There were actually more problems in this area:
Slaves (if any) were unconditionally restarted, this appears unnecessary.
Sort criteria were suboptimal, included the test name.
Added logic to "reserve" a sequence of tests with same config for one thread
Got rid of sort_criteria hash, put it into the test case itself
Adds little sanity check that expected worker picks up test
Fixed some tests that may fail if starting on running server
Some of these fail only if *same* test is repeated.
Finally, special sorting of tests that do --force-restart
Fixing pb failures caused by mtr invokes the test with --tmpdir to which
there are sensitive operations in the test
and setup_fake_relay_log.inc also needed --secure-file-priv for its own separate
directory.
Fixed with removing SELECT INTO OUTFILE and deploying --exec echo instead in the marco.
The test's opt file should contain --secure-file-priv=$MYSQL_TEST_DIR as the test
operations deal with files located in $MYSQL_TEST_DIR.
mysql-test/include/setup_fake_relay_log.inc:
Refining setup_fake_relay_log.inc to not use --secure-file-priv sensitive feature.
The latter should remain available for the test.
Overriding a default value of --secure-file-priv on pb.mtr to be $MYSQLTEST_VARDIR which
makes pb's mtr happy to execute the regression test for the bug.
mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/rpl_cross_version-master.opt:
satisfying pb's mtr that uses --vardir to shm.
Overriding a default value of --secure-file-priv on pb.mtr with a value allowable
the test to pass on pb.
mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/rpl_cross_version-master.opt:
Overriding a default value of --secure-file-priv with a value allowable the test to pass on pb.
It's a regression issue.
The reason of the bug appeared to be an error introduced into 5.1 source code.
A piece of code in Create_file_log_event::do_apply_event() did not have test
coverage which made make test and pb unaware.
Fixed with inverting the old value of the return value from
Create_file_log_event::do_apply_event().
The rpl test suite is extended with `rpl_cross_version' the file to hold
regression cases similar to the current.
mysql-test/suite/rpl/r/rpl_cross_version.result:
new results file
mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/rpl_cross_version-master.opt:
options to the server to be able to start replication to itself
mysql-test/suite/rpl/t/rpl_cross_version.test:
regression test for bug#31240.
sql/log_event.cc:
Correcting the return value from Create_file_log_event::do_apply_event()
