MySQL Reference Manual for version 4.0.18.
C.7.13 Changes in release 3.20.3
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The
configure
source now compiles a thread-free client library
-lmysqlclient
. This is the only library that needs to be linked
with client applications. When using the binary releases, you must
link with -lmysql -lmysys -ldbug -lmystrings
as before.
-
New
readline
library from bash-2.0
.
-
LOTS of small changes to
configure
and makefiles (and related source).
-
It should now be possible to compile in another directory using
VPATH
. Tested with GNU Make 3.75.
-
safe_mysqld
and mysql.server
changed to be more compatible
between the source and the binary releases.
-
LIMIT
now takes one or two numeric arguments.
If one argument is given, it indicates the maximum number of rows in
a result. If two arguments are given, the first argument indicates the offset
of the first row to return, the second is the maximum number of rows.
With this it's easy to do a poor man's next page/previous page WWW
application.
-
Changed name of SQL function
FIELDS()
to ELT()
.
Changed SQL function INTERVALL()
to INTERVAL()
.
-
Made
SHOW COLUMNS
a synonym for SHOW FIELDS
.
Added compatibility syntax FRIEND KEY
to CREATE TABLE
. In
MySQL, this creates a non-unique key on the given columns.
-
Added
CREATE INDEX
and DROP INDEX
as compatibility functions.
In MySQL, CREATE INDEX
only checks if the index exists and
issues an error if it doesn't exist. DROP INDEX
always succeeds.
-
`mysqladmin.c': added client version to version information.
-
Fixed core dump bug in
sql_acl
(core on new connection).
-
Removed
host
, user
and db
tables from database test
in the distribution.
-
FIELD_TYPE_CHAR
can now be signed (-128 to 127) or unsigned (0 to 255)
Previously, it was always unsigned.
-
Bug fixes in
CONCAT()
and WEEKDAY()
.
-
Changed a lot of source to get
mysqld
to be compiled with SunPro
compiler.
-
SQL functions must now have a
'('
immediately after the function name
(no intervening space).
For example, 'USER('
is regarded as beginning a function call, and
'USER ('
is regarded as an identifier USER
followed by a
'('
, not as a function call.
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