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

Raildo Mascena raildom at gmail.com
Sat Apr 4 16:07:37 UTC 2015


I totally agree, since this is not used in production and make the dev job
more complicated.

@Henry If you want help with this, I would be glad to work with you to make
this clean up.

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 2:55 AM Henry Nash <henryn at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Fully support this.  I, for one, volunteer to take on a lot of the work
> needed to clean up any our tests/environment to allow this to a happen.
> Hardly a month goes by without a fix having to be re-applied to our sql
> code to get round some problem that didn’t show up in original testing
> because SQLite is too promiscuous.
>
> Henry
>
> On 4 Apr 2015, at 01:55, Morgan Fainberg <morgan.fainberg at gmail.com>
> 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.
>
> --
> Morgan Fainberg
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