When only one row was present, the subtraction of nearly the same number
resulted in catastropic cancellation, introducing an error in the
VARIANCE calculation near 1e-15. That was sqrt()ed to get STDDEV, the
error was escallated to near 1e-8.
The simple fix of testing for a row count of 1 and forcing that to yield
0.0 is insufficient, as two rows of the same value should also have a
variance of 0.0, yet the error would be about the same.
So, this patch changes the formula that computes the VARIANCE to be one
that is not subject to catastrophic cancellation.
In addition, it now uses only (faster-than-decimal) floating point numbers
to calculate, and renders that to other types on demand.
Item::val_xxx() may be called by the server several times at execute time
for a single query. Calls to val_xxx() may be very expensive and sometimes
(count(distinct), sum(distinct), avg(distinct)) not possible.
To avoid that problem the results of calculation for these aggregate
functions are cached so that val_xxx() methods just return the calculated
value for the second and subsequent calls.
Treat queries with no FROM and aggregate functions as normal queries,
so the aggregate function get correctly calculated as if there is 1 row.
This means that they will be considered to have one row, so COUNT(*) will return
1 instead of 0. Other aggregates will behave in compatible manner.
An aggregate function reference was resolved incorrectly and
caused a crash in count_field_types.
Must use real_item() to get to the real Item instance through
the reference
The bug report revealed two problems related to min/max optimization:
1. If the length of a constant key used in a SARGable condition for
for the MIN/MAX fields is greater than the length of the field an
unwanted warning on key truncation is issued;
2. If MIN/MAX optimization is applied to a partial index, like INDEX(b(4))
than can lead to returning a wrong result set.
The problem was in that the MIN/MAX optimization in opt_sum_query was
replacing MIN/MAX functions with their constant argument without
taking into account that a query has no result rows.
Added a test case for bug #9210.
sql_select.cc:
Fixed bug #9210.
The function calc_group_buffer did not cover the case
when the GROUP BY expression was decimal.
Slightly optimized the other code.
Logging to logging@openlogging.org accepted
func_group.result, func_group.test:
Added a test case for bug #8893.
opt_sum.cc:
A misplaced initialization for the returned parameter
prefix_len in the function find_key_for_maxmin caused
usage of a wrong key prefix by the min/max optimization
in cases when the matching index was not the first index
that contained the min/max field.
Lots of small fixes to multi-precision-math path
Give Note for '123.4e'
Added helper functions type 'val_string_from_real()
Don't give warnings for end space for string2decimal()
Changed storage of values for SP so that we can detect length of argument without strlen()
Changed interface for str2dec() so that we must supple the pointer to the last character in the buffer
New mysqltest that can run mysqltest with PS
Added support for ZEROFILL in PS
Fixed crash when one called mysql_stmt_store_result() without a preceding mysql_stmt_bind_result()
Updated test cases to support --ps-protocol
(Some tests are still run using old protocol)
Fixed crash in PS when using SELECT * FROM t1 NATURAL JOIN t2...
Fixed crash in PS when using sub queries
Create table didn't signal when table was created. This could cause a "DROP TABLE created_table" in another thread to wait "forever"
Fixed wrong permissions check in PS and multi-table updates (one could get permission denied for legal quries)
Fix for PS and SELECT ... PROCEDURE
Reset all warnings when executing a new PS query
group_concat(...ORDER BY) didn't work with PS
Fixed problem with test suite when not using innodb
Note: The following tests fails
- fulltext (Sergei has promised to fix)
- rpl_charset (Guilhem should fix)
- rpl_timezone (Dimitray has promised to fix)
Sanja needs to check out the calling of close_thread_tables() in sp_head.cc
