Comments - Why in mariadb 10.6.11 does copy to tmp table occur when adding a field to the end of a table with default value NULL?
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MariaDB Server 10.3 implemented MDEV-11369 instant
ADD COLUMNfor InnoDB. MDEV-20590 introduced a way to disable this by default, and MDEV-13134 introduced theALGORITHMclausesNOCOPYandINSTANTfor requiring that the operation fail if it can’t be executed as efficiently as requested.Instant
ADD COLUMNwas not implemented forROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSEDtables. Could that be the explanation here?it's all due to the fulltext index in the table