If, when executing a query with ORDER BY col LIMIT n, the optimizer chose
an index-merge scan to access the table containing col while there existed
an index defined over col then optimizer did not consider the possibility
of using an alternative range scan by this index to avoid filesort. This
could cause a performance degradation if the optimizer flag index_merge was
set up to 'on'.

mysql-test/r/partition.result:
  Added test case
mysql-test/t/partition.test:
  Added test case
sql/ha_partition.cc:
  Removed printing of not initialized variable
storage/maria/ha_maria.cc:
  Don't copy variables that are not initialized

storage/maria/ma_test2.c:
  Problem was that rnd() generated bigger value than allocated array

Find left table in right join (which turned to left join by reordering tables in join list but phisical order of tables of SELECT left as it was).

.. into MariaDB 5.3

Fix for Bug#12667154 SAME QUERY EXEC AS WHERE SUBQ GIVES DIFFERENT
                     RESULTS ON IN() & NOT IN() COMP #3

This bug causes a wrong result in mysql-trunk when ICP is used
and bad performance in mysql-5.5 and mysql-trunk.

Using the query from bug report to explain what happens and causes
the wrong result from the query when ICP is enabled:

1. The t3 table contains four records. The outer query will read
   these and for each of these it will execute the subquery.

2. Before the first execution of the subquery it will be optimized. In
   this case the important is what happens to the first table t1:
   -make_join_select() will call the range optimizer which decides
    that t1 should be accessed using a range scan on the k1 index
    It creates a QUICK_RANGE_SELECT object for this.
   -As the last part of optimization the ICP code pushes the
    condition down to the storage engine for table t1 on the k1 index.

   This produces the following information in the explain for this table:

     2 DEPENDENT SUBQUERY t1 range k1 k1 5 NULL 3 Using index condition; Using filesort

   Note the use of filesort.

3. The first execution of the subquery does (among other things) due
   to the need for sorting:
   a. Call create_sort_index() which again will call find_all_keys():
   b. find_all_keys() will read the required keys for all qualifying
      rows from the storage engine. To do this it checks if it has a
      quick-select for the table. It will use the quick-select for
      reading records. In this case it will read four records from the
      storage engine (based on the range criteria). The storage engine
      will evaluate the pushed index condition for each record.
   c. At the end of create_sort_index() there is code that cleans up a
      lot of stuff on the join tab. One of the things that is cleaned
      is the select object. The result of this is that the
      quick-select object created in make_join_select is deleted.

4. The second execution of the subquery does the same as the first but
   the result is different:
   a. Call create_sort_index() which again will call find_all_keys()
      (same as for the first execution)
   b. find_all_keys() will read the keys from the storage engine. To
      do this it checks if it has a quick-select for the table. Now
      there is NO quick-select object(!) (since it was deleted in
      step 3c). So find_all_keys defaults to read the table using a
      table scan instead. So instead of reading the four relevant records
      in the range it reads the entire table (6 records). It then
      evaluates the table's condition (and here it goes wrong). Since
      the entire condition has been pushed down to the storage engine
      using ICP all 6 records qualify. (Note that the storage engine
      will not evaluate the pushed index condition in this case since
      it was pushed for the k1 index and now we do a table scan
      without any index being used).
      The result is that here we return six qualifying key values
      instead of four due to not evaluating the table's condition.
   c. As above.

5. The two last execution of the subquery will also produce wrong results
   for the same reason.

Summary: The problem occurs due to all but the first executions of the
subquery is done as a table scan without evaluating the table's
condition (which is pushed to the storage engine on a different
index). This is caused by the create_sort_index() function deleting
the quick-select object that should have been used for executing the
subquery as a range scan.

Note that this bug in addition to causing wrong results also can
result in bad performance due to executing the subquery using a table
scan instead of a range scan. This is an issue in MySQL 5.5.

The fix for this problem is to avoid that the Quick-select-object that
the optimizer created is deleted when create_sort_index() is doing
clean-up of the join-tab. This will ensure that the quick-select
object and the corresponding pushed index condition will be available
and used by all following executions of the subquery.

Empty result after reading const tables now works for subqueries.

The problem was in incorrect detection of merged views in tem_direct_view_ref::used_tables() .

Check ability of index to be NULL as it made in MyISAM. UNIQUE with NULL could have several NULL entries so we have to continue even if ve have found a row.

In some rare cases when the value of the system variable join_buffer_size
was set to a number less than 256 the function JOIN_CACHE::set_constants 
determined the size of an offset in the join buffer equal to 1 though
the minimal join buffer required more than 256 bytes. This could cause
a crash of the server when records from the join buffer were read.  

The feature was backported from MySQL 5.6.
Some code was added to make commands as
        SELECT * FROM ignored_db.t1;
        CALL ignored_db.proc();
        USE ignored_db;
to take that option into account.

per-file comments:
  mysql-test/r/ignore_db_dirs_basic.result
        test result added.
  mysql-test/t/ignore_db_dirs_basic-master.opt
        options for the test,
        actually the set of --ignore-db-dir lines.
  mysql-test/t/ignore_db_dirs_basic.test
        test for the feature.
        Same test from 5.6 was taken as a basis,
        then tests for SELECT, CALL etc were added.

per-file comments:
  sql/mysql_priv.h
MDEV-495 backport --ignore-db-dir.
        interface for db_name_is_in_ignore_list() added.
  sql/mysqld.cc
MDEV-495 backport --ignore-db-dir.
        --ignore-db-dir handling.
  sql/set_var.cc
MDEV-495 backport --ignore-db-dir.
        the @@ignore_db_dirs variable added.
  sql/sql_show.cc
MDEV-495 backport --ignore-db-dir.
        check if the directory is ignored.
  sql/sql_show.h
MDEV-495 backport --ignore-db-dir.
        interface added for opt_ignored_db_dirs.
  sql/table.cc
MDEV-495 backport --ignore-db-dir.
        check if the directory is ignored.

 - Fix some warnings in newer GCC (-Werror ...).
 - Fix wrong STACK_DIRECTION detected by configure due to compiler inlining.