fix GIST->GIN switch

synapse/storage/schema/delta/38/postgres_fts_gist.sql

@@ -13,5 +13,7 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
- INSERT into background_updates (update_name, progress_json)
+-- We no longer do this given we back it out again in schema 46
-     VALUES ('event_search_postgres_gist', '{}');
+
+-- INSERT into background_updates (update_name, progress_json)
+--     VALUES ('event_search_postgres_gist', '{}');

synapse/storage/schema/delta/46/postgres_fts_gin.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+/* Copyright 2018 New Vector Ltd
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+INSERT into background_updates (update_name, progress_json)
+    VALUES ('event_search_postgres_gin', '{}');

synapse/storage/search.py

@@ -146,12 +146,12 @@ class SearchStore(BackgroundUpdateStore):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def _background_reindex_gin_search(self, progress, batch_size):
-        '''This handles old synapses which used GIST indexes; converting them
+        '''This handles old synapses which used GIST indexes, if any;
-        back to be GIN as per the actual schema.  Otherwise it crashes out
+        converting them back to be GIN as per the actual schema.
-        as a NOOP
         '''
 
         def create_index(conn):
+            try:
                 conn.rollback()
                 conn.set_session(autocommit=True)
                 c = conn.cursor()
@@ -164,6 +164,10 @@ class SearchStore(BackgroundUpdateStore):
                 c.execute("DROP INDEX event_search_fts_idx_gist")
 
                 conn.set_session(autocommit=False)
+            except e:
+                logger.warn(
+                    "Ignoring error %s when trying to switch from GIST to GIN" % (e,)
+                )
 
         if isinstance(self.database_engine, PostgresEngine):
             yield self.runWithConnection(create_index)