WL#2781: Allow to operate without a default key cache
Affects: Server-7.1
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Status: Un-Assigned
We want to be able to run MyISAM without a default key cache. SET GLOBAL key_buffer_size= 0; shall disable the default key cache (the key cache structures cannot be deleted though). The key blocks owned by the default key cache shall be freed for reuse by other key caches (or even handed back to the system?). Here is an excerpt from an IRC discussion of 2005-08-12:ingo: about BUG#10473 One should be able to set the key cache size to zero ... MySQL works perfectly way without a key cache and in some case one may need to do that (for testing) ... but I agree we should not show 8 when we don't have a key cache ... the thing is that we can't remove the default key cache structure, but we can disable the cache ... ingo: agree that the default code can't handle the normal key cache as the old blocks can't be reassigned to another key cache ingo: ok, lets do it this way: Can you do a worklog entry to allow one to change default key cache to 0 (this doesn't have to be fixed in 5.0)
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