Repository: incubator-airflow Updated Branches: refs/heads/master 11e670ddb -> d5d97dc97
[AIRFLOW-2536] docs about how to deal with airflow initdb failure Add docs to faq.rst to talk about how to deal with Exception: Global variable explicit_defaults_for_timestamp needs to be on (1) for mysql Closes #3429 from milton0825/fix-docs Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-airflow/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-airflow/commit/d5d97dc9 Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-airflow/tree/d5d97dc9 Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-airflow/diff/d5d97dc9 Branch: refs/heads/master Commit: d5d97dc9719fd71625d8d252315ec01c7415c11a Parents: 11e670d Author: Chao-Han Tsai <ct...@lyft.com> Authored: Tue May 29 20:27:28 2018 +0100 Committer: Kaxil Naik <kaxiln...@apache.org> Committed: Tue May 29 20:29:27 2018 +0100 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- docs/faq.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-airflow/blob/d5d97dc9/docs/faq.rst ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index 53242e4..d2c6188 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -161,3 +161,11 @@ How can we reduce the airflow UI page load time? ------------------------------------------------ If your dag takes long time to load, you could reduce the value of ``default_dag_run_display_number`` configuration in ``airflow.cfg`` to a smaller value. This configurable controls the number of dag run to show in UI with default value 25. + +How to fix Exception: Global variable explicit_defaults_for_timestamp needs to be on (1)? +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +This means ``explicit_defaults_for_timestamp`` is disabled in your mysql server and you need to enable it by: + +#. Set ``explicit_defaults_for_timestamp = 1`` under the mysqld section in your my.cnf file. +#. Restart the Mysql server.
