The bug was that when long item-strings was converted to VARCHAR,
type_handler::string_type_handler() didn't take into account max
VARCHAR length.  The resulting Aria temporary table was created with
a VARCHAR field of length 1 when it should have been 65537. This caused
MariaDB to send impossible records to ma_write() and Aria reported
eventually the table as crashed.

Fixed by updating Type_handler::string_type_handler() to not create too long
VARCHAR fields. To make things extra safe, I also added checks in when
writing dynamic Aria records to ensure we find the wrong record during write
instead of during read.