The slave connections can now be recovered after a failure as long as the
session command history is enabled. In comparison to the old
functionality, the server now replaces the connection when a query is
received instead of reconnecting when the slave fails.
As a negative side effect of this change, the max_slave_connections is no
longer enforced after the connection is created. To fix this broken
functionality, the connected slaves need to be preferred over unconnected
ones. This will be added in a follow-up commit.
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