Field_time::get_time() did not initialize some members of
MYSQL_TIME which led to valgrind warnings when those members
were accessed in Protocol_simple::store_time().
It is unlikely that this bug could result in wrong data
being returned, since Field_time::get_time() initializes the
'day' member of MYSQL_TIME to 0, so the value of 'day'
in Protocol_simple::store_time() would be 0 regardless
of the values for 'year' and 'month'.
UNION could convert fixed-point FLOAT(M,D)/DOUBLE(M,D) columns
to FLOAT/DOUBLE when aggregating data types from the SELECT
substatements. While there is nothing particularly wrong with
this behavior, especially when M is greater than the hardware
precision limits, it could be confusing in cases when all
SELECT statements in a union have the same
FLOAT(M,D)/DOUBLE(M,D) columns with equal precision
specifications listed in the same position.
Since the manual is quite vague on what data type should be
returned in such cases, the bug was fixed by implementing the
most 'expected' behavior: do not convert FLOAT(M,D)/DOUBLE(M,D)
to anything else if all SELECT statements in a UNION have the
same precision for that column.
Problem: mysqld doesn't detect that enum data must be reinserted performing
'ALTER TABLE' in some cases.
Fix: reinsert data altering an enum field if enum values are changed.
A stored procedure involving substrings could crash the server on certain
platforms because of invalid memory reads.
During storing the new blob-field value, the cached value's address range
overlapped that of the new field value. This caused problems when the
cached value storage was reallocated to provide access for a new
characater set representation. The patch checks the address ranges, and if
they overlap, the new field value is copied to a new storage before it is
converted to the new character set.
Problem: with @@sql_mode=pad_char_to_full_length
a CHAR column returned additional garbage
after trailing space characters due to
incorrect my_charpos() call.
Fix: call my_charpos() with correct arguments.
In order to handle CHAR() fields, 8 bits were reserved for
the size of the CHAR field. However, instead of denoting the
number of characters in the field, field_length was used which
denotes the number of bytes in the field.
Since UTF-8 fields can have three bytes per character (and
has been extended to have four bytes per character in 6.0),
an extra two bits have been encoded in the field metadata
work for fields of type Field_string (i.e., CHAR fields).
Since the metadata word is filled, the extra bits have been
encoded in the upper 4 bits of the real type (the most
significant byte of the metadata word) by computing the
bitwise xor of the extra two bits. Since the upper 4 bits
of the real type always is 1111 for Field_string, this
means that for fields of length <256, the encoding is
identical to the encoding used in pre-5.1.26 servers, but
for lengths of 256 or more, an unrecognized type is formed,
causing an old slave (that does not handle lengths of 256
or more) to stop.
or incorrect.
For better conformance with standard, truncation procedure of CHAR columns
has been changed to ignore truncation of trailing whitespace characters
(note has been removed).
Finally, for columns with non-binary charsets:
1. CHAR(N) columns silently ignore trailing whitespace truncation;
2. VARCHAR and TEXT columns issue Note about truncation.
BLOBs and other columns with BINARY charset are unaffected.
Make maximum blob size to be 2**32-1, regardless of word size.
Fix failure of timestamp with size of 2**31-1. The method of
rounding up to the nearest even number would overflow.
floating point numbers
Some math functions did not check if the result is a valid number
(i.e. neither of +-inf or nan).
Fixed by validating the result where necessary and returning NULL in
case of invalid result.
Problem was that Field_bit used Field::hash() function that did not
know about using null-byte for storing bits.
Resulting in wrong length, which was caught by valgrind.
Solution: created a Field_bit::hash() that uses Field_bit::val_int()
and my_charset_bin-collation function hash_sort.
Also use the store function for platform independs
Server handles truncation for assignment of too-long values
into CHAR/VARCHAR/TEXT columns in a different ways when the
truncated characters are spaces:
1. CHAR(N) columns silently ignore end-space truncation;
2. TEXT columns post a truncation warning/error in the
non-strict/strict mode.
3. VARCHAR columns always post a truncation note in
any mode.
Space truncation processing has been synchronised over
CHAR/VARCHAR/TEXT columns: current behavior of VARCHAR
columns has been propagated as standard.
Binary-encoded string/BLOB columns are not affected.
