@@ -17586,7 +17586,7 @@ The options work for all table types, if not otherwise indicated:
@multitable @columnfractions .20 .80
@item @code{AUTO_INCREMENT} @tab The next auto_increment value you want to set for your table (MyISAM).
@item @code{AVG_ROW_LENGTH} @tab An approximation of the average row length for your table. You only need to set this for tables with variable size records.
@item @code{AVG_ROW_LENGTH} @tab An approximation of the average row length for your table. You only need to set this for large tables with variable size records.
@item @code{CHECKSUM} @tab Set this to 1 if you want @strong{MySQL} to maintain a checksum for all rows (makes the table a little slower to update but makes it easier to find corrupted tables) (MyISAM).
@item @code{COMMENT} @tab A 60-character comment for your table.
@item @code{MAX_ROWS} @tab Max number of rows you plan to store in the table.
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@@ -17601,7 +17601,8 @@ When you use a @code{MyISAM} table, @strong{MySQL} uses the product of
@code{max_rows * avg_row_length} to decide how big the resulting table
will be. If you don't specify any of the above options, the maximum size
for a table will be 4G (or 2G if your operating systems only supports 2G
tables).
tables). The reason for this is just to keep down the pointer sizes
to make the index smaller and faster if you don't really need big files.
If you don't use @code{PACK_KEYS}, the default is to only pack strings,
not numbers. If you use @code{PACK_KEYS=1}, numbers will be packed as well.
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@@ -38893,6 +38894,16 @@ though, so Version 3.23 is not released as a stable version yet.
@appendixsubsec Changes in release 3.23.29
@itemize @bullet
@item
Applied patches for OS2 by @code{Yuri Dario}.
@item
@code[FLUSH TABLES table_name} didn't always flush table properly to
disk; One some cases the index tree wasn't completely written to disk.
@item
@code{--bootstrap} is now run in a separate thread. This fixes the problem
that @code{mysql_install_db} core dumped on some Linux machines.
@item
Changed @code{mi_create()} to use less stack.
@item
Changed crash-me and the MySQL benchmarks to also work with FrontBase.
@item
Allow @code{RESTRICT} and @code{CASCADE} after @code{DROP TABLE} to make
