Bug#12976 (stored procedures local variables of type bit)
Before this change, a local variables in stored procedures / stored functions or triggers, when declared with a type of bit(N), would not evaluate their value properly. The problem was that the data was incorrectly typed as a string, causing for example bit b'1', implemented as a byte 0x01, to be interpreted as a string starting with the character 0x01. This later would cause implicit conversions to integers or booleans to fail. The root cause of this problem was an incorrect translation between field types, like bit(N), and internal types used when representing values in Item objects. Also, before this change, the function HEX() would sometime print extra "0" characters when invoked with bit(N) values. With this fix, the type translation (sp_map_result_type, sp_map_item_type) has been changed so that bit(N) fields are represented with integer values. A consequence is that, for the function HEX(), when called with a stored procedure local variable of type bit(N) as argument, HEX() is provided with an integer instead of a string, and therefore does not print "0" padding. A test case for Bug 12976 was present in the test suite, and has been updated.
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