Bug #3482 MySQL returns empty set when using index
Submitted: 16 Apr 2004 1:59 Modified: 28 Apr 2004 10:47
Reporter: Christian Roche Email Updates:
Status: Can't repeat Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S1 (Critical)
Version:4.1.1a-alpha OS:Windows (Windows NT 4.0 SP6a)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[16 Apr 2004 1:59] Christian Roche 
Description:
A simple SELECT statement that uses an index returns a number of rows when placed without GROUP BY statement and an empty set when placed with a GROUP BY statement.

This bug was noticed on 4.1.1a-alpha-nt, although people on the win32 mailing list confirmed it on 4.1.2 also.

How to repeat:
CREATE TABLE test (
  idate date NOT NULL default '0000-00-00',
  country varchar(15) NOT NULL default '',
  block varchar(15) NOT NULL default '',
  carrier varchar(4) NOT NULL default '',
  PRIMARY KEY  (block,idate,carrier),
  KEY COUNTRY (country,idate,carrier)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

INSERT INTO test VALUES ('2004-01-01','GBRMORA','447890','BELG'),('2004-01-01','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-01','GBRMORA','447890','FTLD'),('2004-01-02','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-03','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-04','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-05','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-06','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-07','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-08','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-09','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-10','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-11','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-12','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-13','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-14','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-15','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-16','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-17','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-18','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-19','GBRMORA','447890','CWLS'),('2004-01-19','GBRMORA','447890','FTLD'),('2004-01-20','GBRMORA','447890','FTLD'),('2004-01-21','GBRMORA','447890','FTLD'),('2004-01-22','GBRMORA','447890','FTLD'),('2004-01-23','GBRMORA','447890','FTLD'),('2004-01-24','GBRMORA','447890','FTLD'),('2004-01-25','GBRMORA','447890','FTLD'),('2004-01-26','GBRMORA','447890','FTLD'),('2004-01-27','GBRMORA','447890','FTLD'),('2004-01-28','GBRMORA','447890','FTLD'),('2004-01-29','GBRMORA','447890','FTLD'),('2004-01-30','GBRMORA','447890','FTLD'),('2004-01-31','GBRMORA','447890','FTLD'),('2004-01-12','GBRMCEL','44850','CWLS'),('2004-01-17','GBRMCEL','44850','CWLS');

SELECT block FROM test WHERE idate between '2004-01-01' AND '2004-01-06'
AND country = 'GBRMORA';
-> returns 8 rows

SELECT block FROM test WHERE idate between '2004-01-01' AND '2004-01-06'
AND country = 'GBRMORA' GROUP BY block;
-> return empty set

Suggested fix:
Not a fix but a workaround: this bug is easily circumvented by using "country IN ('GBRMORA')" or "country LIKE 'GBRMORA'" instead of "country = 'GBRMORA'"
[28 Apr 2004 7:27] MySQL Verification Team 
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Additional info:

C:\servers\4.1.2\bin>mysql -uroot test
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 2 to server version: 4.1.2-alpha-max

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

mysql> SELECT block, count(*) FROM test WHERE idate
    -> between '2004-01-01' AND '2004-01-06'
    -> AND country = 'GBRMORA' GROUP BY block;
+--------+----------+
| block  | count(*) |
+--------+----------+
| 447890 |        8 |
+--------+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)