created for sorting.
Any outer reference in a subquery was represented by an Item_field object.
If the outer select employs a temporary table all such fields should be
replaced with fields from that temporary table in order to point to the
actual data. This replacement wasn't done and that resulted in a wrong
subquery evaluation and a wrong result of the whole query.
Now any outer field is represented by two objects - Item_field placed in the
outer select and Item_outer_ref in the subquery. Item_field object is
processed as a normal field and the reference to it is saved in the
ref_pointer_array. Thus the Item_outer_ref is always references the correct
field. The original field is substituted for a reference in the
Item_field::fix_outer_field() function.
New function called fix_inner_refs() is added to fix fields referenced from
inner selects and to fix references (Item_ref objects) to these fields.
The new Item_outer_ref class is a descendant of the Item_direct_ref class.
It additionally stores a reference to the original field and designed to
behave more like a field.
The bug report has demonstrated the following two problems.
1. If an ORDER/GROUP BY list includes a constant expression being
optimized away and, at the same time, containing single-row
subselects that return more that one row, no error is reported.
Strictly speaking the standard allows to ignore error in this case.
Yet, now a corresponding fatal error is reported in this case.
2. If a query requires sorting by expressions containing single-row
subselects that, however, return more than one row, then the execution
of the query may cause a server crash.
To fix this some code has been added that blocks execution of a subselect
item in case of a fatal error in the method Item_subselect::exec.
UNION over correlated and uncorrelated SELECTS.
In such subqueries each uncorrelated SELECT should be considered as
uncacheable. Otherwise join_free is called for it and in many cases
it causes some problems.
(Mostly in DBUG_PRINT() and unused arguments)
Fixed bug in query cache when used with traceing (--with-debug)
Fixed memory leak in mysqldump
Removed warnings from mysqltest scripts (replaced -- with #)
- When returning metadata for scalar subqueries the actual type of the
column was calculated based on the value type, which limits the actual
type of a scalar subselect to the set of (currently) 3 basic types :
integer, double precision or string. This is the reason that columns
of types other then the basic ones (e.g. date/time) are reported as
being of the corresponding basic type.
Fixed by storing/returning information for the column type in addition
to the result type.
This is a performance issue for queries with subqueries evaluation
of which requires filesort.
Allocation of memory for the sort buffer at each evaluation of a
subquery may take a significant amount of time if the buffer is rather big.
With the fix we allocate the buffer at the first evaluation of the
subquery and reuse it at each subsequent evaluation.
If elements a not top-level IN subquery were accessed by an index and
the subquery result set included a NULL value then the quantified
predicate that contained the subquery was evaluated to NULL when
it should return a non-null value.
list using a function
When executing dependent subqueries they are re-inited and re-exec() for
each row of the outer context.
The cause for the bug is that during subquery reinitialization/re-execution,
the optimizer reallocates JOIN::join_tab, JOIN::table in make_simple_join()
and the local variable in 'sortorder' in create_sort_index(), which is
allocated by make_unireg_sortorder().
Care must be taken not to allocate anything into the thread's memory pool
while re-initializing query plan structures between subquery re-executions.
All such items mush be cached and reused because the thread's memory pool
is freed at the end of the whole query.
Note that they must be cached and reused even for queries that are not
otherwise cacheable because otherwise it will grow the thread's memory
pool every time a cacheable query is re-executed.
We provide additional members to the JOIN structure to store references
to the items that need to be cached.
an ALL/ANY quantified subquery in HAVING.
The Item::split_sum_func2 method should not create Item_ref
for objects of any class derived from Item_subselect.
wrong results
Mark the containing Item(s) (Item_subselect descendant usually) of
a subselect as containing aggregate functions if it has references
to aggregates functions that are calculated outside its context.
This tels end_send_group() not to make an Item_subselect descendant in
select list a copy and causes the correct value being returned.
Made the parser to support parenthesis around UNION branches.
This is done by amending the rules of the parser so it generates the correct
structure.
Currently it supports arbitrary subquery/join/parenthesis operations in the
EXISTS clause.
In the IN/scalar subquery case it will allow adding nested parenthesis only
if there is an UNION clause after the parenthesis. Otherwise it will just
treat the multiple nested parenthesis as a scalar expression.
It adds extra lex level for ((SELECT ...) UNION ...) to accommodate for the
UNION clause.
The bug caused a crash of the server if a subquery with
ORDER BY DESC used the range access method.
The bug happened because the method QUICK_SELECT_DESC::reset
was not reworked after MRR interface had been introduced.
The bug was due to a loss happened during a refactoring made
on May 30 2005 that modified the function JOIN::reinit.
As a result of it for any subquery the value of offset_limit_cnt
was not restored for the following executions. Yet the first
execution of the subquery made it equal to 0.
The fix restores this value in the function JOIN::reinit.
may return a wrong result.
An Item_sum_hybrid object has the was_values flag which indicates whether any
values were added to the sum function. By default it is set to true and reset
to false on any no_rows_in_result() call. This method is called only in
return_zero_rows() function. An ALL/ANY subquery can be optimized by MIN/MAX
optimization. The was_values flag is used to indicate whether the subquery
has returned at least one row. This bug occurs because return_zero_rows() is
called only when we know that the select will return zero rows before
starting any scans but often such information is not known.
In the reported case the return_zero_rows() function is not called and
the was_values flag is not reset to false and yet the subquery return no rows
Item_func_not_all and Item_func_nop_all functions return a wrong
comparison result.
The end_send_group() function now calls no_rows_in_result() for each item
in the fields_list if there is no rows were found for the (sub)query.
The ALL/ANY subqueries are the subject of MIN/MAX optimization. The matter
of this optimization is to embed MIN() or MAX() function into the subquery
in order to get only one row by which we can tell whether the expression
with ALL/ANY subquery is true or false.
But when it is applied to a subquery like 'select a_constant' the reported bug
occurs. As no tables are specified in the subquery the do_select() function
isn't called for the optimized subquery and thus no values have been added
to a MIN()/MAX() function and it returns NULL instead of a_constant.
This leads to a wrong query result.
For the subquery like 'select a_constant' there is no reason to apply
MIN/MAX optimization because the subquery anyway will return at most one row.
Thus the Item_maxmin_subselect class is more appropriate for handling such
subqueries.
The Item_in_subselect::single_value_transformer() function now checks
whether tables are specified for the subquery. If no then this subselect is
handled like a UNION using an Item_maxmin_subselect object.
The convert_constant_item() function converts constant items to ints on
prepare phase to optimize execution speed. In this case it tries to evaluate
subselect which contains a derived table and is contained in a derived table.
All derived tables are filled only after all derived tables are prepared.
So evaluation of subselect with derived table at the prepare phase will
return a wrong result.
A new flag with_subselect is added to the Item class. It indicates that
expression which this item represents is a subselect or contains a subselect.
It is set to 0 by default. It is set to 1 in the Item_subselect constructor
for subselects.
For Item_func and Item_cond derived classes it is set after fixing any argument
in Item_func::fix_fields() and Item_cond::fix_fields accordingly.
The convert_constant_item() function now doesn't convert a constant item
if the with_subselect flag set in it.
When a view statement is compiled on CREATE VIEW time, most of the
optimizations should not be done. Finding the right optimization
for a subquery is one of them.
Unfortunately the optimizer is resolving the column references of
the left expression of IN subqueries in the process of deciding
witch optimization to use (if needed). So there should be a
special case in Item_in_subselect::fix_fields() : check the
validity of the left expression of IN subqueries in CREATE VIEW
mode and then proceed as normal.
