I would assume this has to do with MySQL's lack of transactional DDL, but I haven't looked into it at all. I actually don't mind MySQL as much as people compla

I would assume this has to do with MySQL's lack of transactional DDL, but I haven't looked into it at all. I actually don't mind MySQL as much as people complain about it, but I haven't dealt with any cases that requires more than a single read replica.