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data0type.ic: 

  Change the sorting order of TEXT columns in InnoDB: pad with spaces at the end in comparisons; we MUST UPDATE the MySQL MANUAL to warn about the need to rebuild tables (also MyISAM) in certain cases in an upgrade to 5.0.3; TODO: study what complications the missing DATA_BINARY_TYPE flag in InnoDB < 4.0.14 causes: we would compare then also BLOBs with space padding, not just TEXT


innobase/include/data0type.ic:
  Change the sorting order of TEXT columns in InnoDB: pad with spaces at the end in comparisons; we MUST UPDATE the MySQL MANUAL to warn about the need to rebuild tables (also MyISAM) in certain cases in an upgrade to 5.0.3; TODO: study what complications the missing DATA_BINARY_TYPE flag in InnoDB < 4.0.14 causes: we would compare then also BLOBs with space padding, not just TEXT
parent 208eed01

innobase/include/data0type.ic

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@@ -195,10 +195,12 @@ dtype_get_pad_char( 
	    || type->mtype == DATA_BINARY

	    || type->mtype == DATA_FIXBINARY

	    || type->mtype == DATA_MYSQL

	    || type->mtype == DATA_VARMYSQL) {

	    || type->mtype == DATA_VARMYSQL

	    || (type->mtype == DATA_BLOB

		&& (type->prtype & DATA_BINARY_TYPE) == 0)) {



		/* Space is the padding character for all char and binary

	        strings */

	        strings, and starting from 5.0.3, also for TEXT strings. */



		return((ulint)' ');

	}