Fixed bug #16281: Multi-table update broken in 5.0 on tables imported from 4.1
Mutli-table uses temporary table to store new values for fields. With the new values the rowid of the record to be updated is stored in a Field_string field. Table to be updated is set as source table of the rowid field. But when the temporary table creates the tmp field for the rowid field it converts it to a varstring field because the table to be updated was created by the v4.1. Due to this the stored rowids were broken and no records for update were found. The flag can_alter_field_type is added to Field_string class. When it is set to 0 the field won't be converted to varstring. The Field_string::type() function now always returns MYSQL_TYPE_STRING if can_alter_field_type is set to 0. The multi_update::initialize_tables() function now sets can_alter_field_type flag to 0 for the rowid fields denying conversion of the field to a varstring field.
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