The code in best_access_path() uses PREV_BITS(uint, N) to
compute a bitmap of all keyparts: {keypart0, ... keypart{N-1}).
The problem is that PREV_BITS($type, N) macro code can't handle the case
when N=<number of bits in $type).
Also, why use PREV_BITS(uint, ...) for key part map computations when
we could have used PREV_BITS(key_part_map) ?
Fixed both:
- Change PREV_BITS(type, N) to handle any N in [0; n_bits(type)].
- Change PREV_BITS() to use key_part_map when computing key_part_map bitmaps.
Improve performance of queries like
SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE field = NAME_CONST('a', 4);
by, in this example, replacing the WHERE clause with field = 4
in the case of ref access.
The rewrite is done during fix_fields and we disambiguate this
case from other cases of NAME_CONST by inspecting where we are
in parsing. We rely on THD::where to accomplish this. To
improve performance there, we change the type of THD::where to
be an enumeration, so we can avoid string comparisons during
Item_name_const::fix_fields. Consequently, this patch also
changes all usages of THD::where to conform likewise.
The code inside Item_subselect::fix_fields() could fail to check
that left expression had an Item_row, like this:
(('x', 1.0) ,1) IN (SELECT 'x', 1.23 FROM ... UNION ...)
In order to hit the failure, the first SELECT of the subquery had
to be a degenerate no-tables select. In this case, execution will
not enter into Item_in_subselect::create_row_in_to_exists_cond()
and will not check if left_expr is composed of scalars.
But the subquery is a UNION so as a whole it is not degenerate.
We try to create an expression cache for the subquery.
We create a temp.table from left_expr columns. No field is created
for the Item_row. Then, we crash when trying to add an index over a
non-existent field.
Fixed by moving the left_expr cardinality check to a point in
check_and_do_in_subquery_rewrites() which gets executed for all
cases.
It's better to make the check early so we don't have to care about
subquery rewrite code hitting Item_row in left_expr.
This bug affected EXPLAIN EXTENDED command for single-table DELETE that
used an IN subquery in its WHERE clause. A crash happened if the optimizer
chose to employ index_subquery or unique_subquery access when processing
such command.
The crash happened when the command tried to print the transformed query.
In the current code of 10.4 for single-table DELETE statements the output
of any explain command is produced after the join structures of all used
subqueries have been destroyed. JOIN::destroy() sets the field tab of the
JOIN_TAB structures created for subquery tables to NULL. As a result
subselect_indexsubquery_engine::print(), subselect_indexsubquery_engine()
cannot use this field to get the alias name of the joined table.
This patch suggests to use the field TABLE_LIST::TAB that can be accessed
from JOIN_TAB::tab_list to get the alias name of the joined table.
Approved by Oleksandr Byelkin <sanja@mariadb.com>
This patch also fixes some bugs detected by valgrind after this
patch:
- Not enough copy_func elements was allocated by Create_tmp_table() which
causes an memory overwrite in Create_tmp_table::add_fields()
I added an ASSERT() to be able to detect this also without valgrind.
The bug was that TMP_TABLE_PARAM::copy_fields was not correctly set
when calling create_tmp_table().
- Aria::empty_bits is not allocated if there is no varchar/char/blob
fields in the table. Fixed code to take this into account.
This cannot cause any issues as this is just a memory access
into other Aria memory and the content of the memory would not be used.
- Aria::last_key_buff was not allocated big enough. This may have caused
issues with rtrees and ma_extra(HA_EXTRA_REMEMBER_POS) as they
would use the same memory area.
- Aria and MyISAM didn't take extended key parts into account, which
caused problems when copying rec_per_key from engine to sql level.
- Mark asan builds with 'asan' in version strihng to detect these in
not_valgrind_build.inc.
This is needed to not have main.sp-no-valgrind fail with asan.
The problem was that federated engine does not support comparable rowids
which was not taken into account by semijoin code.
Fixed by checking that we don't use semijoin with tables that does not
support comparable rowids.
