Daniel Black d2fa5f8cfc MDEV-8553: Impossible where for a!=a, a<a, a>a ...

For a table column `a`, the above expressions logically
equate to false in all cases.

With this patch the optimizer knows about this and queries
like:

SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE a!=a

no longer need to evaluate a!=a for every row.

The same applies if the expression was `a<a`, or `a>a`

An `EXPLAIN SELECT COOUNT(*) FROM t1 WHERE a<a` will show:

id     select_type     table   type    possible_keys   key     key_len ref     rows    Extra
1      SIMPLE  NULL    NULL    NULL    NULL    NULL    NULL    NULL    Impossible WHERE

Similarly `NOT (a!=a)` is always true.

EXPLAIN SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t1 WHERE not (a!=a);
id     select_type     table   type    possible_keys   key     key_len ref     rows    Extra
1      SIMPLE  NULL    NULL    NULL    NULL    NULL    NULL    NULL    Select tables optimized away

2019-05-10 14:05:36 +04:00

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