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 Adding a `UNIQUE KEY` is possible, in the condition that no violation will occur. That is, you must make sure there aren't any violating rows on your table before, and during the migration.
 
-At this time there is no equivalent to `ALETER IGNORE`, where duplicates are implicitly and silently thrown away. This behavior may be supported in the future.
+At this time there is no equivalent to `ALETER IGNORE`, where duplicates are implicitly and silently thrown away. The MySQL `5.7` docs say:
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+> As of MySQL 5.7.4, the IGNORE clause for ALTER TABLE is removed and its use produces an error.
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+It is therefore unlikely that `gh-ost` will support this behavior.
 
 # Why