1. 02 Dec, 2009 7 commits
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      Backport of: · 669258ab
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      revno: 2630.4.36
      committer: Konstantin Osipov <konstantin@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726
      timestamp: Wed 2008-06-25 17:03:37 +0400
      message:
        As per discussion with Serg and Dmitri, remove the code
        that is trying to emulate LOCK TABLES when locking tables for prelocking.
        This code was worked around by the engines, and has no effect.
        We may still have to do something to ensure that statement-based
        replication is consistent in MVCC engines, or other engines
        that downgrade table level locks, but this will have to be done
        somehow differently.
      669258ab
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      Backport of: · 416a6263
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      revno: 2630.4.35
      committer: Konstantin Osipov <konstantin@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726
      timestamp: Wed 2008-06-25 16:44:00 +0400
      message:
        Fix a MyISAM-specific bug in the new implementation of
        LOCK TABLES (WL#3726).
        If more than one instance of a MyISAM table are open in the
        same connection, all of them must share the same status_param.
        Otherwise, unlock of a table may lead to lost records.
        See also comments in thr_lock.c.
      416a6263
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      Backport of: · edddfa0e
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      revno: 2630.4.33
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w2
      timestamp: Fri 2008-06-20 17:11:20 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After-review fixes in progress.
      
        Minimized dependency of mdl.cc on other modules (particularly
        made it independant of mysql_priv.h) in order to be able
        write unit tests for metadata locking subsystem.
      edddfa0e
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      Backport of: · 0a49fd92
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      revno: 2630.4.32
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w2
      timestamp: Thu 2008-06-19 16:39:58 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After-review fixes in progress.
      
        Ensure that metadata locking subsystem properly handles
        out-of-memory conditions. Clarified MDL interface by
        separating release of locks and removal of lock requests
        from the context.
      0a49fd92
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      Backport of: · bf2aae04
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      revno: 2630.4.31
      committer: Konstantin Osipov <konstantin@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726
      timestamp: Thu 2008-06-12 06:23:08 +0400
      message:
        Extend the signature of TABLE_LIST::init_one_table() to 
        initialize lengths
      
      This is part of WL#3726 post-review fixes.
      bf2aae04
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      Backport of: · 7d3ad72e
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      revno: 2630.4.30
      Konstantin Osipov   2008-06-11
      Fix a potential cause of test failures.
      7d3ad72e
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      Backport of: · bcae0d9b
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      revno: 2630.10.1
      committer: Konstantin Osipov <konstantin@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-lock-tables-tidyup
      timestamp: Wed 2008-06-11 15:49:58 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726, review fixes.
        Now that we have metadata locks, we don't need to keep a crippled
        TABLE instance in the table cache to indicate that a table is locked.
        Remove all code that used this technique. Instead, rely on metadata
        locks and use the standard open_table() and close_thread_table()
        to manipulate with the table cache tables.
        Removes a list of functions that have become unused (see the comment
        for sql_base.cc for details).
        Under LOCK TABLES, keep a TABLE_LIST instance for each table
        that may be temporarily closed. For that, implement an own class for
        LOCK TABLES mode, Locked_tables_list.
      
      This is a pre-requisite patch for WL#4144.
      This is not exactly a backport: there is no new 
      online ALTER table in Celosia, so the old alter table
      code was changed to work with the new table cache API.
      bcae0d9b
  2. 01 Dec, 2009 13 commits
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      Backport of: · cf4a4ba6
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      ```---------------------------------------------------------
      revno: 2630.9.3
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w3
      timestamp: Wed 2008-06-11 08:33:36 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After review fixes in progress.
      
        Changed close_cached_tables() not to flush all unused TABLE
        instances when flushing individual table.
        Renamed expel_table_from_cache() to tdc_remove_table() and
        added enum parameter to be able more explicitly specify type
        of removal, rewrote its code to be more efficient.
      
      ******
      Backport of:
      ```
      
      ---------------------------------------------------------
      revno: 2630.9.4
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w3
      timestamp: Wed 2008-06-11 15:53:53 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After-review fixes in progress.
      
        Minor changes in order to improve code readability
        and simplify debugging.
      cf4a4ba6
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      Backport of: · b474ad26
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      revno: 2630.9.2
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w3
      timestamp: Tue 2008-06-10 18:01:56 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After review fixes in progress.
      b474ad26
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      Backport of: · 78460958
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      revno: 2630.9.1 
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com> 
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w3 
      timestamp: Sun 2008-06-08 22:13:58 +0400 
      message: 
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects" 
         
        After review fixes in progress. 
         
