Added support for max_allowed_packet in option files read by mysql_option()

Extended max_allowed_packet for clients to 1G
Fixed bug in sending compressed rows >= 16M
Fix bug in skiping too long packets from clients.
Added checking of wrong command number sent by client.

include/mysql.h

@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ struct st_mysql_options {
   char *ssl_ca;					/* PEM CA file */
   char *ssl_capath;				/* PEM directory of CA-s? */
   char *ssl_cipher;				/* cipher to use */
+  unsigned long max_allowed_packet;
   my_bool use_ssl;				/* if to use SSL or not */
   my_bool compress,named_pipe;
  /*

include/mysql_com.h

@@ -34,14 +34,14 @@
 #define MYSQL_SERVICENAME "MySql"
 #endif /* __WIN__ */
 
-enum enum_server_command {COM_SLEEP,COM_QUIT,COM_INIT_DB,COM_QUERY,
-			  COM_FIELD_LIST,COM_CREATE_DB,COM_DROP_DB,COM_REFRESH,
-			  COM_SHUTDOWN,COM_STATISTICS,
-			  COM_PROCESS_INFO,COM_CONNECT,COM_PROCESS_KILL,
-			  COM_DEBUG,COM_PING,COM_TIME,COM_DELAYED_INSERT,
-			  COM_CHANGE_USER, COM_BINLOG_DUMP,
-                          COM_TABLE_DUMP, COM_CONNECT_OUT,
-			  COM_REGISTER_SLAVE};
+enum enum_server_command {
+  COM_SLEEP, COM_QUIT, COM_INIT_DB, COM_QUERY, COM_FIELD_LIST,
+  COM_CREATE_DB, COM_DROP_DB, COM_REFRESH, COM_SHUTDOWN,  COM_STATISTICS,
+  COM_PROCESS_INFO, COM_CONNECT, COM_PROCESS_KILL, COM_DEBUG, COM_PING,
+  COM_TIME, COM_DELAYED_INSERT, COM_CHANGE_USER, COM_BINLOG_DUMP,
+  COM_TABLE_DUMP,  COM_CONNECT_OUT, COM_REGISTER_SLAVE,
+  COM_END					/* Must be last! */
+};
 
 #define NOT_NULL_FLAG	1		/* Field can't be NULL */
 #define PRI_KEY_FLAG	2		/* Field is part of a primary key */

libmysql/libmysql.c

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static my_bool	mysql_client_init=0;
 uint		mysql_port=0;
 my_string	mysql_unix_port=0;
 ulong 		net_buffer_length=8192;
-ulong		max_allowed_packet=16*1024*1024L;
+ulong		max_allowed_packet= 1024L*1024L*1024L;
 ulong		net_read_timeout=  NET_READ_TIMEOUT;
 ulong		net_write_timeout= NET_WRITE_TIMEOUT;
 
@@ -713,8 +713,8 @@ static const char *default_options[]=
   "character-sets-dir", "default-character-set", "interactive-timeout",
   "connect-timeout", "local-infile", "disable-local-infile",
   "replication-probe", "enable-reads-from-master", "repl-parse-query",
-  "ssl-cipher",
- NullS
+  "ssl-cipher", "max-allowed-packet",
+  NullS
 };
 
 static TYPELIB option_types={array_elements(default_options)-1,
@@ -868,6 +868,9 @@ static void mysql_read_default_options(struct st_mysql_options *options,
 	case 25: /* repl-parse-query */
 	  options->rpl_parse= 1;
 	  break;
+	case 27:
+	  options->max_allowed_packet= atoi(opt_arg);
+	  break;
 	default:
 	  DBUG_PRINT("warning",("unknown option: %s",option[0]));
 	}
@@ -1908,6 +1911,7 @@ mysql_real_connect(MYSQL *mysql,const char *host, const char *user,
 		     mysql->server_version,mysql->server_capabilities,
 		     mysql->server_status, client_flag));
 
