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Alexey Kopytov
85d5a08b51 Manual merge of WL#4738 from mysql-next-mr:
- backported code that handles %f/%g arguments in 
my_vsnprintf.c from 6.0 
- backported %f/%g tests in unittest/mysys/my_vsnprintf-t.c 
from 6.0 
- replaced snprintf("%g") in sql/set_var.cc with my_gcvt() 
- removed unnecessary "--replace-result"s for Windows in 
mysql-test/suite/sys_vars/t/long_query_time_basic.test 
- some test results adjustments
2009-12-28 15:54:16 +03:00
Alexey Kopytov
f02525be83 Backport of WL #2934: Make/find library for doing float/double
to string conversions and vice versa" 
Initial import of the dtoa.c code and custom wrappers around it 
to allow its usage from the server code. 
 
Conversion of FLOAT/DOUBLE values to DECIMAL ones or strings 
and vice versa has been significantly reworked. As the new 
algoritms are more precise than the older ones, results of such 
conversions may not always match those obtained from older 
server versions. This in turn may break compatibility for some 
applications. 
 
This patch also fixes the following bugs: 
- bug #12860 "Difference in zero padding of exponent between 
Unix and Windows" 
- bug #21497 "DOUBLE truncated to unusable value" 
- bug #26788 "mysqld (debug) aborts when inserting specific 
numbers into char fields" 
- bug #24541 "Data truncated..." on decimal type columns 
without any good reason"
2009-12-22 19:23:13 +03:00
Sergei Golubchik
ae2768ce9c WL#4738 streamline/simplify @@variable creation process
Bug#16565 mysqld --help --verbose does not order variablesBug#20413 sql_slave_skip_counter is not shown in show variables
Bug#20415 Output of mysqld --help --verbose is incomplete
Bug#25430 variable not found in SELECT @@global.ft_max_word_len;
Bug#32902 plugin variables don't know their names
Bug#34599 MySQLD Option and Variable Reference need to be consistent in formatting!
Bug#34829 No default value for variable and setting default does not raise error
Bug#34834 ? Is accepted as a valid sql mode
Bug#34878 Few variables have default value according to documentation but error occurs  
Bug#34883 ft_boolean_syntax cant be assigned from user variable to global var.
Bug#37187 `INFORMATION_SCHEMA`.`GLOBAL_VARIABLES`: inconsistent status
Bug#40988 log_output_basic.test succeeded though syntactically false.
Bug#41010 enum-style command-line options are not honoured (maria.maria-recover fails)
Bug#42103 Setting key_buffer_size to a negative value may lead to very large allocations 
Bug#44691 Some plugins configured as MYSQL_PLUGIN_MANDATORY in can be disabled
Bug#44797 plugins w/o command-line options have no disabling option in --help
Bug#46314 string system variables don't support expressions
Bug#46470 sys_vars.max_binlog_cache_size_basic_32 is broken
Bug#46586 When using the plugin interface the type "set" for options caused a crash.
Bug#47212 Crash in DBUG_PRINT in mysqltest.cc when trying to print octal number
Bug#48758 mysqltest crashes on sys_vars.collation_server_basic in gcov builds
Bug#49417 some complaints about mysqld --help --verbose output
Bug#49540 DEFAULT value of binlog_format isn't the default value
Bug#49640 ambiguous option '--skip-skip-myisam' (double skip prefix)
Bug#49644 init_connect and \0
Bug#49645 init_slave and multi-byte characters
Bug#49646 mysql --show-warnings crashes when server dies
2009-12-22 10:35:56 +01:00
Evgeny Potemkin
5466618420 Post-merge fix. 2009-12-14 17:17:41 +03:00
Alexander Nozdrin
bc2d4e620a Manual merge from mysql-trunk-merge.
Conflicts:
  - extra/comp_err.c
  - mysql-test/collections/default.experimental
  - mysql-test/r/archive.result
  - mysql-test/r/select.result
  - mysql-test/suite/binlog/r/binlog_unsafe.result
  - mysql-test/suite/binlog/t/binlog_unsafe.test
  - mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/disabled.def
  - mysql-test/t/archive.test
  - mysql-test/t/select.test
  - sql/item.cc
  - sql/item.h
  - sql/item_timefunc.cc
  - sql/sql_base.cc
  - sql/sql_delete.cc
  - sql/sql_load.cc
  - sql/sql_partition.cc
  - sql/sql_table.cc
  - storage/innobase/handler/ha_innodb.cc
  - vio/vio.c
2009-12-12 23:38:59 +03:00
Alexander Nozdrin
69cfd5c8ec Manual merge from mysql-trunk.
Conflicts:
  - client/mysqltest.cc
  - mysql-test/collections/default.experimental
  - mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/disabled.def
  - sql/mysqld.cc
  - sql/opt_range.cc
  - sql/sp.cc
  - sql/sql_acl.cc
  - sql/sql_partition.cc
  - sql/sql_table.cc
2009-12-11 12:39:38 +03:00
Evgeny Potemkin
9f7d24586b Bug#33546: Slowdown on re-evaluation of constant expressions.
Constant expressions in WHERE/HAVING/ON clauses aren't cached and evaluated
for each row. This causes slowdown of query execution especially if constant
UDF/SP function are used.
      
