From: Kevin Lewis
Date: February 9 2009 8:45pm
Subject: Re: bug#34478
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What about making the DeferredIndex class sort things exactly like the 
IndexKeys read from index pages?  Can it use the same compare function?

Lars-Erik Bjørk wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I don't have the the battery capacity to write a long mail now (lucky 
> you!) :) I analyzed bug#34478 ( http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=34478) 
> which also narrows down to the use of 0x00 in index keys (this time as 
> pad bytes in the deferred index). Does anyone have an opinion on how 
> this bug can be avoided in a nice and correct fashion? Does it make any 
> sense to pad with 0x00?
> 
> 2 minutes capacity left, sorry the short mail, please see the report for 
> a bit more elaborate version :)
> 
> Best,
> 
> Lars-Erik
>