a sub-branch of this one and merged by pushing all the changes from it.
This version adds the following to CONNECT:

- MRR support (similar to the MyISAM one)
- Block, Remote and dynamic indexing
- Partitioning support (using the PARTITION engine)

Here is a list of the commited changes made in the sub-branch:
========================================================================

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revno: 4009
committer: Olivier Bertrand <bertrandop@gmail.com>
branch nick: 10.0-connect
timestamp: Thu 2014-07-17 18:13:51 +0200
message:
  This commit brings many changes, in particular two important ones:
  1) Support of partitioning by connect. A table can be partitioned
     by files, this is an enhanced MULTIPLE table. It can be also
     partitioned by sub-tables like TBL and this enables table sharding.
  2) Handling a CONNECT bug that causes in some cases extraneous rows
     to remain in the table after an UPDATE or DELETE when the command
     uses indexing (for not fixed file tables). Until a real fix is
     done, CONNECT tries to ignore indexing and if it cannot do it
     abort the command with an error message.

  - Add tests on partitioning
  added:
    storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/part_file.result
    storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/part_table.result
    storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/t/part_file.test
    storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/t/part_table.test

  - Temporary fix
  modified:
    sql/sql_partition.cc

  - Add partition support
  modified:
    storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
    storage/connect/ha_connect.h
    storage/connect/reldef.cpp
    storage/connect/reldef.h
    storage/connect/tabdos.cpp

  - Add functions ha_connect::IsUnique and ha_connect::CheckColumnList
  modified:
    storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
    storage/connect/ha_connect.h

  - Prevent updating a partition table column that is part of
    the partition function (outward tables only)
  modified:
    storage/connect/ha_connect.cc

  - Support INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE for PROXY tables
  modified:
    storage/connect/tabutil.cpp

  - Handle the bug on updating rows via indexing. Waiting for a real fix,
    Don't use indexing when possible else raise an error and abort.
  modified:
    storage/connect/ha_connect.cc

  - dbuserp->UseTemp set to TMP_AUTO
  modified:
    storage/connect/connect.cc

  - Add members nox, abort and only
  modified:
    storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
    storage/connect/ha_connect.h

  - Add arguments nox and abort to CntCloseTable
  modified:
    storage/connect/connect.cc
    storage/connect/connect.h
    storage/connect/filamap.cpp
    storage/connect/filamap.h
    storage/connect/filamdbf.cpp
    storage/connect/filamdbf.h
    storage/connect/filamfix.cpp
    storage/connect/filamfix.h
    storage/connect/filamtxt.cpp
    storage/connect/filamtxt.h
    storage/connect/filamvct.cpp
    storage/connect/filamvct.h
    storage/connect/filamzip.cpp
    storage/connect/filamzip.h
    storage/connect/ha_connect.cc

  - Add arguments abort to CloseTableFile and RenameTempFile
  modified:
    storage/connect/filamap.cpp
    storage/connect/filamap.h
    storage/connect/filamdbf.cpp
    storage/connect/filamdbf.h
    storage/connect/filamfix.cpp
    storage/connect/filamfix.h
    storage/connect/filamtxt.cpp
    storage/connect/filamtxt.h
    storage/connect/filamvct.cpp
    storage/connect/filamvct.h
    storage/connect/filamzip.cpp
    storage/connect/filamzip.h
    storage/connect/tabdos.cpp
    storage/connect/tabdos.h
    storage/connect/tabvct.cpp
    storage/connect/xtable.h

  - Fix info->records when file does not exists
  modified:
    storage/connect/connect.cc

  - Close XML table when opened for info
  modified:
    storage/connect/connect.cc

  - Add function VCTFAM::GetFileLength
  modified:
    storage/connect/filamvct.cpp
    storage/connect/filamvct.h

  - Column option DISTRIB -> ENUM
  modified:
    storage/connect/ha_connect.cc

  - Options connect, query_string and partname allways available
  modified:
    storage/connect/ha_connect.cc

  - Add function MYSQLC::GetTableSize
  modified:
    storage/connect/myconn.cpp
    storage/connect/myconn.h

  - Add new special columns (PARTNAME, FNAME, FPATH, FTYPE and FDISK)
  modified:
    storage/connect/colblk.cpp
    storage/connect/colblk.h
    storage/connect/plgdbsem.h
    storage/connect/table.cpp

  - Add function ExtractFromPath
  modified:
    storage/connect/colblk.cpp
    storage/connect/plgdbsem.h
    storage/connect/plgdbutl.cpp

  - Enhance Cardinality for some table types
  modified:
    storage/connect/tabdos.cpp
    storage/connect/tabmysql.cpp
    storage/connect/tabmysql.h
    storage/connect/tabodbc.cpp
    storage/connect/tabodbc.h
    storage/connect/tabsys.cpp
    storage/connect/tabsys.h
    storage/connect/xindex.cpp
    storage/connect/xindex.h
    storage/connect/xtable.h

