per-file comments:
  tests/mysql_client_test.c
the test for bug 37956 isn't relevant anymore.
The query there 'select point(?,?)' doesn't produce an error.

This is a back port from 5.1 to 5.0.

Fix for BUG 20023: mysql_change_user() resets the value
of SQL_BIG_SELECTS.
  
The bug was that SQL_BIG_SELECTS was not properly set
in COM_CHANGE_USER.
  
The fix is to update SQL_BIG_SELECTS properly.

*with --with-charset=utf8*

Problem: wrong LONG TEXT field length is sent to a client 
when multibyte server character set used.

Fix: always limit field length sent to a client to 2^32,
as we store it in 4 byte slot.

Note: mysql_client_test changed accordingly.

returns short string value. 
 
Multibyte character sets were not taken into account when 
calculating max_length in Item_param::convert_str_value(). As a 
result, string parameters of a prepared statement could be 
truncated later when calculating string length in characters by 
dividing length in bytes by the charset's mbmaxlen value (e.g. in 
Field_varstring::store()). 
 
Fixed by taking charset's mbmaxlen into account when calculating 
max_length in Item_param::convert_str_value().

- Remove bothersome warning messages.  This change focuses on the warnings 
that are covered by the ignore file: support-files/compiler_warnings.supp.
- Strings are guaranteed to be max uint in length

The problem is that the query cache stores packets containing
the server status of the time when the cached statement was run.
This might lead to a wrong transaction status in the client side
if a statement is cached during a transaction and is later served
outside a transaction context (and vice-versa).

The solution is to take into account the transaction status when
storing in and serving from the query cache.

Bug#37671 crash on prepared statement + cursor + geometry + too many open files!
if mysql_execute_command() returns error then free materialized_cursor object.
is_rnd_inited is added to satisfy rnd_end() assertion
(handler may be uninitialized in some cases)

set DATE|DATETIME value to 0 if ALLOW_INVALID_DATES sql_mode is not enabled.

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.

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.)

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.

            
Server side cursors were not initialized properly and this caused a reference to
uninitialized memory.

There was a typo in a error check causing wrong thing to be ckecked 
and a possible error not being caught.
Fixed by using the correct variable to test for malloc() errors. 

- Backported the 5.1 DBUG to 5.0.
- Avoid memory cleanup race on Windows client for CTRL-C

The problem was that the COM_STMT_SEND_LONG_DATA was sending a response
packet if the prepared statement wasn't found in the server (due to
reconnection). The commands COM_STMT_SEND_LONG_DATA and COM_STMT_CLOSE
should not send any packets, even error packets should not be sent since
they are not expected by the client API.

The solution is to clear generated during the execution of the aforementioned
commands and to skip resend of prepared statement commands. Another fix is
that if the connection breaks during the send of prepared statement command,
the command is not sent again since the prepared statement is no longer in the
server.

  
Disable test case for bug 29948, which is causing sporadically
failures in other tests inside mysql_client_test.

Disable test case for bug 29948, which is causing sporadically
failures in other tests inside mysql_client_test.

                    sporadically

Under some circumstances, the mysql_insert_id() value after SELECT ...
INSERT could return a wrong value. This could happen when the last
SELECT ... INSERT did not involve an AUTO_INCREMENT column, but the
value of mysql_insert_id() was changed by some previous statements.

Fixed by checking the value of thd->insert_id_used in
select_insert::send_eof() and returning 0 for mysql_insert_id() if it
is not set.

Disable the test case.

by patch for bug 32265 .

Executing a prepared statement associated with a materialized
cursor yields to the client a metadata packet with wrong table
and database names. The problem was occurring because the server
was sending the the name of the temporary table used by the cursor
instead of the table name of the original table. The same problem
occurs when selecting from views, in which case the table name was
being sent and not the name of the view.
  
The solution is to fill the list item from the temporary table but
preserving the table and database names of the original fields. This
is achieved by tweaking the Select_materialize to accept a pointer to
the Materialized_cursor class which contains the item list to be filled.

server status wasn't properly sent to the client after the error
by the embedded server. Wasn't noticed before as one usually stopped
retrieving results after he gets an error.

insert ... select.

The 5.0 manual page for mysql_insert_id() does not mention anything
about INSERT ... SELECT, though its current behavior is incosistent
with what the manual says about the plain INSERT.

Fixed by changing the AUTO_INCREMENT and mysql_insert_id() handling
logic in INSERT ... SELECT to be consistent with the INSERT behavior,
the manual, and the changes in 5.1 introduced by WL3146:


- mysql_insert_id() now returns the first automatically generated
AUTO_INCREMENT value that was successfully inserted by INSERT ... SELECT

-  if an INSERT ... SELECT statement is executed, and no automatically
generated value is successfully inserted, mysql_insert_id() now returns
the ID of the last inserted row.

 only on some occasions

Referencing an element from the SELECT list in a WHERE 
clause is not permitted. The namespace of the WHERE
clause is the table columns only. This was not enforced
correctly when resolving outer references in sub-queries.

Fixed by not allowing references to aliases in a 
sub-query in WHERE.

crashes.

MySQL distributions contain a number of programs that are used only by
the MySQL test suite internally, i.e. they are not indended to be
invoked directly by a user. As a result, such programs are not
documented, do not have any built-in help or proper error reporting,
which may confuse users.

This patch fixes the problem with the following changes:
- mytest, libmysqltest and all references to them were removed from the
distribution since they are not used anymore
- bug25714 now displays an error message when run with incorrect
arguments or with the --help option
- mysql_client_test now does not call abort() in case of errors,
instead it does a clean exit() with a proper error status.

The problem is that when copying the supplied username and
database, no bounds checking is performed on the fixed-length
buffer. A sufficiently large (> 512) user string can easily
cause stack corruption. Since this API can be used from PHP
and other programs, this is a serious problem.

The solution is to increase the buffer size to the accepted
size in similar functions and perform bounds checking when
copying the username and database.

The change_to_use_tmp_fields function leaves the orig_table member of an
expression's tmp table field filled for the new Item_field being created.
Later orig_table is used by the Field::make_field function to provide some
info about original table and field name to a user. This is ok for a field
but for an expression it should be empty.

The change_to_use_tmp_fields function now resets orig_table member of
an expression's tmp table field to prevent providing a wrong info to a user.
The Field::make_field function now resets the table_name and the org_col_name
variables when the orig_table is set to 0.

make sure that if builder configured with a non-standard (!= 3306)
default TCP port that value actually gets used throughout. if they
didn't configure a value, assume "use a sensible default", which
will be read from /etc/services or, failing that, from the factory
default. That makes the order of preference
- command-line option
- my.cnf, where applicable
- $MYSQL_TCP_PORT environment variable
- /etc/services (unless configured --with-tcp-port)
- default port (--with-tcp-port=... or factory default)

  Post fix for the bug#29948.

The cli_read_binary_rows function is used to fetch data from the server
after a prepared statement execution. It accepts a statement handler and gets
the connection handler from it. But when the auto-reconnect option is set
the connection handler is reset to NULL after reconnection because the
prepared statement is lost and the handler became useless. This case
wasn't checked in the cli_read_binary_rows function and caused server crash.

Now the cli_read_binary_rows function checks the connection handler to be
not NULL and returns an error if it is.

VIEW".

mysql_list_fields() C API function would incorrectly set MYSQL_FIELD::decimals
member for some view columns.

The problem was in an incomplete implementation of 
Item_ident_for_show::make_field(), which is responsible for view
columns metadata.