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MariaDBERRORNotableInnoDBHIGH confidence

Cannot create full-text index in InnoDB read-only mode

Production Risk

Medium — Index creation fails; full-text search unavailable until index is created on a writable node.

How to reproduce
trigger — this will error
trigger — this will error
CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX ft_idx ON articles(body); -- server in read-only mode

expected output

ERROR 3649 (HY000): Cannot create InnoDB full-text index in read-only mode.

Fix

Create FTS index on primary

Create FTS index on primary
-- Connect to the primary (writable) node and create the index there

Why this works

Performs DDL on a server instance that allows writes.

What not to do

Version notes

Sources
Official documentation ↗

MySQL 8.0 — 3649 ER_INNODB_CREATE_FTS_INDEX_IN_READ_ONLY_MODE

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