MySQL 8.0.11 introduced a new performance schema table named log_status, which provides consistent information about MySQL server instance log positions from replication and transactional storage engines.
Used in conjunction with other MySQL 8.0 feature (the backup lock), this new feature will allow backup tools to take backup with minimal impact in DML throughput, but ensuring consistent snapshot with respect to GTIDs, replication, binary logs and transactional storage engine logs.…
In order to improve observability and manageability of MySQL Group Replication (GR), we enhanced its instrumentation in MySQL 8.0.4. With these goals in mind, we have extended the usage of Performance Schema (P_S) from this plugin to the included Group Communication System (GCS) module as well as its submodule eXtended Communications (XCom) which are responsible for all communication involved in the dissemination of transactions to other MySQL instances.…
In MySQL 8.0.2, users will see the additional columns in the existing Group Replication Performance Schema tables which will provide extended information about Group Replication. Now user can view role and MySQL version of each member of the group, which earlier required a complex set of query.…
The new release of MySQL is packed with exciting features that help detecting and analyzing replication lag. In this post, you will be able to learn all about the new replication timestamps, the new useful information that is now reported by performance schema tables, and how delayed replication was improved.…
At MySQL, replication usability is of utmost importance to us. Replication information has long been part of SHOW commands, SHOW SLAVE STATUS occupying a major chunk of it. The other sources of replication information being:
SHOW MASTER STATUS,
SHOW BINLOG EVENTS,
SHOW RELAYLOG EVENTS,
SHOW VARIABLES,
SHOW STATUS,
ERROR LOGS etc.…
Multi-master update everywhere solution for MySQL is here. MySQL Group Replication ensures virtual synchronous updates on any member in a group of MySQL servers, with conflict handling and failure detection. Distributed recovery is also in the package to ease the process of adding new member.…
The latest and greatest MySQL 5.7 development milestone release (DMR) is out (changelog). It is great to see such a strong and steady cadence of development releases. The latest one, 5.7.5, is packed with awesome features. Let me highlight a few ones related to replication.…