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* Fix ISO C++17 does not allow 'register' storage class specifier for outdated bison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
2. Set Decimal precision in SimpleColumn::evaluate().
3. Add support for int128_t in ConstantColumn.
4. Set IDB_Decimal::s128Value in buildDecimalColumn().
5. Use width 16 as first if predicate for branching based on decimal width.
Raised the default for orderby threads from 4 to 16.
Removed if LIMIT check block in makeVtableModeSteps().
Removed a duplicate of TimeCompare class and methods.
MCOL-3536 Upmerged the change.
MCOL-894 Post review changes.
Uncomment if LIMIT check block in makeVtableModeSteps().
TupleAnnexStep dtor now uses vector::size() as a boundary.
Removed useless try-catch blocks.
executeParallelOrderBy() now calculates rowSize only once.
Removed forward declaration in the unexisting namespace.
Trim UTs a bit.
pDictionaryScan won't work for BLOB/TEXT since it requires searching the
data file and rebuilding the token from matches. The tokens can't be
rebuild correctly due the bits in the token used for block counts. This
patch forces the use of pDictionaryStep instead for WHERE conditions.
In addition this patch adds support for TEXT/BLOB in various parts of
the job step processing. This fixes things like error 202 during an
UPDATE with a join condition on TEXT/BLOB columns.
