There's a small but critical error in Christian Hammer's recent backport
of the latest round of MySQL security fixes. The create_flags variable
added to ha_myisam::create needs to be initialized ...
*** mysql-3.23.58-security2.patch~ Fri Mar 18 17:36:53 2005
--- mysql-3.23.58-security2.patch Sat Apr 2 21:10:47 2005
***************
*** 162,168 ****
{
int error;
- uint i,j,recpos,minpos,fieldpos,temp_length,length;
! + uint i,j,recpos,minpos,fieldpos,temp_length,length, create_flags;
bool found_auto_increment=0;
enum ha_base_keytype type;
char buff[FN_REFLEN];
--- 162,168 ----
{
int error;
- uint i,j,recpos,minpos,fieldpos,temp_length,length;
! + uint i,j,recpos,minpos,fieldpos,temp_length,length, create_flags=0;
bool found_auto_increment=0;
enum ha_base_keytype type;
char buff[FN_REFLEN];
Without this you get fairly random failures during database
initialization.
AFAICS this is done correctly in MySQL 4.1.10a.
regards, tom lane
