This has been back-ported from 6.0 as the problems proved to afflict
5.1 as well.
The fix exposed two new bugs. They were reported as follows.
Bug no 52174: Sometimes wrong plan when reading a MAX value
from non-NULL index
Bug no 52173: Reading NULL value from non-NULL index gives wrong
result in embedded server
Both bugs taken together affect a much smaller class of queries than #47762,
so the fix stays for now.
NULL column for NULL
The optimization to read MIN() and MAX() values from an
index did not properly handle comparisons with NULL
values. Fixed by giving up the particular optimization step
if there are non-NULL safe comparisons with NULL values, as
the result is NULL anyway.
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