The result of materialization of the right part of an IN subquery predicate
is placed into a temporary table. Each row of the materialized table is
distinct. A unique key over all fields of the temporary table is defined and
created. It allows to perform key look-ups into the table.
The table created for a materialized subquery can be accessed by key as
any other table. The function best_access-path search for the best access
to join a table to a given partial join. With some where conditions this
function considers a possibility of a ref_or_null access. If such access
employs the unique key on the temporary table then when estimating
the cost this access the function tries to use the array rec_per_key. Yet,
such array is not built for this unique key. This causes a crash of the server.
Rows returned by the subquery that contain nulls don't have to be placed
into temporary table, as they cannot be match any row produced by the
left part of the subquery predicate. So all fields of the temporary table
can be defined as non-nullable. In this case any ref_or_null access
to the temporary table does not make any sense and it does not make sense
to estimate such an access.
The fix makes sure that the temporary table for a materialized IN subquery
is defined with columns that are all non-nullable. The also ensures that
any row with nulls returned by the subquery is not placed into the
temporary table.
The MIN/MAX optimizer code from the function opt_sum_query erroneously
did not take into account conjunctive conditions that did not depend on
any table, yet were not identified as constant items. These could be
items containing rand() or PS/SP parameters. These items are supposed
to be evaluated at the execution phase. That's why if such conditions
can be extracted from the WHERE condition the MIN/MAX optimization is
not applied as currently it is always done at the optimization phase.
(In 5.3 expensive subqueries are also evaluated only at the execution
phase. So, if a constant condition with such subquery can be extracted
from the WHERE clause the MIN/MAX optimization should not be applied
in 5.3.)
IF an IN/ALL/SOME predicate with a constant left part is transformed
into an EXISTS subquery the resulting subquery should not be considered
uncacheable if the right part of the predicate is not uncacheable.
Backported the function dbug_print_item() from 5.3. The function is used
only for debugging.
fixed several defects in the greedy optimization:
1) The greedy optimizer calculated the 'compare-cost' (CPU-cost)
for iterating over the partial plan result at each level in
the query plan as 'record_count / (double) TIME_FOR_COMPARE'
This cost was only used locally for 'best' calculation at each
level, and *not* accumulated into the total cost for the query plan.
This fix added the 'CPU-cost' of processing 'current_record_count'
records at each level to 'current_read_time' *before* it is used as
'accumulated cost' argument to recursive
best_extension_by_limited_search() calls. This ensured that the
cost of a huge join-fanout early in the QEP was correctly
reflected in the cost of the final QEP.
To get identical cost for a 'best' optimized query and a
straight_join with the same join order, the same change was also
applied to optimize_straight_join() and get_partial_join_cost()
2) Furthermore to get equal cost for 'best' optimized query and a
straight_join the new code substrcated the same '0.001' in
optimize_straight_join() as it had been already done in
best_extension_by_limited_search()
3) When best_extension_by_limited_search() aggregated the 'best' plan a
plan was 'best' by the check :
'if ((search_depth == 1) || (current_read_time < join->best_read))'
The term '(search_depth == 1' incorrectly caused a new best plan to be
collected whenever the specified 'search_depth' was reached - even if
this partial query plan was more expensive than what we had already
found.
in EXPLAIN as select_type==MATERIALIZED.
Before, we had select_type==SUBQUERY and it was difficult to tell materialized
subqueries from uncorrelated scalar-context subqueries.
