Fix LP BUG#715069
Analysis: The wrong result is a consquence of sorting the subquery result and then selecting only the first row due to the artificial LIMIT 1 introduced by the fix_fields phase. Normally, if there is an ORDER BY in a subquery, the ORDER is removed (Item_in_subselect::select_in_like_transformer), however if a GROUP BY is transformed into ORDER, this happens later, after the removal of the ORDER clause of subqueries, so we end up with a subquery with an ORDER clause, and an artificially added LIMIT 1. The reason why the same works in the main 5.3 without MWL#89, is that the 5.3 performs all subquery transformations, including IN->EXISTS before JOIN::optimize(). The beginning of JOIN::optimize does: if (having || (select_options & OPTION_FOUND_ROWS)) select_limit= HA_POS_ERROR; which sets the limit back to infinity, thus 5.3 sorts the whole subquery result, and IN performs the lookup into all subquery result rows. Solution: Sorting of subqueries without LIMIT is meaningless. Since LIMIT in subqueries is not supported, the patch removes sorting by setting join->skip_sort_order= true for each subquery JOIN object. This improves a number of execution plans to not perform unnecessary sorting at all.
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