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On 08/18/2016 11:00 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> It's that time of year again to talk about killing this job, at least
> from the integrated gate (move it to experimental for people that care
> about postgresql, or make it gating on a smaller subset of projects like
> oslo.db).
> 
> The postgresql job used to have three interesting things about it:
> 
> 1. It ran keystone with eventlet (which is no longer a thing).
> 2. It runs the n-api-meta service rather than using config drive.
> 3. It uses postgresql for the database.
> 
> So #1 is gone, and for #3, according to the April 2016 user survey (page
> 40) [1], 4% of reporting deployments are using it in production.
> 
> I don't think we're running n-api-meta in any other integrated gate
> jobs, but I'm pretty sure there is at least one neutron job out there
> that's running with it that way. We could also consider making the
> nova-net dsvm full gate job run n-api-meta, or vice-versa with the
> neutron dsvm full gate job.
> 
> We also have to consider that with HP public cloud being gone as a node
> provider and we've got fewer test nodes to run with, we have to make
> tough decisions about which jobs we're going to run in the integrated gate.
> 
> I'm bringing this up again because Nova has a few more jobs it would
> like to make voting on it's repo (neutron LB and live migration, at
> least in the check queue) but there are concerns about adding yet more
> jobs that each change has to get through before it's merged, which means
> if anything goes wrong in any of those we can have a 24 hour turnaround
> on getting an approved change back through the gate.
> 
> [1]
> https://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/April-2016-User-Survey-Report.pdf

+1.

Postgresql in the gate hasn't provided any real value in a long time
(tempest just really can't tickle the differences between the dbs,
especially as projects put much better input validation in place).
During icehouse the job was even accidentally running mysql for 6 weeks,
and no one noticed.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague
http://dague.net