Manual merge from mysql-trunk-merge.

Conflicts:
  - mysql-test/suite/rpl/r/rpl_binlog_grant.result
  - mysql-test/suite/rpl/r/rpl_sp.result
  - mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/rpl_binlog_grant.test
  - sql/sql_parse.cc
  - sql/sql_table.cc
  - sql/sql_test.cc

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sql/sql_select.cc b/sql/sql_select.cc
index 5cef405fe53..edeeb143333 100644
--- a/sql/sql_select.cc
+++ b/sql/sql_select.cc
@@ -542,13 +542,26 @@ JOIN::prepare(Item ***rref_pointer_array,
 
   if (order)
   {
+    bool real_order= FALSE;
     ORDER *ord;
     for (ord= order; ord; ord= ord->next)
     {
       Item *item= *ord->item;
+      /*
+        Disregard sort order if there's only "{VAR}CHAR(0) NOT NULL" fields
+        there. Such fields don't contain any data to sort.
+      */
+      if (!real_order &&
+          (item->type() != Item::Item::FIELD_ITEM ||
+           ((Item_field *) item)->field->maybe_null() ||
+           ((Item_field *) item)->field->sort_length()))
+        real_order= TRUE;
+
       if (item->with_sum_func && item->type() != Item::SUM_FUNC_ITEM)
         item->split_sum_func(thd, ref_pointer_array, all_fields);
     }
+    if (!real_order)
+      order= NULL;
   }
 
   if (having && having->with_sum_func)