Adjusted the result files in  the pbxt, innodb and innodb_plugin suites.

Commented out a failing test case in innodb.innodb_multi_update.test.
It should be returned back when the problem with multi-update of derived
tables (bug 784297) is resolved.

derived_view.test.
Do not register Item_ref objects of the type VIEW_REF as outer
references.

When a view is merged into a select all the depended_from fields
pointing to the select of the view should have been corrected to
point to the select where the view is used. It was not done yet.
This could lead to wrong results returned by queries such as
one from the test case for bug 33389.
Correction of outer references required walking through all items
of the proccesed qurery. To avoid this the following solution was
implemented.
Each select now contains a pointer to the select it is merged into
(if there is any). Such pointers allow to get the corrected value
of depended_from on the fly. The function Item_ident::get_depended_from
was introduced for this purpose.

Resolved all conflicts, bad merges and fixed a few minor bugs in the code.
Commented out the queries from multi_update, view, subselect_sj, func_str,
derived_view, view_grant that failed either with crashes in ps-protocol or
with wrong results.
The failures are clear indications of some bugs in the code and these bugs
are to be fixed.

mysql-test/r/explain.result:
  fixed results (new item)
mysql-test/r/subselect.result:
  fixed results (new item)
mysql-test/r/subselect_no_mat.result:
  fixed results (new item)
mysql-test/r/subselect_no_opts.result:
  fixed results (new item)
mysql-test/r/subselect_no_semijoin.result:
  Fixed results (new item)
mysql-test/suite/pbxt/r/subselect.result:
  Fixed results (new item)
mysql-test/t/explain.test:
  Fixed results (correct behaviour)
sql/item_cmpfunc.cc:
  Pass through  for max/min
sql/item_subselect.cc:
  moving max/min
sql/item_subselect.h:
  moving max/min
sql/mysql_priv.h:
  new uncacheble flags added
sql/opt_subselect.cc:
  maxmin moved.
sql/opt_subselect.h:
  New function for maxmin.
sql/sql_class.h:
  debug code
sql/sql_lex.cc:
  Fixed flags.
  Limit setting fixed.
sql/sql_lex.h:
  2 new flags.
sql/sql_select.cc:
  Prepare divided on 2 function to be able recollect some info after transformation.
sql/sql_select.h:
  Prepare divided on 2 functions.

Pushing test case only. The bug itself was fixed by the
combined patches for LP BUG#717577 and LP BUG#776274.

The bug was introduced by the patch that fixed bug 717577.

Merge with 5.3

presumably neither TMP nor TEMP environment variable are set.

mysql-test/suite/funcs_1/r/storedproc.result:
  Fixed test failure
mysql-test/suite/funcs_1/t/storedproc.test:
  Fixed test failure
  (The error changed as syntax for alter changed with ALTER ONLINE)
storage/maria/ha_maria.cc:
  fixed compiler warning

Added ALTER ONLINE TABLE, which will give an error if the change can't be done 'instantly' (without a table copy)


mysql-test/r/alter_table_online.result:
  Test new feature
mysql-test/t/alter_table_online.test:
  Test new feature
sql/handler.cc:
  Added comment
sql/lex.h:
  Added ONLINE keyword
sql/mysql_priv.h:
  Added option to alter table to require online operation
sql/share/errmsg.txt:
  Added error message if ONLINE can't be done
sql/sql_lex.h:
  Added online option
sql/sql_parse.cc:
  Added online option to mysql_alter_table()
sql/sql_table.cc:
  Added test that gives error if table can't be done instantly when requsted to be online.
  Fixed wrong test if table includes a VARCHAR
  Fixed wrong (but unlikely) handling of error conditions in ALTER table
sql/sql_yacc.yy:
  Added ALTER ONLINE TABLE syntax
storage/maria/ha_maria.cc:
  Fixed bug where 'start_bulk_insert' used too small buffer if used with unknown number of rows

This makes it possible to do safe multi volume snapshots as long as one snapshots the volume with the transaction logs last.


include/mysql_com.h:
  Added REFRESH_CHECKPOINT
mysql-test/r/flush.result:
  Added test of new FLUSH TABLES syntax + calls to checkpoint_status handler calls
mysql-test/t/flush.test:
  Added test of new FLUSH TABLES syntax + calls to checkpoint_status handler calls
sql/handler.cc:
  Added code to call checkpoint_state for all handlertons that supports it
sql/handler.h:
  Added new checkpoint_state() handlerton call to temporarly disable checkpoints.
sql/lex.h:
  Added CHECKPOINT keyword
sql/sql_yacc.yy:
  Added support for FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK AND DISABLE CHECKPOINT
storage/maria/ha_maria.cc:
  Added handlerton call to disable checkpoints.
storage/maria/ma_checkpoint.c:
  Don't do checkpoint if checkpoints are disabled.
storage/maria/ma_static.c:
  Added maria_checkpoint_disabled
storage/maria/maria_def.h:
  Added maria_checkpoint_disabled
storage/xtradb/handler/ha_innodb.cc:
  Added handlerton call to disable checkpoints.
storage/xtradb/include/log0log.h:
  Added option to log_checkpoint() to allow one to ignore not critical checkpoints during the time checkpoints are disabled.
storage/xtradb/log/log0log.c:
  Added code to allow one to disable checkpoints during a FLUSH TABLES ... DISABLE CHECKPOINT
  This was done by adding a new argument to log_checkpoint() which tells us when the checkpoint is called by srv_master_thread (which are safe to ignore)
storage/xtradb/srv/srv0srv.c:
  Tell log_checkpoint() that checkpoints from srv_master_thread() are safe to ignore (will just delay recovery time a bit).

