Fix for bug #12652385 - "61493: REORDERING COLUMNS
TO POSITION FIRST CAN CAUSE DATA TO BE CORRUPTED". ALTER TABLE MODIFY/CHANGE ... FIRST did nothing except renaming columns if new version of the table had exactly the same structure as the old one (i.e. as result of such statement, names of columns changed their order as specified but data in columns didn't). The same thing happened for ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN/ADD COLUMN statements which were supposed to produce new version of table with exactly the same structure as the old version of table. I.e. in the latter case the result was the same as if old column was renamed instead of being dropped and new column with default as value being created. Both these problems were caused by the fact that ALTER TABLE implementation incorrectly interpreted both these situations as simple renaming of columns and assumed that in-place ALTER TABLE algorithm could have been used for them. This patch fixes this problem by ensuring that in cases when some column is moved to the first position or some column is dropped the default ALTER TABLE algorithm involving table copying is always used. This is achieved by detecting such situations in mysql_prepare_alter_table() and setting Alter_info::change_level to ALTER_TABLE_DATA_CHANGED for them. mysql-test/r/alter_table.result: Added test for bug #12652385 - "61493: REORDERING COLUMNS TO POSITION FIRST CAN CAUSE DATA TO BE CORRUPTED". mysql-test/t/alter_table.test: Added test for bug #12652385 - "61493: REORDERING COLUMNS TO POSITION FIRST CAN CAUSE DATA TO BE CORRUPTED". sql/sql_table.cc: Changed mysql_prepare_alter_table() to detect situations in which we some column moved to the first position or some column is dropped and ensure that such ALTER TABLE statements won't be carried out using in-place algorithm. The latter could have happened before this patch if new version of table had the same structure as the old one (except the column names).
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