Now WHERE/HAVING/ON expressions are analyzed in the top-bottom direction with
help of the compile function. When analyzer meets a constant item it
sets a flag for the tree transformer to cache the item and doesn't allow tree
walker to go deeper. Thus, the topmost item of a constant expression if
cached. This is done after all other optimizations were applied to
WHERE/HAVING/ON expressions
      
A helper function called cache_const_exprs is added to the JOIN class.
It calls compile method with caching analyzer and transformer on WHERE,
HAVING, ON expressions if they're present.
The cache_const_expr_analyzer and cache_const_expr_transformer functions are
added to the Item class. The first one check if the item can be cached and
the second caches it if so.
A new Item_cache_datetime class is derived from the Item_cache class.
It caches both int and string values of the underlying item independently to
avoid DATETIME aware int-to-string conversion. Thus it completely relies on
the ability of the underlying item to correctly convert DATETIME value from
int to string and vice versa.
2009-12-02 00:25:51 +03:00
Evgeny Potemkin
17a4c595bc Auto-merged fix for the bug#34384. 2009-12-01 22:41:39 +03:00
Alexander Nozdrin
a8d553e0e3 Manual merge/pull from mysql-next-mr.
Conflicts:
  - sql/sql_insert.cc
2009-11-25 18:03:05 +03:00
Evgeny Potemkin
982bfdb0c8 Auto-merge. 2009-11-24 18:30:21 +03:00
Evgeny Potemkin
438b795ff7 Manual merge of the fix for bug#43668. 2009-11-24 18:26:13 +03:00
Konstantin Osipov
4cff617c25 Backport of:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
ChangeSet@1.2571, 2008-04-08 12:30:06+02:00, vvaintroub@wva. +122 -0
  Bug#32082 : definition of VOID in my_global.h conflicts with Windows
  SDK headers
  
  VOID macro is now removed. Its usage is replaced with void cast.
  In some cases, where cast does not make much sense (pthread_*, printf, 
  hash_delete, my_seek), cast is ommited.
2009-11-24 16:54:59 +03:00
Alexey Kopytov
a25a3fb134 Backport of the fix for bug #33969: Updating a text field via a
left join 

When creating a temporary TEXT/BLOB field from an Item in
Item::make_string_field(), the field's type was unconditionally
set to the one corresponding to the maximum length (i.e.
LONGTEXT/ LONGBLOB). This resulted in problems when exactly the
same TEXT/BLOB is type required in cases like CREATE ... SELECT
or creating internal temporary tables for joins. 

Fixed by calling a different constructor for Field_blob so that
an appropriate type is used depending on the Item's max_length
value.
2009-11-21 20:31:00 +03:00
Georgi Kodinov
f24dbcc56b Bug #45261 : Crash, stored procedure + decimal
Bug #48370  Absolutely wrong calculations with GROUP BY and
  decimal fields when using IF

Added the test cases in the above two bugs for regression
testing.
Added additional tests that demonstrate a incomplete fix.
Added a new factory method for Field_new_decimal to 
create a field from an (decimal returning) Item.
In the new method made sure that all the precision and 
length variables are capped in a proper way. 
This is required because Item's can have larger precision
than the decimal fields and thus need to be capped when
creating a field based on an Item type.
Fixed the wrong typecast to Item_decimal.
2009-11-20 12:10:47 +02:00
Evgeny Potemkin
726e83907c Bug#43668: Wrong comparison and MIN/MAX for YEAR(2)
MySQL manual describes values of the YEAR(2) field type as follows:
values 00 - 69 mean 2000 - 2069 years and values 70 - 99 mean 1970 - 1999
years. MIN/MAX and comparison functions was comparing them as int values
thus producing wrong result.

