ha_partition stores records in array of m_ordered_rec_buffer and uses
it for prio queue in ordered index scan. When the records are restored
from the array the blob buffers may be already freed or rewritten.
The solution is to take temporary ownership of cached blob buffers via
String::swap(). When the record is restored from m_ordered_rec_buffer
the ownership is returned to table fields.
Cleanups:
init_record_priority_queue(): removed needless !m_ordered_rec_buffer
check as there is same assertion few lines before.
dbug_print_row() for arbitrary row pointer
Server crashes in Field::register_field_in_read_map upon select from
partitioned table with indexed by prefix virtual column.
After several read-mark fixes a problem has surfaced:
Since KEY (c(10),a) uses only a prefix of c, a new field is created,
duplicated from table->field[3], with a new length. However,
vcol_inco->expr is not copied.
Therefore, (*key_info)->key_part[i].field->vcol_info->expr was left NULL
in ha_partition::index_init().
Solution: copy vcol_info from table field when it's set up.
Server crashes in Field::register_field_in_read_map upon select from
partitioned table with indexed by prefix virtual column.
After several read-mark fixes a problem has surfaced:
Since KEY (c(10),a) uses only a prefix of c, a new field is created,
duplicated from table->field[3], with a new length. However,
vcol_inco->expr is not copied.
Therefore, (*key_info)->key_part[i].field->vcol_info->expr was left NULL
in ha_partition::index_init().
Solution: initialize vcols before key initialization
Also key initialization is moved to a function.
SQL processor failed to catch references to unknown columns and other
errors of the phase of semantic analysis in the specification of a
hanging recursive CTE. This happened because the function
With_clause::prepare_unreferenced_elements() failed to detect a CTE as
a hanging CTE if the CTE was recursive.
Fixing this problem in the code of the mentioned function opened another
problem: EXPLAIN started including the lines for the specifications of
hanging recursive CTEs in its output. This problem also was fixed in this
patch.
Approved by Dmitry Shulga <dmitry.shulga@mariadb.com>
from view
A crash of the server happened when executing a stored procedure whose the
only query calculated window functions over a mergeable view specified
as a select from non-mergeable view. The crash could be reproduced if
the window specifications of the window functions were identical and both
contained PARTITION lists and ORDER BY lists. A crash also happened on
the second execution of the prepared statement created for such query.
If to use derived tables or CTE instead of views the problem still
manifests itself crashing the server.
When optimizing the window specifications of a window function the
server can substitute the partition lists and the order lists for
the corresponding lists from another window specification in the case
when the lists are identical. This substitution is not permanent and should
be rolled back before the second execution. It was not done and this
ultimately led to a crash when resolving the column names at the second
execution of SP/PS.
This bug appeared after the patch for bug MDEV-23886. Due to this bug
execution of queries with CTEs used the same CTE at least twice via
prepared statements or with stored procedures caused crashes of the server.
It happened because the select created for any of not the first usage of
a CTE erroneously was not included into all_selects_list.
This patch corrects the patch applied to fix the bug MDEV-26108.
Approved by Oleksandr Byelkin <sanja@mariadb.com>
The bug affected execution of queries with With clauses containing so-called
hanging recursive CTEs in PREPARE mode. A CTE is hanging if it's not used
in the query. Preparation of a prepared statement from a query with a
hanging CTE caused a leak in the server and execution of this prepared
statement led to an assert failure of the server built in the debug mode.
This happened because the units specifying recursive CTEs erroneously were
not cleaned up if those CTEs were hanging.
The patch enforces cleanup of hanging recursive CTEs in the same way as
other hanging CTEs.
Approved by dmitry.shulga@mariadb.com
Test cases like the following one produce different result sets if it's run
with and without th option --ps-protocol.
CREATE TABLE t1(a INT);
--enable_metadata
(SELECT MAX(a) FROM t1) UNION (SELECT MAX(a) FROM t1);
--disable_metadata
DROP TABLE t1;
Result sets differ in metadata for the query
(SELECT MAX(a) FROM t1) UNION (SELECT MAX(a) FROM t1);
The reason for different content of query metadata is that for queries
with union the items being created on JOIN preparing phase is placed into
item_list from SELECT_LEX_UNIT whereas for queries without union item_list
from SELECT_LEX is used instead.
