some rollup rows (rows with NULLs for grouping attributes) if GROUP BY
list contained constant expressions.
This happened because the results of constant expressions were not put
in the temporary table used for duplicate elimination. In fact a constant
item from the GROUP BY list of a ROLLUP query can be replaced for an
Item_null_result object when a rollup row is produced .
Now the JOIN::rollup_init function wraps any constant item referenced in
the GROYP BY list of a ROLLUP query into an Item_func object of a special
class that is never detected as constant item. This ensures creation of
fields for such constant items in temporary tables and guarantees right
results when the result of the rollup operation first has to be written
into a temporary table, e.g. in the cases when duplicate elimination is
required.
DATE and DATETIME can be compared either as strings or as int. Both
methods have their disadvantages. Strings can contain valid DATETIME value
but have insignificant zeros omitted thus became non-comparable with
other DATETIME strings. The comparison as int usually will require conversion
from the string representation and the automatic conversion in most cases is
carried out in a wrong way thus producing wrong comparison result. Another
problem occurs when one tries to compare DATE field with a DATETIME constant.
The constant is converted to DATE losing its precision i.e. losing time part.
This fix addresses the problems described above by adding a special
DATE/DATETIME comparator. The comparator correctly converts DATE/DATETIME
string values to int when it's necessary, adds zero time part (00:00:00)
to DATE values to compare them correctly to DATETIME values. Due to correct
conversion malformed DATETIME string values are correctly compared to other
DATE/DATETIME values.
As of this patch a DATE value equals to DATETIME value with zero time part.
For example '2001-01-01' equals to '2001-01-01 00:00:00'.
The compare_datetime() function is added to the Arg_comparator class.
It implements the correct comparator for DATE/DATETIME values.
Two supplementary functions called get_date_from_str() and get_datetime_value()
are added. The first one extracts DATE/DATETIME value from a string and the
second one retrieves the correct DATE/DATETIME value from an item.
The new Arg_comparator::can_compare_as_dates() function is added and used
to check whether two given items can be compared by the compare_datetime()
comparator.
Two caching variables were added to the Arg_comparator class to speedup the
DATE/DATETIME comparison.
One more store() method was added to the Item_cache_int class to cache int
values.
The new is_datetime() function was added to the Item class. It indicates
whether the item returns a DATE/DATETIME value.
This bug was intruduced by the fix for bug#17212 (in 4.1). It is not
ok to call test_if_skip_sort_order since this function will
alter the execution plan. By contract it is not ok to call
test_if_skip_sort_order in this context.
This bug appears only in the case when the optimizer has chosen
an index for accessing a particular table but finds a covering
index that enables it to skip ORDER BY. This happens in
test_if_skip_sort_order.
The Item_outer_ref class based on the Item_direct_ref class was always used
to represent an outer field. But if the outer select is a grouping one and the
outer field isn't under an aggregate function which is aggregated in that
outer select an Item_ref object should be used to represent such a field.
If the outer select in which the outer field is resolved isn't grouping then
the Item_field class should be used to represent such a field.
This logic also should be used for an outer field resolved through its alias
name.
Now the Item_field::fix_outer_field() uses Item_outer_field objects to
represent aliased and non-aliased outer fields for grouping outer selects
only.
Now the fix_inner_refs() function chooses which class to use to access outer
field - the Item_ref or the Item_direct_ref. An object of the chosen class
substitutes the original field in the Item_outer_ref object.
The direct_ref and the found_in_select_list fields were added to the
Item_outer_ref class.
The optimizer transforms DISTINCT into a GROUP BY
when possible.
It does that by constructing the same structure
(a list of ORDER instances) the parser makes when
parsing GROUP BY.
While doing that it also eliminates duplicates.
But if a duplicate is found it doesn't advance the
pointer to ref_pointer array, so the next
(and subsequent) ORDER structures point to the wrong
element in the SELECT list.
Fixed by advancing the pointer in ref_pointer_array
even in the case of a duplicate.
conditions.
