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Golubchik, who has a shared copyright to this code */ #define NUPD 20 #define NDATAS 389 struct { const char *f0, *f2; } data[NDATAS] = { {"1", "General Information about MySQL"}, {"1.1", "What is MySQL?"}, {"1.2", "About this manual"}, {"1.3", "History of MySQL"}, {"1.4", "The main features of MySQL"}, {"1.5", "General SQL information and tutorials"}, {"1.6", "Useful MySQL-related links"}, {"1.7", "What are stored procedures and triggers and so on?"}, {"2", "MySQL mailing lists and how to ask questions/give error (bug) reports"}, {"2.1", "Subscribing to/un-subscribing from the MySQL mailing list"}, {"2.2", "Asking questions or reporting bugs"}, {"2.3", "I think I have found a bug. What information do you need to help me?"}, {"2.3.1", "MySQL keeps crashing"}, {"2.4", "Guidelines for answering questions on the mailing list"}, {"3", "Licensing or When do I have/want to pay for MySQL?"}, {"3.1", "How much does MySQL cost?"}, {"3.2", "How do I get commercial support?"}, {"3.2.1", "Types of commercial support"}, {"3.2.1.1", "Basic email support"}, {"3.2.1.2", "Extended email support"}, /*------------------------------- NUPD=20 -------------------------------*/ {"3.2.1.3", "Asking: Login support"}, {"3.2.1.4", "Extended login support"}, {"3.3", "How do I pay for licenses/support?"}, {"3.4", "Who do I contact when I want more information about licensing/support?"}, {"3.5", "What Copyright does MySQL use?"}, {"3.6", "When may I distribute MySQL commercially without a fee?"}, {"3.7", "I want to sell a product that can be configured to use MySQL"}, {"3.8", "I am running a commercial web server using MySQL"}, {"3.9", "Do I need a license to sell commercial Perl/tcl/PHP/Web+ etc applications?"}, {"3.10", "Possible future changes in the licensing"}, {"4", "Compiling and installing MySQL"}, {"4.1", "How do I get MySQL?"}, {"4.2", "Which MySQL version should I use?"}, {"4.3", "How/when will you release updates?"}, {"4.4", "What operating systems does MySQL support?"}, {"4.5", "Compiling MySQL from source code"}, {"4.5.1", "Quick installation overview"}, {"4.5.2", "Usual configure switches"}, {"4.5.3", "Applying a patch"}, {"4.6", "Problems compiling?"}, {"4.7", "General compilation notes"}, {"4.8", "MIT-pthreads notes (FreeBSD)"}, {"4.9", "Perl installation comments"}, {"4.10", "Special things to consider for some machine/OS combinations"}, {"4.10.1", "Solaris notes"}, {"4.10.2", "SunOS 4 notes"}, {"4.10.3", "Linux notes for all versions"}, {"4.10.3.1", "Linux-x86 notes"}, {"4.10.3.2", "RedHat 5.0"}, {"4.10.3.3", "RedHat 5.1"}, {"4.10.3.4", "Linux-Sparc notes"}, {"4.10.3.5", "Linux-Alpha notes"}, {"4.10.3.6", "MkLinux notes"}, {"4.10.4", "Alpha-DEC-Unix notes"}, {"4.10.5", "Alpha-DEC-OSF1 notes"}, {"4.10.6", "SGI-IRIX notes"}, {"4.10.7", "FreeBSD notes"}, {"4.10.7.1", "FreeBSD-3.0 notes"}, {"4.10.8", "BSD/OS 2.# notes"}, {"4.10.8.1", "BSD/OS 3.# notes"}, {"4.10.9", "SCO notes"}, {"4.10.10", "SCO Unixware 7.0 notes"}, {"4.10.11", "IBM-AIX notes"}, {"4.10.12", "HP-UX notes"}, {"4.11", "TcX binaries"}, {"4.12", "Win32 notes"}, {"4.13", "Installation instructions for MySQL binary releases"}, {"4.13.1", "How to get MySQL Perl support working"}, {"4.13.2", "Linux notes"}, {"4.13.3", "HP-UX notes"}, {"4.13.4", "Linking client libraries"}, {"4.14", "Problems running mysql_install_db"}, {"4.15", "Problems starting MySQL"}, {"4.16", "Automatic start/stop of MySQL"}, {"4.17", "Option files"}, {"5", "How standards-compatible is MySQL?"