Bug #9472 --max-allowed-packet and --net-buffer-length don't handle K, M, G suffixes
Submitted: 30 Mar 2005 2:33 Modified: 7 Apr 2005 2:34
Reporter: Jim Winstead Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Embedded Library ( libmysqld ) Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:4.1 OS:
Assigned to: Jim Winstead CPU Architecture:Any

[30 Mar 2005 2:33] Jim Winstead 
Description:
in get_one_option() in sql/mysqld.cc, there code to handle max-allowed-packet and net-buffer-length for EMBEDDED_LIBRARY, but it uses atoi() and not something that knows how to deal with the K, M, and G suffixes for sizes. this is why the myisam-blob test does not work with the embedded server.

How to repeat:
disable the automatic skipping of myisam-blob in mysql-test-run when running with --embedded-server, and run the myisam-blob test. notice the error messages say "Result of repeat() was larger than max_allowed_packet (24) - truncated"

Suggested fix:
eval_num_suffix() in mysys/my_getopt.c has the code to handle these suffixes, but it is static to that file.
[31 Mar 2005 2:11] 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/internals/23516
[2 Apr 2005 0:07] 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/internals/23574
[5 Apr 2005 20:04] Jim Winstead 
Fixed in 4.1.12 and 5.0.4.
[7 Apr 2005 2:34] Paul DuBois 
Noted in 4.1.12, 5.0.4 changelogs.