        Some adjustments to the patch that removes thd->locked_tables
      78460958
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      Backport of: · 77be8ba5
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      revno: 2630.4.27
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w2
      timestamp: Mon 2008-06-09 14:01:19 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After review fixes in progress.
      
        Changed open_table() to return bool. This allows more easily to
        distinguish cases when this function succeeds but returns no TABLE
        instance (in case of view or in case of special kind of open) from
        cases when we have an error. Pointer to TABLE instance is now
        always returned in TABLE_LIST::table member.
      
        This change allows to get rid of false assumption in open_tables()
        implementation and makes it more clear.
      77be8ba5
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      Backport of: · 1523cea6
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      revno: 2630.4.26
      committer: Konstantin Osipov <konstantin@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-prelocked_mode-to-push
      timestamp: Fri 2008-06-06 23:19:04 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726: work on review comments.
        Remove thd->locked_tables. Always store MYSQL_LOCK instances in
        thd->lock.
        Rename thd->prelocked_mode to thd->locked_tables_mode.
        Use thd->locked_tables_mode to determine if we
        are under LOCK TABLES. Update the code to not assume that
        if thd->lock is set, LOCK TABLES mode is off.
        Review comments.
      1523cea6
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      Backport of: · 801ef812
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      revno: 2630.4.25
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w2
      timestamp: Fri 2008-06-06 15:32:48 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After review fixes in progress.
      
        Clarified some comments explaining control flow in
        prepare_for_repair().
      801ef812
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      Backport of: · 4c628c04
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      revno: 2630.4.24
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w2
      timestamp: Fri 2008-06-06 14:28:58 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After review fixes in progress.
      
        Get rid of upgradability and priority attributes of
        metadata lock requests by replacing them with two
        new types of lock requests MDL_SHARED_UPGRADABLE and
        MDL_SHARED_HIGH_PRIO correspondingly.
      4c628c04
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      Backport of: · 8227a34e
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      revno: 2630.4.22
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w2
      timestamp: Thu 2008-06-05 22:06:48 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects"
      
        After review fixes in progress.
      
        Moved code checking that current lock request can be satisfied
        given the current state of individual or global metadata lock
        to separate well-documented functions.
      8227a34e
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      Backport of: · 386b95df
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      revno: 2630.8.3
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w4
      timestamp: Thu 2008-06-05 10:48:36 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After-review fixes in progress.
      
        Adjust some comments that were using old terminology
        (name locks instead of exclusive metadata locks), brought
        some of them up-to-date with current situation in code.
      386b95df
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      Backport of: · f198e8be
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      revno: 2630.2.20
      committer: Konstantin Osipov <konstantin@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-runtime
      timestamp: Fri 2008-06-27 20:10:42 +0400
      message:
        Fix a regression introduced by WL#3726 when a table was left in the
        table cache after DROP DATABASE.
        Implementation of DROP DATABASE reads a list of files in the database
        directory and constructs from it the list of tables to be dropped.
        If the filesystem is case-insensitive and case-preserving, the
        table names should be lowercased, because the same has been done
        when entries for them were inserted into the table cache.
        Skipping this step will lead to orphaned TABLEs left in the table cache.
        Fixes lowercase_table2 failure on powermacg5.
      f198e8be
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      Backport of: · ded46870
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      revno: 2630.4.20
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w2
      timestamp: Wed 2008-06-04 16:27:06 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects"
      
        After review fixes in progress.
      
        Got rid of TABLE_LIST::mdl_upgradable member and related functions
        by using special flag which to be passed to open_table() which
        asks it to take upgradable metadata lock on table being opened.
      ded46870
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      Backport of: · 11eb7b94
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      ---------------------------------------------
      2630.7.3 Konstantin Osipov       2008-06-02
              Various style changes preceding the removal of reopen_table().
      (Post-review fixes for WL#3726).
      11eb7b94
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      Backport of: · 8486ae21
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      2630.7.2 Konstantin Osipov       2008-06-02
               Fix alignment in sql_table.cc (no other changes).
      8486ae21
  3. 30 Nov, 2009 12 commits
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      Backport of: · 4689cddb
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      revno: 2630.4.18
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w2
      timestamp: Tue 2008-06-03 21:07:58 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After review fixes in progress.
      
        Now during upgrading/downgrading metadata locks we deal with
        individual metadata lock requests rather than with all requests
        for this object in the context. This makes API a bit more clear
        and makes adjust_mdl_locks_upgradability() much nicer.
      4689cddb
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      Backport of: · a9dbad1a
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      revno: 2630.4.17
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w2
      timestamp: Thu 2008-05-29 16:52:56 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After review fixes in progress.
      
        "The great correction of names".
      
