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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-33788

Completion cron SQL optimisation (significant on large installations)

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    • Testing Instructions:
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      To test:

      Enable course completion site-wide
      Create a course and enable course completion
      Enrol some users in this course
      Run the cron, noting text "Aggregating completions for user x in course $idofcoursecreated'
      Re-run the cron, the 'aggregating completions for user...' text above should not appear on the second cron run.

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      To test: Enable course completion site-wide Create a course and enable course completion Enrol some users in this course Run the cron, noting text "Aggregating completions for user x in course $idofcoursecreated' Re-run the cron, the 'aggregating completions for user...' text above should not appear on the second cron run.
    • Affected Branches:
      MOODLE_22_STABLE, MOODLE_23_STABLE
    • Fixed Branches:
      MOODLE_22_STABLE, MOODLE_23_STABLE
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      Description

      Completion criteria aggregation is triggered by the 'reaggregate' field in the 'course_completions' table being set to timestamp. Once the completion cron has finished, it resets all aggregated completions back to a 'reaggregate' value of 0. Unfortunately the SQL that does this is slightly wrong, and not only are the aggregated completions reset to 0 - but completions with a 'reaggregate' value of 0 are also updated (albeit to 0). This causes a performance hit that has been measured to be quite significant on large installations.

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            Assignee:
            sry_not4sale Aaron Barnes
            Reporter:
            sry_not4sale Aaron Barnes
            Peer reviewer:
            Ankit Agarwal
            Integrator:
            Sam Hemelryk
            Tester:
            David Monllaó
            Participants:
            Component watchers:
            Amaia Anabitarte, Carlos Escobedo, Ferran Recio, Ilya Tregubov, Sara Arjona (@sarjona)
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              Fix Release Date:
              10/Sep/12