MERGE things

[Michael Widenius]

Hi!


Paul> Hi again,
Paul> 
Paul> I have next ideas which can make MERGE table handler be more powerful:
Paul> 1) Track dropping/renaming MERGE member tables and automatically update
Paul> MERGE definition;

Can't be easily done with the current way MERGE tables work :(

Paul> 2) Allow ALTER TABLE command and apply given command to all MERGE
Paul> members.

Same here.  I agree that this would be a nice feature, but also a very
confusing/unexpected feature that could cause a lot of unexpected
problems.

Regards,
Monty