Bug #37799: SELECT with a BIT column in WHERE clause
returns unexpected result If: 1. a table has a not nullable BIT column c1 with a length shorter than 8 bits and some additional not nullable columns c2 etc, and 2. the WHERE clause is like: (c1 = constant) AND c2 ..., the SELECT query returns unexpected result set. The server stores BIT columns in a tricky way to save disk space: if column's bit length is not divisible by 8, the server places reminder bits among the null bits at the start of a record. The rest bytes are stored in the record itself, and Field::ptr points to these rest bytes. However if a bit length of the whole column is less than 8, there are no remaining bytes, and there is nothing to store in the record at its regular place. In this case Field::ptr points to bytes actually occupied by the next column in a record. If both columns (BIT and the next column) are NOT NULL, the Field::eq function incorrectly deduces that this is the same column, so query transformation/equal item elimination code (see build_equal_items_for_cond) may mix these columns and damage conditions containing references to them.
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