As you may already know, since MySQL 5.7.17, the generic
partitioning handler in the MySQL server is deprecated, and is
completely removed in MySQL 8.0.
So now, in MySQL 5.7, the storage engine used for a given table
is expected to provide its own (“native”) partitioning handler.
Currently, only the InnoDB
and NDB
storage engines do.
MySQL 5.7 supports generic partitions & native partitions
What does that imply for users using partitions in an earlier
version MySQL migrating to 5.7 ?
As the documentation describes it, the generic partitioning
handler is still supported in all MySQL 5.7 releases, although it
is deprecated in 5.7.17 and later. (Note that “deprecated” is not
the same as …
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