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Backfill nil namespace_ids on notes table

While working on adding a NOT NULL constraint to notes.namespaces_id we discovered that 1.4B of the ~1.8B records contained nil values for namespace_id. We had thought that these records existed when we unwound special casing for AbuseReports, but clearly we need to address this before we continue with sharding.

Solution

Perform a batched backfill migration to populate this value. Notes belong to:

Noteable namespace reference Notes
Merge Request self.merge_request.project.namespace_id
Issue self.issue.namespace_id
DesignManagement::Design self.namespace_id
AlertManagement::Alert self.project.namespace_id
Snippet 🛑 Potentially blocked by #460829 (closed)
Commit self.project.namespace_id
EE::Epic self.epic.namespace_id
EE::Vulnerability self.vulnerability.project.namespace_id

Related to #444222 (closed)

Edited by Kerri Miller