Recently I wrote a blog post on how to use ProxySQL with 8.0.2 dmr
This blog post was related to the change we implemented in the Group Replication’s monitoring (performance_schema tables) and how sys schema should be changed to modify the view used by ProxySQL according.
However, I used my labs machines that I was using for different purposes too and some changes I made hid a problem that avoid ProxySQL to work with the new defaults in MySQL 8.0.2. Thank you Andy for discovering this.
In fact the new collation default (utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci) is not yet supported by ProxySQL …
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