Now the Arg_comparator class is extended with compare_year function which
performs correct comparison of the YEAR type.
The Item_sum_hybrid class now uses Item_cache and Arg_comparator objects to
correctly calculate its value.
To allow Arg_comparator to use func_name() function for Item_func and Item_sum
objects the func_name declaration is moved to the Item_result_field class.
A helper function is_owner_equal_func is added to the Arg_comparator class.
It checks whether the Arg_comparator object owner is the <=> function or not.
A helper function setup is added to the Item_sum_hybrid class. It sets up
cache item and comparator.
2009-11-17 17:06:46 +03:00
Evgeny Potemkin
60d358af27 Bug#34384: Slow down on constant conversion.
When values of different types are compared they're converted to a type that
allows correct comparison. This conversion is done for each comparison and
takes some time. When a constant is being compared it's possible to cache the
value after conversion to speedup comparison. In some cases (large dataset,
complex WHERE condition with many type conversions) query might be executed
7% faster.

A test case isn't provided because all changes are internal and isn't visible
outside.

The behavior of the Item_cache is changed to cache values on the first request
of cached value rather than at the moment of storing item to be cached.
A flag named value_cached is added to the Item_cache class. It's set to TRUE
when cache holds the value of the last stored item.
Function named cache_value() is added to the Item_cache class and derived classes.
This function actually caches the value of the saved item.
Item_cache_xxx::store functions now only store item to be cached and set
value_cached flag to FALSE.
Item_cache_xxx::val_xxx functions are changed to call cache_value function
prior to returning cached value if value_cached is FALSE.
The Arg_comparator::set_cmp_func function now calls cache_converted_constant
to cache constants if they need a type conversion.
The Item_cache::get_cache function is overloaded to allow setting of the
cache type.
The cache_converted_constant function is added to the Arg_comparator class.
It checks whether a value can and should be cached and if so caches it.
2009-11-06 22:34:25 +03:00
Alexander Nozdrin
2ca5b2c791 Manual merge from mysql-trunk-merge. 2009-11-06 17:20:27 +03:00
Alexander Nozdrin
d9d3271da3 Auto-merge from mysql-trunk-merge. 2009-11-06 12:17:01 +03:00
Davi Arnaut
9a08362897 Bug#48370: Absolutely wrong calculations with GROUP BY and decimal fields when using IF
Bug#45261: Crash, stored procedure + decimal

Revert fix for Bug#45261 due to unforeseen bugs.
2009-11-02 09:21:39 -02:00
Martin Hansson
f539e0c825 Bug#47925: regression of range optimizer and date comparison in 5.1.39!
When a query was using a DATE or DATETIME value formatted
using any other separator characters beside hyphen '-', a
query with a greater-or-equal '>=' condition matching only
the greatest value in an indexed column, the result was
empty if index range scan was employed.

The range optimizer got a new feature between 5.1.38 and
5.1.39 that changes a greater-or-equal condition to a
greater-than if the value matching that in the query was not
present in the table. But the value comparison function
compared the dates as strings instead of dates.

The bug was fixed by splitting the function
get_date_from_str in two: One part that parses and does
error checking. This function is now visible outside the
module. The old get_date_from_str now calls the new
function.
2009-11-02 13:24:07 +01:00
Evgeny Potemkin
47d850a89d Auto-merged fix for the bug#34384. 2009-11-06 22:42:24 +03:00
Alexander Nozdrin
069d78c067 Merge from mysql-next-mr. 2009-10-23 15:22:21 +04:00
Konstantin Osipov
d4632dff5a Backport of revno 2630.28.10, 2630.28.31, 2630.28.26, 2630.33.1,
2630.39.1, 2630.28.29, 2630.34.3, 2630.34.2, 2630.34.1, 2630.29.29,
2630.29.28, 2630.31.1, 2630.28.13, 2630.28.10, 2617.23.14 and
some other minor revisions.

