# Database Migrations
-This page describes database migrations necessary to update existing databases
-to newer versions of Nominatim.
+Since version 3.7.0 Nominatim offers automatic migrations. Please follow
+the following steps:
-SQL statements should be executed from the PostgreSQL commandline. Execute
-`psql nominatim` to enter command line mode.
+* stop any updates that are potentially running
+* update Nominatim to the newer version
+* go to your project directory and run `nominatim admin --migrate`
+* (optionally) restart updates
-## 3.5.0 -> master
+Below you find additional migrations and hints about other structural and
+breaking changes. **Please read them before running the migration.**
+
+!!! note
+ If you are migrating from a version <3.6, then you still have to follow
+ the manual migration steps up to 3.6.
+
+## 3.6.0 -> 3.7.0
+
+### New format and name of configuration file
+
+The configuration for an import is now saved in a `.env` file in the project
+directory. This file follows the dotenv format. For more information, see
+the [installation chapter](Import.md#configuration-setup-in-env).
+
+To migrate to the new system, create a new project directory, add the `.env`
+file and port your custom configuration from `settings/local.php`. Most
+settings are named similar and only have received a `NOMINATIM_` prefix.
+Use the default settings in `settings/env.defaults` as a reference.
+
+### New location for data files
+
+External data files for Wikipedia importance, postcodes etc. are no longer
+expected to reside in the source tree by default. Instead they will be searched
+in the project directory. If you have an automated setup script you must
+either adapt the download location or explicitly set the location of the
+files to the old place in your `.env`.
+
+### Introducing `nominatim` command line tool
+
+The various php utilities have been replaced with a single `nominatim`
+command line tool. Make sure to adapt any scripts. There is no direct 1:1
+matching between the old utilities and the commands of nominatim CLI. The
+following list gives you a list of nominatim sub-commands that contain
+functionality of each script:
+
+* ./utils/setup.php: `import`, `freeze`, `refresh`
+* ./utils/update.php: `replication`, `add-data`, `index`, `refresh`
+* ./utils/specialphrases.php: `special-phrases`
+* ./utils/check_import_finished.php: `admin`
+* ./utils/warm.php: `admin`
+* ./utils/export.php: `export`
+
+Try `nominatim <command> --help` for more information about each subcommand.
+
+`./utils/query.php` no longer exists in its old form. `nominatim search`
+provides a replacement but returns different output.
+
+### Switch to normalized house numbers
+
+The housenumber column in the placex table uses now normalized version.
+The automatic migration step will convert the column but this may take a
+very long time. It is advisable to take the machine offline while doing that.
+
+## 3.5.0 -> 3.6.0
### Change of layout of search_name_* tables
The table need a different index for nearest place lookup. Recreate the
-indexs suing the following shell script:
+indexes using the following shell script:
```bash
for table in `psql -d nominatim -c "SELECT tablename FROM pg_tables WHERE tablename LIKE 'search_name_%'" -tA | grep -v search_name_blank`;
```sql
CREATE INDEX idx_placex_pendingsector_rank_address
- ON placex USING BTREE (rank_address, geometry_sector) where indexed_status > 0;
+ ON placex
+ USING BTREE (rank_address, geometry_sector)
+ WHERE indexed_status > 0;
```
You can then drop the old index with:
```sql
-DROP INDEX idx_placex_pendingsector
+DROP INDEX idx_placex_pendingsector;
```
### Unused index
This index has been unused ever since the query using it was changed two years ago. Saves about 12GB on a planet installation.
```sql
-DROP INDEX idx_placex_geometry_reverse_lookupPoint
+DROP INDEX idx_placex_geometry_reverse_lookupPoint;
```
### Switching to dotenv
* reimport the tables: `./utils/setup.php --import-wikipedia-articles`
* update the functions: `./utils/setup.php --create-functions --enable-diff-updates`
* create a new lookup index:
-```
-CREATE INDEX idx_placex_wikidata on placex
-USING BTREE ((extratags -> 'wikidata'))
-WHERE extratags ? 'wikidata' and class = 'place' and osm_type = 'N' and rank_search < 26
+```sql
+CREATE INDEX idx_placex_wikidata
+ ON placex
+ USING BTREE ((extratags -> 'wikidata'))
+ WHERE extratags ? 'wikidata'
+ AND class = 'place'
+ AND osm_type = 'N'
+ AND rank_search < 26;
```
* compute importance: `./utils/update.php --recompute-importance`
### Natural Earth country boundaries no longer needed as fallback
-```
+```sql
DROP TABLE country_naturalearthdata;
```
The reverse algorithm has changed and requires new indexes. Run the following
SQL statements to create the indexes:
-```
+```sql
CREATE INDEX idx_placex_geometry_reverse_lookupPoint
- ON placex USING gist (geometry)
- WHERE (name is not null or housenumber is not null or rank_address between 26 and 27)
- AND class not in ('railway','tunnel','bridge','man_made')
- AND rank_address >= 26 AND indexed_status = 0 AND linked_place_id is null;
+ ON placex
+ USING gist (geometry)
+ WHERE (name IS NOT null or housenumber IS NOT null or rank_address BETWEEN 26 AND 27)
+ AND class NOT IN ('railway','tunnel','bridge','man_made')
+ AND rank_address >= 26
+ AND indexed_status = 0
+ AND linked_place_id IS null;
CREATE INDEX idx_placex_geometry_reverse_lookupPolygon
ON placex USING gist (geometry)
WHERE St_GeometryType(geometry) in ('ST_Polygon', 'ST_MultiPolygon')
- AND rank_address between 4 and 25 AND type != 'postcode'
- AND name is not null AND indexed_status = 0 AND linked_place_id is null;
+ AND rank_address between 4 and 25
+ AND type != 'postcode'
+ AND name is not null
+ AND indexed_status = 0
+ AND linked_place_id is null;
CREATE INDEX idx_placex_geometry_reverse_placeNode
ON placex USING gist (geometry)
- WHERE osm_type = 'N' AND rank_search between 5 and 25
- AND class = 'place' AND type != 'postcode'
- AND name is not null AND indexed_status = 0 AND linked_place_id is null;
+ WHERE osm_type = 'N'
+ AND rank_search between 5 and 25
+ AND class = 'place'
+ AND type != 'postcode'
+ AND name is not null
+ AND indexed_status = 0
+ AND linked_place_id is null;
```
You also need to grant the website user access to the `country_osm_grid` table:
-```
+```sql
GRANT SELECT ON table country_osm_grid to "www-user";
```
You can now drop the unused indexes:
-```
+```sql
DROP INDEX idx_placex_reverse_geometry;
```
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX idx_postcode_id ON location_postcode USING BTREE (place_id);
CREATE INDEX idx_postcode_postcode ON location_postcode USING BTREE (postcode);
GRANT SELECT ON location_postcode TO "www-data";
-drop type if exists nearfeaturecentr cascade;
-create type nearfeaturecentr as (
+DROP TYPE IF EXISTS nearfeaturecentr CASCADE;
+CREATE TYPE nearfeaturecentr AS (
place_id BIGINT,
keywords int[],
rank_address smallint,
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