Bug #9596 Program crashes added enum column type
Submitted: 4 Apr 2005 2:06 Modified: 4 Apr 2005 5:17
Reporter: David Wright Email Updates:
Status: Duplicate Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: InnoDB storage engine Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:5.0.3 OS:Windows (Windows Xp Service Pack 2)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[4 Apr 2005 2:06] David Wright
Description:
I reported this under 9519 but it has been closed and no-one repsonds to my updates on 9519 as to how and why the problem occurred - Dont you like feedback?

Anyway...

While adding a table through MySql Query Browser after hitting the execute
button..after adding the new table via the "Create New Table" menu.

How to repeat:
The table to be created was... (VIA Query Browser 1.1.6 and MySql Server 5.0.3)

After re-running the query browser the table is visible but viewing the columns
displays "could not fetch columns"

CREATE TABLE `stock`.`InvestorAnalysis` (
  `InvestorId` BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `Profit` DOUBLE(7,2) UNSIGNED ZEROFILL COMMENT 'Positive value of profits
made',
  `Loss` DOUBLE(7,2) ZEROFILL UNSIGNED COMMENT 'Positive value of losses made',
  `DateCounter` SMALLINT UNSIGNED ZEROFILL NOT NULL,
  `Year` SMALLINT UNSIGNED ZEROFILL NOT NULL,
  `Active` ENUM('Yes','No') NOT NULL COMMENT '0 = Trade Day, !0 = Not a Trade
Day',
  `TradeMade` ENUM('Yes','No') NOT NULL COMMENT '0 = No Trade, !0 = Trade
Made',
  `BestTradeId` BIGINT UNSIGNED,
  `WorstTradeId` BIGINT UNSIGNED,
  `CounterType` ENUM('Y','M','W','D') NOT NULL COMMENT 'Y = Year, M = Month, W =
Week, D = Days',
  `Gain` DOUBLE(8,2) NOT NULL COMMENT 'Signed value of overall trade results',
  PRIMARY KEY(`InvestorId`)
)
TYPE = InnoDB;

How to repeat:
1. Windows XP Professional.
2. Service Pack 2.
3. MySql Server 5.0.3 beta installed and service running.
4. Install MySql Query Browser 1.1.6
5. I Have no other databases except what is there after installation.
6. I created a database called 'stock'
7. I created 2 tables in the new 'stock' database via the Query Browser GUI.
8. The third table I entered is detailed in previous comments. I manually
created the third table again via the Query Browser GUI.
9. Hit the 'Apply Changes' button.
10. Confirm Table edit popup appears with Create Table script as attached.
11. Hit the 'Execute' button.
12. The 'crash' occured in mysqld-nt.exe as specified and program closed after
closing 'crash' message box.

Suggested fix:
Downloaded latest Query Browser 1.1.7.

Tried to re-create the table via script that I saved after editing. The query
browser crashes. 

If I remove all the *enum* declarations the table is created successfully.??
[4 Apr 2005 2:30] MySQL Verification Team
I wasn't able to repeat the crash. Could you please provide for us
your my.ini file ?

Thanks in advance.
[4 Apr 2005 5:17] Heikki Tuuri
This is very probably a duplicate of bug #9526 if you are using UTF-8.

Regards,

Heikki
[4 Apr 2005 8:52] David Wright
My My.ini file
# CLIENT SECTION

[client]
port=3306
# SERVER SECTION
[mysqld]
port=3306
basedir="C:/Development/applications/MySql/Server5.0.3/"
datadir="C:/Development/applications/MySql/Server5.0.3/Data/"
default-character-set=utf8
default-storage-engine=INNODB
max_connections=100
query_cache_size=0
table_cache=256
tmp_table_size=5M
thread_cache_size=8

#*** MyISAM Specific options
myisam_max_sort_file_size=100G
myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size=100G
myisam_sort_buffer_size=8M
key_buffer_size=8M
read_buffer_size=64K
read_rnd_buffer_size=256K
sort_buffer_size=212K

#*** INNODB Specific options ***
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=2M
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1
innodb_log_buffer_size=1M
innodb_buffer_pool_size=8M
innodb_log_file_size=10M
innodb_thread_concurrency=8
[8 Apr 2005 23:12] Matthew Bilek
See #9752 too.

# MySQL Server Instance Configuration File
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Generated by the MySQL Server Instance Configuration Wizard
#
#
# Installation Instructions
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# On Linux you can copy this file to /etc/my.cnf to set global options,
# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options
# (@localstatedir@ for this installation) or to
# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.
#
# On Windows you should keep this file in the installation directory 
# of your server (e.g. C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1). To
# make sure the server reads the config file use the startup option 
# "--defaults-file". 
#
# To run run the server from the command line, execute this in a 
# command line shell, e.g.
# mysqld --defaults-file="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\my.ini"
#
# To install the server as a Windows service manually, execute this in a 
# command line shell, e.g.
# mysqld --install MySQL41 --defaults-file="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\my.ini"
#
# And then execute this in a command line shell to start the server, e.g.
# net start MySQL41
#
#
# Guildlines for editing this file
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# In this file, you can use all long options that the program supports.
# If you want to know the options a program supports, start the program
# with the "--help" option.
#
# More detailed information about the individual options can also be
# found in the manual.
#
#
# CLIENT SECTION
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# The following options will be read by MySQL client applications.
# Note that only client applications shipped by MySQL are guaranteed
# to read this section. If you want your own MySQL client program to
# honor these values, you need to specify it as an option during the
# MySQL client library initialization.
#
[client]

port=3307

# SERVER SECTION
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# The following options will be read by the MySQL Server. Make sure that
# you have installed the server correctly (see above) so it reads this 
# file.
#
[mysqld]

