posts: stop updating fav_string attribute.

Stop updating the fav_string attribute on posts. The column still exists
on the table, but is no longer used or updated.

Like the pool_string in 7d503f08, the fav_string was used in the past to
facilitate `fav:X` searches. Posts had a hidden fav_string column that
contained a list of every user who favorited the post. These were
treated like fake hidden tags on the post so that a search for `fav:X`
was treated like a tag search.

The fav_string attribute has been unused for search purposes for a while
now. It was only kept because of technicalities that required
departitioning the favorites table first (340e1008e) before it could be
removed. Basically, removing favorites with `@favorite.destroy` was
slow because Rails always deletes object by ID, but we didn't have an
index on favorites.id, and we couldn't easily add one until the
favorites table was departitioned.

Fixes #4652. See https://github.com/danbooru/danbooru/issues/4652#issuecomment-754993802
for more discussion of issues caused by the fav_string (in short: write
amplification, post table bloat, and favorite inconsistency problems).
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evazion
2021-10-07 23:32:38 -05:00
parent 5ce36b482f
commit 1653392361
17 changed files with 190 additions and 239 deletions

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@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
class FavoritesController < ApplicationController
respond_to :html, :xml, :json, :js
rescue_with Favorite::Error, status: 422
def index
authorize Favorite
@@ -18,23 +17,18 @@ class FavoritesController < ApplicationController
end
def create
authorize Favorite
@post = Post.find(params[:post_id])
@post.add_favorite!(CurrentUser.user)
flash.now[:notice] = "You have favorited this post"
@favorite = authorize Favorite.new(post_id: params[:post_id], user: CurrentUser.user)
@favorite.save
@post = @favorite.post.reload
flash.now[:notice] = "You have favorited this post"
respond_with(@post)
end
def destroy
authorize Favorite
@post = Post.find_by_id(params[:id])
if @post
@post.remove_favorite!(CurrentUser.user)
else
Favorite.remove(post_id: params[:id], user: CurrentUser.user)
end
@favorite = authorize Favorite.find_by!(post_id: params[:id], user: CurrentUser.user)
@favorite.destroy
@post = @favorite.post.reload
flash.now[:notice] = "You have unfavorited this post"
respond_with(@post)