Bug #62568 Partition options not supported by storage engine are silently ignored

• Submitted: 28 Sep 2011 21:54
• Modified: 29 Sep 2011 3:19
• Reporter: Hartmut Holzgraefe
• Status: Verified
• Category: MySQL Server: Partitions
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 5.5.12, 5.5.17
• OS: Any
• CPU Architecture: Any

[28 Sep 2011 21:54] Hartmut Holzgraefe

Description:
E.g. InnoDB does not support DATA_DIR/INDEX_DIR, but CREATE TABLE does not raise any warnings about this unsupported combination.

How to repeat:
CREATE TABLE `t1` (
  `id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `adate` date DEFAULT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
PARTITION BY LIST (YEAR(adate))
(PARTITION p1999 VALUES IN (1995,1999,2003) DATA DIRECTORY = '/tmp' INDEX DIRECTORY = '/tmp' ENGINE = InnoDB,
 PARTITION p2000 VALUES IN (1996,2000,2004) DATA DIRECTORY = '/tmp' INDEX DIRECTORY = '/tmp',
 PARTITION p2001 VALUES IN (1997,2001,2005) DATA DIRECTORY = '/tmp' INDEX DIRECTORY = '/tmp',
 PARTITION p2002 VALUES IN (1998,2002,2006) DATA DIRECTORY = '/tmp' INDEX DIRECTORY = '/tmp');

SHOW WARNINGS;

Suggested fix:
Throw warnings when unsupported features/feature combinations are used

[29 Sep 2011 3:19] Valeriy Kravchuk

Thank you for the problem report. Verified with 5.5.17 on Mac OS X also:

macbook-pro:5.5 openxs$ bin/mysql -uroot test
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mysql> drop table t1;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.31 sec)

mysql> CREATE TABLE `t1` (
    ->   `id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
    ->   `adate` date DEFAULT NULL
    -> ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
    -> PARTITION BY LIST (YEAR(adate))
    -> (PARTITION p1999 VALUES IN (1995,1999,2003) DATA DIRECTORY = '/tmp' INDEX DIRECTORY =
    -> '/tmp' ENGINE = InnoDB,
    ->  PARTITION p2000 VALUES IN (1996,2000,2004) DATA DIRECTORY = '/tmp' INDEX DIRECTORY =
    -> '/tmp',
    ->  PARTITION p2001 VALUES IN (1997,2001,2005) DATA DIRECTORY = '/tmp' INDEX DIRECTORY =
    -> '/tmp',
    ->  PARTITION p2002 VALUES IN (1998,2002,2006) DATA DIRECTORY = '/tmp' INDEX DIRECTORY =
    -> '/tmp');
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.44 sec)

mysql> 
mysql> show warnings\G
Empty set (0.02 sec)

Surely nothing is created in /tmp :)