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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

UPDATE ON articles SET status = 0 WHERE body LIKE '%...%'

On master production server, running myisam, against a text column, millions of rows.

This causes queries to stack because table locks

Rather than waiting for the query to finish. a slave was promoted to master.

Lesson: don't trust mysqladmin to not do something bad.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Table locks can be a real pain. You know you need to do the change, but the system is constantly running queries towards it. Now days it's a bit easier with algorithm=inplace and lock=none, but in the good old days you were on your own. Your only friend was luck. Large migrations like that still gives me shivers