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.
EM scaleability project has two parts: phase1 and phase2.
This is phase1 that brings EM index to speed up(from O(n) down
to the speed of boost::unordered_map) EM lookups looking for
<dbroot, oid, partition> tuple to turn it into LBID,
e.g. most bulk insertion meta info operations.
The basis is boost::shared_managed_object where EMIndex is
stored. Whilst it is not debug-friendly it allows to put a
nested structs into shmem. EMIndex has 3 tiers. Top down description:
vector of dbroots, map of oids to partition vectors, partition
vectors that have EM indices.
Separate EM methods now queries index before they do EM run.
EMIndex has a separate shmem file with the fixed id
MCS-shm-00060001.
