MDEV-28918 Implicit cast from INET6 UNSIGNED works differently on UPDATE vs ALTER
Now INSERT, UPDATE, ALTER statements involving incompatible data type pairs, e.g.:
UPDATE TABLE t1 SET col_inet6=col_int;
INSERT INTO t1 (col_inet6) SELECT col_in FROM t2;
ALTER TABLE t1 MODIFY col_inet6 INT;
consistently return an error at the statement preparation time:
ERROR HY000: Illegal parameter data types inet6 and int for operation 'SET'
and abort the statement before starting interating rows.
This error is the same with what is raised for queries like:
SELECT col_inet6 FROM t1 UNION SELECT col_int FROM t2;
SELECT COALESCE(col_inet6, col_int) FROM t1;
Before this change the error was caught only during the execution time,
when a Field_xxx::store_xxx() was called for the very firts row.
The behavior was not consistent between various statements and could do different things:
- abort the statement
- set a column to the data type default value (e.g. '::' for INET6)
- set a column to NULL
A typical old error was:
ERROR 22007: Incorrect inet6 value: '1' for column `test`.`t1`.`a` at row 1
EXCEPTION:
Note, there is an exception: a multi-row INSERT..VALUES, e.g.:
INSERT INTO t1 (col_a,col_b) VALUES (a1,b1),(a2,b2);
checks assignment compability at the preparation time for the very first row only:
(col_a,col_b) vs (a1,b1)
Other rows are still checked at the execution time and return the old warnings
or errors in case of a failure. This is done because catching all rows at the
preparation time would change behavior significantly. So it still works
according to the STRICT_XXX_TABLES sql_mode flags and the table transaction ability.
This is too late to change this behavior in 10.7.
There is no a firm decision yet if a multi-row INSERT..VALUES
behavior will change in later versions.