Allow an index paired with a NOT NULL constraint to be used for sorting

under the condition that the index be treated as a non-unique index.

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src/where.c

@@ -1419,6 +1419,7 @@ static int isSortingIndex(
   int base,               /* Cursor number for the table to be sorted */
   ExprList *pOrderBy,     /* The ORDER BY clause */
   int nEqCol,             /* Number of index columns with == constraints */
+  int wsFlags,            /* Index usages flags */
   int *pbRev              /* Set to 1 if ORDER BY is DESC */
 ){
   int i, j;                       /* Loop counters */
@@ -1524,11 +1525,14 @@ static int isSortingIndex(
     return 1;
   }
   if( pIdx->onError!=OE_None && i==pIdx->nColumn
+      && (wsFlags & WHERE_COLUMN_NULL)==0
       && !referencesOtherTables(pOrderBy, pMaskSet, j, base) ){
     /* All terms of this index match some prefix of the ORDER BY clause
     ** and the index is UNIQUE and no terms on the tail of the ORDER BY
     ** clause reference other tables in a join.  If this is all true then
-    ** the order by clause is superfluous. */
+    ** the order by clause is superfluous.  Not that if the matching
+    ** condition is IS NULL then the result is not necessarily unique
+    ** even on a UNIQUE index, so disallow those cases. */
     return 1;
   }
   return 0;
@@ -2881,8 +2885,9 @@ static void bestBtreeIndex(
     ** in wsFlags. Otherwise, if there is an ORDER BY clause but the index
     ** will scan rows in a different order, set the bSort variable.  */
     if( pOrderBy ){
-      if( (wsFlags & (WHERE_COLUMN_IN|WHERE_COLUMN_NULL))==0
+      if( (wsFlags & WHERE_COLUMN_IN)==0
-        && isSortingIndex(pParse,pWC->pMaskSet,pProbe,iCur,pOrderBy,nEq,&rev)
+        && isSortingIndex(pParse, pWC->pMaskSet, pProbe, iCur, pOrderBy,
+                          nEq, wsFlags, &rev)
       ){
         wsFlags |= WHERE_ROWID_RANGE|WHERE_COLUMN_RANGE|WHERE_ORDERBY;
         wsFlags |= (rev ? WHERE_REVERSE : 0);

test/tkt3824.test

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ do_test tkt3824-2.3 {
   lsort [execsql_status {
     SELECT a FROM t2 WHERE b=2 AND c IS NULL ORDER BY b;
   }]
-} {5 9 sort}
+} {5 9 nosort}
 
 do_test tkt3824-3.1 {
   db eval {