Prior to this commit we would essentially update all rows in a table,
even those where the source column (e.g. `issues.closed_at`) was NULL.
This in turn could lead to statement timeouts when using the default
batch size of 10 000 rows per job.
To work around this we don't schedule jobs for rows where the source
value is NULL. We also don't update rows where the source column is NULL
(as an extra precaution) or the target column already has a non-NULL
value. Using this approach it should be possible to update 10 000 rows
in the "issues" table in about 7.5 - 8 seconds.
Fixes https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/42158
In a previous attempt (rolled back in
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/16021) we tried
to migrate `issues.closed_at` from timestamp to timestamptz using a
regular migration. This has a bad impact on GitLab.com and as such was
rolled back.
This commit re-implements the original migrations using generic
background migrations, allowing us to still migrate the data in a single
release but without a negative impact on availability.
To ensure the database schema is up to date the background migrations
are performed inline in development and test environments. We also make
sure to not migrate that that doesn't need migrating in the first place
or has already been migrated.
Yorick Peterse