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Re: Sprint 10.0: MDEV-8205 timediff returns null when comparing decimal time to time string value

 

Hi Sergei,


On 06/12/2015 01:00 PM, Sergei Golubchik wrote:
Hi, Alexander!

On Jun 11, Alexander Barkov wrote:
The problem is in this piece of the code:

   if (args[0]->get_time(&l_time1) ||
       args[1]->get_time(&l_time2) ||
       l_time1.time_type != l_time2.time_type)
     return (null_value= 1);

get_time() forces decimal-to-time conversion to truncate the date part
and return MYSQL_TIMESTAMP_TIME.

get_time() does not force string-to-time conversion to truncate the date
part. It still returns the full MYSQL_TIMESTAMP_DATETIME.

I'm afraid a lot of the code rely in this behavior.
If we fix string-to-time conversion, mtr will start to fail in other cases.

First, this is clearly a bug that get_time behaves differently for
numbers and strings. One could get different results for

   WHERE time_column = 'string'

and

   WHERE time_column = number

Something needs to be fixed. We cannot fix string-to-time conversion to
return MYSQL_TIMESTAMP_TIME in all cases. When a string literal is
parsed we don't always know in advance whether it's a datetime or a
time, so we can only indicate *preference* based on the context
(preference matters, as it tells how to parse ambiguous strings like
"10:10:10").

I'd say '10:10:10' should be unambiguously treated as time.
Colon is never used to delimit date parts. Is it?

Date parts are usually delimited by as follows:
'01-01-01'
'01.01.01'
'01/01/01'

But this is a kind of separate issue. Would you like me to create a task for this?
In other cases it could still use the *preference* flag:
'01#01#01' - could be either date or time, depending on the flag.



So, I've fixed number_to_time to keep the date part:

For some reasons I even didn't consider fixing number_to_time() as an option.

Thanks. This fixes the bug. I pushed this change with a test added.



--- a/sql-common/my_time.c
+++ b/sql-common/my_time.c
@@ -1319,9 +1319,6 @@ int number_to_time(my_bool neg, ulonglong nr, ulong sec_pa
                             TIME_INVALID_DATES, was_cut) < 0)
        return -1;

-    ltime->year= ltime->month= ltime->day= 0;
-    ltime->time_type= MYSQL_TIMESTAMP_TIME;
-    *was_cut= MYSQL_TIME_NOTE_TRUNCATED;
      return 0;
    }

The only test that changed results was type_time_hires, and I think the
change was ok.

Regards,
Sergei



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