could produce incorrect results. (Bug#14216)

Queries that select records based on comparisons to a set of column could crash the server if there was one index covering the columns, and a set of other non-covering indexes that taken together cover the columns. (Bug#15204)

When using an aggregate function to select from a table that has a multiple-column primary key, adding ORDER BY to the query could produce an incorrect result. (Bug#14920)

SHOW CREATE TABLE for a view could fail if the client had locked the view. (Bug#14726)

For binary string data types, mysqldump --hex-blob produced an illegal output value of 0x rather than ''. (Bug#13318)

Some comparisons for the IN() operator were inconsistent with equivalent comparisons for the = operator. (Bug#12612)

In a stored procedure, continuing (via a condition handler) after a failed variable initialization caused a server crash. (Bug#14643)

Within a stored procedure, exception handling for UPDATE statements that caused a duplicate-key error caused a Packets out of order error for the following statement. (Bug#13729)

Creating a table containing an ENUM or SET column from within a stored procedure or prepared statement caused a server crash later when executing the procedure or statement. (Bug#14410)

Selecting from a view used filesort retrieval when faster retrieval was possible. (Bug#14816)

Warnings from a previous command were not being reset when fetching from a cursor. (Bug#13524)

RESET MASTER failed to delete log files on Windows. (Bug#13377)

Using ORDER BY on a column from a view, when also selecting the column normally, and via an alias, caused a mistaken Column 'x' in order clause is ambiguous error. (Bug#14662)

Invoking a stored procedure within another stored procedure caused the server to crash. (Bug#13549)

Stored functions making use of cursors were not replicated. (Bug#14077)

CAST(expr AS BINARY(N)) did not pad with 0x00 to a length of N bytes. (Bug#14255)

Casting a FLOAT or DOUBLE whose value was less than 1.0E-06 to DECIMAL would yield an inappropriate value. (Bug#14268)

In some cases, a left outer join could yield an invalid result or cause the server to crash, due to a MYSQL_DATA_TRUNCATED error. (Bug#13488)

For a invalid view definition, selecting from the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS table or using SHOW CREATE VIEW failed, making it difficult to determine what part of the definition was invalid. Now the server returns the definition and issues a warning. (Bug#13818)

The server could misinterpret old trigger definition files created before MySQL 5.0.17. Now they are interpreted correctly, but this takes more time and the server issues a warning that the trigger should be re-created. (Bug#14090)

mysqldump --triggers did not account for the SQL mode and could dump trigger definitions with missing whitespace if the IGNORE_SPACE mode was enabled. (Bug#14554)

Within a trigger definition the CURRENT_USER() function evaluated to the user whose actions caused the trigger to be activated. Now that triggers have a DEFINER value, CURRENT_USER() evaluates to the trigger definer. (Bug#5861)

CREATE TABLE tbl_name (...) SELECT ... could crash the server and write invalid data into the .frm file if the CREATE TABLE and SELECT both contained a column with the same name. Also, if a default value is specified in the column definition, it is now actually used. (Bug#14480)

A newline character in a column alias in a view definition caused an error when selecting from the view later. (Bug#13622)

mysql_fix_privilege_tables.sql contained an erroneous comment that resulted in an error when the file contents were processed. (Bug#14469)

On Windows, the server could crash during shutdown if both replication threads and normal client connection threads were active. (Re-fix of Bug#11796)

The grammar for supporting the DEFINER = CURRENT_USER clause in CREATE VIEW and ALTER VIEW was incorrect. (Bug#14719)

Queries on ARCHIVE tables that used the filesort sorting method could result in a server crash. (Bug#14433)

The mysql_stmt_fetch() C APP function could return MYSQL_NO_DATA for a SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tbl_name WHERE 1 = 0 statement, which should return 1 row. (Bug#14845)

A LIMIT-related optimization failed to take into account that MyISAM table indexes can be disabled, causing Error 124 when it tried to use such an index. (Bug#14616)

A server crash resulted from the following sequence of events: 1) With no default database selected, create a stored procedure with the procedure name explicitly qualified with a database name (CREATE PROCEDURE db_name.proc_name ...). 2) Create another stored procedure with no database name qualifier. 3) Execute SHOW PROCEDURE STATUS. (Bug#14569)

Complex subqueries could cause improper internal query execution environment initialization and crash the server. (Bug#14342)

For a table that had been opened with HANDLER OPEN, issuing OPTIMIZE TABLE, ALTER TABLE, or REPAIR TABLE caused a server crash. (Bug#14397)

A server crash could occur if a prepared statement invoked a stored procedure that existed when the statement was prepared but had been dropped and re-created prior to statement execution. (Bug#12329)

A server crash could occur if a prepared statement updated a table for which a trigger existed when the statement was prepared but had been dropped prior to statement execution. (Bug#13399)

Statements that implicitly commit a transaction are prohibited in stored functions and triggers. An attempt to create a function or trigger containing such a statement produces an error. (Bug#13627) (The originally reported symptom was that a trigger that dropped another trigger could cause a server crash. That problem was fixed by the patch for Bug#13343.)

When trying to run the server with yaSSL enabled, MySQL now tries to open /dev/random automatically if /dev/urandom is not available. (Bug#13164)

The read_only system variable no longer applies to TEMPORARY tables. (Bug#4544)

Due to changes in binary logging, the restrictions on which stored routine creators can be trusted not to create unsafe routines have been lifted for stored procedures (but not stored functions). Consequently, the log_bin_trust_routine_creators system variable and the corresponding --log-bin-trust-routine-creators server option were renamed to log_bin_trust_function_creators and --log-bin-trust-function-creators. For backward compatibility, the old names are recognized but result in a warning. See Section聽17.4, 鈥淏inary Logging of Stored Routines and Triggers鈥�.

Added the Compression status variable, which indicates whether the client connection uses compression in the client/server protocol.

In MySQL 5.0.13, syntax for DEFINER and SQL SECURITY clauses was added to the CREATE VIEW and ALTER VIEW statements, but the clauses had no effect. They now are enabled. They specify the security context to be used when checking access privileges at view invocation time. See Section聽19.2, 鈥�CREATE VIEW Syntax鈥�, for more information.

The InnoDB, NDB, BDB, and ARCHIVE storage engines now support spatial columns. See Chapter聽16, Spatial Extensions.

The CHECK TABLE statement now works for ARCHIVE tables.

You must now declare a prefix for an index on any column of any Geometry class, the only exception being when the column is a POINT. (Bug#12267)

Added a --hexdump option to mysqlbinlog that displays a hex dump of the log in comments. This output can be helpful for replication debugging.

