Add config option to disable media_repo on main synapse

... to stop us doing the cache cleanup jobs on the master.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/config/server.py b/synapse/config/server.py

index 4d9193536d..edb90a1348 100644
--- a/synapse/config/server.py
+++ b/synapse/config/server.py
@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ class ServerConfig(Config):
         # false only if we are updating the user directory in a worker
         self.update_user_directory = config.get("update_user_directory", True)
 
+        # whether to enable the media repository endpoints. This should be set
+        # to false if the media repository is running as a separate endpoint;
+        # doing so ensures that we will not run cache cleanup jobs on the
+        # master, potentially causing inconsistency.
+        self.enable_media_repo = config.get("enable_media_repo", True)
+
         self.filter_timeline_limit = config.get("filter_timeline_limit", -1)
 
         # Whether we should block invites sent to users on this server