When first argument to the JSON_MERGE_PATCH was NULL and second - the
invalid JSON line, the error code was garbage. So it should be set to 0
initially.
Quick grouping is not supported for JSON_OBJECTAGG. The same for GROUP_CONCAT too
so make sure that Item::quick_group is set to FALSE. We need to make sure that in
the case of JSON_OBJECTAGG we don't create an index over grouping fields of
the temp table and update the result after each iteration.
Instead we should first sort the result in accordance to the
GROUP BY fields and then perform the grouping and
write the result to the temp table.
Item_func_json_extract did not implement val_decimal(),
so CAST(JSON_EXTRACT('{"x":true}', '$.x') AS DECIMAL) erroneously
returned 0 with a warning because of convertion from the string "true"
to decimal.
Implementing val_decimal(), so boolean values are correctly handled.
For DISTINCT to be handled with JSON_ARRAYAGG, we need to make sure
that the Unique tree also holds the NULL bytes of a table record
inside the node of the tree. This behaviour for JSON_ARRAYAGG is
different from GROUP_CONCAT because in GROUP_CONCAT we just reject
NULL values for columns.
Also introduced a comparator function for the unique tree to handle null
values for distinct inside JSON_ARRAYAGG.
We have to include NULL in the result which the GOUP_CONCAT doesn't
always do. Also converting should be done into another String instance
as these can be same.
The JSON_ARRAYAGG function extends the GROUP_CONCAT function and provides
a method of aggregating JSON results. The current implementation supports
DISTINCT and LIMIT but not ORDER BY (Oracle supports GROUP BY).
Adding GROUP BY support is possible but it requires some extra work as the
grouping appears to be done inside a temporary table that complicates
matters.
Added test cases that covert aggregation of all JSON types and JSON
validation for the generated results.
The MDEV-17262 commit 26432e49d3
was skipped. In Galera 4, the implementation would seem to require
changes to the streaming replication.
In the tests archive.rnd_pos main.profiling, disable_ps_protocol
for SHOW STATUS and SHOW PROFILE commands until MDEV-18974
has been fixed.
