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[Bug 1695965] Re: "nova-manage db online_data_migrations" exit code is strange

 

Chris, I'm not seeing this as a bug, rather some possible code
improvement. Closing it as Invalid/Wishlist and just open a change for
reviews, that's it :-)

** Changed in: nova
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: nova
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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Title:
  "nova-manage db online_data_migrations" exit code is strange

Status in OpenStack Compute (nova):
  Invalid

Bug description:
  If I'm reading the code right, the return value for "nova-manage db
  online_data_migrations" will be 1 if we actually performed some
  migrations and 0 if we performed no migrations, either because there
  were no remaining migrations or because the migration code raised an
  exception.

  This seems less than useful for someone attempting to script repeated
  calls to this with --max-count set.  The caller needs to parse the
  output to determine whether or not it was successful.

  I think it would make more sense to have the return code as follows:

  0 -- no errors and completed
  1 -- one of the migrations raised an exception, needs manual action
  2 -- no errors but not yet complete, need to call again

  since it would allow for an automated retry based solely on the exit
  code.

  At the very least, the return code should be nonzero for the case
  where one of the migrations raised an exception, and 0 for the case
  where no exception was raised.

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