From: Federico Caselli <cfederico87@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 17:47:20 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Fix has table reflection on MySQL 5.0 5.1
X-Git-Tag: rel_1_4_5~6^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=be200636a90e0ab5cd54f694c03b6593013665e1;p=thirdparty%2Fsqlalchemy%2Fsqlalchemy.git

Fix has table reflection on MySQL 5.0 5.1

Fixed regression in the MySQL dialect where the reflection query used to
detect if a table exists would fail on very old MySQL 5.0 and 5.1 versions.

Fixes: #6151
Change-Id: I48e98542c3a1a49519a5d113e43ba6f917e8580e
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diff --git a/doc/build/changelog/unreleased_14/6151.rst b/doc/build/changelog/unreleased_14/6151.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..318cdbf62e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/build/changelog/unreleased_14/6151.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+.. change::
+    :tags: bug, mysql, regression
+    :tickets: 6163
+
+    Fixed regression in the MySQL dialect where the reflection query used to
+    detect if a table exists would fail on very old MySQL 5.0 and 5.1 versions.
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/base.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/base.py
index e6052f69f7..b3c338bad6 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/base.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/base.py
@@ -2812,7 +2812,7 @@ class MySQLDialect(default.DefaultDialect):
 
         rs = connection.execute(
             text(
-                "SELECT * FROM information_schema.tables WHERE "
+                "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM information_schema.tables WHERE "
                 "table_schema = :table_schema AND "
                 "table_name = :table_name"
             ).bindparams(