Fun with Bugs #66 - On MySQL Bug Reports I am Subscribed to, Part VI
I have some free time today, but I am still lazy enough to work on numerous planned and pending "ToDo" kind of posts, so why not to continue review of older MySQL bugs I am subscribed to. Today I am...
View ArticleFun with Bugs #67 - On Some Public Bugs Fixed in MySQL 8.0.11 GA
I stopped reviewing MySQL Release Notes for quite a some time, but major GA releases of MySQL do not happen often, so I decided to make an exception and write about some bugs from Community users fixed...
View ArticleFun with Bugs #68 - On MySQL Bug Reports I am Subscribed to, Part VII
Last time I reviewed my recent subscriptions to MySQL bugs it was April 1, 2018. I was busy working, blogging about other bugs, running random MTR tests on MySQL 8.0.11 and got two weeks of vacation...
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On Partitioning in MySQL
Back in April I was preparing for vacations that my wife and I planned to spend in UK. Among other things planned I wanted to visit a customer's office in London and discuss few MySQL and MariaDB...
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On InnoDB Data Compression in MySQL
Another story that I've prepared back in April for my meeting with one of customers in London was a "compression story". We spent a lot of time on it in several support issues in the past, with only...
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What's Right and What's Wrong With Oracle's Way of MySQL Server Development
Recently it's quite common to state that "Oracle's Acquisition Was Actually the Best Thing to Happen to MySQL". I am not going to argue with that - Oracle proved over years that they are committed to...
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Problems of Oracle's MySQL as an Open Source Product
In my previous summary blog post I listed 5 problems I see with the way Oracle handles MySQL server development. The first of them was that "Oracle does not develop MySQL server in a true open source...
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Problems with Oracle's Way of MySQL Bugs Database Maintenance
In one of my previous posts I stated that Oracle does not care enough to maintain public MySQL bugs database properly. I think it's time to explain this statement in details.The fact that...
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On Some Problematic Oracle MySQL Server Features
In one of my previous posts I stated that in Oracle's MySQL server some old enough features remain half-backed, not well tested, not properly integrated with each other, and not documented properly....
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Fun with Bugs #69 - On Some Public Bugs Fixed in MySQL 5.7.23
Several MySQL releases happened yesterday, but of them all I am mostly interested in MySQL 5.7.23, as MySQL 5.7 (either directly or indirectly, via forks and upstream fixes they merge) is probably the...
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Fun with Bugs #70 - On MySQL Bug Reports I am Subscribed to, Part VIII
More than 2 months passed since my previous review of active MySQL bug reports I am subscribed to, so it's time to describe what I was interested in this summer.Let's start with few bug reports that...
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On Oracle's QA for MySQL
In my recent blog posts I presented lists of bugs, fixed and not yet fixed, as usual. Working on these lists side tracked me from the main topic of this summer - problems in Oracle's way of handling...
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On Fine MySQL Manual
Today I am going to provide some details on the last item in my list of problems with Oracle's way of MySQL server development, maintenance of MySQL Manual. I stated that:"MySQL Manual still have many...
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On MySQL Replication Bugs
While writing about problematic Oracle MySQL features previously I concentrated mostly on InnoDB problems that I have to fight with really often and deliberately skipped replication from even the...
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On MySQL XA Transactions
One of the features I missed in my blog post on problematic MySQL features back in July is XA transactions. Probably I was too much in a hurry, as this feature is known to be somewhat buggy, limited...
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On Some Recent MySQL Optimizer Bugs
Yet another topic I missed in my blog post on problematic MySQL features back in July is MySQL optimizer. Unlike with XA transactions, it was done in purpose, as known bugs, limitations and...
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Fun with Bugs #71 - On Some Public Bugs Fixed in MySQL 5.7.24
Oracle released many new MySQL versions back on Monday, but I had no time during this very busy week to check anything related (besides the fact that MySQL 8.0.13 can be complied from source on my...
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On New Severity Levels for MySQL Bugs
Four weeks ago while working on a blog post about half baked XA transactions feature of MySQL server I've noted that there are new severity levels added by Oracle for MySQL bug reports. Previously we...
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Fun with Bugs #72 - On MySQL Bug Reports I am Subscribed to, Part IX
I've subscribed to more than 60 new bug reports since my previous post in this series. It means that I'd need 4-5 posts to cover all new subscriptions and reasons behind them. I still plan to write...
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Fun with Bugs #73 - On MySQL Bug Reports I am Subscribed to, Part X
It's time to continue my review of MySQL bug reports that I considered interesting for some reason recently. I had not got any notable reaction from Oracle engineers to my previous post about recent...
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