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B.3.10. Changes in Release 3.23.50 (21 April 2002)

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  • Fixed buffer overflow problem if someone specified a too-long --datadir option to mysqld. (CVE-2002-0969)

  • Add missing <row> tags for mysqldump XML output.

  • Fixed problem with crash-me and gcc 3.0.4.

  • Fixed that @@unknown_variable doesn't hang server.

  • Added @@VERSION as a synonym for VERSION().

  • SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'xxx' is now case-insensitive.

  • Fixed timeout for GET_LOCK() on HP-UX with DCE threads.

  • Fixed memory allocation bug in the glibc library used to build Linux binaries, which caused mysqld to die in free().

  • Fixed SIGINT and SIGQUIT problems in mysql.

  • Fixed bug in character table converts when used with big (larger than 64KB) strings.

  • InnoDB now retains foreign key constraints through ALTER TABLE and CREATE/DROP INDEX.

  • InnoDB now allows foreign key constraints to be added through the ALTER TABLE syntax.

  • InnoDB tables can now be set to automatically grow in size (auto-extend).

  • Our Linux RPMS and binaries are now compiled with gcc 3.0.4, which should make them a bit faster.

  • Fixed some buffer overflow problems when reading startup parameters.

  • Because of problems on shutdown we have now disabled named pipes on Windows by default. One can enable named pipes by starting mysqld with --enable-named-pipe.

  • Fixed bug when using WHERE key_column = 'J' or key_column='j'.

  • Fixed core-dump bug when using --log-bin with LOAD DATA INFILE without an active database.

  • Fixed bug in RENAME TABLE when used with lower_case_table_names=1 (default on Windows).

  • Fixed unlikely core-dump bug when using DROP TABLE on a table that was in use by a thread that also used queries on only temporary tables.

  • Fixed problem with SHOW CREATE TABLE and PRIMARY KEY when using 32 indexes.

  • Fixed that one can use SET PASSWORD for the anonymous user.

  • Fixed core dump bug when reading client groups from option files using mysql_options().

  • Memory leak (16 bytes per every corrupted table) closed.

  • Fixed binary builds to use --enable-local-infile.

  • Update source to work with new version of bison.

  • Updated shell scripts to now agree with new POSIX standard.

  • Fixed bug where DATE_FORMAT() returned empty string when used with GROUP BY.