MySQL 5.0 now supports character set conversion for seven additional cp950 characters into the big5 character set: 0xF9D6, 0xF9D7, 0xF9D8, 0xF9D9, 0xF9DA, 0xF9DB, and 0xF9DC. Note: If you move data containing these additional characters to an older MySQL installation which does not support them, you may encounter errors. (Bug#12476)

When a date column is set NOT NULL and contains 0000-00-00, it will be updated for UPDATE statements that contains columnname IS NULL in the WHERE clause. (Bug#14186)

When the DATE_FORMAT() function appeared in both the SELECT and ORDER BY clauses of a query but with arguments that differ by case (i.e. %m and %M), incorrect sorting may have occurred. (Bug#14016)

For InnoDB tables, using a column prefix for a utf8 column in a primary key caused Cannot find record errors when attempting to locate records. (Bug#14056)

NDB Cluster: A memory leak occurred when performing ordered index scans using indexes a columns larger than 32 bytes, which would eventually lead to the forced shutdown of all mysqld server processes used with the cluster. (Bug#13078)

InnoDB: Large innobase_buffer_pool_size and innobase_log_file_size values were displayed incorrectly on 64-bit systems. (Bug#12701)

InnoDB: When dropping and adding a PRIMARY KEY, if a loose index scan using only the second part of multiple-part index was chosen, incorrect keys were created and an endless loop resulted. (Bug#13293)

NDB Cluster: Repeated transactions using unique index lookups could cause a memory leak leading to error 288, Out of index operations in transaction coordinator. (Bug#14199)

Selecting from a table in both an outer query and a subquery could cause a server crash. (Bug#14482)

SHOW CREATE TABLE did not display the CONNECTION string for FEDERATED tables. (Bug#13724)

For some stored functions dumped by mysqldump --routines, the function definition could not be reloaded later due to a parsing error. (Bug#14723)

For a MyISAM table originally created in MySQL 4.1, INSERT DELAYED could cause a server crash. (Bug#13707)

The --exit-info=65536 option conflicted with --temp-pool and caused problems with the server's use of temporary files. Now --temp-pool is ignored if --exit-info=65536 is specified. (Bug#9551)

ORDER BY DESC within the GROUP_CONCAT() function was not honored when used in a view. (Bug#14466)

A comparison with an invalid date (such as WHERE col_name > '2005-09-31') caused any index on col_name not to be used and a string comparison for each row, resulting in slow performance. (Bug#14093)

Within stored routines, REPLACE() could return an empty string (rather than the original string) when no replacement was done, and IFNULL() could return garbage results. (Bug#13941)

Inserts of too-large DECIMAL values were handled inconsistently (sometimes set to the maximum DECIMAL value, sometimes set to 0). (Bug#13573)

Executing REPAIR TABLE, ANALYZE TABLE, or OPTIMIZE TABLE on a view for which an underlying table had been dropped caused a server crash. (Bug#14540)

A prepared statement that selected from a view processed using the merge algorithm could crash on the second execution. (Bug#14026)

Deletes from a CSV table could cause table corruption. (Bug#14672)

An update of a CSV table could cause a server crash. (Bug#13894)

For queries with nested outer joins, the optimizer could choose join orders that query execution could not handle. The fix is that now the optimizer avoids choosing such join orders. (Bug#13126)

Starting mysqld with the --skip-innodb and --default-storage-engine=innodb (or --default-table-type=innodb caused a server crash. (Bug#9815, re-fix of bug from 5.0.5)

mysqlmanager did not start up correctly on Windows 2003. (Bug#14537)

The parser did not correctly recognize wildcards in the host part of the DEFINER user in CREATE VIEW statements. (Bug#14256)

Memory corruption and a server crash could be caused by statements that used a cursor and generated a result set larger than max_heap_table_size. (Bug#14210)

mysqld_safe did not correctly start the -max version of the server (if it was present) if the --ledir option was given. (Bug#13774)

The mysql parser did not properly strip the delimiter from input lines less than nine characters long. For example, this could cause USE abc; to result in an Unknown database: abc; error. (Bug#14358)

Statements of the form CREATE TABLE ... SELECT ... that created a column with a multi-byte character set could incorrectly calculate the maximum length of the column, resulting in a Specified key was too long error. (Bug#14139)

Some updatable views could not be updated. (Bug#14027)

Running OPTIMIZE TABLE and other data-updating statements concurrently on an InnoDB table could cause a crash or the following warnings in the error log: Warning: Found locks from different threads in write: enter write_lock, Warning: Found locks from different threads in write: start of release lock. (Bug#11704)

Indexes for BDB tables were being limited incorrectly to 255 bytes. (Bug#14381)

Use of col_name = VALUES(col_name) in the ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE clause of an INSERT statement failed with an Column 'col_name' in field list is ambiguous error. (Bug#13392)

On Windows, the server was not ignoring hidden or system directories that Windows may have created in the data directory, and would treat them as available databases. (Bug#4375)

mysqldump could not dump views if the -x option was given. (Bug#12838)

mysqlimport now issues a SET @@character_set_database = binary statement before loading data so that a file containing mixed character sets (columns with different character sets) can be loaded properly. (Bug#12123)

Use of the deprecated --sql-bin-update-same option caused a server crash. (Bug#12974)

Maximum values were handled incorrectly for command-line options of type GET_LL. (Bug#12925)

For a user that has the SELECT privilege on a view, the server erroneously was also requiring the user to have the EXECUTE privilege at view execution time for stored functions used in the view definition. (Bug#9505)

Use of WITH ROLLUP PROCEDURE ANALYSE() could hang the server. (Bug#14138)

TIMEDIFF(), ADDTIME(), and STR_TO_DATE() were not reporting that they could return NULL, so functions that invoked them might misinterpret their results. (Bug#14009)

The example configuration files supplied with MySQL distributions listed the thread_cache_size variable as thread_cache. (Bug#13811)

Using ALTER TABLE to add an index could fail if the operation ran out of temporary file space. Now it automatically makes a second attempt that uses a slower method but no temporary file. In this case, problems that occurred during the first attempt can be displayed with SHOW WARNINGS. (Bug#12166)

The input polling loop for Instance Manager did not sleep properly. Instance Manager used up too much CPU as a result. (Bug#14388)

Trying to take the logarithm of a negative value is now handled in the same fashion as division by zero. That is, it produces a warning when ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO is set, and an error in strict mode. (Bug#13820)

LOAD DATA INFILE would not accept the same character for both the ESCAPED BY and the ENCLOSED BY clauses. (Bug#11203)

The value of Last_query_cost was not updated for queries served from the query cache. (Bug#10303)

TIMESTAMPDIFF() returned an incorrect result if one argument but not the other was a leap year and a date was from March or later. (Bug#13534)

The server incorrectly accepted column definitions of the form DECIMAL(0,D) for D less than 11. (Bug#13667)

The displayed value for the CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH column in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS table was not adjusted for multi-byte character sets. (Bug#14290)

A bugfix in MySQL 5.0.15 caused the displayed values for the CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH and CHARACTER_OCTET_LENGTH columns in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS table to be reversed. (Bug#14207)

On Windows, the value of character_sets_dir in SHOW VARIABLES output was displayed inconsistently (using both 鈥�/鈥� and 鈥�\鈥� as pathname component separators). (Bug#14137)

Subqueries in the FROM clause failed if the current database was INFORMATION_SCHEMA. (Bug#14089)

Corrected a parser precedence problem that resulted in an Unknown column ... in 'on clause' error for some joins. (Bug#13832)

For LIKE ... ESCAPE, an escape sequence longer than one character was accepted as valid. Now the sequence must be empty or one character long. If the NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES SQL mode is enabled, the sequence must be one character long. (Bug#12595)

SELECT DISTINCT CHAR(col_name) returned incorrect results after SET NAMES utf8. (Bug#13233)

A prepared statement failed with Illegal mix of collations if the client character set was utf8 and the statement used a table that had a character set of latin1. (Bug#12371)

Inserting a new row into an InnoDB table could cause DATETIME values already stored in the table to change. (Bug#13900)

The default value of query_prealloc_size was set to 8192, lower than its minimum of 16384. The minimum has been lowered to 8192. (Bug#13334)

The server did not take character set into account in checking the width of the mysql.user.Password column. As a result, it could incorrectly generate long password hashes even if the column was not long enough to hold them. (Bug#13064)

Inserting cp932 strings into a VARCHAR column caused a server crash rather than string truncation if the string was longer than the column definition. (Bug#12547)

Two threads that were creating triggers on an InnoDB table at the same time could deadlock. (Bug#12739)

mysqladmin and mysqldump would hang on SCO OpenServer. (Bug#13238)

Where one stored procedure called another stored procedure: If the second stored procedure generated an exception, the exception was not caught by the calling stored procedure. For example, if stored procedure A used an EXIT statement to handle an exception, subsequent statements in A would be executed regardless when A was called by another stored procedure B, even if an exception that should have been handled by the EXIT was generated in A. (Bug#7049)

Trying to create a stored routine with no database selected would crash the server. (Bug#13514, Bug#13587)

Specifying --default-character-set=cp-932 for mysqld would cause SQL scripts containing comments written using that character set to fail with a syntax error. (Bug#13487)

Trying to compile the server using the --without-geometry option caused the build to fail. (Bug#12991)

Warning: Incompatible change. For BINARY columns, the pad value and how it is handled has changed. The pad value for inserts now is 0x00 rather than space, and there is no stripping of the pad value for selects. For details, see Section聽11.4.2, 鈥淭he BINARY and VARBINARY Types鈥�.

