Type_handler::partition_field_append_value() erroneously
passed the address of my_collation_contextually_typed_binary
to conversion functions copy_and_convert() and my_convert().
This happened because generate_partition_syntax_for_frm()
was called from mysql_create_frm_image() in the stage when
the fields in List<Create_field> can still contain unresolved
contextual collations, like "binary" in the reported crash scenario:
ALTER TABLE t CHANGE COLUMN a a CHAR BINARY;
Fix:
1. Splitting mysql_prepare_create_table() into two parts:
- mysql_prepare_create_table_stage1() interates through
List<Create_field> and calls Create_field::prepare_stage1(),
which performs basic attribute initialization, including
context collation resolution.
- mysql_prepare_create_table_finalize() - the rest of the
old mysql_prepare_create_table() code.
2. Changing mysql_create_frm_image():
It now calls:
- mysql_prepare_create_table_stage1() in the very
beginning, before the partition related code.
- mysql_prepare_create_table_finalize() in the end,
instead of the old mysql_prepare_create_table() call
3. Adding mysql_prepare_create_table() as a wrapper
for two calls:
mysql_prepare_create_table_stage1() ||
mysql_prepare_create_table_finalize()
so the code stays unchanged in the other places
where mysql_prepare_create_table() was used.
4. Changing prototype for Type_handler::Column_definition_prepare_stage1()
Removing arguments:
- handler *file
- ulonglong table_flags
Adding a new argument instead:
- column_definition_type_t type
This allows to call Column_definition_prepare_stage1() and
therefore to call mysql_prepare_create_table_stage1()
before instantiation of a handler.
This simplifies the code, because in case of a partitioned table,
mysql_create_frm_image() creates a handler of the underlying
partition first, the frees it and created a ha_partition
instance instead.
mysql_prepare_create_table() before the fix was called with the final
(ha_partition) handler.
5. Moving parts of Column_definition_prepare_stage1() which
need a pointer to handler and table_flags to
Column_definition_prepare_stage2().
