Bug #18287 create federated table always times out, error 1159 ' '
Submitted: 16 Mar 2006 19:48 Modified: 1 Aug 2007 9:51
Reporter: Jacek Becla Email Updates:
Status: Duplicate Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.0.20-BK, 5.0.19-max, 5.1.19-BK OS:Linux (RedHat Enterprise 4)
Assigned to: Assigned Account CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: federated, sr5_1

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