3.22.25 ALTER TABLE to add DEFAULT to blob kills socket

[Michael Widenius]

Hi!

I was scanning old mails to check if we have any unsolved problems and
come across the belove mail message.  Do you still have this problem
or have you managed to solve this?

Anyway, the core dump problem is already fixed in MySQL 3.22.27.

Regards,
Monty

>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Coar <Ken.Coar@stripped> writes:

>> Description:
Ken> This is MySQL 3.22.25 on Red Hat Linux 5.2.

Ken> Forgetting that the 'event' field was a TINYTEXT, I
Ken> issued the following MySQL command:

mysql> alter table registration alter column event set default 'ac2k';

Ken> This killed the socket.  The server was still running, but trying to
Ken> access the database resulted in the following error:

Ken> ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

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