remove_column should only be used in the up (or change) step of a migration if
it's a post-deployment migration. Otherwise there will be downtime due to the
ActiveRecord column cache, which we can avoid by using the IgnorableColumn
concern in combination with a post-deployment migration.
add_column_with_default is implemented in terms of update_column_in_batches, but
update_column_in_batches can be used independently. Neither of these should be
used on the specified large tables, because they will cause issues on large
instances like GitLab.com.
This also ignores the cop for all existing migrations, renaming
AddColumnWithDefaultToLargeTable where appropriate.
This adds a Rubocop rule to enforce the use of
add_concurrent_foreign_key instead of the regular add_foreign_key
method. This cop has been disabled for existing migrations so we don't
need to change those.
There are currently two cops for this:
* Migration/AddIndex: checks if indexes are added concurrently
* Migration/ColumnWithDefault: checks if columns with default values are
added in a concurrent manner
Both cops are fairly simple and make no attempt at correcting the code
as this is quite hard to do (e.g. modifications may need to be applied
in various places in the same file). They however should provide enough
to catch people ignoring the comments in generated migrations telling
them to use add_concurrent_index or add_column_with_default.
