Changing the return type of the following functions:
- CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(), NOW()
- SYSDATE()
- FROM_UNIXTIME()
from DATETIME to TIMESTAMP.
Note, the old function NOW() returning DATETIME is still available
as LOCALTIMESTAMP or LOCALTIMESTAMP(), e.g.:
SELECT
LOCALTIMESTAMP, -- DATETIME
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP; -- TIMESTAMP
The change in the functions return data type fixes some problems
that occurred near a DST change:
- Problem #1
INSERT INTO t1 (timestamp_field) VALUES (CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);
INSERT INTO t1 (timestamp_field) VALUES (COALESCE(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP));
could result into two different values inserted.
- Problem #2
INSERT INTO t1 (timestamp_field) VALUES (FROM_UNIXTIME(1288477526));
INSERT INTO t1 (timestamp_field) VALUES (FROM_UNIXTIME(1288477526+3600));
could result into two equal TIMESTAMP values near a DST change.
Additional changes:
- FROM_UNIXTIME(0) now returns SQL NULL instead of '1970-01-01 00:00:00'
(assuming time_zone='+00:00')
- UNIX_TIMESTAMP('1970-01-01 00:00:00') now returns SQL NULL instead of 0
(assuming time_zone='+00:00'
These additional changes are needed for consistency with TIMESTAMP fields,
which cannot store '1970-01-01 00:00:00 +00:00'
This patch extends the timestamp from
2038-01-19 03:14:07.999999 to 2106-02-07 06:28:15.999999
for 64 bit hardware and OS where 'long' is 64 bits.
This is true for 64 bit Linux but not for Windows.
This is done by treating the 32 bit stored int as unsigned instead of
signed. This is safe as MariaDB has never accepted dates before the epoch
(1970).
The benefit of this approach that for normal timestamp the storage is
compatible with earlier version.
However for tables using system versioning we before stored a
timestamp with the year 2038 as the 'max timestamp', which is used to
detect current values. This patch stores the new 2106 year max value
as the max timestamp. This means that old tables using system
versioning needs to be updated with mariadb-upgrade when moving them
to 11.4. That will be done in a separate commit.
Changing the way how a the following conditions are evaluated:
WHERE timestamp_column=datetime_const_expr
(for all comparison operators: =, <=>, <, >, <=, >=, <> and for NULLIF)
Before the change it was always performed as DATETIME.
That was not efficient, as involved per-row TIMESTAMP->DATETIME conversion
for timestamp_column. For example, in case of the SYSTEM time zone
it involved a localtime_r() call, which is known to be slow.
After the change it's performed as TIMESTAMP in many cases.
This allows to avoid per-row conversion, as it works the other way around:
datetime_const_expr is converted to TIMESTAMP once before the execution stage.
Note, datetime_const_expr must be inside monotone continuous periods of
the current time zone, i.e. not near these anomalies:
- DST changes (spring forward, fall back)
- leap seconds
Tests with checking metadata or that cannot be run with
the view-protocol are excluded from --view-protocol.
For tests that do not allow the use of an additional connection,
the util connection is disabled with "--disable_service_connection".
Also cases with bugs for --view-protocol are disabled.
TIMESTAMP columns were compared as strings in ALL/ANY comparison,
which did not work well near DST time change.
Changing ALL/ANY comparison to use "Native" representation to compare
TIMESTAMP columns, like simple comparison does.
