Bug #7101 Usage of LEFT() function in GROUP BY crashes a server
Submitted: 8 Dec 2004 12:19 Modified: 10 Dec 2004 11:29
Reporter: SINISA MILIVOJEVIC Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S1 (Critical)
Version:4.1 OS:Any (all)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[8 Dec 2004 12:19] SINISA MILIVOJEVIC 
Description:
When a query uses LEFT() column that is also making , entirely or partially, a field by which the entire query is aggregating with GROUP BY, that cases a crash.

How to repeat:
drop table if exists t1;
create table t1 (a int not null primary key, b varchar(40), c datetime);
insert into t1 (a,b,c) values (1,'Tom',now()),(2,'ball games',now()), (3,'Basil',now()), (4,'Dean',now()),(5,'Ellis',now()), (6,'Serg',now()), (7,'Sergei',now()),(8,'Georg',now()),(9,'Salle',now()),(10,'Sinisa',now()); 
select count(*) as total, left(c,10) as reg from t1 group by reg order by reg desc limit 0,12;
drop table if exists t1;
[9 Dec 2004 23:00] Sergei Golubchik 
fixed in 4.1.9
[10 Dec 2004 11:29] MySQL Verification Team 
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