The bug report revealed two problems related to min/max optimization:
1. If the length of a constant key used in a SARGable condition for
for the MIN/MAX fields is greater than the length of the field an 
unwanted warning on key truncation is issued;
2. If MIN/MAX optimization is applied to a partial index, like INDEX(b(4))
than can lead to returning a wrong result set.

into moonbone.local:/work/18360-bug-4.1-mysql-opt

The IN() function uses agg_cmp_type() to aggregate all types of its arguments
to find out some common type for comparisons. In this particular case the 
char() and the int was aggregated to double because char() can contain values
like '1.5'. But all strings which do not start from a digit are converted to
0. thus 'a' and 'z' become equal. 
This behaviour is reasonable when all function arguments are constants. But 
when there is a field or an expression this can lead to false comparisons. In
this case it makes more sense to coerce constants to the type of the field
argument.

The agg_cmp_type() function now aggregates types of constant and non-constant
items separately. If some non-constant items will be found then their
aggregated type will be returned. Thus after the aggregation constants will be
coerced to the aggregated type. 

In multi-table delete a table for delete can't be used for selecting in
subselects. Appropriate error was raised but wasn't checked which leads to a
crash at the execution phase.

The mysql_execute_command() now checks for errors before executing select
for multi-delete.

into  neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/mysql-4.1

into  neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/mysql-4.1

into  mysql.com:/usr/home/ram/work/4.1.b18536

into mysql.com:/home/hf/work/mysql-4.1.clean

  Always compile position independent

into  neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/mysql-4.1

into  neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/mysql-4.1

 - A segfault occured when the function 'kill_server' called 
   'my_sigset' with signal number 0. 'my_sigset' is a macro which
   uses 'sigaction' to install the signal handler with an invalid
   signal number will on most platforms return EINVAL but yields
   a segfauilt on IRIX 6.5
 - The server crash was detected by mysqld_safe and it was restarted although
   a shutdown was requested. 
 - Semantics of kill_server(0) is not known, leaving it intact

into  neptunus.(none):/home/msvensson/mysql/bug18818/my41-bug18818

into  production.mysql.com:/usersnfs/tulin/mysql-4.1

into  poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1-main

into  poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1-main

    ndb: ndb_waiter disconnect/reconnect on get status error

into  production.mysql.com:/usersnfs/tulin/mysql-4.1

into  mysql.com:/data0/mysqldev/my/mysql-4.1

fixing encoding example because of table names can not be in koi8r 
on some platforms.

into  poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1-main

- not having lock can cause "block number list" to become corrupt => crash
- also may result in 2 threads receiving same block no => possble cause of
Bug #13987 Cluster: Loss of data nodes can cause high CPU usage from ndb_mgmd

into  poseidon.ndb.mysql.com:/home/tomas/mysql-4.1

into  mysql.com:/home/alexi/innodb/mysql-4.1-ss29

- invalidate ndb dict cache on cluster disconnect (ClusterMgr.cpp)
- add check for correct frm on external lock when table cache is found invalid

 Fix BUG#19542 "InnoDB doesn't increase the Handler_read_prev counter.
 

fixing names length. Got an issue when merged to 5.0, decided to fix starting from 4.1

mysqltest program should be really multithreaded to perform this
test with the embedded server. So this test disabled until we
redo mysqltest this way

this test just can't work in the embedded server

fixing a path to find charset by $MYSQL client. I believe the fix is done what should be
by default. 

into  mysql.com:/usr_rh9/home/elkin.rh9/MySQL/Merge/4.1

into  mysql.com:/usr_rh9/home/elkin.rh9/MySQL/Merge/4.1

  A pattern to generate binlog for DROPped temp table in close_temporary_tables
  was buggy: could not deal with a grave-accent-in-name table.

  The fix exploits `append_identifier()' for quoting and duplicating accents.

  Change mode to -rw-rw-r--
Ereport.pl, Ecreate.pl, Ecompare.pl:
  Change mode to -rwxrwxr--