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Thread Pool in Percona Server and MySQL (Part 1)

A new version of Community MySQL Server July release contains two versions 26.7.0 and 9.7.2. It is an important milestone because it finally brings a Thread Pooling feature to the community. The official MySQL Server Thread Pool plugin existed for a long time, but was available exclusively for MySQL Enterprise Edition.

Before MySQL 26.7.0 / 9.7.2 the most popular free thread pooling enabled alternatives were:

• Percona Server for MySQL, which shipped Thread Pool functionality as a plugin
• MariaDB with the Thread Pooling built into the server
• Third-party plugins such as xiezhenye/mysql-plugin-threadpool available on GitHub

Now we will be able to see what benefits the thread pooling mechanism brings to MySQL Server and compare it with the implementation of the thread pool in Percona Server for MySQL.

Part 1 will explain the …

In our recent Where can you find MySQL from August through October 2026?, we shared a broad view of MySQL conferences, community activities, and user group meetups. Since then, community gatherings in Denver, Taipei, and Nashville have brought MySQL users, developers, and contributors together for technical discussion and local connection. We are continuing that momentum […]

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OCI Open Source Service Update – Sept. 2026
Explore how MySQL HeatWave on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure helps optimize, protect, and scale MySQL applications.
Covers Autopilot Indexing, high availability with automatic failover, managed read replicas, enterprise security, and fast DB system cloning for development, testing, and regional recovery.

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Percona Toolkit’s pt-online-schema-change (pt-osc) has long been the preferred solution for performing online schema changes with minimal downtime. Its chunk-based copy algorithm is designed to adapt dynamically to the workload, making it suitable for very large tables in production environments.

However, under specific conditions, one of its optimization mechanisms can become counterproductive.

During a customer engagement involving Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), we investigated a case where running pt-online-schema-change with a selective –where clause caused severe Galera Flow Control and general overhead, effectively stalling the cluster for an extended period. The issue was not caused by the schema change itself, but by the interaction between:

• adaptive chunk auto-resizing
• highly selective copying of the newest rows
• clustered replication in Galera
• InnoDB …

MySQL 26.7 Innovation Support Lands

September 22, 2026 · ⁠GitHub Release

MySQL just changed the rules.

With MySQL 26.7, Oracle has moved to a new calendar-based versioning model for Innovation releases. For MyVector, that means one thing:

We need to keep up.

MyVector v1.26.9 adds MySQL 26.7 Innovation support, but the more interesting story is what happened beneath the surface.

This release puts the Component architecture introduced in v1.26.5 through a much more serious test.

From architecture to reliability

When we introduced the MySQL Component architecture in v1.26.5, the goal was straightforward: build MyVector in the direction MySQL itself is taking.

Now we are testing what happens when things don’t go perfectly.

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This post collects the main things Marco Tusa covered in his keynote at Percona Live 2026 in Amsterdam: where Percona stands on MySQL, which features landed in the server, and what holds the MySQL community together.

Watch it here: “I Was Going to Show You a Roadmap”, about 18 minutes.

Start with the community, because the rest of it follows from there. In 2011, after the Sun and Oracle acquisitions, O’Reilly stopped the MySQL Conference, and Percona kept a conference going when nobody knew what came next. The community scattered again more recently, and Peter Zaitsev and others regrouped it in the OurSQL Foundation. MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona ship competing solutions. The people running and building them are one community, with one shared interest: this environment stays usable and open. …

The MySQL 26.10.0 Early Access Release is now available, giving developers and database teams an early opportunity to preview, evaluate, and provide feedback on the next evolution of MySQL. Early Access releases are where curiosity becomes contribution. Whether you’re testing an application stack, validating upgrade plans, or simply eager to see what’s coming, this is […]

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become a standard way for AI agents to discover the tools an application, database, or service offers. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity, et al. can connect to an MCP server, ask it what tools are available, and call these tools instead of figuring out what they can or can't do on the fly or piecing together API calls. Setting up an MCP server for a database usually means running a separate process that holds a database credential and turns tool calls into queries. Then you have another process to deploy, another place a credential lives, and a set of guardrails that sit outside the database.

The vsql-mcp extension from VillageSQL takes a different approach. It puts the MCP server inside the database. Install it, set a handful of global variables, and your MySQL server itself serves MCP over Streamable HTTP from a background …

The MySQL Community conversation continues this fall with two opportunities to connect, share feedback, and help shape the future of MySQL.  Following the recent Contributor Summits and Public Discussions, we are continuing to expand practical ways for users, developers, DBAs, partners, and contributors to participate in technical discussions, share ideas, and collaborate more openly across the MySQL […]