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luis.soares@oracle.com-20110505224815-6ob90n7suxsoizvs.bundle

            
Fix for all "postion" in Oracle files (s/postion/position). 
Updated the copyright notices where needed.

WORK WITH --START-POSITION
      
If setting --start-position to start after the FD event, mysqlbinlog
will output an error stating that it has not found an FD event.
However, its not that mysqlbinlog does not find it but rather that it
does not processes it in the regular way (i.e., it does not print it).
Given that one is using --base64-output=DECODE-ROWS then not printing
it is actually fine.
      
To fix this, we make mysqlbinlog not to complain when it has not
printed the FD event, is outputing in base64, but is decoding the
rows.

The problem was that wrong structure of mysql.event was not detected and
the server continued to use wrongly-structured data.

The fix is to check the structure of mysql.event after opening before
any use. That makes operations with events more strict -- some operations
that might work before throw errors now. That seems to be Ok.

Another side-effect of the patch is that if mysql.event is corrupted,
unrelated DROP DATABASE statements issue an SQL warning about inability
to open mysql.event table. 

                      .editrc on linux.

MySQL client when build with libedit support ignores
.editrc at startup.

The reason for this regression was the incluison of a
safety check, issetugid(), which is not available on
some linux platforms.

Fixed by adding an equivalent check for platforms which
have get[e][u|g]id() set of functions.

Add extra codes to wait_until_disconnected.inc that are present in 5.5,
but not in 5.1. The missing codes cause innodb_bug59641 to fail in 5.1 on
Windows PB2 runs. The addition of those codes in 5.5 was done in
luis.soares@sun.com-20090930233215-aup3kxy4j6ltvjfp

Partitions can have different ref_length (position data length).
Removed DBUG_ASSERT which crashed debug builds when using
MAX_ROWS on some partitions.

               FAILS WITH LIBEDIT

Fixed by checking the return value of the write()
function calls and handling the open files and fd
appropriately.

calc_daynr() function returns negative result
if malformed date with zero year and month is used.
Attempt to calculate week day on negative value
leads to crash. The fix is return NULL for
'W', 'a', 'w' specifiers if zero year and month is used.
Additional fix for calc_daynr():
--added assertion that result can not be negative
--return 0 if zero year and month is used

Before sorting HAVING condition is split into two parts,
first part is a table related condition and the rest of is
HAVING part. Extraction of HAVING part does not take into account
the fact that some of conditions might be non-const but
have 'used_tables' == 0 (independent subqueries)
and because of that these conditions are cut off by
make_cond_for_table() function.
The fix is to use (table_map) 0 instead of used_tables in
third argument for make_cond_for_table() function.
It allows to extract elements which belong to sorted
table and in addition elements which are independend
subqueries.

Update for previous patch according to reviewers comments.

Updated the constructors for ha_partitions to use the common
init_handler_variables functions

Added use of defines for size and offset to get better readability for the code that reads
and writes the .par file. Also refactored the get_from_handler_file function.

Replaced the hardcoded 9 with 'KILL'

             FAILS ON SOLARIS

This assertion was triggered if gethostbyaddr_r cannot do a
reverse lookup on an ip address. The reason was a missing
DBUG_RETURN macro. The problem affected only debug versions of
the server.

This patch fixes the problem by replacing return with DBUG_RETURN.
No test case added.

Bug#11764671  57533: UNINITIALISED VALUES IN COPY_AND_CONVERT (SQL_STRING.CC) WITH CERTAIN CHA
When ROUND evaluates decimal result it uses Item::decimal
value as fraction value for the result. In some cases
Item::decimal is greater than real result fraction value
and uninitialised memory of result(decimal) buffer can be
used in further calculations. Issue is introduced by
Bug33143 fix. The fix is to remove erroneous assignment.

Update test case

With this combination, outoput was directed to .trace but not all
      parts of MTR was aware of this.
Replace .err with .trace at the earliest possible place

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The bug was fixed by the patch for bug number BUG 11763109 - 55779: SELECT
DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY IN MYSQL SERVER VERSION "5.1.42 SUSE MYSQL (Exact same
fix as was proposed for this bug.) Since the motivation for the two bug
reports was completely different, however, it still makes sense to push the
test case.

This patch contains only the test case.

Some multibyte sequences could be considered by my_mbcharlen() functions
as multibyte character but more exact my_ismbchar() does not think so.
In such a case this multibyte sequences is pushed into 'stack' buffer which
is too small to accommodate the sequence.
The fix is to allocate stack buffer in
compliance with max character length.

Instead of just filtering space, filter white space (\s)
I left the default.experimental file as is, with tabs.

Valgrind warnings were caused by comparing index values to an un-initialized field.

Fix for --vs-config applied
Find.pm incorrectly tested an unitialized local variable instead
  of the global, corrected.
Find.pm is also wrong in 5.5: uses a non-existent global variable. Fix when
  merging up.