[debian-mysql] Bug#442270: mysql-server-5.0: Table Option "CHARACTER SET" syntax unclear

[Simon Waters]

Package: mysql-server-5.0
Version: 5.0.32-7etch1
Severity: normal


In the online help in mysql, and elsewhere the syntax of the
table_option is given as;

  | [DEFAULT] CHARACTER SET charset_name
 
Only the parser only seems to accept "CHARACTER SET = charset_name".

I'm unclear on which is the preferred syntax. It probably now needs to
support the syntax with "=" since deployed code will have it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages mysql-server-5.0 depends on:
ii  adduser                    3.102         Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]      1.5.11        Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                      2.3.6.ds1-13  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbi-perl                1.53-1        Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu
ii  libgcc1                    1:4.1.1-21    GCC support library
ii  libmysqlclient15off        5.0.32-7etch1 mysql database client library
ii  libncurses5                5.5-5         Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5               5.2-2         GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6                 4.1.1-21      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwrap0                   7.6.dbs-13    Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  lsb-base                   3.1-23.1      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mysql-client-5.0           5.0.32-7etch1 mysql database client binaries
ii  mysql-common               5.0.32-7etch1 mysql database common files (e.g. 
ii  passwd                     1:4.0.18.1-7  change and administer password and
ii  perl                       5.8.8-7       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  psmisc                     22.3-1        Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii  zlib1g                     1:1.2.3-13    compression library - runtime

Versions of packages mysql-server-5.0 recommends:
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent

-- debconf information:
  mysql-server-5.0/really_downgrade: false
  mysql-server-5.0/need_sarge_compat: false
  mysql-server-5.0/start_on_boot: true
  mysql-server/error_setting_password:
  mysql-server-5.0/nis_warning:
  mysql-server-5.0/postrm_remove_databases: false
  mysql-server-5.0/need_sarge_compat_done: true