- check on the client the unsupported feature and return 
an error message if it's been requested.
Additionally added API support for STMT_ATTR_PREFETCH_ROWS.
Post-review fixes.

Fixed bug in mysql_stmt_fetch() when retrieving rows to return

(crash on attempt to re-execute a statement with an open cursor) + 
post-review fixes.

with cursor". The patch refactors do_select/sub_select
functions, which implement the nested loop algorithm, and reuses them to
fetch rows for cursors as well.
Pushing with view.test failing (--ps-protocol).

Fixed problem with NULL in VARCHAR/BLOB keys for multi-part keys where VARCHAR/BLOB is first part

return an error

Fix that mysql.proc works with new VARCHAR fields
Give warnings for wrong zero dates

  Don't run GBK test if not GBK support was compiled.

 and Bug#9159 "Server crash during mysql_stmt_close".
The patch adds support for single-row result sets in cursors.

server" to the test suite, the bug is no longer repeatable.

(Found during build process)

a multibyte character, but was not a valid multibyte character. Refinement
of fix for Bug #8378.

reset mysql->net.last_error": the solution is to clear
MYSQL->net error before performing COM_CLOSE: if the call
succeeds, the connection is usable for other statements.
More comprehensive fix is to clear MYSQL->net for all
recoverable errors at the time they happen, it will be
implemented in 5.0 as it introduces incompatibility in behavior.

a character that appears to be a multi-byte character based on its first
byte, but is not actually a valid multi-byte character. (Bug #8378)

- renamed the tests that use the embedded server (client_test -> 
  mysql_client_test_embedded, mysqltest -> mysql_test_embedded
  and changed some Makefiles and scripts so they are installed in $bindir
  (required to be able to run the test suite against the embedded server)

Portability fixes

(Bug#7381)

fixes. Still to do: 
-  deploy my_strtoll10 in limbysql.c
- add mysql_options option to switch MYSQL_DATA_TRUNCATED on and off.

bug#6911 resultset metadata always return client character set

(here in client_test.c because we need to check if several PS execution works and the bug shows up with binary protocol only ) 

All our programs which use mysql_real_connect() and mysql_connect() are updated accordingly, though I have deliberately
made mysqlimport not reconnect anymore (already true for mysqldump >= 4.1.8).
All Connector devs have been warned about the change I'm doing here - which was agreed with Monty,
and fixes BUG#2555.

Fixed compiler warnings
String results in CREATE ... SELECT are now created as CHAR(0), VARCHAR(X) or TEXT() depending on item->max_length

Renamed HA_VAR_LENGTH to HA_VAR_LENGTH_PART
Renamed in all files FIELD_TYPE_STRING and FIELD_TYPE_VAR_STRING to MYSQL_TYPE_STRING and MYSQL_TYPE_VAR_STRING to make it easy to catch all possible errors
Added support for VARCHAR KEYS to heap
Removed support for ISAM
Now only long VARCHAR columns are changed to TEXT on demand (not CHAR)
Internal temporary files can now use fixed length tables if the used VARCHAR columns are short