1. 22 Feb, 2011 2 commits
  2. 21 Feb, 2011 1 commit
    • Nirbhay Choubey's avatar
      Bug#11766310 : 59398: MYSQLDUMP 5.1 CAN'T HANDLE A DASH · a8e6f7c6
      Nirbhay Choubey authored
                     ("-") IN DATABASE NAMES IN ALTER DATABASE.
      
      mysqldump did not quote database name in 'ALTER DATABASE'
      statements in its output. This can further cause a failure
      while loading if database name contains a hyphen '-'.
      
      This happened as, while printing the 'ALTER DATABASE'
      statements, the database name was not quoted.
      
      Fixed by quoting the database name.
      a8e6f7c6
  3. 18 Feb, 2011 4 commits
    • Alexander Barkov's avatar
      A post-fix for b58036. · cd3a8131
      Alexander Barkov authored
      cd3a8131
    • Alexander Barkov's avatar
      Bug#11765108 (Bug#58036) client utf32, utf16, ucs2 should be disallowed, they crash server · 8a960129
      Alexander Barkov authored
      A separate fix for 5.1 (as 5.1 and 5.5 have seriously
      differged in the related pieces of the code).
      A patch for 5.5 was approved earlier.
      
      Problem: ucs2 was correctly disallowed in "SET NAMES" only,
      while mysql_real_connect() and mysql_change_user() still allowed
      to use ucs2, which made server crash.
      
      Fix: disallow ucs2 in mysql_real_connect() and mysql_change_user().
      
        @ sql/sql_priv.h
          - changing return type for thd_init_client_charset() to bool,
            to return errors to the caller
      
        @ sql/sql_var.cc
          - using new function
      
        @ sql/sql_connect.cc
          - thd_client_charset_init:
            in case of unsupported client character set send error and return true;
            in case of success return false
          - check_connection:
            Return error if character set initialization failed
      
        @ sql/sql_parse.cc
          - check charset in the very beginnig of the CMD_CHANGE_USER handling code
      
        @ tests/mysql_client_test.c
          - adding tests
      8a960129
    • Vasil Dimov's avatar
      Merge mysql-5.1-innodb -> mysql-5.1 · f912dcd8
      Vasil Dimov authored
      f912dcd8
    • Martin Hansson's avatar
      Bug#11766675 - 59839: Aggregation followed by subquery yields wrong result · cd4c263d
      Martin Hansson authored
      The loop that was looping over subqueries' references to outer field used a
      local boolean variable to tell whether the field was grouped or not. But the
      implementor failed to reset the variable after each iteration. Thus a field
      that was not directly aggregated appeared to be.
      
      Fixed by resetting the variable upon each new iteration.
      cd4c263d
  4. 17 Feb, 2011 6 commits
  5. 16 Feb, 2011 6 commits
    • Jonathan Perkin's avatar
      Merge to mysql-5.1 · 1ce649d5
      Jonathan Perkin authored
      1ce649d5
    • Jonathan Perkin's avatar
      Updated README file. · edcdc79e
      Jonathan Perkin authored
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    • Bjorn Munch's avatar
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    • Jon Olav Hauglid's avatar
      Followup to Bug #11752069 (former bug 43152) · d1192eb8
      Jon Olav Hauglid authored
      Assertion `bitmap_is_set_all(&table->s->all_set)' failed in
      handler::ha_reset
      
      This followup fixes the compilation warning
        'test_bit' may be used uninitialized in this function
      introduced by the previous patch.
      d1192eb8
    • Jon Olav Hauglid's avatar
      Bug #11752069 (former bug 43152) · ba5b9734
      Jon Olav Hauglid authored
      Assertion `bitmap_is_set_all(&table->s->all_set)' failed in
      handler::ha_reset
      
      This assertion could be triggered if two connections simultaneously
      executed two bitmap test functions on the same bitmap. For example,
      the assertion could be triggered if one connection executed UPDATE
      while a second connection executed SELECT on the same table.
      
