eileencodes 79ce7d9af6 Deprecate spec_name and use name for configurations ... I have so. many. regrets. about using `spec_name` for database configurations and now I'm finally putting this mistake to an end. Back when I started multi-db work I assumed that eventually `connection_specification_name` (sometimes called `spec_name`) and `spec_name` for configurations would one day be the same thing. After 2 years I no longer believe they will ever be the same thing. This PR deprecates `spec_name` on database configurations in favor of `name`. It's the same behavior, just a better name, or at least a less confusing name. `connection_specification_name` refers to the parent class name (ie ActiveRecord::Base, AnimalsBase, etc) that holds the connection for it's models. In some places like ConnectionHandler it shortens this to `spec_name`, hence the major confusion. Recently I've been working with some new folks on database stuff and connection management and realize how confusing it was to explain that `db_config.spec_name` was not `spec_name` and `connection_specification_name`. Worse than that one is a symbole while the other is a class name. This was made even more complicated by the fact that `ActiveRecord::Base` used `primary` as the `connection_specification_name` until #38190. After spending 2 years with connection management I don't believe that we can ever use the symbols from the database configs as a way to connect the database without the class name being _somewhere_ because a db_config does not know who it's owner class is until it's been connected and a model has no idea what db_config belongs to it until it's connected. The model is the only way to tie a primary/writer config to a replica/reader config. This could change in the future but I don't see value in adding a class name to the db_configs before connection or telling a model what config belongs to it before connection. That would probably break a lot of application assumptions. If we do ever end up in that world, we can use name, because tbh `spec_name` and `connection_specification_name` were always confusing to me.		2020-02-24 13:27:07 -05:00
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active_record	Deprecate spec_name and use name for configurations	2020-02-24 13:27:07 -05:00
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