This method allows one to create foreign keys without blocking access to
the source table, but only on PostgreSQL.
When creating a regular foreign key the "ALTER TABLE" statement used for
this won't return until all data has been validated. This statement in
turn will acquire a lock on the source table. As a result this lock can
be held for quite a long amount of time, depending on the number of rows
and system load.
By breaking up the foreign key creation process in two steps (creation,
and validation) we can reduce the amount of locking to a minimum.
Locking is still necessary for the "ALTER TABLE" statement that adds the
constraint, but this is a fast process and so will only block access for
a few milliseconds.
- Don't use `TableReferences` - using `.arel_table` is shorter!
- Move some database-related code to `Gitlab::Database`
- Remove the `MergeRequest#issues_closed` and
`Issue#closed_by_merge_requests` associations. They were either
shadowing or were too similar to existing methods. They are not being
used anywhere, so it's better to remove them to reduce confusion.
- Use Rails 3-style validations
- Index for `MergeRequest::Metrics#first_deployed_to_production_at`
- Only include `CycleAnalyticsHelpers::TestGeneration` for specs that
need it.
- Other minor refactorings.
- Move things common to `Issue` and `MergeRequest` into `Issuable`
- Move more database-specific functions into `Gitlab::Database`
- Indentation changes and other minor refactorings.
1. Change multiple updates to a single `update_all`
2. Use cascading deletes
3. Extract an average function for the database median.
4. Move database median to `lib/gitlab/database`
5. Use `delete_all` instead of `destroy_all`
6. Minor refactoring
Long-running migrations may take more than the timeout allowed by
the database. Disable the session's statement timeout to ensure
migrations don't get killed prematurely.
This changes update_column_in_batches to ensure it always updates all
rows now. These changes also allow for an extra SELECT query to be
removed, nor does it use the row count for determining offsets and the
likes; instead it's only used to determine the batch size.
This ensures that whatever locks are acquired aren't held onto until the
end of the transaction (= after _all_ rows have been updated). Timing
wise there's also no difference between using a transaction and not
using one.
By passing a block to update_column_in_batches() one can now customize
the queries executed. This in turn can be used to only update a specific
set of rows instead of simply all the rows in the table.
Instead of updating a fixed number of rows (based on the amount of rows
available at the start of the update) the method
"update_column_in_batches" will now continue updating rows until it runs
out of rows to process.
For a table with a high rate of inserts this may result in the migration
taking quite some time. However, the alternative is not all rows being
updated or the "change_column_null" method raising an error due to there
being NULL values.
These helpers can be used to perform migrations without taking down the
entire application.
For example, the method "add_column_with_default" can be used to add a
new column with a default value without locking the entire table.
Yorick Peterse
James Lopez
Timothy Andrew
Drew Blessing
Stan Hu
Felipe Artur
Grzegorz Bizon