mysqldump / SHOW CREATE TABLE will show the NEXT available value for
the PK, rather than the *first* one that was available (that named in
the original CREATE TABLE ... AUTO_INCREMENT = ... statement).

This should produce correct and robust behaviour for the obvious use
cases -- when no data were inserted, then we'll produce a statement
featuring the same value the original CREATE TABLE had; if we dump
with values, INSERTing the values on the target machine should set the
correct next_ID anyway (and if not, we'll still have our AUTO_INCREMENT =
... to do that). Lastly, just the CREATE statement (with no data) for
a table that saw inserts would still result in a table that new values
could safely be inserted to).

There seems to be no robust way however to see whether the next_ID
field is > 1 because it was set to something else with CREATE TABLE
... AUTO_INCREMENT = ..., or because there is an AUTO_INCREMENT column
in  the table (but no initial value was set with AUTO_INCREMENT = ...)
and then one or more rows were INSERTed, counting up next_ID. This
means that in both cases, we'll generate an AUTO_INCREMENT =
... clause in SHOW CREATE TABLE / mysqldump.  As we also show info on,
say, charsets even if the user did not explicitly give that info in
their own CREATE TABLE, this shouldn't be an issue.

As per above, the next_ID will be affected by any INSERTs that have
taken place, though.  This /should/ result in correct and robust
behaviour, but it may look non-intuitive to some users if they CREATE
TABLE ... AUTO_INCREMENT = 1000 and later (after some INSERTs) have
SHOW CREATE TABLE give them a different value (say, CREATE TABLE
... AUTO_INCREMENT = 1006), so the docs should possibly feature a
caveat to that effect.

It's not very intuitive the way it works now (with the fix), but it's
*correct*.  We're not storing the original value anyway, if we wanted
that, we'd have to change on-disk representation?

If we do dump/load cycles with empty DBs, nothing will change.  This
changeset includes an additional test case that proves that tables
with rows will create the same next_ID for AUTO_INCREMENT = ... across
dump/restore cycles.

Confirmed by support as likely solution for client's problem.

into  mysql.com:/home/alexi/innodb/mysql-4.1-ss26

 Fixed BUG#19366: "consistent_snapshot.test fails".

into  mysql.com:/usr/home/ram/work/4.1.b7643

  Use "./libtool --mode=execute" to find real path to executables

into mysql.com:/Users/kent/mysql/bk/mysql-4.1-new

  Fix strange "double" define for popen.
  Avoid warnings about sprintf() etc. being unsafe.
  Corrected typo "#endfif"

  Changed version to 4.1.20

  Backport of changes in 5.0 (bug#18294)

into mysql.com:/Users/kent/mysql/bk/mysql-4.1-new

Now test for NULLness the pointers returned from objects created from the
default value. Pushing patch on behalf of cmiller.

into mysql.com:/Users/kent/mysql/bk/mysql-4.1-new

into  devsrv-b.mysql.com:/users/msvensson/mysql-4.1

into  devsrv-b.mysql.com:/users/msvensson/mysql-4.1

In the code that converts IN predicates to EXISTS predicates it is changing
the select list elements to constant 1. Example :
SELECT ... FROM ...  WHERE a IN (SELECT c FROM ...)
is transformed to :
SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM ...  HAVING a = c)
However there can be no FROM clause in the IN subquery and it may not be
a simple select : SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE a IN (SELECT f(..) AS
c UNION SELECT ...) This query is transformed to : SELECT ... FROM ...
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM (SELECT f(..) AS c UNION SELECT ...)
x HAVING a = c) In the above query c in the HAVING clause is made to be
an Item_null_helper (a subclass of Item_ref) pointing to the real
Item_field (which is not referenced anywhere else in the query anymore).
This is done because Item_ref_null_helper collects information whether
there are NULL values in the result.  This is OK for directly executed
statements, because the Item_field pointed by the Item_null_helper is
already fixed when the transformation is done.  But when executed as
a prepared statement all the Item instances are "un-fixed" before the
recompilation of the prepared statement. So when the Item_null_helper
gets fixed it discovers that the Item_field it points to is not fixed
and issues an error.  The remedy is to keep the original select list
references when there are no tables in the FROM clause. So the above
becomes : SELECT ... FROM ...  WHERE EXISTS (SELECT c FROM (SELECT f(..)
AS c UNION SELECT ...) x HAVING a = c) In this way c is referenced
directly in the select list as well as by reference in the HAVING
clause. So it gets correctly fixed even with prepared statements.  And
since the Item_null_helper subclass of Item_ref_null_helper is not used
anywhere else it's taken out.

  System variable was added out of lexical order.

into mysql.com:/Users/kent/mysql/bk/mysql-4.1-new

into  neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/mysql-4.1

into sergbook.mysql.com:/usr/home/serg/Abk/mysql-4.1

into mysql.com:/Users/kent/mysql/bk/mysql-4.1-new

into  neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/mysql-4.1

into  perch.ndb.mysql.com:/home/jonas/src/mysql-4.1

into  mysql.com:/home/alexi/innodb/mysql-4.1-innodb

into  mysql.com:/home/alexi/innodb/mysql-4.1-innodb

 Use files innodb_mysql.[test|result] instead.

(based on the fact that packet is ALWAYS \0 terminated, see my_net_read)

(reported by Stefano Di Paola)

  Handle early abort of scan, so that resources are correctly freed

into  neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/mysql-4.1

into  mysql.com:/data0/knielsen/mysql-4.1-mtr-fix

into  production.mysql.com:/usersnfs/rkalimullin/4.1.b17896

into  polar.kitebird.com:/src/extern/MySQL/bk/mysql-4.1

  myisam_ftdump options: --help first, then rest in
  lexical order.