Two weeks passed since my previous review of public MySQL bug reports I consider interesting enough to subscribe to them. Over this period I picked up a dozen or so new public bug reports that I'd like to briefly review today.

Here is my recent subscriptions list, starting from the oldest bug reports:

• Bug #94431 - "Can't upgrade from 5.7 to 8.0 if any database have a hyphen in their name". It seems one actually needs a database like that created in MySQL 5.6 with at least one InnoDB table having FULLTEXT index to hit the problem. Great finding by Phil Murray. Note that after several unsuccessful attempts by others the bug was eventually reproduced and verified by …

Today I'd like to continue my review of public MySQL bug reports with a list of some bugs I've subscribed to over last 3 weeks. It's already long enough and includes nice cases to check and share. Note that I usually subscribe to a bug either because it directly affects me or customers I work with, or I consider it technically interesting (so I mostly care about InnoDB, replication, partitioning and optimizer bugs), or it's a "metabug" - a problem in the way public bug report is handled by Oracle engineers. These are my interests related to MySQL bugs.

As usual, I start with the oldest bugs and try to mention bug reporters by name with links to their other reports whenever this may give something useful to a reader. I try …

More than 3 weeks passed since my previous review of public MySQL bug reports I am subscribed to, so it's time to present some of the bugs I've considered interesting in January, 2019.

As usual, I'll review them starting from the oldest and try to summarize my feelings about these bugs at the end of this post. Here they are:

• Bug #93806 - "Document error about ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE". Years pass, but fine MySQL manual still does not explain some cases of InnoDB locking properly. Xiaobin Lin found yet another case that it does not explain properly. Or, maybe, the manual is correct and the problem in …

In the just-released MySQL 8.0.14 I added a feature called LATERAL derived tables.

The manual describes the syntax and has examples of how the feature can be used to find greatest values in tables. In the present post I’m going to consider a different problem solved by LATERAL: let’s say that we have a bunch of nodes, and want to make a “random graph”, by connecting every node to other nodes.…

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Holidays season is almost over here, so it's time to get back to my main topic of MySQL bugs. Proper MySQL bug reporting will be a topic of my FOSDEM 2019 talk in less than 4 weeks (and few slides with recent examples of bugs are not yet ready), so I have to concentrate on bugs.

Last time in this series I reviewed some interesting bug reports filed in November, 2018. Time to move on and proceed with bugs reported in December, 2018, as I've subscribed to 27 or so of them. As usual, I'll review them briefly starting from the oldest and try to check if MariaDB 10.3 is also affected when the bug report is about common features:

• Bug …

For some reason the Committee of FOSDEM 2019 MySQL, MariaDB & Friends Devroom of all my talks submitted picked up the one on how to create a useful MySQL bug report, so I have no options but continue to write about MySQL bugs, as long and MySQL Community wants and even prefers to listen and read about them... That's what I do, with pleasure.

Today I'll continue my series of posts about community bug reports I am subscribed to with the review of bugs reported since October 1, 2018, starting from the oldest and skipping those MySQL 8 regression ones I've already commented on:

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It's time to continue my review of MySQL bug reports that I considered interesting for some reason recently. I had not got any notable reaction from Oracle engineers to my previous post about recent regression bugs in MySQL 8.0.13, so probably this topic is not really that hot. In this boring post I'll just review some bugs I've subscribed to since August that are still not closed, starting from the oldest.

Let me start with a couple of bug reports that remain "Open":

• Bug #91959 - "UBSAN: signed integer overflow in lock_update_trx_age". It's really unusual to see bug reported by …

I've subscribed to more than 60 new bug reports since my previous post in this series. It means that I'd need 4-5 posts to cover all new subscriptions and reasons behind them. I still plan to write about most of the bug reports I was interested in recently, but for this post I decided to pick up only MySQL 8.0 regression bugs and pay special attention to those that could be handled better or faster by Oracle engineers, as well as those handled perfectly.

The initial reason for this special attention originally was Bug #93085 - "Stall when concurrently execute create/alter user with flush privilege", that caused a lot of interesting Twitter …

A query plan uses loose index scan if “Using index for group-by” appears in the “Extra”  column of the EXPLAIN output. In some plans though, “Using index for group-by (scanning)” appears. What does “(scanning)” mean and how is it different from the regular loose index scan?…

Lately, I worked on several queries which started returning wrong results after upgrading MySQL Server to version 5.7 The reason for the failure was derived merge optimization which is one of the default

optimizer_switch

  options. Issues were solved, though at the price of performance, when we turned it

OFF

 . But, more importantly, we could not predict if any other query would start returning incorrect data, to allow us to fix the application before it was too late. Therefore I tried to find reasons why

derived_merge

  can fail. Analyzing the problem

In the first run, we turned SQL Mode

ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY

on, and this removed most of the problematic queries. That said, few of the queries that were successfully working with

ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY

  were affected.

A quick search in the …