D.3.40 Modifications de la version 3.20.14

  • If one gives -p or --password option to mysql without an argument, the user is solicited for the password from the tty.
  • Added default password from MYSQL_PWD (by Elmar Haneke).
  • Added command kill to mysqladmin to kill a specific MySQL thread.
  • Sometimes when doing a reconnect on a down connection this succeeded first on second try.
  • Fixed adding an AUTO_INCREMENT key with ALTER TABLE.
  • AVG() gave too small value on some SELECTs with GROUP BY and ORDER BY.
  • Added new DATETIME type (by Giovanni Maruzzelli
  • Fixed that define DONT_USE_DEFAULT_FIELDS works.
  • Changed to use a thread to handle alarms instead of signals on Solaris to avoid race conditions.
  • Fixed default length of signed numbers. (George Harvey
  • Allow anything for CREATE INDEX.
  • Add prezeros when packing numbers to DATE, TIME and TIMESTAMP.
  • Fixed a bug in OR of multiple tables (gave empty set).
  • Added many patches to MIT-pthreads. This fixes at least one lookup bug.