Bug #43270 PROCEDURE ANALYZE returns wrong FLOAT(M,D) and doesn't honor max_elements
Submitted: 27 Feb 2009 18:10 Modified: 28 Feb 2009 16:59
Reporter: Shailesh Humbad Email Updates:
Status: Verified Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: General Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.0.51a, 5.0.67 OS:FreeBSD (FreeBSD 6.3, Linux)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: ANALYSE, FLOAT, max_elements, PROCEDURE ANALYZE

[27 Feb 2009 18:10] Shailesh Humbad
Description:
On a small table, PROCEDURE ANALYZE returns the wrong M and D value, and it doesn't honor the max_elements setting. Confirmed in 5.0.51a FreeBSD and 5.0.67 Linux.  In the sample code below, Windows 5.0.21 returns FLOAT(1,1), whereas in in FreeBSD/Linux, FLOAT(2,1) is returned.  It should return FLOAT(5,2).

How to repeat:
create table t (price TEXT);
insert into t values ('999.99');
insert into t values ('0.10');
# RETURNS FLOAT(2,1)
select price from t procedure analyse(0,0);
# RETURNS ENUM
select price from t procedure analyse(1,8192);

Suggested fix:
It should return the correct M and D values for the FLOAT, and it should not return ENUM with more than max_elements.
[28 Feb 2009 16:59] Sveta Smirnova
Thank you for the report.

Verified as described.