Warning: Incompatible change. The CHAR() function now returns a binary string rather than a string in the connection character set. An optional USING charset clause may be used to produce a result in a specific character set instead. Also, arguments larger than 256 produce multiple characters. They are no longer interpreted modulo 256 to produce a single character each. These changes may cause some incompatibilities, as noted in Section聽2.4.16.2, 鈥淯pgrading from MySQL 4.1 to 5.0鈥�.

NDB Cluster: The perror utility included with the MySQL-Server RPM now provides support for the --ndb option, and so can be used to obtain error message text for MySQL Cluster error codes. (Bug#13740)

NDB Cluster: The ndb_mgm client now reports node startup phases automatically. (Bug#16197)

When executing single-table UPDATE or DELETE queries containing an ORDER BY ... LIMIT N clause, but not having any WHERE clause, MySQL can now take advantage of an index to read the first N rows in the ordering specified in the query. If an index is used, only the first N records will be read, as opposed to scanning the entire table. (Bug#12915)

The MySQL-server RPM now explicitly assigns the mysql system user to the mysql user group during the postinstallation process. This corrects an issue with upgrading the server on some Linux distributions whereby a previously existing mysql user was not changed to the mysql group, resulting in wrong groups for files created following the installation. (Bug#12823)

Added the --tz-utc option to mysqldump. This option adds SET TIME_ZONE='+00:00' to the dump file so that TIMESTAMP columns can be dumped and reloaded between servers in different time zones and protected from changes due to daylight saving time. (Bug#13052)

When declaring a local variable (or parameter) named password or name, and setting it with SET (for example, SET password = ''), the new error message ERROR 42000: Variable 'nnn' must be quoted with `...`, or renamed is returned (where 'nnn' is 'password' or 'names'). This means there is a syntax conflict with special sentences like SET PASSWORD = PASSWORD(...) (for setting a user's password) and set names default (for setting charset and collation).

This must be resolved either by quoting the variable name: SET `password` = ..., which will set the local variable `password`, or by renaming the variable to something else (if setting the user's password is the desired effect).

The following statements now cause an implicit COMMIT:

(Bug#13343)

NDBCluster: A number of new or improved error messages have been implemented in this release in order to provide better and more accurate diagnostic information regarding cluster configuration issues and problems. (Bug#11739, Bug#11749, Bug#12044, Bug#12786, Bug#13197)

NDBCluster: A new 鈥�smart鈥� node allocation algorithm means that it is no longer necessary to use sequential IDs for cluster nodes, and that nodes not explicitly assigned IDs should now have IDs allocated automatically in most cases. In practical terms, this means that it is now possible to assign a set of node IDs such as 1, 2, 4, 5 without an error being generated due to the missing 3. (Bug#13009)

Issuing STOP SLAVE after having acquired a global read lock with FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK caused a deadlock. Now STOP SLAVE is generates an error in such circumstances. (Bug#10942)

An expression in an ORDER BY clause failed with Unknown column 'col_name' in 'order clause' if the expression referred to a column alias. (Bug#11694)

mysqldump could not dump views. (Bug#14061)

Using an undefined variable in an IF or SET clause inside a stored routine produced an incorrect unknown column ... in 'order clause' error message. (Bug#13037)

Trying to create a view dynamically using a prepared statement within a stored procedure failed with error 1295. (Bug#13095)

mysqldump --triggers did not quote identifiers properly if the --compatible option was given, so the dump output could not be reloaded. (Bug#13146)

Character set conversion was not being done for FIND_IN_SET(). (Bug#13751)

CAST(1E+300 TO SIGNED INT) produced an incorrect result on little-endian machines. (Bug#13344)

Corrected a memory-copying problem for big5 values when using icc compiler on Linux IA-64 systems. (Bug#10836)

On BSD systems, the system crypt() call could return an error for some salt values. The error was not handled, resulting in a server crash. (Bug#13619)

Character set file parsing during mysql_real_connect() read past the end of a memory buffer. (Bug#6413)

InnoDB: Queries that were executed using an index_merge union or intersection could produce incorrect results if the underlying table used the InnoDB storage engine and had a primary key containing VARCHAR members. (Bug#13484)

CREATE DEFINER=... VIEW ... caused the server to crash when run with --skip-grant-tables. (Bug#13504)

The --interactive-timeout and --slave-net-timeout options for mysqld were not being obeyed on Mac OS X and other BSD-based platforms. (Bug#8731)

Queries of the form (SELECT ...) ORDER BY ... were being treated as a UNION. This improperly resulted in only distinct values being returned (because UNION by default eliminates duplicate results). Also, references to column aliases in ORDER BY clauses following parenthesized SELECT statements were not resolved properly. (Bug#7672)

If special characters such as '_' , '%', or the escape character were included within the prefix of a column index, LIKE pattern matching on the indexed column did not return the correct result. (Bug#13046, Bug#13919)

An UPDATE query using a join would be executed incorrectly on a replication slave. (Bug#12618)

Server crashed during a SELECT statement, writing a message like this to the error log:

InnoDB: Error: MySQL is trying to perform a SELECT
InnoDB: but it has not locked any tables in ::external_lock()!

(Bug#12736)

NDBCluster: ndb_mgmd would allow a node to be stopped or restarted while another node was still starting up, which could crash the cluster. It should now not be possible to issue a node stop or restart while a different node is still restarting, and the cluster management client issues an error if an attempt is made to do so. (Bug#13461)

NDBCluster: Placing multiple [TCP DEFAULT] sections in the cluster config.ini file crashed ndb_mgmd. (The ndb_mgmd process now exits gracefully with an appropriate error message instead.) (Bug#13611)

NDBCluster: Trying to run ndbd as system root when connecting to a mysqld process running as the mysql system user via SHM caused the ndbd process to crash. (ndbd should now exit gracefully with an appropriate error message instead.) (Bug#9249)

Server may over-allocate memory when performing a FULLTEXT search for stopwords only. (Bug#13582)

Queries that use indexes in normal SELECT statements may cause range scans in VIEWs. (Bug#13327)

When calling a stored procedure with the syntax CALL schema.procedurename and no default schema selected, ERROR 1046 was displayed after the procedure returned. (Bug#13616)

With --log-slave-updates Exec_master_log_pos of SQL thread lagged IO (Bug#13023)

SHOW CREATE TABLE did not display any FOREIGN KEY clauses if a temporary file could not be created. Now SHOW CREATE TABLE displays an error message in an SQL comment if this occurs. (Bug#13002)

A column in the ON condition of a join that referenced a table in a nested join could not be resolved if the nested join was a right join. (Bug#13597)

A qualified reference to a view column in the HAVING clause could not be resolved. (Bug#13410)

comp_err did not detect when multiple error messages for a language were given for an error symbol. (Bug#13071)

For XA transaction IDs (gtrid.bqual.formatID), uniqueness is supposed to be assessed based on gtrid and bqual. MySQL was also including formatID in the uniqueness check. (Bug#13143)

