オリジナル版：http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-51.html
最も普及しているオープンソースデータベース管理システムの新バージョンMySQL Community Server 5.1.51がリリースされました。MySQL 5.1.50は、プロダクションシステムでの使用をお勧めします。
MySQL 5.1の新機能の概要については、以下を参照してください。
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-nutshell.html
新たなサーバにMySQL 5.1.51をインストール、または以前のMySQLリリースからMySQL 5.1.51にアップグレードする際の情報については、以下を参照してください。
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/installing.html
下記のダウンロードページから、MySQLサーバのソースコード及び多数のプラットフォーム用バイナリが入手可能です
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/
現時点ですべてのミラーサイトが最新であるとは限らないことに注意してください。
あるミラーサイトで本バージョンを見つけることができない場合は、後日再確認を行うか、別のダウンロード・サイトを選択してください。
フィードバック、バグレポート、バグ修正、パッチ等の情報をお待ちしておりますので、以下のページをご利用ください。
http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Contributing
MySQL 5.1に関するオープンな問題の情報については、以下のエラッタリストを参照してください。
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/open-bugs.html
以下のセクションは、MySQL5.1の前リリース以降のMySQLソースコードの変更を記載しています。これはオンラインでも閲覧可能です：
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-48.html
以下は、追加または変更された機能です。
InnoDB Notes:
* InnoDB Plugin has been upgraded to version 1.0.12. This
version is considered of General Availability (GA) quality.
In this release, the InnoDB Plugin is included in source and
binary distributions, except RHEL3, RHEL4, SuSE 9 (x86,
x86_64, ia64), generic Linux RPM packages, and any builds
produced with the icc compiler. It also does not work for
FreeBSD 6 and HP-UX or for Linux on generic ia64.
Bugs fixed:
* Incompatible Change: Replication: As of MySQL 5.5.6, handling
of CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ... SELECT statements has been
changed for the case that the destination table already
exists:
+ Previously, for CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ... SELECT,
MySQL produced a warning that the table exists, but
inserted the rows and wrote the statement to the binary
log anyway. By contrast, CREATE TABLE ... SELECT (without
IF NOT EXISTS) failed with an error, but MySQL inserted
no rows and did not write the statement to the binary
log.
+ MySQL now handles both statements the same way when the
destination table exists, in that neither statement
inserts rows or is written to the binary log. The
difference between them is that MySQL produces a warning
when IF NOT EXISTS is present and an error when it is
not.
This change in handling of IF NOT EXISTS results in an
incompatibility for statement-based replication from a MySQL
5.1 master with the original behavior and a MySQL 5.5 slave
with the new behavior. Suppose that CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS
... SELECT is executed on the master and the destination table
exists. The result is that rows are inserted on the master but
not on the slave. (Row-based replication does not have this
problem.)
To address this issue, statement-based binary logging for
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ... SELECT is changed in MySQL 5.1
as of 5.1.51:
+ If the destination table does not exist, there is no
change: The statement is logged as is.
+ If the destination table does exist, the statement is
logged as the equivalent pair of CREATE TABLE IF NOT
EXISTS and INSERT ... SELECT statements. (If the SELECT
in the original statement is preceded by IGNORE or
REPLACE, the INSERT becomes INSERT IGNORE or REPLACE,
respectively.)
This change provides forward compatibility for statement-based
replication from MySQL 5.1 to 5.5 because when the destination
table exists, the rows will be inserted on both the master and
slave. To take advantage of this compatibility measure, the
5.1 server must be at least 5.1.51 and the 5.5 server must be
at least 5.5.6.
To upgrade an existing 5.1-to-5.5 replication scenario,
upgrade the master first to 5.1.51 or higher. Note that this
differs from the usual replication upgrade advice of upgrading
the slave first.
A workaround for applications that wish to achieve the
original effect (rows inserted regardless of whether the
destination table exists) is to use CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS
and INSERT ... SELECT statements rather than CREATE TABLE IF
NOT EXISTS ... SELECT statements.
