Reading the fine print (“allowing … to issue citations for drivers who park in a bike lane longer than 10 minutes”) this doesn’t seem like a “BIKE WIN” for bike lane users; it’s formalizing and legalizing the “I’ll just be a minute” free pass for bike lane parking that’s a scourge on us all. Nope. 👎

Bike Lane Uprising@bikelaneuprising.bsky.social · 2mo ago

[ BIKE WIN ] The city of Lexington KY (who links to our app from their city website), just passed an ordinance making it illegal to obstruct bike lanes. Lexington is one of the top reporting cities to our database. www.instagram.com/p/DdU8r1rDkJ...

Today, I discovered that my two year old contribution is partially implemented in MySQL for more than a year. Oracle did that silently, without closing my report, and without mentioning it in the release notes. I have mixed feelings about this. bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=1...

There is a new quality problem in Oracle/MySQL. In addition to not fixing bugs in all supported versions (a problem I mentioned many times in the past), bugs are now fixed but not mentioned in the Release Notes. I have two examples of this. 1 of 3

The security theater of @ferries.wsdot.wa.gov announcements warning everyone to not leave a backpack or luggage unattended (oh no!!) while a hundred people just drove an entire car or truck on here and left it unattended amuses me greatly. 🤷‍♂️

Last week, I published two #MySQL Replication blog posts: Understanding "fatal error 1236", and GTID Crash Safety improvement in 8.0.17. Both subjects lack clear documentation, hence the interest of blogging about them. Link to the 2nd post in the 1st. jfg-mysql.blogspot.com/2026/08/unde...

Oracle/MySQL did it again: they fixed a bug in the most recent version (26.7.0) but not in all supported versions (8.4.11 and 9.7.2). See below bug report for detail. bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=1...

A few days ago, I was reminded of a #MySQL Best Practice which is not fully understood and on which I am often challenged, so I blogged about it. jfg-mysql.blogspot.com/2026/07/best...

There is no such thing as too little parking. There are too many cars. But y’all don’t want to hear that because it puts the responsibility on YOU to do something about it. 🤷‍♂️

Thanks AWS OPen Source for supporting @planet-mysql-community.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy and @planet-valkey-community.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy. jfg-mysql.blogspot.com/2026/04/than...

TIL (today I learned): since MySQL 8.0.22, there is a READ ONLY option to ALTER DATABASE. dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8...

Semi-annual reminder: for the next few weeks, the time difference between Europe (EU) and North America (NA) is not the same as usual. Here in NA, we rewind the clocks this weekend (night of Saturday March 7th to Sunday March 8th)... 1 of 2.

Did you sign letter.3306-db.org ? This is important for the future of #MySQL

Open Letter — Invitation to Discuss the Future of the MySQL Ecosystem

The MySQL Ecosystem Needs Independent, Vendor-Neutral Governance. Add your name to the open letter.

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I will be in Brussels for @fosdem.org, #MySQL Summit and MySQL Belgium Days (landing Wed. Jan. 28 am, leaving Wed. Feb. 4 am). I will then be in Geneva until Sat. Feb. 7. Looking forward to meeting MySQL Community Colleague in Brussels, and my Proton Colleague in Geneva.

If you are running #MySQL 8.0 replicas, you might want to check my latest blog post for a data corruption condition that can be easily managed. MySQL 8.4 is safe, so is Percona Server 8.0.39+. jfg-mysql.blogspot.com/2026/01/undo...

MySQL Belgian Days 2026 - registration is now open 🐬🇧🇪✍️ eventreg.oracle.com/profile/web/... #MySQLCommunity #MySQL

preFOSDEM ⚙️ #MySQL 🐬 Belgian Days 🇧🇪 📆 Call for Papers is now open: sessionize.com/prefosdem-my... #MySQLCommunity #CfP

Save the dates 📆 the #MySQL Belgian Days 🐬 🇧🇪 2026 will take place in Brussels, 29 & 30 January 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ - Stay tuned for more info and CfP 📄 #MySQLCommunity

Thanks to @mcrauwel.bsky.social for becoming a Gold member of Planet for the MySQL Community on Buy Me a Coffee ! buymeacoffee.com/planetmysqlc...

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(also the temporary support page for Planet for the Valkey Community, see below)Thanks for your interest in Planet for the MySQL Community: a blog / news aggregator for the MySQL Community / Ecosystem

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Bi-Yearly reminder that Europe and North America are not changing time on the same date. 1 of 3

In my latest blog post series, I explain the source a #MySQL crash, reference bugs that would have made things better, and mention a feature of #MariaDB which avoids that crash and improves performance (another feature would have made recovery quicker). jfg-mysql.blogspot.com/2025/06/inte...

Interesting Troubleshooting of a MySQL Crash : filling then freeing the disk

I recently troubleshoot an interesting MySQL crash, and I think it is worth sharing (with the related bugs).  MySQL crashed when the disk wa...

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I used Bitly (free) in the past to provide short URLs, but I am now disappointed to see they are not as transparent as before (showing a preview, probably mostly promoting themselves). I am now moving to TinyURL.

If you are running #MySQL 8.0, you might want to consider setting innodb_doublewrite_pages to 128 (it is the new default in 8.4). My latest blog post explains why. jfg-mysql.blogspot.com/2025/04/perf...

I recently submitted a #MySQL Contribution for adding Counters for Slow InnoDB Sync Reads, and I wrote a RFC Blog Post about it. I welcome feedback in the post of in the Contrib / RFC Fake PR (link in the post). jfg-mysql.blogspot.com/2025/03/cont...

The past, present and future of 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗡 by Norvald 🐬 #mysql #fosdem

Don’t Forget this, it’s important! preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days 🐬🇧🇪 #mysql

Sakila arrived in Belgium 🇧🇪 She will be attending preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days and #FOSDEM 🐬⚙️🍻🧇🍫🍟 #MySQL #mysql30

The agenda for the preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days is now available! 🗓️ 🐬 🇧🇪 buff.ly/3PtLvUh #MySQL #MySQL30 🎂 #MySQLDays

If Canada becomes part of the US, like the orange-hair bozo is repeating ad nauseam, ex-Canadians living abroad will have to pay taxes to Washington (currently not paying to Ottawa) and thick the box "US Citizen" in bank forms and more, which complicates everything ! #NotAGoodDeal

If you will attend your first #FOSDEM this year, or want to know more about this Open Source Conference happening on the 1st weekend of February each year in Brussels, this is a good summary (from 2017, but mostly still accurate). lwn.net/Articles/715...

Added descriptions of the SQL isolation level anomalies P0, P1, P2, and P3 to the phenomena page: https://jepsen.io/consistency/phenomena#sql