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  1. MariaDB Server
  2. MDEV-8865

Wrong field type or metadata for COALESCE(signed_int_column, unsigned_int_column)

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed (View Workflow)
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 5.5(EOL), 10.0(EOL), 10.1(EOL)
    • 10.1.8
    • OTHER
    • 10.1.8-3, 10.1.8-4

    Description

      This script:

      DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t1;
      CREATE TABLE t1 (a INT, b INT UNSIGNED);
      INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1,1);
      DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t2;
      CREATE TABLE t2 AS SELECT COALESCE(a,b) AS c FROM t1;
      SHOW CREATE TABLE t2;

      returns

      +-------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
      | Table | Create Table                                                                                |
      +-------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
      | t2    | CREATE TABLE `t2` (
        `c` decimal(10,0) DEFAULT NULL
      ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 |
      +-------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

      Now if I start "mysql --column-type-info" and run this query:

      SELECT COALESCE(a,b) AS c FROM t1;

      it returns the following metadata:

      MariaDB [test]> SELECT COALESCE(a,b) AS c FROM t1;
      Field   1:  `c`
      ...
      Type:       LONG
      Collation:  binary (63)
      Length:     11
      Max_length: 1
      Decimals:   0
      Flags:      BINARY NUM 

      Notice, COALESCE(a,b) creates a DECIMAL(10,0) field during CREATE TABLE..SELECT, but at the same time reports itself as LONG in metadata.

      The same problems makes this SQL script return a wrong result set:

      DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t1;
      CREATE TABLE t1 (a BIGINT, b BIGINT UNSIGNED);
      INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (-1,0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF);
      SELECT COALESCE(b,a) AS c FROM t1;
      SHOW WARNINGS;

      It returns:

      +---------------------+
      | c                   |
      +---------------------+
      | 9223372036854775807 |
      +---------------------+
      1 row in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec)

      with a warning:

      +---------+------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
      | Level   | Code | Message                                                                      |
      +---------+------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
      | Warning | 1916 | Got overflow when converting '18446744073709551615' to INT. Value truncated. |
      +---------+------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

      The expected result is to return DECIMAL value of 18446744073709551615 with no warnings.

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