Reminder: MTS = Multi-Threaded Slave.
Update 2017-04-17: since the publication of this post, many things happened:
- the procedure for fixing a crashed slave has been automated (Bug#77496)
- Bug#80103 as been closed at the same time as Bug#77496
- but I still think there are unfixed things, see Bug#81840
Update 2018-08-20: it was brought to my attention that MySQL 5.6 with GTID enabled and with sync_binlog != 1 is not replication crash safe, even with single threaded replication. This is reported in
Bug#70659 - Make crash safe slave work with gtid + less durable settings. Thanks Valeriy for mentioning, in your
last blog post, the bug from Sveta Smirnova (
Bug#90997) which pointed me to Yoshinori Matsunobu's bug. To my knowledge, MySQL 5.7 and 8.0 are also affected by this bug, even if this should not be the case. I will soon open a new bug report about this and will put the bug number below.
End of updates.
I will be talking about parallel replication at
FOSDEM in Brussel on January 30th and at
Percona Live Santa Clara in April (link to the talk descriptions
here and
here). Come to one (or both) of those talks to learn more about this subject.
