When using index for group by and range access the server isolates
a set of ranges based on the conditions over the key parts of the
index used. Then it uses only the ranges over the GROUP BY fields to
jump from one group to another. Since the GROUP BY fields may form a
prefix over the index, we may use only a prefix of the ranges produced
by the range optimizer.
Each range contains a notion on whether it includes its border values.
The problem is that when using a range prefix, the last range is open
because it assumes that there is a range on the next keypart. Thus when
we use a prefix range as it is, it excludes all border values.
The solution is when ignoring the suffix of the range conditions
(to jump over the GROUP BY prefix only) the server must change the
remaining intervals so they always contain their borders, e.g.
if the whole range was :
(1,-inf) <= (<group_by_col>,<min_max_arg_col>) < (1, 3) we must make
(1) <= (<group_by_col>) <= (1) because (a,b) < (c1,c2) means :
a < c1 OR (a = c1 AND b < c2).
strings
MySQL is setting the flag HA_END_SPACE_KEYS for all the keys that reference
text or varchar columns with collation different than binary.
This was done to handle correctly the situation where a lookup on such a key
may return more than 1 row because of the presence of many rows that differ
only by the amount of trailing space in the table's string column.
Inserting such values however appears to violate the unique checks on
INSERT/UPDATE. Thus that flag must not be set as it will prevent the optimizer
from choosing a faster access method.
This fix removes the setting of the HA_END_SPACE_KEYS flag.
When resolving unqualified name references MySQL was not
checking what is the item type for the reference. Thus
e.g a string literal item that has by convention a name
equal to its string value will also work as a reference to
a SELECT list item or a table field.
Fixed by allowing only Item_ref or Item_field to referenced by
(unqualified) name.
The mysql_alter_table() was able to rename only a table.
The view/table renaming code is moved from the function rename_tables
to the new function called do_rename().
The mysql_alter_table() function calls it when it needs to rename a view.
The Cached_item_decimal::cmp() method wasn't checking for null pointer
returned from the val_decimal() of the item being cached.
This leads to server crash.
The Cached_item_decimal::cmp() method now check for null values.
Currently SQL_BIG_RESULT is checked only at compile time.
However, additional optimizations may take place after
this check that change the sort method from 'filesort'
to sorting via index. As a result the actual plan
executed is not the one specified by the SQL_BIG_RESULT
hint. Similarly, there is no such test when executing
EXPLAIN, resulting in incorrect output.
The patch corrects the problem by testing for
SQL_BIG_RESULT both during the explain and execution
phases.
After the patch for big 21698 equality propagation stopped
working for BETWEEN and IN predicates with STRING arguments.
This changeset completes the solution of the above patch.
RTree keys are really different from BTree and need specific
paramters to be set by optimizer to work.
Sometimes optimizer doesn't set those properly.
Here we decided just to add code to check that the parameters
are correct. Hope to fix optimizer sometimes.
We use the condition from CHECK OPTION twice handling UPDATE command.
First we construnct 'update_cond' AND 'option_cond'
condition to select records to be updated, then we check the
'option_cond' for the updated row.
The problem is that first 'AND' condition is optimized during the 'select'
which can break 'option_cond' structure, so it will be unusable for
the sectond use - to check the updated row.
Possible soultion is either use copy of the condition in the first
use or to make optimization less traumatic for the operands.
I picked the first one.
On an INSERT into an updatable but non-insertable view an error message was
issued stating the view being not updatable. This can lead to a confusion of a
user.
A new error message is introduced. Is is showed when a user tries to insert
into a non-insertable view.
while space allocation
Under some circumstances DISTINCT clause can be converted to grouping.
In such cases grouping is performed by all items in the select list.
If an ORDER clause is present then items from it is prepended to group list.
But the case with ORDER wasn't taken into account when allocating the
array for sum functions. This leads to memory corruption and crash.
The JOIN::alloc_func_list() function now allocates additional space if there
is an ORDER by clause is specified and DISTINCT -> GROUP BY optimization is
possible.
Presence of a subquery in the ON expression of a join
should not block merging the view that contains this join.
Before this patch the such views were converted into
into temporary table views.
an ALL/ANY quantified subquery in HAVING.
The Item::split_sum_func2 method should not create Item_ref
for objects of any class derived from Item_subselect.