}, {"5.1", "What extensions has MySQL to ANSI SQL92?"}, {"5.2", "What functionality is missing in MySQL?"}, {"5.2.1", "Sub-selects"}, {"5.2.2", "SELECT INTO TABLE"}, {"5.2.3", "Transactions"}, {"5.2.4", "Triggers"}, {"5.2.5", "Foreign Keys"}, {"5.2.5.1", "Some reasons NOT to use FOREIGN KEYS"}, {"5.2.6", "Views"}, {"5.2.7", "-- as start of a comment"}, {"5.3", "What standards does MySQL follow?"}, {"5.4", "What functions exist only for compatibility?"}, {"5.5", "Limitations of BLOB and TEXT types"}, {"5.6", "How to cope without COMMIT-ROLLBACK"}, {"6", "The MySQL access privilege system"}, {"6.1", "What the privilege system does"}, {"6.2", "Connecting to the MySQL server"}, {"6.2.1", "Keeping your password secure"}, {"6.3", "Privileges provided by MySQL"}, {"6.4", "How the privilege system works"}, {"6.5", "The privilege tables"}, {"6.6", "Setting up the initial MySQL privileges"}, {"6.7", "Adding new user privileges to MySQL"}, {"6.8", "An example permission setup"}, {"6.9", "Causes of Access denied errors"}, {"6.10", "How to make MySQL secure against crackers"}, {"7", "MySQL language reference"}, {"7.1", "Literals: how to write strings and numbers"}, {"7.1.1", "Strings"}, {"7.1.2", "Numbers"}, {"7.1.3", "NULL values"}, {"7.1.4", "Database, table, index, column and alias names"}, {"7.1.4.1", "Case sensitivity in names"}, {"7.2", "Column types"}, {"7.2.1", "Column type storage requirements"}, {"7.2.5", "Numeric types"}, {"7.2.6", "Date and time types"}, {"7.2.6.1", "The DATE type"}, {"7.2.6.2", "The TIME type"}, {"7.2.6.3", "The DATETIME type"}, {"7.2.6.4", "The TIMESTAMP type"}, {"7.2.6.5", "The YEAR type"}, {"7.2.6.6", "Miscellaneous date and time properties"}, {"7.2.7", "String types"}, {"7.2.7.1", "The CHAR and VARCHAR types"}, {"7.2.7.2", "The BLOB and TEXT types"}, {"7.2.7.3", "The ENUM type"}, {"7.2.7.4", "The SET type"}, {"7.2.8", "Choosing the right type for a column"}, {"7.2.9", "Column indexes"}, {"7.2.10", "Multiple-column indexes"}, {"7.2.11", "Using column types from other database engines"}, {"7.3", "Functions for use in SELECT and WHERE clauses"}, {"7.3.1", "Grouping functions"}, {"7.3.2", "Normal arithmetic operations"}, {"7.3.3", "Bit functions"}, {"7.3.4", "Logical operations"}, {"7.3.5", "Comparison operators"}, {"7.3.6", "String comparison functions"}, {"7.3.7", "Control flow functions"}, {"7.3.8", "Mathematical functions"}, {"7.3.9", "String functions"}, {"7.3.10", "Date and time functions"}, {"7.3.11", "Miscellaneous functions"}, {"7.3.12", "Functions for use with GROUP BY clauses"}, {"7.4", "CREATE DATABASE syntax"}, {"7.5", "DROP DATABASE syntax"}, {"7.6", "CREATE TABLE syntax"}, {"7.7", "ALTER TABLE syntax"}, {"7.8", "OPTIMIZE TABLE syntax"}, {"7.9", "DROP TABLE syntax"}, {"7.10", "DELETE syntax"}, {"7.11", "SELECT syntax"}, {"7.12", "JOIN syntax"}, {"7.13", "INSERT syntax"}, {"7.14", "REPLACE syntax"}, {"7.15", "LOAD DATA INFILE syntax"}, {"7.16", "UPDATE syntax"}, {"7.17", "USE syntax"}, {"7.18", "SHOW syntax (Get information about tables, columns...)"