Currently, if a user wants to require TLS for every connection made
over the network, then every user account on the system needs to be
created with "REQUIRE SSL" or one of the other TLS options.

Implementing a require_secure_transport system varuable (which,
in particular, can be set using the --require_secure_transport=ON
command line option) in the MariaDB Server would make it a lot
easier to require TLS (or other secure transport) system-wide.

This patch implements this new system variable, adds the ability
to set it with SQL statements, from the command line and from the
configuration file, and also contains improvements for mtr that allow
the user to establish non-secure TCP/IP connections (for example,
to verify the operation of the new option).

Also make initial_database optional target on non-Windows, as sometimes
it can be quite handy to bootstrap without MTR.

Declare innodb_purge_threads as 4-byte integer (UINT)
instead of 4-or-8-byte (ULONG) and adjust the documentation string.

Fixing a test failure introduced by MDEV-21743

partially reverting 961413d2

incomplete. locking issues

because it is not

in particular, after checking for duplicates in a partitioned table,
do not re-check it for every partition individually

This patch removes support for LinuxThreads.
It was superseded by NPTL in Linux 2.6 (2003).

Problem:
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When we upgrade from "mysql" to "mariadb" if slave is using repositories as
tables their data is completely ignored and no warning is issued in error log.

Fix:
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"mysql_upgrade" test should check for the presence of data in
"mysql.slave_master_info" and "mysql.slave_relay_log_info" tables. When tables
have some data the upgrade script should report a warning which hints users
that the data in repository tables will be ignored.

This task deals with packing the sort key inside the sort buffer, which  would
lead to efficient usage of the memory allocated for the sort buffer.

The changes brought by this feature are
  1) Sort buffers would have sort keys of variable length
  2) The format for sort keys inside the sort buffer would look like
     |<sort_length><null_byte><key_part1><null_byte><key_part2>.......|
      sort_length is the extra bytes that are required to store the variable
      length of a sort key.
  3) When packing of sort key is done we store the ORIGINAL VALUES inside
     the sort buffer and not the STRXFRM form (mem-comparable sort keys).
  4) Special comparison function packed_keys_comparison() is introduced
     to compare 2 sort keys.

This patch also contains contributions from Sergei Petrunia.