I am going to write a series of blog posts based on my talks and experiences at Percona Live Europe 2019. The first one would be a kind of extended comment for a couple of slides from the "Tracing and Profiling MySQL" talk.

We can surely wait until Performance Schema instruments every other line of code or at least every important stage and wait in every storage engine we care about, but there is no real need for that. If you run any version of MySQL under Linux with more or less recent kernel (anything newer than 4.1 is good enough, in general), you can easily use dynamic tracing for any application (at least if there is symbolic information for the binaries), any time. As Brendan Gregg put it here:
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I have to celebrate the anniversary of my last day in Oracle (that was 7 years ago!) somehow, and I think writing yet another blog post about Oracle MySQL bugs is a good way to do this. I am actually surprised (and happy) that public bugs database is still alive, maintained and considered important in Oracle, and I know who in Oracle was working hard all these years for this to happen!

In my previous post in this series I've stopped on Bug #95954 and had not completed review of interesting MySQL bug reports that I've subscribed to in June 2019. So, below I start with the next bug in my list, complete review for June and cover some bugs reported in July. There were many.

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Recently, PeterZ pointed a huge difference in memory usage of MySQL 8.0 compare to MySQL 5.7. This can be an issue for small instances if the same configuration for buffers like the buffer pool are not changed.

As explained in Peter’s article, this can lead to the awakening of the so feared OOM Killer !

MorganT, pointed accurately in his comment what is the source of such difference and how this was then caused by the new instrumentation added in MySQL 8.0.

Nothing is free, even as a …

It's Saturday night. I have a week of vacation ahead that I am going to spend at home, working on things I usually do not have time for. I already did something useful (created a couple of test cases for MariaDB bugs here and there, among other things), so why not to get some fun and continue my previous review of recent interesting MySQL bug report...

So, here is the list of 15 more MySQL community bug reports that I've subscribed to back in May and June 2019:

• Bug #95491 - "The unused wake up in simulator AIO of function reserve_slot". I am impressed by …

After a 3 months long break I'd like to continue reviewing MySQL bug reports that I am subscribed to. This issue is devoted to bug reports I've considered interesting to follow in May, 2019:

• Bug #95215 - "Memory lifetime of variables between check and update incorrectly managed". As demonstrated by Manuel Ung, there is a problem with all InnoDB MYSQL_SYSVAR_STR variables that can be dynamically updated. Valgrind allows to highlight it.
• Bug #95218 - "Virtual generated column altered …

This week new minor releases of MySQL server were announced. Of them all I am mostly interested in MySQL 5.7.27. I plan to concentrate on InnoDB, replication and optimizer bugs reported in public MySQL bugs database and fixed in MySQL 5.7.27. As usual I name bug reporters explicitly and give links to their remaining currently active bug reports, if any.

Let me start with InnoDB bug fixes:

• Bug #94699 - "Mysql deadlock and bugcheck on aarch64 under stress test". This bug report with a fix for insufficient memory barriers in the rw-lock implementation was contributed by Cai Yibo.
• Bug #93708 - "Page Cleaner will sleep for long …

Starting with version 1.32.0, dbdeployer has the ability of downloading a selection of MySQL tarballs from several sources.

This means that, when working in an empty box, you can populate it with database servers using

dbdeployer.

The “empty box” mentioned in the title is not really empty. It’s a Linux (or MacOS) host that is able to run a MySQL server. As such, it needs to have at least the prerequisites to run MySQL server (such as the libnuma and libaio packages), and a bash shell to run the scripts created by dbdeployer.

To try the thrill of an empty box that quickly becomes a working environment, we can use a docker image datacharmer/mysql-sb-base that I have created for this purpose.

$ docker pull datacharmer/mysql-sb-base
Using default tag: …

Let me start with a short summary and then proceed with a long story, code snippets, hexdumps, links and awk functions converted from the source code of MariaDB server. This blog post can be summarized as follows:

• One can find row_format used to create table explicitly in the .frm file (or the outputs of SHOW CREATE TABLE or SHOW TABLE STATUS). Internals manual may help to find out where is it stored and source code reading helps to find the way to interpret the values.
• For InnoDB tables created without specifying the row_format explicitly neither logical backup nor .frm file itself contains the information about the row format used. There are 4 of them (Redundant, Compact, Dynamic and Compressed). The one used implicitly is defined by current value of the …

We have a public holiday here today and it's raining outside for a third day in a row already, so I hardly have anything better to do than writing yet another review of public MySQL bug reports that I've subscribed to recently.

Not sure if these reviews are really considered useful by anyone but few of my readers, but I am still going to try in a hope to end up with some useful conclusions. Last time I've stopped on Bug #94903, so let me continue with the next bug in my list:

• Bug #94912 - "O_DIRECT_NO_FSYNC possible …

Oracle released minor MySQL Server versions in all supported branches on April 25, 2019. MySQL 5.7.26 is just one of them, but recently I prefer to ignore MySQL 8 releases (after checking that I can build them from source code at least somewhere, even if it takes 18G+ of disk space and that they work in basic tests), as there are more chances for MySQL 5.7 bug fixes to affect me (and customers I care about) directly.

So, in this yet another boring blog post (that would never be a reason for any award) I plan to concentrate …