Local (non-XA) and XA transactions are supposed to be mutually exclusive within a given client connection, but this prohibition was not always enforced. (Bug#12935)

mysqlcheck --all-databases --analyze --optimize failed because it also tried to analyze and optimize the INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables which it can't. (Bug#13783)

SELECT * INTO OUTFILE ... FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.schemata failed with an Access denied error. (Bug#13202)

A table or view named 脟 (C-cedilla) couldn't be dropped. (Bug#13145)

Tests containing SHOW TABLE STATUS or INFORMATION_SCHEMA failed on opnsrv6c. (Bug, #14064, Bug#14065)

The limit of 255 characters on the input buffer for mysql on Windows has been lifted. The exact limit depends on what the system allows, but can be up to 64K characters. A typical limit is 16K characters. (Bug#12929)

Re-enabled the --delayed-inserts option for mysqldump, which now checks for each table dumped whether its storage engine supports DELAYED inserts. (Bug#7815)

Added the myisam_stats_method, which controls whether NULL values in indexes are considered the same or different when collecting statistics for MyISAM tables. This influences the query optimizer as described in Section聽7.4.7, 鈥�MyISAM Index Statistics Collection鈥�. (Bug#12232)

When an InnoDB foreign key constraint is violated, the error message now indicates which table, column, and constraint names are involved. (Bug#3443)

Configure-time checking for the availability of multi-byte macros and functions in the bundled readline library. This improves handling of multi-byte character sets in the mysql client. (Bug#3982)

The CHAR() function now takes into account the character set and collation given by the character_set_connection and collation_connection system variables. For an argument n to CHAR(), the result is n mod 256 for single-byte character sets. For multi-byte character sets, n must be a valid code point in the character set. Also, the result string from CHAR() is checked for well-formedness. For invalid arguments, or a result that is not well-formed, MySQL generates a warning (or, in strict SQL mode, an error). (Bug#10504)

RENAME TABLE now works for views as well, as long as you do not try to rename a view into a different database. (Bug#5508)

Multiple-table UPDATE and DELETE statements that do not affect any rows are now written to the binary log and will replicate. (Bug#13348, Bug#12844)

Range scans can now be performed for queries on VIEWs such as column IN (<constants>) and column BETWEEN ConstantA AND ConstantB. (Bug#13317)

Certain joins using Range checked for each record in the query execution plan could cause the server to crash. (Bug#24776)

NDBCluster: A trigger updating the value of an AUTO_INCREMENT column in a Cluster table would insert an error code rather than the expected value into the column. (Bug#13961)

NDBCluster: When performing a delete of a great many (tens of thousands of) rows at once from a Cluster table, an improperly dereferenced pointer could cause the mysqld process to crash. (Bug#9282)

CHECKSUM TABLE locked InnoDB tables and did not use a consistent read. (Bug#12669)

The --skip-innodb-doublewrite option disables use of the InnoDB doublewrite buffer. However, having this option in effect when creating a new MySQL installation prevented the buffer from even being created, resulting in a server crash later. (Bug#13367)

MySQL programs in binary distributions for Solaris 8/9/10 x86 systems would not run on Pentium III machines. (Bug#6772)

When SELECT ... FOR UPDATE or SELECT ... LOCK IN SHARE MODE for an InnoDB table were executed from within a stored function or a trigger, they were converted to a non-locking consistent read. (Bug#11238)

NDB Cluster: If ndb_restore could not find a free mysqld process, it crashed. (Bug#13512)

NDB Cluster: Receipt of several enter single user mode commands by multiple ndb_mgmd processes within a short period of time resulted in cluster shutdown. (Bug#13053)

NDB Cluster: Multiple ndb_mgmd processes in a cluster would not know each other's IP addresses. (Bug#12037)

NDB Cluster: With two mgmd processes in a cluster, ndb_mgmd output for SHOW would display the same IP address for both processes, even when they were on different hosts. (Bug#11595)

NDB Cluster: Queries on NDB tables that are executed using index_merge/union or index_merge/intersection could produce incorrect results. (Bug#13081)

The --replicate-rewrite-db and --replicate-do-table options did not work for statements in which tables were aliased to names other than those listed by the options. (Bug#11139)

After running configure with the --with-embedded-privilege-control option, the embedded server failed to build. (Bug#13501)

Nested handlers within stored procedures didn't work. (Bug#6127)

The optimizer chose a less efficient execution plan for col_name BETWEEN const AND const than for col_name = const, even though the two expressions are logically equivalent. Now the optimizer can use the ref access method for both expressions. (Bug#13455)

Incorrect creation of DECIMAL local variables in a stored procedure could cause a server crash. (Bug#12589)

Queries against a MERGE table that has a composite index could produce incorrect results. (Bug#9112)

The server was not rejecting FLOAT(M,D) or DOUBLE(M,D) columns specifications when M was less than D. (Bug#12694)

After running configure with the --without-server option, the distribution failed to build. (Bug#11680, Bug#13550)

Joins nested under NATURAL or USING joins were sometimes not initialized properly, causing a server crash. (Bug#13545)

Locking a view with the query cache enabled and query_cache_wlock_invalidate enabled could cause a server crash. (Bug#13424)

A HAVING clause that references an unqualified view column name could crash the server. (Bug#13411)

Comparisons involving row constructors containing constants could cause a server crash. (Bug#13356)

NDB Cluster: LOAD DATA INFILE with a large data file failed. (Bug#10694)

NDB Cluster: Adding an index to a table with a large number of columns (more then 100) crashed the storage node. (Bug#13316)

Calling the FORMAT() function with a DECIMAL column value caused a server crash when the value was NULL. (Bug#13361)

Aggregate functions sometimes incorrectly were allowed in the WHERE clause of UPDATE and DELETE statements. (Bug#13180)

It was possible to create a view that executed a stored function for which you did not have the EXECUTE privilege. (Bug#12812)

BIT columns and following columns in NDB tables were corrupt when dumped by mysqldump. (Bug#13152)

NATURAL joins and joins with USING against a view could return NULL rather than the correct value. (Bug#13127)

Use of a user-defined function within the HAVING clause of a query resulted in an Unknown column error. (Bug#11553)

For queries for which the optimizer determined a join type of 鈥�Range checked for each record鈥� (as shown by EXPLAIN, the query sometimes could cause a server crash, depending on the data distribution. (Bug#12291)

For queries with DISTINCT and WITH ROLLUP, the DISTINCT should be applied after the rollup operation, but was not always. (Bug#12887)

The server crashed when processing a view that invoked the CONVERT_TZ() function. (Bug#11416)

Shared-memory connections were not working on Windows. (Bug#12723)

The syntax for CREATE VIEW and ALTER VIEW statements now includes DEFINER and SQL SECURITY clauses for specifying the security context to be used when checking access privileges at view invocation time. (The syntax is present in 5.0.13, but these clauses have no effect until 5.0.16.) See Section聽19.2, 鈥�CREATE VIEW Syntax鈥�, for more information.

The --hex-dump option for mysqldump now also applies to BIT columns.

Added a --routines option for mysqldump that enables dumping of stored routines. (Bug#9056)

The connection string for FEDERATED tables now is specified using a CONNECTION table option rather than a COMMENT table option.

