The BETWEEN function was comparing DATE/DATETIME values either as ints or as
strings. Both methods have their disadvantages and may lead to a wrong
result.

Now BETWEEN function checks whether all of its arguments has the STRING result
types and at least one of them is a DATE/DATETIME item. If so it sets up
two Arg_comparator obects to compare with the compare_datetime() comparator
and uses them to compare such items.

Added two Arg_comparator object members and one flag to the
Item_func_between class for the correct DATE/DATETIME comparison.
The Item_func_between::fix_length_and_dec() function now detects whether
it's used for DATE/DATETIME comparison and sets up newly added Arg_comparator
objects to do this.
The Item_func_between::val_int() now uses Arg_comparator objects to perform
correct DATE/DATETIME comparison.
The owner variable of the Arg_comparator class now can be set to NULL if the
caller wants to handle NULL values by itself.
Now the Item_date_add_interval::get_date() function ajusts cached_field type according to the detected type.

into  moonbone.local:/mnt/gentoo64/work/16377-bug-5.0-opt-mysql

DATE and DATETIME can be compared either as strings or as int. Both
methods have their disadvantages. Strings can contain valid DATETIME value
but have insignificant zeros omitted thus became non-comparable with
other DATETIME strings. The comparison as int usually will require conversion
from the string representation and the automatic conversion in most cases is
carried out in a wrong way thus producing wrong comparison result. Another
problem occurs when one tries to compare DATE field with a DATETIME constant.
The constant is converted to DATE losing its precision i.e. losing time part.

This fix addresses the problems described above by adding a special
DATE/DATETIME comparator. The comparator correctly converts DATE/DATETIME
string values to int when it's necessary, adds zero time part (00:00:00)
to DATE values to compare them correctly to DATETIME values. Due to correct
conversion malformed DATETIME string values are correctly compared to other
DATE/DATETIME values.

As of this patch a DATE value equals to DATETIME value with zero time part.
For example '2001-01-01' equals to '2001-01-01 00:00:00'.

The compare_datetime() function is added to the Arg_comparator class.
It implements the correct comparator for DATE/DATETIME values.
Two supplementary functions called get_date_from_str() and get_datetime_value()
are added. The first one extracts DATE/DATETIME value from a string and the
second one retrieves the correct DATE/DATETIME value from an item.
The new Arg_comparator::can_compare_as_dates() function is added and used
to check whether two given items can be compared by the compare_datetime()
comparator.
Two caching variables were added to the Arg_comparator class to speedup the
DATE/DATETIME comparison.
One more store() method was added to the Item_cache_int class to cache int
values.
The new is_datetime() function was added to the Item class. It indicates
whether the item returns a DATE/DATETIME value.

into  magare.gmz:/home/kgeorge/mysql/autopush/B27811-5.0-opt

 FORCE_INIT_OF_VARS was not defined for the 
 debug builds on Windows. This caused LINT_INIT
 macro to be defined as NOP and this triggers
 false alarms about use of uninitialized with
 the runtime libs of some Visual Studio versions.
 Fixed by defining FORCE_INIT_OF_VARS to match the
 state of the Windows

into  mysql.com:/home/psergey/mysql-5.0-bug27939

into  bk-internal.mysql.com:/data0/bk/mysql-5.0-opt

into  mysql.com:/home/psergey/mysql-5.0-bug27939

into  mysql.com:/home/psergey/mysql-5.0-bug27939

into  gshchepa.loc:/home/uchum/work/bk-trees/mysql-5.0-opt-27704

into  gshchepa.loc:/home/uchum/work/bk-trees/mysql-5.0-opt-27704

Support for NULL components was incomplete for row comparison,
fixed.  Added support for abort_on_null at compare_row() like
in 5.x

into  magare.gmz:/home/kgeorge/mysql/autopush/B27786-5.0-opt

This bug was intruduced by the fix for bug#17212 (in 4.1). It is not 
ok to call test_if_skip_sort_order since this function will 
alter the execution plan. By contract it is not ok to call 
test_if_skip_sort_order in this context.

