Recently I had an interesting issue crop up. Due to an unfortunate migration incident in which involved master/master replication and not checking to see if replication was caught up, we ended up with an infinite replication loop of a number of SQL statements. "awk" helped immensely in the aftermath cleanup.The basics of the replication infinite loop were

The title says it all, and the explanation is very interesting. The consequences of disabling binlog due to lack of storage are catastrophic. Entertaining and worrying at the same time.