Bug #17541 Partitioning: Out of memory on DROP PARTITION
Submitted: 18 Feb 2006 4:07 Modified: 18 Feb 2006 17:36
Reporter: Jeremy Cole (Basic Quality Contributor) (OCA) Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Partitions Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.1.6 OS:Linux (Fedora Core 4)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[18 Feb 2006 4:07] Jeremy Cole
Description:
I get an out of memory error when trying to drop a partition after loading a million rows (500k into two partitions) into the table.

How to repeat:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS ontime;
CREATE TABLE ontime (
  id                    int unsigned            not null        auto_increment,
  carrier               char(2)                 not null,
  origin                char(3)                 not null,
  destination           char(3)                 not null,
  flight_num            char(5)                 not null,
  flight_time           smallint unsigned       not null,
  tail_num              char(8)                 not null,
  dep_time              datetime                not null,
  arr_time              datetime                not null,
  dep_delay             smallint                not null,
  arr_delay             smallint                not null,
  taxi_out              smallint                not null,
  taxi_in               smallint                not null,
  distance              smallint unsigned       not null,
  cancelled             enum('Y','N')           not null,
  diverted              enum('Y','N')           not null,
  KEY(id),
  INDEX(carrier),
  INDEX(origin, destination),
  INDEX(destination),
  INDEX(tail_num)
)  ENGINE=MyISAM
PARTITION BY RANGE(YEAR(dep_time)*100 + MONTH(dep_time)) (
  PARTITION p_old     VALUES LESS THAN (200001),
  PARTITION p_2000_01 VALUES LESS THAN (200002),
  PARTITION p_2000_02 VALUES LESS THAN (200003),
  PARTITION p_2000_03 VALUES LESS THAN (200004),
  PARTITION p_2000_04 VALUES LESS THAN (200005),
  PARTITION p_2000_05 VALUES LESS THAN (200006),
  PARTITION p_2000_06 VALUES LESS THAN (200007),
  PARTITION p_2000_07 VALUES LESS THAN (200008),
  PARTITION p_2000_08 VALUES LESS THAN (200009),
  PARTITION p_2000_09 VALUES LESS THAN (200010),
  PARTITION p_2000_10 VALUES LESS THAN (200011),
  PARTITION p_2000_11 VALUES LESS THAN (200012),
  PARTITION p_2000_12 VALUES LESS THAN (200101),
  PARTITION p_2001_01 VALUES LESS THAN (200102),
  PARTITION p_2001_02 VALUES LESS THAN (200103),
  PARTITION p_2001_03 VALUES LESS THAN (200104),
  PARTITION p_2001_04 VALUES LESS THAN (200105),
  PARTITION p_2001_05 VALUES LESS THAN (200106),
  PARTITION p_2001_06 VALUES LESS THAN (200107),
  PARTITION p_2001_07 VALUES LESS THAN (200108),
  PARTITION p_2001_08 VALUES LESS THAN (200109),
  PARTITION p_2001_09 VALUES LESS THAN (200110),
  PARTITION p_2001_10 VALUES LESS THAN (200111),
  PARTITION p_2001_11 VALUES LESS THAN (200112),
  PARTITION p_2001_12 VALUES LESS THAN (200201)
);

Load the following mysqldump into the table:

http://jcole.us/files/ontime.sql.gz

mysql> alter table ontime drop partition p_2000_01;
ERROR 1037 (HY001): Out of memory; restart server and try again (needed 8 bytes)
[18 Feb 2006 17:36] MySQL Verification Team
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next release.

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Additional info:

mysql> select count(*) from ontime;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|   914976 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

mysql> alter table ontime drop partition p_2000_01;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.09 sec)
Records: 0  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

mysql> select version();
+------------------+
| version()        |
+------------------+
| 5.1.8-beta-debug |
+------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)