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Wrong result for SELECT..WHERE a='a' AND a='a' COLLATE latin1_bin

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      This bug is similar to http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=5134
      Note, the patch for MySQL bug#5134 fixed only a particular case of the problem when the BINARY keyword is used. The problem is in fact more general.

      This script:

      SET NAMES latin1;
      DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t1;
      CREATE TABLE t1 (a CHAR(10));
      INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ('a'),('A');
      SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE a = 'a' COLLATE latin1_bin;

      correctly returns one row:

      +------+
      | a    |
      +------+
      | a    |
      +------+

      Now if I add an extra part into the condition:

      SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE a='a' AND a='a' COLLATE latin1_bin;

      it returns two rows:

      +------+
      | a    |
      +------+
      | a    |
      | A    |
      +------+

      The expected result is to return one row in both cases.

      The problem happens because "AND a='a' COLLATE latin1_bin" gets erroneously replaced to "AND 'a'='a' COLLATE latin1_bin" which is further evaluates to TRUE and gets removed from the WHERE condition. So, the query gets rewritten to:

      SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE a='a';

      The method which actually replaces the field to the constant is Item_field::equal_fields_propagator() in item.cc.

      This condition is not strict enough:

        if (!item || !has_compatible_context(item))
          item= this;

      It should also take into account the collations of the two operations that the field "a" appears in.

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