BINARY(N) and VARBIBARY(N)
2. More 4.0 compatibility and more BINARY keyword consistency:
2a. CREATE TABLE a (a CHAR(N) BINARY) 
    is now synonym for
    CREATE TABLE a (a CHAR(N) COLLATE xxxx_bin)
2b. SELECT BINARY x
    is still synonin for
    SELECT x COLLATE xxxxx_bin.

  Don't print control characters

into mysql.com:/home/my/mysql-4.1

service backport from 4.0

This turned out to be a problem for prepared statements as well; the id was
evaluated once, at parse time.

into mysql.com:/home/my/mysql-4.1

Don't read character set files if we are using only the default charset. In most cases the user will not anymore get a warning about missing character set files
Compare strings with space extend instead of space strip. Now the following comparisons holds:  "a" == "a " and "a\t" < "a". (Bug #3152).
Note: Because of the above fix, one has to do a REPAIR on any table that has an ascii character < 32 last in a CHAR/VARCHAR/TEXT columns.

into sanja.is.com.ua:/home/bell/mysql/bk/work-alter-3.23

into sanja.is.com.ua:/home/bell/mysql/bk/work-alias-4.1

cleanup (VERSION variable)

UJIS part fix

into serg.mylan:/usr/home/serg/Abk/mysql-4.0

bug#3134

into deer.(none):/home/hf/work/mysql-4.1.3266

into deer.(none):/home/hf/work/mysql-4.1.3266

into deer.(none):/home/hf/work/mysql-4.1.3264

into ice.snake.net:/Volumes/ice2/MySQL/bk/mysql-4.1

into serg.mylan:/usr/home/serg/Abk/mysql-4.1

is specified, the default is SESSION.

into sinisa.nasamreza.org:/mnt/work/mysql-4.0

Shouldn't be moved to 4.1

  Conditional compilation

into ice.snake.net:/Volumes/ice2/MySQL/bk/mysql-4.1

into sanja.is.com.ua:/home/bell/mysql/bk/work-conf-4.0

into serg.mylan:/usr/home/serg/Abk/mysql-4.0