This is correct. DDLs are (still) auto committed, but they now cannot fail in an intermediate state. Discussing full transactional DDL should also take into acc

This is correct. DDLs are (still) auto committed, but they now cannot fail in an intermediate state. Discussing full transactional DDL should also take into account DDL being Replicated and on Online Schema changes (perhaps more important for Web-scale). Then it starts to become complicated supporting full transactional DDL (at the same time). But transactional DDL is absolutely a desired feature. Geir