Bug #18929 Documentation bug: InnoDB support for spatial indexes
Submitted: 10 Apr 2006 3:32 Modified: 26 Apr 2006 17:25
Reporter: Ask Hansen (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.0, 5.1 OS:
Assigned to: MC Brown CPU Architecture:Any

[10 Apr 2006 3:32] Ask Hansen 
Description:
On http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/spatial-extensions.html it says that InnoDB tables support spatial indexes.

However, as you can see in bug #15860 it doesn't actually work.  

Until the bug has been fixed the documentation should be changed.

 - ask

How to repeat:
Read the documentation, try doing what it says.

Suggested fix:
(temporarily) change the documentation.
[10 Apr 2006 14:22] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Thank you for a problem report. Explicit not in documentation about this bug (until it is fixed) will be useful.
[26 Apr 2006 17:25] MC Brown 
Added appropriate warning to documentation (spatial extensions) in refman-5.0 and refman-5.1:

Although spatial extensions are supported in <literal>InnoDB</literal> tables, use of spatial indexes may cause a crash. (Bug #15860)

Currently awaiting final bug fix.