[openstack-dev] [nova][db] Thoughts on making instances.uuid non-nullable?
ChangBo Guo
glongwave at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 02:05:26 UTC 2014
2014-03-10 4:47 GMT+08:00 Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com>:
>
>
> > 3. This would make the instances and shadow_instances tables have
> > different schemas, i.e. instances.uuid would be nullable=False in
> > instances but nullable=True in shadow_instances. Maybe this doesn't
> matter.
>
> No, I don't think this matters much, to be honest. I'm not entirely sure
> what the long-term purpose of the shadow tables are in Nova -- perhaps
> someone could clue me in to whether the plan is to keep them around?
>
> As I know the tables shadow_* are used by command ' nova-manage db
archive_deleted_rows' , which moves records with "deleted=True" to table
shadow_* . That means these tables are used by other process, So, I think
we need other tables to store the old records in your migration .
--
ChangBo Guo(gcb)
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