This is a continuation of my post on migration-of-mtr-suites-to-use-innodb . To set the context here is a quick recap.
MySQL 5.5 had the following changes with respect to the default engine
- Default engine in the server changed from MyISAM to InnoDB
- MTR modified to start server with the old default MyISAM. (This was required because historically most test results were recorded with MyISAM and many of them would fail if tests were run with the new server default, InnoDB)
- Tests retained as is in 5.5 and planned to migrate them to run with default engine in a future release
In MySQL 5.7 release we have started the migration project. Right in the beginning we realized that the switch of default engine had an unexpected side effect. MTR tests that were developed post 5.5 were also getting …
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