This patch fills a serious flaw in the implementation of common table
expressions. Before this patch an attempt to prepare a statement from
a query with a parameter marker in a CTE that was used more than once
in the query ended up with a bogus error message. Similarly if a statement
in a stored procedure contained a CTE whose specification used a
local variables and this CTE was referred to more than once in the
statement then the server failed to execute the stored procedure returning
a bogus error message on a non-existing field.
The problems appeared due to incorrect handling of parameter markers /
local variables in CTEs that were referred more than once.
This patch fixes the problems by differentiating between the original
occurrences of a parameter marker / local variable used in the
specification of a CTE and the corresponding occurrences used
in copies of this specification. These copies are substituted
instead of non-first references to the CTE.
The idea of the fix and even some code were taken from the MySQL
implementation of the common table expressions.
This problem manifested itself when a join query used two or more
materialized CTE such that each of them employed the same recursive CTE.
The bug caused a crash. The crash happened because the cleanup()
function was performed premature for recursive CTE. This clean up was
induced by the cleanup of the first CTE referenced the recusrsive CTE.
This cleanup destroyed the structures that would allow to read from the
temporary table containing the rows of the recursive CTE and an attempt to read
these rows for the second CTE referencing the recursive CTE triggered a
crash.
The clean up for a recursive CTE R should be performed after the cleanup
of the last materialized CTE that uses R.
is not supported
Allowed to use recursive references in derived tables.
As a result usage of recursive references in operands of
INTERSECT / EXCEPT is now supported.
The bug happened when the specification of a recursive CTE had
no recursive references at the top level of the specification.
In this case the regular processing of derived table references
of the select containing a non-recursive reference to this
recursive CTE misses handling the specification unit.
At the preparation stage any non-recursive reference to a
recursive CTE must be handled after the preparation of the
specification unit for this CTE. So we have to force this
preparation when regular handling of derived tables does not
do it.
Benefits of this patch:
- Removed a lot of calls to strlen(), especially for field_string
- Strings generated by parser are now const strings, less chance of
accidently changing a string
- Removed a lot of calls with LEX_STRING as parameter (changed to pointer)
- More uniform code
- Item::name_length was not kept up to date. Now fixed
- Several bugs found and fixed (Access to null pointers,
access of freed memory, wrong arguments to printf like functions)
- Removed a lot of casts from (const char*) to (char*)
Changes:
- This caused some ABI changes
- lex_string_set now uses LEX_CSTRING
- Some fucntions are now taking const char* instead of char*
- Create_field::change and after changed to LEX_CSTRING
- handler::connect_string, comment and engine_name() changed to LEX_CSTRING
- Checked printf() related calls to find bugs. Found and fixed several
errors in old code.
- A lot of changes from LEX_STRING to LEX_CSTRING, especially related to
parsing and events.
- Some changes from LEX_STRING and LEX_STRING & to LEX_CSTRING*
- Some changes for char* to const char*
- Added printf argument checking for my_snprintf()
- Introduced null_clex_str, star_clex_string, temp_lex_str to simplify
code
- Added item_empty_name and item_used_name to be able to distingush between
items that was given an empty name and items that was not given a name
This is used in sql_yacc.yy to know when to give an item a name.
- select table_name."*' is not anymore same as table_name.*
- removed not used function Item::rename()
- Added comparision of item->name_length before some calls to
my_strcasecmp() to speed up comparison
- Moved Item_sp_variable::make_field() from item.h to item.cc
- Some minimal code changes to avoid copying to const char *
- Fixed wrong error message in wsrep_mysql_parse()
- Fixed wrong code in find_field_in_natural_join() where real_item() was
set when it shouldn't
- ER_ERROR_ON_RENAME was used with extra arguments.
- Removed some (wrong) ER_OUTOFMEMORY, as alloc_root will already
give the error.
TODO:
- Check possible unsafe casts in plugin/auth_examples/qa_auth_interface.c
- Change code to not modify LEX_CSTRING for database name
(as part of lower_case_table_names)
This patch fixed some problems that occurred with subqueries that
contained directly or indirectly recursive references to recursive CTEs.
1. A [NOT] IN predicate with a constant left operand and a non-correlated
subquery as the right operand used in the specification of a recursive CTE
was considered as a constant predicate and was evaluated only once.
Now such a predicate is re-evaluated after every iteration of the process
that produces the records of the recursive CTE.
2. The Exists-To-IN transformation could be applied to [NOT] IN predicates
with recursive references. This opened a possibility of materialization
for the subqueries used as right operands. Yet, materialization
is prohibited for the subqueries if they contain a recursive reference.
Now the Exists-To-IN transformation cannot be applied for subquery
predicates with recursive references.
The function st_select_lex::check_subqueries_with_recursive_references()
is called now only for the first execution of the SELECT.
When a prepared statement uses a CTE definition with a column list
renaming of columns of the CTE expression must be performed
for every execution of the prepared statement.
Added comments.
Added reaction for exceeding maximum number of elements in with clause.
Added a test case to check this reaction.
Added a test case where the specification of a recursive table
uses two non-recursive with tables.
Moved checking whether the limit set for the number of iterations
when executing a recursive query has been reached from
st_select_lex_unit::exec_recursive to TABLE_LIST::fill_recursive.
Changed the name of the system variable max_recursion_level for
max_recursive_iterations.
Adjusted test cases.
Temporary tables created for recursive CTE
were instantiated at the prepare phase. As
a result these temporary tables missed
indexes for look-ups and optimizer could not
use them.
Actually mutually recursive CTE were not functional. Now the code
for mutually recursive CTE looks like functional, but still needs
re-writing.
Added many new test cases for mutually recursive CTE.
Added test cases to check the fix.
Fixed the problem of wrong types of recursive tables when the type of anchor part does not coincide with the
type of recursive part.
Prevented usage of marerialization and subquery cache for subqueries with recursive references.
Introduced system variables 'max_recursion_level'.
Added a test case to test usage of this variable.
Added the check whether there are set functions in the specifications of recursive CTE.
Added the check whether there are recursive references in subqueries.
Introduced boolean system variable 'standards_compliant_cte'. By default it's set to 'on'.
When it's set to 'off' non-standard compliant CTE can be executed.
of mdev-8789.
Fixed a bug in TABLE_LIST::print.
Fixed another bug for the case when the definition of a
WITH table contained column list while the join in the main
query used two instances of this table.
