A race condition in the integration between MyISAM and the query cache code 
caused the query cache to fail to invalidate itself on concurrently inserted
data.

This patch fix this problem by using the existing handler interface which, upon
each statement cache attempt, compare the size of the table as viewed from the 
cache writing thread and with any snap shot of the global table state. If the
two sizes are different the global table size is unknown and the current
statement can't be cached.

into  adventure.(none):/home/thek/Development/cpp/mysql-5.0-runtime

 - Problem was reported as a SP variable using itself as 
   right value inside SUBSTR caused corruption of data. 
 - This bug could not be verified in either 5.0bk or 5.1bk
 - Added test case to prevent future regressions.

into  vajra.(none):/opt/local/work/mysql-5.0-21483

Bug#21483 "Server abort or deadlock on INSERT DELAYED with another
implicit insert"
Also fixes and adds test cases for bugs:
20497 "Trigger with INSERT DELAYED causes Error 1165"
21714 "Wrong NEW.value and server abort on INSERT DELAYED to a
table with a trigger".
Post-review fixes.

Problem:
In MySQL INSERT DELAYED is a way to pipe all inserts into a
given table through a dedicated thread. This is necessary for
simplistic storage engines like MyISAM, which do not have internal
concurrency control or threading and thus can not
achieve efficient INSERT throughput without support from SQL layer.
DELAYED INSERT works as follows:
For every distinct table, which can accept DELAYED inserts and has
pending data to insert, a dedicated thread is created to write data
to disk. All user connection threads that attempt to
delayed-insert into this table interact with the dedicated thread in
producer/consumer fashion: all records to-be inserted are pushed
into a queue of the dedicated thread, which fetches the records and 
writes them.
In this design, client connection threads never open or lock
the delayed insert table.
This functionality was introduced in version 3.23 and does not take 
into account existence of triggers, views, or pre-locking.
E.g. if INSERT DELAYED is called from a stored function, which,
in turn, is called from another stored function that uses the delayed
table, a deadlock can occur, because delayed locking by-passes
pre-locking. Besides:
 * the delayed thread works directly with the subject table through
   the storage engine API and does not invoke triggers
 * even if it was patched to invoke triggers, if triggers,
   in turn, used other tables, the delayed thread would
   have to open and lock involved tables (use pre-locking).
 * even if it was patched to use pre-locking, without deadlock
   detection the delayed thread could easily lock out user 
   connection threads in case when the same table is used both
   in a trigger and on the right side of the insert query: 
   the delayed thread would not release locks until all inserts 
   are complete, and user connection can not complete inserts 
   without having locks on the tables used on the right side of the
   query.

Solution:

These considerations suggest two general alternatives for the
future of INSERT DELAYED:
 * it is considered a full-fledged alternative to normal INSERT
 * it is regarded as an optimisation that is only relevant 
   for simplistic engines.
Since we missed our chance to provide complete support of new
features when 5.0 was in development, the first alternative
currently renders infeasible.
However, even the second alternative, which is to detect
new features and convert DELAYED insert into a normal insert, 
is not easy to implement.
The catch-22 is that we don't know if the subject table has triggers
or is a view before we open it, and we only open it in the
delayed thread. We don't know if the query involves pre-locking
until we have opened all tables, and we always first create
the delayed thread, and only then open the remaining tables.
This patch detects the problematic scenarios and converts
DELAYED INSERT to a normal INSERT using the following approach:
 * if the statement is executed under pre-locking (e.g. from
   within a stored function or trigger) or the right
   side may require pre-locking, we detect the situation
   before creating a delayed insert thread and convert the statement
   to a conventional INSERT.
  * if the subject table is a view or has triggers, we shutdown
   the delayed thread and convert the statement to a conventional
   INSERT.

into  vajra.(none):/opt/local/work/mysql-5.0-runtime

into  vajra.(none):/opt/local/work/mysql-5.0-runtime

into  vajra.(none):/opt/local/work/mysql-4.1-runtime

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

a crash when the left operand of the predicate is evaluated to NULL.
It happens when the rows from the inner tables (tables from the subquery)
are accessed by index methods with key values obtained by evaluation of
the left operand of the subquery predicate. When this predicate is
evaluated to NULL an alternative access with full table scan is used
to check whether the result set returned by the subquery is empty or not.
The crash was due to the fact the info about the access methods used for
regular key values was not properly restored after a switch back from the
full scan access method had occurred.
The patch restores this info properly.
The same problem existed for queries with IN subquery predicates if they
were used not at the top level of the queries.

into  moonbone.local:/mnt/gentoo64/work/27878-bug-5.0-opt-mysql

  Corrected test case for the bug#27878.

into  mysql.com:/home/hf/work/27957/my50-27957

into  moonbone.local:/mnt/gentoo64/work/27878-bug-5.0-opt-mysql

database.

