[Maria-developers] We Are Allowed To Add No More Than Two New Log Events :)

Hi Monty, I found out why MySQL/Sun generously allowed to add new log events starting only from number 196. How many log events with numbers >= 196 can be added? Only TWO !!! Indeed, each event must have post header length <= 254 because this length must be saved in the uchar post_header_len[] array (the value 255 is reserved as the "undefined" length value). Now, the post header of the Format description event has the length = number_of_events + 57. Hence max number of possible events in MySQL is 254 - 57 = 197. Funny :) Cheers, Alex