+  /* This needs to be changed as it's not useful with big packets */
   int3store(buff+2,max_allowed_packet);
   if (user && user[0])
     strmake(buff+5,user,32);			/* Max user name */
@@ -1935,6 +1939,8 @@ mysql_real_connect(MYSQL *mysql,const char *host, const char *user,
     goto error;
   if (client_flag & CLIENT_COMPRESS)		/* We will use compression */
     net->compress=1;
+  if (mysql->options.max_allowed_packet)
+    net->max_packet_size= mysql->options.max_allowed_packet;
   if (db && mysql_select_db(mysql,db))
     goto error;
   if (mysql->options.init_command)
@@ -2302,7 +2308,7 @@ mysql_real_query(MYSQL *mysql, const char *query, ulong length)
 {
   DBUG_ENTER("mysql_real_query");
   DBUG_PRINT("enter",("handle: %lx",mysql));
-  DBUG_PRINT("query",("Query = \"%s\"",query));
+  DBUG_PRINT("query",("Query = '%-.4096s'",query));
 
   if (mysql_send_query(mysql,query,length))
     DBUG_RETURN(-1);

mysql-test/r/packet.result

+set global max_allowed_packet=100;
+set max_allowed_packet=100;
+set global net_buffer_length=100;
+set net_buffer_length=100;
+SELECT length("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa") as len;
+len
+1024
+select repeat('a',200);
+repeat('a',200)
+NULL
+select @@net_buffer_length, @@max_allowed_packet;
+@@net_buffer_length	@@max_allowed_packet
+1024	80
+SELECT length("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa") as len;
+Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet'
+set global max_allowed_packet=default;
+set max_allowed_packet=default;
+set global net_buffer_length=default;
+set net_buffer_length=default;
+SELECT length("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa") as len;
+len
+100
+select length(repeat('a',200));
+length(repeat('a',200))
+200

mysql-test/t/packet.test

+
+#
+# Check protocol handling
+#
+
+connect (con1,localhost,root,,);
+
+connection con1;
+set global max_allowed_packet=100;
+set max_allowed_packet=100;
+set global net_buffer_length=100;
+set net_buffer_length=100;
+# Have to be > 1024 as min value of net_buffer_length is 1024
+SELECT length("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa") as len;
+# Should return NULL as 200 is bigger than max_allowed_packet
+select repeat('a',200);
+
+#
+# Connection 2 should get error for too big packets
+#
+connect (con2,localhost,root,,);
+connection con2;
+select @@net_buffer_length, @@max_allowed_packet;
+--error 1153
+SELECT length("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa") as len;
+set global max_allowed_packet=default;
+set max_allowed_packet=default;
+set global net_buffer_length=default;
+set net_buffer_length=default;
+SELECT length("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa") as len;
+select length(repeat('a',200));

mysys/my_compress.c

@@ -32,24 +32,28 @@
 
 my_bool my_compress(byte *packet, ulong *len, ulong *complen)
 {
+  DBUG_ENTER("my_compress");
   if (*len < MIN_COMPRESS_LENGTH)
+  {
     *complen=0;
+    DBUG_PRINT("note",("Packet too short: Not compressed"));
+  }
   else
   {
     byte *compbuf=my_compress_alloc(packet,len,complen);
     if (!compbuf)
-      return *complen ? 0 : 1;
+      DBUG_RETURN(*complen ? 0 : 1);
     memcpy(packet,compbuf,*len);
     my_free(compbuf,MYF(MY_WME));						  }
-  return 0;
+  DBUG_RETURN(0);
 }
 
 
 byte *my_compress_alloc(const byte *packet, ulong *len, ulong *complen)
 {
   byte *compbuf;
-  *complen =  *len * 120 / 100 + 12;
-  if (!(compbuf = (byte *) my_malloc(*complen,MYF(MY_WME))))
+  *complen=  *len * 120 / 100 + 12;
+  if (!(compbuf= (byte *) my_malloc(*complen,MYF(MY_WME))))
     return 0;					/* Not enough memory */
   if (compress((Bytef*) compbuf,(ulong *) complen, (Bytef*) packet,
 	       (uLong) *len ) != Z_OK)
@@ -59,31 +63,36 @@ byte *my_compress_alloc(const byte *packet, ulong *len, ulong *complen)
   }
   if (*complen >= *len)
   {
-    *complen=0;
-    my_free(compbuf,MYF(MY_WME));
+    *complen= 0;
+    my_free(compbuf, MYF(MY_WME));
+    DBUG_PRINT("note",("Packet got longer on compression; Not compressed"));
     return 0;
   }
-  swap(ulong,*len,*complen);			/* *len is now packet length */
+  swap(ulong, *len, *complen);			/* *len is now packet length */
   return compbuf;
 }
 
