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  1. MariaDB Server
  2. MDEV-6103

Adding/removing non-materialized virtual column triggers table recreation

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed (View Workflow)
    • Critical
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 5.5.36, 10.0.10
    • 10.0.12
    • None
    • None
    • 32-Bit Debian 7

    Description

      When adding or removing a non-materialized virtual column to/from a MyISAM table with ALTER TABLE, MariaDB recreates the whole table although only the metadata should be affected:

      MariaDB [test]> ALTER TABLE test ADD COLUMN testcolumn INT AS (othercolumn+1) VIRTUAL;
      Stage: 1 of 2 'copy to tmp table'  0.001% of stage done

      This is especially annoying for multi-gigabyte tables, where this operation takes a long time.

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            serg, please review fix for this bug.

            svoj Sergey Vojtovich added a comment - serg , please review fix for this bug.

            ok to push!

            serg Sergei Golubchik added a comment - ok to push!

            Fixed in 10.0.12:

            revno: 4218
            revision-id: svoj@mariadb.org-20140603125729-k5htqiobnba0wqsj
            parent: psergey@askmonty.org-20140603202627-ior1c69y85kz1ggd
            committer: Sergey Vojtovich <svoj@mariadb.org>
            branch nick: 10.0-mdev6103
            timestamp: Tue 2014-06-03 16:57:29 +0400
            message:
              MDEV-6103 - Adding/removing non-materialized virtual column triggers
                          table recreation
             
              Relaxed InnoDB/XtraDB checks to allow online add/drop of
              non-materialized virtual columns.

            svoj Sergey Vojtovich added a comment - Fixed in 10.0.12: revno: 4218 revision-id: svoj@mariadb.org-20140603125729-k5htqiobnba0wqsj parent: psergey@askmonty.org-20140603202627-ior1c69y85kz1ggd committer: Sergey Vojtovich <svoj@mariadb.org> branch nick: 10.0-mdev6103 timestamp: Tue 2014-06-03 16:57:29 +0400 message: MDEV-6103 - Adding/removing non-materialized virtual column triggers table recreation   Relaxed InnoDB/XtraDB checks to allow online add/drop of non-materialized virtual columns.

            Shouldn't this bug be split? As I understand, this issue is now fixed for InnoDB. I saw this issue with MyISAM, which is still affected.

            hsc Horst Schirmeier added a comment - Shouldn't this bug be split? As I understand, this issue is now fixed for InnoDB. I saw this issue with MyISAM, which is still affected.
            svoj Sergey Vojtovich added a comment - See MDEV-6303 .

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