more clever gcc version checking.

Tilde expansion could fail when it was to expand to an empty string (such as
when HOME is set to an empty string), especially on systems where size_t is
unsigned.

Length value is the length of the field,
Max_length is the length of the field value.
So Max_length can not be more than Length.
The fix: fixed calculation of the Item_empty_string item length

(Patch applied and queued on demand of Trudy/Davi.)

sql/item.h:
  fixed calculation of the item length
sql/sql_show.cc:
  removed unnecessary code

When the fractional part in a multiplication of DECIMALs
overflowed, we truncated the first operand rather than the
longest. Now truncating least significant places instead
for more precise multiplications.

(Queuing at demand of Trudy/Davi.)

mysql-test/r/type_newdecimal.result:
  show that if we need to truncate the scale of an operand, we pick the
  right one (that is, we discard the least significant decimal places)
mysql-test/t/type_newdecimal.test:
  show that if we need to truncate the scale of an operand, we pick the
  right one (that is, we discard the least significant decimal places)
strings/decimal.c:
  when needing to disregard fractional parts, pick the least
  significant ones

with blobs containing nulls

Problem: FEDERATED SE improperly stores NULL fields in the record buffer.

Fix: store them properly.


mysql-test/r/federated.result:
  Fix for bug #34779: crash in checksum table on federated tables 
  with blobs containing nulls
    - test result.
mysql-test/t/federated.test:
  Fix for bug #34779: crash in checksum table on federated tables 
  with blobs containing nulls
    - test case.
sql/ha_federated.cc:
  Fix for bug #34779: crash in checksum table on federated tables 
  with blobs containing nulls
    - storing a NULL field in the record buffer
      we must initialize its data as other code
      may rely on it.

used causes server crash.

When the loose index scan access method is used values of aggregated functions
are precomputed by it. Aggregation of such functions shouldn't be performed
in this case and functions should be treated as normal ones.
The create_tmp_table function wasn't taking this into account and this led to
a crash if a query has MIN/MAX aggregate functions and employs temporary table
and loose index scan.
Now the JOIN::exec and the create_tmp_table functions treat MIN/MAX aggregate
functions as normal ones when the loose index scan is used.


mysql-test/r/group_min_max.result:
  Added a test case for the bug#38195.
mysql-test/t/group_min_max.test:
  Added a test case for the bug#38195.
sql/sql_select.cc:
  Bug#38195: Incorrect handling of aggregate functions when loose index scan is
  used causes server crash.
  Now the JOIN::exec and the create_tmp_table functions treat MIN/MAX aggregate
  functions as normal ones when the loose index scan is used.

Post-merge fix: mysql_client_test.c is compiled by C compilers
and some C compilers don't support mixed declarations and code
and it's explicitly forbidden by ISO C90.

tests/mysql_client_test.c:
  Don't mix declarations and code.

Fixed missing DBUG_RETURN in the function find_key_block

This fix is for 5.0 only : back porting the 6.0 patch manually

The parser code in sql/sql_yacc.yy needs to be more robust to out of
memory conditions, so that when parsing a query fails due to OOM,
the thread gracefully returns an error.

Before this fix, a new/alloc returning NULL could:
- cause a crash, if dereferencing the NULL pointer,
- produce a corrupted parsed tree, containing NULL nodes,
- alter the semantic of a query, by silently dropping token values or nodes

With this fix:
- C++ constructors are *not* executed with a NULL "this" pointer
when operator new fails.
This is achieved by declaring "operator new" with a "throw ()" clause,
so that a failed new gracefully returns NULL on OOM conditions.

- calls to new/alloc are tested for a NULL result,

- The thread diagnostic area is set to an error status when OOM occurs.
This ensures that a request failing in the server properly returns an
ER_OUT_OF_RESOURCES error to the client.

- OOM conditions cause the parser to stop immediately (MYSQL_YYABORT).
This prevents causing further crashes when using a partially built parsed
tree in further rules in the parser.

No test scripts are provided, since automating OOM failures is not
instrumented in the server.
Tested under the debugger, to verify that an error in alloc_root cause the
thread to returns gracefully all the way to the client application, with
an ER_OUT_OF_RESOURCES error.

client/mysql_upgrade.c:
  Silence warning due to type mismatch.

            
Server side cursors were not initialized properly and this caused a reference to
uninitialized memory.

	running on Windows

We used two OS-specific methods of looking up the executable 
name, which don't work outside of those two kinds of OSes 
(Linux+Solaris and Windows).

We assume that if the user ran this program with a certain 
name, we can run the other sibling programs with a similar name.

(re-patch in bzr)

Fall back to "find" if bzr is unavailable.

Don't fail for paths that have spaces in them.

bk sfiles -> bzr ls

	are not created  {Netware}

The init and test sql files were not created at cross-compilation time.

Now, make them in the default build rule.  Additionally, remove the "fix" 
SQL instructions, which are unnecessary for newly initialized databases.
Also, clean up the english in an error message, and BZRify nwbootstrap.

      
Reset session sql_mode before creating system tables as it
is done in the mysql_fix_privilege_tables.sql script.

scripts/mysql_system_tables.sql:
  reset sql mode

      
min() and max() functions are implemented in MySQL as macros.
This means that max(a,b) is expanded to: ((a) > (b) ? (a) : (b))
Note how 'a' is quoted two times.
Now imagine 'a' is a recursive function call that's several 10s of levels deep.
And the recursive function does max() with a function arg as well to dive into
recursion.
This means that simple function call can take most of the clock time.
Identified and fixed several such calls to max()/min() : including the IF() 
sql function implementation.

mysql-test/r/func_if.result:
  Bug#37662 test case
mysql-test/t/func_if.test:
  Bug#37662 test case
sql/item.cc:
  Bug#37662 don't call expensive functions as arguments to min/max
sql/item_cmpfunc.cc:
  Bug#37662 don't call expensive functions as arguments to min/max
sql/item_func.cc:
  Bug#37662 don't call expensive functions as arguments to min/max

      
Community contribution fix for Serbian translation in error message list.

Fixed typo and removed duplicate call to get_current_user.

Calling List<Cached_item>::delete_elements for the same list twice
caused a crash of the server in the function JOIN::cleaunup.
Ensured that delete_elements() in JOIN::cleanup would be called only once.


mysql-test/r/subselect.result:
  Added a test case for bug #38191.
mysql-test/t/subselect.test:
  Added a test case for bug #38191.
sql/sql_select.cc:
  Fixed bug #38191.
  Ensured that delete_elements() in JOIN::cleanup would be called only once.

                  
Range scan in descending order for c <= <col> <= c type of
ranges was ignoring the DESC flag.
However some engines like InnoDB have the primary key parts 
as a suffix for every secondary key.
When such primary key suffix is used for ordering ignoring 
the DESC is not valid.
But we generally would like to do this because it's faster.
            
Fixed by performing only reverse scan if the primary key is used.
Removed some dead code in the process.

mysql-test/r/innodb_mysql.result:
  Bug#37830 : test case
mysql-test/t/innodb_mysql.test:
  Bug#37830 : test case
sql/opt_range.cc:
  Bug#37830 : 
  - preserve and use used_key_parts to
    distinguish when a primary key suffix is used
  - removed some dead code
sql/opt_range.h:
  Bug#37830 : 
  - preserve used_key_parts
  - dead code removed
sql/sql_select.cc:
  Bug#37830 : Do only reverse order traversal
  if the primary key suffix is used.

If the server failed to expired log files during start up it could crash.

sql/log.cc:
  Added predicate to protect againt cases when current_thd might be NULL.