 
 my_bool my_uncompress (byte *packet, ulong *len, ulong *complen)
 {
+  DBUG_ENTER("my_uncompress");
   if (*complen)					/* If compressed */
   {
-    byte *compbuf = (byte *) my_malloc (*complen,MYF(MY_WME));
+    byte *compbuf= (byte *) my_malloc(*complen,MYF(MY_WME));
+    int error;
     if (!compbuf)
-      return 1;					/* Not enough memory */
-    if (uncompress((Bytef*) compbuf, complen, (Bytef*) packet, *len) != Z_OK)
+      DBUG_RETURN(1);				/* Not enough memory */
+    if ((error=uncompress((Bytef*) compbuf, complen, (Bytef*) packet, *len))
+	!= Z_OK)
     {						/* Probably wrong packet */
-      my_free (compbuf,MYF(MY_WME));
-      return 1;
+      DBUG_PRINT("error",("Can't uncompress packet, error: %d",error));
+      my_free(compbuf, MYF(MY_WME));
+      DBUG_RETURN(1);
     }
-    *len = *complen;
-    memcpy(packet,compbuf,*len);
-    my_free(compbuf,MYF(MY_WME));
+    *len= *complen;
+    memcpy(packet, compbuf, *len);
+    my_free(compbuf, MYF(MY_WME));
   }
-  return 0;
+  DBUG_RETURN(0);
 }
 #endif /* HAVE_COMPRESS */

sql/net_pkg.cc

@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ net_store_length(char *pkg, ulonglong length)
   }
   *packet++=254;
   int8store(packet,length);
-  return (char*) packet+9;
+  return (char*) packet+8;
 }
 
 char *

sql/sql_class.h

@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ class THD :public ilink {
   uint client_capabilities;		/* What the client supports */
   /* Determines if which non-standard SQL behaviour should be enabled */
   uint sql_mode;
-  uint max_client_packet_length;
+  ulong max_client_packet_length;
   ulong master_access;			/* Global privileges from mysql.user */
   ulong db_access;			/* Privileges for current db */
 

sql/sql_parse.cc

@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ const char *command_name[]={
   "Sleep", "Quit", "Init DB", "Query", "Field List", "Create DB",
   "Drop DB", "Refresh", "Shutdown", "Statistics", "Processlist",
   "Connect","Kill","Debug","Ping","Time","Delayed_insert","Change user",
-  "Binlog Dump","Table Dump",  "Connect Out", "Register Slave"
+  "Binlog Dump","Table Dump",  "Connect Out", "Register Slave",
+  "Error"					// Last command number
 };
 
 bool volatile abort_slave = 0;
@@ -209,7 +210,7 @@ static bool check_user(THD *thd,enum_server_command command, const char *user,
 				 !(thd->client_capabilities &
 				   CLIENT_LONG_PASSWORD),&ur);
   DBUG_PRINT("info",
-	     ("Capabilities: %d  packet_length: %d  Host: '%s'  User: '%s'  Using password: %s  Access: %u  db: '%s'",
+	     ("Capabilities: %d  packet_length: %ld  Host: '%s'  User: '%s'  Using password: %s  Access: %u  db: '%s'",
 	      thd->client_capabilities, thd->max_client_packet_length,
 	      thd->host_or_ip, thd->priv_user,
 	      passwd[0] ? "yes": "no",
@@ -882,20 +883,22 @@ bool do_command(THD *thd)
   net_new_transaction(net);
   if ((packet_length=my_net_read(net)) == packet_error)
   {
-     DBUG_PRINT("info",("Got error reading command from socket %s",
-			vio_description(net->vio) ));
-    return TRUE;
-  }
-  else if (!packet_length)
-  {
+    DBUG_PRINT("info",("Got error %d reading command from socket %s",
+		       net->error,
+		       vio_description(net->vio)));
+    /* Check if we can continue without closing the connection */
+    if (net->error != 3)
+      DBUG_RETURN(TRUE);			// We have to close it.
     send_error(net,net->last_errno,NullS);
-    net->error=0;
+    net->error= 0;
     DBUG_RETURN(FALSE);
   }
   else
   {
     packet=(char*) net->read_pos;
     command = (enum enum_server_command) (uchar) packet[0];
+    if (command >= COM_END)
+      command= COM_END;				// Wrong command
     DBUG_PRINT("info",("Command on %s = %d (%s)",
 		       vio_description(net->vio), command,
 		       command_name[command]));
@@ -1025,7 +1028,7 @@ bool dispatch_command(enum enum_server_command command, THD *thd,
     if (!(specialflag & SPECIAL_NO_PRIOR))
       my_pthread_setprio(pthread_self(),QUERY_PRIOR);
     mysql_log.write(thd,command,"%s",thd->query);
-    DBUG_PRINT("query",("%s",thd->query));
+    DBUG_PRINT("query",("%-.4096s",thd->query));
     /* thd->query_length is set by mysql_parse() */
     mysql_parse(thd,thd->query,packet_length);
     if (!(specialflag & SPECIAL_NO_PRIOR))
@@ -1223,6 +1226,7 @@ bool dispatch_command(enum enum_server_command command, THD *thd,
   case COM_CONNECT:				// Impossible here
   case COM_TIME:				// Impossible from client
   case COM_DELAYED_INSERT:
+  case COM_END:
   default:
     send_error(net, ER_UNKNOWN_COM_ERROR);
     break;