  - Add test on special column
  modified:
    storage/connect/tabfmt.cpp

  - Add new files (added for block indexing)
  modified:
    storage/connect/CMakeLists.txt
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revno: 4007 [merge]
committer: Olivier Bertrand <bertrandop@gmail.com>
branch nick: 10.0-connect
timestamp: Sat 2014-05-31 12:31:26 +0200
message:
  - Begin adding support of partition tables
  modified:
    storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
    storage/connect/ha_connect.h
    storage/connect/reldef.cpp

  - Add INSERT/UPDATE support to PROXY tables
  modified:
    storage/connect/tabutil.cpp
    storage/connect/tabutil.h

  - Take care of SPECIAL columns
  modified:
    storage/connect/filamdbf.cpp
    storage/connect/reldef.h
    storage/connect/tabfmt.cpp

  -Typo and misc
  modified:
    storage/connect/odbconn.cpp
    storage/connect/tabfix.cpp
    storage/connect/xindex.cpp
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revno: 4006
committer: Olivier Bertrand <bertrandop@gmail.com>
branch nick: 10.0-connect
timestamp: Sat 2014-05-10 12:21:08 +0200
message:
  - FIX some MAP and XMAP errors (such as mapped indexes not closed)
    Do not put version in XML files header
    Remove HTON_NO_PARTITION for testing
    Fix a wrong return (instead of DBUG_RETURN) in index_init
    Plus a few typos
  modified:
    storage/connect/connect.cc
    storage/connect/filter.cpp
    storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
    storage/connect/maputil.cpp
    storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/alter_xml.result
    storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/xml.result
    storage/connect/table.cpp
    storage/connect/tabxml.cpp
    storage/connect/xindex.cpp
    storage/connect/xindex.h
    storage/connect/xtable.h
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revno: 4005
committer: Olivier Bertrand <bertrandop@gmail.com>
branch nick: 10.0-connect
timestamp: Fri 2014-05-02 15:55:45 +0200
message:
  - Adding fetched columns to Dynamic index key (unique only)
    Fix two bugs concerning added KXYCOL's:
    1 - Not set during reading
    2 - Val_K not set in FastFind
  modified:
    storage/connect/connect.cc
    storage/connect/filamtxt.h
    storage/connect/tabdos.cpp
    storage/connect/tabfix.cpp
    storage/connect/table.cpp
    storage/connect/valblk.h
    storage/connect/xindex.cpp
    storage/connect/xindex.h
    storage/connect/xtable.h
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revno: 4003
committer: Olivier Bertrand <bertrandop@gmail.com>
branch nick: 10.0-connect
timestamp: Wed 2014-04-30 10:48:29 +0200
message:
  - Implementation of adding selected columns to dynamic indexes.
  modified:
    storage/connect/connect.cc
    storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
    storage/connect/ha_connect.h
    storage/connect/tabdos.cpp
    storage/connect/tabdos.h
    storage/connect/tabvct.cpp
    storage/connect/tabvct.h
    storage/connect/xindex.cpp
    storage/connect/xindex.h
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revno: 4001
committer: Olivier Bertrand <bertrandop@gmail.com>
branch nick: 10.0-connect
timestamp: Sat 2014-04-26 00:17:26 +0200
message:
  - Implement dynamic indexing
  modified:
    storage/connect/connect.cc
    storage/connect/filter.cpp
    storage/connect/filter.h
    storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
    storage/connect/ha_connect.h
    storage/connect/tabdos.cpp
    storage/connect/tabdos.h
    storage/connect/table.cpp
    storage/connect/xindex.cpp
    storage/connect/xindex.h
    storage/connect/xtable.h
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revno: 3995
committer: Olivier Bertrand <bertrandop@gmail.com>
branch nick: 10.0-connect
timestamp: Sun 2014-03-23 18:49:19 +0100
message:
  - Work in progress
  modified:
    storage/connect/filter.h
    storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
    storage/connect/ha_connect.h
    storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/alter.result
    storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/xml.result
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revno: 3991
committer: Olivier Bertrand <bertrandop@gmail.com>
branch nick: 10.0-connect
timestamp: Mon 2014-03-10 18:59:36 +0100
message:
  - Adding files needed for block indexing
  added:
    storage/connect/array.cpp
    storage/connect/array.h
    storage/connect/blkfil.cpp
    storage/connect/blkfil.h
    storage/connect/filter.cpp
    storage/connect/filter.h
========================================================================
This commit of the main branch adds:

- A change needed to have the engine function check_if_supported_inplace_alter
  called for partition tables (was done manually in the sub-branch) by adding
  the preparser define: PARTITION_SUPPORTS_INPLACE_ALTER
modified:
  sql/CMakeLists.txt

- A fix concerning the FileExists function. It was needed to force the function
  table_flags to return the same flags for all partitions. This is tested by
  the partition engine and raises an error if flags are not equal.
  The way file name, table name and connection string are retrieved has been
  modified to cope with it.
modified:
  storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
  storage/connect/ha_connect.h
  storage/connect/reldef.cpp

- A few typos, such as the version string.
modified:
  storage/connect/ha_connect.cc

- Updating some test result files because some warnings are no more raised.
modified:
  storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/occur.result
  storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/part_file.result
  storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/pivot.result