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  1. MariaDB Server
  2. MDEV-33655

Remove alter_algorithm

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    • New Feature
    • Status: Stalled (View Workflow)
    • Critical
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • 11.5
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    Description

      The reasons for removing alter-algorithm are:

      • alter-algorithm was introduced as a replacement for the old_alter_table that was used
        to force the usage of the original alter table algorithm (copy) in the cases where the new
        alter algorithm did not work. The new option was added as a way to force the usage of
        a specific algorithm when it should instead have made it possible to disable algorithms
        that would not work for some reason.
      • alter-algorithm introduced some cases where ALTER TABLE would not work without
        specifying the ALGORITHM=XXX option together with ALTER TABLE
      • Having different values of alter-algorithm on master and slave could cause slave to
        stop unexpectedly.
      • ALTER TABLE FORCE, as used by mariadb-upgrade, would not always work if
        alter-algorithm was set for the server.
      • As part of the MDEV-33449 "improving repair of tables" it become clear that alter- algorithm made it harder to provide a better and more consistent ALTER TABLE FORCE and REPAIR TABLE and it would be better to remove it.

      The task is to remove alter-algorithm but keep the variable as no-op to not affect old setups.

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              serg Sergei Golubchik
              monty Michael Widenius
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