}, {"7.19", "EXPLAIN syntax (Get information about a SELECT)"}, {"7.20", "DESCRIBE syntax (Get information about columns)"}, {"7.21", "LOCK TABLES/UNLOCK TABLES syntax"}, {"7.22", "SET OPTION syntax"}, {"7.23", "GRANT syntax (Compatibility function)"}, {"7.24", "CREATE INDEX syntax (Compatibility function)"}, {"7.25", "DROP INDEX syntax (Compatibility function)"}, {"7.26", "Comment syntax"}, {"7.27", "CREATE FUNCTION/DROP FUNCTION syntax"}, {"7.28", "Is MySQL picky about reserved words?"}, {"8", "Example SQL queries"}, {"8.1", "Queries from twin project"}, {"8.1.1", "Find all non-distributed twins"}, {"8.1.2", "Show a table on twin pair status"}, {"9", "How safe/stable is MySQL?"}, {"9.1", "How stable is MySQL?"}, {"9.2", "Why are there is so many releases of MySQL?"}, {"9.3", "Checking a table for errors"}, {"9.4", "How to repair tables"}, {"9.5", "Is there anything special to do when upgrading/downgrading MySQL?"}, {"9.5.1", "Upgrading from a 3.21 version to 3.22"}, {"9.5.2", "Upgrading from a 3.20 version to 3.21"}, {"9.5.3", "Upgrading to another architecture"}, {"9.6", "Year 2000 compliance"}, {"10", "MySQL Server functions"}, {"10.1", "What languages are supported by MySQL?"}, {"10.1.1", "Character set used for data & sorting"}, {"10.2", "The update log"}, {"10.3", "How big can MySQL tables be?"}, {"11", "Getting maximum performance from MySQL"}, {"11.1", "How does one change the size of MySQL buffers?"}, {"11.2", "How compiling and linking affects the speed of MySQL"}, {"11.3", "How does MySQL use memory?"}, {"11.4", "How does MySQL use indexes?"}, {"11.5", "What optimizations are done on WHERE clauses?"}, {"11.6", "How does MySQL open & close tables?"}, {"11.6.0.1", "What are the drawbacks of creating possibly thousands of tables in a database?"}, {"11.7", "How does MySQL lock tables?"}, {"11.8", "How should I arrange my table to be as fast/small as possible?"}, {"11.9", "What affects the speed of INSERT statements?"}, {"11.10", "What affects the speed DELETE statements?"}, {"11.11", "How do I get MySQL to run at full speed?"}, {"11.12", "What are the different row formats? Or, when should VARCHAR/CHAR be used?"}, {"11.13", "Why so many open tables?"}, {"12", "MySQL benchmark suite"}, {"13", "MySQL Utilites"}, {"13.1", "Overview of the different MySQL programs"}, {"13.2", "The MySQL table check, optimize and repair program"}, {"13.2.1", "isamchk memory use"}, {"13.2.2", "Getting low-level table information"}, {"13.3", "The MySQL compressed read-only table generator"}, {"14", "Adding new functions to MySQL"}, {"15", "MySQL ODBC Support"}, {"15.1", "Operating systems supported by MyODBC"}, {"15.2", "How to report problems with MyODBC"}, {"15.3", "Programs known to work with MyODBC"}, {"15.4", "How to fill in the various fields in the ODBC administrator program"}, {"15.5", "How to get the value of an AUTO_INCREMENT column in ODBC"}, {"16", "Problems and common errors"}, {"16.1", "Some common errors when using MySQL"}, {"16.1.1", "MySQL server has gone away error"}, {"16.1.2", "Can't connect to local MySQL server error"}, {"16.1.3", "Out of memory error"}, {"16.1.4", "Packet too large error"}, {"16.1.5", "The table is full error"}, {"16.1.6", "Commands out of sync error in client"}, {"16.1.7", "Removing user error"}, {"16.2", "How MySQL handles a full disk"}, {"16.3", "How to run SQL commands from a text file"}, {"16.4", "Where MySQL stores temporary files"}, {"16.5", "Access denied error"}, {"16.6", "How to run MySQL as a normal user"}, {"16.7", "Problems with file