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Troubleshooting and Debugging Database
This section is to help give some copy-pasta you can use as a reference when you run into some head-banging database problems.
An easy first step is to search for your error in Slack, or search for GitLab <my error>
with Google.
Available RAILS_ENV
:
production
(generally not for your main GDK database, but you may need this for other installations such as Omnibus).development
(this is your main GDK db).test
(used for tests like RSpec).
Nuke everything and start over
If you just want to delete everything and start over with an empty DB (approximately 1 minute):
bundle exec rake db:reset RAILS_ENV=development
If you just want to delete everything and start over with dummy data (approximately 4 minutes). This
also does db:reset
and runs DB-specific migrations:
bundle exec rake dev:setup RAILS_ENV=development
If your test DB is giving you problems, it is safe to nuke it because it doesn't contain important data:
bundle exec rake db:reset RAILS_ENV=test
Migration wrangling
bundle exec rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=development
: Execute any pending migrations that you may have picked up from a MRbundle exec rake db:migrate:status RAILS_ENV=development
: Check if all migrations areup
ordown
bundle exec rake db:migrate:down VERSION=20170926203418 RAILS_ENV=development
: Tear down a migrationbundle exec rake db:migrate:up VERSION=20170926203418 RAILS_ENV=development
: Set up a migrationbundle exec rake db:migrate:redo VERSION=20170926203418 RAILS_ENV=development
: Re-run a specific migration
Manually access the database
Access the database via one of these commands (they all get you to the same place)
gdk psql -d gitlabhq_development
bundle exec rails dbconsole -e development
bundle exec rails db -e development
\q
: Quit/exit\dt
: List all tables\d+ issues
: List columns forissues
tableCREATE TABLE board_labels();
: Create a table calledboard_labels
SELECT * FROM schema_migrations WHERE version = '20170926203418';
: Check if a migration was runDELETE FROM schema_migrations WHERE version = '20170926203418';
: Manually remove a migration
Access the GDK database with Visual Studio Code
Use these instructions for exploring the GitLab database while developing with the GDK:
- Install or open Visual Studio Code.
- Install the PostgreSQL VSCode Extension by Chris Kolkman.
- In Visual Studio Code click on the PostgreSQL Explorer button in the left toolbar.
- In the top bar of the new window, click on the
+
to Add Database Connection, and follow the prompts to fill in the details:- Hostname: the path to the PostgreSQL folder in your GDK directory (for example
/dev/gitlab-development-kit/postgresql
). - PostgreSQL user to authenticate as: usually your local username, unless otherwise specified during PostgreSQL installation.
- Password of the PostgreSQL user: the password you set when installing PostgreSQL.
- Port number to connect to:
5432
(default). -
Use an ssl connection?
This depends on your installation. Options are:
- Use Secure Connection
- Standard Connection (default)
- (Optional) The database to connect to:
gitlabhq_development
. - The display name for the database connection:
gitlabhq_development
.
- Hostname: the path to the PostgreSQL folder in your GDK directory (for example
Your database connection should now be displayed in the PostgreSQL Explorer pane and
you can explore the gitlabhq_development
database. If you cannot connect, ensure
that GDK is running. For further instructions on how to use the PostgreSQL Explorer
Extension for Visual Studio Code, read the usage section
of the extension documentation.
FAQ
ActiveRecord::PendingMigrationError
with Spring
When running specs with the Spring pre-loader, the test database can get into a corrupted state. Trying to run the migration or dropping/resetting the test database has no effect.
$ bundle exec spring rspec some_spec.rb
...
Failure/Error: ActiveRecord::Migration.maintain_test_schema!
ActiveRecord::PendingMigrationError:
Migrations are pending. To resolve this issue, run:
bin/rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test
# ~/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/activerecord-4.2.10/lib/active_record/migration.rb:392:in `check_pending!'
...
0 examples, 0 failures, 1 error occurred outside of examples
To resolve, you can kill the spring server and app that lives between spec runs.
$ ps aux | grep spring
eric 87304 1.3 2.9 3080836 482596 ?? Ss 10:12AM 4:08.36 spring app | gitlab | started 6 hours ago | test mode
eric 37709 0.0 0.0 2518640 7524 s006 S Wed11AM 0:00.79 spring server | gitlab | started 29 hours ago
$ kill 87304
$ kill 37709
db:migrate database version is too old to be migrated
error
Users receive this error when db:migrate
detects that the current schema version
is older than the MIN_SCHEMA_VERSION
defined in the Gitlab::Database
library
module.
Over time we cleanup/combine old migrations in the codebase, so it is not always possible to migrate GitLab from every previous version.
In some cases you may want to bypass this check. For example, if you were on a version
of GitLab schema later than the MIN_SCHEMA_VERSION
, and then rolled back the
to an older migration, from before. In this case, in order to migrate forward again,
you should set the SKIP_SCHEMA_VERSION_CHECK
environment variable.
bundle exec rake db:migrate SKIP_SCHEMA_VERSION_CHECK=true