Note: bug#21726 does not directly apply to 4.1, as it doesn't have stored
procedures. However, 4.1 had some bugs that were fixed in 5.0 by the
patch for bug#21726, and this patch is a backport of those fixes.
Namely, in 4.1 it fixes:
- LAST_INSERT_ID(expr) didn't return value of expr (4.1 specific).
- LAST_INSERT_ID() could return the value generated by current
statement if the call happens after the generation, like in
CREATE TABLE t1 (i INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, j INT);
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (NULL, 0), (NULL, LAST_INSERT_ID());
- Redundant binary log LAST_INSERT_ID_EVENTs could be generated.
To make MySQL compatible with some ODBC applications, you can find
the AUTO_INCREMENT value for the last inserted row with the following query:
SELECT * FROM tbl_name WHERE auto_col IS NULL.
This is done with a special code that replaces 'auto_col IS NULL' with
'auto_col = LAST_INSERT_ID'.
However this also resets the LAST_INSERT_ID to 0 as it uses it for a flag
so as to ensure that only the first SELECT ... WHERE auto_col IS NULL
after an INSERT has this special behaviour.
In order to avoid resetting the LAST_INSERT_ID a special flag is introduced
in the THD class. This flag is used to restrict the second and subsequent
SELECTs instead of LAST_INSERT_ID.
