[openstack-dev] [Keystone] SQLite support (migrations, work-arounds, and more), is it worth it?

Boris Bobrov bbobrov at mirantis.com
Sat Apr 4 01:29:08 UTC 2015


On Saturday 04 April 2015 03:55:59 Morgan Fainberg wrote:
> I am looking forward to the Liberty cycle and seeing the special casing we
> do for SQLite in our migrations (and elsewhere). My inclination is that we
> should (similar to the deprecation of eventlet) deprecate support for
> SQLite in Keystone. In Liberty we will have a full functional test suite
> that can (and will) be used to validate everything against much more real
> environments instead of in-process “eventlet-like” test-keystone-services;
> the “Restful test cases” will no longer be part of the standard unit tests
> (as they are functional testing). With this change I’m inclined to say
> SQLite (being the non-production usable DB) what it is we should look at
> dropping migration support for SQLite and the custom work-arounds.
> 
> Most deployers and developers (as far as I know) use devstack and MySQL or
> Postgres to really suss out DB interactions.
> 
> I am looking for feedback from the community on the general stance for
> SQLite, and more specifically the benefit (if any) of supporting it in
> Keystone.

+1. Drop it and clean up tons of code used for support of sqlite only.

Doing tests with mysql is as easy, as with sqlite ("mysqladmin drop -f; 
mysqladmin create" for "reset"), and using it by default will finally make 
people test their code on real rdbmses.

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С наилучшими пожеланиями,
Boris



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