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Fixed range optimizer bug:
SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE
key_part1 >= const AND (key_part2 = const OR key_part2 = const) . The
bug was that some rows could be duplicated in the result.
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Running
myisamchk without -a updated the index
distribution wrong.
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SET SQL_LOW_PRIORITY_UPDATES=1 gave parse error before.
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You can now update indexes columns that are used in the
WHERE clause.
UPDATE nom_table SET KEY=KEY+1 WHERE KEY > 100
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Date handling should now be a bit faster.
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Added handling of fuzzy dates (dates where day or month is 0):
(Like: 1999-01-00)
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Fixed optimization of
SELECT ... WHERE key_part1=const1 AND
key_part_2=const2 AND key_part1=const4 AND key_part2=const4 ; Indextype
should be range instead of ref .
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Fixed
egcs 1.1.2 optimizer bug (when using BLOB s) on Linux Alpha.
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Fixed problem with
LOCK TABLES combined with DELETE FROM table .
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MyISAM tables now allow keys on
NULL and BLOB/TEXT columns.
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The following join is now much faster:
SELECT ... FROM t1 LEFT JOIN t2 ON ... WHERE t2.not_null_column IS NULL .
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ORDER BY and GROUP BY can be done on functions.
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Changed handling of 'const_item' to allow handling of
ORDER BY RAND() .
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Indexes are now used for
WHERE key_column = function .
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Indexes are now used for
WHERE key_column = column_name even if
the columns are not identically packed.
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Indexes are now used for
WHERE column_name IS NULL .
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Changed heap tables to be stored in low_byte_first order (to make it easy
to convert to MyISAM tables)
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Automatic change of HEAP temporary tables to MyISAM tables in case of
'table is full' errors.
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Added option
--init-file=file_name to mysqld .
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COUNT(DISTINCT value,[value,...])
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CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE now creates a temporary table, in its own
namespace, that is automatically deleted if connection is dropped.
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New keywords (required for
CASE : CASE, THEN, WHEN, ELSE and END .
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New functions
EXPORT_SET() and MD5() .
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Support for the GB2312 Chinese character set.
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