From: Zardosht Kasheff Date: March 29 2011 3:34am Subject: storage engine access to serialized version of a TABLE or TABLE_SHARE? List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/internals/38267 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello all, Is there a way for the storage engine to get some sort of byte stream that represents a serialized version of a TABLE or TABLE_SHARE object? The goal is to save it locally during handler::create and then check its contents (as a sanity check) with the TABLE_SHARE passed in during handler::open. Is this possible? And if it is, is there a way to take this serialized data and print what the table looks like in user readable form? Thanks -Zardosht