functions
      
Unknown timezone specifications are properly rejected
by the server, but are copied into tz_storage before
rejection, and hence is retained until end of server 
life. With sufficiently large bogus timezone specs, 
it is easy to exhaust system memory.
      
Allocation of memory for a copy of the timezone
name is delayed until after verification of validity,
at the cost of a memcpy of the timezone info. This 
only happens once, future lookups will hit the cached
structure.

for bug #41486. Session max_allowed_packet is read-only
as of MySQL 5.1.31. In addition, the global variable
now has no effect on the current session.

fixed help message

Don't throw an error after checking the first and the second arguments.
Continue with checking the third and higher arguments and if some of
them is stronger according to coercibility rules,
then this argument's collation is set as result collation.

                        
When loading dump created by mysqldump tool an error is
thrown saying storage engine for the table doesn't have 
an option.
                        
mysqldump tries to re-insert the data into the federated
table which causes the error. Since the data is already
available on the remote server, mysqldump shouldn't try
to dump the data again for FEDERATED tables.
                        
As stated in the bug page, it can be considered similar
to the MERGE ENGINE with "view only" nature.
                        
Fixed by adding the "FEDERATED ENGINE" to the exception
list to ignore the data.

                   ~40Mb after mysqldump/import 
        
When the input string exceeds the maximum allowed size for the 
internal buffer, batch_readline() returns a truncated string. 
Since there was no way for a caller to determine whether the 
string was truncated or not, the command line client assumed 
batch_readline() to always return the whole input string and 
appended a newline character. This resulted in garbled data 
when importing dumps containing strings longer than the 
maximum input buffer size. 
  
Fixed by adding a flag to the batch_readline() interface to 
signal a truncated string to the caller. 
  
Other minor problems fixed during patch implementation: 
 
- The maximum allowed buffer size for batch_readline() was set 
up depending on the client's max_allowed_packet value. It does 
not actully make any sense, as those variables are not 
related. The input buffer size limit is now always set to 1 
MB. 
  
- fill_buffer() did not always set the EOF flag. 
 
- The input buffer could actually grow twice as the specified 
limit due to insufficient checks in intern_read_line(). 

become negative

- merged the fix to 5.1
- extended to cover I_S.PROCESSLIST.TIME
- Changed the column type of I_S.PROCESSLIST.TIME from LOGNLONG
  UNSIGNED
  to LONG (to match the SHOW PROCESSLIST type)
- Added a test case

"Release_lock("hello")" is now also successful when delivering NULL, replaced two sleeps by wait_condition. The last two "sleep 1" have not been replaced as all tried wait conditions leaded to nondeterministic results, especially to succeeding concurrent updates. To replace the sleeps there should be some time planned (or internal knowledge of the server may help).
 

Re-recording of .result files for additional tests that use this include file.

If a sys-var has a base and a block-size>1, and then a
user-supplied value >= minimum ended up below minimum
thanks to block-size alignment, we threw a warning.
This meant for instance that when getting, then setting
the minimum, we'd see a warning. This was needlessly
confusing. (updated patch)

Replaced a call to load_defaults() in sql_plugin.cc with 
its thread-safe version.