The problem was that the events_bugs test could randomly fail due to
races in the test case.
The solution is to replace fixed sleeps with reliable polling of a
certain state to settle. For that, a new auxiliary script
include/wait_condition.inc is used, that allows waiting for a given
query to return true.
WL#3681 (ALTER TABLE ORDER BY)
Before this fix, the ALTER TABLE statement implemented an ORDER BY option
with the following characteristics :
1) The order by clause accepts a list of criteria, with optional ASC or
DESC keywords
2) Each criteria can be a general expression, involving operators,
native functions, stored functions, user defined functions, subselects ...
With this fix :
1) has been left unchanged, since it's a de-facto existing feature,
that was already present in the code base and partially covered in the test
suite. Code coverage for ASC and DESC was missing and has been improved.
2) has been changed to limit the kind of criteria that are permissible:
now only a column name is valid.
The problem was that if a prepared statement accessed a view, the
access to the tables listed in the query after that view was done in
the security context of the view.
The bug was in the assigning of the security context to the tables
belonging to a view: we traversed the list of all query tables
instead. It didn't show up in the normal (non-prepared) statements
because of the different order of the steps of checking privileges
and descending into a view for normal and prepared statements.
The solution is to traverse the list and stop once the last table
belonging to the view was processed.
of untouched rows in full table scans".
SELECT ... FOR UPDATE/LOCK IN SHARE MODE statements as well as
UPDATE/DELETE statements which were executed using full table
scan were not releasing locks on rows which didn't satisfy
WHERE condition.
This bug surfaced in 5.0 and affected NDB tables. (InnoDB tables
intentionally don't support such unlocking in default mode).
This problem occured because code implementing join didn't call
handler::unlock_row() for rows which didn't satisfy part of condition
attached to this particular table/level of nested loop. So we solve
the problem adding this call.
Note that we already had this call in place in 4.1 but it was lost
(actually not quite correctly placed) when we have introduced nested
joins.
Also note that additional QA should be requested once this patch is
pushed as interaction between handler::unlock_row() and many recent
MySQL features such as subqueries, unions, views is not tested enough.