Changing the way how a the following conditions are evaluated:
WHERE timestamp_column=datetime_const_expr
(for all comparison operators: =, <=>, <, >, <=, >=, <> and for NULLIF)
Before the change it was always performed as DATETIME.
That was not efficient, as involved per-row TIMESTAMP->DATETIME conversion
for timestamp_column. For example, in case of the SYSTEM time zone
it involved a localtime_r() call, which is known to be slow.
After the change it's performed as TIMESTAMP in many cases.
This allows to avoid per-row conversion, as it works the other way around:
datetime_const_expr is converted to TIMESTAMP once before the execution stage.
Note, datetime_const_expr must be inside monotone continuous periods of
the current time zone, i.e. not near these anomalies:
- DST changes (spring forward, fall back)
- leap seconds
Tests with checking metadata or that cannot be run with
the view-protocol are excluded from --view-protocol.
For tests that do not allow the use of an additional connection,
the util connection is disabled with "--disable_service_connection".
Also cases with bugs for --view-protocol are disabled.
TIMESTAMP columns were compared as strings in ALL/ANY comparison,
which did not work well near DST time change.
Changing ALL/ANY comparison to use "Native" representation to compare
TIMESTAMP columns, like simple comparison does.
