The replication events use a redundant format that has both the length of
the event and the position of the next event. The length can be modified
so that the next event position of the previous event and the length of
the curren event can be different. This includes overlap of the events
where the next event position of an event is "inside" the current event.
The next event position must retain its original value as that allows
replication slaves to reconnect with the correct position when file and
position based replication is used. For GTID replication, the slave asks
for the coordinates from the master and uses those.
When a slave receives a heartbeat event from a master, it checks that the
binlog name matches and that the next event position in the event is not
behind the slave's relay log position. These events must be modified to
contain a fake next event position that will never be reached by the
slave. This makes sure that the simple sanity checks never fail even if
we've caused the slave's relay log to be ahead of the master's binlog.
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