tests/big_record.pl

 #!/usr/bin/perl
 
-# This is a test with stores big records in a blob
+# This is a test with stores big records in a blob.
 # Note that for the default test the mysql server should have been
-# started with at least 'mysqld -O max_allowed_packet=200k'
-
-$host= shift || "";
-$test_db="test";
-$opt_user=$opt_password="";
+# started with at least 'mysqld -O max_allowed_packet=30M' and you should have
+# at least 256M memory in your computer.
 
 use DBI;
-$|= 1;				# Autoflush
+use Getopt::Long;
+
+$opt_host="";
+$opt_user=$opt_password="";
+$opt_db="test";
+$opt_rows=200;			# Test of blobs up to ($rows-1)*100000+1 bytes
+$opt_compress=0;
+$opt_table="test_big_record";
 
-$table="test_big_record";
-$rows=20;			# Test of blobs up to ($rows-1)*10000+1 bytes
+GetOptions("host=s","db=s","user=s", "password=s", "table=s", "rows=i",
+	   "compress") || die "Aborted";
 
 print "Connection to database $test_db\n";
 
-$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$test_db:$host",$opt_user,$opt_password) || die "Can't connect: $DBI::errstr\n";
+$extra_options="";
+$extra_options.=":mysql_compression=1" if ($opt_compress);
 
-$dbh->do("drop table if exists $table");
+$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$opt_db:$host$extra_options",$opt_user,$opt_password) || die "Can't connect: $DBI::errstr\n";
 
-print "Creating table $table\n";
+$dbh->do("drop table if exists $opt_table");
+
+print "Creating table $opt_table\n";
 
 ($dbh->do("\
-CREATE TABLE $table (
+CREATE TABLE $opt_table (
   auto int(5) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' auto_increment,
-  test mediumblob,
+  test longblob,
   PRIMARY KEY (auto))"))  or die $DBI::errstr;
 
-print "Inserting $rows records\n";
+print "Inserting $opt_rows records\n";
+
+$|=1;	# Flush output to stdout to be able to monitor process
 
-for ($i=0 ; $i < $rows ; $i++)
+for ($i=0 ; $i < $opt_rows ; $i++)
 {
-  $tmp= chr(65+$i) x ($i*10000+1);
+  $tmp= chr(65+($i % 16)) x ($i*100000+1);
+  print $i," ",length($tmp),"\n";
   $tmp= $dbh->quote($tmp);
-  $dbh->do("insert into $table (test) values ($tmp)") or die $DBI::errstr;
+  $dbh->do("insert into $opt_table (test) values ($tmp)") or die $DBI::errstr;
 }
 
-print "Testing records\n";
+print "Reading records\n";
+
+$sth=$dbh->prepare("select * from $opt_table", { "mysql_use_result" => 1}) or die $dbh->errstr;
 
-$sth=$dbh->prepare("select * from $table") or die $dbh->errstr;
 $sth->execute() or die $sth->errstr;
 
 $i=0;
 while (($row = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref))
 {
   print $row->[0]," ",length($row->[1]),"\n";
-  die "Record $i had wrong data in blob" if ($row->[1] ne (chr(65+$i)) x ($i*10000+1));
+  die "Record $i had wrong data in blob" if ($row->[1] ne (chr(65+($i % 16)) x ($i*100000+1)));
   $i++;
 }
 
-die "Didn't get all rows from server" if ($i != $rows);
+die "Didn't get all rows from server" if ($i != $opt_rows);
 
-$dbh->do("drop table $table") or die $DBI::errstr;
+$dbh->do("drop table $opt_table") or die $DBI::errstr;
 
 print "Test ok\n";
 exit 0;