I recently upgraded from MySQL 5.7 to 8.0. I have noticed some changes from 5.7 to 8. But I have not been able to find any discussion on following situation that I have been puzzling for a while.
I have a few tables that contain some UTF8 texts. When I optimize the table (from within mySQL, using OPTIMIZE TABLE), I noticed the MYD file's size more than doubled, such as going from 4M to 8M, roughly (and not exactly double, more like 2.1 times).
I thought this could be due to my upgrade from MySQL 5.7 to 8.0. So I duplicated the entire table within MySQL 8. The newly duplicated table has the size as expected. Then I ran optimization again on this table, and its size doubles again!
I also noticed the following.
First: this does not occur to all MyISAM table. Just some of them.
Second: in the older systems (5.7 and before), If I repeatedly run OPTIMIZE TABLE on the same table, in the second and onward times, mySQL would tell me that the table was up to date, and the optimization takes almost no time. But in MySQL 8, and only for those tables that doubles the size after OPTIMIZE TABLE, every time I run optimization, it does optimization to reach a status OK. It never reaches "table is up to date" status, and the file size does not change after doubling.
Anyone runs into similar situations? Any explanations?
