The problem is that the first execution of the prepared statement makes
a permanent optimization of converting the LEFT JOIN to an INNER JOIN.
This is based on the assumption that all the user parameters (?) are
always constants and that parameters to Item_cond() will not change value
from true and false between different executions.
(The example was using IS NULL, which will change value if parameter
depending on if the parameter is NULL or not).
The fix is to change Item_cond::fix_fields() and
Item_cond::eval_not_null_tables() to not threat user parameters as
constants. This will ensure that we don't do the LEFT_JOIN -> INNER
JOIN conversion that causes problems.
There is also some things that needs to be improved regarding
calculations of not_null_tables_cache as we get a different value for
WHERE 1 or t1.a=1
compared to
WHERE t1.a= or 1
Changes done:
- Mark Item_param with the PARAM flag to be able to quickly check
in Item_cond::eval_not_null_tables() if an item contains a
prepared statement parameter (just like we check for stored procedure
parameters).
- Fixed that Item_cond::not_null_tables_cache is not depending on
order of arguments.
- Don't call item->eval_const_cond() for items that are NOT on the top
level of the WHERE clause. This removed a lot of unnecessary
warnings in the test suite!
- Do not reset not_null_tables_cache for not top level items.
- Simplified Item_cond::fix_fields by calling eval_not_null_tables()
instead of having duplication of all the code in
eval_not_null_tables().
- Return an error if Item_cond::fix_field() generates an error
The old code did generate an error in some cases, but not in all
cases.
- Fixed all handling of the above error in make_cond_for_tables().
The error handling by the callers did not exists before which
could lead to asserts in many different places in the old code).
- All changes in sql_select.cc are just checking the return value of
fix_fields() and make_cond_for_tables() and returning an error
value if fix_fields() returns true or make_cond_for_tables()
returns NULL and is_error() is set.
- Mark Item_cond as const_item if all arguments returns true for
can_eval_in_optimize().
Reviewer: Sergei Petrunia <sergey@mariadb.com>
