Increase max columns per key to 32

Registered by rich prohaska

(Blueprint obsoleted by Rich's request)

Queries sometimes get much better performance when the index that is used covers the query. Storage engines like InnoDB and TokuDB store the primary key as part of the secondary key. When a query needs the values of columns that are not in the key, the storage engine does a primary key lookup for each secondary key read. This can really tank performance.

MySQL supports 16 columns per key. This patch increases the number of columns per key to 32, which allows one to increase the scope of queries that are covered by the secondary key.

https://github.com/Tokutek/mysql56/commit/8e439302d1ef6556e780677fc2f1b65bb59c745c
and
https://github.com/Tokutek/mysql56/commit/9b8d9d5599f2c674a62cb6e426671e20011086d8

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