This post is a lab experiment learning from migration to the Percona Xtradb Cluster (Galera) and a very unexpected DEADLOCK scenario which took me back to basics.

(root@localhost) [test]>insert into app values (1);
ERROR 1213 (40001): Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction

Little background:

We needed to work on migrating the standard MySQL replication to a Galera (Percona Xtradb Cluster).

Previous configuration being one Master with two slaves detailed as follows:
server-1: MySQL community 5.6 serving as Master
server-2: MySQL community 5.6 serving as Slave
server-3: MySQL community 5.6 serving as Slave

We wanted to migrate above MySQL standard replication setup to Percona Xtradb Cluster (PXC 5.6) as following 3 nodes:
galera-1
galera-2
galera-3

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