Use partial indices on SQLIte. (#13802)

Partial indices have been supported since SQLite 3.8, but Synapse
now requires >= 3.27, so we can enable support for them.

This requires rebuilding previous indices which were partial on
PostgreSQL, but not on SQLite.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/storage/background_updates.py b/synapse/storage/background_updates.py
index 555b4e77d2..cf1eabc437 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/background_updates.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/background_updates.py
@@ -581,9 +581,6 @@ class BackgroundUpdater:
         def create_index_sqlite(conn: Connection) -> None:
             # Sqlite doesn't support concurrent creation of indexes.
             #
-            # We don't use partial indices on SQLite as it wasn't introduced
-            # until 3.8, and wheezy and CentOS 7 have 3.7
-            #
             # We assume that sqlite doesn't give us invalid indices; however
             # we may still end up with the index existing but the
             # background_updates not having been recorded if synapse got shut
@@ -591,12 +588,13 @@ class BackgroundUpdater:
             # has supported CREATE TABLE|INDEX IF NOT EXISTS since 3.3.0.)
             sql = (
                 "CREATE %(unique)s INDEX IF NOT EXISTS %(name)s ON %(table)s"
-                " (%(columns)s)"
+                " (%(columns)s) %(where_clause)s"
             ) % {
                 "unique": "UNIQUE" if unique else "",
                 "name": index_name,
                 "table": table,
                 "columns": ", ".join(columns),
+                "where_clause": "WHERE " + where_clause if where_clause else "",
             }
 
             c = conn.cursor()