This patch implements: 

WL#4264 "Backup: Stabilize Service Interface" -- all the
server prerequisites except si_objects.{h,cc} themselves (they can
be just copied over, when needed).

WL#4435: Support OUT-parameters in prepared statements.

(and all issues in the initial patches for these two
tasks, that were discovered in pushbuild and during testing).

Bug#39519: mysql_stmt_close() should flush all data
associated with the statement.

After execution of a prepared statement, send OUT parameters of the invoked
stored procedure, if any, to the client.

When using the binary protocol, send the parameters in an additional result
set over the wire.  When using the text protocol, assign out parameters to
the user variables from the CALL(@var1, @var2, ...) specification.

The following refactoring has been made:
  - Protocol::send_fields() was renamed to Protocol::send_result_set_metadata();
  - A new Protocol::send_result_set_row() was introduced to incapsulate
    common functionality for sending row data.
  - Signature of Protocol::prepare_for_send() was changed: this operation
    does not need a list of items, the number of items is fully sufficient.

The following backward incompatible changes have been made:
  - CLIENT_MULTI_RESULTS is now enabled by default in the client;
  - CLIENT_PS_MULTI_RESUTLS is now enabled by default in the client.
2009-10-22 00:02:06 +04:00
Alexander Barkov
344ddc85fa Merging mysql-next-mr-merge to mysql-next-mr. 2009-10-21 15:48:22 +05:00
Sergey Glukhov
7741d9b50d WL#751 Error message construction, backport 2009-10-15 17:23:43 +05:00
Alexander Nozdrin
ca08f10ccd Manual merge from mysql-trunk-merge. 2009-10-14 12:25:39 +04:00
Ramil Kalimullin
5a23617a80 Fix for bug#47963: Wrong results when index is used
Problem: using null microsecond part (e.g. "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.0000") 
in a WHERE condition may lead to wrong results due to improper
DATETIMEs comparison in some cases.

Fix: as we compare DATETIMEs as strings we must trim trailing 0's
in such cases.
2009-10-13 09:43:27 +05:00
Sergey Glukhov
4299943064 Bug#47150 Assertion in Field_long::val_int() on MERGE + TRIGGER + multi-table UPDATE
The bug is not related to MERGE table or TRIGGER. More correct description
would be 'assertion on multi-table UPDATE + NATURAL JOIN + MERGEABLE VIEW'.
On PREPARE stage(see test case) we call mark_common_columns() func which
creates ON condition for NATURAL JOIN and sets appropriate
table read_set bitmaps for fields which are used in ON condition.
On EXECUTE stage mark_common_columns() is not called, we set
necessary read_set bitmaps in setup_conds(). But 'B.f1' field
is already processed and related item alredy fixed before
setup_conds() as updated field and setup_conds can not set
read_set bitmap because of that.
The fix is to set read_set bitmap for appropriate table field even
if Item_direct_view_ref item which represents a refernce to this field
is fixed.
2009-09-29 07:23:38 +05:00
Marc Alff
08ffe21317 Merge mysql-next-mr --> mysql-trunk-signal 2009-09-17 03:20:11 -06:00
Marc Alff
d5fd452d7c WL#2110 (SIGNAL)
WL#2265 (RESIGNAL)

Manual merge of SIGNAL and RESIGNAL to mysql-trunk-signal,
plus required dependencies.
2009-09-10 03:18:29 -06:00
Staale Smedseng
f59ef9eafa Merge from 5.0 for 43414 2009-08-28 18:21:54 +02:00
Staale Smedseng
2217de2513 Bug #43414 Parenthesis (and other) warnings compiling MySQL
with gcc 4.3.2
      
This patch fixes a number of GCC warnings about variables used
before initialized. A new macro UNINIT_VAR() is introduced for
use in the variable declaration, and LINT_INIT() usage will be
gradually deprecated. (A workaround is used for g++, pending a
patch for a g++ bug.)
      
GCC warnings for unused results (attribute warn_unused_result)
for a number of system calls (present at least in later
Ubuntus, where the usual void cast trick doesn't work) are
also fixed.
2009-08-28 17:51:31 +02:00
Davi Arnaut
a0e44ec1e8 Fix for a few assorted compiler warnings. 2009-08-28 12:06:59 -03:00
Mattias Jonsson
2c5e227875 Manual merge between bug#46362 and bug#20577. 2009-08-28 12:55:59 +02:00
Mattias Jonsson
3b756a01a0 Bug#46362: Endpoint should be set to false for TO_DAYS(DATE)
There were a problem since pruning uses the field
for comparison (while evaluate_join_record uses longlong),
resulting in pruning failures when comparing DATE to DATETIME.

