[TYPO3-core] RFC: Fix (part of) #7589: FULLTEXT keys are not processed correctly

[Michael Stucki]

I just noticed: step5_todo_cleanup.diff was edited by me manually and will
not apply. However, this is really just a final cleanup and is not
necessary at all!

- michael

Michael Stucki wrote:

> Attached are the remaining patches to make this feature complete.
> 
> As you can notice, this will also take care of extra data such as table
> engine and collation of the table. This will be essential for full UTF8
> support (which unfortunately did not make it into this version).
> 
> So the character set/collation detection is basically done, but has been
> disabled by a comment to avoid large numbers of differences during DB
> comparision.
> 
> How to test these patches:
> 
> Just make sure you perform a DB comparison after every patch that has been
> applied. Generally nothing should be suggested for change except the table
> engine in case it was different (yeah, installations which had been
> upgraded from 4.0 to 4.1 did not change the table engine for index_*
> although this was suggested by ext_tables.sql)
> 
> How to review these patches:
> I have done my best to split everything into the most readable form. If
> you have any questions, I'll be happy to help you.
> 
> As a little bonus I have attached "blobToText.diff" which comes from bug
> #6098 but is pretty related with this one. Actually this would allow one
> #to
> perform a database conversion to UTF8 with a minimal effort (just
> uncomment the above mentioned collation detection and follow the steps
> described in
> #6098).
> 
> - michael
> 
> Michael Stucki wrote:
> 
>> This is a SVN patch request.
>> 
>> Problem:
>> If any table includes FULLTEXT key, that key will not be processed
>> correctly. Both EM and instal tool will prompt to add key permanently
>> even if key exists.
>> 
>> Solution:
>> No solution yet. This patch is doing some cleanup first. I have already
>> written the actual solution, but it would be hard to review it if it were
>> mixed with these non-functional changes.
>> 
>> However, since I've run into trouble last time committing non-functional
>> changes, I will first post it here to be sure.
>> 
>> Branches: TYPO3_4-2
>> 
>> Bugtracker Reference:
>> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=7589
>> 
>> - michael
> 

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