Security Invoker Views in PostgreSQL 15

In our recent 13th Mydbops Open Source Meetup, we had done a detailed presentation about the PostgreSQL 15 features. One of the features that stood out to me was Security Invoker Views in PostgreSQL 15. So, in this blog post, Would like to take a closer look at this particular feature and explain its significance. …

Prevent ProxySQL from directing traffic to broken MySQL replica

ProxySQL is an open-source MySQL proxy server, meaning it serves as an intermediary between a MySQL server and the applications that access its databases. ProxySQL can improve performance by distributing traffic among a pool of multiple database servers. Consider 2 slaves are routed under Proxysql , In any one of the slave, if the replication …

MongoDB Index type and Properties (Series 2)

I'm hoping that after reading the previous blog, you will have a better understanding of indexes and the guidelines for building one. In this blog, I am going to share index types and their characteristics. Index TypesSingle Field IndexCompound IndexSort OrderMultikey IndexLimitations of MultiKey IndexCompound Multikey IndexesGeospatial Index2dsphere2dLimitations of the Geospatial IndexText IndexesLimitations of Text …

Beware of your Backup before upgrading MySQL 8.0.30

MySQL 8.0.30 was released on 26-07-2022. It has a good list of features. Generated Invisible Primary Key Dynamic Redo log Sizing Instruments to monitor group replication memory Support for Ubuntu 22.04 A most notable feature for Database Administrators and database reliability engineers is Dynamic redo logging. The more widely adopted open-source backup tool is Xtrabackup. …

Troubleshooting XA transactions in MySQL

This is one of the exciting troubleshooting related to XA transactions let’s dive in. Let me provide a few backgrounds. For one of our clients, when we try to drop a table, it is waiting for metadata lock. On debugging it is one of the XA transactions is holding the shared write lock and causing …

MySQL “No space left on device from storage engine”

We have planned for archiving the data to improve the DB performance and to reclaim the space. We were evaluating Compression in InnoDB and TokuDB. To find out the best compression method. We started benchmarking the compression ratio between InnoDB and TokuDB. Everything goes well for some time, but after a few hours got an …

Handling case sensitive column in pt-archiver

To copy the data of the particular column of the table to another table/server, We have an option to export the data as CSV and import the data back to a different table. But when the table size is large and we need to copy the data only for the required data to the target …

Troubleshooting an unique key addition during pt-online-schema-change

We all tried various alternative methods for modifying the table structure, but pt-online-schema-change (pt-osc) is the most convenient and preferred method for performing the alter online. It has more granular control too. But it may lead to data loss if proper precautionary steps are not taken care of. In this blog, we are going to …

MySQL ERROR Log Table Explained

Over the decades we have been reading the MySQL error log from the server system file, if there are any issues in MySQL or any unknown restart happened , generally we look at the mysql error log. By default MySQL error log can be found in the default path /var/log/mysqld.log , or it can be …

XtraDB Cluster troubleshooting a rejected node.

PXC(Percona XtraDB Cluster), aka Galera cluster, is one of my favorite clustering technology for MySQL that comes with real Multi-master capabilities, Write-set based nearly real-time replication and many more features. I could proudly say that Mydbops is one of the very few companies who have been supporting mission-critical clusters and preaching PXC ie., Galera cluster …