Upgrading to my sql 8.0

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Upgrading to MySQL 8.0+, a More Automated
Upgrade Experience
Ståle Deraas, Software Development Director
Oracle, MySQL
Oct 2018
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Agenda
Introduction
A straight forward upgrade to MySQL 8.0
Upgrade to MySQL 8.0 in detail
A better future with MySQL 8.0 ->
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Introduction

Upgrading in General
• Why upgrade the MySQL installation?
– Security concerns
– Performance and Scalability
– New functionality
– Reduce tech debt for the MySQL installation
• Multiple version upgrade is complex (5.6 -> 5.7 -> 8.0)
• Eg. deprecated functionality in 5.7, removed in 8.0
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Why do we postpone upgrades?
• Do we have the required knowledge?
• Do we have the required resources?
• Do we have the time?
• Cost for doing the actual work necessary to upgrade
– For DBAs and possibly consultants
• Can we afford it?
– Cost for lost business during the switchover, depending on downtime
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Upgrading in General - Biting the Bullet
• At some point upgrade needs to happen!
• DBA input regarding upgrading MySQL
– Reducing risk and cost is key
– Total duration of upgrade should be short
– For customer apps, keep old MySQL behaviour by default, change behavior later
– Want to test new version gradually
– When switching, downtime should be minimal
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Upgrade to MySQL 8.0
The straightforward case

MySQL upgrade 5.7 -> 8.0, smooth sailing!
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• Read release notes: Conclusion – No problems
• Run upgrade_checker
me@siv20$ ./mysqlsh root:@localhost:3307 -e "util.checkForServerUpgrade();”
The MySQL server at localhost:3307 will now be checked for compatibility issues for upgrade to
MySQL 8.0...
MySQL version: 5.7.24 - Source distribution
1) Usage of db objects with names conflicting with reserved keywords in 8.0
No issues found
2) Usage of utf8mb3 charset
No issues found
.....
No known compatibility errors or issues for upgrading the target server to MySQL 8 were found.

MySQL upgrade 5.7 -> 8.0, smooth sailing! Con’t
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• Backup your data directory, install and start MySQL 8.0
– In-place upgrade
• Run mysql_upgrade
• me@siv20$ ./mysql_upgrade --socket=/me/mysql/mysql.sock --port=3307 --user=root
• Checking if update is needed.
• Checking server version.
• Running queries to upgrade MySQL server.
• Upgrading system table data.
• Checking system database.
• mysql.columns_priv OK
• mysql.component OK
• mysql.db OK
...
• Upgrade process completed successfully.

MySQL upgrade 5.7 -> 8.0, smooth sailing! Con’t
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• Restart the server and look at messages in the error log
2018-10-06T09:11:28.167169Z 0 [System] [MY-010116] [Server] /me/mysqld (mysqld 8.0.12) starting as process 27147
2018-10-06T09:11:30.261139Z 0 [System] [MY-010931] [Server] /me/mysqld: ready for connections. Version:
'8.0.12' socket: ’/me/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 3307 Source distribution
• Verify that apps and services are working as expected

Improvements to upgrade to MySQL 8.0

Goals for the MySQL upgrade experience
• Upgrade to be faster and with lower risk
– Eliminate legacy issues with metadata
• Transition from legacy metadata handling to transactional data dictionary
• The upgrade process will produce a consistent data dictionary
• Help DBAs upgrading to MySQL 8.0
– Better support preparing for the upgrade
• Added upgrade_checker to the MySQL Shell
– Better support during the upgrade
• Added upgrade checks to MySQL server
• Prohibit legacy issues from entering the 8.0 metadata store
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MySQL Data Dictionary before MySQL 8.0
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Data Dictionary
Files
FRM TRG OPT
System Tables (mysql.)
user procevents
InnoDB System Tables
MyISAM
File system
InnoDB
SQL

Transactional Data Dictionary in MySQL 8.0
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Data Dictionary
InnoDB
SQL
DD TableDD TableDD Table

