MySQL 5.7 Reference Manual
MySQL 5.7 Release Notes
The Performance Schema avoids using mutexes to collect or produce
data, so there are no guarantees of consistency and results can
sometimes be incorrect. Event values in
performance_schema tables are nondeterministic
and nonrepeatable.
If you save event information in another table, you should not
assume that the original events are still available later. For
example, if you select events from a
performance_schema table into a temporary
table, intending to join that table with the original table later,
there might be no matches.
mysqldump and BACKUP
DATABASE ignore tables in the
performance_schema database.
Tables in the performance_schema database
cannot be locked with LOCK TABLES, except the
setup_ tables.
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Tables in the performance_schema database
cannot be indexed.
Results for queries that refer to tables in the
performance_schema database are not saved in
the query cache.
Tables in the performance_schema database are
not replicated.
The Performance Schema is not available in
libmysqld, the embedded server.
The types of timers might vary per platform. The
performance_timers table shows which
event timers are available. If the values in this table for a
given timer name are NULL, that timer is not
supported on your platform.
Instruments that apply to storage engines might not be implemented for all storage engines. Instrumentation of each third-party engine is the responsibility of the engine maintainer.