MySQL 9 overwhelms some DB experts in the community

MySQL 9 overwhelms some DB experts in the community

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Updated The latest release of MySQL has overwhelmed some commentators who fear that Oracle – the guardian of the open source database – may have other priorities.

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Earlier this month, Oracle — which has long promoted its range of proprietary database systems — published version 9.0 as an "Innovation Release" of MySQL. MySQL 9.0 is now among the three iterations that Oracle supports. The others include 8.0 (8.0.38) and the first update of 8.4 LTS (8.4.1).

Open source database consultancy Percona has warned users not to upgrade MySQL after 8.0.37, due to a suspected bug.

Jean-François Gagné, an engineer at open-source database DBaaS provider Aiven, discovered the problem and wrote that it caused an overall outage.

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