Let us simply refuse an upgrade from earlier versions if the
upgrade procedure was not followed. This simplifies the purge,
commit, and rollback of transactions.

Before upgrading to MariaDB 10.3 or later, a clean shutdown
of the server (with innodb_fast_shutdown=1 or 0) is necessary,
to ensure that any incomplete transactions are rolled back.
The undo log format was changed in MDEV-12288. There is only
one persistent undo log for each transaction.