Discovered this while working on MDEV-34720: test_if_cheaper_ordering()
uses rec_per_key, while the original estimate for the access method
is produced in best_access_path() by using actual_rec_per_key().
Make test_if_cheaper_ordering() also use actual_rec_per_key().
Also make several getter function "const" to make this compile.
Also adjusted the testcase to handle this (the change backported from
11.0)
Tests with checking metadata or that cannot be run with
the view-protocol are excluded from --view-protocol.
For tests that do not allow the use of an additional connection,
the util connection is disabled with "--disable_service_connection".
Also cases with bugs for --view-protocol are disabled.
This essentially reverts commit 4e89ec6692
and only disables InnoDB persistent statistics for tests where it is
desirable. By design, InnoDB persistent statistics will not be updated
except by ANALYZE TABLE or by STATS_AUTO_RECALC.
The internal transactions that update persistent InnoDB statistics
in background tasks (with innodb_stats_auto_recalc=ON) may cause
nondeterministic query plans or interfere with some tests that deal
with other InnoDB internals, such as the purge of transaction history.