The bug caused memory corruption for some queries with top OR level
in the WHERE condition if they contained equality predicates and
other sargable predicates in disjunctive parts of the condition.
The corruption happened because the upper bound of the memory
allocated for KEY_FIELD and SARGABLE_PARAM internal structures
containing info about potential lookup keys was calculated incorrectly
in some cases. In particular it was calculated incorrectly when the
WHERE condition was an OR formula with disjuncts being AND formulas
including equalities and other sargable predicates.
The SELECT query with more than 31 nested dependent SELECT queries returned
wrong result.
New error message has been added: ER_TOO_HIGH_LEVEL_OF_NESTING_FOR_SELECT.
It will be reported as: "Too high level of nesting for select".
- added join cache indication in EXPLAIN (Extra column).
- prefer filesort over full scan over
index for ORDER BY (because it's faster).
- when switching from REF to RANGE because
RANGE uses longer key turn off sort on
the head table only as the resulting
RANGE access is a candidate for join cache
and we don't want to disable it by sorting
on the first table only.
Added a test case.
The problem was fixed by the fix for bug #17379.
The problem was that because of some conditions
the optimizer always preferred range or full index
scan access methods to lookup access methods even
when the latter were much cheaper.
after single-row table substitution could lead to a wrong result set.
The bug happened because the function Item_field::replace_equal_field
erroniously assumed that any field included in a multiple equality
with a constant has been already substituted for this constant.
This not true for fields becoming constant after row substitutions
for constant tables.
were evaluated.
According to the new rules for string comparison partial indexes on text
columns can be used in the same cases when partial indexes on varchar
columns can be used.
Ignoring error codes from type conversion allows default (wrong) values to
go unnoticed in the formation of index search conditions.
Fixed by correctly checking for conversion errors.
The bug could cause choosing a sub-optimal execution plan for
a single-table query if a unique index with many null keys were
defined for the table.
It happened because the code of the check_quick_keys function
made an assumption that any key may occur in an unique index
only once. Yet this is not true for keys with nulls that may
have multiple occurrences in the index.
We use INT_RESULT type if all arguments are of type INT for 'if', 'case',
'coalesce' functions regardless of arguments' unsigned flag, so sometimes we can
exceed the INT bounds.
After fix for bug#21798 JOIN stores the pointer to the buffer for sorting
fields. It is used while sorting for grouping and for ordering. If ORDER BY
clause has more elements then the GROUP BY clause then a memory overrun occurs.
Now the length of the ORDER BY list is always passed to the
make_unireg_sortorder() function and it allocates buffer big enough to be
used for bigger list.
With MySQL 3.23 and 4.0, the syntax 'LIMIT N, -1' is accepted, and returns
all the rows located after row N. This behavior, however, is not the
intended result, and defeats the purpose of LIMIT, which is to constrain
the size of a result set.
With MySQL 4.1 and later, this construct is correctly detected as a syntax
error.
This fix does not change the production code, and only adds a new test case
to improve test coverage in this area, to enforce in the test suite the
intended behavior.
Post-commit issues fixed
* Test results for other tests fixed due to added error #s
* Memory allocation/free issues found with running with valgrind
* Fix to mysql-test-run shell script to run federated_server test (installs
mysql.servers table properly)