The crash was caused by invalid sequence of handler::** calls:
ha_smth->index_init();
ha_smth->index_next_same(); (2)
(2) is an invalid call as it was not preceeded by any 'scan setup' call
like index_first() or index_read(). The cause was that QUICK_SELECT::reset()
didn't "fully reset" the quick select- current QUICK_RANGE wasn't forgotten,
and quick select might attempt to continue reading the range, which would
result in the above mentioned invalid sequence of handler calls.
5.x versions are not affected by the bug - they already have the missing
"range=NULL" clause.
Disable const propagation for Item_hex_string.
This must be done because Item_hex_string->val_int() is not
the same as (Item_hex_string->val_str() in BINARY column)->val_int().
We cannot simply disable the replacement in a particular context (
e.g. <bin_col> = <int_col> AND <bin_col> = <hex_string>) since
Items don't know the context they are in and there are functions like
IF (<hex_string>, 'yes', 'no').
Note that this will disable some valid cases as well
(e.g. : <bin_col> = <hex_string> AND <bin_col2> = <bin_col>) but
there's no way to distinguish the valid cases without having the
Item's parent say something like : Item->set_context(Item::STRING_RESULT)
and have all the Items that contain other Items do that consistently.
optimizer does not honor IGNORE INDEX
- Allow an index to be used for sorting the table
instead of filesort only if it is not disabled by
IGNORE INDEX.
table in a join
The optimizer removes redundant columns in ORDER BY. It is considering
redundant every reference to const table column, e.g b in :
create table t1 (a int, b int, primary key(a));
select 1 from t1 order by b where a = 1
But it must not remove references to const table columns if the
const table is an outer table because there still can be 2 values :
the const value and NULL. e.g.:
create table t1 (a int, b int, primary key(a));
select t2.b c from t1 left join t1 t2 on (t1.a = t2.a and t2.a = 5)
order by c;
Problem described in this bug report affects MyISAM tables only.
Running mysqld --flush instructs mysqld to sync all changes to disk
after each SQL statement. It worked well for INSERT and DELETE
statements, but it did sync for UPDATE only in case if there was
index change (change of colum that has an index). If no updated column
has an index, data wasn't synced to disk.
This fix makes UPDATE statement to sync data to disk even if there is
no index change (that is only data change) and mysqld is run with
--flush option.
privileges
This problem is 4.1 specific. It doesn't affect 4.0 and was fixed
in 5.x before.
Having any mysql user who is allowed to issue multi table update
statement and any column/table grants, allows this user to update
any table on a server (mysql grant tables are not exception).
check_grant() accepts number of tables (in table list) to be checked
in 5-th param. While checking grants for multi table update, number
of tables must be 1. It must never be 0 (actually we have
DBUG_ASSERT(number > 0) in 5.x in grant_check() function).
