svn commit - mysqldoc@docsrva: r1720 - trunk/refman-common

[jon]

Author: jstephens
Date: 2006-04-04 18:59:19 +0200 (Tue, 04 Apr 2006)
New Revision: 1720

Log:

Documenting fix for Partitioning Bug #18659.



Modified:
   trunk/refman-common/news-5.1.xml

Modified: trunk/refman-common/news-5.1.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/refman-common/news-5.1.xml	2006-04-04 14:05:01 UTC (rev 1719)
+++ trunk/refman-common/news-5.1.xml	2006-04-04 16:59:19 UTC (rev 1720)
@@ -182,6 +182,41 @@
     </para>
 
     <itemizedlist>
+      
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          A query against a partitioned table using <literal>WHERE
+            <replaceable>col</replaceable> IS NULL</literal> could
+          produce incorrect results given the following conditions:
+        </para>
+        
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The table had partitions and subpartitions
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The partitioning function depended on a single column
+              <replaceable>col</replaceable> of one of the MySQL integer
+              types
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              The partitioning function was not monotonically increasing
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+        
+        <para>
+          The same issue could cause the server to crash when run in
+          debug mode. (Bug #18659)
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
         <para>