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Change pages deployments size column to bigint

What does this MR do?

We recently noticed that pages deployments can fail on self-managed instance due to size column being to small: #294221 (closed)

It's not a problem on .com, because we limit pages site size by 2 GB, but self-managed customers can change this limit.

So this MR just changes the column to bigint as described in https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/what_requires_downtime.html#changing-column-types

We only have 25571 deployments in production, so I think it's ok to use this simplified version instead of https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/what_requires_downtime.html#changing-the-schema-for-large-tables

In %13.6 the problem can be mitigated by turning off the feature flag zip_pages_deployments(on by default), but in %13.7 this feature flag was removed. I can return the feature flag back to life, but I think it's easier to just use ~"Pick into 13.7".

Migrations

== 20201217111448 ChangePagesDeploymentSizeToBigint: migrating ================
-- column_exists?(:pages_deployments, :id)
   -> 0.0046s
-- transaction_open?()
   -> 0.0000s
-- columns(:pages_deployments)
   -> 0.0042s
-- add_column(:pages_deployments, "size_for_type_change", :bigint, {:limit=>4, :precision=>nil, :scale=>nil})
   -> 0.0037s
-- transaction_open?()
   -> 0.0000s
-- exec_query("SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM \"pages_deployments\"")
   -> 0.0025s
-- exec_query("SELECT \"pages_deployments\".\"id\" FROM \"pages_deployments\" ORDER BY \"pages_deployments\".\"id\" ASC LIMIT 1")
   -> 0.0037s
-- exec_query("SELECT \"pages_deployments\".\"id\" FROM \"pages_deployments\" WHERE \"pages_deployments\".\"id\" >= 13 ORDER BY \"pages_deployments\".\"id\" ASC LIMIT 1 OFFSET 1")
   -> 0.0035s
-- execute("UPDATE \"pages_deployments\" SET \"size_for_type_change\" = \"pages_deployments\".\"size\" WHERE \"pages_deployments\".\"id\" >= 13")
   -> 0.0039s
-- indexes(:pages_deployments)
   -> 0.0052s
-- foreign_keys(:pages_deployments)
   -> 0.0092s
-- transaction_open?()
   -> 0.0000s
-- column_exists?(:pages_deployments, :size)
   -> 0.0057s
-- column_exists?(:pages_deployments, "size_for_type_change")
   -> 0.0034s
-- current_schema()
   -> 0.0008s
-- transaction_open?()
   -> 0.0000s
-- current_schema()
   -> 0.0009s
-- execute("ALTER TABLE pages_deployments\nADD CONSTRAINT check_5f9132a958\nCHECK ( (size_for_type_change IS NOT NULL) )\nNOT VALID;\n")
   -> 0.0016s
-- current_schema()
   -> 0.0007s
-- execute("SET statement_timeout TO 0")
   -> 0.0005s
-- execute("ALTER TABLE pages_deployments VALIDATE CONSTRAINT check_5f9132a958;")
   -> 0.0016s
-- execute("RESET ALL")
   -> 0.0003s
-- quote_table_name(:pages_deployments)
   -> 0.0000s
-- quote_column_name(:size)
   -> 0.0000s
-- quote_column_name("size_for_type_change")
   -> 0.0000s
-- execute("CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION trigger_448e14608510()\nRETURNS trigger AS\n$BODY$\nBEGIN\n  NEW.\"size_for_type_change\" := NEW.\"size\";\n  RETURN NEW;\nEND;\n$BODY$\nLANGUAGE 'plpgsql'\nVOLATILE\n")
   -> 0.0103s
-- execute("DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS trigger_448e14608510\nON \"pages_deployments\"\n")
NOTICE:  trigger "trigger_448e14608510" for relation "pages_deployments" does not exist, skipping
   -> 0.0009s
-- execute("CREATE TRIGGER trigger_448e14608510\nBEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE\nON \"pages_deployments\"\nFOR EACH ROW\nEXECUTE FUNCTION trigger_448e14608510()\n")
   -> 0.0019s
== 20201217111448 ChangePagesDeploymentSizeToBigint: migrated (0.1149s) =======

== 20201217112249 ChangePagesDeploymentSizeToBigintCleanup: migrating =========
-- transaction()
-- execute("DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS trigger_448e14608510 ON pages_deployments")
   -> 0.0009s
-- execute("DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS trigger_448e14608510()")
   -> 0.0007s
-- remove_column(:pages_deployments, :size)
   -> 0.0014s
-- rename_column(:pages_deployments, "size_for_type_change", :size)
   -> 0.0043s
   -> 0.0113s
== 20201217112249 ChangePagesDeploymentSizeToBigintCleanup: migrated (0.0115s) 