Better detection of connection timeout for replication servers on Windows allows elimination of extraneous Lost connection errors in the error log. (Bug#5588)

The counters for the Key_read_requests, Key_reads, Key_write_requests, and Key_writes status variables were changed from unsigned long to unsigned longlong to accommodate larger values before the variables roll over and restart from 0. (Bug#12920)

The restriction on the use of PREPARE, EXECUTE, and DEALLOCATE PREPARE within stored procedures was lifted. The restriction still applies to stored functions and triggers. (Bug#10975, Bug#7115, Bug#10605)

A new command line argument was added to mysqld to ignore client character set information sent during handshake, and use server side settings instead, to reproduce 4.0 behavior (Bug#9948):

mysqld --skip-character-set-client-handshake

OPTIMIZE TABLE and HANDLER now are prohibited in stored procedures and functions and in triggers. (Bug#12953, Bug#12995)

InnoDB: The TRUNCATE TABLE statement for InnoDB tables always resets the counter for an AUTO_INCREMENT column now, regardless of whether there is a foreign key constraint on the table. (Beginning with 5.0.3, TRUNCATE TABLE reset the counter, but only if there was no such constraint.) (Bug#11946)

The LEAST() and GREATEST() functions used to return NULL only if all arguments were NULL. Now they return NULL if any argument is NULL, the same as Oracle. (Bug#12791)

Two new collations have been added for Esperanto: utf8_esperanto_ci and ucs2_esperanto_ci.

Reorder network startup to come after all other initialization, particularly storage engine startup which can take a long time. This also prevents MySQL from being run on a privileged port (any port under 1024) unless run as the root user. (Bug#11707)

The Windows binary packages are now compiled with the Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 compiler instead of Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0.

The binaries compiled with the Intel icc compiler are now built using icc 9.0 instead of icc 8.1. You will have to install new versions of the Intel icc runtime libraries, which are available from here: ( http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/os-linux.html)

RAND() no longer allows non-constant initializers. (Prior to MySQL 5.0.13, the effect of non-constant initializers is undefined.) (Bug#6172)

Incompatible change: A lock wait timeout caused InnoDB to roll back the entire current transaction. Now it rolls back only the most recent SQL statement. (Bug#12308)

The FEDERATED storage engine does not support ALTER TABLE, but no appropriate error message was issued. (Bug#13108)

mysqldump did not dump triggers properly. (Bug#12597)

NDBCluster: The average row size for Cluster tables was being calculated incorrectly. This affected the values shown for the Data_length and Avg_row_length columns in the output generated by SHOW TABLE STATUS as well as the values for the data_length and data_length/table_rows columns shown in the TABLES table of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database with respect to Cluster tables (tables using other storage engines were not affected by this bug). (Bug#9896)

Within a stored procedure, fetching a large number of rows in a loop using a cursor could result in a server crash or an out of memory error. Also, values inserted within a stored procedure using a cursor were interpreted as latin1 even if character set variables had been set to a different character set. (Bug#6513, Bug#9819)

For a server compiled with yaSSL, clients that used MySQL Connector/J were not able to establish SSH connections. (Bug#13029)

When used in view definitions, DAYNAME(expr), DAYOFWEEK(expr), WEEKDAY(expr) were incorrectly treated as though the expression was TO_DAYS(expr) or TO_DAYS(TO_DAYS(expr)). (Bug#13000)

Incorrect implicit nesting of joins caused the parser to fail on queries of the form SELECT ... FROM t1 JOIN t2 JOIN t3 ON t1.t1col = t3.t3col with an Unknown column 't1.t1col' in 'on clause' error. (Bug#12943)

NDB: A cluster shutdown following the crash of a data node would fail to terminate the remaining node processes, even though ndb_mgm showed the shutdown request as having been completed. (Bug#10938, Bug#9996, Bug#11623)

A column that can be NULL was not handled properly for WITH ROLLUP in a subquery or view. (Bug#12885)

Within a transaction, the following statements now cause an implicit commit: CREATE FUNCTION, DROP FUNCTION, DROP PROCEDURE, ALTER FUNCTION, ALTER PROCEDURE, CREATE PROCEDURE. This corrects a problem where these statements followed by ROLLBACK might not be replicated properly. (Bug#12870)

Simultaneous execution of DML statements and CREATE TRIGGER or DROP TRIGGER statements on the same table could cause server crashes or errors. (Bug#12704)

If a stored function invoked from a SELECT failed with an error, it could cause the client connection to be dropped. Now such errors generate warnings instead so as not to interrupt the SELECT. (Bug#12379)

A concurrency problem for CREATE ... SELECT could cause a server crash. (Bug#12845)

The server incorrectly generated an Unknown table error message when for attempts to drop tables in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database. Now it issues an Access denied message. (Bug#9846)

The server allowed privileges to be granted explicitly for the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database. Such privileges are always implicit and should not be grantable. (Bug#10734)

The server allowed TEMPORARY tables and stored procedures to be created in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database. (Bug#9683, Bug#10708)

The server failed to disallow SET AUTOCOMMIT in stored functions and triggers. It is allowed to change the value of AUTOCOMMIT in stored procedures, but a runtime error might occur if the procedure is invoked from a stored function or trigger. (Bug#12712)

Using an INOUT parameter with a DECIMAL data type in a stored procedure caused a server crash. (Bug#12979)

Performing an IS NULL check on the MIN() or MAX() of an indexed column in a complex query could produce incorrect results. (Bug#12695)

The mysql.server script contained incorrect path for the libexec directory. (Bug#12550)

The NDB START BACKUP command could be interrupted by a SHOW command. (Bug#13054)

The LIKE ... ESCAPE syntax produced invalid results when escape character was larger than one byte. (Bug#12611)

A client connection thread cleanup problem caused the server to crash when closing the connection if the binary log was enabled. (Bug#12517)

Using AS to rename a column selected from a view in a subquery made it not possible to refer to that column in the outer query. (Bug#12993)

The character_set_system system variable could not be selected with SELECT @@character_set_system. (Bug#11775)

A view-creation statement of the form CREATE VIEW name AS SELECT ... FROM tbl_name AS name failed with a Not unique table/alias: 'name' error. (Bug#6808)

UNION [DISTINCT] was not removing all duplicates for multi-byte character values. (Bug#12891)

Multiplying a DECIMAL value within a loop in a stored routine could incorrectly result in a value of NULL. (Bug#12938)

mysql and mysqldump were ignoring the --defaults-extra-file option. (Bug#12917)

Columns named in the USING() clause of JOIN ... USING() were incorrectly resolved in case-sensitive fashion. (Bug#13067)

Local variables in stored routines were not always initialized correctly. (Bug#13133)

SHOW FIELDS FROM schemaname.viewname caused error 1046 when no default schema was set. (Bug#12905)

The value of character_set_results could be set to NULL, but returned the string "NULL" when retrieved. (Bug#12363)

InnoDB: Limit recursion depth to 200 in deadlock detection to avoid running out of stack space. (Bug#12588)

GROUP_CONCAT() ignored an empty string if it was the first value to occur in the result. (Bug#12863)

Outer join elimination was erroneously applied for some queries that used a NOT BETWEEN condition, an IN(value_list) condition, or an IF() condition. (Bug#12101, Bug#12102)

SHOW FIELDS truncated the TYPE column to 40 characters. (Bug#7142)

Use of PREPARE and EXECUTE with a statement that selected from a view in a subquery could cause a server crash. (Bug#12651)

On HP-UX 11.x (PA-RISC), the -L option caused mysqlimport to crash. (Bug#12958)

If the binary log is enabled, execution of a stored procedure that modifies table data and uses user variables could cause a server crash or incorrect information to be written to the binary log. (Bug#12637)

Queries with subqueries, where the inner subquery uses the range or index_merge access method, could return incorrect results. (Bug#12720)

After changing the character set with SET CHARACTER SET, the result of the GROUP_CONCAT() function was not converted to the proper character set. (Bug#12829)

A bug introduced in MySQL 5.0.12 caused SHOW TABLE STATUS to display an Auto_increment value of 0 for InnoDB tables. (Bug#12973)

