I upgraded our local MariaDB for compatibility with the latest server
dumps (https://mariadb.org/mariadb-dump-file-compatibility-change/),
and I thiiiink what I'm seeing is that, also in this version of
MariaDB, the default value for the `ssl` option is `true`? That is,
command-line clients will try to connect over SSL by default—which
isn't generally supported on development servers, where this task runs.
I could probably fix this with a change to my local config? But I
figure I can't really picture a scenario where this option being set in
the task would be *wrong*, but I *can* see it saving future people time
if they're working in a similar environment. So, let's just set it!
Oh this was a fun little dev environment bug: I ran `public_data:pull`
on my laptop before migrating my database, so the `items` table pulled
as the latest production version, which included the migrations, but
they hadn't been marked as "run" yet.
So Rails was still telling me I needed to run them, but the migrations
themselves were crashing, with stuff like "there's already a column
with this name!"
This change ensures that `public_data:pull` won't run until migrations
are done, to prevent silly accidents like that.
Oh whoops, I was symlinking to the *full* path of the latest dump,
which includes the site version directory in it. This meant that, if 5
new versions of the app were deployed since the most recently public
data commit (and so that version is deleted), the symlink fails.
In this change, we just symlink to the filename, which behaves as a
relative path and should be completely resilient to deploys changing
where these files ostensibly live!!
Huh, curious, I think what I'm seeing is: on my development machine,
`File.exist?` returns true for symlinks, but, on our production
machine, `File.exist?` returns false for symlinks.
I imagine this is a difference in the implementation of the underlying
system calls? Curious!
This new check should work more reliably across platforms. I considered
checking both `exists?` and `symlink?`, but decided that, in the
unexpected case that `latest.sql.gz` exists but is an actual file
instead of a symlink like we expect, it's probably best to avoid
overwriting it anyway, and a crash on the `symlink` attempt is a
reasonable way to do that.
In newer versions of MySQL, `mysqldump`'s default behavior requires
accessing some privileged `INFORMATION_SCHEMA` tables, which requires
the global `PROCESS` permission.
Rather than require that, we can just skip this step, by adding the
`--no-tablespaces` argument. This was the guidance I found when looking
up this issue! https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/274460/289961
I'm starting to port over the functionality that was previously just,
me running `yarn db:export:public-data` in `impress-2020` and
committing it to Git LFS every time.
My immediate motivation is that the `impress-2020` git repository is
getting weirdly large?? Idk how these 40MB files have blown up to a
solid 16GB of Git LFS data (we don't have THAT many!!!), but I guess
there's something about Git LFS's architecture and disk usage that I'm
not understanding.
So, let's move to a simpler system in which we don't bind the public
data to the codebase, but instead just regularly dump it in production
and make it available for download.
This change adds the `rails public_data:commit` task, which when run in
production will make the latest available at
`https://impress.openneo.net/public-data/latest.sql.gz`, and will also
store a running log of previous dumps, viewable at
`https://impress.openneo.net/public-data/`.
Things left to do:
1. Create a `rails public_data:pull` task, to download `latest.sql.gz`
and import it into the local development database.
2. Set up a cron job to dump this out regularly, idk maybe weekly? That
will grow, but not very fast (about 2GB per year), and we can add
logic to rotate out old ones if it starts to grow too far. (If we
wanted to get really intricate, we could do like, daily for the past
week, then weekly for the past 3 months, then monthly for the past
year, idk. There must be tools that do this!)
