"INSERT... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE skips auto_increment values".
When in an INSERT ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, using
an autoincrement column, we inserted some autogenerated values and
also updated some rows, some autogenerated values were not used
(for example, even if 10 was the largest autoinc value in the table
at the start of the statement, 12 could be the first autogenerated
value inserted by the statement, instead of 11). One autogenerated
value was lost per updated row. Led to exhausting the range of the
autoincrement column faster.
Bug introduced by fix of BUG#20188; present since 5.0.24 and 5.1.12.
This bug breaks replication from a pre-5.0.24 master.
But the present bugfix, as it makes INSERT ON DUP KEY UPDATE
behave like pre-5.0.24, breaks replication from a [5.0.24,5.0.34]
master to a fixed (5.0.36) slave! To warn users against this when
they upgrade their slave, as agreed with the support team, we add
code for a fixed slave to detect that it is connected to a buggy
master in a situation (INSERT ON DUP KEY UPDATE into autoinc column)
likely to break replication, in which case it cannot replicate so
stops and prints a message to the slave's error log and to SHOW SLAVE
STATUS.
For 5.0.36->[5.0.24,5.0.34] replication we cannot warn as master
does not know the slave's version (but we always recommended to users
to have slave at least as new as master).
As agreed with support, I'll also ask for an alert to be put into
the MySQL Network Monitoring and Advisory Service.