This lesson should have been learned with the CREATE TABLE of death, but it is worth a refresh.
Do not uselessly grant CREATE and ALTER TABLE
The reason I am posting this reminder is that another crashing bug related to DDL came to my attention. This bug is only fixed in a recent version of MySQL (probably not affecting 5.6 and 5.7), so if you are running the latest 8.0 or 8.4, you should
I am upset about this one : I have a hard time not seeing this as negligence, and it starts to become a pattern... So please forgive me if this post is not my most diplomatic, because I really think someone deserves a kick in the butt ! But what is all this about...
There is a MySQL bug, which can lead to data corruption, opened for 8.0 in September 2023, fixed in MySQL 8.4.0 (