"LOL away?" What gave you the impression that I was making fun of it? I am the one who found the bug and reported it, and this is the explanation I got. Since t

"LOL away?" What gave you the impression that I was making fun of it? I am the one who found the bug and reported it, and this is the explanation I got. Since the person I talked to is someone I trust, I don't have reason to think otherwise. I can elaborate further and tell you why this particular error was likely to happen: it's because since the beginning MySQL was built with root user without password, and most of the tests were running in such conditions. That was the culture of rapid growth that gave MySQL its popularity and the developers are paying now the technical debt that has left so many features with poor testing behind. What Oracle is doing now is trying to redress that situation by strengthening the defaults, for which I commend them. Being a QA developer, I am less pleased with the quality of tests that let such mistake pass, but I know that such things happen, and it does not necessarily mean that there is a can of worms behind this bug.