Commit 5c781322 authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Merge branch 'ali/add-info-about-fk-locking' into 'master'

Describe why a multiple foreign keys should not be created with a new table

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!66201
parents b20037de 3a352c02
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**Creating a new table when we have two foreign keys:**
Only one foreign key should be created per migration. This is because [the addition of a foreign key constraint requires a `SHARE ROW EXCLUSIVE` lock on the referenced table](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/sql-createtable.html#:~:text=The%20addition%20of%20a%20foreign%20key%20constraint%20requires%20a%20SHARE%20ROW%20EXCLUSIVE%20lock%20on%20the%20referenced%20table), and locking multiple tables in the same transaction should be avoided.
For this, we need three migrations:
1. Creating the table without foreign keys (with the indices).
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