This bug affected queries with nested left joins having the same last inner
table such that not_exists optimization could be applied to the most inner
outer join when optimizer chose to use join buffers. The bug could lead to
producing wrong a result set.
If the WHERE condition a query contains a conjunctive IS NULL predicate
over a non-nullable column of an inner table of a not nested outer join
then not_exists optimization can be applied to tho the outer join. With
this optimization when looking for matches for a certain record from the
outer table of the join the records of the inner table can be ignored
right after the first match satisfying the ON condition is found.
In the case of nested outer joins having the same last inner table this
optimization still can be applied but only if all ON conditions of the
embedding outer joins are satisfied. Such check was missing in the code
that tried to apply not_exists optimization when join buffers were used
for outer join operations.
This problem has been already fixed in the patch for bug MDEV-7992. Yet
there it was resolved only for the cases when join buffers were not used
for outer joins.
Approved by Oleksandr Byelkin <sanja@mariadb.com>
This patch contains a full implementation of the optimization
that allows to use in-memory rowid / primary filters built for range
conditions over indexes. In many cases usage of such filters reduce
the number of disk seeks spent for fetching table rows.
In this implementation the choice of what possible filter to be applied
(if any) is made purely on cost-based considerations.
This implementation re-achitectured the partial implementation of
the feature pushed by Galina Shalygina in the commit
8d5a11122c.
Besides this patch contains a better implementation of the generic
handler function handler::multi_range_read_info_const() that
takes into account gaps between ranges when calculating the cost of
range index scans. It also contains some corrections of the
implementation of the handler function records_in_range() for MyISAM.
This patch supports the feature for InnoDB and MyISAM.
