When Running mysqld With --initialize ,it Fails With : "unknown variable 'group_replication_local_address=<IP>:<PORT>'" (Doc ID 2958742.1)

Last updated on JUNE 30, 2023

Applies to:

MySQL Server - Version 8.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

When manually initializing the datadir, it may fail like this :

Group replication or other plugin variable were already configured in my.cnf prior to re-initialization of datadir.

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