MySQL Bugs: #84536: Generalize variable-length sort key code

Bug #84536	Generalize variable-length sort key code
Submitted:	17 Jan 2017 13:46	Modified:	26 Jan 2017 15:01
Reporter:	Steinar Gunderson	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Optimizer	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	8.0.1	OS:	Any
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

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Description:
Currently, only JSON fields can be variable-length in sort keys, and a number of details about this format are hard-coded to JSON and encoded in the JSON sort keys function. We should make this more general, so that we can also sort e.g. VARCHAR fields without padding them to the maximum length. (This is especially important with utf8mb4 as default, where key lengths explode.)

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Fixed in 8.0.1.

Code cleanup. No changelog entry needed.