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support gh-ost

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
mysql
Domain
databases

Research direction

No file or test is named in the issue. Start by locating Shift's MySQL schema-migration entry point and its existing pt-online-schema support, then determine how gh-ost could be exposed as an option. Done means the option is integrated with the migration flow and its behavior is covered by tests.

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Description

gh-ost seems to be a better solution than pt-online-schema, it'd be amazing if it were available as an option

Dominant language
Ruby
Stars
737
Forks
52
Avg merge
4d 4h
Merged PRs (30d)
1

Getting set up

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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