Re: Bug with UNION and constant columns

> mysql> ( SELECT '' ) UNION ( SELECT 'aaaaaaaaaaaa' );
> +--+
> | |
> +--+
> | |
> +--+
> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>
> mysql> ( SELECT '******' ) UNION ( SELECT '|||||||||||');
> +--------+
> | ****** |
> +--------+
> | ****** |
> | |||||| |
> +--------+
>2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
>
> (there are more '|' then '*')
>
> Bug exists in 4.0.20.
>
> Does not occur in 4.1.1.

HI!

Thank you for writting to us.

As you well noted, this bug is fixed in 4.1.

This bug will not be fixed in 4.0 as the change would break a
stability of the production release. Beside that, methods, classes and
functions used to solve the issue in 4.1 are not available in 4.0.

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Bug with UNION and constant columns

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mysql> ( SELECT '' ) UNION ( SELECT 'aaaaaaaaaaaa' );
+--+
| |
+--+
| |
+--+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> ( SELECT '******' ) UNION ( SELECT '|||||||||||');
+--------+
| ****** |
+--------+
| ****** |
| |||||| |
+--------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

(there are more '|' then '*')

Bug exists in 4.0.20.

Does not occur in 4.1.1.
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