      Even if bitmap test functions have read-only semantics and have
      const bitmaps as parameter, several of them modified the internal
      state of the bitmap. With interleaved execution of two such functions
      it was possible for one function to modify the state of the same
      bitmap that the other function had just modified. This lead to an
      inconsistent state and could trigger the assert.
      
      Internally the bitmap uses 32 bit words for storage. Since bitmaps
      can contain any number of bits, the last word in the bitmap may
      not be fully used. A 32 bit mask is maintained where a bit is set
      if the corresponding bit in the last bitmap word is unused.
      The problem was that several test functions applied this mask to
      the last word. Sometimes the mask was negated and used to zero out
      the remainder of the last word and sometimes the mask was used as-is
      to fill the remainder of the last word with 1's. This meant that if
      a function first used the negated mask and another function then
      used the mask as-is (or vice-versa), the first function would then
      get the wrong result.
      
      This patch fixes the problem by changing the implementation of
      9 bitmap functions that modified the bitmap state even if the 
      bitmap was declared const. These functions now preserve the
      internal state of the bitmap. This makes it possible for
      two connections to concurrently execute two of these functions
      on the same bitmap without issues.
      
      The patch also removes dead testing code from my_bitmap.c.
      These tests have already been moved to unittest/mysys/bitmap-t.c.
      Existing test coverage of my_bitmap has been extended.
      
      No MTR test case added as this would require adding several sync
      points to the bitmap functions. The patch has been tested with
      a non-deterministic test case posted on the bug report.
      ba5b9734
    • Marko Mäkelä's avatar
  6. 15 Feb, 2011 3 commits
    • Dmitry Lenev's avatar
      Fix for bug#11766714 (former bug @59888) "debug assertion when · 7e1cd4ae
      Dmitry Lenev authored
      attempt to create spatial index on char > 31 bytes".
      
      Attempt to create spatial index on char field with length
      greater than 31 byte led to assertion failure on server
      compiled with safemutex support.
      
      The problem occurred in mi_create() function which was called
      to create a new version of table being altered. This function
      failed since it detected an attempt to create a spatial key
      on non-binary column and tried to return an error.
      On its error path it tried to unlock THR_LOCK_myisam mutex
      which has not been not locked at this point. Indeed such an
      incorrect behavior was caught by safemutex wrapper and caused
      assertion failure.
      
      This patch fixes the problem by ensuring that mi_create()
      doesn't releases THR_LOCK_myisam mutex on error path if it was
      not acquired.
      7e1cd4ae
    • Marko Mäkelä's avatar
      Add a test for suspected Bug#60049. · 518a4440
      Marko Mäkelä authored
      518a4440
    • Marko Mäkelä's avatar
      Bug#59307 Valgrind: uninitialized value in rw_lock_set_writer_id_and_recursion_flag() · 6ae8c575
      Marko Mäkelä authored
      rw_lock_create_func(): Initialize lock->writer_thread, so that Valgrind
      will not complain even when Valgrind instrumentation is not enabled.
      Flag lock->writer_thread uninitialized, so that Valgrind can complain
      when it is used uninitialized.
      
      rw_lock_set_writer_id_and_recursion_flag(): Revert the bogus Valgrind
      instrumentation that was pushed in the first attempt to fix this bug.
      6ae8c575
  7. 14 Feb, 2011 1 commit
  8. 11 Feb, 2011 1 commit
  9. 10 Feb, 2011 2 commits
    • Vasil Dimov's avatar
      Fix Bug#59307 Valgrind: uninitialized value in rw_lock_set_writer_id_and_recursion_flag() · 07116bbf
      Vasil Dimov authored
      by silencing a bogus Valgrind warning:
      
      ==4392== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
      ==4392==    at 0x5A18416: rw_lock_set_writer_id_and_recursion_flag (sync0rw.ic:283)
      ==4392==    by 0x5A1865C: rw_lock_x_lock_low (sync0rw.c:558)
      ==4392==    by 0x5A18481: rw_lock_x_lock_func (sync0rw.c:617)
      ==4392==    by 0x597EEE6: mtr_x_lock_func (mtr0mtr.ic:271)
      ==4392==    by 0x597EBBD: fsp_header_init (fsp0fsp.c:970)
      ==4392==    by 0x5A15E78: innobase_start_or_create_for_mysql (srv0start.c:1508)
      ==4392==    by 0x598B789: innobase_init(void*) (ha_innodb.cc:2282)
      
      os_compare_and_swap_thread_id() is defined as
      __sync_bool_compare_and_swap(). From the GCC doc:
      
      `bool __sync_bool_compare_and_swap (TYPE *ptr, TYPE oldval TYPE newval, ...)'
        ...
        The "bool" version returns true if the comparison is successful and
        NEWVAL was written.
      
