Database updater fails
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Master is currently broken, because it needs a schema change, but applying the schema change doesn't work:

Adding ug_expiry field to table user_groups ...
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'DBQueryError' with message 'A database query error has occurred. Did you forget to run your application's database schema updater after upgrading? 
Query: ALTER TABLE `bw_user_groups`
 DROP INDEX ug_user_group,
 ADD PRIMARY KEY (ug_user, ug_group),
 ADD COLUMN ug_expiry varbinary(14) NULL default NULL,
 ADD INDEX ug_expiry (ug_expiry)

Function: Database::sourceFile( /srv/mediawiki/workdir/maintenance/archives/patch-user_groups-ug_expiry.sql )
Error: 1091 Can't DROP 'ug_user_group'; check that column/key exists (127.0.0.1:3306)
' in /srv/mediawiki/workdir/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php:1055
Stack trace:
#0 /srv/mediawiki/workdir/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(913): Database->reportQueryError()
#1 /srv/mediawiki/workdir/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(3121): Database->query()
#2 /srv/mediawiki/workdir/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(3070): Database->sourceStream()
#3 /srv/mediawiki/workdir/includes/installer/DatabaseUpdater.php(666): Database->sourceFile()
#4 /srv/mediawiki/workdir/includes/installer/DatabaseUpdater.php(734): DatabaseUpdater->applyPatch()
#5 /srv/mediawiki/workdir/includes/installer/DatabaseUpdater.php(465): DatabaseUpdater->addField()
#6 /srv/mediawiki/workdir/includes/installer/DatabaseUpdater.php(429): DatabaseUpdater->runUpdates()
#7 /srv/mediawiki/workdir/maintenance/update.php(172): DatabaseUpdater->doUpdates()
#8 /srv/mediawiki/workdir/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(119): UpdateMediaWiki->execute()
#9 /srv/mediawiki/workdir/maintenance/update.php(217): include()
#10 {main}

Details

	Project	Branch	Lines +/-	Subject
	mediawiki/core	master	+7 -3	Don't try to drop ug_user_group index if it doesn't exist

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned Here: T156996: Various PHP warnings are breaking FormattedRCFeed

Event Timeline

Nikerabbit created this task.Feb 1 2017, 9:21 AM

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Nikerabbit triaged this task as Unbreak Now! priority.Feb 1 2017, 9:21 AM

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The ug_user_group index was in MediaWiki tables.sql from 2008 until recently: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/REL1_28/maintenance/tables.sql;bd2f326a46ebdf9fcdbc21066e44a5969bb316f6$166

Unfortuantely MySQL doesn't have DROP INDEX IF EXISTS, which would be really nice to prevent this sort of issue.

I'm not so sure that this is UBN! - is this affecting anyone else?

Nikerabbit added a parent task: T41480: [DO NOT USE] Issues affecting translatewiki.net [superseded by #affects-translatewiki.net].Feb 1 2017, 9:32 AM

I am sure I am not the only one who has installed MediaWiki before 2008 and still running. If it breaks a production size, I consider it UBN!.

It wouldn't be the first time there hasn't been proper updates, the last one I reported resulted in a data loss for truncating ipv6 addresses.

I can't find a patch in maintenance/archives to add this index. I'm not sure how MW schema updates were done ten years ago - if they were done manually, I guess some people might have missed this particular update, or skipped over it if they thought it was unnecessary.

Looks like we might need some custom logic in MysqlUpdater...

I guess twn didn't have that index for some reason (lack of addition previously as no updater changed?)

Easiest fix...

https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/master/includes/installer/MysqlUpdater.php#L297

Split that line and the DB patch into two db patches? The second, with a dropIndex, should do an indexExists check... And then only drop it if it needs to be

Slightly less performant maybe, but should fix this sort of issue

Change 335414 had a related patch set uploaded (by TTO):
Don't try to drop ug_user_group index if it doesn't exist

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/335414

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 1 2017, 10:19 AM

Change 335414 merged by jenkins-bot:
Don't try to drop ug_user_group index if it doesn't exist

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/335414

ReleaseTaggerBot added projects: MW-1.29-release-notes, MW-1.29-release (WMF-deploy-2017-02-07_(1.29.0-wmf.11)).Feb 1 2017, 9:00 PM

Should be fixed now. @Nikerabbit: Please confirm.