Foreign keys were not properly enforced in TEMPORARY tables. Foreign keys now are disallowed in TEMPORARY tables. (Bug#12084)

Replication of LOAD DATA INFILE failed between systems using different pathname syntax (such as delimiter characters). (Bug#11815)

Within a stored procedure, a server crash was caused by assigning to a VARCHAR INOUT parameter the value of an expression that included the variable itself. (For example, SET c = c.) (Bug#12849)

SELECT ... JOIN ... ON ... JOIN ... USING caused a server crash. (Bug#12977)

Using GROUP BY when selecting from a view in some cases could cause incorrect results to be returned. (Bug#12922)

myisampack did not properly pack BLOB values larger than 2²⁴ bytes. (Bug#4214)

Incorrect results could be returned from a view processed using a temporary table. (Bug#12941)

The server crashed when one thread resized the query cache while another thread was using it. (Bug#12848)

mysqld_multi now quotes arguments on command lines that it constructs to avoid problems with arguments that contain shell metacharacters. (Bug#11280)

InnoDB: A consistent read could return inconsistent results due to a bug introduced in MySQL 5.0.5. (Bug#12947)

Deadlock occurred when several account management statements were run (particularly between FLUSH PRIVILEGES/SET PASSWORD and GRANT/REVOKE statements). (Bug#12423)

The Windows installer made a change to one of the mysql.proc table files, causing stored routine functionality to be compromised. The Windows installer now never overwrites files in the MySQL data directory. During an upgrade from one version to another, a file in the data directory will not be overwritten even if it has not been modified since it was put there by an older installer.

If you have already lost access to stored routines because of this problem, you can get them back using the following procedure:

After this, all stored routine functionality should work. (Bug#12820)

On Windows, the server was preventing tables from being created if the table name was a prefix of a forbidden name. For example, nul is a forbidden name because it's the same as a Windows device name, but a table with the name of n or nu was being forbidden as well. (Bug#12325)

InnoDB was too permissive with LOCK TABLE ... READ LOCAL and allowed new inserts into the table. Now READ LOCAL is equivalent to READ for InnoDB. This will cause slightly more locking in mysqldump, but makes InnoDB table dumps consistent with MyISAM table dumps. (Bug#12410)

Use of the mysql client HELP command from within a stored routine caused a 鈥�packets out of order鈥� error and a lost connection. Now HELP is detected and disallowed within stored routines. (Bug#12490)

Use of yaSSL for a secure client connection caused LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE to fail. (Bug#11286)

SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE and SHOW CREATE FUNCTION no longer qualify the routine name with the database name, for consistency with the behavior of SHOW CREATE TABLE. (Bug#10362)

A UNION of long utf8 VARCHAR columns was sometimes returned as a column with a LONGTEXT data type rather than VARCHAR. This could prevent such queries from working at all if selected into a MEMORY table because the MEMORY storage engine does not support the TEXT data types. (Bug#12537)

If a client has opened an InnoDB table for which the .ibd file is missing, InnoDB would not honor a DROP TABLE statement for the table. (Bug#12852)

ALTER TABLE ... DISCARD TABLESPACE for non-InnoDB table caused the client to lose the connection. (The server was not returning the error properly.) (Bug#12207)

DO IFNULL(NULL, NULL) and SELECT CAST(IFNULL(NULL, NULL) AS DECIMAL) caused a server crash. (Bug#12841)

When using a cursor, a SELECT statement that uses a GROUP BY clause could return incorrect results. (Bug#11904)

The SYSDATE() function now returns the time at which it was invoked. In particular, within a stored routine or trigger, SYSDATE() returns the time at which it executes, not the time at which the stored routine or triggering statement began to execute. (Bug#12480)

CREATE VIEW inside a stored procedure caused a server crash if the table underlying the view had been deleted. (Bug#12468)

A memory leak resulting from repeated SELECT ... INTO statements inside a stored procedure could cause the server to crash. (Bug#11333)

Incompatible change: Beginning with MySQL 5.0.12, natural joins and joins with USING, including outer join variants, are processed according to the SQL:2003 standard. The changes include elimination of redundant output columns for NATURAL joins and joins specified with a USING clause and proper ordering of output columns. (Bug#6136, Bug#6276, Bug#6489, Bug#6495, Bug#6558, Bug#9067, Bug#9978, Bug#10428, Bug#10646, Bug#10972.) The precedence of the comma operator also now is lower compared to JOIN. (Bug#4789, Bug#12065, Bug#13551.)

These changes make MySQL more compliant with standard SQL. However, they can result in different output columns for some joins. Also, some queries that appeared to work correctly prior to 5.0.12 must be rewritten to comply with the standard. For details about the scope of the changes and examples that show what query rewrites are necessary, see Section聽13.2.7.1, 鈥�JOIN Syntax鈥�.

Recursive triggers are detected and disallowed. Also, within a stored function or trigger, it is not allowable to modify a table that is already being used (for reading or writing) by the statement that invoked the function or trigger. (Bug#11896, Bug#12644)

SHOW TABLE STATUS for a view now shows VIEW in uppercase, consistent with SHOW TABLES and INFORMATION_SCHEMA. (Bug#5501)

An optimizer estimate of zero rows for a non-empty InnoDB table used in a left or right join could cause incomplete rollback for the table. (Bug#12779)

Calls to stored procedures were written to the binary log even within transactions that were rolled back, causing them to be executed on replication slaves. (Bug#12334)

Interleaved execution of stored procedures and functions could be written to the binary log incorrectly, causing replication slaves to get out of sync. (Bug#12335)

A query of the form SHOW TABLE STATUS FROM db_name WHERE name IN (select_query) would crash the server. (Bug#12636)

Users created using an IP address or other alias rather than a hostname listed in /etc/hosts could not set their own passwords. (Bug#12302)

Using DESCRIBE on a view after renaming a column in one of the view's base tables caused the server to crash. (Bug#12533)

SHOW OPEN TABLES now supports FROM and LIKE clauses. (Bug#12183)

SHOW TABLE STATUS FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA now sorts output by table name the same as it does for other databases. (Bug#12315)

SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS now can display longer query strings. (Bug#7819)

Added the SLEEP() function, which pauses for the number of seconds given by its argument. (Bug#6760)

Trying to drop the default keycache by setting @@global.key_buffer_size to zero now returns a warning that the default keycache cannot be dropped. (Bug#10473)

The stability of cursors when used with InnoDB tables was greatly improved. (Bug#11832, Bug#12243, Bug#11309)

It is no longer possible to issue FLUSH commands from within stored functions or triggers. See Section聽F.1, 鈥淩estrictions on Stored Routines and Triggers鈥�, for details. (Bug#12280, Bug#12307)

INFORMATION_SCHEMA objects are now reported as a SYSTEM VIEW table type. (Bug#11711)

CHECKSUM TABLE command returned incorrect results for tables with deleted rows. After upgrading, users who used stored checksum information to detect table changes should rebuild their checksum data. (Bug#12296)

A data type of CHAR BINARY was not recognized as valid for stored routine parameters. (Bug#9048)

SET GLOBAL TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL was not working. (Bug#11207)

NDB Cluster: Corrected the parsing of the CLUSTERLOG command by ndb_mgm to allow multiple items. (Bug#12833)

NDB Cluster: Improved error messages related to filesystem issues. (Bug#11218)

NDB Cluster: When a schema was detected to be corrupt, ndb neglected to close it, resulting in a 鈥�file already open鈥� error if the schema was opened again later. written. (Bug#12027)

NDB Cluster: When it could not copy a fragment, ndbd exited without printing a message about the condition to the error log. Now the message is written. (Bug#12900)