permissions"}, {"16.8", "File not found"}, {"16.9", "Problems using DATE columns"}, {"16.10", "Case sensitivity in searches"}, {"16.11", "Problems with NULL values"}, {"17", "Solving some common problems with MySQL"}, {"17.1", "Database replication"}, {"17.2", "Database backups"}, {"18", "MySQL client tools and API's"}, {"18.1", "MySQL C API"}, {"18.2", "C API datatypes"}, {"18.3", "C API function overview"}, {"18.4", "C API function descriptions"}, {"18.4.1", "mysql_affected_rows()"}, {"18.4.2", "mysql_close()"}, {"18.4.3", "mysql_connect()"}, {"18.4.4", "mysql_create_db()"}, {"18.4.5", "mysql_data_seek()"}, {"18.4.6", "mysql_debug()"}, {"18.4.7", "mysql_drop_db()"}, {"18.4.8", "mysql_dump_debug_info()"}, {"18.4.9", "mysql_eof()"}, {"18.4.10", "mysql_errno()"}, {"18.4.11", "mysql_error()"}, {"18.4.12", "mysql_escape_string()"}, {"18.4.13", "mysql_fetch_field()"}, {"18.4.14", "mysql_fetch_fields()"}, {"18.4.15", "mysql_fetch_field_direct()"}, {"18.4.16", "mysql_fetch_lengths()"}, {"18.4.17", "mysql_fetch_row()"}, {"18.4.18", "mysql_field_seek()"}, {"18.4.19", "mysql_field_tell()"}, {"18.4.20", "mysql_free_result()"}, {"18.4.21", "mysql_get_client_info()"}, {"18.4.22", "mysql_get_host_info()"}, {"18.4.23", "mysql_get_proto_info()"}, {"18.4.24", "mysql_get_server_info()"}, {"18.4.25", "mysql_info()"}, {"18.4.26", "mysql_init()"}, {"18.4.27", "mysql_insert_id()"}, {"18.4.28", "mysql_kill()"}, {"18.4.29", "mysql_list_dbs()"}, {"18.4.30", "mysql_list_fields()"}, {"18.4.31", "mysql_list_processes()"}, {"18.4.32", "mysql_list_tables()"}, {"18.4.33", "mysql_num_fields()"}, {"18.4.34", "mysql_num_rows()"}, {"18.4.35", "mysql_query()"}, {"18.4.36", "mysql_real_connect()"}, {"18.4.37", "mysql_real_query()"}, {"18.4.38", "mysql_reload()"}, {"18.4.39", "mysql_row_tell()"}, {"18.4.40", "mysql_select_db()"}, {"18.4.41", "mysql_shutdown()"}, {"18.4.42", "mysql_stat()"}, {"18.4.43", "mysql_store_result()"}, {"18.4.44", "mysql_thread_id()"}, {"18.4.45", "mysql_use_result()"}, {"18.4.46", "Why is it that after mysql_query() returns success, mysql_store_result() sometimes returns NULL?"}, {"18.4.47", "What results can I get from a query?"}, {"18.4.48", "How can I get the unique ID for the last inserted row?"}, {"18.4.49", "Problems linking with the C API"}, {"18.4.50", "How to make a thread-safe client"}, {"18.5", "MySQL Perl API's"}, {"18.5.1", "DBI with DBD::mysql"}, {"18.5.1.1", "The DBI interface"}, {"18.5.1.2", "More DBI/DBD information"}, {"18.6", "MySQL Java connectivity (JDBC)"}, {"18.7", "MySQL PHP API's"}, {"18.8", "MySQL C++ API's"}, {"18.9", "MySQL Python API's"}, {"18.10", "MySQL TCL API's"}, {"19", "How MySQL compares to other databases"}, {"19.1", "How MySQL compares to mSQL"}, {"19.1.1", "How to convert mSQL tools for MySQL"}, {"19.1.2", "How mSQL and MySQL client/server communications protocols differ"}, {"19.1.3", "How mSQL 2.0 SQL syntax differs from MySQL"}, {"19.2", "How MySQL compares to PostgreSQL"}, {"A", "Some users of MySQL"}, {"B", "Contributed programs"}, {"C", "Contributors to MySQL"}, {"D", "MySQL change history"}, {"19.3", "Changes in release 3.22.x (Alpha version)"}, {"19.3.1", "Changes in release 3.22.7"}, {"19.3.2", "Changes in release 3.22.6"}, {"19.3.3", "Changes in release 3.22.5"}, {"19.3.4", "Changes in release 3.22.4"}, {"19.3.5", "Changes in release 3.22.3"}, {"19.3.6", "Changes in release 