        Renamed MDL_LOCK and MDL_LOCK_DATA classes to make usage of
        these names in metadata locking subsystem consistent with
        other parts of server (i.e. thr_lock.cc). Now we MDL_LOCK_DATA
        corresponds to request for a lock and MDL_LOCK to the lock
        itself. Adjusted code in MDL subsystem and other places
        using these classes accordingly.
        Did similar thing for GLOBAL_MDL_LOCK_DATA class and also
        changed name of its members to correspond to names of
        MDL_LOCK_DATA members.
        Finally got rid of usage of one letter variables in MDL
        code since it makes code harder to search in (according
        to reviewer).
      a9dbad1a
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      Backport of: · f56cc2a3
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      revno: 2630.4.16
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w
      timestamp: Thu 2008-05-29 09:45:02 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After review changes in progress.
      
        Tweaked some comments and did some renames to
        avoid ambiguites.
      f56cc2a3
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      Backport of: · 3d19fdad
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      revno: 2630.4.14
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w
      timestamp: Wed 2008-05-28 12:16:03 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After review fixes in progress. Removed unused code and
        adjusted names of functions/methods to better reflect
        their current function.
      3d19fdad
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      Backport of: · af4ee743
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      revno: 2630.4.13
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w
      timestamp: Wed 2008-05-28 12:07:30 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After review fixes in progress.
      
        Get rid of remove_table_from_cache() function since it was
        doing two things at once -- waiting while no one uses particular
        table (now job of metadata locking) and removing TABLE/TABLE_SHARE
        instances from table definition cache (now job of
        expel_table_from_cache()).
      af4ee743
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      Backport of: · 511c68fb
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      -------------------------------------------------------------------
      revno: 2630.6.6
      committer: Konstantin Osipov <konstantin@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726
      timestamp: Tue 2008-05-27 16:15:44 +0400
      message:
      Implement code review fixes for WL#3726 "DDL locking for all
      metadata objects": cleanup the code from share->mutex
      acquisitions, which are now obsolete.
      511c68fb
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      Backport of: · b6c33a9a
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      revno: 2630.6.1
      committer: Konstantin Osipov <konstantin@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726
      timestamp: Tue 2008-05-27 13:45:34 +0400
      message:
        Remove an unused argument from release_table_share().
        Remove unused members from TABLE_SHARE struct.
        Review comments in scope of WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata 
        objects"
      b6c33a9a
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      Backport of: · 3226c107
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      revno: 2630.4.11
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w
      timestamp: Tue 2008-05-27 21:31:53 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After review fixes in progress.
      
        Changed mysql_lock_tables() to be no longer responsible for
        reopening table if waiting for the lock on it was aborted.
        This allows to get rid of several annoying functions.
      3226c107
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      Backport of: · 6fd51b85
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      revno: 2630.4.10
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w
      timestamp: Mon 2008-05-26 15:11:26 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After review changes in progress.
        Implemented some renames suggested by reviewer.
      6fd51b85
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      Backport of: · 076722c4
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      ----------------------------------------------------------------
      2630.4.9 Dmitry Lenev	2008-05-26
               WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
              
               After review fixes in progress. Adjusted test case
               according to review.
      076722c4
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      Backport of: · b2ac2b8b
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      revno: 2630.4.7
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w
      timestamp: Sun 2008-05-25 11:19:02 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        Fixed silly mistake in test case which caused sporadic
        kill.test failures.
      b2ac2b8b
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      Initial import of WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects". · 69b9761f
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      Backport of:
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      revno: 2630.4.1
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w
      timestamp: Fri 2008-05-23 17:54:03 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After review fixes in progress.
      ------------------------------------------------------------
      
      This is the first patch in series. It transforms the metadata 
      locking subsystem to use a dedicated module (mdl.h,cc). No 
      significant changes in the locking protocol. 
      The import passes the test suite with the exception of 
      deprecated/removed 6.0 features, and MERGE tables. The latter
      are subject to a fix by WL#4144.
      Unfortunately, the original changeset comments got lost in a merge,
      thus this import has its own (largely insufficient) comments.
      
      This patch fixes Bug#25144 "replication / binlog with view breaks".
      Warning: this patch introduces an incompatible change:
      Under LOCK TABLES, it's no longer possible to FLUSH a table that 
      was not locked for WRITE.
      Under LOCK TABLES, it's no longer possible to DROP a table or
      VIEW that was not locked for WRITE.
      
      ******
      Backport of:
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      revno: 2630.4.2
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w
      timestamp: Sat 2008-05-24 14:03:45 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        After review fixes in progress.
      
      ******
      Backport of:
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      revno: 2630.4.3
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w
      timestamp: Sat 2008-05-24 14:08:51 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects"
      
        Fixed failing Windows builds by adding mdl.cc to the lists
        of files needed to build server/libmysqld on Windows.
      
