ZERO
      
When dates are represented internally as strings, i.e. when a string constant
is compared to a date value, both values are converted to long integers,
ostensibly for fast comparisons. DATE typed integer values are converted to
DATETIME by multiplying by 1,000,000 (each digit pair representing hour,
minute and second, respectively). But the mechanism did not distuinguish
cached INTEGER values, already in correct format, from newly converted
strings.

Fixed by marking the INTEGER cache as being of DATETIME format.

            
rpl_packet got a timeout failure sporadically on PB when stopping
slave. The real reason of this bug is that STOP SLAVE stopped
IO thread first and then stopped SQL thread. It was
possible that IO thread stopped after replicating part of a
transaction which SQL thread was executing. SQL thread would
be hung if the transaction could not be rolled back safely.
            
After this patch, STOP SLAVE will stop SQL thread first and then stop IO
thread, which guarantees that IO thread will fetch the reset of the
events of the transaction that SQL thread is executing, so that SQL
thread can finish the transaction if it cannot be rolled back safely.
            
Added below auxiliary files to make the test code neater.
restart_slave_sql.inc
rpl_connection_master.inc
rpl_connection_slave.inc
rpl_connection_slave1.inc

Fix for bug#45740 introduced test case using SHOW TABLE STATUS against a Memory table using latin1 character in table name.
The test failed on Windows and FreeBSD due to a difference in the value for Avg_row_length.
The average row length normally depends on the values for data length and row count. According to the 5.5 manual data length is approximate with Memory tables.
With MyISAM and InnoDB the Avg_row_length is the same on Windows and Solaris.
The solution implemented by this patch is to mask out the value for Avg_row_length, as it may vary when using Memory tables.

Undoing the patch, it complicates the code but is not the solution

I do not beleive newline mismatch could be the cause of this failure
First, I cannot see how this could be a problem, mtr ignores the newline
  when reading the expect file, and the file is written and read on Windows.
Second, if this really was the problem it should have been deterministic:
  either the newline is correctly interepreted or it is not.

Problem: the scanner function tested for strings "<![CDATA[" and
"-->" without checking input string boundaries, which led to valgrind's
"Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)" error.

Fix: Adding boundary checking.

  @ mysql-test/r/xml.result
  @ mysql-test/t/xml.test
  Adding test

  @ strings/xml.c
  Adding a helper function my_xml_parser_prefix_cmp(),
  with input string boundary check.

sys_vars.innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct_func fails sporadically
      

BUG#58858 : sys_vars.innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct_func fails sporadically

Committing After latest merge.      
Modified check_pct procedure to check return value of wait condition instead 
of calling "dirty_pct".
   
Adding Review comments:
1) Added comment for success variable value
2) Procedure check_pct changed For Adding BOOLEAN input and SELECT QUERY Change

Re-enabling the test case on windows since BUG#12190 has fixed
the issue.

  - Support for graceful shutdown of cluster by using "ndb_mgm -e 'shutdown'"

 - Make it possible to use MTR_MAXNDB to set the upper limit of number of
  parallel ndb test to run.
 - Very useful on machines with many cores and lots of RAM

 -  Find ndbmtd and use it round robin

Introduced by the fix for bug#44766.

Problem: it's not correct to use args[0]->str_value as a buffer,
because args[0] may need this buffer for its own purposes.

Fix: adding a new class member tmp_value to use as return value.

  @ mysql-test/r/ctype_many.result
  @ mysql-test/t/ctype_many.test
  Adding tests

  @ sql/item_strfunc.cc
  Changing code into traditional style:
  use "str" as a buffer for the argument and tmp_value for the result value.

  @ sql/item_strfunc.h
  Adding tmp_value

      
Problem: when processing a query like:
  SELECT '' LIKE '1' ESCAPE COUNT(1);
escape_item->val_str() was never executed and the "escape" class member
stayed initialized, which led to valgrind uninitialized memory error.
      
Note, a query with some tables in "FROM" clause
returns ER_WRONG_ARGUMENTS in the same situation:

   SELECT '' LIKE '1' ESCAPE COUNT(1) FROM t1;
   ERROR 1210 (HY000): Incorrect arguments to ESCAPE

Fix: disallowing using aggregate functions in ESCAPE clause,
even if there are no tables used. There is no much use of that anyway.

Enabled test snippet for bug 4374, tested on Mac OS X 10.6 as well as Solaris.
Moved test snippet to a different place in the file, in order to avoid having 
to save and restore "SET NAMES" setting. New surroundings expect latin1, as is 
used in the testsnippet.

An extra copy of the commented test snippet is removed, a comment is added,
SQL keywords are converted to uppercase, and engine name "heap" is updated to 
"Memory".

Also added Copyright statement and a notice about the file's encoding(s).