If a user has a right to update anything in the current database then the 
access was granted and further checks of access rights for underlying tables
wasn't done correctly. The check is done before a view is opened and thus no
check of access rights for underlying tables can be carried out.
This allows a user to update through a view a table from another database for
which he hasn't enough rights.

Now the mysql_update() and the mysql_test_update() functions are forces
re-checking of access rights after a view is opened.

into  mockturtle.local:/home/dlenev/src/mysql-5.0-cts-3

  Bug #20662 "Infinite loop in CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ... SELECT
              with locked tables"
  Bug #20903 "Crash when using CREATE TABLE .. SELECT and triggers"
  Bug #24738 "CREATE TABLE ... SELECT is not isolated properly"
  Bug #24508 "Inconsistent results of CREATE TABLE ... SELECT when
              temporary table exists"
 
Deadlock occured when one tried to execute CREATE TABLE IF NOT
EXISTS ... SELECT statement under LOCK TABLES which held
read lock on target table.
Attempt to execute the same statement for already existing
target table with triggers caused server crashes.
Also concurrent execution of CREATE TABLE ... SELECT statement
and other statements involving target table suffered from
various races (some of which might've led to deadlocks).
Finally, attempt to execute CREATE TABLE ... SELECT in case
when a temporary table with same name was already present
led to the insertion of data into this temporary table and
creation of empty non-temporary table.
 
All above problems stemmed from the old implementation of CREATE
TABLE ... SELECT in which we created, opened and locked target
table without any special protection in a separate step and not
with the rest of tables used by this statement.
This underminded deadlock-avoidance approach used in server
and created window for races. It also excluded target table
from prelocking causing problems with trigger execution.
  
The patch solves these problems by implementing new approach to
handling of CREATE TABLE ... SELECT for base tables.
We try to open and lock table to be created at the same time as
the rest of tables used by this statement. If such table does not
exist at this moment we create and place in the table cache special
placeholder for it which prevents its creation or any other usage
by other threads.

We still use old approach for creation of temporary tables.

Also note that we decided to postpone introduction of some tests
for concurrent behaviour of CREATE TABLE ... SELECT till 5.1.
The main reason for this is absence in 5.0 ability to set @@debug
variable at runtime, which can be circumvented only by using several
test files with individual .opt files. Since the latter is likely
to slowdown test-suite unnecessary we chose not to push this tests
into 5.0, but run them manually for this version and later push
their optimized version into 5.1

by moving yet another relevant flag to it from struct LEX.

into  mysql.com:/home/hf/work/27957/my50-27957

into  mysql.com:/home/hf/work/27957/my50-27957

Bug occurs in INSERT IGNORE ... SELECT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE
statements, when SELECT returns duplicated values and UPDATE clause
tries to assign NULL values to NOT NULL fields.
NOTE: By current design MySQL server treats INSERT IGNORE ... ON
DUPLICATE statements as INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE with update of
duplicated records, but MySQL manual lacks this information.
After this fix such behaviour becomes legalized.

The write_record() function was returning error values even within
INSERT IGNORE, because ignore_errors parameter of
the fill_record_n_invoke_before_triggers() function call was
always set to FALSE. FALSE is replaced by info->ignore.

into  vajra.(none):/opt/local/work/mysql-5.0-21483

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

of requested lock type and requested table operation from 
mysql_insert into a separate function.

ref access to a less expensive range access. 
This occurred only with InnoDB tables.

into  whalegate.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1-ndb

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

test result fixed

Item_decimal_typecast::print properly implemented

enable setting api reg req frequency to be higher than heartbeat setting to ensure we have reasonably up-to-date info from ndb nodes
+ do this for management server

  - corrected previous patch
  - some platforms do strange things with char... use Int8 to be sure of signedness