Fix was to always comparing DATE vs DATETIME as DATETIME,
by adding ' 00:00:00' to the DATE string.

And adding optimization for comparing with 23:59:59, so that
DATETIME_col > '2001-02-03 23:59:59' ->
TO_DAYS(DATETIME_col) > TO_DAYS('2001-02-03 23:59:59') instead
of '>='.
2009-08-26 12:51:23 +02:00
Davi Arnaut
31afccc407 Bug#45261: Crash, stored procedure + decimal
The problem was that creating a DECIMAL column from a decimal
value could lead to a failed assertion as decimal values can
have a higher precision than those attached to a table. The
assert could be triggered by creating a table from a decimal
with a large (> 30) scale. Also, there was a problem in
calculating the number of digits in the integral and fractional
parts if both exceeded the maximum number of digits permitted
by the new decimal type.

The solution is to ensure that truncation procedure is executed
when deducing a DECIMAL column from a decimal value of higher
precision. If the integer part is equal to or bigger than the
maximum precision for the DECIMAL type (65), the integer part
is truncated to fit and the fractional becomes zero. Otherwise,
the fractional part is truncated to fit into the space left
after the integer part is copied.

This patch borrows code and ideas from Martin Hansson's patch.
2009-08-24 16:47:08 -03:00
Evgeny Potemkin
d7b3d5d373 Merged fix for the bug#46051. 2009-07-19 16:49:40 +04:00
Evgeny Potemkin
32b02e0b4d Bug#46051: Incorrectly market field caused wrong result.
When during the optimization an item is moved to the upper select
the item's context left unchanged. This caused wrong result in the 
PS/SP mode.
The Item_ident::remove_dependence_processor now sets the context
of the select to which the item is moved to.
2009-07-18 18:09:56 +04:00
Alexey Kopytov
0c5207f52f Automerge. 2009-07-03 14:43:54 +04:00
Alexey Kopytov
c936b6444a Manual merge. 2009-07-03 14:36:04 +04:00
Alexey Kopytov
4692566f9e Bug #45262: Bad effects with CREATE TABLE and DECIMAL
Using DECIMAL constants with more than 65 digits in CREATE 
TABLE ... SELECT led to bogus errors in release builds or 
assertion failures in debug builds. 
 
The problem was in inconsistency in how DECIMAL constants and 
fields are handled internally. We allow arbitrarily long 
DECIMAL constants, whereas DECIMAL(M,D) columns are limited to 
M<=65 and D<=30. my_decimal_precision_to_length() was used in 
both Item and Field code and truncated precision to 
DECIMAL_MAX_PRECISION when calculating value length without 
adjusting precision and decimals. As a result, a DECIMAL 
constant with more than 65 digits ended up having length less 
than precision or decimals which led to assertion failures. 
 
Fixed by modifying my_decimal_precision_to_length() so that 
precision is truncated to DECIMAL_MAX_PRECISION only for Field 
object which is indicated by the new 'truncate' parameter. 
 
Another inconsistency fixed by this patch is how DECIMAL 
constants and expressions are handled for CREATE ... SELECT. 
create_tmp_field_from_item() (which is used for constants) was 
changed as a part of the bugfix for bug #24907 to handle long 
DECIMAL constants gracefully. Item_func::tmp_table_field() 
(which is used for expressions) on the other hand was still 
using a simplistic approach when creating a Field_new_decimal 
from a DECIMAL expression.
2009-07-03 11:41:19 +04:00
Georgi Kodinov
5572f8e7de Bug #45807: crash accessing partitioned table and sql_mode
contains ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY

The partitioning code needs to issue a Item::fix_fields()
on the partitioning expression in order to prepare 
it for being evaluated.
It does this by creating a special table and a table list 
for the scope of the partitioning expression.
But when checking ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY the 
Item_field::fix_fields() was relying that there always be
cached_table set and was trying to use it to get the 
select_lex of the SELECT the field's table is in.
But the cached_table was not set by the partitioning code
that creates the artificial TABLE_LIST used to resolve the
partitioning expression and this resulted in a crash.
 
