Commit 1e696622 authored by Olav Sandstaa's avatar Olav Sandstaa

Fix for Bug#12667154 SAME QUERY EXEC AS WHERE SUBQ GIVES DIFFERENT

                     RESULTS ON IN() & NOT IN() COMP #3

This bug causes a wrong result in mysql-trunk when ICP is used
and bad performance in mysql-5.5 and mysql-trunk.

Using the query from bug report to explain what happens and causes
the wrong result from the query when ICP is enabled:

1. The t3 table contains four records. The outer query will read
   these and for each of these it will execute the subquery.

2. Before the first execution of the subquery it will be optimized. In
   this case the important is what happens to the first table t1:
   -make_join_select() will call the range optimizer which decides
    that t1 should be accessed using a range scan on the k1 index
    It creates a QUICK_RANGE_SELECT object for this.
   -As the last part of optimization the ICP code pushes the
    condition down to the storage engine for table t1 on the k1 index.

   This produces the following information in the explain for this table:

     2 DEPENDENT SUBQUERY t1 range k1 k1 5 NULL 3 Using index condition; Using filesort

   Note the use of filesort.

3. The first execution of the subquery does (among other things) due
   to the need for sorting:
   a. Call create_sort_index() which again will call find_all_keys():
   b. find_all_keys() will read the required keys for all qualifying
      rows from the storage engine. To do this it checks if it has a
      quick-select for the table. It will use the quick-select for
      reading records. In this case it will read four records from the
      storage engine (based on the range criteria). The storage engine
      will evaluate the pushed index condition for each record.
   c. At the end of create_sort_index() there is code that cleans up a
      lot of stuff on the join tab. One of the things that is cleaned
      is the select object. The result of this is that the
      quick-select object created in make_join_select is deleted.

4. The second execution of the subquery does the same as the first but
   the result is different:
   a. Call create_sort_index() which again will call find_all_keys()
      (same as for the first execution)
   b. find_all_keys() will read the keys from the storage engine. To
      do this it checks if it has a quick-select for the table. Now
      there is NO quick-select object(!) (since it was deleted in
      step 3c). So find_all_keys defaults to read the table using a
      table scan instead. So instead of reading the four relevant records
      in the range it reads the entire table (6 records). It then
      evaluates the table's condition (and here it goes wrong). Since
      the entire condition has been pushed down to the storage engine
      using ICP all 6 records qualify. (Note that the storage engine
      will not evaluate the pushed index condition in this case since
      it was pushed for the k1 index and now we do a table scan
      without any index being used).
      The result is that here we return six qualifying key values
      instead of four due to not evaluating the table's condition.
   c. As above.

5. The two last execution of the subquery will also produce wrong results
   for the same reason.

Summary: The problem occurs due to all but the first executions of the
subquery is done as a table scan without evaluating the table's
condition (which is pushed to the storage engine on a different
index). This is caused by the create_sort_index() function deleting
the quick-select object that should have been used for executing the
subquery as a range scan.

Note that this bug in addition to causing wrong results also can
result in bad performance due to executing the subquery using a table
scan instead of a range scan. This is an issue in MySQL 5.5.

The fix for this problem is to avoid that the Quick-select-object that
the optimizer created is deleted when create_sort_index() is doing
clean-up of the join-tab. This will ensure that the quick-select
object and the corresponding pushed index condition will be available
and used by all following executions of the subquery.
parent 43809590
......@@ -14066,6 +14066,14 @@ create_sort_index(THD *thd, JOIN *join, ORDER *order,
table= tab->table;
select= tab->select;
/*
If we have a select->quick object that is created outside of
create_sort_index() and this is part of a subquery that
potentially can be executed multiple times then we should not
delete the quick object on exit from this function.
*/
bool keep_quick= select && select->quick && join->join_tab_save;
/*
When there is SQL_BIG_RESULT do not sort using index for GROUP BY,
and thus force sorting on disk unless a group min-max optimization
......@@ -14117,6 +14125,7 @@ create_sort_index(THD *thd, JOIN *join, ORDER *order,
get_quick_select_for_ref(thd, table, &tab->ref,
tab->found_records))))
goto err;
DBUG_ASSERT(!keep_quick);
}
}
......@@ -14147,9 +14156,25 @@ create_sort_index(THD *thd, JOIN *join, ORDER *order,
tablesort_result_cache= table->sort.io_cache;
table->sort.io_cache= NULL;
select->cleanup(); // filesort did select
tab->select= 0;
table->quick_keys.clear_all(); // as far as we cleanup select->quick
/*
If a quick object was created outside of create_sort_index()
that might be reused, then do not call select->cleanup() since
it will delete the quick object.
*/
if (!keep_quick)
{
select->cleanup();
/*
The select object should now be ready for the next use. If it
is re-used then there exists a backup copy of this join tab
which has the pointer to it. The join tab will be restored in
JOIN::reset(). So here we just delete the pointer to it.
*/
tab->select= NULL;
// If we deleted the quick select object we need to clear quick_keys
table->quick_keys.clear_all();
}
// Restore the output resultset
table->sort.io_cache= tablesort_result_cache;
}
tab->select_cond=0;
......
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