When updating a table with virtual BLOB columns, the following might happen:
- an old record is read from the table, it has no virtual blob values
- update_virtual_fields() is run, vcol blob gets its value into the
record. But only a pointer to the value is in the table->record[0],
the value is in Field_blob::value String (but it doesn't have to be!
it can be in the record, if the column is just a copy of another
columns: ... b VARCHAR, c BLOB AS (b) ...)
- store_record(table,record[1]), old record now is in record[1]
- fill_record() prepares new values in record[0], vcol blob is updated,
new value replaces the old one in the Field_blob::value
- now both record[1] and record[0] have a pointer that points to the
*new* vcol blob value. Or record[1] has a pointer to nowhere if
Field_blob::value had to realloc.
To resolve this we unlink vcol blobs from the pointer to the
data (in the record[1]). Because the value is not *always* in
the Field_blob::value String, we need to remember what blobs
were unlinked. The orphan memory must be freed manually.
To complicate the matter, ha_update_row() is also used in
multi-update, in REPLACE, in INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE,
also on REPLACE ... SELECT, REPLACE DELAYED, and LOAD DATA REPLACE, etc
multi-update was setting up read_set/vcol_set in
multi_update::initialize_tables() that is invoked after
the optimizer (JOIN::optimize_inner()). But some rows - if they're from
const tables - will be read already in the optimizer, and these rows
will not have all necessary column/vcol values.
* multi_update::initialize_tables() uses results from the optimizer
and cannot be moved to be called earlier.
* multi_update::prepare() is called before the optimizer, but
it cannot set up read_set/vcol_set, because the optimizer
might reset them (see SELECT_LEX::update_used_tables()).
As a fix I've added a new method, select_result::prepare_to_read_rows(),
it's called from inside the optimizer just before make_join_statistics().
cannot use TABLE:merge_keys for that, because Field::part_of_key
was designed to mark fields for KEY_READ, so a field is not a
"part of key", if only prefix of the field is.