The columns that are part of DEFAULT expression were not read-marked
in statements like UPDATE...SET b=DEFAULT.
The problem is `F(DEFAULT)` expression depends of the left-hand side of an
assignment. However, setup_fields accepts only right-hand side value.
Neither Item::fix_fields does.
Suchwise, b=DEFAULT(b) works fine, because Item_default_field has
information on what field it is default of:
if (thd->mark_used_columns != MARK_COLUMNS_NONE)
def_field->default_value->expr->update_used_tables();
in Item_default_value::fix_fields().
It is not reasonable to pass a left-hand side to Item:fix_fields, because
the case is rare, so the rewrite
b= F(DEFAULT) -> b= F(DEFAULT(b))
is made instead.
Both UPDATE and multi-UPDATE are affected, however any form of INSERT
is not: it marks all the fields in DEFAULT expressions for read in
TABLE::mark_default_fields_for_write().
If test_if_skip_sort_order() decides to use an index to produce required
ordering, it should disable "Range Checked for each record" optimization.
This is because Range-Checked-for-each-record may decide to use an index
(or an index_merge) which will not produce the required ordering.
The problem is the same as in MDEV-18166: columns in virtual field
expression are not marked for read, while the field itself does.
field->register_field_in_read_map() should be called for read-marking all
fields.
The test is reproduced only in 10.4+, however the fix is applicable to
10.2+.
Reformulate mark_columns_used_by_index* function family in a more laconic
way:
mark_columns_used_by_index -> mark_index_columns
mark_columns_used_by_index_for_read_no_reset -> mark_index_columns_for_read
mark_columns_used_by_index_no_reset -> mark_index_columns_no_reset
static mark_index_columns -> do_mark_index_columns
Several different test cases were failing under the same reason: the
fields in a vcol expression were not marked during marking columns of a key
contatining virtual column for read.
Fix: make marking columns of a key for read a special case where
register_field_in_read_map() is done instead of plain bitmap_set_bit().
Some test cases are only reproducible in 10.4+, but the fix is applicable
to 10.2+
This is a 10.2+ part of a jira task
The two bugs regarding virtual column marking have been fixed:
1. UPDATE of a partitioned table, where the optimizer has chosen a
secondary index to make a filesort;
2. INSERT into a table with a nonblob field generated from a blob, with
binlog enabled and binlog_row_image=noblob.
3. DELETE from a view on a table with virtual column.
Generally the assertion happens from update_virtual_fields() call
These bugs are root-caused by missing field marking for dependant fields
of a virtual column.
Therefore a fix is: mark all the fields involved in the vcol expression by
calling field->register_field_in_read_map() instead just setting a single
bit.
3 was reproducible only on 10.4+, however the problem might has just been
invisible in the earlier versions. The fix is applicable to 10.2-10.3 as
well.
The failing reason was inconsistent truncation rules: the value of virtual
column could have been evaluated to '2000' sometimes instead of '0000' for
value 'a'.
The reason why `c YEAR AS ('aaaa')` was not evaluated same is that len=4 is
a special case insidew Field_year::store.
The correct fix is: always evaluate a bad value to 0000 instead 2000.
The truncated values should be evaluated as usual.
$support_virtual_index is finally changed to 1 in gcol.gcol_ins_upd_innodb,
which is also enough for testing.
The test from original bug report is also added.
with missing RECURSIVE
If a table reference r used inthe specification of a CTE whose definition
is contained in the WITH clause where RECURSIVE is omitted then this table
reference cannot be considered as a recursive table reference even if it is
used in the query that specifies CTE whose name is r. It can be considered
only as a reference to an embedding CTE or to a temporary table or to
a base table/view. If there is no such object with name r then an error
message must be reported.
This patch fixes the code that actually in some cases resolved r as a
reference to the CTE whose specification contained r if its name was r
in spite of the fact that r was not considered as a recursive CTE.
This happened in the cases when the definition of r was used in the
specification of another CTE. Such wrong name resolution for r led to an
infinite recursive invocations of the parser that ultimately crashed the
server.
This bug is a result of the fix for mdev-13780 that was not quite correct.