      So it is not possible that the return value is uninitialized, no matter what
      the arguments to os_compare_and_swap_thread_id() are. Probably Valgrind gets
      confused by the implementation of the GCC internal function
      __sync_bool_compare_and_swap().
      07116bbf
    • Vasil Dimov's avatar
      Increment InnoDB Plugin version from 1.0.15 to 1.0.16. · 2ae1cdf0
      Vasil Dimov authored
      InnoDB Plugin 1.0.15 has been released with MySQL 5.1.55.
      2ae1cdf0
  10. 09 Feb, 2011 14 commits
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      removing EXCEPTIONS-CLIENT · e0d8ad78
      MySQL Build Team authored
      e0d8ad78
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      Backport into build-201102032246-5.1.52sp1 · f5f5716a
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      > ------------------------------------------------------------
      > revno: 3545
      > revision-id: holyfoot@mysql.com-20110112130241-50lwmhq562otxw31
      > parent: dmitry.lenev@oracle.com-20110112130830-csanweanbny2ua3n
      > committer: Alexey Botchkov <holyfoot@mysql.com>
      > branch nick: 51mrg
      > timestamp: Wed 2011-01-12 17:02:41 +0400
      > message:
      >   Bug #57321 crashes and valgrind errors from spatial types 
      >           Item_func_spatial_collection::fix_length_and_dec didn't call parent's method, so
      >           the maybe_null was set to '0' after it. But in this case the result was
      >           just NULL, that caused wrong behaviour.
      >   
      >   per-file comments:
      >     mysql-test/r/gis.result
      >   Bug #57321 crashes and valgrind errors from spatial types 
      >           test result updated.
      >   
      >     mysql-test/t/gis.test
      >   Bug #57321 crashes and valgrind errors from spatial types 
      >           test case added.
      >     sql/item_geofunc.h
      >   Bug #57321 crashes and valgrind errors from spatial types 
      >           Item_func_geometry::fix_length_and_dec() called in
      >           Item_func_spatial_collection::fix_length_and_dec().
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      Backport into build-201102032246-5.1.52sp1 · 2aad236a
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      > ------------------------------------------------------------
      > revno: 3537
      > revision-id: davi.arnaut@oracle.com-20110107192806-rmvvxwhk10sy0219
      > parent: davi.arnaut@oracle.com-20110107183336-kp8niwm2hz3wb4c3
      > committer: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@oracle.com>
      > branch nick: mysql-5.1
      > timestamp: Fri 2011-01-07 17:28:06 -0200
      > message:
      >   Bug#51023: Mysql server crashes on SIGHUP and destroys InnoDB files
      >   
      >   WIN32 compilation fixes: define ETIMEDOUT only if not available and
      >   fix typos and add a missing parameter.
      2aad236a
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      Backport into build-201102032246-5.1.52sp1 · 29c81a34
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      > ------------------------------------------------------------
      > revno: 3536
      > revision-id: davi.arnaut@oracle.com-20110107183336-kp8niwm2hz3wb4c3
      > parent: saikumar.v@sun.com-20110106103945-rhsek9uy6f63db44
      > committer: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@oracle.com>
      > branch nick: 51023-5.1
      > timestamp: Fri 2011-01-07 16:33:36 -0200
      > message:
      >   Bug#51023: Mysql server crashes on SIGHUP and destroys InnoDB files
      >   
      >   From a user perspective, the problem is that a FLUSH LOGS or SIGHUP
      >   signal could end up associating the stdout and stderr to random
      >   files. In the case of this bug report, the streams would end up
      >   associated to InnoDB ibd files.
      >   
      >   The freopen(3) function is not thread-safe on FreeBSD. What this
      >   means is that if another thread calls open(2) during freopen()
      >   is executing that another thread's fd returned by open(2) may get
      >   re-associated with the file being passed to freopen(3). See FreeBSD
      >   PR number 79887 for reference:
      >   
      >     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=79887
      >   