3.22.2"}, {"19.3.7", "Changes in release 3.22.1"}, {"19.3.8", "Changes in release 3.22.0"}, {"19.4", "Changes in release 3.21.x"}, {"19.4.1", "Changes in release 3.21.33"}, {"19.4.2", "Changes in release 3.21.32"}, {"19.4.3", "Changes in release 3.21.31"}, {"19.4.4", "Changes in release 3.21.30"}, {"19.4.5", "Changes in release 3.21.29"}, {"19.4.6", "Changes in release 3.21.28"}, {"19.4.7", "Changes in release 3.21.27"}, {"19.4.8", "Changes in release 3.21.26"}, {"19.4.9", "Changes in release 3.21.25"}, {"19.4.10", "Changes in release 3.21.24"}, {"19.4.11", "Changes in release 3.21.23"}, {"19.4.12", "Changes in release 3.21.22"}, {"19.4.13", "Changes in release 3.21.21a"}, {"19.4.14", "Changes in release 3.21.21"}, {"19.4.15", "Changes in release 3.21.20"}, {"19.4.16", "Changes in release 3.21.19"}, {"19.4.17", "Changes in release 3.21.18"}, {"19.4.18", "Changes in release 3.21.17"}, {"19.4.19", "Changes in release 3.21.16"}, {"19.4.20", "Changes in release 3.21.15"}, {"19.4.21", "Changes in release 3.21.14b"}, {"19.4.22", "Changes in release 3.21.14a"}, {"19.4.23", "Changes in release 3.21.13"}, {"19.4.24", "Changes in release 3.21.12"}, {"19.4.25", "Changes in release 3.21.11"}, {"19.4.26", "Changes in release 3.21.10"}, {"19.4.27", "Changes in release 3.21.9"}, {"19.4.28", "Changes in release 3.21.8"}, {"19.4.29", "Changes in release 3.21.7"}, {"19.4.30", "Changes in release 3.21.6"}, {"19.4.31", "Changes in release 3.21.5"}, {"19.4.32", "Changes in release 3.21.4"}, {"19.4.33", "Changes in release 3.21.3"}, {"19.4.34", "Changes in release 3.21.2"}, {"19.4.35", "Changes in release 3.21.0"}, {"19.5", "Changes in release 3.20.x"}, {"19.5.1", "Changes in release 3.20.18"}, {"19.5.2", "Changes in release 3.20.17"}, {"19.5.3", "Changes in release 3.20.16"}, {"19.5.4", "Changes in release 3.20.15"}, {"19.5.5", "Changes in release 3.20.14"}, {"19.5.6", "Changes in release 3.20.13"}, {"19.5.7", "Changes in release 3.20.11"}, {"19.5.8", "Changes in release 3.20.10"}, {"19.5.9", "Changes in release 3.20.9"}, {"19.5.10", "Changes in release 3.20.8"}, {"19.5.11", "Changes in release 3.20.7"}, {"19.5.12", "Changes in release 3.20.6"}, {"19.5.13", "Changes in release 3.20.3"}, {"19.5.14", "Changes in release 3.20.0"}, {"19.6", "Changes in release 3.19.x"}, {"19.6.1", "Changes in release 3.19.5"}, {"19.6.2", "Changes in release 3.19.4"}, {"19.6.3", "Changes in release 3.19.3"}, {"E", "Known errors and design deficiencies in MySQL"}, {"F", "List of things we want to add to MySQL in the future (The TODO)"}, {"19.7", "Things that must done in the real near future"}, {"19.8", "Things that have to be done sometime"}, {"19.9", "Some things we don't have any plans to do"}, {"G", "Comments on porting to other systems"}, {"19.10", "Debugging MySQL"}, {"19.11", "Comments about RTS threads"}, {"19.12", "What is the difference between different thread packages?"}, {"H", "Description of MySQL regular expression syntax"}, {"I", "What is Unireg?"}, {"J", "The MySQL server license"}, {"K", "The MySQL license for Microsoft operating systems"}, {"*", "SQL command, type and function index"}, {"*", "Concept Index"} }; #define NQUERIES 5 const char *query[NQUERIES]={ "mysql information and manual", "upgrading from previous version", "column indexes", "against about after more right the with/without", /* stopwords test */ "mysql license and copyright" };