This patch fixes a number of data type aggregation problems in IN and CASE:
- MDEV-11497 Wrong result for (int_expr IN (mixture of signed and unsigned expressions))
- MDEV-11514 IN with a mixture of TIME and DATETIME returns a wrong result
- MDEV-11554 Wrong result for CASE on a mixture of signed and unsigned expressions
- MDEV-11555 CASE with a mixture of TIME and DATETIME returns a wrong result
1. The problem reported in MDEV-11514 and MDEV-11555 was in the wrong assumption
that items having the same cmp_type() can reuse the same cmp_item instance.
So Item_func_case and Item_func_in used a static array of cmp_item*,
one element per one XXX_RESULT.
TIME and DATETIME cannot reuse the same cmp_item, because arguments of
these types are compared very differently. TIME and DATETIME must have
different instances in the cmp_item array. Reusing the same cmp_item
for TIME and DATETIME leads to unexpected result and unexpected warnings.
Note, after adding more data types soon (e.g. INET6), the problem would
become more serious, as INET6 will most likely have STRING_RESULT, but
it won't be able to reuse the same cmp_item with VARCHAR/TEXT.
This patch introduces a new class Predicant_to_list_comparator,
which maintains an array of cmp_items, one element per distinct
Type_handler rather than one element per XXX_RESULT.
2. The problem reported in MDEV-11497 and MDEV-11554 happened because
Item_func_in and Item_func_case did not take into account the fact
that UNSIGNED and SIGNED values must be compared as DECIMAL rather than INT,
because they used item_cmp_type() to aggregate the arguments.
The relevant code now resides in Predicant_to_list_comparator::add_value()
and uses Type_handler_hybrid_field_type::aggregate_for_comparison(),
like Item_func_between does.
This patch implements the task according to the description:
1. The old code from Item_func_in::fix_length_and_dec() was decomposed
into smaller methods:
- all_items_are_consts()
- compatible_types_scalar_bisection_possible()
- compatible_types_row_bisection_possible()
- fix_in_vector()
- fix_for_scalar_comparison_using_bisection()
- fix_for_scalar_comparison_using_cmp_items()
- fix_for_row_comparison_using_bisection()
- fix_for_row_comparison_using_cmp_items()
The data type dependend pieces where moved as methods to Type_handler.
2. Splits in_datetime into separate:
- in_datetime, for DATETIME and DATE,
- in_time, for TIME
to make the code more symmetric across data types.
Additionally:
- Adds a test func_debug.test to see which calculation strategy
(bisect or no bisect) is chosen to handle IN with various arguments.
- Adds a new helper method (to avoid duplicate code):
cmp_item_rows::prepare_comparators()
- Changes the propotype for cmp_item_row::alloc_comparators(),
to avoid duplicate code, and to use less current_thd.
- Changes "friend" sections in cmp_item_row and in_row from
an exact Item_func_in method to the entire class Item_func_in,
as their internals are now needed in multiple Item_func_in methods.
- Added more comments (e.g. on bisection, on the problem reported in MDEV-11511)
