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diff --git a/sql/item_subselect.cc b/sql/item_subselect.cc
index c9c625db083..43af0b5a3f6 100644
--- a/sql/item_subselect.cc
+++ b/sql/item_subselect.cc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (c) 2002, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+/* Copyright (c) 2002, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -1072,6 +1072,27 @@ Item_in_subselect::single_value_transformer(JOIN *join,
runtime created Ref item which is deleted at the end
of the statement. Thus one of 'substitution' arguments
can be broken in case of PS.
+
+ @todo
+ Why do we use real_item()/substitutional_item() instead of the plain
+ left_expr?
+ Because left_expr might be a rollbackable item, and we fail to properly
+ rollback all copies of left_expr at end of execution, so we want to
+ avoid creating copies of left_expr as much as possible, so we use
+ real_item() instead.
+ Doing a proper rollback is difficult: the change was registered for the
+ original item which was the left argument of IN. Then this item was
+ copied to left_expr, which is copied below to substitution->args[0]. To
+ do a proper rollback, we would have to restore the content
+ of both copies as well as the original item. There might be more copies,
+ if AND items have been constructed.
+ The same applies to the right expression.
+ However, using real_item()/substitutional_item() brings its own
+ problems: for example, we lose information that the item is an outer
+ reference; the item can thus wrongly be considered for a Keyuse (causing
+ bug#17766653).
+ When WL#6570 removes the "rolling back" system, all
+ real_item()/substitutional_item() in this file should be removed.
*/
substitution= func->create(left_expr->real_item(), subs);
DBUG_RETURN(RES_OK);
@@ -1157,6 +1178,9 @@ Item_in_subselect::single_value_transformer(JOIN *join,
}
else
{
+ /*
+ Grep for "WL#6570" to see the relevant comment about real_item.
+ */
Item *item= (Item*) select_lex->item_list.head()->real_item();
if (select_lex->table_list.elements)