Bug #70684 HAVING referring to subquery results in WARNING 1292
Submitted: 22 Oct 2013 8:13 Modified: 22 Oct 2013 11:33
Reporter: Valeriy Kravchuk Email Updates:
Status: Verified Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Optimizer Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.5.33, 5.6.14 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: having, regression, subquery

[22 Oct 2013 8:13] Valeriy Kravchuk
Description:
A statement with an inner SELECT and a HAVING clause referring to it results in WARNING 1292 for the reasons that are not clear:

C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin>mysql -uroot -proot -P3314 test
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mysql> drop table test;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (4.76 sec)

mysql> CREATE TABLE `test` (
    ->   `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
    ->   `data` varchar(20) DEFAULT NULL,
    ->   KEY `id` (`id`)
    -> ) ENGINE=InnoDB;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (1.95 sec)

mysql> insert into test (data) values ('Some data'), (NULL);
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.57 sec)
Records: 2  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

mysql> select * from test;
+----+-----------+
| id | data      |
+----+-----------+
|  1 | Some data |
|  2 | NULL      |
+----+-----------+
2 rows in set (0.05 sec)

mysql> SELECT data, (IF(ISNULL(data) , (SELECT "FOO"), "BAR")) as synth_data FRO
M test.test HAVING (synth_data IS NOT NULL);
+-----------+------------+
| data      | synth_data |
+-----------+------------+
| Some data | BAR        |
| NULL      | FOO        |
+-----------+------------+
2 rows in set, 2 warnings (0.13 sec)

mysql> show warnings\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
  Level: Warning
   Code: 1292
Message: Truncated incorrect INTEGER value: 'BAR'
*************************** 2. row ***************************
  Level: Warning
   Code: 1292
Message: Truncated incorrect INTEGER value: 'FOO'
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Why HAVING assumes that the result should be INTEGER is not clear at all.

Workaround is to use explicit cast to CHAR:

mysql> SELECT data, (IF(ISNULL(data) , (SELECT "FOO"), "BAR")) as synth_data FRO
M test.test HAVING (convert(synth_data, char) IS NOT NULL);
+-----------+------------+
| data      | synth_data |
+-----------+------------+
| Some data | BAR        |
| NULL      | FOO        |
+-----------+------------+
2 rows in set (0.02 sec)

Originally reported for Percona Server 5.5 as https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-server/+bug/1241097. Also repeatable with 5.5.33, but was it always like this?

How to repeat:
CREATE TABLE `test` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`data` varchar(20) DEFAULT NULL,
KEY `id` (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB;

insert into test (data) values ('Some data'), (NULL);

SELECT data, (IF(ISNULL(data) , (SELECT "FOO"), "BAR")) as synth_data FROM test HAVING (synth_data IS NOT NULL);
show warnings\G
SELECT data, (IF(ISNULL(data) , (SELECT "FOO"), "BAR")) as synth_data FROM test HAVING (convert(synth_data, char) IS NOT NULL);

Suggested fix:
Data type for the "derived" column should be based on the one from subquery (if not data column) in the case above?
[22 Oct 2013 11:33] MySQL Verification Team
Thank you for the bug report. 5.0 affected too.
[24 Oct 2013 12:20] MySQL Verification Team
Tested on 5.1:

C:\dbs>c:\dbs\5.1\bin\mysql -uroot --port=3510 --prompt="mysql 5.1 > "
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Your MySQL connection id is 1
Server version: 5.1.73-Win X64 Source distribution

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mysql 5.1 > CREATE DATABASE DX;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)

mysql 5.1 > USE DX
Database changed
mysql 5.1 > CREATE TABLE `test` (
    -> `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
    -> `data` varchar(20) DEFAULT NULL,
    -> KEY `id` (`id`)
    -> ) ENGINE=InnoDB;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.08 sec)

mysql 5.1 >
mysql 5.1 > insert into test (data) values ('Some data'), (NULL);
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.03 sec)
Records: 2  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

mysql 5.1 >
mysql 5.1 > SELECT data, (IF(ISNULL(data) , (SELECT "FOO"), "BAR")) as synth_data FROM test HAVING (synth_data IS NOT NULL);
+-----------+------------+
| data      | synth_data |
+-----------+------------+
| Some data | BAR        |
| NULL      | FOO        |
+-----------+------------+
2 rows in set, 2 warnings (0.00 sec)

mysql 5.1 > show warnings\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
  Level: Warning
   Code: 1292
Message: Truncated incorrect INTEGER value: 'BAR'
*************************** 2. row ***************************
  Level: Warning
   Code: 1292
Message: Truncated incorrect INTEGER value: 'FOO'
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql 5.1 > SELECT data, (IF(ISNULL(data) , (SELECT "FOO"), "BAR")) as synth_data FROM test HAVING (convert(synth_data, char) IS NOT NULL);
+-----------+------------+
| data      | synth_data |
+-----------+------------+
| Some data | BAR        |
| NULL      | FOO        |
+-----------+------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql 5.1 >