From 171f8c014a8bbccc4870d77b5bbb1914a90fd363 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Sinisa@sinisa.nasamreza.org" <>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:04:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] finally pushing what I could not due to BK problems

---
 Docs/manual.texi  | 4 ++++
 sql/sql_select.cc | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Docs/manual.texi b/Docs/manual.texi
index c39da1e37d1..b78b83828b1 100644
--- a/Docs/manual.texi
+++ b/Docs/manual.texi
@@ -50815,6 +50815,10 @@ each individual 4.0.x release.
 @appendixsubsec Changes in release 4.0.5
 @itemize
 @item
+Removed a condition that temp table with index on column that can be NULL has
+to be MyISAM. This was OK for 3.23, but not needed in 4.*. This resulted in 
+slowdown in many queries since 4.0.2
+@item
 Small code improvement in multi-table updates
 @item
 Fixed a newly introduced bug that caused @code{ORDER BY ... LIMIT #}
diff --git a/sql/sql_select.cc b/sql/sql_select.cc
index fc5fe33288f..2b6a3a70344 100644
--- a/sql/sql_select.cc
+++ b/sql/sql_select.cc
@@ -3708,7 +3708,7 @@ create_tmp_table(THD *thd,TMP_TABLE_PARAM *param,List<Item> &fields,
   *blob_field= 0;				// End marker
 
   /* If result table is small; use a heap */
-  if (blob_count || using_unique_constraint || group_null_items ||
+  if (blob_count || using_unique_constraint ||
       (select_options & (OPTION_BIG_TABLES | SELECT_SMALL_RESULT)) ==
       OPTION_BIG_TABLES)
   {