Typical upgrade procedure
• Let a slave have the new version, and receive all data
• Test applications on new slave, and possibly adapt applications
• Let slave receive production traffic
• Upgrade remaining slaves
• Finally promote master
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The traditional MySQL upgrade
• Consider standalone ”in-place” upgrade, new SW on existing data image
– Proper backups are assumed
1. Stop old MySQL server
2. Change binaries to new MySQL server version
3. Adjust config, my.cnf of new server version
4. Start new MySQL server
5. Run mysql_upgrade to possibly upgrade system tables and user tables
6. Restart MySQL server
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Upgrade to 8.0 in detail and how the
upgrade_checker helps

MySQL 8.0 Features
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• Read release notes https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/
and https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/upgrading.html
• Read blogs on https://mysqlserverteam.com
• New features in 8.0, and there is a lot of them
– Transactional Data Dictionary, and Atomic DDL
– Geography support
– Roles
– Persistent runtime configuration
– ++++

MySQL 8.0 Deprecation/Removals, Samples
– Features removed
• Query Cache, Non-native partitioning
– Options and variables removed
• Log_errors/log_warnings replaced by log_error_verbosity
• Secure_auth system var, --secure-auth client option and MYSQL_SECURE_AUTH from mysql options
• SQL Modes removed
– Account management
• The PASSWORD() function has been removed, using GRANT to create users is no longer supported
– Syntaxes affected
• EXTENDED and PARTITIONS keywords for EXPLAIN removed
• N as a synonym for NULL in SQL removed. Use NULL instead
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MySQL 8.0 Defaults Changes
There are a lot of changes to the defaults in 8.0, see
https://mysqlserverteam.com/new-defaults-in-mysql-8-0/
Some important ones:
– Default characterset and collation to 'utf8mb4' and 'utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci’
– The default/preferred authentication plugin ‘caching_sha2_password’
– innodb_undo_tablespaces changed from 0 to 2
– log_bin has been changed from OFF to ON
– Upgrade from MySQL 5.7: ALTER INSTANCE ROTATE INNODB MASTER KEY
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MySQL 8.0 Defaults Changes
–Especially note, character set and collation defaults changes
– Note that for upgrading SCHEMAs from 5.7 to 8.0, each shema has it’s own specified
default charset and collation, so nothing needs to be done to preserve this
– Rolling upgrade with a 5.7 master
• For new schemas using defaults, you will get the master’s charset and collation on the 8.0 slaves too
• New tables in existing schemas inherit the schemas defaults, so ”no problem”
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MySQL upgrade_checker
– New tool in MySQL 5.7 Shell
– upgrade_checker will check your MySQL 5.7 installation readiness for upgrade
– Clean up legacy issues
• Running the tool on the 5.7 installation, users can make changes when time permits before the
upgrade
– upgrade_checker is in active development and more checks will be added
• Part of MySQL update releases
– NOTE We think it is unlikely that there are installations with all the issues explained
in the following slides
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• Usage of old temporal type
• Conflicting db object names and
reserved keywords
• Usage of utf8mb3 charset
• Reserved tablenames in mysql
schema
• FK names longer than 64 chars
• Usage of obsolete sql_mode
• ENUM/SET column definitions
containing elements longer than
255 characters
• Usage of partitioned tables in
shared tablespaces
• Usage of removed functions
• Usage of removed GROUP BY
ASC/DESC
• Issues reported by ”check table x
for upgrade” command
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MySQL upgrade_checker

