It is not enough to ignore the flags while populating the table. They have
  to be removed from the definition in pre_create. The issue is to pass the
  info from the selected table handler to the created table handler.
  It is done via the only common item between them: the GLOBAL structure.

modified:
  storage/connect/global.h
  storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
  storage/connect/ha_connect.h
  storage/connect/plugutil.c