The cause for this bug is that the method JOIN::get_examined_rows iterates over all
JOIN_TABs of the join assuming they are just a sequence. In the query above, the
innermost subquery is merged into its parent query. When we call
JOIN::get_examined_rows for the second-level subquery, the iteration that
assumes sequential order of join tabs goes outside the join_tab array and calls
the method JOIN_TAB::get_examined_rows on uninitialized memory.
The fix is to iterate over JOIN_TABs in a way that takes into account the nested
semi-join structure of JOIN_TABs. In particular iterate as select_describe.
The patch enables back constant subquery execution during
query optimization after it was disabled during the development
of MWL#89 (cost-based choice of IN-TO-EXISTS vs MATERIALIZATION).
The main idea is that constant subqueries are allowed to be executed
during optimization if their execution is not expensive.
The approach is as follows:
- Constant subqueries are recursively optimized in the beginning of
JOIN::optimize of the outer query. This is done by the new method
JOIN::optimize_constant_subqueries(). This is done so that the cost
of executing these queries can be estimated.
- Optimization of the outer query proceeds normally. During this phase
the optimizer may request execution of non-expensive constant subqueries.
Each place where the optimizer may potentially execute an expensive
expression is guarded with the predicate Item::is_expensive().
- The implementation of Item_subselect::is_expensive has been extended
to use the number of examined rows (estimated by the optimizer) as a
way to determine whether the subquery is expensive or not.
- The new system variable "expensive_subquery_limit" controls how many
examined rows are considered to be not expensive. The default is 100.
In addition, multiple changes were needed to make this solution work
in the light of the changes made by MWL#89. These changes were needed
to fix various crashes and wrong results, and legacy bugs discovered
during development.
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.
RESULTS ON IN() & NOT IN() COMP #3
This bug causes a wrong result in mysql-trunk when ICP is used
and bad performance in mysql-5.5 and mysql-trunk.
Using the query from bug report to explain what happens and causes
the wrong result from the query when ICP is enabled:
1. The t3 table contains four records. The outer query will read
these and for each of these it will execute the subquery.
2. Before the first execution of the subquery it will be optimized. In
this case the important is what happens to the first table t1:
-make_join_select() will call the range optimizer which decides
that t1 should be accessed using a range scan on the k1 index
It creates a QUICK_RANGE_SELECT object for this.
-As the last part of optimization the ICP code pushes the
condition down to the storage engine for table t1 on the k1 index.
This produces the following information in the explain for this table:
2 DEPENDENT SUBQUERY t1 range k1 k1 5 NULL 3 Using index condition; Using filesort
Note the use of filesort.
3. The first execution of the subquery does (among other things) due
to the need for sorting:
a. Call create_sort_index() which again will call find_all_keys():
b. find_all_keys() will read the required keys for all qualifying
rows from the storage engine. To do this it checks if it has a
quick-select for the table. It will use the quick-select for
reading records. In this case it will read four records from the
storage engine (based on the range criteria). The storage engine
will evaluate the pushed index condition for each record.
c. At the end of create_sort_index() there is code that cleans up a
lot of stuff on the join tab. One of the things that is cleaned
is the select object. The result of this is that the
quick-select object created in make_join_select is deleted.
4. The second execution of the subquery does the same as the first but
the result is different:
a. Call create_sort_index() which again will call find_all_keys()
(same as for the first execution)
b. find_all_keys() will read the keys from the storage engine. To
do this it checks if it has a quick-select for the table. Now
there is NO quick-select object(!) (since it was deleted in
step 3c). So find_all_keys defaults to read the table using a
table scan instead. So instead of reading the four relevant records
in the range it reads the entire table (6 records). It then
evaluates the table's condition (and here it goes wrong). Since
the entire condition has been pushed down to the storage engine
using ICP all 6 records qualify. (Note that the storage engine
will not evaluate the pushed index condition in this case since
it was pushed for the k1 index and now we do a table scan
without any index being used).