      >   This problem is worked around by substituting a internal hook within
      >   the FILE structure. This avoids the loss of atomicity by not having
      >   the original fd closed before its duplicated.
      >   
      >   Patch based on the original work by Vasil Dimov.
      29c81a34
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      Backport into build-201102032246-5.1.52sp1 · cd548943
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      > ------------------------------------------------------------
      > revno: 3527.3.2
      > revision-id: mattias.jonsson@oracle.com-20101222144517-cbv3l5jlbd0mq5s8
      > parent: mattias.jonsson@oracle.com-20101222095036-2lpx0gqu4i45jtkz
      > committer: Mattias Jonsson <mattias.jonsson@oracle.com>
      > branch nick: b54483-51-bt_2
      > timestamp: Wed 2010-12-22 15:45:17 +0100
      > message:
      >   Bug#54483: valgrind errors when making warnings for
      >   multiline inserts into partition
      >   Bug#57071: EXTRACT(WEEK from date_col) cannot be
      >   allowed as partitioning function
      >   
      >   Renamed function according to reviewers comments.
      cd548943
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      Backport into build-201102032246-5.1.52sp1 · bdc90542
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      > ------------------------------------------------------------
      > revno: 3527.3.1
      > revision-id: mattias.jonsson@oracle.com-20101222095036-2lpx0gqu4i45jtkz
      > parent: sven.sandberg@oracle.com-20101220090735-psae11j9nwuj8vzl
      > committer: Mattias Jonsson <mattias.jonsson@oracle.com>
      > branch nick: b54483-51-bt_2
      > timestamp: Wed 2010-12-22 10:50:36 +0100
      > message:
      >   Bug#54483: valgrind errors when making warnings for multiline inserts into partition
      >   Bug#57071: EXTRACT(WEEK from date_col) cannot be allowed as partitioning function
      >   
      >   There were functions allowed as partitioning functions
      >   that implicit allowed cast. That could result in unacceptable
      >   behaviour.
      >   
      >   Solution was to check that the arguments of date and time functions
      >   have allowed types (field and date/datetime/time depending on function).
      bdc90542
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      Backport into build-201102032246-5.1.52sp1 · 0b054706
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      > ------------------------------------------------------------
      > revno: 3520
      > revision-id: sergey.glukhov@oracle.com-20101214093303-wmo9mqcb8rz0wv9f
      > parent: tor.didriksen@oracle.com-20101213161301-81lprlbune7r98dl
      > committer: Sergey Glukhov <sergey.glukhov@oracle.com>
      > branch nick: mysql-5.1-bugteam
      > timestamp: Tue 2010-12-14 12:33:03 +0300
      > message:
      >   Fixed following problems:
      >   --Bug#52157 various crashes and assertions with multi-table update, stored function
      >   --Bug#54475 improper error handling causes cascading crashing failures in innodb/ndb
      >   --Bug#57703 create view cause Assertion failed: 0, file .\item_subselect.cc, line 846
      >   --Bug#57352 valgrind warnings when creating view
      >   --Recently discovered problem when a nested materialized derived table is used
      >     before being populated and it leads to incorrect result
      >   
      >   We have several modes when we should disable subquery evaluation.
      >   The reasons for disabling are different. It could be
      >   uselessness of the evaluation as in case of 'CREATE VIEW'
      >   or 'PREPARE stmt', or we should disable subquery evaluation
      >   if tables are not locked yet as it happens in bug#54475, or
      >   too early evaluation of subqueries can lead to wrong result
      >   as it happened in Bug#19077.
      >   Main problem is that if subquery items are treated as const
      >   they are evaluated in ::fix_fields(), ::fix_length_and_dec()
      >   of the parental items as a lot of these methods have
      >   Item::val_...() calls inside.
      >   We have to make subqueries non-const to prevent unnecessary
      >   subquery evaluation. At the moment we have different methods
      >   for this. Here is a list of these modes:
      >   
      >   1. PREPARE stmt;
