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Alter waiting on Select statement to complete

A few days ago, we faced an interesting problem on one of our customer’s slave mysqld servers.  An Alter for adding a new column was run on master server took 542 seconds where as it took few hours on the slave server to complete due to a SELECT blocking the Alter was not allowed to complete.

Here is the the select on the master server and it’s execution time from the binary logs.

# at 825737566
#110720 19:55:21 server id 31415  end_log_pos 825737730         Query   thread_id=83250629      exec_time=542   error_code=0
use collect/*!*/;
SET TIMESTAMP=1311216921/*!*/;
/*!\C latin1 *//*!*/;
SET @@session.character_set_client=8,@@session.collation_connection=8,@@session.collation_server=8/*!*/;
ALTER TABLE `track` ADD `source_track_id` int(10) UNSIGNED NULL DEFAULT NULL  AFTER `vendor_track_id`
/*!*/;

Alter statement completed well on the master and it got blocked by a SELECT on the slave where as the time frames of the …

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