The result is that here we return six qualifying key values
instead of four due to not evaluating the table's condition.
c. As above.
5. The two last execution of the subquery will also produce wrong results
for the same reason.
Summary: The problem occurs due to all but the first executions of the
subquery is done as a table scan without evaluating the table's
condition (which is pushed to the storage engine on a different
index). This is caused by the create_sort_index() function deleting
the quick-select object that should have been used for executing the
subquery as a range scan.
Note that this bug in addition to causing wrong results also can
result in bad performance due to executing the subquery using a table
scan instead of a range scan. This is an issue in MySQL 5.5.
The fix for this problem is to avoid that the Quick-select-object that
the optimizer created is deleted when create_sort_index() is doing
clean-up of the join-tab. This will ensure that the quick-select
object and the corresponding pushed index condition will be available
and used by all following executions of the subquery.
sql/sql_select.cc:
Fix for Bug#12667154: Change how create_sort_index() cleans up the
join_tab's select and quick-select objects in order to avoid that a
quick-select object created outside of create_sort_index() is deleted.
The patch backports two patches from mysql 5.6:
- BUG#12640437: USING SQL_BUFFER_RESULT RESULTS IN A DIFFERENT QUERY OUTPUT
- Bug#12578908: SELECT SQL_BUFFER_RESULT OUTPUTS TOO MANY ROWS WHEN GROUP IS OPTIMIZED AWAY
Original comment:
-----------------
3714 Jorgen Loland 2012-03-01
BUG#12640437 - USING SQL_BUFFER_RESULT RESULTS IN A DIFFERENT
QUERY OUTPUT
For all but simple grouped queries, temporary tables are used to
resolve grouping. In these cases, the list of grouping fields is
stored in the temporary table and grouping is resolved
there (e.g. by adding a unique constraint on the involved
fields). Because of this, grouping is already done when the rows
are read from the temporary table.
In the case where a group clause may be optimized away, grouping
does not have to be resolved using a temporary table. However, if
a temporary table is explicitly requested (e.g. because the
SQL_BUFFER_RESULT hint is used, or the statement is
INSERT...SELECT), a temporary table is used anyway. In this case,
the temporary table is created with an empty group list (because
the group clause was optimized away) and it will therefore not
create groups. Since the temporary table does not take care of
grouping, JOIN::group shall not be set to false in
make_simple_join(). This was fixed in bug 12578908.
However, there is an exception where make_simple_join() should
set JOIN::group to false even if the query uses a temporary table
that was explicitly requested but is not strictly needed. That
exception is if the loose index scan access method (explain
says "Using index for group-by") is used to read into the
temporary table. With loose index scan, grouping is resolved
by the access method. This is exactly what happens in this bug.
The problem was in the code (update_const_equal_items()) which marked
index parts constant independently of the place where the equality was used.
In the test suite it marked t2_1.c part constant despite the fact that
it connected by OR with other expression.
Solution is to mark constant only top equalities connected with AND.
the server crashed when running the query with persistent statistics
enabled.
The field KEY::read_stat.avg_frequency must be initialized to NULL
for the keys of temporary tables.
mysql-test/r/select.result:
Added test result for Bug#12713907
mysql-test/t/select.test:
Added test case for Bug#12713907
sql/sql_select.cc:
Remove the call to set_keyread as we do it from access
functions 'join_read_first' and 'join_read_last'
ORDER BY COUNT(*) LIMIT.
PROBLEM:
With respect to problem in the bug description, we
exhibit different behaviors for the two tables
presented, because innodb statistics (rec_per_key
in this case) are updated for the first table
and not so for the second one. As a result the
query plan gets changed in test_if_skip_sort_order
to use 'index' scan. Hence the difference in the
explain output. (NOTE: We can reproduce the problem
with first table by reducing the number of tuples
and changing the table structure)
The varied output w.r.t the query on the second table
is because of the result in the query plan change.
