use correct macro for Microsoft compiler. It is _MSC_VER , not _MSV_VER

into a separate file stat_tables_par.test because the test cases
could not be run with embedded server.

Replaced bzero with memset.
Added missing --source include/have_debug_sync.inc into stat_tables.test.

  - Moved the definitions of the classes to store data from persistent
    statistical tables into statistics.h, leaving in other internal 
    data structures only references to the corresponding objects.
  - Defined class Column_statistics_collected derived from the class
    Column_statistics. This is a helper class to collect statistics
    on columns.
  - Moved references to read statistics to TABLE SHARE, leaving the
    the reference to the collected statistics in TABLE.
 - Added a new clone method for the class Field allowing to clone
    fields attached to table shares. It was was used to create 
    fields for min/max values in the memory of the table share.
A lso:
  - Added procedures to allocate memory for statistical data in
    the table share memory and in table memory.
Also: 
  - Added a test case demonstrating how ANALYZE could work in parallel
    to collect statistics on different indexes of the same table.
  - Added a test two demonstrate how two connections working 
    simultaneously could allocate memory for statistical data in the 
    table share memory.  
   

- Make Item_subselect::fix_fields() ignore UNCACHEABLE_EXPLAIN flag when deciding whether 
  the subquery item should be marked as constant.

Fix : use attribute %config(noreplace)  for /etc/my.cnf , instead of (automatically generated) %config

see https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-11

- index_merge/intersection is unable to work on GIS indexes, because:
  1. index scans have no Rowid-Ordered-Retrieval property
  2. When one does an index-only read over a GIS index, they do not 
     get the index tuple, because index only contains bounding box of the geometry.
     This is why key_copy() call crashed.
This patch fixes #1, which makes the problem go away. Theoretically, it would 
be nice to check #2, too, but SE API semantics is not sufficiently precise to do it.

Now partition engine adds underlying tables to the QC and ask underlying tables engine permittion to cache the query and return result of the query.

Incorrect QC cleanup in case of table registration failure fixe.

Unified interface for myisammrg & partitioned engnes for QC.

MDEV-393. Remove --loose-pbxt=OFF/loose-skip-pbxt from bootstrapper calls to avoid "unknown parameter" warning

fix incorrect merge

platform independent.

Adjusted results of funcs_1.is_columns_mysql_embedded. 

Now when a table is dropped the statistics on the table is removed 
from the statistical tables. If the table is altered in such a way
that a column is dropped or the type of the column is changed then
statistics on the column is removed from the table column_stat.
It also triggers removal of the statistics on the indexes who use
this column as its component.

Added procedures that changes the names of the tables or columns
in the statistical tables for. 
These procedures are used when tables/columns are renamed.

Also partly re-factored the code that introduced the persistent
statistical tables.

Added test cases into statistics.test to cover the new code.

Fixed MDEV-385: mysqltest running with continue-on-error crashes on a non-SQL command producing an error 

client/mysqltest.cc:
  Added missing DBUG_VOID_RETURN

Thanks to Ivoz for pointing this out.

- Let QUICK_RANGE_SELECT::init_ror_merged_scan() call  quick->reset() only 
  after we've set the column read bitmaps. 

- Better error messages

This fixes that one again can run the test systems with many threads without having to increase fs.aio-max-nr.


mysql-test/include/mtr_check.sql:
  Ignore the INNODB_USE_NATIVE_AIO variable (may change during execution)
mysql-test/mysql-test-run.pl:
  Ignore warnings for failure to setup AIO
storage/innobase/os/os0file.c:
  Continue without AIO even if we can't allocate resources for AIO
storage/xtradb/os/os0file.c:
  Continue without AIO even if we can't allocate resources for AIO
storage/xtradb/srv/srv0start.c:
  Give an error message (instead of core dump) if AIO can't be initialized

TABLE_LIST::check_single_table made aware about fact that now if table attached to a merged view it can be (unopened) temporary table
(in 5.2 it was always leaf table or non (in case of several tables)).

mysql.column_stat, mysql.table_stat for the type DECIMAL(12,4).
When cached the values from these columns are multiplied by factor 10^5
and stored as ulong numbers now. 

The bug was the result of the incomplete fix for bug lp bug 1008293.

the new file is fully synced to disk and binlog index. This fixes a window
where a crash would leave next server restart unable to detect that a crash
occured, causing recovery to fail.

MDEV-359: Fix another case where switch-off semisync could cause a race that ended with server crash.

This one was when the code releases and reaquires the lock with pthread_cond_wait() - and semisync is switched off meanwhile.