thd->in_sub_stmt
      
In a precursor patch for Bug#52044 
(revid:bzr/kostja@stripped), a
number of reorganizations of code was made. In addition some
assertions were added to ensure the correct transactional state.
      
The reorganization had a small glitch so statements that was
active in the query cache was not followed by a
statement commit/rollback (this code was removed). A section
in the trans_commit_stmt/trans_rollback_stmt code is to
clear the thd->transaction.stmt list of affected storage
engines.  When a new statement is initiated, an assert
introduced by the 523044 patch checks if this list is cleared.
When the query cache is accessed, this list may be populated,
and since it's not committed it will not be cleared.
      
This fix adds explicit statement commit or rollback for
statements that is contained in the query cache.

           for ALTER TABLE + MERGE tables

The patch for Bug#56292 changed how metadata locks are taken for MERGE
tables. After the patch, locking the MERGE table will also lock the
children tables with the same metadata lock type. This means that 
LOCK TABLES on a MERGE table also will implicitly do LOCK TABLES on
the children tables.

A consequence of this change, is that it is possible to do LOCK TABLES
on a child table both explicitly and implicitly with the same statement
and that these two locks can be of different strength. For example,
LOCK TABLES child READ, merge WRITE.

In LOCK TABLES mode, we are not allowed to take new locks and each
statement must therefore try to find an existing TABLE instance with
a suitable lock. The code that searched for a suitable TABLE instance,
only considered table level locks. If a child table was locked twice,
it was therefore possible for this code to find a TABLE instance with
suitable table level locks but without suitable metadata lock.

This problem caused the assert in upgrade_shared_lock_to_exclusive()
to be triggered as it tried to upgrade a MDL_SHARED lock to
EXCLUSIVE. The problem was a regression caused by the patch for
Bug#56292.

This patch fixes the problem by partially reverting the changes
done by Bug#56292. Now, the children tables will only use the
same metadata lock as the MERGE table for MDL_SHARED_NO_WRITE
when not in locked tables mode. This means that LOCK TABLE
on a MERGE table will not implicitly lock the children tables.
This still fixes the original problem in Bug#56292 without
causing a regression.

Test case added to merge.test.

Quoting from the bug report:

The pstack library has been included in MySQL since version
4.0.0. It's useless and should be removed.

Details: According to its own documentation, pstack only works
on Linux on x86 in 32 bit mode and requires LinuxThreads and a
statically linked binary. It doesn't really support any Linux
from 2003 or later and doesn't work on any other OS.

(null merge of innodb-only changes)

detector". This patch addresses performance regression in OLTP_RO/MyISAM
test on Windows introduced by the fix for bug #56405. Thus it makes
original patch acceptable as a solution for bug #56585 "Slowdown of
readonly sysbench benchmarks (e.g point_select) on Windows 5.5".

With this patch, MySQL will use native Windows condition variables and 
reader-writer locks  if  they are supported by the OS.

This speeds up MyISAM and the effect comes mostly from using native
rwlocks. Native conditions improve scalability with higher number of 
concurrent users in other situations, e.g for prlocks.

Benchmark numbers for this patch as measured on Win2008R2 quad
core machine are attached to the bug report.
( direct link http://bugs.mysql.com/file.php?id=15883 )

Note that currently we require at least Windows7/WS2008R2 for 
reader-writer locks, even though native rwlock is available also on Vista.
Reason is that "trylock" APIs are missing on Vista, and trylock is used in
the server (in a single place in query cache).

While this patch could have been written differently, to enable the native
rwlock optimization also on Vista/WS2008 (e.g using native locks everywhere
but portable implementation in query cache), this would come at the 
expense of the code clarity, as it would introduce a new  "try-able" rwlock
type, to handle Vista case.

Another way to improve performance for the special case 
(OLTP_RO/MYISAM/Vista) would be to eliminate "trylock" usage from server,
 but this is outside of the scope here.


Native conditions variables are used beginning with Vista though the effect
of using condition variables alone is not measurable in this benchmark.
But when used together with native rwlocks on Win7, native conditions improve 
performance in high-concurrency OLTP_RO/MyISAM (128 and more sysbench 
users).

row_search_for_mysql(): Acquire an intention lock on the table
before locking the first record gap.

row_search_for_mysql(): Acquire an intention lock on the table
before locking the first record gap.

This assert was triggered if DELETE was done on a view that
referenced another view which in turn (directly or indirectly)
referenced more than one table.

Delete from a view referencing more than one table (a join view)
is not supported and is supposed to give ER_VIEW_DELETE_MERGE_VIEW
error. Before this error was reported from the multi table 
delete code, an assert verified that the view from the DELETE statement
had more than one underlying table. However, this assert did not take
into account that the view could refer to another view which in turn
referenced the actual tables.

This patch fixes the problem by adjusting the assert to take this
possibility into account. This problem was only noticeable on debug
builds of the server. On release builds, ER_VIEW_DELETE_MERGE_VIEW
was correctly reported.

Test case added to delete.test.

conflicts:
   conflict      dbug/dbug.c
   conflict      sql/sql_load.cc