From b5ac35fa17c9b7cfce42676d6ea032c3d9318fdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "gkodinov/kgeorge@magare.gmz" <>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:35:05 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Addendum to bug 29325 keep_files_on_create made a startup
 option

---
 sql/mysqld.cc | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sql/mysqld.cc b/sql/mysqld.cc
index 61980fa1887..0a860f84b57 100644
--- a/sql/mysqld.cc
+++ b/sql/mysqld.cc
@@ -4828,7 +4828,8 @@ enum options_mysqld
   OPT_PORT_OPEN_TIMEOUT,
   OPT_MERGE,
   OPT_INNODB_ROLLBACK_ON_TIMEOUT,
-  OPT_SECURE_FILE_PRIV
+  OPT_SECURE_FILE_PRIV,
+  OPT_KEEP_FILES_ON_CREATE
 };
 
 
@@ -5830,6 +5831,11 @@ log and this option does nothing anymore.",
    (gptr*) &max_system_variables.join_buff_size, 0, GET_ULONG,
    REQUIRED_ARG, 128*1024L, IO_SIZE*2+MALLOC_OVERHEAD, ~0L, MALLOC_OVERHEAD,
    IO_SIZE, 0},
+  {"keep_files_on_create", OPT_KEEP_FILES_ON_CREATE,
+   "Don't overwrite stale .MYD and .MYI even if no directory is specified.",
+   (gptr*) &global_system_variables.keep_files_on_create,
+   (gptr*) &max_system_variables.keep_files_on_create,
+   0, GET_BOOL, OPT_ARG, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0},
   {"key_buffer_size", OPT_KEY_BUFFER_SIZE,
    "The size of the buffer used for index blocks for MyISAM tables. Increase this to get better index handling (for all reads and multiple writes) to as much as you can afford; 64M on a 256M machine that mainly runs MySQL is quite common.",
    (gptr*) &dflt_key_cache_var.param_buff_size,