This essentially reverts commit 4e89ec6692
and only disables InnoDB persistent statistics for tests where it is
desirable. By design, InnoDB persistent statistics will not be updated
except by ANALYZE TABLE or by STATS_AUTO_RECALC.
The internal transactions that update persistent InnoDB statistics
in background tasks (with innodb_stats_auto_recalc=ON) may cause
nondeterministic query plans or interfere with some tests that deal
with other InnoDB internals, such as the purge of transaction history.
InnoDB takes a lot of time to perform null updates. The reason is that
even though an empty update vector was created, InnoDB will go on to
write undo log records and update the system columns
DB_TRX_ID and DB_ROLL_PTR in the clustered index, and of course write
redo log for all this.
This could have been fixed properly in
commit 54a492ecac more than 10 years ago.
