2008-
02-
29 Matthias Leich
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1. The testsuite "funcs_1" is mostly intended for additional (compared
to the common regression tests stored in mysql-test/t) checks
of features (VIEWS, INFORMATION_SCHEMA, STORED PROCEDURES,...)
introduced with MySQL
5.
0.
2. There were some extensions of this suite when new information_schema
views were introduced. But in most cases the tests for these views
were stored within the regression testsuite (mysql-test/t).
INFORMATION_SCHEMA views introduced with MySQL
5.
1
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ENGINES (partially tested here)
EVENTS (partially tested here)
FILES
GLOBAL_STATUS
GLOBAL_VARIABLES
PARTITIONS
PLUGINS
PROCESSLIST (full tested here)
PROFILING
REFERENTIAL_CONSTRAINTS
SESSION_STATUS
SESSION_VARIABLES
3. Some hints for maintainers of this suite:
- SHOW TABLES ... LIKE '<pattern>'
does a case sensitive comparison between the tablename and
the pattern.
The names of the tables within the informationschema are in uppercase.
So please use something like
SHOW TABLES FOR information_schema LIKE 'TABLES'
when you intend to get the same non empty result set on OS with and
without case sensitive filesystems and default configuration.
- The name of the data dictionary is 'information_schema' (lowercase).
- Server on OS with filesystem with case sensitive filenames
(= The files 'abc' and 'Abc' can coexist.)
+ default configuration
Example of behaviour:
DROP DATABASE information_schema;
ERROR
42000: Access denied for user ... to database 'information_schema'
DROP DATABASE INFORMATION_SCHEMA;
ERROR
42000: Access denied for user ... to database 'INFORMATION_SCHEMA'
- Try to unify results by
--replace_result $engine_type <engine_to_be_tested>
if we could expect that the results for storage engine variants of a
test differ only in the engine names.
This makes future maintenance easier.
- Avoid the use of include/show_msg*.inc.
They produce "SQL" noise which annoys during server debugging and can be
easy replaced by "--echo ...".
