mysqlbinlog --server-id before MySQL 5.1? awk to the rescue!
Recently I had an interesting issue crop up. Due to an unfortunate migration incident in which involved master/master replication and not checking to see if replication was caught up, we ended up with an infinite replication loop of a number of SQL statements. awk helped immensely in the aftermath cleanup.
The basics of the replication infinite loop were (more…)
