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B.3.56. Changes in release 3.23.5 (20 October 1999)

End of Product Lifecycle. Active development and support for MySQL database server versions 3.23, 4.0, and 4.1 has ended. However, for MySQL 4.0 and 4.1, there is still extended support available. For details, see http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/lifecycle/#calendar. According to the MySQL Lifecycle Policy (see http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/lifecycle/#policy), only Security and Severity Level 1 issues will still be fixed for MySQL 4.0 and 4.1. Please consider upgrading to a recent version (MySQL 5.0 or 5.1).

  • Fixed some Y2K problems in the new date handling in 3.23.

  • Fixed problem with SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY RAND().

  • Added patches by Sergei A. Golubchik for text searching on the MyISAM level.

  • Fixed cache overflow problem when using full joins without keys.

  • Fixed some configure issues.

  • Some small changes to make parsing faster.

  • Adding a column after the last field with ALTER TABLE didn't work.

  • Fixed problem when using an AUTO_INCREMENT column in two keys

  • With MyISAM, you now can have an AUTO_INCREMENT column as a key sub part: CREATE TABLE foo (a INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, b CHAR(5), PRIMARY KEY (b,a))

  • Fixed bug in MyISAM with packed char keys that could be NULL.

  • AS on field name with CREATE TABLE tbl_name SELECT ... didn't work.

  • Allow use of NATIONAL and NCHAR when defining character columns. This is the same as not using BINARY.

  • Don't allow NULL columns in a PRIMARY KEY (only in UNIQUE keys).

  • Clear LAST_INSERT_ID() if one uses this in ODBC: WHERE auto_increment_column IS NULL. This seems to fix some problems with Access.

  • SET SQL_AUTO_IS_NULL=0|1 now turns on/off the handling of searching for the last inserted row with WHERE auto_increment_column IS NULL.

  • Added new variable concurrency to mysqld for Solaris.

  • Added --relative option to mysqladmin to make extended-status more useful to monitor changes.

  • Fixed bug when using COUNT(DISTINCT ...) on an empty table.

  • Added support for the Chinese character set GBK.

  • Fixed problem with LOAD DATA INFILE and BLOB columns.

  • Added bit operator ~ (negation).

  • Fixed problem with user-defined functions.