Re: bk commit into 5.0 tree (gshchepa:1.2525) BUG#29338

[Gleb Shchepa]

Hello Trudy, Konstantin,

Please see my commentary below.

Trudy Pelzer wrote:
> Hi Konstantin, Gleb,
> 
> On Tuesday, July 10, 2007 2:17 AM, Konstantin Osipov wrote:
> 
>> * gshchepa@stripped <gshchepa@stripped> [07/07/10 04:52]:
>>
>>> ChangeSet@stripped, 2007-07-10 05:26:54+05:00, gshchepa@stripped +7 -0
>>>   Fixed bug #29338.
>>>   Trivial stored functions that consist of RETURN <constant
> expression>
>>>   operator was evaluated ineffectively.
>>>   This type of SF may be commonly used as named constants, so 
>>> optimizations
>>>   is desirable.
> 
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> 
>> Trudy: to me it's clearly a feature request, thus such a high
>> priority is questionable.
>> Even more questionable to push this into 5.0.
> 
> I tagged the bug because the bug report says the problem
> is a regression -- although I see now that Gleb agrees
> with you that this is a feature request.
> 
> Support asked us to reintroduce the original behaviour,
> since the "regression" is affecting a customer. While
> I don't advocate adding a new feature to 5.0 (or 5.1)
> at this point, I do think we should solve the problem
> the client is experiencing, if at all possible.
> 
> Can the specific problem described in the client issue
> be solved fairly easily? See:
> https://support.mysql.com/view.php?id=17609

Trudy: yes, this issue duplicates bugs #29338, #21314 and #14669.
Solution is not trivial as described by Konstantin.
My current solution fix only particular issue (see #29338).

Thank you,
Gleb.


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> Regards,
> Trudy
> 
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