IN/BETWEEN predicates in sorting expressions.
Wrong results may occur when the select list contains an expression
with IN/BETWEEN predicate that differs from a sorting expression by
an additional NOT only.
 
Added the method Item_func_opt_neg::eq to compare correctly expressions
containing [NOT] IN/BETWEEN.
The eq method inherited from the Item_func returns TRUE when comparing
'a IN (1,2)' with 'a NOT IN (1,2)' that is not, of course, correct.  

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Pushbuild fixes: 
 - Make MAX_SEL_ARGS smaller (even 16K records_in_range() calls is 
   more than it makes sense to do in typical cases)
 - Don't call sel_arg->test_use_count() if we've already allocated 
   more than MAX_SEL_ARGs elements. The test will succeed but will take
   too much time for the test suite (and not provide much value).

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 - Post-review fixes

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- Added PARAM::alloced_sel_args where we count the # of SEL_ARGs
  created by SEL_ARG tree cloning operations.
- Made the range analyzer to shortcut and not do any more cloning 
  if we've already created MAX_SEL_ARGS SEL_ARG objects in cloning.
- Added comments about space complexity of SEL_ARG-graph 
  representation.

- Define Sql_alloc::operator new() as thow() so that C++ compiler
  handles NULL return values
(there is no testcase as there is no portable way to set limit on the 
amount of memory that a process can allocate)

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  Don't use explicit calls to mysql-test-run in spec

            causes incorrect duplicate entries

Keys for BTREE indexes on ENUM and SET columns of MEMORY tables
with character set UTF8 were computed incorrectly. Many
different column values got the same key value.

Apart of possible performance problems, it made unique indexes
of this type unusable because it rejected many different
values as duplicates.

The problem was that multibyte character detection was tried
on the internal numeric column value. Many values were not
identified as characters. Their key value became blank filled.

Thanks to Alexander Barkov and Ramil Kalimullin for the patch,
which sets the character set of ENUM and SET key segments to
the pseudo binary character set.

 to 0 causes wrong (large) length to be read
 from the row in _mi_calc_blob_length() when 
 storing NULL values in (e.g) POINT columns.
 This large length is then used to allocate
 a block of memory that (on some OSes) causes
 trouble.
 Fixed by calling the base class's 
 Field_blob::reset() from Field_geom::reset()
 that is called when storing a NULL value into
 the column.

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fixed differently: wake up select_thread with THR_SERVER_ALARM instead

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(in thr_alarm.cc it happened too late).

into  chilla.local:/home/mydev/mysql-4.1-bug26996

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  Delete: scripts/fill_func_tables.sh
.del-fill_help_tables.sh:
  Delete: scripts/fill_help_tables.sh
.del-internals.texi:
  Delete: Docs/internals.texi

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  Docs/Books/
  Docs/MySQL-logos/
Deleted files
  Docs/Tutorial-MySQL-final.txt
  Docs/bk.txt
  Docs/Support/.cvsignore
  Docs/Support/colspec-fix.pl
  Docs/Support/docbook-fixup.pl
  Docs/Support/docbook-prefix.pl
  Docs/Support/docbook-split
  Docs/Support/make-docbook
  Docs/Support/make-makefile
  Docs/Support/test-make-manual
  Docs/Support/test-make-manual-de
  Docs/Support/trivial-makeinfo-4.0c.patch
  Docs/Support/xwf
Deleted file now in internals main text
  Docs/my_sys.txt
Deleted file now in internals svn tree
  Docs/net_doc.txt
Removed obsolete entries
  Docs/.cvsignore
Added note that info is obsolete
  Docs/linuxthreads.txt

  fix for cast( AS DATETIME) + 0 operation.
  I just implemented Item_datetime_typecast::val() method
  as it is usually done in other classes.
  Should be fixed more radically in 5.0

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- Problem: data separators were copied to a fixed-size buffer
  on the stack; memcpy was used, without bounds checking; a
  server crash could result if long FIELDS ENCLOSED BY, etc.,
  was given
- Fix: write the separators directly, instead of copying to
  a buffer first (in select_export::send_data())

Using a MEMORY table BTREE index for scanning for updatable rows
could lead to an infinite loop.

Everytime a key was inserted into a btree index, the position
in the index scan was cleared. The search started from the
beginning and found the same key again.

Now we do not clear the position on key insert an more.

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            when index is used

When the table contained TEXT columns with empty contents
('', zero length, but not NULL) _and_ strings starting with
control characters like tabulator or newline, the empty values
were not found in a "records in range" estimate. Hence count(*)
missed these records.

The reason was a different set of search flags used for key
insert and key range estimation.

I decided to fix the set of flags used in range estimation.
Otherwise millions of databases around the world would require
a repair after an upgrade.

The consequence is that the manual must be fixed, which claims
that TEXT columns are compared with "end space padding". This
is true for CHAR/VARCHAR but wrong for TEXT. See also bug 21335.

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TABLE ... WRITE".

CPU hogging occured when connection which had to wait for table lock was
serviced by thread which previously serviced connection that was killed
(note that connections can reuse threads if thread cache is enabled).
One possible scenario which exposed this problem was when thread which
provided binlog dump to replication slave was implicitly/automatically
killed when the same slave reconnected and started pulling data through
different thread/connection.
In 5.* versions memory hogging was added to CPU hogging. Moreover in
those versions the problem also occured when one killed particular query
in connection (using KILL QUERY) and later this connection had to wait for
some table lock.

This problem was caused by the fact that thread-specific mysys_var::abort
variable, which indicates that waiting operations on mysys layer should
be aborted (this includes waiting for table locks), was set by kill
operation but was never reset back. So this value was "inherited" by the
following statements or even other connections (which reused the same
physical thread). Such discrepancy between this variable and THD::killed
flag broke logic on SQL-layer and caused CPU and memory hogging.

This patch tries to fix this problem by properly resetting this member.

There is no test-case associated with this patch since it is hard to test
for memory/CPU hogging conditions in our test-suite.

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