This function is intended to check for the existence of a table before
declaring some resource, but this is neither portable (because functions
orun on the master, not the agent) nor one-run idempotent (because the
function would run before mysql is even installed, and would take two
runs to do anything).
The correct way of doing this would be to update the providers and
dependency ordering to handle the conditional states.
Luckily this was never released so it is backwards compatible.
https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/MODULES-1676
This is identical to what PASSWORD('') in MySQL does:
5.6.22-debug-log> CREATE USER 'testpwd'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'foo';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.03 sec)
5.6.22-debug-log> SELECT User,Host,Password FROM mysql.user WHERE
User='testpwd';
+---------+-----------+-------------------------------------------+
| User | Host | Password |
+---------+-----------+-------------------------------------------+
| testpwd | localhost | *F3A2A51A9B0F2BE2468926B4132313728C250DBF |
+---------+-----------+-------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
5.6.22-debug-log> SET PASSWORD FOR 'testpwd'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('');
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
5.6.22-debug-log> SELECT User,Host,Password FROM mysql.user WHERE
User='testpwd';
+---------+-----------+----------+
| User | Host | Password |
+---------+-----------+----------+
| testpwd | localhost | |
+---------+-----------+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
This is a major change to the module and would be released as a new
version.
* Add self.instances to database and database_user for puppet resource.
* Update database provider to use flush method.
* Update module to conform to puppet-lint recommendations.
* Cleanup some unecessary logic in mysql::db define type.
* Move mysql_restart to config class.
* Use class to class dependency instead of resource dependency.
* Change appropriate rspec-puppet tests.
* Add fixtures directory to simplify testing.
* Update raketask and spec_helper to reflect fixture changes.
* Update mysql_password function to support validation.
* Move client installation to a separate class.
* Update documentation and readme.
