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    Bug#8407 (Stored functions/triggers ignore exception handler) · b216d959
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    Bug 18914 (Calling certain SPs from triggers fail)
    Bug 20713 (Functions will not not continue for SQLSTATE VALUE '42S02')
    Bug 21825 (Incorrect message error deleting records in a table with a
      trigger for inserting)
    Bug 22580 (DROP TABLE in nested stored procedure causes strange dependency
      error)
    Bug 25345 (Cursors from Functions)
    
    
    This fix resolves a long standing issue originally reported with bug 8407,
    which affect the behavior of Stored Procedures, Stored Functions and Trigger
    in many different ways, causing symptoms reported by all the bugs listed.
    In all cases, the root cause of the problem traces back to 8407 and how the
    server locks tables involved with sub statements.
    
    Prior to this fix, the implementation of stored routines would:
    - compute the transitive closure of all the tables referenced by a top level
    statement
    - open and lock all the tables involved
    - execute the top level statement
    "transitive closure of tables" means collecting:
    - all the tables,
    - all the stored functions,
    - all the views,
    - all the table triggers
    - all the stored procedures
    involved, and recursively inspect these objects definition to find more
    references to more objects, until the list of every object referenced does
    not grow any more.
    This mechanism is known as "pre-locking" tables before execution.
    The motivation for locking all the tables (possibly) used at once is to
    prevent dead locks.
    
    One problem with this approach is that, if the execution path the code
    really takes during runtime does not use a given table, and if the table is
    missing, the server would not execute the statement.
    This in particular has a major impact on triggers, since a missing table
    referenced by an update/delete trigger would prevent an insert trigger to run.
    
    Another problem is that stored routines might define SQL exception handlers
    to deal with missing tables, but the server implementation would never give
    user code a chance to execute this logic, since the routine is never
    executed when a missing table cause the pre-locking code to fail.
    
    With this fix, the internal implementation of the pre-locking code has been
    relaxed of some constraints, so that failure to open a table does not
    necessarily prevent execution of a stored routine.
    
    In particular, the pre-locking mechanism is now behaving as follows:
    
    1) the first step, to compute the transitive closure of all the tables
    possibly referenced by a statement, is unchanged.
    
    2) the next step, which is to open all the tables involved, only attempts
    to open the tables added by the pre-locking code, but silently fails without
    reporting any error or invoking any exception handler is the table is not
    present. This is achieved by trapping internal errors with
    Prelock_error_handler
    
    3) the locking step only locks tables that were successfully opened.
    
    4) when executing sub statements, the list of tables used by each statements
    is evaluated as before. The tables needed by the sub statement are expected
    to be already opened and locked. Statement referencing tables that were not
    opened in step 2) will fail to find the table in the open list, and only at
    this point will execution of the user code fail.
    
    5) when a runtime exception is raised at 4), the instruction continuation
    destination (the next instruction to execute in case of SQL continue
    handlers) is evaluated.
    This is achieved with sp_instr::exec_open_and_lock_tables()
    
    6) if a user exception handler is present in the stored routine, that
    handler is invoked as usual, so that ER_NO_SUCH_TABLE exceptions can be
    trapped by stored routines. If no handler exists, then the runtime execution
    will fail as expected.
    
    With all these changes, a side effect is that view security is impacted, in
    two different ways.
    
    First, a view defined as "select stored_function()", where the stored
    function references a table that may not exist, is considered valid.
    The rationale is that, because the stored function might trap exceptions
    during execution and still return a valid result, there is no way to decide
    when the view is created if a missing table really cause the view to be invalid.
    
    Secondly, testing for existence of tables is now done later during
    execution. View security, which consist of trapping errors and return a
    generic ER_VIEW_INVALID (to prevent disclosing information) was only
    implemented at very specific phases covering *opening* tables, but not
    covering the runtime execution. Because of this existing limitation,
    errors that were previously trapped and converted into ER_VIEW_INVALID are
    not trapped, causing table names to be reported to the user.
    This change is exposing an existing problem, which is independent and will
    be resolved separately.
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