Category Archives: Replication

Protecting your data – Part II: Preventing unwanted data changes on Group Replication members by asynchronous replication channels

Group Replication, High Availability

Further to our earlier blog post about Fail-safe enhancements to Group Replication, where we discussed enhancements against data modification in members which are not ONLINE, we now present here additional changes to protect data from being accidentally modified by asynchronous replication channels.…

Reading the log positions of a snapshot consistently

Binary Log, Logs, Performance Schema, Replication

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.…

Taking advantage of new transaction length metadata

Binary Log, Binary Log Events, MySQL, MySQL Replication, Replication

MySQL 8.0.2 introduced a small yet powerful per transaction metadata information containing the transaction length in binary logs.

MySQL binary logs are being used for many other things than MySQL replication or backup/recovery: replicate to Hadoop; replicate to other databases, such as Oracle; capture data change (CDC) and extract-transform-load (ETL); record change notification for cache invalidation; change tracking for differential backups; etc.…

MySQL 8.0: New Features in Replication

High Availability, MySQL, MySQL Replication, Replication,

It is with extreme delight and a big smile on our face that we share the news that a new major MySQL release has been declared Generally Available (GA). The road to MySQL 8 was pretty eventful, sometimes painful and sometimes hard, always challenging, but nonetheless a great ride and an extremely rewarding journey for the engineers that have worked on it.…

One year of MySQL Replication Contributions

MySQL, Replication

Since January 2017, the MySQL Replication Team has been involved in processing many Community Contributions !

We are really happy to receive contributions (and not only in the replication team), but this also implies a lot of work from our engineers, as more than resolving a bug or developing a new feature, code contributions need to be analyzed, the code needs to be understood and validated.…

Replication Features in MySQL 8.0.4

Group Replication, MySQL, Replication, ,

MySQL 8 second release candidate is out (MySQL 8.0.4). Besides fixes to replication issues we have also delivered a couple of enhancements in this release. Let me quickly summarize them.

  • Additional instrumentation for Group Replication (WL#9856). We have instrumented mutexes and condition synchronization objects on the group communication library.
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Group Replication Features backported to MySQL 5.7

Group Replication, High Availability

We have brought further enhancement to MySQL Group Replication 5.7 release by backporting some most requested features to MySQL 5.7.20 release:

  • Member weight for automatic primary election on failover
  • Disallow writes after leaving the group

And to MySQL 5.7.19 release:

  • Transaction savepoint support

 

Member weight for automatic primary election on failover

The Member weight for automatic primary election on failover feature will allow user to influence primary member election using a integer member weight value.…

MySQL 8.0.3: Binary logging and Replication chains are now enabled by default

Binary Log, High Availability, MySQL, MySQL Replication, Replication

MySQL 8.0.3 release candidate is out with amazing new replication features, along with changes in couple of replication default options. Thanks to our users for their constant feedback and valuable inputs, MySQL is changing defaults whenever possible to remove configuration overhead for practical deployment of MySQL server.…