Analysis:
Build_equal_items_for_cond() rewrites the WHERE clause in such a way,
that it may merge the list join->cond_equal->current_level with the
list of child Items in an AND condition of the WHERE clause.

The place where this is done is:
static COND *build_equal_items_for_cond(THD *thd, COND *cond,
                                        COND_EQUAL *inherited)
{
  ...
      if (and_level)
    {
      args->concat(&eq_list);
      args->concat((List<Item> *)&cond_equal.current_level);
    }
  ...
}

As a result, later transformations on the WHERE clause may change the
structure of the list join->cond_equal->current_level without knowing this.

Specifically in this bug, Item_in_subselect::inject_in_to_exists_cond
creates a new AND of the old WHERE clause and the IN->EXISTS conditions.
It then calls fix_fields() for the new AND. Among other things, fix_fields
flattens all nested ANDs into one by merging the AND argument lists.

When there is a cond_equal for the JOIN, its list of Item_equal objects
is attached to the end of the original AND. When a lower-level AND is
merged into the top-level one, the argument list of the lower-level AND
is concatenated to the list of multiple equalities in the upper-level AND.

As a result, when substitute_for_best_equal_field processes the 
multiple equalities, it turns out that the multiple equality list contains
the Items from the lower-level AND which were concatenated to the end of
the join->cond_equal->current_level list. This results in a crash because
this list must not contain any other Items except for the previously found
Item_equal ones.

Solution:
When performing IN->EXIST predicate injection, and the where clause is an
AND, detach the list of Item_equal objects before calling fix_fields on
the injected where clause.

After fix_fields is done, reattach back the multiple equalities list to
the end of the argument list of the new AND.

The function test_quick_select by mistake did not update the value
of table->quick_condition_rows for index intersection scans though
the specification explicitly required to do so from any table access
plan once the plan provided a better upper bound for the number of
rows selected from the table. It resulted in a bogus, usually very
big number saved as the cost of the table access. This, in its turn,
in many cases forced the optimizer to make a bad choice of the
execution plan for join queries.

Both these two bugs happened due to the following problem.
When a view column is referenced in the query an Item_direct_view_ref
object is created that is refers to the Item_field for the column.
All references to the same view column refer to the same Item_field.
Different references can belong to different AND/OR levels and,
as a result, can be included in different Item_equal object.
These Item_equal objects may include different constant objects.
If these constant objects are substituted for the Item_field created
for a view column we have a conflict situation when the second
substitution annuls the first substitution. This leads to
wrong result sets returned by the query. Bug #724942 demonstrates
such an erroneous behaviour.
Test case of the bug #717577 produces wrong result sets because best
equal fields of the multiple equalities built for different OR levels
of the WHERE condition differs. The subsitution for the best equal field
in the second OR branch overwrites the the substitution made for the
first branch.

To avoid such conflicts we have to substitute for the references
to the view columns rather than for the underlying field items.
To make such substitutions possible we have to include into
multiple equalities references to view columns rather than 
field items created for such columns.

This patch modifies the Item_equal class to include references
to view columns into multiple equality objects. It also performs
a clean up of the class methods and adds more comments. The methods
of the Item_direct_view_ref class that assist substitutions for
references to view columns has been also added by this patch.

In some cases the field max_part_no of the SEL_ARG structure
was not initialized. That triggered a Valgrind complain.

Corrected PBXT test results (explains).

Analysis:
The wrong result is a consquence of sorting the subquery
result and then selecting only the first row due to the
artificial LIMIT 1 introduced by the fix_fields phase.
Normally, if there is an ORDER BY in a subquery, the ORDER
is removed (Item_in_subselect::select_in_like_transformer),
however if a GROUP BY is transformed into ORDER, this happens
later, after the removal of the ORDER clause of subqueries, so
we end up with a subquery with an ORDER clause, and an artificially
added LIMIT 1.

The reason why the same works in the main 5.3 without MWL#89, is
that the 5.3 performs all subquery transformations, including
IN->EXISTS before JOIN::optimize(). The beginning of JOIN::optimize
does:
  if (having || (select_options & OPTION_FOUND_ROWS))
    select_limit= HA_POS_ERROR;
which sets the limit back to infinity, thus 5.3 sorts the whole
subquery result, and IN performs the lookup into all subquery result
rows.

Solution:
Sorting of subqueries without LIMIT is meaningless. Since LIMIT in
subqueries is not supported, the patch removes sorting by setting
  join->skip_sort_order= true
for each subquery JOIN object. This improves a number of execution
plans to not perform unnecessary sorting at all.

-fimplicit-termplates must be in CXXFLAGS not in handlersocket_la_CXXFLAGS.
otehrwise automake puts it in the command line too early to override
global -fno-implicit-templates

The problem was that connection con5, which is supposed to be the leader for
the third group, could if timing was bad end up as participant in the second
group, causing the test to fail.

Fixed by ensuring that group 2 is running before starting the transaction
for group 3.

LPBUG 756966 is solved.

 - MWL#116 Group commit
 - MWL#136 Enhancements for START TRANSACTION WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT
 - MWL#47 Annotate_rows_log_event
 - MWL#163 innodb_release_locks_early
 - Percona patch enhancing row-based replication for tables with no primary key

- Let advance_sj_state() save the value of JOIN::cur_dups_producing_tables
  in POSITION::prefix_dups_producing_tables, and restore_sj_state() restore
  it. 

Also implement the InnoDB changes for group commit into innodb_plugin.

hold the latch across the 2-phase commit, and it is already released at
start of prepare (if not before).

Rename trx->active_trans to active_flag; since we changed the semantics of
the field, renaming should help prevent silent merge errors.