Fixed by rectifying the following errors :
1. Item_field::fix_fields() : the code that check for 
ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY relies on having tables with 
cacheable_table set. This is mostly true, the only 
two exceptions being the partitioning context table
and the trigger context table.
Fixed by taking the current parsing context if no pointer
to the TABLE_LIST instance is present in the cached_table.

2. fix_fields_part_func() : 

2a. The code that adds the table being created to the 
scope for the partitioning expression is mostly a copy 
of the add_table_to_list and friends with one exception :
it was not marking the table as cacheable (something that
normal add_table_to_list is doing). This caused the 
problem in the check for ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY in 
Item_field::fix_fields() to appear.
Fixed by setting the correct members to make the table
cacheable.
The ideal structural fix for this is to use a unified 
interface for adding a table to a table list 
(add_table_to_list?) : noted in a TODO comment

2b. The Item::fix_fields() was called with a NULL destination
pointer. This causes uninitalized memory reads in the 
overloaded ::fix_fields() function (namely 
Item_field::fix_fields()) as it expects a non-zero pointer 
there. Fixed by passing the source pointer similarly to how 
it's done in JOIN::prepare().
2009-07-02 17:42:00 +03:00
Sergey Glukhov
2c53a70e15 Bug#45485 replication different between master/slaver using procedure with gbk
In Item_param::set_from_user_var
value.cs_info.character_set_client is set
to 'fromcs' value. It's wrong, it should be set to
thd->variables.character_set_client.
2009-06-25 11:22:39 +05:00
Staale Smedseng
c429fac63c Merge from 5.0-bugteam 2009-06-17 16:56:44 +02:00
Staale Smedseng
30fccdaaae Bug #43414 Parenthesis (and other) warnings compiling MySQL
with gcc 4.3.2
      
Compiling MySQL with gcc 4.3.2 and later produces a number of 
warnings, many of which are new with the recent compiler
versions.
                  
This bug will be resolved in more than one patch to limit the
size of changesets. This is the second patch, fixing more
of the warnings.
2009-06-17 15:54:01 +02:00
Staale Smedseng
e6e1f4ac84 Bug #43414 Parenthesis (and other) warnings compiling MySQL
with gcc 4.3.2

Compiling MySQL with gcc 4.3.2 and later produces a number of 
warnings, many of which are new with the recent compiler
versions.
            
This bug will be resolved in more than one patch to limit the
size of changesets. This is the second patch, fixing more
of the warnings.
2009-06-10 16:04:07 +02:00
Staale Smedseng
dae006c17f Bug #43414 Parenthesis (and other) warnings compiling MySQL
with gcc 4.3.2
      
Compiling MySQL with gcc 4.3.2 and later produces a number of 
warnings, many of which are new with the recent compiler
versions.
      
This bug will be resolved in more than one patch to limit the
size of changesets. This is the first patch, fixing a number 
of the warnings, predominantly "suggest using parentheses 
around && in ||", and empty for and while bodies.
2009-06-09 18:11:21 +02:00
Georgi Kodinov
8d1b2df635 merged 36995 to 5.1-bugteam 2009-06-04 13:26:18 +03:00
Georgi Kodinov
932c7a316c Bug #36995: valgrind error in remove_const during subquery executions
When copying the Item class one must copy its attributes as well.
2009-06-04 12:52:40 +03:00
Georgi Kodinov
8fb82e3fe0 Bug #44399 : crash with statement using TEXT columns, aggregates, GROUP BY, and
HAVING
            
When calculating GROUP BY the server caches some expressions. It does
that by allocating a string slot (Item_copy_string) and assigning the 
value of the expression to it. This effectively means that the result
type of the expression can be changed from whatever it was to a string.
As this substitution takes place after the compile-time result type 
calculation for IN but before the run-time type calculations, 
it causes the type calculations in the IN function done at run time 
to get unexpected results different from what was prepared at compile time.
                  
In the CASE ... WHEN ... THEN ... statement there was a similar problem
and it was solved by artificially adding a STRING argument to the set of 
types of the IN/CASE arguments at compile time, so if any of the 
arguments of the CASE function changes its type to a string it will 
still be covered by the information prepared at compile time.
2009-05-25 11:00:40 +03:00