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Drop obsolete ghost column

Pavel Shutsin requested to merge 219002-remove-ghost-column into master

What does this MR do?

It removes "users.ghost" DB column because we don't use it anymore.

You can use WHERE user_type = 5 to retrieve the same set of users.

Migrations output

➜  gitlab-rails git:(219002-remove-ghost-column) ✗ be rake db:migrate
== 20200525114553 RenameUserTypeIndex: migrating ==============================
-- transaction_open?()
   -> 0.0000s
-- index_exists?(:users, [:state, :user_type], {:name=>"index_users_on_state_and_user_type", :algorithm=>:concurrently})
   -> 0.0417s
-- add_index(:users, [:state, :user_type], {:name=>"index_users_on_state_and_user_type", :algorithm=>:concurrently})
   -> 0.0117s
-- transaction_open?()
   -> 0.0000s
-- indexes(:users)
   -> 0.0454s
-- remove_index(:users, {:algorithm=>:concurrently, :name=>"index_users_on_state_and_user_type_internal"})
   -> 0.0032s
== 20200525114553 RenameUserTypeIndex: migrated (0.1053s) =====================

➜  gitlab-rails git:(219002-remove-ghost-column) ✗ be rake db:migrate:down VERSION=20200525114553
== 20200525114553 RenameUserTypeIndex: reverting ==============================
-- transaction_open?()
   -> 0.0000s
-- index_exists?(:users, [:state, :user_type], {:where=>"ghost IS NOT TRUE", :name=>"index_users_on_state_and_user_type_internal", :algorithm=>:concurrently})
   -> 0.0341s
-- add_index(:users, [:state, :user_type], {:where=>"ghost IS NOT TRUE", :name=>"index_users_on_state_and_user_type_internal", :algorithm=>:concurrently})
   -> 0.0087s
-- transaction_open?()
   -> 0.0000s
-- indexes(:users)
   -> 0.0328s
-- remove_index(:users, {:algorithm=>:concurrently, :name=>"index_users_on_state_and_user_type"})
   -> 0.0022s
== 20200525114553 RenameUserTypeIndex: reverted (0.0802s) =====================
gitlab-rails git:(219002-remove-ghost-column) ✗ be rake db:migrate
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== 20200525121014 DropUsersGhostColumn: migrating =============================
-- transaction_open?()
   -> 0.0000s
-- indexes(:users)
   -> 0.0374s
-- remove_index(:users, {:algorithm=>:concurrently, :name=>"index_users_on_ghost"})
   -> 0.0050s
-- remove_column(:users, :ghost)
   -> 0.0017s
== 20200525121014 DropUsersGhostColumn: migrated (0.0571s) ====================

➜  gitlab-rails git:(219002-remove-ghost-column) ✗ be rake db:migrate:down VERSION=20200525121014
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== 20200525121014 DropUsersGhostColumn: reverting =============================
-- column_exists?(:users, :ghost)
   -> 0.0084s
-- add_column(:users, :ghost, :boolean)
   -> 0.0018s
-- execute("UPDATE users set ghost = TRUE WHERE user_type = 5")
   -> 0.0033s
-- transaction_open?()
   -> 0.0000s
-- index_exists?(:users, :ghost, {:algorithm=>:concurrently})
   -> 0.0316s
-- add_index(:users, :ghost, {:algorithm=>:concurrently})
   -> 0.0082s
== 20200525121014 DropUsersGhostColumn: reverted (0.0661s) ====================

Data sync check

explain select * from users where (ghost IS TRUE and user_type != 5) OR (ghost IS FALSE and user_type = 5)

Bitmap Heap Scan on public.users  (cost=4.13..5.65 rows=1 width=1229) (actual time=0.034..0.035 rows=0 loops=1)

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Closes #219002 (closed)

Edited by Yorick Peterse

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