Rasmus Johansson
Is anyone familiar with binlog_row_image in MySQL 5.6, would it make sense to add it to MariaDB?
Sure it makes sense. Adding the slave side, where the slave is able to process the new smaller row images, is required to be able to replicate from a MySQL 5.6 master running with --binlog-row-image=minimal|noblob. Adding the master side (the --binlog-row-image option) would additionally allow a MariaDB->MariaDB replication to benefit from the possible efficiency gain of smaller row events (in row-based replication). However, with the way that merge procedures were changed at the MariaDB 10.0 release, non-InnoDB MySQL features or bugfixes are no longer added automatically to MariaDB. It requires someone to manually do it on a case-by-case basis. - Kristian.