unnecessarily
      
The problem is that libmysqlclient.so is built with THREAD
undefined, while a client compiling against the same header
files will see THREAD as defined and definitions in
my_pthread.h will be included, possibly resulting in undefined
symbols that cannot be resolved with libmysqlclient.so.
      
The suggested solution is to require that clients wanting to
link with libmysqlclient.so should be built with
MYSQL_CLIENT_NO_THREADS defined. This requires a documentation
change, and more details for this will be supplied if this
patch is approved.
      
The MYSQL_CLIENT_NO_THREADS define was renamed from
UNDEF_THREADS_HACK, to get a more suitable (less suspicious)
name for the define. (The UNDEF_THREADS_HACK is retained for
backwards compatibility, though.)
      
This patch is also in anticipation of WL#4958, which will
remove this problem altogether by dropping the building of
libmysqlclient.

Item_field::fix_fields()

Added code to the .test file to skip this test on Win64 for PB2 stability.
Please remove this code when the bug is fixed.

Had attempted to disable this test on Windows only, but the nature of this bug
does not allow for this.  The master.opt file is processed before anything in 
in the actual test.  As a result, we must use disabled.def files to ensure
these tests are skipped on the problematic platforms.

Removed Windows-only code and updated the proper disabled.def files accordingly.

GHz.

Some collations were causing IBMDB2I to report
inaccurate key range estimations to the optimizer
for LIKE clauses that select substrings. This can
be seen by running EXPLAIN. This problem primarily
affects multi-byte and unicode character sets.

This patch involves substantial changes to several
modules. There are a number of problems with the
character set and collation handling. These problems
have been or are being fixed,  and a comprehensive
test has been included which should provide much
better coverage than there was before. This test
is enabled only for IBM i 6.1, because that version
has support for the greatest number of collations.

timeout
            
In STMT and MIXED modes, a statement that changes both non-transactional and
transactional tables must be written to the binary log whenever there are
changes to non-transactional tables. This means that the statement gets into the
binary log even when the changes to the transactional tables fail. In particular
, in the presence of a failure such statement is annotated with the error number
and wrapped in a begin/rollback. On the slave, while applying the statement, it
is expected the same failure and the rollback prevents the transactional changes
to be persisted.
            
Unfortunately, statements that fail due to concurrency issues (e.g. deadlocks,
timeouts) are logged in the same way causing the slave to stop as the statements
are applied sequentially by the SQL Thread. To fix this bug, we automatically
ignore concurrency failures on the slave. Specifically, the following failures
are ignored: ER_LOCK_WAIT_TIMEOUT, ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK and ER_XA_RBDEADLOCK.

          server

If the server connection was lost during repeated status commands,
the client would fail to detect this and the client output would be inconsistent.

This patch fixes this issue by making sure that the server is online
before the client attempts to execute the status command.

The crash happend because for views which are joins
we have table_list->table == 0 and 
table_list->table->'any method' call leads to crash.
The fix is to perform table_list->table->file->extra()
method for all tables belonging to view.

enabled message storing into error message list
for 'drop table' command