Hello,

I'm come across a situation where a table in our production DB has a relatively small number of duplicative rows that seemingly defy the unique constraint present on that table.

We're running MySQL 5.6.19a via Amazon RDS. The table in question is ~250M rows.

`show create table` gives:

app_customergroupmembership | CREATE TABLE `app_customergroupmembership` (
  `id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `customer_id` varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL,
  `group_id` varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL,
  `created` datetime NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
UNIQUE KEY `app_customergroupmembership_customer_id_31afe160_uniq` (`customer_id`,`group_id`), KEY `app_customergroupmembership_group_id_18aedd38e3f8a4a0` (`group_id`,`created`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=21951158253 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin


Despite that, records with duplicate customer_id/group_id do exist:

mysql> select * from app_customergroupmembership where customer_id = 'ajEiQA';
+-------------+-------------+----------+---------------------+
| id          | customer_id | group_id | created             |
+-------------+-------------+----------+---------------------+
| 20279608258 | ajEiQA      | ddH6Ev   | 2015-02-17 00:14:54 |
| 20279608269 | ajEiQA      | ddH6Ev   | 2015-02-17 00:14:54 |
+-------------+-------------+----------+---------------------+

Interestingly, these dupe records can't seem to be queried when using both columns from the unique constraint in the WHERE clause:

mysql> select * from app_customergroupmembership where customer_id = 'ajEiQA' and group_id = 'ddH6Ev';
+-------------+-------------+----------+---------------------+
| id          | customer_id | group_id | created             |
+-------------+-------------+----------+---------------------+
| 20279608258 | ajEiQA      | ddH6Ev   | 2015-02-17 00:14:54 |
+-------------+-------------+----------+---------------------+


Any thoughts on how this situation came to pass, and how to prevent it from happening?

Thanks,
--
Chris Hornung

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