(approved by kostja)

into  poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-5.1-new

into  c-8808e253.1238-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se:/home/pappa/bug17754

into  c-8808e253.1238-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se:/home/pappa/bug17754

Fixed result files

by previous push.

into  c-8808e253.1238-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se:/home/pappa/bug17754

Added new syntax ALTER TABLE t1 REMOVE PARTITIONING,
changed semantics of ALTER TABLE t1 ENGINE=X; to not remove partitioning
Fix a number of mix engine bugs in partitioning

into  poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-5.1-new

  added HA_EXTRA_WRITE_CACHE case to ha_partition::extra()

  use part_info->item_free_list instead of thd->free_list during partition function parsing

additional fixes

into mysql.com:/home/hf/work/mysql-5.1.clean

  additional check for subselect

Crash happened when one selected data from one of INFORMATION_SCHEMA
tables and in order to build its contents server had to open view which
used stored function and table or view on which one had not global or
database-level privileges (e.g. had only table-level or had no
privileges at all).

The crash was caused by usage of check_grant() function, which assumes
that either number of tables to be inspected by it is limited explicitly
or table list used and thd->lex->query_tables_own_last value correspond
to each other (the latter should be either 0 or point to next_global
member of one of elements of this table list), in conditions when
above assumptions were not true. This fix just explicitly limits
number of tables to be inspected. Other negative effects which are
caused by the fact that thd->lex->query_tables_own_last might not
be set properly during processing of I_S tables are less disastrous
and will be reported and fixed separetely.

into  mysql.com:/home/hartmut/projects/mysql/dev/5.1/gcc41

into  mysql.com:/home/bk/b17400-mysql-5.1-new

Fixing tests to get the test suite passing. This does not hide the bug
since it's a matter of performance, not correctness.

into mysql.com:/home/hf/work/mysql-5.1.clean

added THD::work_part_info member where we now store modified
partition_info structure.
It allows no solve problem when different parts of the part_info get
into different mem_roots

into  mysql.com:/usr/local/home/marty/MySQL/mysql-5.1-new

into  mysql.com:/home/bk/b17400-mysql-5.1-new

into  calliope.local:/Volumes/Source/src/mysql-5.0__bug15846

into  mysql.com:/home/bk/b17400-mysql-5.1-new

Filter out replication general_log and slow_log entirely from binary
log. Caching result of table share-specific tests.

into  mysql.com:/usr/local/home/marty/MySQL/mysql-5.1-new

into  ibmlab.site:/home/my/bk/mysql-5.1-new

into  production.mysql.com:/usersnfs/rburnett/mysql-5.1