This patch improves handling of NULLs in textual fields in ColumnStore.
Previously empty strings were considered NULLs and it could be a problem
if data scheme allows for empty strings. It was also one of major
reasons of behavior difference between ColumnStore and other engines in
MariaDB family.
Also, this patch fixes some other bugs and incorrect behavior, for
example, incorrect comparison for "column <= ''" which evaluates to
constant True for all purposes before this patch.
* Fix clang warnings
* Remove vim tab guides
* initialize variables
* 'strncpy' output truncated before terminating nul copying as many bytes from a string as its length
* Fix ISO C++17 does not allow 'register' storage class specifier for outdated bison
* chars are unsigned on ARM, having if (ival < 0) always false
* chars are unsigned by default on ARM and comparison with -1 if always true
Create tables and schemas with lower case name only if the flag is set.
During operations, convert to lowercase in plugin. Byt the time a query gets to ExeMgr, DDLProc etc., everything must be lower case if the flag is set, and undisturbed if not.
Found the following:
* Potential stack explosions with alloca() usage on potentially large
strings
* Memory leaks in WriteEngineServer
* Stack usage out of scope in dataconvert
* A typo in an 'if' statement in dataconvert
In the FLOAT/DOUBLE to string conversions a class global string was used
to store the result. Unfortunately it is possible for an instance of
this class to be used by multiple threads of PrimProc simultaneously.
This would cause a race and data corruption or more likely a crash.
This fix passes a string object from the caller to use instead.