Along with the change just described, the following related
change was made: Previously, if an existing view was named as
the destination table for CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ...
SELECT, rows were inserted into the underlying base table and
the statement was written to the binary log. As of MySQL
5.1.51 and 5.5.6, nothing is inserted or logged.
(Bug#47442: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=47442,
Bug#47132: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=47132,
Bug#48814: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=48814,
Bug#49494: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=49494)
* Incompatible Change: Previously, if you flushed the logs using
FLUSH LOGS or mysqladmin flush-logs and mysqld was writing the
error log to a file (for example, if it was started with the
--log-error option), it renamed the current log file with the
suffix -old, then created a new empty log file. This had the
problem that a second log-flushing operation thus caused the
original error log file to be lost unless you saved it under a
different name. For example, you could use the following
commands to save the file:
shell> mysqladmin flush-logs
shell> mv host_name.err-old backup-directory
To avoid the preceding file-loss problem, renaming no longer
occurs. The server merely closes and reopens the log file. To
rename the file, you can do so manually before flushing. Then
flushing the logs reopens a new file with the original file
name. For example, you can rename the file and create a new
one using the following commands:
shell> mv host_name.err host_name.err-old
shell> mysqladmin flush-logs
shell> mv host_name.err-old backup-directory
(Bug#29751: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=29751)
* Partitioning: When the storage engine used to create a
partitioned table was disabled, attempting to drop the table
caused the server to crash.
(Bug#46086: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=46086)
* If a view was named as the destination table for CREATE TABLE
... SELECT, the server produced a warning whether or not IF
NOT EXISTS was used. Now it produces a warning only when IF
NOT EXISTS is used, and an error otherwise.
(Bug#55777: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=55777)
* The CHECK TABLE command could cause a time-consuming
verification of the InnoDB adaptive hash index memory
structure. Now this extra checking is only performed in
binaries built for debugging.
(Bug#55716: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=55716)
* After the fix for
Bug#39653: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=39653, the
shortest available secondary index was used for full table
scans. The primary clustered key was used only if no secondary
index could be used. However, when the chosen secondary index
includes all columns of the table being scanned, it is better
to use the primary index because the amount of data to scan is
the same but the primary index is clustered. This is now taken
into account.
(Bug#55656: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=55656)
* (Bug#55627: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=55627)
* The server was not checking for errors generated during the
execution of Item::val_xxx() methods when copying data to a
group, order, or distinct temp table's row.
(Bug#55580: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=55580)
* ORDER BY clauses that included user variable expressions could
cause a debug assertion to be raised.
(Bug#55565: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=55565)
* Queries involving predicates of the form const NOT BETWEEN
not_indexed_column AND indexed_column could return incorrect
data due to incorrect handling by the range optimizer.
(Bug#54802: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=54802)
* MIN() or MAX() with a subquery argument could raise a debug
assertion for debug builds or return incorrect data for
nondebug builds.
(Bug#54465: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=54465)
* INFORMATION_SCHEMA plugins with no deinit() method resulted in
a memory leak.
(Bug#54253: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=54253)
* After ALTER TABLE was used on a temporary transactional table
locked by LOCK TABLES, any later attempts to execute LOCK
TABLES or UNLOCK TABLES caused a server crash.
(Bug#54117: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=54117)
* INSERT IGNORE INTO ... SELECT statements could cause a debug
assertion to be raised.
(Bug#54106: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=54106)
* The fix for Bug#30234: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=30234
caused the server to reject the DELETE tbl_name.* ... Access
compatibility syntax for multiple-table DELETE statements.
(Bug#53034: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=53034)
* Enumeration plugin variables were subject to a type casting
error, causing inconsistent results between different
platforms. (Bug#42144: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=42144)
* A PKG install on Solaris put some files in incorrect
locations. (Bug#31058: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=31058)