Engine agnostic MySQL test cases

Mark writes Now we all need the storage-engine independent test suite . I could not agree more. I have made comments about this probably as early as 4 years ago, and both before and while working for MySQL Inc.

There is however a way to do it with the current mysql-test syntax. While not ideal, it does actually work.
It took me like an hour to dig though old, old backup code, but I found it.

The Test Case:

$ cat t/engine_agnostic.test
CREATE TABLE i(id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL);
let $ENGINE=`select variable_value from information_schema.global_variables where variable_name='STORAGE_ENGINE'`;
--replace_result $ENGINE ENGINE
SHOW CREATE TABLE i;

The Test Result:

cat r/engine_agnostic.result
CREATE TABLE i(id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL);
SHOW CREATE TABLE i;
Table	Create Table
i	CREATE TABLE `i` (
  `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL
) ENGINE=ENGINE DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1

You can now drive different storage engine tests via using the default-storage-engine configuration option. It’s not ideal, and it’s not pretty, but it does work.

I should also say for 5.1+ versions.