Changing a column from uncompressed to compressed for JSON crashes the server:
mysql> alter table tb_name modify json_variables JSON COLUMN_FORMAT compressed; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec) Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0
2017-07-13T15:21:22.114757Z 3 [ERROR] [FATAL] InnoDB: unsupported compressed BLOB header format
Changing a column from uncompressed to compressed for JSON crashes the server:
mysql> alter table tb_name modify json_variables JSON COLUMN_FORMAT compressed;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0
2017-07- 13T15:21: 22.114757Z 3 [ERROR] [FATAL] InnoDB: unsupported compressed BLOB header format