# The TCP/IP Port the MySQL Server will listen on
port=3307

#Path to installation directory. All paths are usually resolved relative to this.
basedir="C:/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.0/"

#Path to the database root
datadir="C:/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.0/Data/"

# The default character set that will be used when a new schema or table is
# created and no character set is defined
default-character-set=utf8

# The default storage engine that will be used when create new tables when
default-storage-engine=INNODB

# The maximum amount of concurrent sessions the MySQL server will
# allow. One of these connections will be reserved for a user with
# SUPER privileges to allow the administrator to login even if the
# connection limit has been reached.
max_connections=100

# Query cache is used to cache SELECT results and later return them
# without actual executing the same query once again. Having the query
# cache enabled may result in significant speed improvements, if your
# have a lot of identical queries and rarely changing tables. See the
# "Qcache_lowmem_prunes" status variable to check if the current value
# is high enough for your load.
# Note: In case your tables change very often or if your queries are
# textually different every time, the query cache may result in a
# slowdown instead of a performance improvement.
query_cache_size=0

# The number of open tables for all threads. Increasing this value
# increases the number of file descriptors that mysqld requires.
# Therefore you have to make sure to set the amount of open files
# allowed to at least 4096 in the variable "open-files-limit" in
# section [mysqld_safe]
table_cache=256

# Maximum size for internal (in-memory) temporary tables. If a table
# grows larger than this value, it is automatically converted to disk
# based table This limitation is for a single table. There can be many
# of them.
tmp_table_size=9M

# How many threads we should keep in a cache for reuse. When a client
# disconnects, the client's threads are put in the cache if there aren't
# more than thread_cache_size threads from before.  This greatly reduces
# the amount of thread creations needed if you have a lot of new
# connections. (Normally this doesn't give a notable performance
# improvement if you have a good thread implementation.)
thread_cache_size=8

#*** MyISAM Specific options

# The maximum size of the temporary file MySQL is allowed to use while
# recreating the index (during REPAIR, ALTER TABLE or LOAD DATA INFILE.
# If the file-size would be bigger than this, the index will be created
# through the key cache (which is slower).
myisam_max_sort_file_size=100G

# If the temporary file used for fast index creation would be bigger
# than using the key cache by the amount specified here, then prefer the
# key cache method.  This is mainly used to force long character keys in
# large tables to use the slower key cache method to create the index.
myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size=100G

# If the temporary file used for fast index creation would be bigger
# than using the key cache by the amount specified here, then prefer the
# key cache method.  This is mainly used to force long character keys in
# large tables to use the slower key cache method to create the index.
myisam_sort_buffer_size=18M

# Size of the Key Buffer, used to cache index blocks for MyISAM tables.
# Do not set it larger than 30% of your available memory, as some memory
# is also required by the OS to cache rows. Even if you're not using
# MyISAM tables, you should still set it to 8-64M as it will also be
# used for internal temporary disk tables.
key_buffer_size=11M

# Size of the buffer used for doing full table scans of MyISAM tables.
# Allocated per thread, if a full scan is needed.
read_buffer_size=64K
read_rnd_buffer_size=256K

# This buffer is allocated when MySQL needs to rebuild the index in
# REPAIR, OPTIMZE, ALTER table statements as well as in LOAD DATA INFILE
# into an empty table. It is allocated per thread so be careful with
# large settings.
sort_buffer_size=256K

#*** INNODB Specific options ***

# Use this option if you have a MySQL server with InnoDB support enabled
# but you do not plan to use it. This will save memory and disk space
# and speed up some things.
#skip-innodb

# Additional memory pool that is used by InnoDB to store metadata
# information.  If InnoDB requires more memory for this purpose it will
# start to allocate it from the OS.  As this is fast enough on most
# recent operating systems, you normally do not need to change this
# value. SHOW INNODB STATUS will display the current amount used.
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=2M

# If set to 1, InnoDB will flush (fsync) the transaction logs to the
# disk at each commit, which offers full ACID behavior. If you are
# willing to compromise this safety, and you are running small
# transactions, you may set this to 0 or 2 to reduce disk I/O to the
# logs. Value 0 means that the log is only written to the log file and
# the log file flushed to disk approximately once per second. Value 2
# means the log is written to the log file at each commit, but the log
# file is only flushed to disk approximately once per second.
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1

# The size of the buffer InnoDB uses for buffering log data. As soon as
# it is full, InnoDB will have to flush it to disk. As it is flushed
# once per second anyway, it does not make sense to have it very large
# (even with long transactions).
innodb_log_buffer_size=1M

# InnoDB, unlike MyISAM, uses a buffer pool to cache both indexes and
# row data. The bigger you set this the less disk I/O is needed to
# access data in tables. On a dedicated database server you may set this
# parameter up to 80% of the machine physical memory size. Do not set it
# too large, though, because competition of the physical memory may
# cause paging in the operating system.  Note that on 32bit systems you
# might be limited to 2-3.5G of user level memory per process, so do not
# set it too high.
innodb_buffer_pool_size=18M

# Size of each log file in a log group. You should set the combined size
# of log files to about 25%-100% of your buffer pool size to avoid
# unneeded buffer pool flush activity on log file overwrite. However,
# note that a larger logfile size will increase the time needed for the
# recovery process.
innodb_log_file_size=10M

# Number of threads allowed inside the InnoDB kernel. The optimal value
# depends highly on the application, hardware as well as the OS
# scheduler properties. A too high value may lead to thread thrashing.
innodb_thread_concurrency=8
[8 Apr 2005 23:23] Matthew Bilek
The server crash happens when using CREATE TABLE with ENUM column types.