bk commit into 4.1 tree (bell:1.2324) BUG#10269

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ChangeSet
  1.2324 05/06/28 21:45:11 bell@stripped +3 -0
  fixed substring() length calculation in case of constant negative argument (BUG#10269)

  sql/item_strfunc.cc
    1.229 05/06/28 21:44:37 bell@stripped +2 -1
    fixed substring() length calculation in case of constant negative argument

  mysql-test/t/func_str.test
    1.74 05/06/28 21:44:37 bell@stripped +9 -0
    Correct length reporting from substring()

  mysql-test/r/func_str.result
    1.93 05/06/28 21:44:37 bell@stripped +15 -0
    Correct length reporting from substring()

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# set of deltas contained in the patch.  The rest of the patch, the part
# that BitKeeper cares about, is below these diffs.
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--- 1.228/sql/item_strfunc.cc	Mon Jun 27 20:30:54 2005
+++ 1.229/sql/item_strfunc.cc	Tue Jun 28 21:44:37 2005
@@ -1065,7 +1065,8 @@
   collation.set(args[0]->collation);
   if (args[1]->const_item())
   {
-    int32 start=(int32) args[1]->val_int()-1;
+    int32 start= (int32) args[1]->val_int();
+    start= (int32)((start < 0) ? max_length + start : start - 1);
     if (start < 0 || start >= (int32) max_length)
       max_length=0; /* purecov: inspected */
     else

--- 1.92/mysql-test/r/func_str.result	Thu Jun 23 16:14:53 2005
+++ 1.93/mysql-test/r/func_str.result	Tue Jun 28 21:44:37 2005
@@ -800,3 +800,18 @@
 str	num
 notnumber	0
 DROP TABLE t1,t2;
+create table t1 (b varchar(5));
+insert t1 values ('ab'), ('abc'), ('abcd'), ('abcde');
+select *,substring(b,1),substring(b,-1),substring(b,-2),substring(b,-3),substring(b,-4),substring(b,-5) from t1;
+b	substring(b,1)	substring(b,-1)	substring(b,-2)	substring(b,-3)	substring(b,-4)	substring(b,-5)
+ab	ab	b	ab			
+abc	abc	c	bc	abc		
+abcd	abcd	d	cd	bcd	abcd	
+abcde	abcde	e	de	cde	bcde	abcde
+select * from (select *,substring(b,1),substring(b,-1),substring(b,-2),substring(b,-3),substring(b,-4),substring(b,-5) from t1) t;
+b	substring(b,1)	substring(b,-1)	substring(b,-2)	substring(b,-3)	substring(b,-4)	substring(b,-5)
+ab	ab	b	ab			
+abc	abc	c	bc	abc		
+abcd	abcd	d	cd	bcd	abcd	
+abcde	abcde	e	de	cde	bcde	abcde
+drop table t1;

--- 1.73/mysql-test/t/func_str.test	Thu Jun 23 16:14:28 2005
+++ 1.74/mysql-test/t/func_str.test	Tue Jun 28 21:44:37 2005
@@ -541,3 +541,12 @@
 SELECT * FROM t1, t2 WHERE num=substring(str from 1 for 6);
 
 DROP TABLE t1,t2;
+
+#
+# Correct length reporting from substring() (BUG#10269)
+#
+create table t1 (b varchar(5));
+insert t1 values ('ab'), ('abc'), ('abcd'), ('abcde');
+select *,substring(b,1),substring(b,-1),substring(b,-2),substring(b,-3),substring(b,-4),substring(b,-5) from t1;
+select * from (select *,substring(b,1),substring(b,-1),substring(b,-2),substring(b,-3),substring(b,-4),substring(b,-5) from t1) t;
+drop table t1;