Fixed bug#16377: result of DATE/TIME functions were compared as strings which
can lead to a wrong result. All date/time functions has the STRING result type thus their results are compared as strings. The string date representation allows a user to skip some of leading zeros. This can lead to wrong comparison result if a date/time function result is compared to such a string constant. The idea behind this bug fix is to compare results of date/time functions and data/time constants as ints, because that date/time representation is more exact. To achieve this the agg_cmp_type() is changed to take in the account that a date/time field or an date/time item should be compared as ints. This bug fix is partially back ported from 5.0. The agg_cmp_type() function now accepts THD as one of parameters. In addition, it now checks if a date/time field/function is present in the list. If so, it tries to coerce all constants to INT to make date/time comparison return correct result. The field for the constant coercion is taken from the Item_field or constructed from the Item_func. In latter case the constructed field will be freed after conversion of all constant items. Otherwise the result is same as before - aggregated with help of the item_cmp_type() function. From the Item_func_between::fix_length_and_dec() function removed the part which was converting date/time constants to int if possible. Now this is done by the agg_cmp_type() function. The new function result_as_longlong() is added to the Item class. It indicates that the item is a date/time item and result of it can be compared as int. Such items are date/time fields/functions. Correct val_int() methods are implemented for classes Item_date_typecast, Item_func_makedate, Item_time_typecast, Item_datetime_typecast. All these classes are derived from Item_str_func and Item_str_func::val_int() converts its string value to int without regard to the date/time type of these items. Arg_comparator::set_compare_func() and Arg_comparator::set_cmp_func() functions are changed to substitute result type of an item with the INT_RESULT if the item is a date/time item and another item is a constant. This is done to get a correct result of comparisons like date_time_function() = string_constant.
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