Before this fix, the performance schema file instrumentation would treat:
- a relative path to a file
- an absolute path to the same file
as two different files.
This would lead to:
- separate aggregation counters
- file leaks when a file is removed.
With this fix, a relative and absolute path are resolved to the same file instrument.
This patch prevents system threads and system table accesses from
using user-specified values for "lock_wait_timeout". Instead all
such accesses are done using the default value (1 year).
This prevents background tasks (such as replication, events,
accessing stored function definitions, logging, reading time-zone
information, etc.) from failing in cases where the global value
of "lock_wait_timeout" is set very low.
The patch also simplifies the open tables API. Rather than adding
another convenience function for opening and locking system tables,
this patch removes most of the existing convenience functions for
open_and_lock_tables_derived(). Before, open_and_lock_tables() was
a convenience function that enforced derived tables handling, while
open_and_lock_tables_derived() was the main function where derived
tables handling was optional. Now, this convencience function is
gone and the main function is renamed to open_and_lock_tables().
No test case added as it would have required the use of --sleep to
check that system threads and system tables have a different timeout
value from the user-specified "lock_wait_timeout" system variable.
Windows and Solaris
Reviewed every call to my_error() using the va_args parameters,
to make sure the arguments type are ok.
Fixed the broken calls to my_error() to pass a strings as 'char *',
not LEX_STRING.