      ******
      Backport of:
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      revno: 2630.4.4
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w
      timestamp: Sat 2008-05-24 21:57:58 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        Fix for assert failures in kill.test which occured when one
        tried to kill ALTER TABLE statement on merge table while it
        was waiting in wait_while_table_is_used() for other connections
        to close this table.
      
        These assert failures stemmed from the fact that cleanup code
        in this case assumed that temporary table representing new
        version of table was open with adding to THD::temporary_tables
        list while code which were opening this temporary table wasn't
        always fulfilling this.
      
        This patch changes code that opens new version of table to
        always do this linking in. It also streamlines cleanup process
        for cases when error occurs while we have new version of table
        open.
      
      ******
      WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects"
      Add libmysqld/mdl.cc to .bzrignore.
      ******
      Backport of:
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      revno: 2630.4.6
      committer: Dmitry Lenev <dlenev@mysql.com>
      branch nick: mysql-6.0-3726-w
      timestamp: Sun 2008-05-25 00:33:22 +0400
      message:
        WL#3726 "DDL locking for all metadata objects".
      
        Addition to the fix of assert failures in kill.test caused by
        changes for this worklog.
      
      
      Make sure we close the new table only once.
      69b9761f
  4. 24 Nov, 2009 5 commits
    • Alexander Nozdrin's avatar
      Auto-merge from mysql-next-mr. · 0a9d4e67
      Alexander Nozdrin authored
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      Backport of: · b4e9cc69
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      revno: 3559
      committer: Davi Arnaut <Davi.Arnaut@Sun.COM>
      branch nick: mysql-pe
      timestamp: Fri 2009-08-28 15:23:16 -0300
      message:
      Break down a large and obnoxious "if" statement. Multiple "if" statements
      makes it easy to understand and follow the code (specially in a debugger).
      b4e9cc69
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      Backport of: · 4cff617c
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      ChangeSet@1.2571, 2008-04-08 12:30:06+02:00, vvaintroub@wva. +122 -0
        Bug#32082 : definition of VOID in my_global.h conflicts with Windows
        SDK headers
        
        VOID macro is now removed. Its usage is replaced with void cast.
        In some cases, where cast does not make much sense (pthread_*, printf, 
        hash_delete, my_seek), cast is ommited.
      4cff617c
    • Alexander Nozdrin's avatar
      Remove handle_delayed_insert_impl(). · 4575f703
      Alexander Nozdrin authored
      4575f703
  5. 23 Nov, 2009 3 commits
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      Backport of: · 7edfae4e
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      revno: 2877
      committer: Davi Arnaut <Davi.Arnaut@Sun.COM>
      branch nick: 35164-6.0
      timestamp: Wed 2008-10-15 19:53:18 -0300
      message:
      Bug#35164: Large number of invalid pthread_attr_setschedparam calls
      Bug#37536: Thread scheduling causes performance degradation at low thread count
      Bug#12702: Long queries take 100% of CPU and freeze other applications under Windows
      
      The problem is that although having threads with different priorities
      yields marginal improvements [1] in some platforms [2], relying on some
      statically defined priorities (QUERY_PRIOR and WAIT_PRIOR) to play well
      (or to work at all) with different scheduling practices and disciplines
      is, at best, a shot in the dark as the meaning of priority values may
      change depending on the scheduling policy set for the process.
      
      Another problem is that increasing priorities can hurt other concurrent
      (running on the same hardware) applications (such as AMP) by causing
      starvation problems as MySQL threads will successively preempt lower
      priority processes. This can be evidenced by Bug#12702.
      
      The solution is to not change the threads priorities and rely on the
      system scheduler to perform its job. This also enables a system admin
      to increase or decrease the scheduling priority of the MySQL process,
      if intended.
      
      Furthermore, the internal wrappers and code for changing the priority
      of threads is being removed as they are now unused and ancient.
      
      1. Due to unintentional side effects. On Solaris this could artificially
      help benchmarks as calling the priority changing syscall millions of
      times is more beneficial than the actual setting of the priority.
      
      2. Where it actually works. It has never worked on Linux as the default
      scheduling policy SCHED_OTHER only accepts the static priority 0.
      7edfae4e
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      Backport of: · 777c3034
      Konstantin Osipov authored
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      revno: 2630.13.2
      committer: Davi Arnaut <davi@sun.com>
      branch nick: WL4284-6.0
      timestamp: Thu 2008-07-03 18:26:51 -0300
      message:
      Remove unused USING_TRANSACTIONS macro which unnecessarily
      cumbers the code. This macro is a historical leftover and
      has no practical use since its unconditionally defined.
      777c3034