Hi,

Here is the issue https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-11645 on which I need suggestions

The observations made are:

- in 10.1, varchar endspace was bzero-ed 
archive depended on it to not pack garbage

- in 10.2, varchar endspace is not bzero-ed
 which breaks the archive SE.

Was this change intended?

If yes, then we should update ha_archive to fill the garbage parts of the buffer with zeroes that will cause it to be (slightly?) slower  but there's no other way.


BR,
Varun