Slides for my talk about MySQL bugs at FOSDEM 2019 MySQL, MariaDB and Friends Devroon are ready, support customers decided not to break anything badly on weekend, so I have some free time for blogging.  As usual, when I do not have any better idea or useful recent real life experience to share I write about MySQL bugs.

Today I'd like to continue my review of interesting MySQL bug reports added by Community members in December, 2018. I'll review them starting from the oldest:

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Holidays season is almost over here, so it's time to get back to my main topic of MySQL bugs. Proper MySQL bug reporting will be a topic of my FOSDEM 2019 talk in less than 4 weeks (and few slides with recent examples of bugs are not yet ready), so I have to concentrate on bugs.

Last time in this series I reviewed some interesting bug reports filed in November, 2018. Time to move on and proceed with bugs reported in December, 2018, as I've subscribed to 27 or so of them. As usual, I'll review them briefly starting from the oldest and try to check if MariaDB 10.3 is also affected when the bug report is about common features:

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These days several kinds and forks of MySQL are widely used, and while I promised not to write about MySQL bugs till the end of 2018, I think it makes sense to try to explain basic details about bug reporting for at least one of vendors that use JIRA instances as a public bug tracking systems. I work for MariaDB Corporation and it would be natural for me to write about MariaDB's JIRA that I use every day.

As a side note, Percona also switched to JIRA some time ago, and many of the JIRA-specific details described below (that are different comparing to good old https://bugs.mysql.com/) apply to Percona bugs …

From the lack of comments to my previous post it seems everything is clear with ERROR 1213 in different kinds and forks of MySQL. I may still write a post of two about MyRocks or TokuDB deadlocks one day, but let's get back to my main topic of MySQL bugs. Today I continue my series of posts about community bug reports I am subscribed to with a review of bugs reported in November, 2018, starting from the oldest and skipping those MySQL 8 regression ones I've already commented on. I also skip documentation bugs that should be a topic for a separate post one day (to give more illustration to …

For some reason the Committee of FOSDEM 2019 MySQL, MariaDB & Friends Devroom of all my talks submitted picked up the one on how to create a useful MySQL bug report, so I have no options but continue to write about MySQL bugs, as long and MySQL Community wants and even prefers to listen and read about them... That's what I do, with pleasure.

Today I'll continue my series of posts about community bug reports I am subscribed to with the review of bugs reported since October 1, 2018, starting from the oldest and skipping those MySQL 8 regression ones I've already commented on:

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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 regression bugs in MySQL 8.0.13, so probably this topic is not really that hot. In this boring post I'll just review some bugs I've subscribed to since August that are still not closed, starting from the oldest.

Let me start with a couple of bug reports that remain "Open":

• Bug #91959 - "UBSAN: signed integer overflow in lock_update_trx_age". It's really unusual to see bug reported by …

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 Fedora 27 box). I am sure you've read a lot about MySQL 8.0.13 elsewhere already, even patches contributed by Community are already presented in a separate post by Jesper Krogh.

I am still mostly interested in MySQL 5.7. So, here is my typical quick review of some selected bugs reported in public by MySQL Community users and fixed in MySQL …

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 deficiencies of MySQL optimizer is a topic for a series of blog posts if not a separate blog. At the moment the list of known active bug reports in optimize category consists of …

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 and not widely used outside of Java applications. My first related feature request, Bug #40445 - "Provide C functions library implementing X/OPEN XA interface for Bea Tuxedo", was created almost 10 years ago, based on the issue from one of MySQL/Sun customers of that time. I remember some …

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 preliminary list of features to study in details for that blog post. First of all, I mostly work with MariaDB users now, and implementation of many replication features in MariaDB is notably different already (and has its own list of known problems). But this happened also because (asynchronous) replication plays a key role in most MySQL environments and deserves a detailed study in a separate post.
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