When allocating memory for KEY_FIELD/SARGABLE_PARAM structures the
function update_ref_and_keys did not take into account the fact that
a single row equality could be replaced by several simple equalities.
Fixed by adjusting the counter cond_count accordingly for each subquery
when performing substitution of a row equality for simple equalities.
Geometry fields have a result type string and a
special subclass to cater for the differences
between them and the base class (just like
DATE/TIME).
When creating temporary tables for results of
functions that return results of type GEOMETRY
we must construct fields of the derived class
instead of the base class.
Fixed by creating a GEOMETRY field (Field_geom)
instead of a generic BLOB (Field_blob) in temp
tables for the results of GIS functions that
have GEOMETRY return type (Item_geometry_func).
When creating a temporary table the concise column type
of a string expression is decided based on its length:
- if its length is under 512 it is stored as either
varchar or char.
- otherwise it is stored as a BLOB.
There is a flag (convert_blob_length) to create_tmp_field
that, when >0 allows to force creation of a varchar if the
max blob length is under convert_blob_length.
However it must be verified that convert_blob_length
(settable through a SQL option in some cases) is
under the maximum that can be stored in a varchar column.
While performing that check for expressions in
create_tmp_field_from_item the max length of the blob was
used instead. This causes blob columns to be created in the
heap temp table used by GROUP_CONCAT (where blobs must not
be created in the temp table because of the constant
convert_blob_length that is passed to create_tmp_field() ).
And since these blob columns are not expected in that place
we get wrong results.
Fixed by checking that the value of the flag variable is
in the limits that fit into VARCHAR instead of the max length
of the blob column.
from func_group.test after the patch for bug #27229 had been applied.
The memory corruption happened because in some rare cases the function
count_field_types underestimated the number of elements in
in the array param->items_to_copy.
context was used as an argument of GROUP_CONCAT.
Ensured correct setting of the depended_from field in references
generated for set functions aggregated in outer selects.
A wrong value of this field resulted in wrong maps returned by
used_tables() for these references.
Made sure that a temporary table field is added for any set function
aggregated in outer context when creation of a temporary table is
needed to execute the inner subquery.
what it actually means (Monty approved the renaming)
- correcting description of transaction_alloc command-line options
(our manual is correct)
- fix for a failure of rpl_trigger.
To correctly decide which predicates can be evaluated with a given table
the optimizer must know the exact set of tables that a predicate depends
on. If that mask is too wide (refer to non-existing tables) the optimizer
can erroneously skip a predicate.
One such case of wrong table usage mask were the aggregate functions.
The have a all-1 mask (meaning depend on all tables, including non-existent
ones).
Fixed by making a real used_tables mask for the aggregates. The mask is
constructed in the following way :
1. OR the table dependency masks of all the arguments of the aggregate.
2. If all the arguments of the function are from the local name resolution
context and it is evaluated in the same name resolution
context where it is referenced all the tables from that name resolution
context are OR-ed to the dependency mask. This is to denote that an
aggregate function depends on the number of rows it processes.
3. Handle correctly the case of an aggregate function optimization (such that
the aggregate function can be pre-calculated and made a constant).
Made sure that an aggregate function is never a constant (unless subject of a
specific optimization and pre-calculation).
One other flaw was revealed and fixed in the process : references were
not calling the recalculation method for used_tables of their targets.
This bug was intruduced by the fix for bug#17212 (in 4.1). It is not
ok to call test_if_skip_sort_order since this function will
alter the execution plan. By contract it is not ok to call
test_if_skip_sort_order in this context.
This bug appears only in the case when the optimizer has chosen
an index for accessing a particular table but finds a covering
index that enables it to skip ORDER BY. This happens in
test_if_skip_sort_order.
sql_yacc.yy:
WL3527: updated the diff to use correct parser words
table.cc:
WL3527: exteneded the fix for bug #20604 to fit the new variables
sql_select.cc:
WL3527: renamed used_keys to covering_keys