Issues detected by the upgrade_checker: example 1
• The Transactional Data Dictionary is stored as tables in mysql schema, and
can not conflict with user table names
– Detect with SQL:
SELECT TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
WHERE LOWER(TABLE_SCHEMA) = 'mysql’ and LOWER(TABLE_NAME) IN ( 'catalogs’,
’character_sets’....);
– ACTION: RENAME tables with conflicting name
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• In MySQL 5.7, several spatial functions available under multiple names
were deprecated. Example PointFromText
– Detect with SQL:
Use INFORMATION_SCHEMA to look at VIEW definitions like e.g. :
select table_name from information_schema.views where view_definition like "%function%”
Do similar for ROUTINE, TRIGGER,EVENT, GC
– ACTION: Use the new function in 8.0 with prefix ’ST_’ or ’MBR’
– ALTER TABLE t_gcol_dep MODIFY g POINT GENERATED ALWAYS AS (ST_POINTFROMTEXT(POINT(10, 10)));
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• Data types like e.g old style decimals, old style TIME/DATETIME etc that
have persisted up until MySQL 5.7 due to the binary upgrade will not be
supported in MySQL 8.0
– Tables using this type can be identified by running CHECK TABLE…FOR UPGRADE or
mysqlcheck with check-upgrade option in MySQL 5.7
– ACTION: fix through REPAIR TABLE and dump/reload for old style varchar/old style
decimal
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When the upgrade_checker runs clean
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• Backup your data directory, and install new MySQL 8.0 version
• Run mysql_upgrade
• Restart the server and inspect the error log
• Reconnect apps and verify they work as expected
• Attempting upgrade without a clean upgrade_checker run will abort the
upgrade

A better future with MySQL 8.0 ->

Upgrade MySQL 8.0 ->
• How can we continue improving the upgrade?
–We want to reduce time and risk even further
• Bulk of time spent for in-place upgrade of MySQL:
–Harvest metadata for analysis
–Examine all user tables

Transactional Data Dictionary in MySQL 8.0
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Data Dictionary
InnoDB
SQL
DD TableDD TableDD Table

Upgrade MySQL 8.0 ->
• MySQL now stores all metadata in InnoDB (Done)
– Enables fast metadata analysis with SQL-queries
• Added metadata for versioning (Done)
– The new mysqld executable knows which version it is upgrading from
• Improved protection of metadata, good for security reasons (Partly done)
– Enforced metadata integrity
• Remove need for mysql_upgrade client (WIP)
– Move functionality to mysqld proper
– Docker/container friendly

Upgrade MySQL 8.0 -> the GREAT news
• The traditional MySQL upgrade revisited
1. Stop old MySQL server
2. Change binaries to new MySQL server version
3. Adjust config, my.cnf of new server version
4. Start new MySQL server
• Analyze metadata and automatically upgrade, making upgrade process fast
5. Run mysq_upgrade to possibly upgrade system tables and user tables
• Potentially time consuming
6. Restart MySQL server
• Reduces downtime, container/docker friendly
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Summary: Upgrade MySQL 8.0 ->
• Lowers risk
– The upgrade_checker identifies potential issues
• In active development
– Metadata integrity
• Faster upgrade process
– Fast metadata analysis
– Fast metadata upgrade
– Removal of mysql_upgrade
• Simplified upgrade process
– Fewer steps
– Automatic metadata upgrade
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Recap: Upgrade to MySQL 8.0
• Prepare your upgrade (release notes, resources)
• DO run the upgrade_checker
– Fix issues until it runs clean
• TEST your applications on MySQL 8.0
• DO your backup
• Upgrade to MySQL 8.0
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Try for yourself!
• Downloadable 8.0.13
– http://dev.mysql.com
• Enjoy and give us your feedback!
• Thank you for listening
• http://mysqlserverteam.com
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MySQL Upgrade Resources
• https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/upgrading-strategies.html#upgrade-prerequisites
• https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/upgrading-from-previous-series.html
• https://mysqlserverteam.com/inplace-upgrade-from-mysql-5-7-to-mysql-8-0/
• https://mysqlserverteam.com/upgrading-to-mysql-8-0-here-is-what-you-need-to-know/
• https://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-shell-8-0-4-introducing-upgrade-checker-utility/
• https://mysqlserverteam.com/upgrading-to-mysql-8-0-with-spatial-data/
• https://mysqlserverteam.com/whats-new-in-mysql-8-0-generally-available/
• https://mysqlserverteam.com/upgrading-your-mysql-server-farm/

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