Approved by Oleksandr Byelkin <sanja@mariadb.com>
A less-intrusive fix: don't have table_cond_selectivity() assume that
there are less than MAX_REF_PARTS hash-join KEYUSEs.
If there are more than that, switch to using an array. Allocate the array
on the heap: we can't allocate it on MEM_ROOT as table_cond_selectivity()
is called many times during the optimization.
(Variant 2, with review input addressed)
This is a backport of 161e4bfafd.
trans_rollback_to_savepoint(): Only release metadata locks (MDL)
if the storage engines agree, after the changes were already rolled back.
Ever since commit 3792693f31
and mysql/mysql-server@55ceedbc3f
we used to cheat here and always release MDL if the binlog is disabled.
MDL are supposed to prevent race conditions between DML and DDL also
when no replication is in use. MDL are supposed to be a superset of
InnoDB table locks: InnoDB table lock may only exist if the thread
also holds MDL on the table name.
In the included test case, ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT would wrongly release
the MDL on both tables and let ALTER TABLE proceed, even though the DML
transaction is actually holding locks on the table.
Until commit 1bd681c8b3 (MDEV-25506)
in MariaDB 10.6, InnoDB would often work around the locking violation
in a blatantly non-ACID way: If locks exist on a table that is being
dropped (in this case, actually a partition of a table that is being
rebuilt by ALTER TABLE), InnoDB could move the table (or partition)
into a queue, to be dropped after the locks and references had been
released. If the lock is not released and the original copy of the
table not dropped quickly enough, a name conflict could occur on
a subsequent ALTER TABLE.
The scenario of commit 3792693f31
is unaffected by this fix, because mysqldump
would use non-locking reads, and the transaction would not be holding
any InnoDB locks during the execution of ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT.
MVCC reads inside InnoDB are only covered by MDL and page latches,
not by any table or record locks.
FIXME: It would be nice if storage engines were specifically asked
which MDL can be released, instead of only offering a choice
between all or nothing. InnoDB should be able to release any
locks for tables that are no longer in trx_t::mod_tables, except
if another transaction had converted some implicit record locks
to explicit ones, before the ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT had been completed.
Reviewed by: Sergei Golubchik
C:\projects\server\sql\sql_show.cc(7913): error C2220: warning treated as error - no 'object' file generated [C:\projects\server\win_build\sql\sql.vcxproj]
C:\projects\server\sql\sql_show.cc(7913): warning C4267: 'initializing': conversion from 'size_t' to 'uint', possible loss of data [C:\projects\server\win_build\sql\sql.vcxproj]
caused by 768c51880a
Consider a query of the form:
select ... from (select item2 as COL1) as T where COL1=123
Condition pushdown into derived table will try to push "COL1=123" condition
down into table T.
The process of pushdown involves "substituting" the item, that is,
replacing Item_field("T.COL1") with its "producing item" item2.
In order to use item2, one needs to clone it (call Item::build_clone).
If the item is not cloneable (e.g. Item_func_sp is not), the pushdown
process will fail and nothing at all will be pushed.
Fixed by introducing transform_condition_or_part() which will try to apply
the transformation for as many parts of condition as possible. The parts of
condition that couldn't be transformed are dropped.
Add KEYWORDS table and SQL_FUNCTIONS table to INFORMATION_SCHEMA.
This commits needs some minor changes when propagated upwards
(e.g. func_array in item_create.cc has a termination element that
doesn't exist in later versions of MariaDB)
If the first token of the body of a stored procedure was 'WITH' then
the beginning of the body was determined incorrectly and that token was
missing in the string representing the body of the SP in mysql.proc. As a
resultnany call of such procedure failed as the string representing the
body could not be parsed.
The patch corrects the code of the functions get_tok_start() and
get_cpp_tok_start() of the class Lex_input_stream to make them take into
account look ahead tokens. The patch is needed only for 10.2 as this
problem has neen resolved in 10.3+.
wsrep_sst_common did not correctly set name for binlog index
file if custom binlog name was used and this name was
not added to script command line.
Added test case for both log_basename and log_binlog.
This bug affected queries with views / derived_tables / CTEs whose
specifications were of the form
(SELECT ... LIMIT <n>) ORDER BY ...