mysql-test/mysql-test-run.pl:
Rename MYSQLD -> MYSQLD_SIMPLE_CMD to avoid conflict with new MYSQLD variable from MySQL 5.1
mysql-test/r/innodb_file_format.result:
Remove old duplicated test
mysql-test/suite/pbxt/r/endspace.result:
Update test to last version
mysql-test/suite/pbxt/r/heap.result:
Removed heap test (not part of pbxt)
mysql-test/suite/pbxt/r/select_safe.result:
Updated results after error message change
mysql-test/suite/pbxt/r/view_grant.result:
Removed view test (not part of pbxt)
mysql-test/suite/pbxt/t/endspace.test:
Update test to last version
mysql-test/suite/pbxt/t/heap.test:
Removed heap test (not part of pbxt)
mysql-test/suite/pbxt/t/view_grant.test:
Removed view test (not part of pbxt)
mysql-test/t/innodb_file_format.test:
Remove old duplicated test
mysql-test/t/mysqld_option_err.test:
Use renamed variable
sql/my_decimal.h:
Fixed wrong define
storage/maria/ma_loghandler.c:
Fixed compiler warning
If the optimizer switch 'semijoin_with_cache' is set to 'off' then
join cache cannot be used to join inner tables of a semijoin.
Also fixed a bug in the function check_join_cache_usage() that led
to wrong output of the EXPLAIN commands for some test cases.
Analysis:
Equality propagation propagated the constant '7' into
args[0] of the Item_in_optimizer that stands for the
"< ANY" predicate. At the same the min/max subquery
rewrite swapped the order of the left and right operands
of the "<" predicate, but used Item_in_subselect::left_expr.
As a result, when the <ANY predicate is executed early in the
execution phase as a contant condition, instead of a constant
right (swapped) argument of the < predicate, there was a field
(t3.a). This field had no data, since the whole predicate is
considered constant, and it is evaluated before any tables are
read. Having junk in the field row buffer produced wrong result
Solution:
Fix create_swap to pick the correct Item_in_optimizer left
argument.
of the 5.3 code line after a merge with 5.2 on 2010-10-28
in order not to allow the cost to access a joined table to be equal
to 0 ever.
Expanded data sets for many test cases to get the same execution plans
as before.
ALL subquery should return TRUE if subquery rowa set is empty independently
of left part. The problem was that Item_func_(eq,ne,gt,ge,lt,le) do not
call execution of second argument if first is NULL no in this case subquery
will not be executed and when Item_func_not_all calls any_value() of the
subquery or aggregation function which report that there was rows. So for
NULL < ALL (SELECT...) result was FALSE instead of TRUE.
Fix is just swapping of arguments of Item_func_(eq,ne,gt,ge,lt,le) (with
changing the operation if it is needed) so that result will be the same
(for examole a < b is equal to b > a). This fix exploit the fact that
first argument will be executed in any case.
Analysis:
Constant table optimization of the outer query finds that
the right side of the equality is a constant that can
be used for an eq_ref access to fetch one row from t1,
and substitute t1 with a constant. Thus constant optimization
triggers evaluation of the subquery during the optimize
phase of the outer query.
The innermost subquery requires a plan with a temporary
table because with InnoDB tables the exact count of rows
is not known, and the empty tables cannot be optimzied
way. JOIN::exec for the innermost subquery substitutes
the subquery tables with a temporary table.
When EXPLAIN gets to print the tables in the innermost
subquery, EXPLAIN needs to print the name of each table
through the corresponding TABLE_LIST object. However,
the temporary table created during execution doesn't
have a corresponding TABLE_LIST, so we get a null
pointer exception.
Solution:
The solution is to forbid using expensive constant
expressions for eq_ref access for contant table
optimization. Notice that eq_ref with a subquery
providing the value is still possible during regular
execution.
This bug is a special case of lp:813447.
Analysis:
Constant optimization finds that the condition t2.a = 1
can be used to access the primary key of table 't2'. As
a result both outer table t1,t2 are considered as constant
when we reach the execution phase. At the same time, during
constant optimization, the IN predicate is not evaluated
because it is expensive.
When execution of the outer query reaches do_select(),
control flow enter the branch:
if (join->table_count == join->const_tables)
{ ... }
This branch checks only the WHERE and HAVING clauses,
but doesn't check the ON clauses of the query. Since the
IN predicate was not evaluated during optimization, it is
not evaluated at all, thus execution doesn't detect that
the ON clause is FALSE.
Solution:
Similar to the patch for bug lp:813447, exclude system
tables from constant substitution based on unique key
lookups if there is an expensive ON condition on the
inner table.
