I'm always amazed that people continue using MySQL. I mean, I use it very rarely, and barely use any of the feature set, yet almost every time I do use it, I find a glaring bug, incorrect documentation or a misfeature.

Just in case you're wondering, my little rant was inspired by going to dump a MySQL database and finding that the version of mysql_dump on that system is broken in two distinct ways, one of which can be worked around, and one that can't be (so I had to write a script to do the dump for me). Even funnier, if I'm understanding correctly, the first bug is actually a regression of a bug that was fixed once before.

I can only assume that the MySQL testing methodology consists entirely of publishing a tarball and waiting for bug reports.