Rollback:

./bin/rails db:migrate:down VERSION=20201217112249
./bin/rails db:migrate:down VERSION=20201217111448

== 20201217112249 ChangePagesDeploymentSizeToBigintCleanup: reverting =========
-- column_exists?(:pages_deployments, :id)
   -> 0.0147s
-- transaction_open?()
   -> 0.0000s
-- columns(:pages_deployments)
   -> 0.0051s
-- add_column(:pages_deployments, "tmp_undo_cleanup_column_584828ebef", :integer, {:limit=>4, :precision=>nil, :scale=>nil})
   -> 0.0046s
-- transaction_open?()
   -> 0.0000s
-- exec_query("SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM \"pages_deployments\"")
   -> 0.0035s
-- exec_query("SELECT \"pages_deployments\".\"id\" FROM \"pages_deployments\" ORDER BY \"pages_deployments\".\"id\" ASC LIMIT 1")
   -> 0.0021s
-- exec_query("SELECT \"pages_deployments\".\"id\" FROM \"pages_deployments\" WHERE \"pages_deployments\".\"id\" >= 13 ORDER BY \"pages_deployments\".\"id\" ASC LIMIT 1 OFFSET 1")
   -> 0.0012s
-- execute("UPDATE \"pages_deployments\" SET \"tmp_undo_cleanup_column_584828ebef\" = \"pages_deployments\".\"size\" WHERE \"pages_deployments\".\"id\" >= 13")
   -> 0.0095s
-- indexes(:pages_deployments)
   -> 0.0070s
-- foreign_keys(:pages_deployments)
   -> 0.0065s
-- transaction_open?()
   -> 0.0000s
-- column_exists?(:pages_deployments, :size)
   -> 0.0016s
-- column_exists?(:pages_deployments, "tmp_undo_cleanup_column_584828ebef")
   -> 0.0014s
-- current_schema()
   -> 0.0003s
-- transaction_open?()
   -> 0.0000s
-- current_schema()
   -> 0.0027s
-- execute("ALTER TABLE pages_deployments\nADD CONSTRAINT check_2ef9e8d176\nCHECK ( (tmp_undo_cleanup_column_584828ebef IS NOT NULL) )\nNOT VALID;\n")
   -> 0.0029s
-- current_schema()
   -> 0.0004s
-- execute("SET statement_timeout TO 0")
   -> 0.0002s
-- execute("ALTER TABLE pages_deployments VALIDATE CONSTRAINT check_2ef9e8d176;")
   -> 0.0012s
-- execute("RESET ALL")
   -> 0.0003s
-- transaction()
-- rename_column(:pages_deployments, :size, "size_for_type_change")
   -> 0.0040s
-- rename_column(:pages_deployments, "tmp_undo_cleanup_column_584828ebef", :size)
   -> 0.0023s
-- quote_table_name(:pages_deployments)
   -> 0.0000s
-- quote_column_name(:size)
   -> 0.0000s
-- quote_column_name("size_for_type_change")
   -> 0.0000s
-- execute("CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION trigger_448e14608510()\nRETURNS trigger AS\n$BODY$\nBEGIN\n  NEW.\"size_for_type_change\" := NEW.\"size\";\n  RETURN NEW;\nEND;\n$BODY$\nLANGUAGE 'plpgsql'\nVOLATILE\n")
   -> 0.0206s
-- execute("DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS trigger_448e14608510\nON \"pages_deployments\"\n")
NOTICE:  trigger "trigger_448e14608510" for relation "pages_deployments" does not exist, skipping
   -> 0.0006s
-- execute("CREATE TRIGGER trigger_448e14608510\nBEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE\nON \"pages_deployments\"\nFOR EACH ROW\nEXECUTE FUNCTION trigger_448e14608510()\n")
   -> 0.0014s
   -> 0.0317s
== 20201217112249 ChangePagesDeploymentSizeToBigintCleanup: reverted (0.1462s) 

== 20201217111448 ChangePagesDeploymentSizeToBigint: reverting ================
-- execute("DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS trigger_448e14608510 ON pages_deployments")
   -> 0.0052s
-- execute("DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS trigger_448e14608510()")
   -> 0.0013s
-- remove_column(:pages_deployments, "size_for_type_change")
   -> 0.0022s
== 20201217111448 ChangePagesDeploymentSizeToBigint: reverted (0.0109s) =======

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Related to #294221 (closed)

Edited by Vladimir Shushlin

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