      >   We use UNCACHEABLE_PREPARE flag.
      >   It is set during parsing in sql_parse.cc, mysql_new_select() for
      >   each SELECT_LEX object and cleared at the end of PREPARE in
      >   sql_prepare.cc, init_stmt_after_parse(). If this flag is set
      >   subquery becomes non-const and evaluation does not happen.
      >   
      >   2. CREATE|ALTER VIEW, SHOW CREATE VIEW, I_S tables which
      >      process FRM files
      >   We use LEX::view_prepare_mode field. We set it before
      >   view preparation and check this flag in
      >   ::fix_fields(), ::fix_length_and_dec().
      >   Some bugs are fixed using this approach,
      >   some are not(Bug#57352, Bug#57703). The problem here is
      >   that we have a lot of ::fix_fields(), ::fix_length_and_dec()
      >   where we use Item::val_...() calls for const items.
      >   
      >   3. Derived tables with subquery = wrong result(Bug19077)
      >   The reason of this bug is too early subquery evaluation.
      >   It was fixed by adding Item::with_subselect field
      >   The check of this field in appropriate places prevents
      >   const item evaluation if the item have subquery.
      >   The fix for Bug19077 fixes only the problem with
      >   convert_constant_item() function and does not cover
      >   other places(::fix_fields(), ::fix_length_and_dec() again)
      >   where subqueries could be evaluated.
      >   
      >   Example:
      >   CREATE TABLE t1 (i INT, j BIGINT);
      >   INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1, 2), (2, 2), (3, 2);
      >   SELECT * FROM (SELECT MIN(i) FROM t1
      >   WHERE j = SUBSTRING('12', (SELECT * FROM (SELECT MIN(j) FROM t1) t2))) t3;
      >   DROP TABLE t1;
      >   
      >   4. Derived tables with subquery where subquery
      >      is evaluated before table locking(Bug#54475, Bug#52157)
      >   
      >   Suggested solution is following:
      >   
      >   -Introduce new field LEX::context_analysis_only with the following
      >    possible flags:
      >    #define CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ONLY_PREPARE 1
      >    #define CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ONLY_VIEW    2
      >    #define CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ONLY_DERIVED 4
      >   -Set/clean these flags when we perform
      >    context analysis operation
      >   -Item_subselect::const_item() returns
      >    result depending on LEX::context_analysis_only.
      >    If context_analysis_only is set then we return
      >    FALSE that means that subquery is non-const.
      >    As all subquery types are wrapped by Item_subselect
      >    it allow as to make subquery non-const when
      >    it's necessary.
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      Backport into build-201102032246-5.1.52sp1 · d27ac61f
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      > ------------------------------------------------------------
      > revno: 3518
      > revision-id: sergey.glukhov@oracle.com-20101213114812-kaq7sh0s623128lv
      > parent: sergey.glukhov@oracle.com-20101213103926-okypkn10adeeyns8
      > committer: Sergey Glukhov <sergey.glukhov@oracle.com>
      > branch nick: mysql-5.1-bugteam
      > timestamp: Mon 2010-12-13 14:48:12 +0300
      > message:
      >   Bug#39828 : Autoinc wraps around when offset and increment > 1
      >   Auto increment value wraps when performing a bulk insert with
      >   auto_increment_increment and auto_increment_offset greater than
      >   one.
      >   The fix:
      >   If overflow happened then return MAX_ULONGLONG value as an
      >   indication of overflow and check this before storing the
      >   value into the field in update_auto_increment().
      d27ac61f
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      Backport into build-201102032246-5.1.52sp1 · 1cdbb177
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      > ------------------------------------------------------------
      > revno: 3517
      > revision-id: sergey.glukhov@oracle.com-20101213103926-okypkn10adeeyns8
      > parent: davi.arnaut@oracle.com-20101207150620-s49dstok48oy585o
      > committer: Sergey Glukhov <sergey.glukhov@oracle.com>
      > branch nick: mysql-5.1-bugteam
