The reason for the bug is that mysqtest as well as other client tools
running in test suite (mysqlbinlog, mysqldump) will first try to connect 
whatever database has created shared memory with default base name 
"MySQL" and use this. (Same effect could be seen on Unix if mtr would
not care to calculate "port" and "socket" parameter).
      
The fix ensures that all client tools and  running in mtr use unique  
per-database shared memory base parameters, so there is no possibility
to clash with already installed one. We use socket name for shared memory 
base (it's known to be unique). This shared-memory-base is written to the
MTR config file to the [client] and [mysqld] sections. Fix made also made 
sure all client tools understand and correctly handle --shared-memory-base.
Prior to this patch  it was not the case for  mysqltest, mysqlbinlog and 
mysql_client_test.
      
All new connections done from mtr scripts via connect() will by default 
set shared-memory-base. And finally, there is a possibility to force 
shared memory or pipe connection and overwrite shared memory/pipe base name
from within mtr scripts via optional PIPE or SHM modifier. This functionality
was manually backported from 6.0
(original patch  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/74749)

Bug#31621: Windows server hanging during shutdown using named pipes 
           and idle connection
            
Problem: when idle pipe connection is forcefully closed with KILL
statement or when the server goes down, thread that is closing connection
would hang infinitely in CloseHandle(). The reason for the hang is that 
named pipe operations are performed synchronously. In this mode all IOs
on pipe are serialized, that is CloseHandle() will not abort ReadFile() 
in another thread, but wait for ReadFile() to complete.
            
The fix implements asynchrnous mode for named pipes, where operation of file
are not synchronized. Read/Write operation would fire an async IO and wait for
either IO completion or timeout.
            
Note, that with this patch timeouts are properly handled for named pipes.
      
Post-review: Win32 timeout code has been fixed for named pipes and shared
memory. We do not store pointer to NET in vio structure, only the read and 
write timeouts.

Backport a ndb patch: fix bug with crash during restart, where
a mbyte incorrectly could be skipped, leading to "end of log
wo/ finding gci".

When a query was using a DATE or DATETIME value formatted
using any other separator characters beside hyphen '-', a
query with a greater-or-equal '>=' condition matching only
the greatest value in an indexed column, the result was
empty if index range scan was employed.

The range optimizer got a new feature between 5.1.38 and
5.1.39 that changes a greater-or-equal condition to a
greater-than if the value matching that in the query was not
present in the table. But the value comparison function
compared the dates as strings instead of dates.

The bug was fixed by splitting the function
get_date_from_str in two: One part that parses and does
error checking. This function is now visible outside the
module. The old get_date_from_str now calls the new
function.

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            with temporary tables

There were two problems the test case from this bug was
triggering:

1. JOIN::rollup_init() was supposed to wrap all constant Items
into another object for queries with the WITH ROLLUP modifier
to ensure they are never considered as constants and therefore
are written into temporary tables if the optimizer chooses to
employ them for DISTINCT/GROUP BY handling.

However, JOIN::rollup_init() was called before
make_join_statistics(), so Items corresponding to fields in
const tables could not be handled as intended, which was
causing all kinds of problems later in the query execution. In
particular, create_tmp_table() assumed all constant items
except "hidden" ones to be removed earlier by remove_const()
which led to improperly initialized Field objects for the
temporary table being created. This is what was causing crashes
and valgrind errors in storage engines.

2. Even when the above problem had been fixed, the query from
the test case produced incorrect results due to some
DISTINCT/GROUP BY optimizations being performed by the
optimizer that are inapplicable in the WITH ROLLUP case.

Fixed by disabling inapplicable DISTINCT/GROUP BY optimizations
when the WITH ROLLUP modifier is present, and splitting the
const-wrapping part of JOIN::rollup_init() into a separate
method which is now invoked after make_join_statistics() when
the const tables are already known.

  subquery returning multiple rows

Error handling was missing when handling subqueires in WHERE 
and when assigning a SELECT result to a @variable.
This caused crash(es). 

Fixed by adding error handling code to both the WHERE 
condition evaluation and to assignment to an @variable.

having clause...

The fix for bug 46184 was not very complete. It was not covering
views using temporary tables and multiple tables in a FROM clause.
Fixed by reverting the fix for 46184 and making a more general
check that is checking at the right execution stage and for all
of the non-supported cases.
Now PROCEDURE ANALYZE on non-top level SELECT is also forbidden.
Updated the analyse.test and subselect.test accordingly.

If an outer query is broken, a subquery might not even get set up.
EXPLAIN EXTENDED did not expect this and merrily tried to de-ref all
of the half-setup info.

We now catch this case and print as much as we have, as it doesn't cost us
anything (doesn't make regular execution slower).