Units representing such specifications contains one SELECT_LEX structure
for (SELECT ... LIMIT <n>) and additionally SELECT_LEX structure for
fake_select_lex. This fact should have been taken into account in the
function mysql_derived_fill().
This patch has to be applied to 10.2 and 10.3 only.
- InnoDB fails to check DB_COMPUTE_VALUE_FAILED error in
row_merge_read_clustered_index() and wrongly asserts that
the buffer shouldn't be ran out of memory. Alter table
should give warning when the column value is being
truncated.
* Make Item_in_optimizer::fix_fields inherit the with_window_func
attribute of the subquery's left expression (the subquery itself
cannot have window functions that are aggregated in this select)
* Make Item_cache_wrapper::Item_cache_wrapper() inherit
with_window_func attribute of the item it is caching.
This bug could manifest itself after pushing a where condition over a
mergeable derived table / view / CTE DT into a grouping view / derived
table / CTE V whose item list contained set functions with constant
arguments such as MIN(2), SUM(1) etc. In such cases the field references
used in the condition pushed into the view V that correspond set functions
are wrapped into Item_direct_view_ref wrappers. Due to a wrong implementation
of the virtual method const_item() for the class Item_direct_view_ref the
wrapped set functions with constant arguments could be erroneously taken
for constant items. This could lead to a wrong result set returned by the
main select query in 10.2. In 10.4 where a possibility of pushing condition
from HAVING into WHERE had been added this could cause a crash.
Approved by Sergey Petrunya <sergey.petrunya@mariadb.com>
Both EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN EXTENDED statements produce different results set
in case it is run in normal way and in PS mode for the statements
UPDATE/DELETE with subquery.
The use case below reproduces the issue:
MariaDB [test]> CREATE TABLE t1 (c1 INT KEY) ENGINE=MyISAM;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0,128 sec)
MariaDB [test]> CREATE TABLE t2 (c2 INT) ENGINE=MyISAM;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0,023 sec)
MariaDB [test]> CREATE TABLE t3 (c3 INT) ENGINE=MyISAM;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0,021 sec)
MariaDB [test]> EXPLAIN EXTENDED UPDATE t3 SET c3 =
-> ( SELECT COUNT(d1.c1) FROM ( SELECT a11.c1 FROM t1 AS a11
-> STRAIGHT_JOIN t2 AS a21 ON a21.c2 = a11.c1 JOIN t1 AS a12
-> ON a12.c1 = a11.c1 ) d1 );
+------+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------+--------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+------+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------+--------------------------------+
| 1 | PRIMARY | t3 | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 0 | 100.00 | |
| 2 | SUBQUERY | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | Impossible WHERE noticed after reading const tables
+------+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------+--------------------------------+
2 rows in set (0,002 sec)
MariaDB [test]> PREPARE stmt FROM
-> EXPLAIN EXTENDED UPDATE t3 SET c3 =
-> ( SELECT COUNT(d1.c1) FROM ( SELECT a11.c1 FROM t1 AS a11
-> STRAIGHT_JOIN t2 AS a21 ON a21.c2 = a11.c1 JOIN t1 AS a12
-> ON a12.c1 = a11.c1 ) d1 );
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0,000 sec)
Statement prepared
MariaDB [test]> EXECUTE stmt;
+------+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------+--------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+------+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------+--------------------------------+
| 1 | PRIMARY | t3 | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 0 | 100.00 | |
| 2 | SUBQUERY | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | no matching row in const table |
+------+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------+--------------------------------+
2 rows in set (0,000 sec)
The reason by that different result sets are produced is that on execution
of the statement 'EXECUTE stmt' the flag SELECT_DESCRIBE not set
in the data member SELECT_LEX::options for instances of SELECT_LEX that
correspond to subqueries used in the UPDTAE/DELETE statements.
Initially, these flags were set on parsing the statement
PREPARE stmt FROM "EXPLAIN EXTENDED UPDATE t3 SET ..."
but latter they were reset before starting real execution of
the parsed query during handling the statement 'EXECUTE stmt';
So, to fix the issue the functions mysql_update()/mysql_delete()
have been modified to set the flag SELECT_DESCRIBE forcibly
in the data member SELECT_LEX::options for the primary SELECT_LEX
of the UPDATE/DELETE statement.
