The assert is about binlogging must have been activated, but it was
not actually according to the reported how-to-repeat instuctions.
Analysis revealed that binlog_start_trans_and_stmt() was called
without prior testing if binlogging is ON.

Fixed with avoing entering binlog_start_trans_and_stmt() if binlog is
not activated.

post push patch
when building with valgrind, it does not compile in realpath,
so this test fails when using a valgrind build
NOTE: building with valgrind is not the same as useing the
--valgrind option with mysql-test-run

No conflicts/changes because 5.1-bugteam
contains already everything.

            returns unexpected result

If:
  1. a table has a not nullable BIT column c1 with a length
     shorter than 8 bits and some additional not nullable
     columns c2 etc, and
  2. the WHERE clause is like: (c1 = constant) AND c2 ...,
the SELECT query returns unexpected result set.


The server stores BIT columns in a tricky way to save disk
space: if column's bit length is not divisible by 8, the
server places reminder bits among the null bits at the start
of a record. The rest bytes are stored in the record itself,
and Field::ptr points to these rest bytes.

However if a bit length of the whole column is less than 8,
there are no remaining bytes, and there is nothing to store in
the record at its regular place. In this case Field::ptr points
to bytes actually occupied by the next column in a record.
If both columns (BIT and the next column) are NOT NULL,
the Field::eq function incorrectly deduces that this is the
same column, so query transformation/equal item elimination
code (see build_equal_items_for_cond) may mix these columns
and damage conditions containing references to them.

      
When switching to indexed ORDER BY we must be sure to reset the index read
flag if we are switching from a covering index to non-covering.

used causes server crash.
      
When the loose index scan access method is used values of aggregated functions
are precomputed by it. Aggregation of such functions shouldn't be performed
in this case and functions should be treated as normal ones.
The create_tmp_table function wasn't taking this into account and this led to
a crash if a query has MIN/MAX aggregate functions and employs temporary table
and loose index scan.
Now the JOIN::exec and the create_tmp_table functions treat MIN/MAX aggregate
functions as normal ones when the loose index scan is used.

            tables open

When executing a DROP DATABASE statement in ROW mode and having temporary
tables open at the same time, the existance of temporary tables prevent
the server from switching back to row mode after temporarily switching to
statement mode to handle the logging of the statement.

Fixed the problem by removing the code to switch to statement mode and added
code to temporarily disable the binary log while dropping the objects in the
database.

post push fix

Updated partition_symlink since different error behavior
if embedded (or not partitioned)

Typo fixed.
No test case as we actually don't use rtree_get_first() 
and rtree_get_next() at present.

Problem: data consistency check (maximum record length) for a correct
MyISAM table with CHECKSUM=1 and ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC option 
may fail due to wrong inner MyISAM parameter. In result we may 
have the table marked as 'corrupted'. 

Fix: properly set MyISAM maximum record length parameter.