The AsBinary function returns VARCHAR data type with binary collation.
It can cause problem for clients that treat that kind of data as
different from BLOB type.
So now AsBinary returns BLOB.

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Certain updates of table joined to self results in unexpected
behavior.

The problem was that record cache was mistakenly enabled for
self-joined table updates. Normally record cache must be disabled
for such updates.

Fixed wrong condition in code that determines whether to use
record cache for self-joined table updates.

Only MyISAM tables were affected.

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  Avoid error message trying 'windoze-dsp' in obsolete directory
compile-dist:
  Avoid error message for target 'distclean' and no Makefile

  Make output less verbose
  Make temporary directory name unique
  Remove temporary directory on interrupt

  Include "sql_yacc.yy" for completeness (bug#20387)

  Delete: netware/mysql_install.def
Makefile.am:
  Removed obsolete "mysql_install.def"

  Fix for bug#16716 for --ps-protocol mode.
item_cmpfunc.cc:
  Fix for a memory allocation/freeing problem in agg_cmp_type() after fix
for bug#16377. Few language corrections.

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  Post fix for bug#16377

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into moonbone.local:/home/evgen/bk-trees/mysql-4.1-opt

into  poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1-main

- correction of backport error

into  poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1-main

- make sure to disable bulk insert when check for duplicate key is needed

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corrupt
  - add infinite retry on drop table temporary error

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can lead to a wrong result.

All date/time functions has the STRING result type thus their results are
compared as strings. The string date representation allows a user to skip 
some of leading zeros. This can lead to wrong comparison result if a date/time 
function result is compared to such a string constant.

The idea behind this bug fix is to compare results of date/time functions
and data/time constants as ints, because that date/time representation is 
more exact. To achieve this the agg_cmp_type() is changed to take in the
account that a date/time field or an date/time item should be compared 
as ints.

This bug fix is partially back ported from 5.0.

The agg_cmp_type() function now accepts THD as one of parameters. 
In addition, it now checks if a date/time field/function is present in the
list. If so, it tries to coerce all constants to INT to make date/time
comparison return correct result. The field for the constant coercion is
taken from the Item_field or constructed from the Item_func. In latter case
the constructed field will be freed after conversion of all constant items.
Otherwise the result is same as before - aggregated with help of the
item_cmp_type() function.

From the Item_func_between::fix_length_and_dec() function removed the part
which was converting date/time constants to int if possible. Now this is 
done by the agg_cmp_type() function.

The new function result_as_longlong() is added to the Item class. 
It indicates that the item is a date/time item and result of it can be
compared as int. Such items are date/time fields/functions.

Correct val_int() methods are implemented for classes Item_date_typecast, 
Item_func_makedate, Item_time_typecast, Item_datetime_typecast. All these
classes are derived from Item_str_func and Item_str_func::val_int() converts
its string value to int without regard to the date/time type of these items.

Arg_comparator::set_compare_func() and Arg_comparator::set_cmp_func()
functions are changed to substitute result type of an item with the INT_RESULT
if the item is a date/time item and another item is a constant. This is done
to get a correct result of comparisons like date_time_function() = string_constant.

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into moonbone.local:/home/evgen/bk-trees/mysql-4.1-opt

into moonbone.local:/work/16716-bug-4.1-opt-mysql

into  poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1-main

- always calculate max log level on node start
- send event subscribe uncond

into  mysql.com:/data0/mysqldev/my/mysql-4.1

into trift2.mysql.com:/M41/mysql-4.1