On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Salvatore Orlando <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Anna. > > I've been following the issue so far, but I am happy to hand it over to you. > I think the problem assessment is complete, but if you have more questions > ping me on IRC. > > Regarding the solution, I think we already have a fairly wide consensus on > the approach. > There are however a few details to discuss: > - Conflicting schemas. For instance two migrations for two distinct plugins > might create tables with the same name but different columns. > We first need to look at existing migrations to verify where this > condition occurs, and then study a solution case by case. > - Logic for "corrective" migrations. For instance a corrective migration for > 569e98a8132b_metering is needed. However, such corrective migration should > have logic for understanding whether the original migration has been > executed or not. > - Corrective actions for corrupted schemas. This would be the case, for > instance, of somebody which enables metering while the database is at a > migration rev higher than the one when metering was introduced. > > I reckon it might be the case of putting together a specification and push > it to the newly created neutron-specs repo, assuming that we feel confident > enough to start using this new process (Kyle and Mark might chime in on this > point). Also, I would like to see this work completed by Juno-1, which I > reckon is a reasonable target. > I'm working to get this new specification approval process ready, hopefully by later today. Once this is done, I agree with Salvatore, pushing a gerrit review with the specification for this work will be the right approach.
> Of course I'm available for discussing design, implementation, reviewing and > writing code. > Thanks to Anna and Salvatore for taking this up! Kyle > Salvatore > > > > On 15 April 2014 12:44, Anna Kamyshnikova <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hello everyone! >> >> I would like to try to solve this problem. I registered blueprint on this >> topic >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/neutron-robust-db-migrations >> and I'm going to experiment with options to solve this. I'm welcome any >> suggestions and ready to talk about it via IRC (akamyshnikova). >> >> Regards >> Ann >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Sean Dague <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 04/14/2014 12:46 PM, Eugene Nikanorov wrote: >>> > Hi Salvatore, >>> > >>> > The described problem could be even worse if vendor drivers are >>> > considered. >>> > Doesn't #1 require that all DB tables are named differently? Otherwise >>> > it seems that user can't be sure in DB schema even if all tables are >>> > present. >>> > >>> > I think the big part of the problem is that we need to support both >>> > online and offline migrations. Without the latter things could be a >>> > little bit simpler. >>> > >>> > Also it seems to me that problem statement should be changed to the >>> > following: >>> > One need to migrate from (Config1, MigrationID1) to (Config2, >>> > MigrationID2), and currently our code only accounts for MigrationIDs. >>> > We may consider amending DB with configuration metadata, at least that >>> > will allow to run migration code with full knowledge of what happened >>> > before (if online mode is considered). >>> > In offline mode that will require providing old and current >>> > configurations. >>> > >>> > That was just thinking aloud, no concrete proposals yet. >>> >>> The root issue really is Migrations *must* be global, and config >>> invariant. That's the design point in both sqlalchemy-migrate and >>> alembic. The fact that there is one global migrations table per >>> database, with a single value in it, is indicative of this fact. >>> >>> I think that design point got lost somewhere along the way, and folks >>> assumed migrations were just a way to change schemas. They are much more >>> constrained than that. >>> >>> It does also sound like the data model is going to need some serious >>> reconsidering given what's allowed to be changed at the plugin or vendor >>> driver model. Contrast this with Nova, were virt drivers don't get to >>> define persistant data that's unique to them (only generic data that >>> they fit into the grander nova model). >>> >>> The one time we had a driver which needed persistent data (baremetal) it >>> managed it's own database entirely. >>> >>> -Sean >>> >>> -- >>> Sean Dague >>> Samsung Research America >>> [email protected] / [email protected] >>> http://dague.net >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenStack-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
