A colleague, Kris, commented recently on a recent find I made on 5.6.7-rc1 which while not the end of the world does seem to severely limit the use of the new GTID features, or if nothing else make it a pain to use.
Today I found another related issue, when trying to check the syntax of one of the MySQL commands. That’s now reported as bug#67073.
All of these are sort of edge cases but do make 5.6 look a little rough round the edges, when the rest of the product is actually really good and a great improvement from The MySQL 5.5 GA version that everyone uses. That’s really a shame.
I did report the Original problem as SR 3-6270525721 : MySQL 5.6.7-rc1, grants, replication and GTID cause problems, but of course that’s …
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