MySQL Server 8.0.17: Thanks for the Contributions

MySQL 8.0.17 was released Monday and it includes great features such as the Clone feature and multi-valued indexes. There are also several nice contributions from the community. These are the changes that this blog is about.

The contributions to MySQL Server 8.0.17 include patches from Facebook, Daniël van Eeden, Mattias Jonsson, and Simon Mudd (all from Booking.com), Daniel Black, Yibo Cai (from Arm Technology), Josh Braden, and Zhou Mengkang. The larger contributions are:

• The mysql client program now sends os_user and os_sudouser connection attributes, when available, to indicate the name of the operating system user running the program and the value of the SUDO_USER environment variable, respectively. For general information about connection attributes, see Performance Schema Connection Attribute Tables. Thanks to Daniël van Eeden for the contribution on which this feature was based. (Bug #29210935, Bug #93916)
• The mysqldump option –set-gtid-purged controls whether or not a SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged statement is added to the mysqldump output. The statement updates the value of gtid_purged on a server where the dump file is reloaded, to add the GTID set from the source server's gtid_executed system variable. A new choice –set-gtid-purged=COMMENTED is now available. When this value is set, if GTIDs are enabled on the server you are backing up, SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged is added to the output (unless gtid_executed is empty), but it is commented out. This means that the value of gtid_executed is available in the output, but no action is taken automatically when the dump file is reloaded. With COMMENTED, you can control the use of the gtid_executed set manually or through automation. For example, you might prefer to do this if you are migrating data to another server that already has different active databases. Thanks to Facebook for this contribution. (Bug #94332, Bug #29357665)
• MySQL now uses open(O_TMPFILE) whenever applicable when creating a temporary file that is immediately unlinked. This is more efficient than previously and avoids the small possibility of a race condition. Thanks to Daniel Black for the contribution. (Bug #29215177, Bug #93937)
• When clients were terminated for inactivity exceeding the wait_timeout value, the message written to the error log was unclear. Now ER_NET_WAIT_ERROR is written, which is more specific about the cause of the problem. Thanks to Mattias Jonsson for the contribution. (Bug #28940167, Bug #93240)
• InnoDB: Insufficient memory barriers in the rw-lock implementation caused deadlocks on ARM. Thanks to Yibo Cai from Arm Technology for the contribution. (Bug #29508001, Bug #94699)
• Replication: When events generated by one MySQL server instance were written to the binary log of another instance, the second server implicitly assumed that the first server supported the same number of binary log event types as itself. Where this was not the case, the event header was handled incorrectly. The issue has now been fixed. Thanks to Facebook for the contribution. (Bug #29417234)
• Replication: When binary logging is enabled on a replication slave, the combination of the –replicate-same-server-id and –log-slave-updates options on the slave can cause infinite loops in replication if the server is part of a circular replication topology. (In MySQL 8.0, binary logging is enabled by default, and slave update logging is the default when binary logging is enabled.) However, the use of global transaction identifiers (GTIDs) prevents this situation by skipping the execution of transactions that have already been applied. The restriction on this combination of options has therefore now been removed when gtid_mode=ON is set. With any other GTID mode, the server still does not start with this combination of options. As a safeguard against creating the problem situation after the server has started, you now cannot change the GTID mode to anything other than ON on a running server that has this combination of options set. Thanks to Facebook for the contribution. (Bug #28782370, Bug #92754)
• Replication: When a MEMORY table is implicitly deleted on a master following a server restart, the master writes a DELETE statement to the binary log so that slaves also empty the table. This generated event now includes a comment in the binary log so that the reason for the DELETE statement is easy to identify. Thanks to Daniël van Eeden for the contribution. (Bug #29157796, Bug #93771)

There are also a number of smaller patches that has helped improve the comments and messages in the MySQL source code. These are:

• Bug 29403708 – CONTRIBUTION: FIX TYPO IN AUTHENTICATION METHODS DOCUMENTATION
  Thanks to Daniël van Eeden.
• Bug 29428435 – CONTRIBUTION: FIX TYPOS IN MYSQLDUMP.CC
  Thanks to Josh Braden.
• Bug 29262200 – CONTRIBUTION: FIX TYPOS IN COMMENTS FOR COM_XXX COMMANDS
  Thanks to Simon Mudd.
• Bug 29468128 – CONTRIBUTION: UPDATE HANDLER.CC
  Thanks to Zhou Mengkang.

Thank you for your contributions. Feel free to keep submitting ideas to the MySQL bugs database with ideas how to improve MySQL.