MDEV-28727 ALTER TABLE ALGORITHM=NOCOPY does not work after upgrade
MDEV-20704 changed the rules of how (HA_BINARY_PACK_KEY | HA_VAR_LENGTH_KEY) flags are added. Older FRMs before that fix had these flags for DOUBLE index. After that fix when ALTER sees such old FRM it thinks it cannot do instant alter because of failed compare_keys_but_name(): it compares flags against tmp table created by ALTER. MDEV-20704 fix was actually not about DOUBLE type but about FIELDFLAG_BLOB which affected DOUBLE. So there is no direct knowledge that any other types were not affected. The proposed fix under CHECK TABLE checks if FRM has (HA_BINARY_PACK_KEY | HA_VAR_LENGTH_KEY) flags and was created prior MDEV-20704 and if so issues "needs upgrade". When mysqlcheck and mysql_upgrade see such status they issue ALTER TABLE FORCE and upgrade the table to the version of server.
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