      > timestamp: Mon 2010-12-13 13:39:26 +0300
      > message:
      >   Bug#58396 group_concat and explain extended are still crashy
      >   Explain fails at fix_fields stage and some items are left unfixed,
      >   particulary Item_group_concat. Item_group_concat::orig_args field
      >   is uninitialized in this case and Item_group_concat::print call 
      >   leads to crash.
      >   The fix:
      >   move the initialization of Item_group_concat::orig_args
      >   into constructor.
      1cdbb177
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      Backport into build-201102032246-5.1.52sp1 · e92dff84
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      > ------------------------------------------------------------
      > revno: 3507.1.7
      > revision-id: guilhem@mysql.com-20101122085759-53uuoyqyjkh4em2m
      > parent: davi.arnaut@oracle.com-20101120142951-l0f3bxmcwibcplxq
      > committer: Guilhem Bichot <guilhem@mysql.com>
      > branch nick: mysql-5.1-bugteam
      > timestamp: Mon 2010-11-22 09:57:59 +0100
      > message:
      >   Fix for Bug#56138 "valgrind errors about overlapping memory when double-assigning same variable",
      >   and related small fixes.
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      Backport into build-201102032246-5.1.52sp1 · 8bde9ad2
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      > ------------------------------------------------------------
      > revno: 3507.1.26
      > revision-id: mattias.jonsson@oracle.com-20101201112046-2ugtweya0dltcrys
      > parent: nirbhay.choubey@sun.com-20101201065531-w2f0j3g5yzok8z9x
      > committer: Mattias Jonsson <mattias.jonsson@oracle.com>
      > branch nick: b56380-51-bt
      > timestamp: Wed 2010-12-01 12:20:46 +0100
      > message:
      >   Bug#56380: valgrind memory leak warning from partition tests
      >   
      >   There could be memory leaks if ALTER ... PARTITION command fails.
      >   
      >   Problem was that the list of items to free was not set in
      >   the partition info structure when fix_partition_func call failed
      >   during ALTER ... PARTITION.
      >   
      >   Solved by always setting the list in the partition info struct.
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      Backport into build-201102032246-5.1.52sp1 · d0943a3d
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      > ------------------------------------------------------------
      > revno: 3504
      > revision-id: svoj@oracle.com-20101111100317-3bjzbj6c2ihfzb9t
      > parent: dmitry.shulga@oracle.com-20101111045251-jl1spfh3xjti1sll
      > committer: Sergey Vojtovich <svoj@oracle.com>
      > branch nick: mysql-5.1-bugteam-bug58079
      > timestamp: Thu 2010-11-11 13:03:17 +0300
      > message:
      >   BUG#58079 - Remove the IBM DB2 storage engine
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      Backport into build-201102032246-5.1.52sp1 · 4630acc2
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      > ------------------------------------------------------------
      > revno: 3496.1.39
      > revision-id: jon.hauglid@oracle.com-20101019081957-zf2ohl7wgnhvnnb0
      > parent: tor.didriksen@oracle.com-20101019070648-jhi9ezq3b5qk4wcm
      > committer: Jon Olav Hauglid <jon.hauglid@oracle.com>
      > branch nick: mysql-5.1-bugteam-bug57274
      > timestamp: Tue 2010-10-19 10:19:57 +0200
      > message:
      >   Bug #57274 SET GLOBAL debug crashes on Solaris in embedded server mode
      >              (variables_debug fails)
      >   
      >   The problem was that "SET GLOBAL debug" could cause a crash on Solaris.
      >   The crash happened if the server failed to open the trace file given in 
      >   the "SET GLOBAL debug" statement. This caused an error message to be
      >   printed to stderr containing the process name. However, printing to
      >   stderr crashed the server since the pointer to the process name had
      >   not been initialized.
      >   
      >   This patch fixes the problem by initializing the process name 
      >   properly when doing "SET GLOBAL debug".
      >   
      >   No test case added as this bug was repeatable with existing test
      >   coverage in variables_debug.test.
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