The problem was that some functions (namely IN() starting with 4.1, and
CHAR() starting with 5.0) were returning NULL in certain conditions,
while they didn't set their maybe_null flag.  Because of that there could
be some problems with 'IS NULL' check, and statements that depend on the
function value domain, like CREATE TABLE t1 SELECT 1 IN (2, NULL);.

The fix is to set maybe_null correctly.