Bug#8841 - CHECKSUM TABLE is broken in MyISAM
There are (at least) two implementations of the checksum computation. One is in MyISAM for the quick checksum. It is executed on every row change. The other is in the SQL layer for the extended checksum. It retrieves all rows of a table via the respective storage engine. In former MySQL versions varchars were stored with their maximum length, but now with their real length similar to blobs. This change had been forgotten to take care of in the extended checksum calculation. Hence too much data was checksumed. In MyISAM this change had been taken care of already. Only the real data is included in the checksum. I changed mysql_checksum_table() so that it uses the length information of true varchar fields instead of the field length like in former varchar implementations.
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