From: Christopher Powers Date: October 24 2008 4:24pm Subject:
Online alter behavior List-Archive: Message-Id: <> MIME-Version:
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Hi guys, My understanding of the
online alter API is as follows: 1. check_if_supported_alter() -
Confirm that handler can perform operation online 2.
alter_table_phase1() - Notify handler to prepare for alter 3.
alter_table_phase2() - Command handler to execute alter 4.
alter_table_phase3() - Notify handler that changes are
persisted, table is re-opened If the handler returns an error in
steps 2 or 3 then the server triggers an assertion. Is this the
intended behavior? Thanks, Chris