Bug #33550 mysqldump 4.0 compatibility broken
Submitted: 28 Dec 2007 10:24 Modified: 18 Mar 2009 14:28
Reporter: Domas Mituzas Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: mysqldump Command-line Client Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:5.1-bk, 5.0-bk OS:Any
Assigned to: Tatiana Azundris Nuernberg CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: Contribution, mysqldump

[28 Dec 2007 10:24] Domas Mituzas
Description:
5.0 and 5.1 mysqldumps fail at --compatible=mysql40, by using these statements:

SET @saved_cs_client     = @@character_set_client;
SET character_set_client = @saved_cs_client;

in dump output. 

Same applies to multiple other compatibility options:

How to repeat:
$ mysqldump anydatabase:

--
-- Table structure for table "inno"
--

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS "inno";
SET @saved_cs_client     = @@character_set_client;
SET character_set_client = utf8;
CREATE TABLE "inno" (
  "a" int(11) NOT NULL,
  "b" int(11) default NULL,
  "c" int(11) default NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  ("a"),
  KEY "b" ("b"),
  KEY "b_2" ("b","c")
);
SET character_set_client = @saved_cs_client;

Suggested fix:
put this into /*! wrappers */
[28 Dec 2007 10:26] Valeriy Kravchuk
Workaround is to comment out these setting manually/with other command line tools :)
[18 Jul 2008 10:12] Stefan Meier
The workaround does not work properly if you have some non-ascii characters in your table definition, as the create table statement is always utf8 encoded, so:
If your table definition goes like this:

create table dummy (
    germannonascichars varchar(20) default "äöüß"
);

the default value will be someting like 'äüößßÄÖÜ', even if you explicitly specify the charset like
mysqldump --default-character-set=latin1

It would be nice to have an option that turns off the automatic conversion of table definitions to utf8.
[27 Oct 2008 19:08] Max Bowsher
For clarity's sake it would be nice if these lines were omitted entirely when the prevailing character_set_client for the entire dump is utf8 already.
[12 Jan 2009 16:06] Robert Heinzmann
diff for Bug 33550 against 5.0.67

Attachment: mysql_dumpfix4_33550.diff (application/octet-stream, text), 48.13 KiB.

[12 Jan 2009 16:07] Robert Heinzmann
This is a non official patch using version-conditional execution.

Warning: This is no offical MySQL Patch.
[23 Jan 2009 18:42] Bugs System
A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/63926

2728 Tatiana A. Nurnberg	2009-01-23
      Bug#33550: mysqldump 4.0 compatibility broken
      
      mysqldump included character_set_client magic
      that is unknown before 4.1 even when asked for
      an appropriate compatibility mode.
      
      patch changes mysqldump so that the offending
      statements live in a version-conditional.
      --compatible=mysql40 is still necessary because
      we need to ask mysqld to dump in the right format.
[2 Feb 2009 17:28] Bugs System
A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/64904

2728 Tatiana A. Nurnberg	2009-02-02
      Bug#33550: mysqldump 4.0 compatibility broken
      
      mysqldump included character_set_client magic
      that is unknown before 4.1 even when asked for
      an appropriate compatibility mode.
      
      In compatibility (3.23, 4.0) mode, we do not
      output charset statements (not even in a
      "comment conditional"), nor do we do magic on
      the server, even if the server is sufficient
      new (4.1+). Table-names will be output converted
      to the charset requested by mysqldump; if such
      a conversion is not possible (Ivrit -> Latin),
      mysqldump will fail.
[24 Feb 2009 7:39] Tatiana Azundris Nuernberg
patch queued for 5.0.79, 5.1.33, 6.0.10 in -bugteam
[9 Mar 2009 14:13] Bugs System
Pushed into 5.0.79 (revid:joro@sun.com-20090309135922-a0di9ebkxoj4d4wv) (version source revid:aelkin@mysql.com-20090224143545-7xc77386o8mg623c) (merge vers: 5.0.79) (pib:6)
[13 Mar 2009 1:52] Paul DuBois
Noted in 5.0.79 changelog.

mysqldump --compatible=mysql40 emitted statements referring to the
character_set_client system variable, which is unknown before MySQL
4.1. Now the statements are enclosed in version-specific comments.

Setting report to NDI pending push into 5.1.x/6.0.x
[13 Mar 2009 19:03] Bugs System
Pushed into 5.1.33 (revid:joro@sun.com-20090313111355-7bsi1hgkvrg8pdds) (version source revid:azundris@mysql.com-20090219172228-jj3zrpk2weqo2har) (merge vers: 5.1.33) (pib:6)
[13 Mar 2009 20:28] Paul DuBois
Noted in 5.1.33 changelog.

Setting report to NDI pending push into 6.0.x.
[18 Mar 2009 13:19] Bugs System
Pushed into 6.0.11-alpha (revid:joro@sun.com-20090318122208-1b5kvg6zeb4hxwp9) (version source revid:azundris@mysql.com-20090219173609-tbjx1l3aq6axz9tg) (merge vers: 6.0.10-alpha) (pib:6)
[18 Mar 2009 14:28] Paul DuBois
Noted in 6.0.11 changelog.
[9 May 2009 16:42] Bugs System
Pushed into 5.1.34-ndb-6.2.18 (revid:jonas@mysql.com-20090508185236-p9b3as7qyauybefl) (version source revid:jonas@mysql.com-20090508100057-30ote4xggi4nq14v) (merge vers: 5.1.33-ndb-6.2.18) (pib:6)
[9 May 2009 17:39] Bugs System
Pushed into 5.1.34-ndb-6.3.25 (revid:jonas@mysql.com-20090509063138-1u3q3v09wnn2txyt) (version source revid:jonas@mysql.com-20090508175813-s6yele2z3oh6o99z) (merge vers: 5.1.33-ndb-6.3.25) (pib:6)
[9 May 2009 18:37] Bugs System
Pushed into 5.1.34-ndb-7.0.6 (revid:jonas@mysql.com-20090509154927-im9a7g846c6u1hzc) (version source revid:jonas@mysql.com-20090509073226-09bljakh9eppogec) (merge vers: 5.1.33-ndb-7.0.6) (pib:6)