Merge sinisa@work.mysql.com:/home/bk/mysql

into sinisa.nasamreza.org:/mnt/work/mysql

Docs/manual.texi

@@ -46929,6 +46929,9 @@ not yet 100% confident in this code.
 @appendixsubsec Changes in release 3.23.53
 @itemize @bullet
 @item
+Fixed a bug with BDB @code[ALTER TABLE] with dropping column, and shutdown 
+immediately thereafter.
+@item
 Fixed problem with @code{UNSIGNED BIGINT} on AIX (again).
 @item
 Fixed bug in pthread_mutex_trylock() on HPUX 11.0

mysql-test/r/bdb-alter-table-1.result

+objid	tablename	oid	test
+1	t1	4	9
+2	metatable	1	9
+3	metaindex	1	9

mysql-test/r/bdb-alter-table-2.result

+objid	tablename	oid
+1	t1	4
+2	metatable	1
+3	metaindex	1

mysql-test/t/bdb-alter-table-1.test

+-- source include/have_bdb.inc
+
+#
+# Small basic test for ALTER TABLE bug ..
+#
+drop table if exists t1;
+create table t1(objid BIGINT not null, tablename  varchar(64), oid BIGINT not null, test BIGINT,  PRIMARY KEY (objid), UNIQUE(tablename))  type=BDB;
+insert into t1 values(1, 't1',4,9);
+insert into t1 values(2, 'metatable',1,9);
+insert into t1 values(3, 'metaindex',1,9 );
+select * from t1;
+alter table t1 drop column test;

mysql-test/t/bdb-alter-table-2.test

+-- source include/have_bdb.inc
+select * from t1;
+drop table t1;
\ No newline at end of file

sql/sql_table.cc

@@ -1665,11 +1665,6 @@ int mysql_alter_table(THD *thd,char *new_db, char *new_name,
     VOID(pthread_cond_broadcast(&COND_refresh));
     goto err;
   }
-#ifdef HAVE_BERKELEY_DB
-  extern bool berkeley_flush_logs(void);
-  if (old_db_type == DB_TYPE_BERKELEY_DB &&  berkeley_flush_logs())
-    goto err;
-#endif
   thd->proc_info="end";
   mysql_update_log.write(thd, thd->query,thd->query_length);
   if (mysql_bin_log.is_open())
@@ -1679,6 +1674,14 @@ int mysql_alter_table(THD *thd,char *new_db, char *new_name,
   }
   VOID(pthread_cond_broadcast(&COND_refresh));
   VOID(pthread_mutex_unlock(&LOCK_open));
+#ifdef HAVE_BERKELEY_DB
+  extern bool berkeley_flush_logs(void);
+  if (old_db_type == DB_TYPE_BERKELEY_DB)
+  {
+    (void)berkeley_flush_logs();
+    table=open_ltable(thd,table_list,TL_READ);
+  }
+#endif
 
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