- "Using MRR" is no longer shown with range access.
- Instead, both range and BKA accesses will show one of the following:
= "Rowid-ordered scan"
= "Key-ordered scan"
= "Key-ordered Rowid-ordered scan"
depending on whether DS-MRR implementation will do scan keys in order, rowids in order,
or both.
- The patch also introduces a way for other storage engines/MRR implementations to
pass information to EXPLAIN output about the properties of employed MRR scans.
even in the cases when there existed range/index-merge scans that
were cheaper than the full table scan.
This was a defect/bug of the implementation of mwl #128.
Now hash join can work not only with full table scan of the joined
table, but also with full index scan, range and index-merge scans.
Accordingly, in the cases when hash join is used the column 'type'
in the EXPLAINs can contain now 'hash_ALL', 'hash_index', 'hash_range'
and 'hash_index_merge'. If hash join is coupled with a range/index_merge
scan then the columns 'key' and 'key_len' contain info not only on
the used hash index, but also on the indexes used for the scan.
Made sure that the optimal fields are used by TABLE_REF objects
when building index access keys to joined tables.
Fixed a bug in the template function that sorts the elements of
a list using the bubble sort algorithm. The bug caused poor
performance of the function. Also added an optimization that
skips comparison with the most heavy elements that has been
already properly placed in the list.
Made the comparison of the fields belonging to the same Item_equal
more granular: fields belonging to the same table are also ordered
according to some rules.
Applied the fix for bug #47217 from the mysql-6.0 codebase.
The patch adds not null predicates generated for the left parts
of the equality predicates used for ref accesses. This is done
for such predicates both in where conditions and on conditions.
For the where conditions the not null predicates were generated
but in 5.0/5.1 they actually never were used due to some lame
merge from 4.1 to 5.0. The fix for bug #47217 made these
predicates to be used in the condition pushed to the tables.
Yet only this patch generates not null predicates for equality
predicated from on conditions of outer joins.
This patch introduces a performance regression that can be
observed on a test case from null_key.test. The regression
will disappear after the fix for bug #57024 from mariadb-5.1
is pulled into mariadb-5.3.
The patch contains many changes in the outputs of the EXPLAIN
commands since generated not null predicates are considered as
parts of the conditions pushed to join tables and may add
'Usingwhere' in some rows of EXPLAINs where there used
to be no such comments.
