Problem: if multibyte and binary string arguments passed to 
RPAD(), LPAD() or INSERT() functions, they might return 
wrong results or even lead to a server crash due to missed
character set convertion.

Fix: perform the convertion if necessary.

with concurrent lock/unlock tables

Approved by Marko

row_create_table_for_mysql(): When the table creation fails,
free the dict_table_t object.

No mysql-test case. Tested by creating a table, removing a *.frm file and
attempting to create the table again. Code coverage tested by
instrumentation. Tested with Valgrind.

Print an error message to stderr an get rid of the assertion.

Approved by: Jimmy Yang (over IM)

rb://477 approved by Marko

row_search_for_mysql(): Acquire an intention lock on the table
before locking the first record gap.

row_search_for_mysql(): Acquire an intention lock on the table
before locking the first record gap.

LOAD DATA into partitioned MyISAM table

Problem was that both partitioning and myisam
used the same table_share->mutex for different protections
(auto inc and repair).

Solved by adding a specific mutex for the partitioning
auto_increment.

Also adding destroying the ha_data structure in
free_table_share (which is to be propagated
into 5.5).

This is a 5.1 ONLY patch, already fixed in 5.5+.

The crash happens because original join table is replaced with temporary table
at execution stage and later we attempt to use this temporary table in
select_describe. It might happen that
Item_subselect::update_used_tables() method which sets const_item flag
is not called by some reasons (no where/having conditon in subquery for example).
It prevents JOIN::join_tmp creation and breaks original join.
The fix is to call ::update_used_tables() before ::const_item() check.

Added sanity check, similar to the one preventing send without reap

Bug#57113: ha_partition::extra(ha_extra_function):
            Assertion `m_extra_cache' failed

Fix for bug#55458 included DBUG_ASSERTS causing
debug builds of the server to crash on
another multi-table update.

Removed the asserts since they where wrong.
(updated after testing the patch in 5.5).

This is a simple optimization issue. All stats are related to only indexed
columns, index size or number of rows in the whole table. UPDATEs that touch
only non-indexed columns cannot affect stats and we can avoid calling the
function row_update_statistics_if_needed() which may result in unnecessary I/O.

Approved by:	Marko (rb://466)

Trying to run perl fails, just like it does when perl is started but fails
Trap the case that perl was not found/could not be started, and skip test
Also force a restart of servers since test may already have done something
mtr now also appends path of current perl to PATH to aid mysqltest

TYPE __sync_lock_test_and_set (TYPE *ptr, TYPE value, ...)

it is not documented what happens if the two arguments are of different
type like it was before: the first one was lock_word_t (byte) and the
second one was 1 or 0 (int).

Approved by:	Marko (via IRC)

This happens when creating new tmpdir due to too long socket path
Don't delete it if --start-and-exit, but warn user to do it.