by compound index
This typo bug may lead to wrong result sets for equi-join queries where
the join operation is supported by a compound index such that the order of
its components differs from the order of the corresponding columns in
the table the index belongs to. The bug manifests itself only when usage
of the BNLH algorithm is forced.
The fix for the bug was provided by Chu Huaxing.
This bug could affect multi-way join queries with embedded outer joins that
contained a conjunctive IS NULL predicate over a non-nullable column from
inner table of an outer join. The predicate could occur in WHERE condition
or in ON condition. Due to this bug a wrong result set could be returned by
the query. The bug manifested itself only when join buffers were employed
for join operations.
The problem appeared because
- a bug in the function JOIN_CACHE::get_match_flag_by_pos that not always
returned proper match flags for embedding outer joins stored together
with table rows put a join buffer.
- bug in the function JOIN_CACHE::join_matching_records that not always
correctly determined that a row from the buffer could be skipped due
to applied 'not_exists' optimization.
Example:
SELECT * FROM t1 LEFT JOIN ((t2 LEFT JOIN t3 ON c = d) JOIN t4) ON b = e
WHERE e IS NULL;
The patch introduces a new function that finds the match flag for a record
from join buffer specifying the buffer where this flag has to be found.
The function is called JOIN_CACHE::get_match_flag_by_pos_from_join_buffer().
Now this function rather than JOIN_CACHE::get_match_flag_by_pos() is used
in JOIN_CACHE::skip_if_matched() to check whether a record from the join
buffer must be ignored when extending the record by null complements.
Also the code of the function JOIN_CACHE::skip_if_not_needed_match() has
been changed. The function checks whether a record from the join buffer
still may produce some useful extensions.
Also some clarifying comments has been added.
Approved by monty@mariadb.com.
This allows one to run the test suite even if any of the following
options are changed:
- character-set-server
- collation-server
- join-cache-level
- log-basename
- max-allowed-packet
- optimizer-switch
- query-cache-size and query-cache-type
- skip-name-resolve
- table-definition-cache
- table-open-cache
- Some innodb options
etc
Changes:
- Don't print out the value of system variables as one can't depend on
them to being constants.
- Don't set global variables to 'default' as the default may not
be the same as the test was started with if there was an additional
option file. Instead save original value and reset it at end of test.
- Test that depends on the latin1 character set should include
default_charset.inc or set the character set to latin1
- Test that depends on the original optimizer switch, should include
default_optimizer_switch.inc
- Test that depends on the value of a specific system variable should
set it in the test (like optimizer_use_condition_selectivity)
- Split subselect3.test into subselect3.test and subselect3.inc to
make it easier to set and reset system variables.
- Added .opt files for test that required specfic options that could
be changed by external configuration files.
- Fixed result files in rockdsb & tokudb that had not been updated for
a while.
The code in best_access_path function, when it does not find a key suitable for ref access
and join_cache_level is set to a value so that hash_join is possible we build a hash key.
Later in the function we compare the cost of ref access with table scan (or index scan
or quick selects). No need to do this when we have got the hash key.
When the definition of the index used for hash join was created
in create_hj_key_for_table() it could cause memory overwrite
due to a bug that led to an underestimation of the number of
the index component.
In the function JOIN::shrink_join_buffers the iteration over joined
tables was organized in a wrong way. This could cause a crash if
the optimizer chose to materialize a semi-join that used join caches
for which the sizes must be adjusted.
JOIN_TAB::remove_redundant_bnl_scan_conds() removes select_cond
from a JOIN_TAB if join cache is enabled, and tab->cache_select->cond
is the equal to tab->select_cond.
But after 8d99166c69 the code to initialize join cache was moved
to happen much later than JOIN_TAB::remove_redundant_bnl_scan_conds(),
and that code might, under certain conditions, revert to *not* using
join cache (set_join_cache_denial()).
If JOIN_TAB::remove_redundant_bnl_scan_conds() removes the WHERE
condition from the JOIN_TAB and later set_join_cache_denial() disables
join cache, we end up with no WHERE condition at all.
Fix: move JOIN_TAB::remove_redundant_bnl_scan_conds() to happen
after all possible set_join_cache_denial() calls.
JOIN_CACHE's were initialized in check_join_cache_usage()
from make_join_readinfo(). After that make_join_readinfo() was looking
whether it's possible to use keyread. Later, after make_join_readinfo(),
optimizer decided whether to use filesort. And even later, at the
execution time, from join_read_first(), keyread was actually enabled.
