MySQL Group Replication: who is the primary master – updated!

Some time ago I wrote this article explaining how to find which node was the Primary Master in a MySQL Group Replication cluster running in Single-Primary Mode.

In the latest release of Group Replication, MySQL 8.0.2 dmr, Jaideep improved the visibility of Group Replication extending the performance_schema tables (see his article).

Thanks to these improvements, it’s now very easy to find which host is acting a Primary-Master. This is the query you can use:

mysql-sql> SELECT MEMBER_HOST as `PRIMARY`
           FROM performance_schema.replication_group_members
           WHERE MEMBER_ROLE='PRIMARY';
+---------+
| PRIMARY |
+---------+
| mysql3  |
+---------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Much easier isn’t it ?

I let you discover the other improvements and features in MySQL 8.0.2 and don’t forget that your feedback is very important !