A BINARY field is represented by the Field_string class. The space character
is used as the filler for unused characters in such a field. But a BINARY field
should use \x00 instead.
Field_string:reset() now detects whether the current field is a BINARY one
and if so uses the \x00 character as a default value filler.
The optimizer removes expressions from GROUP BY/DISTINCT
if they happen to participate in a <expression> = <const>
predicates of the WHERE clause (the idea being that if
it's always equal to a constant it can't have multiple
values).
However for predicates where the expression and the
constant item are of different result type this is not
valid (e.g. a string column compared to 0).
Fixed by additional check of the result types of the
expression and the constant and if they differ the
expression don't get removed from the group by list.
This bug appeared after the patch for bug 21390 that had added some code
to handle outer joins with no matches after substitution of a const
table in an efficient way. That code as it is cannot be applied to the case
of nested outer join operations. Being applied to the queries with
nested outer joins the code can cause crashes or wrong result sets.
The fix blocks row substitution for const inner tables of an outer join
if the inner operand is not a single table.
With MySQL 3.23 and 4.0, the syntax 'LIMIT N, -1' is accepted, and returns
all the rows located after row N. This behavior, however, is not the
intended result, and defeats the purpose of LIMIT, which is to constrain
the size of a result set.
With MySQL 4.1 and later, this construct is correctly detected as a syntax
error.
This fix does not change the production code, and only adds a new test case
to improve test coverage in this area, to enforce in the test suite the
intended behavior.
Corrected spelling in copyright text
Makefile.am:
Don't update the files from BitKeeper
Many files:
Removed "MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult AB" from copyright header
Adjusted year(s) in copyright header
Many files:
Added GPL copyright text
Removed files:
Docs/Support/colspec-fix.pl
Docs/Support/docbook-fixup.pl
Docs/Support/docbook-prefix.pl
Docs/Support/docbook-split
Docs/Support/make-docbook
Docs/Support/make-makefile
Docs/Support/test-make-manual
Docs/Support/test-make-manual-de
Docs/Support/xwf
5.1-related fixes
libmysqld/Makefile.am fixed to recompile and link ha_*.cc files that
keep dependance on THD structure.
Minor fixes to make tests working.
repair it
Multi-table delete that is optimized with QUICK_RANGE reports table
corruption.
DELETE statement must not use KEYREAD optimization, and sets
table->no_keyread to 1. This was ignored in QUICK_RANGE optimization.
With this fix QUICK_RANGE optimization honors table->no_keyread
value and does not enable KEYREAD when it is requested.
