Fun with Bugs #68 - On MySQL Bug Reports I am Subscribed to, Part VII

Last time I reviewed my recent subscriptions to MySQL bugs it was April 1, 2018. I was busy working, blogging about other bugs, running random MTR tests on MySQL 8.0.11 and got two weeks of vacation since than. Now it's time to briefly review 20 recent bug reports (mostly for MySQL 8.0.11) I was interested in.

As usual, I start with most recent bug reports:

• Bug #91010 - "WolfSSL build broken due to cmake typo". MySQL 8 can be compiled using wolfSSL according to the manual, but as Laurynas Biveinis found this is not the case in practice, and not only because of the typo in libutils.cmake. It seems nobody tried to test this kind of build recently. I wonder what else they had not tested in a hurry to release nice MySQL 8.0.11 GA... 
• Bug #91009 - "Incorrect usage of std::atomic::compare_exchange_weak". My dear friend Sinisa Milivojevic verified this report by Alexey Kopytov as a feature request. I think it's still a bug, even if it does not have any visible effect on processors currently supported. Let's see what may happen with this report next.
• Bug #90968 - "Several incorrect function type indirect call UBSan errors". It seems Laurynas Biveinis found yet another kind of testing that Oracle decided not to bother much with while working on MySQL 8 GA release. More test runs with UBSan are needed while working on MySQL 8.0.12.
• Bug #90959 - "XA transactions can lock forever if a gap lock is also taken on the slave". This bug was reported by Andreas Wederbrand and additional test case by Sveta Smirnova shows how serious it might be.
• Bug #90890 - "CPU overhead for insert benchmark load increased by 2X in 8.0.11". Serious problem for single-threaded case was reported by Mark Callaghan. Single thread insert rate continues to drop from 5.6 to 5.7 and 8.0.11.
• Bug #90847 - "Query returns wrong data if order by is present". Wrong results bugs are the worst, probably, as it may be hard to notice the problem until it's too late... This bug was reported by Vincenzo Antolini.
• Bug #90794 - "GR 5.7.22 not compatible with earlier versions due to lower_case_table_names". I can afford not to care at all about group replication at the moment, but this regression bug noted by Kenny Gryp may affect many less lucky people during upgrade in production.
• Bug #90670 - "InnoDB assertion failure in log0write.cc time_elapsed >= 0". I do not see any public attempts to process this bug reported by Mark Callaghan. It may be not easy to repeat, but Mark's idea of more useful information in the assert message is great anyway.
• Bug #90643 - "use different mutex to protect trx_sys->serialisation_list". Nice feature request from Zhai Weixiang.
• Bug #90617 - "using gdb to attach mysqld will shutdown the instance". I can not reproduce this bug with binaries I've built from source, but that would be a really awful bug if it happens with Oracle binaries. I am surprised that this bug report by Zhai Weixiang is still "Open" and had not got proper attention from Oracle engineers for more than a month...
• Bug #90579 - "please document how to configure the dragnet 8.0 logging non-interactively". Unlike Simon Mudd, I had not started to read the manual for new 8.0 features carefully yet. It may become a source of dozens of additional bug reports if it's of the same quality as, say, MySQL 5.6's manual at the moment of GA. We shall see.
• Bug #90571 - "Don't generate warnings about successful actions (dragnet filter rules)". MySQL 8 reduced the number of messages in the error log and allows to control the content better, but as Simon Mudd reasonably noted, adding filters successfully should not generate warnings by itself.
• Bug #90554 - "Undesired change for Windows users in 8.0". As Peter Laursen noted, the idea to disable network connections if server is started with --skip-grant-tables may look good from security point of view, but this unexpected change may leave Windows users (who had not configured any other connectivity options) without a known way to set/reset passwords.
• Bug #90534 - "InnoDB Cluster members stop by failed start of Group Replication". This bug was reported by Ryusuke Kajiyama. Based on recent comments, this may happen not only on macOS Sierra version 10.12.6 (as it was stated initially).
• Bug #90484 - "No (easy) way to know if a GR node is writeable or not". Nice feature request from Kenny Gryp to
  

  "Make it possible to determine _easily_ if a node is part of primary partition AND which node can accept writes."

• Bug #90448 - "INSERT IGNORE not ignored on SQL thread". It happens for a table with partition missing for the date, but still is unexpected. Fortunately this bug reported by Simon Mudd is NOT repeatable on MySQL 8.0.11 GA (it seems to affect only 5.7.x).
• Bug #90351 - "GLOBAL STATUS variables drift after rollback". As it was noted by Iwo P, the value of Handler_rollback may decrease in some cases. There is a patch from Zsolt Parragi in this bug report.
• Bug #90331 - "Server does not raise error on unrecognized collation id". This really serious issue was reported by Manuel Ung. Until older server versions starts to produce error when asked for a collation they do not support, it may be not safe to use 8.0.x clients with older server versions.
• Bug #90307 - "host blocking limit seems not to be used correctly". We all know that Performance Schema is near perfect. But Simon Mudd still found a bug in it that probably affects MySQL 8.0.11 as well.
• Bug #90291 - "load_file() will not raise an error if secure_file_priv option was not set". This bug was reported by Shahriyar Rzayev from Percona. It is not clear if it was checked on MySQL 8.0.x.

That's all for now. Stay tuned! I plan to write few more posts about bugs related to partitioning and InnoDB data compression, soon.