Fixed bugs in my last changeset that made MySQL hard to compile.
Added mutex around some data that could cause table cache corruptions when using OPTIMIZE TABLE / REPAIR TABLE or automatic repair of MyISAM tables.
Added mutex around some data in the slave start/stop code that could cause THD linked list corruptions
Extended my_chsize() to allow one to specify a filler character.
Extend vio_blocking to return the old state (This made some usage of this function much simpler)
Added testing for some functions that they caller have got the required mutexes before calling the function.
Use setrlimit() to ensure that we can write core file if one specifies --core-file.
Added --slave-compressed-protocol
Made 2 the minimum length for ft_min_word_len
Added variables foreign_key_checks & unique_checks.
Less logging from replication code (if not started with --log-warnings)
Changed that SHOW INNODB STATUS requre the SUPER privilege
More DBUG statements and a lot of new code comments
Made a some new buffers thread specific and changeable.
Resize of key_buffer.
AUTO_COMMIT -> AUTOCOMMIT
Fixed mutex bug in DROP DATABASE
Fixed bug when using auto_increment as second part of a key where first part could include NULL.
Split handler->extra() to extra() and extra_opt() to be able to support thread specific buffers.
Don't write message to error log when slave reconnects becasue of timeout.
Fixed possible update problem when using DELETE/UPDATE on small tables
(In some cases we used index even if table scanning would be better)
A lot of minior code cleanups
The UNIV_DEBUG version asserted if a foreign key check failed because of a lock wait timeout
btr0cur.c:
Fix a bug: if the primary key was updated (or delete + insert) so that only the case of characters changed, we were left with a dangling adaptive hash index pointer, often causing an assertion failure in page0page.ic line 515
Portability fixes for HPUX
Rename of CHECK_LOCK to IS_FREE_LOCK
Apply lower_case_table_names also to databases
Cleanup of describe code
Don't allow \ in database names
Fix a bug: if buffer pool size > 2 GB on a 32-bit computer, we got an assertion failure because >> acted as a division operator (not as a register shift) for a wrapped-over integer value
Add some diagnostic code to track BLOB bugs if they were not already fixed with the change in row0sel.c
row0sel.c:
Fix a seg fault which was caused inside MySQL because InnoDB when returning a BLOB value did not initialize the length and the data pointer of a BLOB whose value is the SQL NULL; also fix a very improbable race condition which could occur if a row with an externally stored BLOB was fetched using the adaptive hash index
If the default character set was set to non-latin1 then the collation order of DATA_CHAR and DATA_VARCHAR was not defined, and foreign key system tables did not work, because they contain DATA_VARCHAR columns
