The problem was that the maximum value of the transaction_prealloc_size
session system variable was ULONG_MAX which meant that it was possible
to cause the server to allocate excessive amounts of memory.
This patch fixes the problem by reducing the maxmimum value of
transaction_prealloc_size and transaction_alloc_block_size down
to 128K.
Note that transactions will still be able to allocate more than
128K if needed, this patch just reduces the amount that can be
preallocated - as well as the maximum size of the incremental
allocation blocks.
Setting query_cache_size to larger values might fail depending on the memory
pressure being put on the system. This can be seen on pushbuild as the test
case query_cache_size_basic tries to allocate a +3GB query cache, which
succeeds in some machines and fails in others.
So this part of the code where the test case tries to allocate +3GB query cache has been
disabled for now to get the test running on pb2.
Bug#16565 mysqld --help --verbose does not order variablesBug#20413 sql_slave_skip_counter is not shown in show variables
Bug#20415 Output of mysqld --help --verbose is incomplete
Bug#25430 variable not found in SELECT @@global.ft_max_word_len;
Bug#32902 plugin variables don't know their names
Bug#34599 MySQLD Option and Variable Reference need to be consistent in formatting!
Bug#34829 No default value for variable and setting default does not raise error
Bug#34834 ? Is accepted as a valid sql mode
Bug#34878 Few variables have default value according to documentation but error occurs
Bug#34883 ft_boolean_syntax cant be assigned from user variable to global var.
Bug#37187 `INFORMATION_SCHEMA`.`GLOBAL_VARIABLES`: inconsistent status
Bug#40988 log_output_basic.test succeeded though syntactically false.
Bug#41010 enum-style command-line options are not honoured (maria.maria-recover fails)
Bug#42103 Setting key_buffer_size to a negative value may lead to very large allocations
Bug#44691 Some plugins configured as MYSQL_PLUGIN_MANDATORY in can be disabled
Bug#44797 plugins w/o command-line options have no disabling option in --help
Bug#46314 string system variables don't support expressions
Bug#46470 sys_vars.max_binlog_cache_size_basic_32 is broken
Bug#46586 When using the plugin interface the type "set" for options caused a crash.
Bug#47212 Crash in DBUG_PRINT in mysqltest.cc when trying to print octal number
Bug#48758 mysqltest crashes on sys_vars.collation_server_basic in gcov builds
Bug#49417 some complaints about mysqld --help --verbose output
Bug#49540 DEFAULT value of binlog_format isn't the default value
Bug#49640 ambiguous option '--skip-skip-myisam' (double skip prefix)
Bug#49644 init_connect and \0
Bug#49645 init_slave and multi-byte characters
Bug#49646 mysql --show-warnings crashes when server dies
