MySQL Bugs: #21165: Add Record/Key Management Section to Chapter 16 Writing a Custom Storage Engine

Bug #21165	Add Record/Key Management Section to Chapter 16 Writing a Custom Storage Engine
Submitted:	19 Jul 2006 21:47	Modified:	24 Apr 2007 10:40
Reporter:	Paul Whittington	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Documentation	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	5.1	OS:	Any (All)
Assigned to:	MC Brown	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
There is no single concise description of MySQL's internal record/key format with descriptions of the methods available for manipulating records/keys from the point
of view of a storage engine.

This is essential documentation for storage engine implementation as many of the storage engine methods must manipulate records/keys and their fields.  

How to repeat:
Read the docs

Suggested fix:
Add a section within Chapter 16 Writing a Custom Storage Engine that discusses
the interanl structure of MySQL records/keys, as stored in memory, complete with documentation of the methods and fuctions available to manipulate the records/keys. 

Topics should include dealing with fields (i.e. count, type, string access, binary access, etc.), copying key values to a record buffer (i.e. key_restore), use of functions such as set_field_ptr, the proper use of table->record[0] and table->record[1], etc.

At this point it's pretty much a read other code and hope you get the semantics right!

Thank you for a reasonable documentation request.

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This bug has now been closed.