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    Bug#25164 create table `a` as select * from `A` hangs · 91e1cc21
    davi@moksha.local authored
    The problem from a user's perspective: user creates table A, and then tries
    to CREATE TABLE a SELECT from A - and this causes a deadlock error, a hang,
    or fails with a debug assert, but only if the storage engine is InnoDB.
    
    The origin of the problem: InnoDB uses case-insensitive collation
    (system_charset_info) when looking up the internal table share, thus returning
    the same share for 'a' and 'A'.
    
    Cause of the user-visible behavior: since the same share is returned to SQL
    locking subsystem, it assumes that the same table is first locked (within the
    same session) for WRITE, and then for READ, and returns a deadlock error.
    However, the code is wrong in not properly cleaning up upon an error, leaving
    external locks in place, which leads to assertion failures and hangs.
    
    Fix that has been implemented: the SQL layer should properly propagate the
    deadlock error, cleaning up and freeing all resources.
    
    Further work towards a more complete solution: InnoDB should not use case
    insensitive collation for table share hash if table names on disk honor the case.
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