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[Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Hempel,!

On Mar 17, Hempel, Sebastian wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> there is a known issue with the repair table function (MDEV-5871,
> MDEV-8475), which was fixed in MariaDB 10.  Which is fine, but we have
> still MariaDB 5.5 server running.
> 
> So we created our own repairtable function to work around this
> problem.  For that function I like to know all possible file
> extensions for temporary myisam table files.  For me temporary myisam
> table files are these files which are generated when calling "check
> table", "repair table" or other database functions.

That's what I'm getting:

$ grep -ho '"\.[A-Z]\+"' -rI storage/myisam|sort -u
".MYD"
".MYI"
".OLD"
".TMD"
".TMM"

The first two are for normal tables, the other three must be used for
temporary tables.

Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect MariaDB
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