Bug #45262: Bad effects with CREATE TABLE and DECIMAL
Using DECIMAL constants with more than 65 digits in CREATE TABLE ... SELECT led to bogus errors in release builds or assertion failures in debug builds. The problem was in inconsistency in how DECIMAL constants and fields are handled internally. We allow arbitrarily long DECIMAL constants, whereas DECIMAL(M,D) columns are limited to M<=65 and D<=30. my_decimal_precision_to_length() was used in both Item and Field code and truncated precision to DECIMAL_MAX_PRECISION when calculating value length without adjusting precision and decimals. As a result, a DECIMAL constant with more than 65 digits ended up having length less than precision or decimals which led to assertion failures. Fixed by modifying my_decimal_precision_to_length() so that precision is truncated to DECIMAL_MAX_PRECISION only for Field object which is indicated by the new 'truncate' parameter. Another inconsistency fixed by this patch is how DECIMAL constants and expressions are handled for CREATE ... SELECT. create_tmp_field_from_item() (which is used for constants) was changed as a part of the bugfix for bug #24907 to handle long DECIMAL constants gracefully. Item_func::tmp_table_field() (which is used for expressions) on the other hand was still using a simplistic approach when creating a Field_new_decimal from a DECIMAL expression.
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