The regression is caused by the fix for bug 14767. When INSERT ... SELECT
used a view in the SELECT list that was not inlined, and there was an 
active transaction, the server could crash in Query_cache::invalidate.

On INSERT ... SELECT only the table being inserted into is invalidated.
Thus views that can't be inlined are skipped from invalidation.

The bug manifests itself in two ways so there is 2 test cases.
One checks that the only the table being inserted into is invalidated.
And the second one checks that there is no crash on INSERT ... SELECT.

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 The server sends a number of columns to the client.
 It uses a limited "fast" function for that instead of the
 general one. This fast function cannot send numbers larger 
 than 2 bytes. 
 This causes the client to expect smaller number of columns. 
 The client writes outside of the allocated memory buffer 
 as a result.
 Fixed the server to use the general function to send column
 count.
 Fixed the client to check the column count before writing
 column data. 

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When compiling GROUP BY Item_ref instances are dereferenced in 
setup_copy_fields(), i.e. replaced with the corresponding Item_field 
(if they point to one) or Item_copy_string for the other cases.
Since the Item_ref (in the Item_field case) is no longer used the information
about the aliases stored in it is lost.   
Fixed by preserving the column, table and DB alias on dereferencing Item_ref

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Don't assume that condition that was pushed down into subquery has 
produced exactly one KEY_FIELD element - it could produce several or
none at all, handle all of those cases.

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 - When returning metadata for scalar subqueries the actual type of the
   column was calculated based on the value type, which limits the actual
   type of a scalar subselect to the set of (currently) 3 basic types : 
   integer, double precision or string. This is the reason that columns
   of types other then the basic ones (e.g. date/time) are reported as
   being of the corresponding basic type.
   Fixed by storing/returning information for the column type in addition
   to the result type.

  merge fixes

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 The parser is allocating Item_field for references by name in ORDER BY
 expressions. Such expressions however may point not only to Item_field 
 in the select list (or to a table column) but also to an arbitrary Item. 
 This causes Item_field::fix_fields to throw an error about missing 
 column.
 The fix substitutes Item_field for the reference with an Item_ref when 
 not pointing to Item_field.

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This is a performance issue for queries with subqueries evaluation
of which requires filesort.
Allocation of memory for the sort buffer at each evaluation of a
subquery may take a significant amount of time if the buffer is rather big.
With the fix we allocate the buffer at the first evaluation of the
subquery and reuse it at each subsequent evaluation.

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- Better comments
- Remove redundant and dead code.

the fix. 

Evaluate "NULL IN (SELECT ...)" in a special way: Disable pushed-down 
conditions and their "consequences": 
 = Do full table scans instead of unique_[index_subquery] lookups.
 = Change appropriate "ref_or_null" accesses to full table scans in
   subquery's joins.
Also cache value of NULL IN (SELECT ...) if the SELECT is not correlated 
wrt any upper select.

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 Item::val_xxx() may be called by the server several times at execute time 
 for a single query. Calls to val_xxx() may be very expensive and sometimes
 (count(distinct), sum(distinct), avg(distinct)) not possible.
 To avoid that problem the results of calculation for these aggregate 
 functions are cached so that val_xxx() methods just return the calculated 
 value for the second and subsequent calls.

decimal->ulong conversion fixed to assign max possible ULONG if decimal
is bigger
Item_func_unsigned now handles DECIMAL parameter separately as we can't
rely on decimal::val_int result here.