Description:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/windows-vs-unix.html
lists number of facts that are not true anymore on Windows.
- The section "Concurrent reads" talks about the limitation that was fixed in 5.5 in course of Bug#24509 fix
- the behavior described in "Blocking read" was fixed in Bug#31621
- The ALTER TABLE and DROP TABLE sections are incorrect, we open files with FILE_SHARE_DELETE so it is possible to delete files that are in use.
- DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY section says windows does not support symbolic links. It should say instead: MySQL on does not yet support Windows symbolic links (Windows does support symbolic links actually, and directory symlinks known as junctions have been there since Windows 2000)
- Access denied for user error
is misleading, windows resolved "localhost" and 127.0.0.1 correctly, I have not seen any reports stating otherwise.
- Add macros to use the faster thread-safe increment/decrement methods provided by Windows.
This is not a limitation and this is already done.
I'm not sure whether "Limited number of ports" is correct (citation needed? bug#?)m, same about "Problems with pipes"
I'd also propose to change wording in "DROP DATABASE" section from
You cannot drop a database that is in use by some thread.
to
You cannot drop a database that is in use by some connection.
(users think in terms of connections, not in terms of threads)
How to repeat:
Read http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/windows-vs-unix.html
