Bug#11766642: crash in Item_field::register_field_in_read_map
with view
(Former 59793)
Prior to the refactoring in this patch, Item_cond_xor behaved
partially as an Item_cond and partially as an Item_func. The
reasoning behind this was that XOR is currently not optimized
(thus should be Item_func instead of Item_cond), but it was
planned optimize it in the future (thus, made Item_cond anyway
to ease optimization later).
Even though Item_cond inherits from Item_func, there are
differences between these two. One difference is that the
arguments are stored differently. Item_cond stores them in a
list while Item_func store them in an args[].
BUG no 45221 was caused by Item_cond_xor storing arguments in
the list while users of the objects would look for them in
args[]. The fix back then was to store the arguments in both
locations.
In this bug, Item_cond_xor initially gets two Item_field
arguments. These are stored in the list inherited from
Item_cond and in args[] inherited from Item_func. During
resolution, find_field_in_view() replaces the Item_fields
stored in the list with Item_direct_view_refs, but args[]
still points to the unresolved Item_fields. This shows that
the fix for 45221 was incorrect.
The refactoring performed in this patch removes the confusion
by making the XOR item an Item_func period. A neg_transformer()
is also implemented for Item_func_xor to improve performance
when negating XOR expressions. An XOR is negated by negating
one of the operands.
