Andrey Zhakov wrote:
> Monty,
> 
> While merging, you seem to have removed some essential code in
> procedure unpack_vcol_info_from_frm in table.cc (I understand some
> changes were needed because thd->stmt_arena was no longer available).
> That code was intended for parse_sql processing a vcol expression to
>  1) make Item objects be created in the memory allocated for the
> Table object (not TABLE_SHARE) 2) ensure that created Item's are not
> put on to thd->free_list (which is associated with the parsed
> statement and hence cleared after the parsing?)

Ooops. Crap - you're right, of course.

> The following changes in unpack_vcol_info_from_frm get the vcol
> feature to work: 1) right before calling parse_sql: MEM_ROOT
> **root_ptr, *old_root; Item *backup_free_list= thd->free_list; 
> root_ptr= (MEM_ROOT **)pthread_getspecific(THR_MALLOC); old_root=
> *root_ptr; *root_ptr= &table->mem_root; thd->free_list= NULL; 2)
> right before "return(false)": field->vcol_info->item_free_list=
> thd->free_list; thd->free_list= backup_free_list; *root_ptr=
> old_root; 3) right before "return(true)": *root_ptr= old_root; 
> thd->free_list= backup_free_list;
> 
> -- In addition I notice that field types "bool", "tinyint" and
> "unsigned" are no longer valid SQL types in drizzle. So test file
> vcol_suported_sql_funcs_main.inc needs updating and correspondinng
> tests for myisam and innodb need re-recording.
> 
> Do you want me to incorporate all these changes in
> lp:~andrey-zhakov/drizzle/drizzle-virtual-columns?

If you don't mind, that would be great! Otherwise I can try to get to
that perhaps sometime Friday or next week.

Thanks!
Monty

> Regards, Andrey
> 
> --- Tue, 7.10.08, Monty Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From:
> Monty Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Drizzle-discuss]
> Virtual columns in Drizzle TO: "Jay Pipes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] Date:
> Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 8:53
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried merging this in tonight. It's was reasonably clean, and I was
>  able to get it to build. The test suite didn't quite run though.
> 
> I didn't do the world's best merge though, it was intended to be a 
> first pass. However, if you want to take a look at
> lp:~mordred/drizzle/vcol and tell me what I'm doing wrong...
> 
> Monty
> 
> Jay Pipes wrote:
>> First of all, welcome to the Drizzle community, Andrey!  Thanks
>> very much for your contribution!  I'll take a closer look at the
>> code in
> the
>> next few days.  My first request would be to discuss whether the 
>> contribution can be made into a plugin instead of a patchset to the
>> core server.  I think that the functionality is great, and this
>> might be a great first "real" pluggable functionality to test our
>> plugin infrastructure.
>> 
>> Just some initial thoughts.  I'll have some more after reading the
> code.
>> Cheers!
>> 
>> jay
>> 
>> Andrey Zhakov wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I've ported to Drizzle my contribution for MySQL to support
> virtual columns..
>>> Drizzle source code:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~andrey-zhakov/drizzle/drizzle-virtual-columns.
> 
>>> As of now, documentation is only available for MySQL. - Preview:
>>> http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_virtual_columns_preview. -
>>> Reference manual:
> http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_virtual_columns_ref_manual.
>>> If you are interested in this feature I would be glad to answer
>>> to
> your questions.
>>> Regards, Andrey
>>> 
>>> 
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