Fun with Bugs #94 - On MySQL Bug Reports I am Subscribed to, Part XXVIII

I may get a chance to speak about proper bugs processing for open source projects later this year, so I have to keep reviewing recent MySQL bugs to be ready for that. In my previous post in this series I listed some interesting MySQL bug reports created in December, 2019. Time to move on to January, 2020! Belated Happy New Year of cool MySQL Bugs!

As usual I mostly care about InnoDB, replication and optimizer bugs and explicitly mention bug reporter by name and give link to his other active reports (if any). I also pick up examples of proper (or improper) reporter and Oracle engineers attitudes. Here is the list:

• Bug #98103 - "unexpected behavior while logging an aborted query in the slow query log".  Query that was killed while waiting for the table metadata lock is not only get logged, but also lock wait time is saved as query execution time. I'd like to highlight how bug reporter, Pranay Motupalli, used gdb to study what really happens in the code in this case. Perfect bug report!
• Bug #98113 - "Crash possible when load & unload a connection handler". The (quite obvious) bug was verified based on code review, but only after some efforts were spent by Oracle engineer on denial to accept the problem and its importance. This bug was reported by Fangxin Flou.
• Bug #98132 - "Analyze table leads to empty statistics during online rebuild DDL ". Nice addition to my collections! This bug with a nice and clear test case was reported by Albert Hu, who also suggested a fix.
• Bug #98139 - "Committing a XA transaction causes a wrong sequence of events in binlog". This bug reported by Dehao Wang was verified as a "documentation" one, but I doubt documenting current behavior properly is an acceptable fix. Bug reporter suggested to commit in the binary log first, for example. Current implementation that allows users to commit/rollback a XA transaction by using another connection if the former connection is closed or killed, is risky. A lot of arguing happened in comments in the process, and my comment asking for a clear quote from the manual:
  

  Would you be so kind to share some text from this page you mentioned:
  
  https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/xa.html
  
  or any other fine MySQL 8 manual page stating that XA COMMIT is NOT supported when executed from session/connection/thread other than those prepared the XA transaction? I am doing something wrong probably, but I can not find such text anywhere.

  was hidden. Let's see what happens to this bug report next.
• Bug #98211 - "Auto increment value didn't reset correctly.". Not sure what this bug reported by Zhao Jianwei has to do with "Data Types", IMHO it's more about DDL or data dictionary. Again, some sarcastic comments from Community users were needed to put work on this bug back on track...
• Bug #98220 - "with log_slow_extra=on Errno: info not getting updated correctly for error". This bug was reported by lalit Choudhary from Percona.
• Bug #98227 - "innodb_stats_method='nulls_ignored' and persistent stats get wrong cardinalities". I think category is wrong for this bug. It's a but in InnoDB's persistent statistics implementation, one of many. The bug was reported by Agustín G from Percona.
• Bug #98231 - "show index from a partition table gets a wrong cardinality value". Yet another by report by Albert Hu. that ended up as a "documentation" bug for now, even though older MySQL versions provided better cardinality estimations than MySQL 8.0 in this case (so this is a regression of a kind). I hope the bug will be re-classified and properly processed later.
• Bug #98238 - "I_S.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE is very slow". I am surprised to see such a bug in MySQL 8. According to the bug reporter, Manuel Mausz, this is also a kind of regression comparing to older MySQL version, where these queries used to run faster. Surely, no "regression" tag in this case was added.
• Bug #98284 - "Low sysbench score in the case of a large number of connections". This notable performance regression of MySQL 8 vs 5.7 was reported by zanye zjy. perf profiling pointed out towards ppoll() where a lot of time is spent. There is a fix suggested by Fangxin Flou (to use poll() instead), but the bug is still "Open".
• Bug #98287 - "Explanation of hash joins is inconsistent across EXPLAIN formats". This bug was reported by Saverio M and ended up marked as a duplicate of Bug #97299 fixed in upcoming 8.0.20. Use EXPLAIN FORMAT=TREE in the meantime to see proper information about hash joins usage in the plan.
• Bug #98288 - "xa commit crash lead mysql replication error". This bug report from Phoenix Zhang (who also suggested a patch) was declared a duplicate of Bug #76233 - "XA prepare is logged ahead of engine prepare" (that I've already discussed among other XA transactions bugs here).
• Bug #98324 - "Deadlocks more frequent since version 5.7.26". Nice regression bug report by Przemyslaw Malkowski from Percona, with additional test provided later by Stephen Wei . Interestingly enough, test results shared by Umesh Shastry show that MySQL 8.0.19 is affected in the same way as 5.7.26+, but 8.0.19 is NOT listed as one of versions affected. This is a mistake to fix, along with missing regression tag.
• Bug #98427 - "InnoDB FullText AUX Tables are broken in 8.0". Yet another regression in MySQL 8 was found by Satya Bodapati. Change in default collation for utf8mb4 character set caused this it seems. InnoDB FULLTEXT search was far from perfect anyway...

The are clouds in the sky of MySQL bugs processing.

To summarize:

1.  Still too much time and efforts are sometimes spent on arguing with bug reporter instead of accepting and processing bugs properly. This is unfortunate.
2. Sometimes bugs are wrongly classified when verified (documentation vs code bug, wrong category, wrong severity, not all affected versions are listed, ignoring regression etc). This is also unfortunate.
3. Percona engineers still help to make MySQL better.
4. There are some fixes in upcoming MySQL 8.0.20 that I am waiting for :)
5. XA transactions in MySQL are badly broken (they are not atomic in storage engine + binary log) and hardly safe to use in reality.