NDB Cluster: When a disk full condition occurred, ndbd exited without printing a message about the condition to the error log. Now the message is written. (Bug#12716)

mysql_fix_privilege_tables.sql was missing a comma, causing a syntax error when executed. (Bug#12705)

STRCMP() was not handled correctly in views. (Bug#12489)

NDB Cluster: Bad values in config.ini caused ndb_mdmd to crash. (Bug#12043)

TRUNCATE TABLE did not work with TEMPORARY InnoDB tables. (Bug#11816)

Built-in commands for the mysql client, such as delimiter and \d are now always parsed within files that are read using the \. and source commands. (Bug#11523)

ALTER TABLE db_name.t RENAME t did not move the table to default database unless the new name was qualified with the database name. (Bug#11493)

It was not possible to create a stored function with a spatial return value data type. (Bug#10499)

The only valid values for the PACK_KEYS table option are 0 and 1, but other values were being accepted. (Bug#10056)

If a DROP DATABASE fails on a master server due to the presence of a non-database file in the database directory, the master have the database tables deleted, but not the slaves. To deal with failed database drops, we now write DROP TABLE statements to the binary log for the tables so that they are dropped on slaves. (Bug#4680)

Improper use of loose index scan in InnoDB sometimes caused incorrect query results. (Bug#12672)

DELETE or UPDATE for an indexed MyISAM table could fail. This was due to a change in end-space comparison behavior from 4.0 to 4.1. (Bug#12565)

Joins on VARCHAR columns of different lengths could produce incorrect results. (Bug#11398)

A 鈥�Duplicate column name鈥� error no longer occurs when selecting from a view defined as SELECT * from a join that uses a USING clause on tables that have a common column name. (Bug#6558)

Invocations of the SLEEP() function incorrectly could get optimized away for statements in which it occurs. Statements containing SLEEP() incorrectly could be stored in the query cache. (Bug#12689)

NDB Cluster: An ALTER TABLE command caused loss of data stored prior to the issuing of the command. (Bug#12118)

Query cache is switched off if a thread (connection) has tables locked. This prevents invalid results where the locking thread inserts values between a second thread connecting and selecting from the table. (Bug#12385)

NOW(), CURRENT_TIME and values generated by timestamp columns are now constant for the duration of a stored function or trigger. This prevents the breaking of statements-based replication. (Bug#12480, Bug#12481)

Some statements executed on a master server caused the SQL thread on a slave to run out of memory. (Bug#12532)

A SELECT DISTINCT query with a constant value for one of the columns would return only a single row. (Bug#12625)

NDB Cluster: Cluster failed to take character set data into account when recomputing hashes (and thus could not locate records for updating or deletion) following a configuration change and node restart. (Bug#12220)

NDB Cluster: Wrong error message displayed when cluster management server closed port while mysqld was connecting. (Bug#10950)

A view was allowed to depend on a function that referred to a temporary table. (Bug#10970)

Prepared statement parameters could cause errors in the binary log if the character set was cp932. (Bug#11338)

The CREATE_OPTIONS column of INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES showed incorrect options for tables in INFORMATION_SCHEMA. (Bug#12397)

MEMORY tables using B-Tree index on 64-bit platforms could produce false table is full errors. (Bug#12460)

Issuing FLUSH INSTANCES followed by STOP INSTANCE caused instance manager to crash. (Bug#10957)

Duplicate instructions in stored procedures resulted in incorrect execution when the optimizer optimized the duplicate code away. (Bug#12168)

SHOW TABLES FROM returned wrong error message if the schema specified did not exist. (Bug#12591)

The ROW() function returned an incorrect result when comparison involved NULL values. (Bug#12509)

Views with multiple UNION and UNION ALL produced incorrect results. (Bug#10624)

Stored procedures with particularly long loops could crash server due to memory leak. (Bug#12297, Bug#11247)

Trigger and stored procedure execution could break replication. (Bug#12482)

A server crash could result from an update of a view defined as a join, even though the update updated only a single table. (Bug#12569)

On Windows when the --innodb_buffer_pool_awe_mem_mb option has been given, the server detects whether AWE support is available and has been compiled into the server, and displays an appropriate error message if not. (Bug#6581)

The NUMERIC_SCALE column of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS table should be returned as 0 for integer columns. It was being returned as NULL. (Bug#12301)

The COLUMN_DEFAULT column of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS table should be returned as NULL if a column has no default value. An empty string was being returned if the column was defined as NOT NULL. (Bug#12518)

Slave I/O threads were considered to be in the running state when launched (rather than after successfully connecting to the master server), resulting in incorrect SHOW SLAVE STATUS output. (Bug#10780)

Column names in subqueries must be unique, but were not being checked for uniqueness. (Bug#11864)

On Windows, the server could crash during shutdown if both replication threads and normal client connection threads were active. (Bug#11796)

Some subqueries of the form SELECT ... WHERE ROW(...) IN (subquery) were being handled incorrectly. (Bug#11867)

Selecting from a view after INSERT statements for the view's underlying table yielded different results than subsequent selects. (Bug#12382)

The mysql_info() C API function could return incorrect data when executed as part of a multi-statement that included a mix of statements that do and do not return information. (Bug#11688)

When restoring INFORMATION_SCHEMA as the default database after failing to execute a stored procedure in an inaccessible database, the server returned a spurious ERROR 42000: Unknown database 'information_schema' message. (Bug#12318)

Renamed the rest() macro in my_list.h to list_rest() to avoid name clashes with user code. (Bug#12327)

DATE_ADD() and DATE_SUB() were converting invalid dates to NULL in TRADITIONAL SQL mode rather than rejecting them with an error. (Bug#10627)

A trigger that included a SELECT statement could cause a server crash. (Bug#11587)

An incorrect conversion from double to ulonglong caused indexes not to be used for BDB tables on HP-UX. (Bug#10802)

myisampack failed to delete .TMD temporary files when run with -T option. (Bug#12235)

Added portability check for Intel compiler to address a problem compiling InnoDB code. (Bug#11510)

XA allowed two active transactions to be started with the same XID. (Bug#12162)

Concatenating USER() or DATEBASE() with a column produced invalid results. (Bug#12351)

Creating a view that included the TIMESTAMPDIFF() function resulted in a invalid view. (Bug#12298)

Comparison of InnoDB multi-part primary keys that include VARCHAR columns can result in incorrect results. (Bug#12340)

For PKG installs on Mac OS X, the preinstallation and postinstallation scripts were being run only for new installations and not for upgrade installations, resulting in an incomplete installation process. (Bug#11380)

Using cursors and nested queries for the same table, corrupted results were returned for the outer query. (Bug#11909)

User variables were not automatically cast for comparisons, causing queries to fail if the column and connection character sets differed. Now when mixing strings with different character sets but the same coercibility, allow conversion if one character set is a superset of the other. (Bug#10892)

Selecting from a view defined as a join over many tables could result in a server crash due to miscalculation of the number of conditions in the WHERE clause. (Bug#12470)

Pathame values for options such as ---basedir or --datadir didn't work on Japanese Windows machines for directory names containing multi-byte characters having a second byte of 0x5C (鈥�\鈥�). (Bug#5439)

A race condition between server threads could cause a crash if one thread deleted a stored routine while another thread was executing a stored routine. (Bug#12228)

Mishandling of comparison for rows containing NULL values against rows produced by an IN subquery could cause a server crash. (Bug#12392)

Inserting NULL into a GEOMETRY column for a table that has a trigger could result in a server crash if the table was subsequently dropped. (Bug#12281)

A failure to obtain a lock for an IN SHARE MODE query could result in a server crash. (Bug#12082)

