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15.4.1.4. Replication of CREATE TABLE ... SELECT Statements

This section discusses how MySQL replicates CREATE TABLE ... SELECT statements.

These behaviors are not dependent on MySQL version:

  • CREATE TABLE ... SELECT always performs an implicit commit (Section 12.3.3, “Statements That Cause an Implicit Commit”).

  • If destination table does not exist, logging occurs as follows. It does not matter whether IF NOT EXISTS is present.

    • STATEMENT or MIXED format: The statement is logged as written.

    • ROW format: The statement is logged as a CREATE TABLE statement followed by a series of insert-row events.

  • If the statement fails, nothing is logged. This includes the case that the destination table exists and IF NOT EXISTS is not given.

When the destination table exists and IF NOT EXISTS is given, MySQL handles the statement in a version-dependent way.

In MySQL 5.1 before 5.1.51 and in MySQL 5.5 before 5.5.6 (this is the original behavior):

  • STATEMENT or MIXED format: The statement is logged as written.

  • ROW format: The statement is logged as a CREATE TABLE statement followed by a series of insert-row events.

In MySQL 5.1 as of 5.1.51:

  • STATEMENT or MIXED format: The statement is logged as the equivalent pair of CREATE TABLE and INSERT INTO ... SELECT statements.

  • ROW format: The statement is logged as a CREATE TABLE statement followed by a series of insert-row events.

In MySQL 5.5 as of 5.5.6:

  • Nothing is inserted or logged.

These version dependencies arise due to a change in MySQL 5.5.6 in handling of CREATE TABLE ... SELECT not to insert rows if the destination table already exists, and a change made in MySQL 5.1.51 to preserve forward compatibility in replication of such statements from a 5.1 master to a 5.5 slave. For details, see Section 12.1.17.1, “CREATE TABLE ... SELECT Syntax”.

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