This is a joint patch fixing the following problems:
MDEV-12875 Wrong VIEW column data type for COALESCE(int_column)
MDEV-12886 Different default for INT and BIGINT column in a VIEW for a SELECT with ROLLUP
MDEV-12916 Wrong column data type for an INT field of a cursor-anchored ROW variable
All above problem happened because the global function ::create_tmp_field()
called the top-level Item::create_tmp_field(), which made some tranformation
for INT-result data types. For example, INT(11) became BIGINT(11), because 11
is a corner case and it's not known if it fits or does not fit into INT range,
so Item::create_tmp_field() converted it to BIGINT(11) for safety.
The main idea of this patch is to avoid such tranformations.
1. Fixing Item::create_tmp_field() not to have a special case for INT_RESULT.
Item::create_tmp_field() is changed not to have a special case
for INT_RESULT (which earlier made a decision based on Item's max_length).
It now calls tmp_table_field_from_field_type() for INT_RESULT,
therefore preserves the original data type (e.g. INT, YEAR) without
conversion to BIGINT.
This change is valid, because a number of recent fixes
(e.g. in Item_func_int, Item_hybrid_func, Item_int, Item_splocal)
guarantee that item->type_handler() now properly returns
type_handler_long vs type_handler_longlong. So no adjustment by length
is needed any more for Items returning INT_RESULT.
After this change, Item::create_tmp_field() calls
tmp_table_field_from_field_type() for all XXX_RESULT, except REAL_RESULT.
2. Fixing Item::create_tmp_field() not to have a special case for REAL_RESULT.
Note, the reason for a special case for REAL_RESULT is to have a special
constructor for Field_double(), forcing Field_real::not_fixed to be set
to true.
Taking into account that only Item_sum descendants actually need a special
constructor call Field_double(not_fixed=true), not too loose precision
when mixing individual rows to the aggregate result:
- renaming Item::create_tmp_field() to Item_sum::create_tmp_field().
- changing Item::create_tmp_field() just to call
tmp_table_field_from_field_type() for all XXX_RESULT types.
A special case for REAL_RESULT in Item::create_tmp_field() is now gone.
Item::create_tmp_field() is now symmetric for all XXX_RESULT types,
and now just calls tmp_table_field_from_field_type().
3. Fixing Item_func::create_field_for_create_select() not to have
a special case for STRING_RESULT.
After changes #1 and #2, the code in
Item_func::create_field_for_create_select(), testing result_type(),
becomes useless, because: now Item::create_tmp_field() and
tmp_table_field_from_field_type() do exactly the same thing for all
XXX_RESULT types for Item_func descendants:
a. It calls tmp_table_field_from_field_type for STRING_RESULT directly.
b. For other XXX_RESULT, it goes through Item::create_tmp_field(),
which calls the global function ::create_tmp_field(),
which calls item->create_tmp_field() for FUNC_ITEM,
which calls tmp_table_field_from_field_type() again.
So removing the virtual implementation of
Item_func::create_field_for_create_select().
The inherited Item::create_field_for_create_select() now perfectly
does the job, as it also calls tmp_table_field_from_field_type()
for FUNC_ITEM, independently from XXX_RESULT type.
4. Taking into account #1 and #2, as well as some recent changes,
removing virtual implementations:
- Item_hybrid_func::create_tmp_field()
- Item_hybrid_func::create_field_for_create_select()
- Item_int_func::create_tmp_field()
- Item_int_func::create_field_for_create_select()
- Item_temporal_func::create_field_for_create_select()
The derived versions from Item now perfectly work.
5. Moving a piece of code from create_tmp_field_from_item()
to a new function create_tmp_field_from_item_finalize(),
to reuse it in two places (see #6).
6. Changing the code responsible for BIT->INT/BIGIN tranformation
(which is called for the cases when the created table, e.g. HEAP,
does not fully support BIT) not to call create_tmp_field_from_item(),
because the latter now calls tmp_table_field_from_field_type() instead
of create_tmp_field() and thefore cannot do BIT transformation.
So rewriting this code using a sequence of these calls:
- item->type_handler_long_or_longlong()
- handler->make_and_init_table_field()
- create_tmp_field_from_item_finalize()
7. Miscelaneous changes:
- Moving type_handler_long_or_longlong() from "protected" to "public",
as it's now needed in the global function create_tmp_field().
8. The above changes fixed MDEV-12875, MDEV-12886, MDEV-12916.
So adding tests for these bugs.
