ALTER TABLE FORCE exists (and does nothing useful)

Bug #728260 reported by Stewart Smith
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Drizzle
Won't Fix
Low
Stewart Smith

Bug Description

see also http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=24091

ALTER TABLE t1 FORCE;

the bit that does FORCE sets a bit in alter_info.flags (ALTER_FORCE) - but this is never accessed anywhere.

pretty much, it just ends up doing a copying alter table that does nothing useful at all.

It hasn't done anything since MySQL 5.1.42

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marisa plumb (marisa-plumb) wrote :

per Brian, will document this as "How to repair a table

(FORCE and with ORDER BY are the two methods to mention)

Stewart Smith (stewart)
Changed in drizzle:
status: In Progress → Won't Fix
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