``FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK''

Concurrent execution of 1) multitable update with a
NATURAL/USING join and 2) a such query as "FLUSH TABLES
WITH READ LOCK" or "ALTER TABLE" of updating table led
to a server crash.


The mysql_multi_update_prepare() function call is optimized
to lock updating tables only, so it postpones locking to
the last, and if locking fails, it does cleanup of modified
syntax structures and repeats a query analysis.  However,
that cleanup procedure was incomplete for NATURAL/USING join
syntax data: 1) some Field_item items pointed into freed
table structures, and 2) the TABLE_LIST::join_columns fields
was not reset.

Major change:
  short-living Field *Natural_join_column::table_field has
  been replaced with long-living Item*.

ha_statistic_increment for rpl_temporary

Problem: in some cases master send a special event to reconnecting
slave to keep slave's temporary tables (see #17284) and they still 
have references to the "old" SQL slave thread and use them to access
thread's data.

Fix: set temporary tables thread references to the actual SQL slave
thread in such cases.

Adds --general-log-file, --slow-query-log-file command-
line options to match system variables of the same names.

Deprecates --log, --log-slow-queries command-line option
and log, log_slow_queries system-variables for v7.0; they
are superseded by general_log/general_log_file and
slow_query_log/slow_query_log_file, respectively.

"Trigger fired multiple times leads to gaps in auto_increment sequence".
The bug was that if a trigger fired multiple times inside a top
statement (for example top-statement is a multi-row INSERT,
and trigger is ON INSERT), and that trigger inserted into an auto_increment
column, then gaps could be observed in the auto_increment sequence,
even if there were no other users of the database (no concurrency).
It was wrong usage of THD::auto_inc_intervals_in_cur_stmt_for_binlog.
Note that the fix changes "class handler", I'll tell the Storage Engine API team.

MyISAM blocks index usage for bulk insert into zero-records tables.
See ha_myisam::start_bulk_insert() lines from
...
    if (file->state->records == 0 ...
...

That causes problems for partition engine when some partitions have records some not
as the engine uses same access method for all partitions.

Now partition engine doesn't call index_first/index_last
for empty tables.

per-file comments:
  mysql-test/r/partition.result
        Bug#38005 Partitions: error with insert select.
        test result

  mysql-test/t/partition.test
        Bug#38005 Partitions: error with insert select.
        test case

  sql/ha_partition.cc
        Bug#38005 Partitions: error with insert select.
        ha_engine::index_first and
        ha_engine::index_last not called for empty tables.

Adds --general_log_file, --slow_query_log_file command-
line options to match system variables of the same names.

Deprecates --log, --log-slow-queries command-line options
and log, log_slow_queries system-variables for v7.0; they
are superseded by general_log/general_log_file and
slow_query_log/slow_query_log_file, respectively.

Make STMT replication default for 5.1.
Add a default of MIXED into the config files
Fix the tests that needed MIXED replication mode.

there were no blackhole installed. This patch
adds a check for that.

The problem was caused by a wrong merge. Fixed by enabling the correct ndb variables
initialization.

Removes the regression bug#38751.

Incremental patch to add comments to test cases.

      
The optimizer pulls up aggregate functions which should be aggregated in
an outer select. At some point it may substitute such a function for a field
in the temporary table. The setup_copy_fields function doesn't take this
into account and may overrun the copy_field buffer.
      
Fixed by filtering out the fields referenced through the specialized
reference for aggregates (Item_aggregate_ref).
Added an assertion to make sure bugs that cause similar discrepancy 
don't go undetected.

The Blackhole engine did not support row-based replication
since the delete_row(), update_row(), and the index and range
searching functions were not implemented.

This patch adds row-based replication support for the
Blackhole engine by implementing the two functions mentioned
above, and making the engine pretend that it has found the
correct row to delete or update when executed from the slave
SQL thread by implementing index and range searching functions.

It is necessary to only pretend this for the SQL thread, since
a SELECT executed on the Blackhole engine will otherwise never
return EOF, causing a livelock.

backporting a part of the bug patch to 5.1.29 tree which uses an older version of mtr.

Bug#37536: Thread scheduling causes performance degradation at low thread count

Deprecated --skip-thread-priority startup option as newer versions of
the server won't change the thread priorities by default.

Giving threads different priorities might yield marginal improvements
in some platforms (where it actually works) but on the other hand it
might cause significant degradation depending on the thread count and
number of processors. Meddling with the thread priorities is a not a
safe bet as it is very dependent on the behavior of the cpu scheduler
and system where MySQL is being run.

From MySQL 6.0 and up the default behavior is that of not modifying
the threads priorities.