Richard Owlett wrote:
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Not quite in the manner I suspect you assume <chuckle>.
We come from different point-of-views.
You evidently lean towards "power user".
I have some characteristics of "mass market consumer".
The points you listed appear likely to lead to alleviation of my
observed _symptoms_ of an underlying problem.
I'll draw an analogy from the development of the germ theory of disease
in the mid-nineteenth century. Semmelweis noticed a higher incidence of
death among women who delivered at the hospital with the help of the
doctors and medical students. Births attended by the midwives were
relatively safe. { see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease#Ignaz_Semmelweis}
Examples will have to wait on my specialized test-bed multi-booting
customized Debian 6, 8, and 9.
FTR there are recent bugs which sound similar
and discussion on the development and release
lists which talk about mariadb and the current
upgrade situation.