When a query plan is changed to use 'index' scan,
after the call to test_if_skip_sort_order, we set
keyread to TRUE immedietly. If for some reason
we drop this index scan for a filesort later on,
we fetch only the keys not the entire tuple.
As a result we would see junk values in the result set.
Following is the code flow:
Call test_if_skip_sort_order
-Choose an index to give sorted output
-If this is a covering index, set_keyread to TRUE
-Set the scan to INDEX scan
Call test_if_skip_sort_order second time
-Index is not chosen (note that we do not pass the
actual limit value second time. Hence we do not choose
index scan second time which in itself is a bug fixed
in 5.6 with WL#5558)
-goto filesort
Call filesort
-Create quick range on a different index
-Since keyread is set to TRUE, we fetch only the columns of
the index
-results in the required columns are not fetched
FIX:
Remove the call to set_keyread(TRUE) from
test_if_skip_sort_order. The access function which is
'join_read_first' or 'join_read_last' calls set_keyread anyways.
mysql-test/r/func_group_innodb.result:
Added test result for Bug#12713907
mysql-test/t/func_group_innodb.test:
Added test case for Bug#12713907
sql/sql_select.cc:
Remove the call to set_keyread as we do it from access
functions 'join_read_first' and 'join_read_last'
The previous patch for the bug (that erroneously identified the bug as
bug 972973 in its comment) was incorrect.
It turned out that the code that triggered the abort complain reported for
the bug was not needed at all.
When the function free_tmp_table deletes the handler object for
a temporary table the field TABLE::file for this table should be
set to NULL. Otherwise an assertion failure may occur.
Bug#13639204 64111: CRASH ON SELECT SUBQUERY WITH NON UNIQUE INDEX
The crash happened due to wrong calculation
of key length during creation of reference for
sort order index. The problem is that
keyuse->used_tables can have OUTER_REF_TABLE_BIT enabled
but used_tables parameter(create_ref_for_key() func) does
not have it. So key parts which have OUTER_REF_TABLE_BIT
are ommited and it could lead to incorrect key length
calculation(zero key length).
mysql-test/r/subselect_innodb.result:
test result
mysql-test/t/subselect_innodb.test:
test case
sql/sql_select.cc:
added OUTER_REF_TABLE_BIT to the used_tables parameter
for create_ref_for_key() function.
storage/innobase/handler/ha_innodb.cc:
added assertion, request from Inno team
storage/innodb_plugin/handler/ha_innodb.cc:
added assertion, request from Inno team
The main problem was a bug in CSV where it provided wrong statistics (it claimed the table was empty when it wasn't)
I also fixed wrong freeing of blob's in the CSV handler. (Any call to handler::read_first_row() on a CSV table with blobs would fail)
mysql-test/r/csv.result:
Added new test case
mysql-test/r/partition_innodb.result:
Updated test results after fixing bug with impossible partitions and const tables
mysql-test/t/csv.test:
Added new test case
sql/sql_select.cc:
Cleaned up code for handling of partitions.
Fixed also a bug where we didn't threat a table with impossible partitions as a const table.
storage/csv/ha_tina.cc:
Allocate blobroot onces.
- 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).
mysql-test/suite/innodb/t/group_commit_crash.test:
remove autoincrement to avoid rbr being used for insert ... select
mysql-test/suite/innodb/t/group_commit_crash_no_optimize_thread.test:
remove autoincrement to avoid rbr being used for insert ... select
mysys/my_addr_resolve.c:
a pointer to a buffer is returned to the caller -> the buffer cannot be on the stack
mysys/stacktrace.c:
my_vsnprintf() is ok here, in 5.5
- This is a regession introduced by fix for BUG#951937
- The problem was that there were scenarios where check_simple_equality() would create an
Item_equal object but would not call item_equal->set_context_field() on it.
- The fix was to add the missing calls.
