Work on this is beginning. Brooke Storm Operations Engineer Wikimedia Cloud Services bst...@wikimedia.org <mailto:bst...@wikimedia.org> IRC: bstorm_
> On May 20, 2019, at 12:38 PM, Brooke Storm <bst...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > I’d like to announce that after taking considerable user feedback about it, > and fixing a performance issue regarding the revision_userindex table at > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221339 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221339> that affects migration of tools > to the new schema, that we are extending the date to Monday, June 3rd instead > to begin dropping the fields in the views. This should give additional time > to fix things up as well as find issues in existing views if any more arise. > > Brooke Storm > Operations Engineer > Wikimedia Cloud Services > bst...@wikimedia.org <mailto:bst...@wikimedia.org> > IRC: bstorm_ > >> On May 17, 2019, at 4:27 PM, Brooke Storm <bst...@wikimedia.org >> <mailto:bst...@wikimedia.org>> wrote: >> >> Similar to the earlier removal of text fields from the wiki replicas for >> comment storage refactors in Mediawiki, we are going to remove “user text” >> columns from the views that are deprecated in the Mediawiki schema to >> prepare for when they will actually be removed upstream. The column drops >> are tracked and explained here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223406 >> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223406>. The tables with names such as >> <tablename>_compat will not see a difference in structure. The change is >> scheduled for Monday, May 27th. >> >> The fields that are dropping from the views are: >> revision: rev_user and rev_user_text. >> archive: ar_user and ar_user_text. >> ipblocks: ipb_by and ipb_by_text. >> image: img_user and img_user_text. >> oldimage: oi_user and oi_user_text. >> filearchive: fa_user and fa_user_text. >> recentchanges: rc_user and rc_user_text. >> logging: log_user and log_user_text. >> Ideally, tools that connect to the replicas should gather the information >> from the appropriate entries in the actor table instead, again, this is >> similar to the change for the comment table. The data is already there for >> you to start using. The alternative is to try using the related >> <tablename>_compat table, which won’t be changing in a user-visible way at >> this time. >> >> >> Brooke Storm >> Operations Engineer >> Wikimedia Cloud Services >> bst...@wikimedia.org <mailto:bst...@wikimedia.org> >> IRC: bstorm_ >> >
_______________________________________________ Wikimedia Cloud Services announce mailing list cloud-annou...@lists.wikimedia.org (formerly labs-annou...@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud-announce
_______________________________________________ Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list Cloud@lists.wikimedia.org (formerly lab...@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
