The fix for bug 31887 was incomplete : it assumes that all the 
field types returned by the IS_NUM macro are descendants of 
Item_num and tries to zero-fill the values before doing constant
substitution with such fields when they are compared to constant string
values.
The only exception to this is Field_timestamp : it's in the IS_NUM
macro, but is not a descendant of Field_num.
Fixed by excluding timestamp fields (Field_timestamp) when zero-filling
when converting the constant to compare with to a string.
Note that this will not exclude the timestamp columns from const 
propagation.

Problem: <=> operator may return wrong results 
comparing NULL and a DATE/DATETIME/TIME value.

Fix: properly check NULLs.

Problem: SELECT ... REGEXP BINARY NULL may lead to server crash/hang.

Fix: properly handle NULL regular expressions.

in open_table()

Problem: repeating "CREATE... ( AUTOINCREMENT) ... SELECT" may lead to
an assertion failure.

Fix: reset table->auto_increment_field_not_null after each record 
writing.

  INSERT .. SELECT .. ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE col=DEFAULT

In order to get correct values from update fields that
belongs to the SELECT part in the INSERT .. SELECT .. ON
DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE statement, the server adds referenced
fields to the select list. Part of the code that does this
transformation is shared between implementations of
the DEFAULT(col) function and the DEFAULT keyword (in
the col=DEFAULT expression), and an implementation of
the DEFAULT keyword is incomplete.

            returns unexpected result

If:
  1. a table has a not nullable BIT column c1 with a length
     shorter than 8 bits and some additional not nullable
     columns c2 etc, and
  2. the WHERE clause is like: (c1 = constant) AND c2 ...,
the SELECT query returns unexpected result set.


The server stores BIT columns in a tricky way to save disk
space: if column's bit length is not divisible by 8, the
server places reminder bits among the null bits at the start
of a record. The rest bytes are stored in the record itself,
and Field::ptr points to these rest bytes.

However if a bit length of the whole column is less than 8,
there are no remaining bytes, and there is nothing to store in
the record at its regular place. In this case Field::ptr points
to bytes actually occupied by the next column in a record.
If both columns (BIT and the next column) are NOT NULL,
the Field::eq function incorrectly deduces that this is the
same column, so query transformation/equal item elimination
code (see build_equal_items_for_cond) may mix these columns
and damage conditions containing references to them.

used causes server crash.
      
When the loose index scan access method is used values of aggregated functions
are precomputed by it. Aggregation of such functions shouldn't be performed
in this case and functions should be treated as normal ones.
The create_tmp_table function wasn't taking this into account and this led to
a crash if a query has MIN/MAX aggregate functions and employs temporary table
and loose index scan.
Now the JOIN::exec and the create_tmp_table functions treat MIN/MAX aggregate
functions as normal ones when the loose index scan is used.

Typo fixed.
No test case as we actually don't use rtree_get_first() 
and rtree_get_next() at present.

Problem: data consistency check (maximum record length) for a correct
MyISAM table with CHECKSUM=1 and ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC option 
may fail due to wrong inner MyISAM parameter. In result we may 
have the table marked as 'corrupted'. 

Fix: properly set MyISAM maximum record length parameter.

- Use the compiler's default copy constructor for QUICK_RANGE_SELECT. 
  bcopy(this, copy, ...) call caused some odd action on gcc-4.1.2 on x86_64

Dumping information about locks in use by sending a SIGHUP signal
to the server or by invoking the "mysqladmin debug" command may
lead to a server crash in debug builds or to undefined behavior in
production builds.

The problem was that a mutex that protects a lock object (THR_LOCK)
might have been destroyed before the lock object was actually removed
from the list of locks in use, causing a race condition with other
threads iterating over the list. The solution is to destroy the mutex
only after removing lock object from the list.

plugin_dir option backported from 5.1

            
            test_if_data_home_dir fixed to look into real path.
            Checks added to mi_open for symlinks into data home directory.

per-file messages:
        include/my_sys.h
          Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
          
          my_is_symlink interface added
        include/myisam.h
          Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
          
          myisam_test_invalid_symlink interface added
        myisam/mi_check.c
          Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
          
          mi_open_datafile calls modified
        myisam/mi_open.c
          Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
          
          code added to mi_open to check for symlinks into data home directory.
          mi_open_datafile now accepts 'original' file path to check if it's
          an allowed symlink.
        myisam/mi_static.c
          Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
          
          myisam_test_invlaid_symlink defined
        myisam/myisamchk.c
          Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
          
          mi_open_datafile call modified
        myisam/myisamdef.h
          Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
          
          mi_open_datafile interface modified - 'real_path' parameter added
        mysql-test/r/symlink.test
          Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
          
          error codes corrected as some patch now rejected pointing inside datahome
        mysql-test/r/symlink.result
          Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
          
          error messages corrected in the result
        mysys/my_symlink.c
          Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
          
          my_is_symlink() implementsd
          my_realpath() now returns the 'realpath' even if a file isn't a symlink
        sql/mysql_priv.h
          Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
          
          test_if_data_home_dir interface
        sql/mysqld.cc
          Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
          
          myisam_test_invalid_symlik set with the 'test_if_data_home_dir'
        sql/sql_parse.cc
          Bug#32167 another privilege bypass with DATA/INDEX DIRECTORY.
          
          error messages corrected
          test_if_data_home_dir code fixed

Send_field.org_col_name has broken value on secondary execution.
It happens when result field is created from the field which belongs to view
due to forgotten assignment of some Send_field attributes. 
The fix:
set Send_field.org_col_name,org_table_name with correct value during Send_field intialization.

is used causes server crash.
  Revert the fix : unstable test case revealed by pushbuild

more clever gcc version checking.

Tilde expansion could fail when it was to expand to an empty string (such as
when HOME is set to an empty string), especially on systems where size_t is
unsigned.

Length value is the length of the field,
Max_length is the length of the field value.
So Max_length can not be more than Length.
The fix: fixed calculation of the Item_empty_string item length

(Patch applied and queued on demand of Trudy/Davi.)

When the fractional part in a multiplication of DECIMALs
overflowed, we truncated the first operand rather than the
longest. Now truncating least significant places instead
for more precise multiplications.

(Queuing at demand of Trudy/Davi.)

with blobs containing nulls

Problem: FEDERATED SE improperly stores NULL fields in the record buffer.

Fix: store them properly.

used causes server crash.

When the loose index scan access method is used values of aggregated functions
are precomputed by it. Aggregation of such functions shouldn't be performed
in this case and functions should be treated as normal ones.
The create_tmp_table function wasn't taking this into account and this led to
a crash if a query has MIN/MAX aggregate functions and employs temporary table
and loose index scan.
Now the JOIN::exec and the create_tmp_table functions treat MIN/MAX aggregate
functions as normal ones when the loose index scan is used.

Post-merge fix: mysql_client_test.c is compiled by C compilers
and some C compilers don't support mixed declarations and code
and it's explicitly forbidden by ISO C90.

Fixed missing DBUG_RETURN in the function find_key_block