removed methods that are duplicated in management client

  4.1.9 compatible with 4.1.8

removed theCurrentConnectCounter
optimized the_release_ind by using pos[0] to indicate that there is something there
smaller storage of theDBNodes array by using Uint8
set the_relase_ind array to Uint32 to avoid possible parallell thread usage errors

into mysql.com:/home/jonas/src/mysql-4.1

which Heikki fixed in 4.1.8 and 4.0.23. I verified that without Heikki's patch the test fails (7 gets inserted).
Test added to 4.1 because in testsuite of 4.0 it's impossible to start slave with InnoDB.

into mysql.com:/home/mysql_src/mysql-4.1-clean

because old behaviour was somewhat nonsensical (kind of bug). Changes are that if repl threads are
down or disconnected the column will be NULL, and if master is idle the column will not grow indefinitely anymore.

- tagged ChangeSet 1.2173 as "mysql-4.1.8"

not simply inline, to fix the linking failure on Sun Solaris 9 (sparc)
with Sun Studio 9, reported by Peter Harvey.

into gw.mysql.r18.ru:/usr/home/ram/work/4.1

TYPE=MyISAM replaced with ENGINE=MyISAM.

corrected mysql_test_run_new.dsp
added dependency
corrected path of mysql_test_run_new.dsp
fixed wrong code
added my_create_tables.c
removed command_line
fixed #elif
restored NAME_MAX and MAX_FNAME
added create_system_files()
added compare() for windows
added all files of testes in script
added mysql-test in script

into gw.mysql.r18.ru:/usr/home/ram/work/4.1

bug#6911 resultset metadata always return client character set

into gw.mysql.r18.ru:/usr/home/ram/work/4.1

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

  removed diskless option for ndb test

into gw.mysql.r18.ru:/usr/home/ram/work/4.1

into mysql.com:/dbdata/psergey/mysql-4.1-merge-fix

The "insert_update" causes a server crash when using prepared statements

Must clear table->insert_values after completing every prepared statement

(here in client_test.c because we need to check if several PS execution works and the bug shows up with binary protocol only ) 

into mysql.com:/dbdata/psergey/mysql-4.1-merge-fix

 * Backport of safety measures from 5.0: make numeorous replaces:
    s/item->fix_fields()/if (!item->fixed) item->fix_fields()

into mysql.com:/home/jwinstead2/mysql-4.1

 * Added Item_ref::set_properties 
 * Item_ref::Item_ref now expects to get in *item either
     NULL - then fix_fields() will be called later  or 
     ptr to Item it will refer to - then an equivalent of fix_fields() call is performed

into mysql.com:/home/mysql_src/mysql-4.1-clean

  without the PS protocol

  s/spaces/TAB/

  Add running of test suite with --ps-protocol to 'test' target

into mysql.com:/home/jwinstead2/mysql-4.1

into mysql.com:/dbdata/psergey/mysql-4.1-merge