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5.7 deprecation of alter ignore
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Adding a `UNIQUE KEY` is possible, in the condition that no violation will occur. That is, you must make sure there aren't any violating rows on your table before, and during the migration.
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At this time there is no equivalent to `ALETER IGNORE`, where duplicates are implicitly and silently thrown away. This behavior may be supported in the future.
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At this time there is no equivalent to `ALETER IGNORE`, where duplicates are implicitly and silently thrown away. The MySQL `5.7` docs say:
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> As of MySQL 5.7.4, the IGNORE clause for ALTER TABLE is removed and its use produces an error.
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It is therefore unlikely that `gh-ost` will support this behavior.
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# Why

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