Back-ported from the mysql 5.6 code line the patch with
the following comment:
Fix for Bug#11757108 CHANGE IN EXECUTION PLAN FOR COUNT_DISTINCT_GROUP_ON_KEY
CAUSES PEFORMANCE REGRESSION
The cause for the performance regression is that the access strategy for the
GROUP BY query is changed form using "index scan" in mysql-5.1 to use "loose
index scan" in mysql-5.5. The index used for group by is unique and thus each
"loose scan" group will only contain one record. Since loose scan needs to
re-position on each "loose scan" group this query will do a re-position for
each index entry. Compared to just reading the next index entry as a normal
index scan does, the use of loose scan for this query becomes more expensive.
The cause for selecting to use loose scan for this query is that in the current
code when the size of the "loose scan" group is one, the formula for
calculating the cost estimates becomes almost identical to the cost of using
normal index scan. Differences in use of integer versus floating point arithmetic
can cause one or the other access strategy to be selected.
The main issue with the formula for estimating the cost of using loose scan is
that it does not take into account that it is more costly to do a re-position
for each "loose scan" group compared to just reading the next index entry.
Both index scan and loose scan estimates the cpu cost as:
"number of entries needed too read/scan" * ROW_EVALUATE_COST
The results from testing with the query in this bug indicates that the real
cost for doing re-position four to eight times higher than just reading the
next index entry. Thus, the cpu cost estimate for loose scan should be increased.
To account for the extra work to re-position in the index we increase the
cost for loose index scan to include the cost of navigating the index.
This is modelled as a function of the height of the b-tree:
navigation cost= ceil(log(records in table)/log(indexes per block))
* ROWID_COMPARE_COST;
This will avoid loose index scan being used for indexes where the "loose scan"
group contains very few index entries.
This is a backport of the fix for MySQL bug #13723054 in 5.6.
Original comment:
The crash is caused by arbitrary memory area owerwriting in case of
BLOB fields during attempt to copy BLOB field key image into record
buffer(record buffer is too small to get BLOB key part image).
note:
QUICK_GROUP_MIN_MAX_SELECT can not work with BLOB fields
because it uses record buffer as temporary buffer for key values
however this case is filtered out by covering_keys() check
in get_best_group_min_max() as BLOBs always require key length
modificator in the key declaration and if the key has a BLOB
then it can not be covered key.
The fix is to use 'max_used_key_length' key length instead of 0.
Analysis:
Spcifically the crash in this bug was a result of the call to key_copy()
that copied the whole key, inlcuding the BLOB field which is not used
for index access. Copying the blob field overwrote memory as far as the
function parameter 'key_info'. As a result the contents of key_info was
all 0, which resulted in a crash when this key_info was accessed few
lines below in key_cmp().
ORDER BY COUNT(*) LIMIT.
PROBLEM:
With respect to problem in the bug description, we
exhibit different behaviors for the two tables
presented, because innodb statistics (rec_per_key
in this case) are updated for the first table
and not so for the second one. As a result the
query plan gets changed in test_if_skip_sort_order
to use 'index' scan. Hence the difference in the
explain output. (NOTE: We can reproduce the problem
with first table by reducing the number of tuples
and changing the table structure)
The varied output w.r.t the query on the second table
is because of the result in the query plan change.
When a query plan is changed to use 'index' scan,
after the call to test_if_skip_sort_order, we set
keyread to TRUE immedietly. If for some reason
we drop this index scan for a filesort later on,
we fetch only the keys not the entire tuple.
As a result we would see junk values in the result set.
Following is the code flow:
Call test_if_skip_sort_order
-Choose an index to give sorted output
-If this is a covering index, set_keyread to TRUE
-Set the scan to INDEX scan
Call test_if_skip_sort_order second time
-Index is not chosen (note that we do not pass the
actual limit value second time. Hence we do not choose
index scan second time which in itself is a bug fixed
in 5.6 with WL#5558)
-goto filesort
Call filesort
-Create quick range on a different index
-Since keyread is set to TRUE, we fetch only the columns of
the index
-results in the required columns are not fetched
FIX:
Remove the call to set_keyread(TRUE) from
test_if_skip_sort_order. The access function which is
'join_read_first' or 'join_read_last' calls set_keyread anyways.
mysql-test/r/func_group_innodb.result:
Added test result for Bug#12713907
mysql-test/t/func_group_innodb.test:
Added test case for Bug#12713907
sql/sql_select.cc:
Remove the call to set_keyread as we do it from access
functions 'join_read_first' and 'join_read_last'
when semijoin=on
When setting the aggregate function as having no rows to report
the function no_rows_in_result() was calling Item_sum::reset().
However this function in addition to cleaning up the aggregate
value by calling aggregator_clear() was also adding the current
value to the aggregate value by calling aggregator_add().
Fixed by making no_rows_in_result() to call aggregator_clear()
directly.
Renamed Item_sum::reset to Item_sum::reset_and_add() to
and added a comment to avoid misinterpretation of what the
function does.
mysql-test/r/func_group_innodb.result:
New BitKeeper file ``mysql-test/r/func_group_innodb.result''
mysql-test/t/func_group_innodb.test:
New BitKeeper file ``mysql-test/t/func_group_innodb.test''
