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[Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Nikita!

On Dec 21, Nikita Malyavin wrote:
> > > @@ -4938,6 +4938,7 @@ int ha_create_table(THD *thd, const char *path,
> > >                          !create_info->tmp_table();
> > >
> > >      share.frm_image= frm;
> > > +    share.orig_table_name= table_name;
> >
> > why? if orig_table_name is NULL, error_table_name() will use table_name,
> > so there's never need to make orig_table_name==table_name.
> >
> > and I don't understand all your other manipulations with
> > orig_table_name. Could you please explain that?
> 
> It affects ALTER TABLE error messages. table_name will contain temporary name,
> and error_table_name() will output "(temporary)", which is rather inconvenient.
> AFAICS, orig_table_name purpose is exactly for fixing that, but some
> corner cases were not covered to this moment.

I don't understand that. You've made a lot of changes in many places
passing orig table name around, it's difficult to see what corner cases
you were trying to fix.

Could you please fix it in a separate commit? With tests and an
explanation in a commit comment, describing what exactly corner cases
were not covered.

> > >      // open an frm image
> > >      if (share.init_from_binary_frm_image(thd, write_frm_now,

Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect MariaDB
and security@xxxxxxxxxxx