Before this change, the functions BENCHMARK, ENCODE, DECODE and FORMAT could
only accept a constant for some parameters.
After this change, this restriction has been removed. An implication is that
these functions can also be used in prepared statements.
The change consist of changing the following classes:
- Item_func_benchmark
- Item_func_encode
- Item_func_decode
- Item_func_format
to:
- only accept Item* in the constructor,
- and evaluate arguments during calls to val_xxx()
which fits the general design of all the other functions.
The 'TODO' items identified in item_create.cc during the work done for
Bug 21114 are addressed by this fix, as a natural consequence of aligning
the design.
In the 'func_str' test, a single very long test line involving an explain
extended select with many functions has been rewritten into multiple
separate tests, to improve maintainability.
The result of explain extended select decode(encode(...)) has changed,
since the encode and decode functions now print all their parameters.
The problem was that some functions (namely IN() starting with 4.1, and
CHAR() starting with 5.0) were returning NULL in certain conditions,
while they didn't set their maybe_null flag. Because of that there could
be some problems with 'IS NULL' check, and statements that depend on the
function value domain, like CREATE TABLE t1 SELECT 1 IN (2, NULL);.
The fix is to set maybe_null correctly.
Adding class to handle temporary allocate of memory during write of rows.
Eliminating cut'n-paste error between THD::binlog_{write,update,delete}_row().
Bug#21025 (misleading error message when creating functions named 'x', or 'y')
Bug#22619 (Spaces considered harmful)
This change contains a fix to report warnings or errors, and multiple tests
cases.
Before this fix, name collisions between:
- Native functions
- User Defined Functions
- Stored Functions
were not systematically reported, leading to confusing behavior.
I) Native / User Defined Function
Before this fix, is was possible to create a UDF named "foo", with the same
name as a native function "foo", but it was impossible to invoke the UDF,
since the syntax "foo()" always refer to the native function.
After this fix, creating a UDF fails with an error if there is a name
collision with a native function.
II) Native / Stored Function
Before this fix, is was possible to create a SF named "db.foo", with the same
name as a native function "foo", but this was confusing since the syntax
"foo()" would refer to the native function. To refer to the Stored Function,
the user had to use the "db.foo()" syntax.
After this fix, creating a Stored Function reports a warning if there is a
name collision with a native function.
III) User Defined Function / Stored Function
Before this fix, creating a User Defined Function "foo" and a Stored Function
"db.foo" are mutually exclusive operations. Whenever the second function is
created, an error is reported. However, the test suite did not cover this
behavior.
After this fix, the behavior is unchanged, and is now covered by test cases.
Note that the code change in this patch depends on the fix for Bug 21114.
The regression is caused by the fix for bug 14767. When INSERT ... SELECT
used a view in the SELECT list that was not inlined, and there was an
active transaction, the server could crash in Query_cache::invalidate.
On INSERT ... SELECT only the table being inserted into is invalidated.
Thus views that can't be inlined are skipped from invalidation.
The bug manifests itself in two ways so there is 2 test cases.
One checks that the only the table being inserted into is invalidated.
And the second one checks that there is no crash on INSERT ... SELECT.
