fixed several defects in the greedy optimization:
1) The greedy optimizer calculated the 'compare-cost' (CPU-cost)
for iterating over the partial plan result at each level in
the query plan as 'record_count / (double) TIME_FOR_COMPARE'
This cost was only used locally for 'best' calculation at each
level, and *not* accumulated into the total cost for the query plan.
This fix added the 'CPU-cost' of processing 'current_record_count'
records at each level to 'current_read_time' *before* it is used as
'accumulated cost' argument to recursive
best_extension_by_limited_search() calls. This ensured that the
cost of a huge join-fanout early in the QEP was correctly
reflected in the cost of the final QEP.
To get identical cost for a 'best' optimized query and a
straight_join with the same join order, the same change was also
applied to optimize_straight_join() and get_partial_join_cost()
2) Furthermore to get equal cost for 'best' optimized query and a
straight_join the new code substrcated the same '0.001' in
optimize_straight_join() as it had been already done in
best_extension_by_limited_search()
3) When best_extension_by_limited_search() aggregated the 'best' plan a
plan was 'best' by the check :
'if ((search_depth == 1) || (current_read_time < join->best_read))'
The term '(search_depth == 1' incorrectly caused a new best plan to be
collected whenever the specified 'search_depth' was reached - even if
this partial query plan was more expensive than what we had already
found.
Applied the fix for bug #47217 from the mysql-6.0 codebase.
The patch adds not null predicates generated for the left parts
of the equality predicates used for ref accesses. This is done
for such predicates both in where conditions and on conditions.
For the where conditions the not null predicates were generated
but in 5.0/5.1 they actually never were used due to some lame
merge from 4.1 to 5.0. The fix for bug #47217 made these
predicates to be used in the condition pushed to the tables.
Yet only this patch generates not null predicates for equality
predicated from on conditions of outer joins.
This patch introduces a performance regression that can be
observed on a test case from null_key.test. The regression
will disappear after the fix for bug #57024 from mariadb-5.1
is pulled into mariadb-5.3.
The patch contains many changes in the outputs of the EXPLAIN
commands since generated not null predicates are considered as
parts of the conditions pushed to join tables and may add
'Usingwhere' in some rows of EXPLAINs where there used
to be no such comments.