The problem is, that if a query uses a vcol, base columns that it
depends on are automatically added to the read_set - because they're
needed to calculate the vcol. But if we're doing keyread, vcol is taken
from the index, not calculated, and base columns do not need to be
in the read set (even should not be - as they aren't getting values).
The bug was that JOIN_CACHE used read_set with base columns,
they were not read because of keyread, so it was caching garbage.
So read_set is only known after the keyread was decided. And after the
filesort was decided, as filesort doesn't use keyread. But
check_join_cache_usage() needs to be done in make_join_readinfo(),
as the code below depends on these checks,
Fix: keep JOIN_CACHE checks where they were, but move initialization
down to the very end of JOIN::optimize_inner. If keyread was enabled,
update the read_set to include only columns that are part of the index.
Copy the keyread logic from join_read_first() to happen at optimize time.
The guilty part of the test checks for performance degradation on
a query with numerous joins on an empty table. The test expects
the query to take less than 1 second, and fails if it is not so
(which can happen on very slow builders).
The solution is to add more JOINs to the query. On a fixed server,
it should not have any noticeable impact on the query execution,
while on the unfixed version the query would take several times
longer (e.g. 6.5 sec vs 1.5 sec). Thus, we can increase the margin
for the error, and make the test fail when the query takes longer
than 5 seconds.
Also fixes:
MDEV-9391 InnoDB does not produce warnings when doing WHERE int_column=varchar_column
MDEV-9337 ALTER from DECIMAL and INT to DATETIME returns a wrong result
MDEV-9340 Copying from INT/DOUBLE to ENUM is inconsistent
MDEV-9392 Copying from DECIMAL to YEAR is not consistent about warnings
Redefine FT_KEYPART in a way that it does not conflict with Hash Join.
Hash join stores field->field_index in KEYUSE::keypart, so we must
use a value of FT_KEYPART that's greater than MAX_FIELDS.
- TABLE::create_key_part_by_field() should not set PART_KEY_FLAG in field->flags
= The reason is that it is used by hash join code which calls it to create a hash
table lookup structure. It doesn't create a real index.
= Another caller of the function is TABLE::add_tmp_key(). Made it to set the flag itself.
- The differences in join_cache.result could also be observed before this patch: one
could put "FLUSH TABLES" before the queries and get exactly the same difference.
Avoided exponential recursive calls of JOIN_CACHE::join_records() in the case
of non-nested outer joins.
A different solution is required to resolve this performance problem for
nested outer joins.
The method JOIN_CACHE::init may fail (return 1) if some conditions on the
used join buffer is not satisfied. For example it fails if join_buffer_size
is greater than join_buffer_space_limit. The conditions should be checked
when running the EXPLAIN command for the query. That's why the method
JOIN_CACHE::init has to be called for EXPLAIN commands as well.
- make_join_readinfo() has the code that forces use of "Using temporary;
Using filesort" when join buffering is in use.
That code didn't handle all cases, in particular it didn't hande the case
where ORDER BY originally has tables from multiple columns, but the
optimizer eventually figures out that doing filesort() on one table
will be sufficient. Adjusted the code to handle that case.
BNL and BNLH joins pre-filter the records from a joined table via JOIN_TAB::cache_select->cond.
There is no need to re-evaluate the same conditions via JOIN_TAB::select_cond. This patch removes
the duplicated conditions from the top-level conjuncts of each pushed condition.
The added "Using where" in few EXPLAINs is due to taking into account tab->cache_select->cond
in addition to tab->select_cond in JOIN::save_explain_data_intern.
In some rare cases when the value of the system variable join_buffer_size
was set to a number less than 256 the function JOIN_CACHE::set_constants
determined the size of an offset in the join buffer equal to 1 though
the minimal join buffer required more than 256 bytes. This could cause
a crash of the server when records from the join buffer were read.
The optimizer chose a less efficient execution plan due to the following
defects of the code:
1. the generic handler function handler::keyread_time did not take into account
that in clustered primary keys record data is included into each index entry
2. the function make_join_readinfo erroneously decided that index only scan
could not be used if join cache was empoyed.
Added no additional test case.
Adjusted some of the test results.
- When doing join optimization, pre-sort the tables so that they mimic the execution
order we've had with 'semijoin=off'.
- That way, we will not get regressions when there are two query plans (the old and the
new) that have indentical costs but different execution times (because of factors that
the optimizer was not able to take into account).
This bug in the function JOIN::drop_unused_derived_keys() could
leave the internal structures for a materialized derived table
in an inconsistent state. This led to a not quite correct EXPLAIN
output when no additional key had been created to access the table.
It also may lead to more serious consequences: so, the test case
added with this fix caused a crash in mariadb-5.5.20.
