Bug #22126 PARTITION by RANGE should be HASH
Submitted: 8 Sep 2006 19:40 Modified: 14 Sep 2006 9:15
Reporter: Jonathan Miller Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.1 OS:N/A
Assigned to: Jon Stephens CPU Architecture:Any

[8 Sep 2006 19:40] Jonathan Miller
Description:
This table can be partitioned by RANGE  using the id column as the partitioning key into 8 partitions by means of this statement:

ALTER TABLE t1
    PARTITION BY HASH(id)
    PARTITIONS 8;

I think they ment to say:

This table can be partitioned by HASH  using the id column as the partitioning key into 8 partitions by means of this statement:

How to repeat:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/alter-table.html
[14 Sep 2006 9:15] Jon Stephens
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been addressed in the documentation. The updated documentation will appear on our website shortly, and will be included in the next release of the relevant products.

Updated doc per submitter's report.