Using commas instead of spaces prevents a the misinterpretation of
commands as hostnames. If the `--hosts` option was given just before a
command, it would consume the commands as arguments to the `--hosts` list.
The default value for strict_multi_stmt prevents compound statements and
atomic multi-statement commands from being executed without completely
disabling load balancing. As the new default value will have no practical
effect on all correct uses of readwritesplit, this is a relatively safe
thing to change.
MaxScale now refuses to run as root. However, it is possible to
start MaxScale as root, as long as a user to run MaxScale as is
provided as a command line argument.
It is possible to run as root by invoking MaxScale as root and
by specifying the MaxScale user to be root.