Port of !14198 to gitlab-ee

added Geo guard for relative positioning

app/controllers/boards/issues_controller.rb

@@ -13,9 +13,15 @@ module Boards
       issues = Boards::Issues::ListService.new(board_parent, current_user, filter_params).execute
       issues = issues.page(params[:page]).per(params[:per] || 20)
       make_sure_position_is_set(issues) unless Gitlab::Geo.secondary?
+      issues = issues.preload(:project,
+                              :milestone,
+                              :assignees,
+                              labels: [:priorities],
+                              notes: [:award_emoji, :author]
+                             )
 
       render json: {
-        issues: serialize_as_json(issues.preload(:project)),
+        issues: serialize_as_json(issues),
         size: issues.total_count
       }
     end
@@ -78,14 +84,13 @@ module Boards
 
     def serialize_as_json(resource)
       resource.as_json(
-        labels: true,
         only: [:id, :iid, :project_id, :title, :confidential, :due_date, :relative_position],
+        labels: true,
         include: {
           project: { only: [:id, :path] },
           assignees: { only: [:id, :name, :username], methods: [:avatar_url] },
           milestone: { only: [:id, :title] }
-        },
-        user: current_user
+        }
       )
     end
   end

app/models/label.rb

@@ -130,7 +130,12 @@ class Label < ActiveRecord::Base
   end
 
   def priority(project)
-    priorities.find_by(project: project).try(:priority)
+    priority = if priorities.loaded?
+                 priorities.first { |p| p.project == project }
+               else
+                 priorities.find_by(project: project)
+               end
+    priority.try(:priority)
   end
 
   def template?

changelogs/unreleased/34510-board-issues-sql-speedup.yml

+---
+title: Optimize the boards' issues fetching.
+merge_request: 14198
+author:
+type: other

spec/controllers/boards/issues_controller_spec.rb

@@ -45,6 +45,17 @@ describe Boards::IssuesController do
           expect(parsed_response.length).to eq 2
           expect(development.issues.map(&:relative_position)).not_to include(nil)
         end
+
+        it 'avoids N+1 database queries' do
+          create(:labeled_issue, project: project, labels: [development])
+          control_count = ActiveRecord::QueryRecorder.new { list_issues(user: user, board: board, list: list2) }.count
+
+          # 25 issues is bigger than the page size
+          # the relative position will ignore the `#make_sure_position_set` queries
+          create_list(:labeled_issue, 25, project: project, labels: [development], assignees: [johndoe], relative_position: 1)
+
+          expect { list_issues(user: user, board: board, list: list2) }.not_to exceed_query_limit(control_count)
+        end
       end
 
       context 'with invalid list id' do