Assertion failure has happened due to this scenario:
A query was ran with optimizer_join_limit_pref_ratio=1.
The query had "ORDER BY t1.col LIMIT N".
The optimizer set join->limit_shortcut_applicable=1.
Then, table t1 was marked as constant.
The code in choose_query_plan() still set join->limit_optimization_mode=1
which caused the optimizer to only consider t1 as the first non-const table.
But t1 was already put into the join prefix as the constant table.
The optimizer couldn't produce any join order at all and crashed.
Fixed by not searching for shortcut plan if ORDER BY table is a constant.
We will not try to do sorting anyway in this case (and LIMIT short-cutting
will be done for any join order).
Pre-11.0 variant:
1. In recompute_join_cost_with_limit(), add an assertion that that
partial_join_cost >= 0.0.
2. best_extension_by_limited_search() subtracts COST_EPS from
join->best_read. But it is not subtracted from
join->positions[0].read_time, add it back.
2. We could get very small negative partial_join_cost due to rounding
errors. For fraction=1.0, we were computing essentially this (denote
as EXPR-1):
$row_read_cost + $where_cost - ($row_read_cost + $where_cost)
which should compute to 0.
But the computation was done in the following order (left-to-right):
EXPR-2:
($row_read_cost + $where_cost) - $row_read_cost - $where_cost
this produced a value of -1.1102230246251565e-16 due to a rounding
error. Change the computation use EXPR-1 instead of EXPR-2.
Variant for 11.2+:
In recompute_join_cost_with_limit(), do not subtract the cost of checking
the WHERE:
pos->records_read* WHERE_COST_THD(join->thd)
It is already included in pos->read_time.
Also added comments about difference between this fix and the pre-11.2
variant.
(Variant 2b: call greedy_search() twice, correct handling for limited
search_depth)
Modify the join optimizer to specifically try to produce join orders that
can short-cut their execution for ORDER BY..LIMIT clause.
The optimization is controlled by @@optimizer_join_limit_pref_ratio.
Default value 0 means don't construct short-cutting join orders.
Other value means construct short-cutting join order, and prefer it only
if it promises speedup of more than #value times.
In Optimizer Trace, look for these names:
* join_limit_shortcut_is_applicable
* join_limit_shortcut_plan_search
* join_limit_shortcut_choice