This bug appears only in the case when the optimizer has chosen 
an index for accessing a particular table but finds a covering 
index that enables it to skip ORDER BY. This happens in 
test_if_skip_sort_order.

into  romeo.(none):/home/bk/merge-mysql-5.0

into  romeo.(none):/home/bkroot/mysql-5.0-rpl

When merging views into the enclosing statement
the ORDER BY clause of the view is merged to the
parent's ORDER BY clause.
However when the VIEW is merged into an UNION
branch the ORDER BY should be ignored. 
Use of ORDER BY for individual SELECT statements
implies nothing about the order in which the rows
appear in the final result because UNION by default
produces unordered set of rows.
Fixed by ignoring the ORDER BY clause from the merge
view when expanded in an UNION branch.

into  magare.gmz:/home/kgeorge/mysql/autopush/B27530-5.0-opt

They can drop table after table names list creation and before table opening.
We open non existing table and get ER_NO_SUCH_TABLE error.
In this case we do not store the record into I_S table and clear error.

 - Turn it on for JT_EQ_REF access method

conditions when executing an equijoin query with WHERE condition
containing a subquery predicate of the form join_attr NOT IN (SELECT ...).

To resolve a problem of the correct evaluation of the expression
  attr NOT IN (SELECT ...)
an array of guards is created to make it possible to filter out some 
predicates of the EXISTS subquery into which the original subquery 
predicate is transformed, in the cases when a takes the NULL value. 
If attr is defined as a field that cannot be NULL than such an array 
is not needed and is not created. 
However if the field a occurred also an an equijoin predicate t2.a=t1.b
and table t1 is accessed before table t2 then it may happen that the 
the EXISTS subquery is pushed down to the condition evaluated just after
table t1 has been accessed. In this case any occurrence of t2.a is 
substituted for t1.b. When t1.b takes the value of NULL an attempt is 
made to turn on the corresponding guard. This action caused a crash as 
no guard array had been created.

Now the code of Item_in_subselect::set_cond_guard_var checks that the guard
array has been created before setting a guard variable on. Otherwise the
method does nothing. It cannot results in returning a row that could be
rejected as the condition t2.a=t1.b will be checked later anyway.        

into  bk-internal.mysql.com:/data0/bk/mysql-5.0-marvel

  Fix warning after fix for bug#27321.

  After merge fix.

into  moonbone.local:/mnt/gentoo64/work/27321-bug-5.0-opt-mysql

The Item_outer_ref class based on the Item_direct_ref class was always used
to represent an outer field. But if the outer select is a grouping one and the 
outer field isn't under an aggregate function which is aggregated in that
outer select an Item_ref object should be used to represent such a field.
If the outer select in which the outer field is resolved isn't grouping then
the Item_field class should be used to represent such a field.
This logic also should be used for an outer field resolved through its alias
name.

Now the Item_field::fix_outer_field() uses Item_outer_field objects to
represent aliased and non-aliased outer fields for grouping outer selects
only.
Now the fix_inner_refs() function chooses which class to use to access outer
field - the Item_ref or the Item_direct_ref. An object of the chosen class
substitutes the original field in the Item_outer_ref object.
The direct_ref and the found_in_select_list fields were added to the
Item_outer_ref class.

into  mysql.com:/d2/hf/mrg/mysql-5.0-opt

into  mysql.com:/d2/hf/mrg/mysql-5.0-opt

into  mysql.com:/d2/hf/mrg/mysql-4.1-opt

into  whalegate.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-5.0-opt

into  a88-113-38-195.elisa-laajakaista.fi:/home/my/new/mysql-5.0-marvel

into  whalegate.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-5.0-opt

into  a88-113-38-195.elisa-laajakaista.fi:/home/my/new/mysql-5.0-marvel

into  a88-113-38-195.elisa-laajakaista.fi:/home/my/new/mysql-4.1-main

into  mysql.com:/home/bar/mysql-5.0.b20095

Problem: single byte do_varstring1() function was called, which didn't
check limit on "number of character", and checked only "number of bytes".
Fix: adding a multi-byte aware function do_varstring1_mb(),
to limit on "number of characters"

- autoincrement column of size medium int not handled in ndb_restore
- added testcase also for other types, tiny, small... etc

into  gshchepa.localdomain:/home/uchum/work/bk-trees/5507-ci