Bug #31031 ALTER TABLE regression in 5.0
An ALTER TABLE statement which added a column and added a non-partial index on it failed with: "ERROR 1089 (HY000): Incorrect sub part key; the used key part isn't a string, the used length is longer than the key part, or the storage engine doesn't support unique sub keys" In a check introduced to fix an earlier bug (no. 26794), to allow for indices on spatial type columns, the test expression was flawed (a logical OR was used instead of a logical AND), which led to this regression. The code in question does a sanity check on the key, and the flawed code mistakenly classified any index created in the way specified above as a partial index. Since many data types does not allow partial indices, the statement would fail.
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