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    Bug #44399: crash with statement using TEXT columns, aggregates, GROUP BY, · e16c3d86
    Georgi Kodinov authored
      and HAVING
    
    When calculating GROUP BY the server caches some expressions. It does
    that by allocating a string slot (Item_copy_string) and assigning the 
    value of the expression to it. This effectively means that the result
    type of the expression can be changed from whatever it was to a string.
    As this substitution takes place after the compile-time result type 
    calculation for IN but before the run-time type calculations, 
    it causes the type calculations in the IN function done at run time 
    to get unexpected results different from what was prepared at compile time.
    
    In the CASE ... WHEN ... THEN ... statement there was a similar problem
    and it was solved by artificially adding a STRING argument to the matrix
    at compile time, so if any of the arguments of the CASE function changes 
    its type to a string it will still be covered by the information prepared 
    at compile time.
    Extended the CASE fix for cover the IN case.
    An alternative way of fixing this problem is by caching the result type of 
    the arguments at compile time and using the cached information at run time
    instead of re-calculating the result types.
    Preferred the CASE approach for uniformity and fix localization.
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item_cmpfunc.cc 133 KB