Other things:
- Fixed some typos in the code comments
Replaced Cost_estimate prefix_cost with a double as prefix_cost was
only used to store and retrive total prefix cost.
This also speeds up things (a bit) as don't have to call
Cost_estimate::total_cost() for every access to the prefix_cost.
Sizeof POSITION decreased from 304 to 256.
optimize_semi_joins() calls update_sj_state() to update semi-join
optimization state in the JOIN class.
greedy_search() algorithm considers different join prefixes,
and then picks one table to put into the join prefix.
Most of the semi-join optimization state is in the table's entry
in the join->positions[cur_prefix_size].
However, it also needs to call update_sj_state() to update the
semi-join optimization state in the JOIN class.
There is one exception, which is the cause of this bug: when we're
inside optimize_semi_join_nests() and are optimizing a subquery,
optimize_semi_joins() does nothing, it doesn't call update_sj_state().
greedy_search() must not do that either.
(Try 2)
The code that updates semi-join optimization state for a join order prefix
had several bugs. The visible effect was bad optimization for FirstMatch or
LooseScan strategies: they either weren't considered when they should have
been, or considered when they shouldn't have been.
In order to hit the bug, the optimizer needs to consider several different
join prefixes in a certain order. Queries with "obvious" query plans which
prune all join orders except one are not affected.
Internally, the bugs in updates of semi-join state were:
1. restore_prev_sj_state() assumed that
"we assume remaining_tables doesnt contain @tab"
which wasn't true.
2. Another bug in this function: it did remove bits from
join->cur_sj_inner_tables but never added them.
3. greedy_search() adds tables into the join prefix but neglects to update
the semi-join optimization state. (It does update nested outer join
state, see this call:
check_interleaving_with_nj(best_table)
but there's no matching call to update the semi-join state.
(This wasn't visible because most of the state is in the POSITION
structure which is updated. But there is also state in JOIN, too)
The patch:
- Fixes all of the above
- Adds JOIN::dbug_verify_sj_inner_tables() which is used to verify the
state is correct at every step.
- Renames advance_sj_state() to optimize_semi_joins().
= Introduces update_sj_state() which ideally should have been called
"advance_sj_state" but I didn't reuse the name to not create confusion.
(Try 2) (Cherry-pick back into 10.3)
The code that updates semi-join optimization state for a join order prefix
had several bugs. The visible effect was bad optimization for FirstMatch or
LooseScan strategies: they either weren't considered when they should have
been, or considered when they shouldn't have been.
In order to hit the bug, the optimizer needs to consider several different
join prefixes in a certain order. Queries with "obvious" query plans which
prune all join orders except one are not affected.
Internally, the bugs in updates of semi-join state were:
1. restore_prev_sj_state() assumed that
"we assume remaining_tables doesnt contain @tab"
which wasn't true.
2. Another bug in this function: it did remove bits from
join->cur_sj_inner_tables but never added them.
3. greedy_search() adds tables into the join prefix but neglects to update
the semi-join optimization state. (It does update nested outer join
state, see this call:
check_interleaving_with_nj(best_table)
but there's no matching call to update the semi-join state.
(This wasn't visible because most of the state is in the POSITION
structure which is updated. But there is also state in JOIN, too)
The patch:
- Fixes all of the above
- Adds JOIN::dbug_verify_sj_inner_tables() which is used to verify the
state is correct at every step.
- Renames advance_sj_state() to optimize_semi_joins().
= Introduces update_sj_state() which ideally should have been called
"advance_sj_state" but I didn't reuse the name to not create confusion.
The Item_in_subselect::in_strategy keeps the value and as the error
happens the condition isn't modified. That leads to wrong ::fix_fields
execution on second PS run. Also the select->table_list is merged
but not restored if an error happens, which causes hanging loops on
the third PS execution.
Print this piece when we've just made the choice to convert to semi-join.
Also, print it when we've already made that choice before:
transformation": {
"select_id": 2,
"from": "IN (SELECT)",
"to": "semijoin",
"chosen": true
}
