Details for Bug#43015 main.lock_multi: Weak code (sleeps etc.)
   -------------------------------------------------------------
   - The fix for bug 42003 already removed a lot of the weaknesses mentioned.
   - Tests showed that there are unfortunately no improvements of this tests
     in MySQL 5.1 which could be ported back to 5.0.
   - Remove a superfluous "--sleep 1" around line 195

   Details for Bug#43065 main.lock_multi: This test is too big if the disk is slow
   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   - move the subtests for the bugs 38499 and 36691 into separate scripts
   - runtime under excessive parallel I/O load after applying the fix
     lock_multi           [ pass ]          22887
     lock_multi_bug38499  [ pass ]         536926
     lock_multi_bug38691  [ pass ]         258498

When asking what database is selected, client expected
to *always* get an answer from the server.

We now handle failure more gracefully.

See comments in ticket for a discussion of what happens,
and how things interlock.


client/mysql.cc:
  Handle empty result-sets gracefully, as opposed
  to just result sets with n>0 items that may themselves
  be empty.

Reviewed fix for bug#37962 also including the revised result files for failing system variable tests.

fix for 29125).

mysql-client used static buffer to concatenate server-
version and version_comment. Sufficiently long comments
could get cut off. This was harmless, but looked daft.

Now using a dynamic buffer instead.

client/mysql.cc:
  Use dynamic rather than static buffer for server
  information. If we can get both version and comment,
  concat them and use that. Otherwise, try to use just
  version. If that fails too, return empty string so
  overly trusting callers do not crash. Release memory
  as needed.

Antony Dovgal <tony @ daylessday.org> .  SCA signed and faxed to
tel:+1-408-715-2540.  Patches tweaked by Chad.

continue to update it at make-time.

One shouldn't need to run "make" on server source to get the stuff we say
plugins should use.

functions
      
Unknown timezone specifications are properly rejected
by the server, but are copied into tz_storage before
rejection, and hence is retained until end of server 
life. With sufficiently large bogus timezone specs, 
it is easy to exhaust system memory.
      
Allocation of memory for a copy of the timezone
name is delayed until after verification of validity,
at the cost of a memcpy of the timezone info. This 
only happens once, future lookups will hit the cached
structure.

for bug #41486. Session max_allowed_packet is read-only
as of MySQL 5.1.31. In addition, the global variable
now has no effect on the current session.