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+-- Copyright 2016 The Chromium Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+--
+-- Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+-- license that can be found in the LICENSE file or at
+-- https://developers.google.com/open-source/licenses/bsd
+
+
+-- Create app framework tables in the monorail DB.
+
+ALTER DATABASE monorail CHARACTER SET = utf8 COLLATE = utf8_unicode_ci;
+
+-- This table allows frontends to selectively invalidate their RAM caches.
+-- On each incoming request, the frontend queries this table to get all rows
+-- that are newer than the last row that it saw. Then it processes each such
+-- row by dropping entries from its RAM caches, and remembers the new highest
+-- timestep that it has seen.
+CREATE TABLE Invalidate (
+  -- The time at which the invalidation took effect, by that time new data
+  -- should be available to retrieve to fill local caches as needed.
+  -- This is not a clock value, it is just an integer that counts up by one
+  -- on each change.
+  timestep BIGINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
+
+  -- Which kind of entity was invalidated?  Each kind is broad, e.g.,
+  -- invalidating a project also invalidates all issue tracker config within
+  -- that project.  But, they do not nest.  E.g., invalidating a project does
+  -- not invalidate all issues in the project.
+  kind enum('user', 'usergroup', 'project', 'issue', 'issue_id',
+            'hotlist', 'comment', 'template', 'hotlist_id') NOT NULL,
+
+  -- Which cache entry should be invalidated?  Special value 0 indicates
+  -- that all entries should be invalidated.
+  cache_key INT UNSIGNED,
+
+  INDEX (timestep)
+) ENGINE=INNODB;