substring incorrect syntax causes crash

[Michael Widenius]

Hi!

>>>>> "John" == John Calder <john@stripped> writes:

John> Bug report
John> MySQL Win32 3.23.14 crashes on getting an SQL syntax wrong.
John> Following SQL query is incorrect, has "substring" where I should
John> have used "substring_index" but the punishment is a little 
John> excessive! ie complete engine crash!

John> select A0 from wptact where A0 like 'MISMATCH%' 
John> order by substring(A0, "*", -1) desc limit 1;

John> The correct syntax works well.

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Any change you can make a full example of this that we can run?  This
would help us find and fix this problem!

Regards,
Monty