tl;dr: new trove database versions are coming! Existing trove db servers
will continue to run as before. Please provide feedback about the specifics.
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Sometime in the next few weeks I'd like to make a few updates to the
databases supported on cloud-vps. Unless you have your own private
database, toolforge users can ignore this email. If you ever visit the
'databases' tab in Horizon please read on!
Right now we support the following database engines:
mariadb10.5.10 (21 instances)
mysql5.7.29(4 instances)
postgresql 12.7 (13 instances)
I propose to deprecate all three of those engines, and replace them with:
mariadb12.2.2
postgres18
Here's how that would look, from a user standpoint:
1) **Any existing database instances will continue to run and operatein
Horizonas before.**
2) It will no longer be possible to create new database instances with
the deprecated engines.
3) It will no longer be possible to restore backups of databases using
the old engine without admin intervention -- if we do this, I will be on
hand to do manual restores if necessary. This restriction is bound up
with #2 above; either both rules stay or both rules go.[0]
4) There will be no automatic or in-place upgrade path provided from old
version to new version. Any upgrades, if needed, will have to be
performed 'by hand' with something like an outside-of-openstack dump and
restore. This pains me but I've spent some time testing and the internal
storage formats are too different for a smooth transition.
5) It will no longer be possible to create new mysql databases. Mysql is
not very popular, and as far as I know only provides a functional subset
of mariadb.
I'm making a lot of assumptions about you, the users, in this proposal,
so please speak up if (for example) you perform frequent backup
restores, or have a use case that requires mysql. You can respond to
this email, or follow up on the associated phab task[1].
If this email provokes only silence or agreement, then I will make these
changes on or near April 20.
[0] Currently only a total of 9 trove backups exist (and only 4 in the
last year), so I suspect no one is really relying on this service on the
regular.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T420737
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