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GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL

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[Suggestion] Apply simple validation to alter command 3 months ago

enhancement good first issue

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Request for assistance: mapping charsets 7 months ago

help wanted suggested for community contribution

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Conversion of character set from latin1 to utf8mb3 does not work over 1 year ago

AI Summary: Debug and fix a bug in GitHub's online schema migration tool (gh-ost) where character set conversion from latin1 to utf8mb3 fails during binlog replication. The issue arises when new data containing characters with different encodings in latin1 and utf8mb3 is inserted during the migration, causing errors. A reproduction repository is provided.

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