Currently for selectivity calculation we perform range analysis for a column even when we don't have any statistics(EITS).
This makes less sense but is used to catch contradiction for WHERE condition.
So the solution is to not perform range analysis for selectivity calculation for columns that do not have statistics.
materialization scan over materialization lookup
For non-mergeable semi-joins we don't store the estimates of the IN subquery in table->file->stats.records.
In the function TABLE_LIST::fetch_number_of_rows, we store the number of rows in the tables
(estimates in case of derived table/views).
Currently we don't store the estimates for non-mergeable semi-joins, which leads to a problem of selecting
materialization scan over materialization lookup.
Fixed this by storing these estimated appropriately
The function Item_func_isnull::update_used_tables() must
handle the case when the predicate is over not nullable
column in a special way.
This is actually a bug of MariaDB 5.3/5.5, but it's probably
hard to demonstrate that it can cause problems there.
In the function create_key_parts_for_pseudo_indexes()
the key part structures of pseudo-indexes created for
BLOB fields were set incorrectly.
Also the key parts for long fields must be 'truncated'
up to the maximum length acceptable for key parts.
1. When min/max value is provided the null flag for it must be set to 0
in the bitmap Culumn_statistics::column_stat_nulls.
2. When the calculation of the selectivity of the range condition
over a column requires min and max values for the column then we
have to check that these values are provided.
- Fix Histogram::point_selectivity() to work in the case where the
passed value_pos=0 (or 1) and the first (or the last) bucket in the
histogram has zero value-range (i.e one value).
[Attempt #2]
- Use a new selectivity calculation formula in Histogram::point_selectivity.
The formula is different from the old one because it was developed from scratch.
it doesn't have any possible division-by-zero problems.
After constant table row substitution the where condition may be converted
to always true. The function calculate_cond_selectivity_for_table() should
take into account this possibility.
The function calculate_cond_selectivity_for_table() must consider
the case when the key range tree returned by the call of get_mm_tree()
is of the type SEL_TREE::ALWAYS.
When calculating the selectivity of a range in the function
get_column_range_cardinality a check whether NULL values are
included into into the range must be done.
Don't try to a histogram if it is not read into the cache for statistical data.
It may happen so if optimizer_use_condition_selectivity is set to 3. This
setting orders the optimizer not use histograms to calculate selectivity.
When performing the range analysis for a conjunction the function
calculate_cond_selectivity_for_table should take in to account that
the analysis of some conjuncts may return SEL_ARG::IMPOSSIBLE.
One of them is quite serious: the function table_cond_selectivity used
the TABLE_REF structure for ref/eq_ref access methods as if they had been
filled. In fact these structure are filled after the best execution plan
has been chosen.
The other bugs happened due to:
- an erroneous attempt at get statistics on the result of materialization
of a view
- incorrect handling of ranges with no left/right limits when calculating
selectivity of range conditions on non-indexed columns
- lack of cleanup for some newly introduced fields
