This task involves the implementation for the optimizer trace.
This feature produces a trace for any SELECT/UPDATE/DELETE/,
which contains information about decisions taken by the optimizer during
the optimization phase (choice of table access method, various costs,
transformations, etc). This feature would help to tell why some decisions were
taken by the optimizer and why some were rejected.
Trace is session-local, controlled by the @@optimizer_trace variable.
To enable optimizer trace we need to write:
set @@optimizer_trace variable= 'enabled=on';
To display the trace one can run:
SELECT trace FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.OPTIMIZER_TRACE;
This task also involves:
MDEV-18489: Limit the memory used by the optimizer trace
introduces a switch optimizer_trace_max_mem_size which limits
the memory used by the optimizer trace. This was implemented by
Sergei Petrunia.
Handle string length as size_t, consistently (almost always:))
Change function prototypes to accept size_t, where in the past
ulong or uint were used. change local/member variables to size_t
when appropriate.
This fix excludes rocksdb, spider,spider, sphinx and connect for now.
- Added sql/mariadb.h file that should be included first by files in sql
directory, if sql_plugin.h is not used (sql_plugin.h adds SHOW variables
that must be done before my_global.h is included)
- Removed a lot of include my_global.h from include files
- Removed include's of some files that my_global.h automatically includes
- Removed duplicated include's of my_sys.h
- Replaced include my_config.h with my_global.h
Fix an issue in Single_line_formatting_helper: flush_on_one_line()
didn't clean up the buffered items which could cause them to be
printed for the second time.
This can't be ever observed by a user (see MDEV text for details).
- Single_line_formatting_helper should not accidentally exit the
DISABLED state. No JSON construct should be able to move the
Single_line_formatting_helper from DISABLED state.
Writing JSON:
- Fix a bug in Single_line_formatting_helper
- Add Json_writer_nesting_guard - safety class
EXPLAIN JSON support
- Add basic subquery support
- Add tests for UNION/UNION ALL.
- First code, "EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON stmt" and "ANALYZE FORMAT=JSON stmt"
work for basic queries. Complex constructs (e.g subqueries, etc) not
yet supported.
- No test infrastructure yet
