Bug #16311231: MISSING DATA ON SUBQUERY WITH WHERE + XOR
IN IN-CLAUSE USING MYISAM OR MEMORY ENGINE Backport from 5.6. Original message: The coincidences caused a data loss: * The query has IN subqueries nested twice, * the WHERE clause of the inner subquery refers to the outer field, and the whole WHERE clause returns FALSE, * the inner subquery has a LEFT JOIN that joins a single row with a row of NULLs; one of that NULL columns represents the select list of the subquery. Normally, that inner subquery should return empty record set. However, in our case: * the Item_is_not_null_test item goes constant, since its underlying field is NULL (because of LEFT JOIN ... ON FALSE of const table row with a row of nulls); * we evaluate Item_is_not_null_test::val_int() as a part of fake HAVING expression of the transformed subquery; * as far as the underlying field is NULL, we optimize out the whole fake HAVING expression as FALSE as well as a whole subquery with a zero result: Impossible HAVING noticed after reading const tables"; * thus, the optimizer ignores the presence of the WHERE clause (the WHERE expression is FALSE in our case, so the subquery should return empty set); * however, during the evaluation of the Item_is_not_null_test::val_int() in the optimizer, it marked its "owner" with the "was_null" flag -- that forced the subquery to return UNKNOWN instead of empty set. That caused a wrong result. The problem is a regression of the small cleanup in the fix for the bug11827369 (the Item_is_not_null_test part) that conflicts with optimizations in the fix for the bug11752543. Before that regression the Item_is_not_null_test items never were constants. The fix is the rollback of Item_is_not_null_test parts of the bug11827369 fix.
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