The only call of the virtual member function
handler::update_table_comment() was removed in
commit 82d28fada7 (MySQL 5.5.53)
but the implementation was not removed.
The only non-trivial implementation was for InnoDB. The information
is now returned via handler::get_foreign_key_create_info() and
ha_statistics::delete_length.
cherry-pick commit: 1fff2398ef
MDEV-22530 post push fixes from 10.6.
Followup. If the KILL happens - report it as a failure,
don't eat it up silently. Note that this has to be done after `table_name`
is populated, so that the error message could show it.
In the code existed just before this patch binding of a table reference to
the specification of the corresponding CTE happens in the function
open_and_process_table(). If the table reference is not the first in the
query the specification is cloned in the same way as the specification of
a view is cloned for any reference of the view. This works fine for
standalone queries, but does not work for stored procedures / functions
for the following reason.
When the first call of a stored procedure/ function SP is processed the
body of SP is parsed. When a query of SP is parsed the info on each
encountered table reference is put into a TABLE_LIST object linked into
a global chain associated with the query. When parsing of the query is
finished the basic info on the table references from this chain except
table references to derived tables and information schema tables is put
in one hash table associated with SP. When parsing of the body of SP is
finished this hash table is used to construct TABLE_LIST objects for all
table references mentioned in SP and link them into the list of such
objects passed to a pre-locking process that calls open_and_process_table()
for each table from the list.
When a TABLE_LIST for a view is encountered the view is opened and its
specification is parsed. For any table reference occurred in
the specification a new TABLE_LIST object is created to be included into
the list for pre-locking. After all objects in the pre-locking have been
looked through the tables mentioned in the list are locked. Note that the
objects referenced CTEs are just skipped here as it is impossible to
resolve these references without any info on the context where they occur.
Now the statements from the body of SP are executed one by one that.
At the very beginning of the execution of a query the tables used in the
query are opened and open_and_process_table() now is called for each table
reference mentioned in the list of TABLE_LIST objects associated with the
query that was built when the query was parsed.
For each table reference first the reference is checked against CTEs
definitions in whose scope it occurred. If such definition is found the
reference is considered resolved and if this is not the first reference
to the found CTE the the specification of the CTE is re-parsed and the
result of the parsing is added to the parsing tree of the query as a
sub-tree. If this sub-tree contains table references to other tables they
are added to the list of TABLE_LIST objects associated with the query in
order the referenced tables to be opened. When the procedure that opens
the tables comes to the TABLE_LIST object created for a non-first
reference to a CTE it discovers that the referenced table instance is not
locked and reports an error.
Thus processing non-first table references to a CTE similar to how
references to view are processed does not work for queries used in stored
procedures / functions. And the main problem is that the current
pre-locking mechanism employed for stored procedures / functions does not
allow to save the context in which a CTE reference occur. It's not trivial
to save the info about the context where a CTE reference occurs while the
resolution of the table reference cannot be done without this context and
consequentially the specification for the table reference cannot be
determined.
This patch solves the above problem by moving resolution of all CTE
references at the parsing stage. More exactly references to CTEs occurred in
a query are resolved right after parsing of the query has finished. After
resolution any CTE reference it is marked as a reference to to derived
table. So it is excluded from the hash table created for pre-locking used
base tables and view when the first call of a stored procedure / function
is processed.
This solution required recursive calls of the parser. The function
THD::sql_parser() has been added specifically for recursive invocations of
the parser.
Item_in_subselect::create_single_in_to_exists_cond() should handle the
case where the subquery is a table-less select but it is not a result
of a UNION.
(Table-less subqueries like "(SELECT 1)" are "substituted" with their select
list, but table-less subqueries with WHERE or HAVING clause, like
"(SELECT 1 WHERE ...)" are not substituted. They are handled with regular
execution path)
m_status == DA_OK_BULK' failed in Diagnostics_area::message from
get_schema_tables_record
Analysis: SET NAMES changes character set for character_set_client,
character_set_connection, character_set_results to 'filename'. The .frm file of view
has @xx sequences in the SELECT query, which give parsing error because 'filename'
character set is not parser friendly. When we get parsing error (ER_PARSE_ERROR), we
directly return true without setting error status. This is caught later in assertion.
