Bug #2210 SHOW TABLE STATUS with corrupted .frm returns -1
Submitted: 25 Dec 2003 9:40 Modified: 28 Jan 2004 0:42
Reporter: Georg Richter Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:4.1.2 OS:Linux (Linux)
Assigned to: Alexey Botchkov CPU Architecture:Any

[25 Dec 2003 9:40] Georg Richter 
Description:
This is a duplicate of #93 (Bug #93 - 4.1 protocol crash on corrupted frm and SHOW TABLE STATUS) but only affects embedded server.

mysql_query with show table status returns -1 (which is not defined in documentation).

How to repeat:
see http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=93 or test_frm_bug() in tests/client_test.c
[28 Jan 2004 0:42] Alexey Botchkov 
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been committed to our
source repository of that product and will be incorporated into the
next release.

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Additional info:

bk commit - 4.1 tree (hf:1.1678) 28 Jan 2004