THE EVENT STATUS.

Any ALTER EVENT statement on a disabled event enabled it back
(unless this ALTER EVENT statement explicitly disabled the event).

The problem was that during processing of an ALTER EVENT statement
value of status field was overwritten unconditionally even if new
value was not specified explicitly. As a consequence this field
was set to default value for status which corresponds to ENABLE.

The solution is to check if status field was explicitly specified in
ALTER EVENT statement before assigning new value to status field.