Fix: Disallow 'filename' character set in SET NAMES because it is not parser
friendly.
before change test:
strace -fe trace=file -o /tmp/f.strace sql/mysqld --datadir=/tmp/d --log-bin=foo-bin --help --verbose && ls -la /tmp/
...
'mysqladmin variables' instead of 'mysqld --verbose --help'.
total 0
drwxrwxr-x. 2 dan dan 60 May 19 18:05 .
drwxrwxrwt. 27 root root 640 May 19 18:03 ..
-rw-rw----. 1 dan dan 0 May 19 18:05 foo-bin.index
In Item_field::fix_fields(): when the item was resolved to an Item_field
in the SELECT's select_list, copy the Item_field's "depended_from" field.
Failure to do so caused the item to have incorrect attributes: it pointed
to a Field in an upper select but used_tables() didn't return
OUTER_REF_TABLE_BIT.
Problem:
========
Aborting OPTIMIZE TABLE still logs in binary logs and replicates to the
Slave server. "Optimize table" command under execution, is killed by using
"Ctrl-C" as shown below.
MariaDB [test]> optimize table t2;
^CCtrl-C -- query killed. Continuing normally.
In spite of query execution being interrupted the query gets written to
binary log.
Analysis:
========
Admin command execution logic is not handling KILL command, hence it
ignores the KILL command and completes its execution.
Fix:
===
Check for thread killed notification, during admin command execution and
handle it. If thread kill occurs prior to any table modification the query
will not be written to binary log. If kill happens after at least one table
is modified then the query will be written to binary log. Ex: command in
execution is 'OPTIMIZE TABLE t1,t2' and the thread kill happens after t1
table is modified then 'OPTIMIZE TABLE t1,t2' will be written to binary log
as admin commands will not make the slave to diverge from master.
Problem:
=======
In slave_parallel_mode=optimistic configuration, when admin commands and
DML operation on the same table are scheduled simultaneously for execution,
it results in lock conflict and slave server either hangs due to
deadlock or goes down with an assert.
Analysis:
========
Admin commands OPTIMIZE, REPAIR and ANALYZE are written to binary log as
ordinary transactions. When 'slave_parallel_mode' is 'optimistic' DMLs are
allowed to run in parallel. But these locks are not detected by parallel
replication deadlock detection-and-handling mechanism. At times they result
in deadlock or assertion.
Fix:
===
Flag admin commands as DDL in Gtid_log_event at the time of writing to
binary log. Add a new bit EXECUTED_TABLE_ADMIN_CMD to
'm_unsafe_rollback_flags'. During 'mysql_admin_table' command execution it
accepts a list of tables to be processed and executes them in a loop. Upon
successful execution enable 'EXECUTED_TABLE_ADMIN_CMD' bit in
thd->transaction.stmt_unsafe_rollback_flags. Gtid_log_event constructor
will notice this flag and mark the current transaction with 'FL_DDL' flag.
Gtid_log_events marked as FL_DDL will not be scheduled parallel execution,
on the slave. They will execute in isolation to prevent deadlocks.
Note: Removed the call to 'trans_commit_implicit' from 'mysql_admin_table'
function as 'mysql_execute_command' will take care of invoking
'trans_commit_implicit'.
No longer a MySQL server, "his" is the wrong pronoun
for a server.
Thanks Michael Newton for highlighting these problems
Also changed slave -> replica.
1) This commit implements reading all sections from configuration
files while looking for the current value of any server variable,
which were previously only read from the [mysqld.suffix] group and
from [mysqld], but not from other groups such as [mariadb.suffix],
[mariadb] or, for example, [server].
2) This commit also fixes misrecognition of some parameters when
parsing a command line containing a special marker for the end
of the list of options ("--") or when short option names (such
as "-s", "-a" and "-h arg") chained together (like a "-sah arg").
Such parameters can be passed to the SST script in the list of
arguments after "--mysqld-args" if the server is started with a
complex set of options - this was revealed during manual testing
of changes to read configuration files.
3) The server-side preparation code for the "--mysqld-args"
option list has also been simplified to make it easier to change
in the future (if needed), and has been improved to properly
handle the special backquote ("`") character in the argument
values.
