Bug #12072 Incorrect results when using GROUP BY after applying an index

• Submitted: 20 Jul 2005 21:02
• Modified: 21 Jul 2005 0:38
• Reporter: . .
• Status: Closed
• Category: MySQL Server
• Severity: S1 (Critical)
• Version: 5.0.9
• OS: Windows (WinXP)
• CPU Architecture: Any

[20 Jul 2005 21:02] . .

Description:
SELECT statement incorrectly returns an empty result set when using GROUP BY after applying an index to the table.

How to repeat:
Create a test schema and database:

CREATE DATABASE zootest;
USE zootest;
CREATE TABLE `zoo` (
  `animal_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `species` varchar(128) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`animal_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
INSERT INTO `zoo` (`animal_id`,`species`) VALUES 
 (1,'monkey'),
 (2,'monkey'),
 (3,'monkey'),
 (4,'monkey'),
 (5,'monkey'),
 (6,'elephant'),
 (7,'elephant'),
 (8,'elephant'),
 (9,'lion'),
 (10,'giraffe');

Now you can run this SELECT statement:

SELECT species, COUNT(animal_id) AS countanimal_id FROM zoo
WHERE species NOT LIKE 'monkey%'
GROUP BY species ORDER BY species;

and you will get the expected results:
+----------+----------------+
| species  | countanimal_id |
+----------+----------------+
| elephant |              3 |
| giraffe  |              1 |
| lion     |              1 |
+----------+----------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Now apply an index to the table:

ALTER TABLE `zootest`.`zoo` ADD INDEX `Index_2`(`species`);

and run the same SELECT statement again:

SELECT species, COUNT(animal_id) AS countanimal_id FROM zoo
WHERE species NOT LIKE 'monkey%'
GROUP BY species ORDER BY species;

and you will incorrectly get an empty result set:

Empty set (0.00 sec)

I can reproduce the error using the command line interface and MySQL Administrator.

[20 Jul 2005 21:12] . .

MySQL Administrator Backup dump of the database before applying the index

Attachment: zootest.sql (text/plain), 1.69 KiB.

[21 Jul 2005 0:38] MySQL Verification Team

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Additional info:

c:\mysql\bin>mysql -uroot test
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1 to server version: 5.0.10-beta-nt

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> CREATE DATABASE zootest;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec)

mysql> USE zootest;
Database changed
mysql> CREATE TABLE `zoo` (
    ->   `animal_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
    ->   `species` varchar(128) NOT NULL,
    ->   PRIMARY KEY  (`animal_id`)
    -> ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.11 sec)

mysql> INSERT INTO `zoo` (`animal_id`,`species`) VALUES
    ->  (1,'monkey'),
    ->  (2,'monkey'),
    ->  (3,'monkey'),
    ->  (4,'monkey'),
    ->  (5,'monkey'),
    ->  (6,'elephant'),
    ->  (7,'elephant'),
    ->  (8,'elephant'),
    ->  (9,'lion'),
    ->  (10,'giraffe');
Query OK, 10 rows affected (0.02 sec)
Records: 10  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

mysql> SELECT species, COUNT(animal_id) AS countanimal_id FROM zoo
    -> WHERE species NOT LIKE 'monkey%'
    -> GROUP BY species ORDER BY species;
+----------+----------------+
| species  | countanimal_id |
+----------+----------------+
| elephant |              3 |
| giraffe  |              1 |
| lion     |              1 |
+----------+----------------+
3 rows in set (0.02 sec)

mysql> ALTER TABLE `zootest`.`zoo` ADD INDEX `Index_2`(`species`);
Query OK, 10 rows affected (0.19 sec)
Records: 10  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

mysql> SELECT species, COUNT(animal_id) AS countanimal_id FROM zoo
    -> WHERE species NOT LIKE 'monkey%'
    -> GROUP BY species ORDER BY species;
+----------+----------------+
| species  | countanimal_id |
+----------+----------------+
| elephant |              3 |
| giraffe  |              1 |
| lion     |              1 |
+----------+----------------+
3 rows in set (0.02 sec)