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A suitable database identifier supplied to the
COM_DROP_DB command could cause a
segmentation fault, and thereby a denial of service.
(Bug #45790, CVE-2009-2446)
InnoDB adaptive hash latch is released
(if held) for several potentially long-running operations. This
improves throughput for other queries if the current query is
removing a temporary table, changing a temporary table from
memory to disk, using
CREATE TABLE ...
SELECT, or performing a
repair on a table used within a transaction.
Replication: When reading a binary log that was in use by a master or that had not been properly closed (possibly due to a crash), the following message was printed: Warning: this binlog was not closed properly. Most probably mysqld crashed writing it. This message did not take into account the possibility that the file was merely in use by the master, which caused some users concern who were not aware that this could happen.
To make this clear, the original message has been replaced with Warning: this binlog is either is use or was not closed properly. (Bug #34687)
Compiler warnings on Mac OS X were fixed. (Bug #45286)
The mysql client could misinterpret some character sequences as commands under some circumstances. (Bug #45236)
Index Merge followed by a filesort could result in a server
not large enough for all sort keys.
References: See also Bug #40974.
Some Perl scripts in AIX packages contained an incorrect path to the perl executable. (Bug #44643)
A workaround for a Sun Studio bug was instituted. (Bug #41710)
Shared-memory connections did not work in Vista if mysqld was started from the command line. (Bug #41190)
UPDATE statements that
affected no rows returned a rows-affected count of one.
Valgrind warnings that occurred for
TABLE STATUS with
In the mysql client, using a default
character set of
binary caused internal
commands such as
DELIMITER to become case
A Valgrind error during subquery execution was corrected. (Bug #36995)
When invoked to start multiple server instances, mysqld_multi sometimes failed to start them all due to not changing location into the base directory for each instance. (Bug #36654)
On Windows, the
_PC macro in
my_global.h was causing problems for modern
compilers. It has been removed because it is no longer used.
References: See also Bug #22891.