to enable both recompiling mysqli or odbc from sources in addition to drop-in replacement functionality.

The case in question is compiling mysqli from sources, that needs client_errors via ER() macro.

Previously, we exported it as mysql_client_errors (compatibly to Fedora's style symbol renaming, see MDEV-3842).
However, if MariaDB header files are used when compiling mysqli, client_errors needs to be exported with its original name.

MDEV-11 - Modifed tests and result files to use explicit column lists
          in INSERT and SELECT statements

Assertion happens in replication thread during THD destruction, when thread calls my_sync(), which in turn calls  thd_wait_begin() callback. Connection count can be 0, because the counter was decremented before THD destructor. 
This assertion currently reproducible only in Percona server  and not in MariaDB, due to differences in replication code.

Fixed by moving  code to decrement connection counter after the THD destructor.

from MariaDB 10.0.
  
The bug in mdev-3948 was an instance of the problem fixed by Sergey's patch
in 10.0 - namely that the range optimizer could change table->[read | write]_set,
and not restore it.
  
revno: 3471
committer: Sergey Petrunya <psergey@askmonty.org>
branch nick: 10.0-serg-fix-imerge
timestamp: Sat 2012-11-03 12:24:36 +0400
message:
  # MDEV-3817: Wrong result with index_merge+index_merge_intersection, InnoDB table, join, AND and OR conditions
  Reconcile the fixes from:
  #
  # guilhem.bichot@oracle.com-20110805143029-ywrzuz15uzgontr0
  # Fix for BUG#12698916 - "JOIN QUERY GIVES WRONG RESULT AT 2ND EXEC. OR
  # AFTER FLUSH TABLES [-INT VS NULL]"
  #
  # guilhem.bichot@oracle.com-20111209150650-tzx3ldzxe1yfwji6
  # Fix for BUG#12912171 - ASSERTION FAILED: QUICK->HEAD->READ_SET == SAVE_READ_SET
  # and
  #
  and related fixes from: BUG#1006164, MDEV-376:
  
  Now, ROR-merged QUICK_RANGE_SELECT objects make no assumptions about the values
  of table->read_set and table->write_set.
  Each QUICK_ROR_SELECT has (and had before) its own column bitmap, but now, all 
  QUICK_ROR_SELECT's functions that care: reset(), init_ror_merged_scan(), and 
  get_next()  will set table->read_set when invoked and restore it back to what 
  it was before the call before they return.

  This allows to avoid the mess when somebody else modifies table->read_set for 
  some reason.

MDEV-3875 Wrong result (missing row) on a DISTINCT query with the same subquery in the SELECT list and GROUP BY

fix remove_dup_with_hash_index() and remove_dup_with_compare() to take NULLs into account

The problem was that a temporary table was re-created as a non-temporary table.


mysql-test/suite/maria/truncate.result:
  Added test cases
mysql-test/suite/maria/truncate.test:
  Added test cases
sql/sql_truncate.cc:
  Mark that table to be created is a temporary table
storage/maria/ha_maria.cc:
  Ensure that temporary tables are not transactional.

Miscellaneous workarounds for  drop-in compatibility problems with Linux distributions, arounf versioning of the 
MySQL 5.5 client shared library. There seems to be 3 different ways major distributions handle versioning

1. Fedora  (also Mageia, and likely  other Redhat descendants) way 
   old, 5.1 API functions are given version libmysqlclient_16
   new API functions  (client plugins, mysql_stmt_next ) are given version libmysqlclient_18
   some extra functions beyond API are exported.
   some functions are renamed.

2.Debian Wheezy way 
  all functions are given libmysqlclient_18 version

3. Ubuntu  way (or MySQL/MariaDB download packages)
  no versioning

UIp to this fix, MariaDB distributions did not have any versioning in the libraries, this rendered client library incompatible to distributions 
thus exchanging  distribution's libmysqlclient.so.18.0.0  with MariaDB's did not work nicely (anywhere but on Ubuntu)


THE FIX  
is to build libraries the same way as distributions do it 
- when building RPMs, use  same version script as Fedora does, Make sure to export extra-symbols, the same as Fedora exports.
- when building DEBs, use the same version script as Debian Wheezy
- do not use version scripts otherwise


Also, makes sure that extensions of  MySQL APIs (asynchronous client functionality) is exported by  the shared libraries.

FIx  : make "shared" RPM obsolete/provide mysql-libs

reached by fix_fields() (via reference) before row which it belongs to (on the second execution)
and fix_field for row did not follow usual protocol for Items with argument
(first check that the item fixed then call fix_fields).

Item_row::fix_field fixed.

MDEV-729 lp:998028 - Server crashes on normal shutdown in closefrm after executing a query from MyISAM table

don't write a key value into the record buffer - a key length can be larger then the record length.

MDEV-759 lp:998340 - Valgrind complains on simple selects containing expression DAY(FROM_UNIXTIME(-1))

check item->null_value before using the result of item->val_int()

client/mysqltest.cc:
  make --error to work for --change_user errors

mysqldump.c: s/SET OPTION/SET/
(OPTION was, hm, optional since 3.21, so there's no need to use SET OPTION even
in the old compatibility modes)

instead of returning Access denied on the incorrect user name,
emulate the complete failed logic procedure, possibly with
the change plugin packet.

  
allow only three failed change_user per connection.
successful change_user do NOT reset the counter

tests/mysql_client_test.c:
  make --error to work for --change_user errors

This bug could result in returning 0 for the expressions of the form 
<aggregate_function>(distinct field) when the system variable  
max_heap_table_size was set to a small enough number.
It happened because the method Unique::walk() did not support
the case when more than one pass was needed to merge the trees
of distinct values saved in an external file.

Backported a fix in grant_lowercase.test from mariadb 5.5.

test suite added.