Stop reserializing DAGs during db migration

airflow/cli/cli_config.py

@@ -588,14 +588,6 @@ def string_lower_type(val):
     type=int,
     default=60,
 )
-ARG_DB_RESERIALIZE_DAGS = Arg(
-    ("--no-reserialize-dags",),
-    # Not intended for user, so dont show in help
-    help=argparse.SUPPRESS,
-    action="store_false",
-    default=True,
-    dest="reserialize_dags",
-)
 ARG_DB_VERSION__UPGRADE = Arg(
     ("-n", "--to-version"),
     help=(
@@ -1473,7 +1465,6 @@ class GroupCommand(NamedTuple):
             ARG_DB_SQL_ONLY,
             ARG_DB_FROM_REVISION,
             ARG_DB_FROM_VERSION,
-            ARG_DB_RESERIALIZE_DAGS,
             ARG_VERBOSE,
         ),
     ),

airflow/cli/commands/local_commands/db_command.py

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ def _get_version_revision(
     return _get_version_revision(new_version, recursion_limit)
 
 
-def run_db_migrate_command(args, command, revision_heads_map: dict[str, str], reserialize_dags: bool = True):
+def run_db_migrate_command(args, command, revision_heads_map: dict[str, str]):
     """
     Run the db migrate command.
 
@@ -122,19 +122,11 @@ def run_db_migrate_command(args, command, revision_heads_map: dict[str, str], re
         print(f"Performing upgrade to the metadata database {settings.engine.url!r}")
     else:
         print("Generating sql for upgrade -- upgrade commands will *not* be submitted.")
-    if reserialize_dags:
-        command(
-            to_revision=to_revision,
-            from_revision=from_revision,
-            show_sql_only=args.show_sql_only,
-            reserialize_dags=True,
-        )
-    else:
-        command(
-            to_revision=to_revision,
-            from_revision=from_revision,
-            show_sql_only=args.show_sql_only,
-        )
+    command(
+        to_revision=to_revision,
+        from_revision=from_revision,
+        show_sql_only=args.show_sql_only,
+    )
     if not args.show_sql_only:
         print("Database migrating done!")
 
@@ -202,7 +194,7 @@ def migratedb(args):
             raise SystemExit(f"Invalid version {args.from_version!r} supplied as `--from-version`.")
         if parsed_version < parse_version("2.0.0"):
             raise SystemExit("--from-version must be greater or equal to 2.0.0")
-    run_db_migrate_command(args, db.upgradedb, _REVISION_HEADS_MAP, reserialize_dags=True)
+    run_db_migrate_command(args, db.upgradedb, _REVISION_HEADS_MAP)
 
 
 @cli_utils.action_cli(check_db=False)

airflow/utils/db.py

@@ -921,14 +921,6 @@ def check_and_run_migrations():
         sys.exit(1)
 
 
-def _reserialize_dags(*, session: Session) -> None:
-    from airflow.models.dagbag import DagBag
-
-    dagbag = DagBag(collect_dags=False)
-    dagbag.collect_dags(only_if_updated=False)
-    dagbag.sync_to_db(session=session)
-
-
 @provide_session
 def synchronize_log_template(*, session: Session = NEW_SESSION) -> None:
     """
@@ -1167,8 +1159,6 @@ def upgradedb(
     with create_global_lock(session=session, lock=DBLocks.MIGRATIONS):
         import sqlalchemy.pool
 
-        previous_revision = _get_current_revision(session=session)
-
         log.info("Migrating the Airflow database")
         val = os.environ.get("AIRFLOW__DATABASE__SQL_ALCHEMY_MAX_SIZE")
         try:
@@ -1192,9 +1182,6 @@ def upgradedb(
                 os.environ["AIRFLOW__DATABASE__SQL_ALCHEMY_MAX_SIZE"] = val
             settings.reconfigure_orm()
 
-        if reserialize_dags and current_revision != previous_revision:
-            log.info("Reserializing the DAGs")
-            _reserialize_dags(session=session)
         add_default_pool_if_not_exists(session=session)
         synchronize_log_template(session=session)
 

providers/src/airflow/providers/fab/auth_manager/cli_commands/db_command.py

@@ -38,9 +38,7 @@ def migratedb(args):
     """Migrates the metadata database."""
     session = settings.Session()
     upgrade_command = FABDBManager(session).upgradedb
-    run_db_migrate_command(
-        args, upgrade_command, revision_heads_map=_REVISION_HEADS_MAP, reserialize_dags=False
-    )
+    run_db_migrate_command(args, upgrade_command, revision_heads_map=_REVISION_HEADS_MAP)
 
 
 @cli_utils.action_cli(check_db=False)

tests/cli/commands/local_commands/test_db_command.py

@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ def test_cli_check_migrations(self, mock_wait_for_migrations):
     def test_cli_upgrade_success(self, mock_upgradedb, args, called_with):
         # TODO(ephraimbuddy): Revisit this when we add more migration files and use other versions/revisions other than 2.10.0/22ed7efa9da2
         db_command.migratedb(self.parser.parse_args(["db", "migrate", *args]))
-        mock_upgradedb.assert_called_once_with(**called_with, reserialize_dags=True)
+        mock_upgradedb.assert_called_once_with(**called_with)
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize(
         "args, pattern",