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[Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Varun!

On Feb 05, Varun Gupta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is the issue https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-11645 on which I
> need suggestions
> 
> The observations made are:
> 
> - in 10.1, varchar endspace was bzero-ed
> archive depended on it to not pack garbage
> 
> - in 10.2, varchar endspace is not bzero-ed
>  which breaks the archive SE.
> 
> Was this change intended?
> 
> If yes, then we should update ha_archive to fill the garbage parts of the
> buffer with zeroes that will cause it to be (slightly?) slower  but there's
> no other way.

Could you find what commit caused it? git bisect is quite useful for
that.

Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect MariaDB
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