SELECT ... INTO var_name within a trigger could cause a server crash. (Bug#11973)

INSERT ... SELECT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE could fail with an erroneous 鈥�Column 'col_name' specified twice鈥� error. (Bug#10109)

SHOW TABLE STATUS sometimes reported a Row_format value of Dynamic for MEMORY tables, though such tables always have a format of Fixed. (Bug#3094)

A query using a LEFT JOIN, an IN subquery on the outer table, and an ORDER BY clause, caused the server to crash when cursors were enabled. (Bug#11901)

Using a stored procedure that referenced tables in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database would return an empty result set. (Bug#10055, Bug#12278)

Columns defined as TINYINT(1) were redefined as TINYINT(4) when incorporated into a VIEW. (Bug#11335)

ISO-8601 formatted dates were not being parsed correctly. (Bug#7308)

FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK combined with LOCK TABLE .. WRITE caused deadlock. (Bug#9459)

NULL column definitions read incorrectly for inner tables of nested outer joins. (Bug#12154)

GROUP_CONCAT ignores the DISTINCT modifier when used in a query joining multiple tables where one of the tables has a single row. (Bug#12095)

UNION query with FULLTEXT could cause server crash. (Bug#11869)

Security improvement: Applied a patch that addresses a potential zlib data vulnerability that could result in an application crash. (CVE-2005-1849) This only affects the binaries for platforms that are linked statically against the bundled zlib (most notably Microsoft Windows and HP-UX).

SHOW CHARACTER SET and INFORMATION_SCHEMA now properly report the Latin1 character set as cp1252. (Bug#11216)

mysqldump now dumps triggers for each dumped table. This can be suppressed with the --skip-triggers option. (Bug#10431)

Added new ER_STACK_OVERRUN_NEED_MORE error message to indicate that, while the stack is not completely full, more stack space is required. (Bug#11213)

NDB: Improved handling of the configuration variables NoOfPagesToDiskDuringRestartACC, NoOfPagesToDiskAfterRestartACC, NoOfPagesToDiskDuringRestartTUP, and NoOfPagesToDiskAfterRestartTUP should result in noticeably faster startup times for MySQL Cluster. (Bug#12149)

Added support of where clause for queries with FROM DUAL. (Bug#11745)

Added an optimization that avoids key access with NULL keys for the ref method when used in outer joins. (Bug#12144)

Maximum size of stored procedures increased from 64k to 4Gb. (Bug#11602)

Added error message for users who attempt CREATE TABLE ... LIKE and specify a non-table in the LIKE clause. (Bug#6859)

DDL statements now are allowed in stored procedures if the procedure is not invoked from a stored function or a trigger. Also fixed problems where a TEMPORARY statement created by one stored routine was inaccessible to another routine invoked during the same connection. (Bug#11126)

Creation of the mysql group account failed during the RPM installation. (Bug#12348)

big5 strings were not being stored in FULLTEXT index. (Bug#12075)

When DROP DATABASE was called concurrently with a DROP TABLE of any table, the MySQL Server crashed. (Bug#12212)

max_connections_per_hour setting was being capped by unrelated max_user_connections setting. (Bug#9947)

SELECT @@local... returned @@session... in the column header. (Bug#10724)

Multiplying ABS() output by a negative number would return incorrect results. (Bug#11402)

Updated dependency list for RPM builds to include missing dependencies such as useradd and groupadd. (Bug#12233)

mysql_install_db used static localhost value in GRANT tables even when server hostname is not localhost, such as localhost.localdomain. This change is applied to version 5.0.10b on Windows. (Bug#11822)

Multiple SELECT SQL_CACHE queries in a stored procedure causes error and client hang. (Bug#6897)

Added checks to prevent error when allocating memory when there was insufficient memory available. (Bug#7003)

Character data truncated when GBK characters 0xA3A0 and 0xA1 are present. (Bug#11987)

Comparisons like SELECT "A\\" LIKE "A\\"; fail when using SET NAMES utf8;. (Bug#11754)

When used in a SELECT query against a view, the GROUP_CONCAT() function returned only a single row. (Bug#11412)

Calling the C API function mysql_stmt_fetch() after all rows of a result set were exhausted would return an error instead of MYSQL_NO_DATA. (Bug#11037)

Information about a trigger was not displayed in the output of SELECT ... FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TRIGGERS when the selected database was INFORMATION_SCHEMA, prior to the trigger's first invocation. (Bug#12127)

Issuing successive FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK would cause the mysql client to hang. (Bug#11934)

In stored procedures, a cursor that fetched an empty string into a variable would set the variable to NULL instead. (Bug#8692)

A trigger dependent on a feature of one SQL_MODE setting would cause an error when invoked after the SQL_MODE was changed. (Bug#5891)

A delayed insert that would duplicate an existing record crashed the server instead. (Bug#12226)

ALTER TABLE when SQL_MODE = 'TRADITIONAL' gave rise to an invalid error message. (Bug#11964)

Attempting to repair a table having a fulltext index on a column containing words whose length exceeded 21 characters and where myisam_repair_threads was greater than 1 would crash the server. (Bug#11684)

The MySQL Cluster backup log was invalid where the number of Cluster nodes was not equal to a power of 2. (Bug#11675)

GROUP_CONCAT() sometimes returned a result with a different collation from that of its arguments. (Bug#10201)

The LPAD() and RPAD() functions returned the wrong length to mysql_fetch_fields(). (Bug#11311)

A UNIQUE VARCHAR column would be mis-identified as MUL in table descriptions. (Bug#11227)

Incorrect error message displayed if user attempted to create a table in a non-existing database using CREATE database_name.table_name syntax. (Bug#10407)

InnoDB: Do not flush after each write, not even before setting up the doublewrite buffer. Flushing can be extremely slow on some systems. (Bug#12125)

InnoDB: True VARCHAR: Return NULL columns in the format expected by MySQL. (Bug#12186)

Two threads could potentially initialize different characters sets and overwrite each other. (Bug#12109)

Unsigned LONG system variables may return incorrect value when retrieved with a SELECT for certain values. (Bug#10351)

Prepared statements were not being written to the Slow Query log. (Bug#9968)

Security improvement: Applied a patch that addresses a zlib data vulnerability that could result in a buffer overflow and code execution. (CVE-2005-2096) (Bug#11844)

Incompatible change: The namespace for triggers has changed. Previously, trigger names had to be unique per table. Now they must be unique within the schema (database). An implication of this change is that DROP TRIGGER syntax now uses a schema name instead of a table name (schema name is optional and, if omitted, the current schema will be used). (Bug#5892)

Note: When upgrading from a previous version of MySQL 5 to MySQL 5.0.10 or newer, you must drop all triggers and re-create them or DROP TRIGGER will not work after the upgrade. A suggested procedure for doing this is given in Section聽2.4.16.2, 鈥淯pgrading from MySQL 4.1 to 5.0鈥�.

The viewing of triggers and trigger metadata has been enhanced as follows:

Triggers can now reference tables by name. See Section聽18.1, 鈥�CREATE TRIGGER Syntax鈥�, for more information.

The output of perror --help now displays the --ndb option. (Bug#11999)

On Windows, the search path used by MySQL applications for my.ini now includes ..\my.ini (that is, the application's parent directory, and hence, the installation directory). (Bug#10419)

Add the --defaults-group-suffix option. See Section聽4.3.2, 鈥淯sing Option Files鈥�.

Added mysql_get_character_set_info() C API function for obtaining information about the default character set of the current connection.

The bundled version of the readline library was upgraded to version 5.0.

It is no longer necessary to issue an explicit LOCK TABLES for any tables accessed by a trigger prior to executing any statements that might invoke the trigger. (Bug#9581, Bug#8406)