Bug#17294 - INSERT DELAYED puting an \n before data
Bug#16611 - INSERT DELAYED corrupts data
Bug#13707 - Server crash with INSERT DELAYED on MyISAM table
Combined as Bug#16218.

INSERT DELAYED crashed in 5.0 on a table with a varchar that 
could be NULL and was created pre-5.0 (Bugs 16218 and 13707).
INSERT DELAYED corrupted data in 5.0 on a table with varchar 
fields that was created pre-5.0 (Bugs 17294 and 16611).

In case of INSERT DELAYED the open table is copied from the
delayed insert thread to be able to create a record for the 
queue. When copying the fields, a method was used that did 
convert old varchar to new varchar fields and did not set up 
some pointers into the record buffer of the table.

The field conversion was guilty for the misinterpretation of 
the record contents by the delayed insert thread. The wrong
pointer setup was guilty for the crashes.

For Bug 13707 (Server crash with INSERT DELAYED on MyISAM table)
I fixed the above mentioned method to set up one of the pointers.
For Bug 16218 I set up the other pointers too.

But when looking at the corruptions I got aware that converting
the field type was totally wrong for INSERT DELAYED. The copied
table is used to create a record that is to be sent to the
delayed insert thread. Of course it can interpret the record
correctly only if all field types are the same in both table
objects.

So I revoked the fix for Bug 13707 and changed the new_field() 
method so that it can suppress conversions.

No test case as this is a migration problem. One needs to
create a table with 4.x and use it with 5.x. I added two
test scripts to the bug report.

into  mysql.com:/home/mydev/mysql-5.0-bug19604

CHECK TABLE did temporarily clear the auto_increment value.
It runs with a read lock, allowing other readers and
conurrent INSERTs. The latter could grab the wrong value
in this moment.

CHECK TABLE does no longer modify the auto_increment value.
Not even for a short moment.

  "Merge table does not work with bit types"
   MERGE should have HA_CAN_BIT_FIELD feature bit set or else table row is
   formatted incorrectly.

The order of acquiring LOCK_mysql_create_db
and wait_if_global_read_lock() was wrong. It could happen
that a thread held LOCK_mysql_create_db while waiting for
the global read lock to be released. The thread with the
global read lock could try to administrate a database too.
It would first try to lock LOCK_mysql_create_db and hang...

The check if the current thread has the global read lock
is done in wait_if_global_read_lock(), which could not be
reached because of the hang in LOCK_mysql_create_db.

Now I exchanged the order of acquiring LOCK_mysql_create_db
and wait_if_global_read_lock(). This makes 
wait_if_global_read_lock() fail with an error message for
the thread with the global read lock. No deadlock happens.

into  april.(none):/home/svoj/devel/mysql/BUG18233/mysql-5.0

            SELECT WHERE a= AND b=

Selecting data from memory table with varchar column and hash index over it
returns only first row matched.

Problem was that key length calculation for varchar columns didn't include
number of bytes to store length.

Fixed key length for varchar fields to include number of bytes to store length.

into  xiphis.org:/home/antony/work2/mysql-5.0-engines-merge

into  xiphis.org:/home/antony/work2/p1-bug10952.1

  "alter table from MyISAM to MERGE lost data without errors and warnings"
  Add new handlerton flag which prevent user from altering table storage
  engine to storage engines which would lose data. Both 'blackhole' and 
  'merge' are marked with the new flag.
  Tests included.

into  mysql.com:/home/marty/MySQL/mysql-5.0

into  mysql.com:/home/marty/MySQL/mysql-5.0

into  neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/mysql-5.0

into  neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/mysql-5.0-maint

No commit message

into mysql.com:/Users/kent/mysql/bk/mysql-5.0-new

Add function 'vio_end' that will cleanup resources allocated by vio and the components it uses.

into  neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/mysql-5.0-maint

into  neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/mysql-5.0-maint

into  rurik.mysql.com:/home/igor/mysql-5.0

into  rurik.mysql.com:/home/igor/dev/mysql-5.0-0

into  rurik.mysql.com:/home/igor/mysql-4.1

into  mysql.com:/usr_rh9/home/elkin.rh9/MySQL/Merge/5.0-bug19136

recalculating results

into  mysql.com:/usr_rh9/home/elkin.rh9/MySQL/Merge/5.0-bug19136

into  mysql.com:/usr_rh9/home/elkin.rh9/MySQL/FIXES/4.1-bug19136_unass_user_var

A query with a group by and having clauses could return a wrong
result set if the having condition contained a constant conjunct 
evaluated to FALSE.
It happened because the pushdown condition for table with
grouping columns lost its constant conjuncts.
Pushdown conditions are always built by the function make_cond_for_table
that ignores constant conjuncts. This is apparently not correct when
constant false conjuncts are present.

into mysql.com:/home/psergey/mysql-5.0-bug16798-merge

into mysql.com:/home/psergey/mysql-4.1-bug16798

into  mysql.com:/home/tomash/src/mysql_ab/mysql-5.0-merge

into  mysql.com:/home/tomash/src/mysql_ab/mysql-4.1-bug16501

into  mysql.com:/home/tomash/src/mysql_ab/mysql-4.1-bug16501

into  mysql.com:/home/mydev/mysql-4.1-bug10405

into  mysql.com:/home/mydev/mysql-5.0-bug10405

into mysql.com:/home/psergey/mysql-4.1-bug16798

into mysql.com:/home/psergey/mysql-5.0-bug16798-merge