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Committer:
timour at askmonty
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Date:
2012-09-14 08:26:01 UTC
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Revision ID:
timour@askmonty.org-20120914082601-ih3fb4tqxl36p2ml
Fix bug lp:1009187, mdev-373, mysql bug#58628
Analysis:
The queries in question use the [unique | index]_subquery execution methods.
These methods reuse the ref keys constructed by create_ref_for_key(). The
way create_ref_for_key() works is that it doesn't store in ref.key_copy[]
store_key elements that represent constants. In particular it doesn't store
the store_key for NULL constants.
The execution of [unique | index]_subquery calls
subselect_uniquesubquery_engine::copy_ref_key, which in addition to copy
the left IN argument into a index lookup key, is supposed to detect if
the left IN argument contains NULLs. Since the store_key for the NULL
constant is not copied into the key array, the null is not detected, and
execution erroneously proceeds as if it should look for a complete match.
Solution:
The solution (unlike MySQL) is to reuse already computed information about
NULL presence. Item_in_optimizer::val_int already finds out if the left IN
operand contains NULLs. The fix propagates this to the execution methods
subselect_[unique | index]subquery_engine::exec so it knows if there were
NULL values independent of the presence of keys.
In addition the patch siplifies copy_ref_key() and the logic that hanldes
the case of NULLs in the left IN operand.