is meta_p still supported? On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 3:31 PM John <phoenixoverr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Will we have a simple way to connect to the databases? One of the key > reasons that "enwiki.labsdb" works so well is that from a programming level > we dont have to worry about which server/slice a particular database is on. > Using the <lang><project>_p at <lang><project>.labsdb created a simple > uniform way to connect without having to keep track of what database moved > to which slice (when that was added mid size wikis were being moved > regularrly > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 3:11 PM Brooke Storm <bst...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> >> >> On Apr 6, 2021, at 11:49 AM, Huji Lee <huji.h...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Pardon my potentially dumb question, but how do the shorter DB names get >> resolved? >> >> I have python code that looks like this: >> >> *conn = mysqldb.connect(host="enwiki.labsdb", db="enwiki_p", >> read_default_file="~/replica.my.cnf")* >> >> How does *enwiki.labsdb* get resolved to, I am assuming, >> *enwiki.web.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud* and will this stop working on April >> 28th? >> >> >> >> Those names were deprecated years ago and are not maintained (they only >> work for a certain fraction of databases). They are just CNAMES exactly >> like the others: >> enwiki.labsdb. 871 IN CNAME s1.analytics.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs. >> >> I did mass grepping in Toolforge NFS and didn’t find any uses of them. >> So, I’m surprised they are still used anywhere, but recursive greps can >> miss things. >> >> So on those names: >> 1. Please don’t use them anyway because they will certainly go away at >> some point and only work for the oldest wikis. >> 2. Since they point at the old DNS names for the sections, they go >> wherever they go. If we redirect them to the new cluster, they’ll just keep >> working like before. >> >> They honestly need to be cleaned up (as part of the overall removal of >> “labs” names), but that’s a separate task that needs communication and so >> forth. >> >> —Brooke Storm >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list >> Cloud@lists.wikimedia.org (formerly lab...@lists.wikimedia.org) >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud >> >
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