Then with this explanation, I will let my initial patch
await approval.
-Dave
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 18:31 +0100, Ingo Strüwing wrote:
> Hi Marko,
>
> Marko Mäkelä schrieb:
> > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 12:57:50PM +0100, Ingo Strüwing wrote:
> ...
> >> Good. In 5.1 table names don't have dots in them on the file system
> >> level. Please go ahead and create a table with a dot in its name. You'll
> >> see the name is recoded to avoid most special characters in the file
> >> name.
> >
> > CREATE TABLE `#mysql50#dotted.table`(a INT);
>
> Yes. You are right. I didn't think of the "#mysql50#" prefix.
>
> This is to allow creating tables with the file name convention of 5.0.
> And indeed we should also be able to handle old tables.
>
> So I do now agree with the initial patch, provided that MY_REPLACE_EXT
> does indeed replace arbitrary strings starting at the last dot. (I
> didn't check it.)
>
> > I hope that this prefix won't be disabled, because doing so would make
> > it very hard to upgrade InnoDB tables to 5.1 format.
>
> Yes, I agree. Thanks for remembering me of this.
>
> Regards
> Ingo
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