In this post, we introduce a configuration option that controls whether replication channels allow the creation of tables without primary keys. This continues our recent work on replication security, where we allowed users to enforce privilege checks, and/or enforce row-based events.…
Category Archives: MySQL Replication
MySQL 8.0.20 Replication Enhancements
We have just released MySQL 8.0.20. And it has some interesting replication enhancements. In particular one big and exciting feature: binary log compression. Here is the list of things in this release:
- Binary Log Compression (WL#3549). This work done by Luís Soares implements binary log compression, making use of the popular compression algorithm ZSTD.
Preserving commit order on replicas with binary log disabled
MySQL 8.0.19 introduces Binlogless replicas with commit ordering which means you can deploy asynchronous replicas without binary logs enabled, and commit transactions in the same order they are replicated in. Yes, you can disable binlog (skip-log-bin) and the logging of changes done by the applier (log-slave-updates=FALSE) while at the same preserve commit order (slave-preserve-commit-order=TRUE).…
Restrict MySQL replication to row based events
In a follow-up to the work presented on MySQL 8.0.18 where we introduced privilege checks for slave applier threads, in this post we present a new feature to further increase your ability to securely replicate your data: you can now restrict replication streams to row based events only.…
MySQL 8.0.19 Replication Enhancements
Here comes another MySQL release, and together with it, a set of new replication features. As usual, we would like to summarize them. And, also as usual, follow up blogs will provide further details.
- Configure Replication Applier to Require Row-based Replication only.
MySQL 8.0.18 Replication Enhancements
The latest MySQL 8.0 release is out. That is MySQL 8.0.18. We have some new replication enhancements and some work done on replication internals in this release that we would like to highlight and celebrate with our users. Here is a quick summary.…
Improved handling of different member versions in Group Replication
For optimal compatibility and performance, all members of a group should run the same version of MySQL Server and therefore of Group Replication. However, in some situations, it may be required to that a group contains servers running different versions. For example, during a rolling upgrade.…
MySQL 8.0.17 Replication Enhancements
MySQL 8.0.17 is out. In addition to fixing a few bugs here and there, we also have a couple of new replication features that I would like to present. Thence, allow me to give you a quick summary. As usual, there shall be follow-up blog posts providing details, so stay tuned.…
MySQL 8.0.16 Replication Enhancements
MySQL 8.0.16 has been released last Thursday. In it, you can find some new replication features. Here is a quick summary. Follow-up blog posts will provide details about these features.
- Large Messages Fragmentation Layer for Group Replication. Tiago Vale’s work, introduces message fragmentation to the Group Communication Framework.
How to manually decrypt an encrypted binary log file
The encrypted binary log file format introduced in MySQL version 8.0.14 was designed to allow a “manual” decryption of the file data when the value of the key that encrypted its file password is known.
Each encrypted binary (or relay) log file is composed by an encrypted binary log file header and the encrypted binary log content (the file data).…