The EXISTS transformation has additional switches to catch the known corner
cases that appear when transforming an IN predicate into EXISTS. Guarded
conditions are used which are deactivated when a NULL value is seen in the
outer expression's row. When the inner query block supplies NULL values,
however, they are filtered out because no distinction is made between the
guarded conditions; guarded NOT x IS NULL conditions in the HAVING clause that
filter out NULL values cannot be de-activated in isolation from those that
match values or from the outer expression or NULL's.
The above problem is handled by making the guarded conditions remember whether
they have rejected a NULL value or not, and index access methods are taking
this into account as well.
The bug consisted of
1) Not resetting the property for every nested loop iteration on the inner
query's result.
2) Not propagating the NULL result properly from inner query to IN optimizer.
3) A hack that may or may not have been needed at some point. According to a
comment it was aimed to fix#2 by returning NULL when FALSE was actually
the result. This caused failures when #2 was properly fixed. The hack is
now removed.
The fix resolves all three points.
file .\item_subselect.cc, line 836
IN quantified predicates are never executed directly. They are rather wrapped
inside nodes called IN Optimizers (Item_in_optimizer) which take care of the
execution. However, this is not done during query preparation. Unfortunately
the LIKE predicate pre-evaluates constant right-hand side arguments even
during name resolution. Likely this is meant as an optimization.
Fixed by not pre-evaluating LIKE arguments in view prepare mode.
Don't call member functions for a NIL pointer.
mysql-test/r/subselect4.result:
Add test case.
mysql-test/t/subselect4.test:
Add test case.
sql/sql_select.cc:
If the (virtual) member function clone_item() returns NULL,
there is no substitution to be made, and we don't need to set the collation.
The test was invoking Item_cache::clone_item()
query
The fix for bug 46749 removed the check for OUTER_REF_TABLE_BIT
and substituted it for a check on the presence of
Item_ident::depended_from.
Removing it altogether was wrong : OUTER_REF_TABLE_BIT should
still be checked in addition to depended_from (because it's not
set in all cases and doesn't contradict to the check of depended_from).
Fixed by returning the old condition back as a compliment to the
new one.
function,file sql_base.cc
When uncacheable queries are written to a temp table the optimizer must
preserve the original JOIN structure, because it is re-using the JOIN
structure to read from the resulting temporary table.
This was done only for uncacheable sub-queries.
But top level queries can also benefit from this mechanism, specially if
they're using index access and need a reset.
Fixed by not limiting the saving of JOIN structure to subqueries
exclusively.
Added a new test file to extend the existing (large) subquery.test.
