Fix for bug#58490, 'Incorrect result in multi level OUTER JOIN
in combination with IS NULL' As this bug is a duplicate of bug#49322, it also includes test cases covering this bugreport Qualifying an OUTER JOIN with the condition 'WHERE <column> IS NULL', where <column> is declared as 'NOT NULL' causes the 'not_exists_optimize' to be enabled by the optimizer. In evaluate_join_record() the 'not_exists_optimize' caused 'NESTED_LOOP_NO_MORE_ROWS' to be returned immediately when a matching row was found. However, as the 'not_exists_optimize' is derived from 'JOIN_TAB::select_cond', the usual rules for condition guards also applies for 'not_exist_optimize'. It is therefore incorrect to check 'not_exists_optimize' without ensuring that all guards protecting it is 'open'. This fix uses the fact that 'not_exists_optimize' is derived from a 'is_null' predicate term in 'tab->select_cond'. Furthermore, 'is_null' will evaluate to 'false' for any 'non-null' rows once all guards protecting the is_null is open. We can use this knowledge as an implicit guard check for the 'not_exists_optimize' by moving 'if (...not_exists_optimize)' inside the handling of 'select_cond==false'. It will then not take effect before its guards are open. We also add an assert which requires that a 'not_exists_optimize' always comes together with a select_cond. (containing 'is_null').
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