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More details for our 2014-05-15 schema change release
As promised last week, here is a more detailed explanation of what is going to be changing during our May 15th schema change release: [MBS-5978] – Replication feed is missing release_tag: This will not...
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Schema change date change: Now 14 May, 2014
Due to a travel schedule snafu, we need to pull our schema change release day in by one day. The new release date for our schema change release is 14 May, 2014. Sorry for having to make this...
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May 14 schema change release time
The schema change release is approaching fast and we’re making good progress taking care of all the tasks that need to be completed. During yesterday’s meeting we agreed on the time to do this release:...
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Server upgrade and schema change, 2014-05-14
Hello again! This fortnight, as we’ve mentioned among the past few posts, is our twice-annual schema change release! This means that we’ve got some big changes, as well as special upgrade instructions....
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New autumn schema change date: 17 November, 2014
Due to two conflicting summits in (our own and the GSoC Summit) around our usual schema change release date, we’ve decided to move the autumn schema change to 17 November, 2014. This will ensure that...
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2014-11-17 schema change release details
We’re now 60 days away from our fall schema change, so we’re announcing the tickets we intend to implement for the next schema change release: [MBS-1059] – Types of list/collection: This new feature...
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Downtime for fall schema change
Our next schema change version will be released on Monday, 17 November, 2014 around Noon PST/3pm EST/20:00 GMT/21:00 CET. We expect that MusicBrainz will be unavailable for 30 – 60 minutes during this...
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Schema change upgrade instructions, schema 21
This upgrade shouldn’t be substantially different than past upgrades, now that we’ve fixed a few bugs with the process. To upgrade: Make sure your REPLICATION_TYPE setting is RT_SLAVE and your...
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Schema upgrade downtime: Monday, 18 May, 2015 @ 17:00 UTC
Our next schema change version will be released on Monday, 18 May, 2015 around 10am PDT/1pm EDT/17:00 UTC/18:00 BST/19:00 CEST. We expect that MusicBrainz will be unavailable for 15 – 30 minutes during...
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Schema change release, 2015-05-18 (including upgrade instructions)
Our previously mentioned schema change release is finished! Below will be upgrade instructions, including configuration updates for replication access tokens. This release does not include UI for...
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There will be no autumn 2015 schema change
Schema changes are always a lot of work for us and we end up spending much time preparing for it and then even more time cleaning up/catching up after it. As a result, some critical non-schema change...
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Upgrading Postgres for MusicBrainz Live Data Feed users
We’re slowly approaching that time of year: Schema change release time. After skipping our fall update to focus on some internal tasks, we’re ready to have another schema change release in the spring:...
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May 2016 schema change release details
In about two months time we’ll have the next schema change release: May 16, 2016. Even after skipping the fall schema change release, this release is going to have few changes that will impact our...
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Important: Schema change delayed to May 23
With our ongoing hosting issues due to massive traffic increases and failing hardware we’ve been too distracted trying to manage those issues to finish all of the testing for the schema change release...
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Schema change update
We’ve finally completed the schema update and things are returning to normal. We need to get a new data dump out and then we will provide upgrade instructions tomorrow. As you might be able to guess,...
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Schema change release, 2016-05-23 (with upgrade instructions)
Starting with this release, PostgreSQL 9.5 is now our minimum supported version. In order to import any future data sets, you will need to upgrade your installation to version 9.5. Due to unforeseen...
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Schema change release: What happened?
Now that we’ve finally finished the schema change release, I wanted to give an account of what happened in this arduous process. Before I dive into the details, I want to offer a picture that best sums...
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May 2017 Schema Change Release: May 15, 2017
We have picked our set of tickets and the date for our May 2017 schema change release: May, 15th 2017. This will be a fairly standard and minor schema change release — we’re only tackling 3 tickets...
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Schema change release: Today at 17h UTC
We’re going to start our schema change release process today at 17h UTC. We anticipate having a short downtime of a few minutes as we”ll need to restart our database server. As usual, we’re not certain...
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Schema change release, 2017-05-15 (including upgrade instructions)
We’re happy to announce the release of our May 2017 schema change today! Thanks to all who were patient during today’s downtime as we released everything to our production servers. This is a fairly...
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