Download MySQL 4.0.14

The people behind MySQL released a maintenance release yesterday released in the form of version 4.0.14. This database program is used by webmasters, among others, to create dynamic web pages. The release notes of the new release look like this:

Functionality added or changed:

• A documentation change: Function `INTERVAL(NULL, …)’ returns `-1′.
• Enabled `INSERT’ from `SELECT’ when the table into which the records are inserted is also a table listed in the `SELECT’.
• Allow `CREATE TABLE’ and `INSERT’ from any `UNION’.
• The `SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS’ option now always returns the total number of rows for any `UNION’.
• Removed `–table’ option from `mysqlbinlog’ to avoid repeating `mysqldump’ functionality.
• Changed optimizer slightly to prefer index lookups over full table scans.
• Added thread-specific `max_seeks_for_key’ variable that can be used to force the optimizer to use keys instead of table scans even if the cardinality of the index is low.
• Added optimization that converts `LEFT JOIN’ to normal join in some cases.
• A documentation change: added a paragraph about failover in replication (how to use a surviving slave as the new master, how to resume to the original setup). *Note Replication FAQ::.
• A documentation change: added warning notes about safe use of the `CHANGE MASTER’ command. *Note CHANGE MASTER TO::.
• MySQL now issues a warning (not an error, as in 4.0.13) when it opens a table that was created with MySQL 4.1.
• Added `–nice’ option to `mysqld_safe’ to allow setting the niceness of the `mysqld’ process. (Thanks to Christian Hammers for providing the initial patch.) (Bug #627)
• Added `–read-only’ option to cause `mysqld’ to allow no updates except from slave threads or from users with the `SUPER’ privilege. (Original patch from Markus Benning).
• `SHOW BINLOG EVENTS FROM x’ where `x’ is strictly less than 4 now silently converts `x’ to 4 instead of printing an error. The same change was done for `CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_LOG_POS=x’ and `CHANGE MASTER TO RELAY_LOG_POS=x’.
• `mysqld’ now only adds an interrupt handler for the `SIGINT’ signal if you start it with the new `–gdb’ option. This is because some MySQL users encountered strange problems when they accidentally sent `SIGINT’ to `mysqld’ threads.
• `RESET SLAVE’ now clears the `Last_errno’ and `Last_error’ fields in the output of `SHOW SLAVE STATUS’.
• Added `max_relay_log_size’ variable; the relay log will be rotated automatically when its size exceeds `max_relay_log_size’. But if `max_relay_log_size’ is 0 (the default), `max_binlog_size’ will be used (as in older versions). `max_binlog_size’ still applies to binary logs in any case.
• `FLUSH LOGS’ now rotates relay logs in addition to the other types of logs it already rotated.

Bug fixed:

• Comparison/sorting for `latin1_de’ character set was rewritten. The old algorithm could not handle cases like `”sa”” > “ssa”‘. *Note German character set:: . In rare cases it resulted in table corruption.
• Fixed a problem with the password prompt on Windows (Bug #683)
• `ALTER TABLE … UNION=(…)’ for `MERGE’ table is now allowed even if some underlying `MyISAM’ tables are read-only. (Bug #702)
• Fixed a problem with `CREATE TABLE t1 SELECT x’41”. (Bug #801)
• Removed some incorrect lock warnings from the error log.
• Fixed memory overrun when doing `REPAIR’ on a table with a multi-part auto_increment key where one part was a packed `CHAR’.
• Fixed a probable race condition in the replication code that could potentially lead to `INSERT’ statements not being replicated in the event of a `FLUSH LOGS’ command or when the binary log exceeds `max_binlog_size’. (Bug #791)
• Fixed a crashing bug in `INTERVAL’ and `GROUP BY’ or `DISTINCT’. (Bug #807)
• Fixed bug in `mysqlhotcopy’ so it actually aborts for unsuccessful table copying operations. Fixed another bug so that it succeeds when there are thousands of tables to copy. (Bug #812)
• Fixed problem with `mysqlhotcopy’ failing to read options from option files. (Bug #808)
• Fixed bugs in optimizer that sometimes prevented MySQL from using `FULLTEXT’ indexes even though it was possible (for example, in `SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE MATCH a,b AGAINST(“index”) > 0′).
• Fixed a bug with “table is full” in `UNION’ operations.
• Fixed a security problem that enabled users with no privileges to obtain information on the list of existing databases by using `SHOW TABLES’ and similar commands.
• Fixed a stack problem on UnixWare/OpenServer.
• Fixed a configuration problem on UnixWare/OpenUnix and OpenServer.
• Fixed a stack overflow problem in password verification.
• Fixed a problem with `max_user_connections’.
• `HANDLER’ without an index now works properly when a table has deleted rows. (Bug #787)
• Fixed a bug with `LOAD DATA’ in `mysqlbinlog’. (Bug #670).
• Fixed that `SET CHARACTER SET DEFAULT’ works. (Bug #462)
• Fixed `MERGE’ table behavior in `ORDER BY … DESC’ queries. (Bug #515)
• Fixed server crash on `PURGE MASTER LOGS’ or `SHOW MASTER LOGS’ when the binary log is off. (Bug #733)
• Fixed password checking problem on Windows. (Bug #464)
• Fixed the bug in comparison of a `DATETIME’ column and an integer constant. (Bug #504)
• Fixed remote mode or `mysql login’. (Bug #672)
• Fixed `ERROR 1105: Unknown error’ that occurred for some `SELECT’ queries, where a column that was declared as `NOT NULL’ was compared with an expression that took `NULL’ value.
• Changed timeout in `mysql_real_connect()’ to use `poll()’ instead of `select()’ to work around problem with many open files in the client.
• Fixed incorrect results from `MATCH … AGAINST’ used with a `LEFT JOIN’ query.
• Fixed a bug that limited the maximum value for `mysqld’ variables to 4294967295 when they are specified on the command line.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused spurious “Access denied” errors in `HANDLER … READ’ statements, when a table is referenced via an alias.
• Fixed portability problem with `safe_malloc’, which caused MySQL to give “Freeing wrong aligned pointer” errors on SCO 3.2.
• `ALTER TABLE … ENABLE/DISABLE KEYS’ could cause a core dump when done after an `INSERT DELAYED’ statement on the same table.
• Fixed problem with conversion of localtime to GMT where some times resulted in different (but correct) timestamps. Now MySQL should use the smallest possible timestamp value in this case. (Bug #316)
• Very small query cache sizes could crash `mysqld’. (Bug #549)
• Fixed a bug (accidentally introduced by us but present only in version 4.0.13) that made `INSERT … SELECT’ into an `AUTO_INCREMENT’ column not replicate well. This bug is in the master, not in the slave. (Bug #490)
• Fixed a bug: When an `INSERT … SELECT’ statement inserted rows into a non-transactional table, but failed at some point (for example, due to a “Duplicate key” error), the query was not written to the binlog . Now it is written to the binlog, with its error code, as all other queries are. About the `slave-skip-errors’ option for how to handle partially completed queries in the slave, see *Note Replication Options::. (Bug #491)
• `SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0′ was not replicated properly. The fix probably will not be backported to 3.23.
• On a slave, `LOAD DATA INFILE’ which had no `IGNORE’ or `REPLACE’ clause on the master, was replicated with `IGNORE’. While this is not a problem if the master and slave data are identical (a `LOAD’ that produces no duplicate conflicts on the master will produce none on the slave anyway), which is true in normal operation, it is better for debugging not to silently add the `IGNORE’. That way, you can get an error message on the slave and discover that for some reason, the data on master and slave are different and investigate why. (Bug #571)
• On a slave, `LOAD DATA INFILE’ printed an incomplete “Duplicate entry ‘%-.64s’ for key %d”‘ message (the key name and value were not mentioned) in case of duplicate conflict (which does not happen in normal operation). (Bug #573)
• When using a slave compiled with `–debug’, `CHANGE MASTER TO RELAY_LOG_POS’ could cause a debug assertion failure. (Bug #576)
• When doing a `LOCK TABLES WRITE’ on an InnoDB table, commit could not happen, if the query was not written to the binary log (for example, if `–log-bin’ was not used, or `binlog-ignore- db’ was used). (Bug #578)
• If a 3.23 master had open temporary tables that had been replicated to a 4.0 slave, and the binlog got rotated, these temporary tables were immediately dropped by the slave (which caused problems if the master used them subsequently). This bug had been fixed in 4.0.13, but in a manner which caused an unlikely inconvenience: if the 3.23 master died brutally (power failure), without having enough time to automatically write `DROP TABLE’ statements to its binlog, then the 4.0 .13 slave would not notice the temporary tables have to be dropped, until the slave `mysqld’ server is restarted. This minor inconvenience is fixed in 3.23.57 and 4.0.14 (meaning the master must be upgraded to 3.23.57 and the slave to 4.0.14 to remove the inconvenience). (Bug #254)
• If `MASTER_POS_WAIT()’ was waiting, and the slave was idle, and the SQL slave thread terminated, `MASTER_POS_WAIT()’ would wait forever. Now when the SQL slave thread terminates, `MASTER_POS_WAIT()’ immediately returns `NULL’ (“slave stopped”). (Bug #651)
• After `RESET SLAVE; START SLAVE;’, the `Relay_log_space’ value displayed by `SHOW SLAVE STATUS’ was too big by four bytes. (Bug #763)
• If a query was ignored on the slave (because of `replicate-ignore-table’ and other similar rules), the slave still checked if the query got the same error code (0, no error) as on the master. So if the master had an error on the query (for example, “Duplicate entry” in a multiple-row insert), then the slave stopped and warned that the error codes didn’t match. (Bug #797)

Additional notes:

• In addition to Solaris 8/9 for SPARC, we now also offer binaries for Sun Solaris 8 on the Intel x86 architecture.
• Binaries for FreeBSD 5.0 ​​(sparc64) have been added (thanks to Ken McKittrick for granting us access to such a system)
• Due to technical problems with the build hosts, we currently can not offer binaries for Linux/s390 and binaries for AIX 4.3 (compiled with gcc). These will be added as soon as these problems have been resolved. We apologize for any inconveniences that may cause you.

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