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Venkatesh Duggirala authored
OF OLD STYLE DECIMALS Problem: In RBR, Slave is unable to read row buffer properly when the row event contains MYSQL_TYPE_DECIMAL (old style decimals) data type column. Analysis: In RBR, Slave assumes that Master sends meta data information for all column types like text,blob,varchar,old decimal,new decimal,float, and few other types along with row buffer event. But Master is not sending this meta data information for old style decimal columns. Hence Slave is crashing due to unknown precision value for these column types. Master cannot send this precision value to Slave which will break replication cross-version compatibility. Fix: To fix the crash, Slave will now throw error if it receives old-style decimal datatype. User should consider changing the old-style decimal to new style decimal data type by executing "ALTER table modify column" query as mentioned in http://dev.mysql.com/ doc/refman/5.0/en/upgrading-from-previous-series.html.
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