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Hooks
gh-ost
supports hooks: external processes which gh-ost
executes at particular points of interest.
Use cases include:
- You wish to be notified ny mail when a migration completes/fails
- You wish to be notified when
gh-ost
postpones cut-over (at your demand), thus ready to complete (at your leisure) - RDS users who wish to
--test-on-replica
, but who cannot havegh-ost
issue aSTOP SLAVE
, would use a hook to command RDS to stop replication - Send a status message to your chatops every hour
- Perform cleanup on the ghost table (drop/rename/nibble) once migration completes
- etc.
gh-ost
defines certain points of interest (event types), and executes hooks at those points.
Notes:
- You may have more than one hook per event type.
gh-ost
will invoke relevant hooks sequentially and synchronously- thus, you would generally like the hooks to execute as fast as possible, or otherwise issue tasks in the background
- A hook returning with error code will propagate the error in
gh-ost
. Thus, you are able to forcegh-ost
to fail migration on your conditions.- Make sure to only return an error code when you do indeed wish to fail the rest of the migration
Creating hooks
All hooks are expected to reside in a single directory. This directory is indicated by --hooks-path
. When not provided, no hooks are executed.
gh-ost
will dynamically search for hooks in said directory. You may add and remove hooks to/from this directory as gh-ost
makes progress (though likely you don't want to). Hook files are expected to be executable processes.
In an effort to simplify code and to standardize usage, gh-ost
expects hooks in explicit naming conventions. As an example, the onStartup
hook expects processes named gh-ost-on-startup*
. It will match and accept files named:
gh-ost-on-startup
gh-ost-on-startup--send-notification-mail
gh-ost-on-startup12345
- etc.
The full list of supported hooks is best found in code: hooks.go. Documentation will always be a bit behind. At this time, though, the following are recognized:
gh-ost-on-startup
gh-ost-on-validated
gh-ost-on-rowcount-complete
gh-ost-on-before-row-copy
gh-ost-on-status
gh-ost-on-interactive-command
gh-ost-on-row-copy-complete
gh-ost-on-stop-replication
gh-ost-on-begin-postponed
gh-ost-on-before-cut-over
gh-ost-on-success
gh-ost-on-failure
Context
gh-ost
will set environment variables per hook invocation. Hooks are then able to read those variables, indicating schema name, table name, alter
statement, migrated host name etc. Some variables are available on all hooks, and some are available on relevant hooks.
The following variables are available on all hooks:
GH_OST_DATABASE_NAME
GH_OST_TABLE_NAME
GH_OST_GHOST_TABLE_NAME
GH_OST_OLD_TABLE_NAME
GH_OST_DDL
GH_OST_ELAPSED_SECONDS
GH_OST_MIGRATED_HOST
GH_OST_INSPECTED_HOST
GH_OST_EXECUTING_HOST
GH_OST_HOOKS_HINT
The following variable are available on particular hooks:
GH_OST_COMMAND
is only available ingh-ost-on-interactive-command
GH_OST_STATUS
andGH_OST_ELAPSED_SECONDS
are only available ingh-ost-on-status
Examples
See sample hooks, as bash
implementation samples.