MySQL Bugs: #10783: SHOW TABLES FROM INFORMATION

Bug #10783	SHOW TABLES FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA gives error
Submitted:	21 May 2005 6:57	Modified:	23 May 2005 13:41
Reporter:	Stefan Hinz	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.0.4	OS:	Linux (Linux)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
The INFORMATION_SCHEMA database name seems to be case sensitive in some cases when it should be case insensitive. Or if the below is expected behaviour, a) it should be documented, b) the error message should be less confusing.

How to repeat:
mysql> SELECT VERSION();
+--------------------+
| VERSION()          |
+--------------------+
| 5.0.4-beta-Max-log |
+--------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SHOW TABLES FROM information_schema;
+---------------------------------------+
| Tables_in_information_schema          |
+---------------------------------------+
| SCHEMATA                              |
| TABLES                                |
| COLUMNS                               |
| CHARACTER_SETS                        |
| COLLATIONS                            |
| COLLATION_CHARACTER_SET_APPLICABILITY |
| ROUTINES                              |
| STATISTICS                            |
| VIEWS                                 |
| USER_PRIVILEGES                       |
| SCHEMA_PRIVILEGES                     |
| TABLE_PRIVILEGES                      |
| COLUMN_PRIVILEGES                     |
| TABLE_CONSTRAINTS                     |
| KEY_COLUMN_USAGE                      |
+---------------------------------------+
15 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SHOW TABLES FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA;
ERROR 12 (HY000): Can't read dir of './INFORMATION_SCHEMA/' (Errcode: 2)

Suggested fix:
See description.

Might be the same as http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=10018,
in which case it appears to have been fixed in 5.0.6.  (I get the
same error up through 5.0.5 on Linux.)

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Additional info:

miguel@hegel:~/dbs/5.0$ bin/mysql -uroot mysql
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 3 to server version: 5.0.7-beta-debug

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> SELECT VERSION();
+------------------+
| VERSION()        |
+------------------+
| 5.0.7-beta-debug |
+------------------+
1 row in set (0.02 sec)

mysql> SHOW TABLES FROM information_schema;
+---------------------------------------+
| Tables_in_information_schema          |
+---------------------------------------+
| SCHEMATA                              |
| TABLES                                |
| COLUMNS                               |
| CHARACTER_SETS                        |
| COLLATIONS                            |
| COLLATION_CHARACTER_SET_APPLICABILITY |
| ROUTINES                              |
| STATISTICS                            |
| VIEWS                                 |
| USER_PRIVILEGES                       |
| SCHEMA_PRIVILEGES                     |
| TABLE_PRIVILEGES                      |
| COLUMN_PRIVILEGES                     |
| TABLE_CONSTRAINTS                     |
| KEY_COLUMN_USAGE                      |
+---------------------------------------+
15 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SHOW TABLES FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA;
+---------------------------------------+
| Tables_in_INFORMATION_SCHEMA          |
+---------------------------------------+
| SCHEMATA                              |
| TABLES                                |
| COLUMNS                               |
| CHARACTER_SETS                        |
| COLLATIONS                            |
| COLLATION_CHARACTER_SET_APPLICABILITY |
| ROUTINES                              |
| STATISTICS                            |
| VIEWS                                 |
| USER_PRIVILEGES                       |
| SCHEMA_PRIVILEGES                     |
| TABLE_PRIVILEGES                      |
| COLUMN_PRIVILEGES                     |
| TABLE_CONSTRAINTS                     |
| KEY_COLUMN_USAGE                      |
+---------------------------------------+
15 rows in set (0.01 sec)

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