Views and ranges are altogether broken in maria-5.3. Not repeatable with maria-5.1, 5.2 , mysql-5.1 and 5.5.

Test case:

CREATE TABLE t1 ( f1 varchar(10), KEY (f1)) ;
INSERT IGNORE INTO t1 VALUES ('DD'),('ZZ'),('ZZ'),('KK'),('FF'),('HH'),('MM');

CREATE ALGORITHM=MERGE VIEW v1 AS SELECT * FROM t1;

--let $query = SELECT * FROM v1 WHERE f1 > 'i' OR f1 AND f1 IN ( 'VV' )

--eval $query
--eval EXPLAIN EXTENDED $query
SHOW WARNINGS;

returns a column of VV VV VV , while such values are nowhere to be found in the underlying table.

EXPLAIN EXTENDED reports:

select 'VV' AS `f1` from `test`.`t1` where (('VV' > 'i') or ((`test`.`t1`.`f1` = 'VV') and 'VV'))

which means the VV has been propagated all the way to the select list

explain:

id select_type table type possible_keys key key_len ref rows filtered Extra
1 SIMPLE t1 range f1 f1 13 NULL 5 100.00 Using where; Using index

bzr version-info:

revision-id: <email address hidden>
date: 2011-02-23 14:46:16 +0200
build-date: 2011-02-25 14:17:06 +0200
revno: 2919
branch-nick: maria-5.3