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Once a table is removed, a Data Engineering ticket should be created to clean up the table from downstream consumers of data. In addition if there is an associated app-permissions group then a 2U employee must make an app-permisisons PR to remove that group.
How to delete a Django app containing tables
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When using AWS Aurora, a nullable column can be added to existing large (100k rows+?) tables without causing downtime. However, the migration may still timeout in GoCD - so please coordinate the release with DevOps.
- Make a new field addition in model with null=True.
- Generate the model-change migrations locally.
- Create a pull request containing the model change and newly-generated migrations.
- Merge the migration pull request.
- The release process will run the migration and add the nullable column to table.
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On AWS Aurora, indexes can be build on large tables without causing downtime, but this requires devops coordination as the migration may timeout in GoCD.
- Add the new index on model fields.
- Generate the model-change migrations locally.
- Make pull request containing the model change and newly-generated migrations.
- Merge the migration pull request.
- Release will run the migration and add the index to table.
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