Backport of 'Disable Sidekiq retries for ClickHouse pipeline/build sync workers'
What does this MR do and why?
Describe in detail what merge request is being backported and why
Backport of !219149 (merged) to 18.7.
Disables Sidekiq retries for ClickHouse pipeline/build sync workers to prevent duplicate data insertion.
Problem
When Net::ReadTimeout occurs during ClickHouse INSERT operations:
- ClickHouse receives and processes the INSERT successfully
- The HTTP response times out before reaching the client
- Worker throws exception before marking sync events as processed
- Events remain
processed: falsein PostgreSQL - On retry, the same events are sent to ClickHouse again → duplicates
Solution
Setting retry: false prevents this amplification. The cron jobs run every 3 minutes, so any failed work will be picked up by the next scheduled run.
Also changes data_consistency to :sticky to ensure we read from the primary database and don't miss recently created sync events.
Related issues
- Part of #586319
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