Database Change Log

A version-by-version record of the schema and data changes the Go backend applies to a RAGFlow database, and of the version marker that decides which of them still have to run.

How the database version is recorded

• The marker is a row in system_settings with the key mysql_migration.database.version.
• The same marker is written by the Python script run_migrations.sh, so a step already performed by Python is skipped by Go, and vice versa.
• Go defines the versions as constants: modelMigrationBaseVersion and modelMigrationTargetVersion in migration_version.go, and conversationHistoryTargetVersion in conversation_history_migration.go.
• A step runs when the stored version is lower than the step's version. Versions are compared with Python PEP 440 semantics, where a dev prerelease sorts before the release it precedes (v1.0.0-rc1.dev1 < v1.0.0-rc1). A missing or unparsable marker never skips a step.
• checkDatabaseVersion in cmd/ragflow_server.go refuses to start when the code version is older than the stored database version, so a database migrated by a newer release cannot be opened by an older one.

Startup order in InitDB (database.go):

1. RunMigrations — manual, idempotent steps plus the two versioned tenant model steps. Runs before AutoMigrate because it has to observe the legacy schema.
2. migrateIngestionLogRunIdentity — ingestion log columns and indexes.
3. AutoMigrate — converges every ORM model.
4. migrateConversationHistory — runs after AutoMigrate, which creates the child tables it backfills.

Version overview

Database version	Scope	Gate constant	Minimum compatible RAGFlow version
v0.26.0	Rebuild the tenant model tables from tenant_llm and normalize stored model ids	modelMigrationBaseVersion	_TBD_
v0.27.2	Seed factory-declared models, merge model_type into an integer bitmask, populate the tenant_*_id columns	modelMigrationTargetVersion	_TBD_
v1.0.0-rc1.dev1	Split conversation message and reference payloads into child tables	conversationHistoryTargetVersion	_TBD_

The two tenant model steps are cumulative: a database at v0.26.0 still runs the v0.27.2 step, and a database at or above v0.27.2 runs neither.

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v0.26.0

Minimum compatible RAGFlow version: _TBD_

Schema changes

Object	Change
system_settings	Created if missing, so the version marker can be written before AutoMigrate reaches the table.
tenant_model_provider	Created if missing. Columns: id (PK, varchar 32), provider_name, tenant_id, base timestamps. Unique index idx_tenant_provider_unique (tenant_id, provider_name).
tenant_model_instance	Created if missing. Columns: id (PK), instance_name, provider_id, api_key, status, extra, base timestamps.
tenant_model	Created if missing. Columns: id (PK), model_name, provider_id, instance_id, model_type, status, extra, base timestamps.

The three tables are created only when the legacy tenant_llm table exists and the target table does not, mirroring the CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS the Python stages run. Existing tables are never altered by this step: tenant_model.model_type deliberately keeps the text shape the Python migration left behind so the v0.27.2 merge can still read the legacy model names.

Data migration

Table	Change
tenant_model_provider	One row per distinct (tenant_id, llm_factory) in tenant_llm; provider_name takes the factory name.
tenant_model_instance	One row per (tenant_id, llm_factory), carrying the first api_key after deduplication; instance_name defaults to default.
tenant_model	Rows derived from tenant_llm: model_type is written as an integer bitmask, only groups whose merged status is active are kept, and provider_id / instance_id point at the rows created above. Bits: chat=1, embedding=2, asr/speech2text=4, vision/image2text=8, rerank=16, tts=32, ocr=64.
tenant, knowledgebase, dialog, memory	Stored model ids are rewritten from <model>@<provider> to <model>@default@<provider>: tenant.llm_id / embd_id / asr_id / img2txt_id / rerank_id / tts_id / ocr_id, knowledgebase.embd_id, dialog.llm_id / rerank_id, memory.embd_id / llm_id, plus the same keys nested inside parser_config and prompt_config JSON (llm_id, embd_id, embedding_model, rerank_id, asr_id, img2txt_id, tts_id, ocr_id).

On success the step writes v0.26.0 into the version marker.

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v0.27.2

Minimum compatible RAGFlow version: _TBD_

Schema changes

Table	Change
tenant_model	model_type is converted from the legacy text representation to the integer bitmask (see the data migration below). Once the column is an integer the conversion is a no-op.
tenant	Adds tenant_llm_id, tenant_embd_id, tenant_asr_id, tenant_img2txt_id, tenant_rerank_id, tenant_tts_id, tenant_ocr_id — each varchar(32) NULL.
knowledgebase	Adds tenant_embd_id — varchar(32) NULL.
dialog	Adds tenant_llm_id, tenant_rerank_id — varchar(32) NULL.
memory	Adds tenant_embd_id, tenant_llm_id — varchar(32) NULL.

The tenant_*_id columns are added only when missing, and are skipped entirely when any of tenant_model, tenant_model_provider, tenant_model_instance is absent.

Data migration

Table	Change
tenant_model	Seeding: the models declared in conf/llm_factories.json are inserted for every provider/instance created by the v0.26.0 step. When a (provider_id, instance_id, model_name) row already exists, the declared factory bits are OR-ed into its model_type instead of a second row being inserted.
tenant_model	Type merge: rows sharing (provider_id, instance_id, model_name) collapse into a single row whose model_type is the OR of the contributing bits. Bits that only ever appeared on unsupported rows are dropped, and groups whose merged status is not active are dropped.
tenant, knowledgebase, dialog, memory	Id backfill: each tenant_*_id column is filled from its legacy counterpart (llm_id, embd_id, …) by resolving the referenced tenant_model.id through a (tenant_id, model_name, provider, model_type) lookup over active models, with the model_type bitmask expanded back into individual types.

On success the step writes v0.27.2 into the version marker.

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v1.0.0-rc1.dev1

Minimum compatible RAGFlow version: _TBD_

This step only prepares the schema owned by v1.0.0-rc1; dropping the legacy payload columns is out of its scope.

Schema changes

Table	Change
conversation_message	Created by AutoMigrate. Composite PK (conversation_id, position); columns message_id, role, content, content_type, status, thumb_up, feedback, created_at, metadata; composite index message_lookup (conversation_id, message_id, role, position); foreign key conversation_id → conversation.id with ON DELETE CASCADE.
conversation_reference	Created by AutoMigrate. Composite PK (conversation_id, position); columns reference (longtext), message_position; foreign key conversation_id → conversation.id with ON DELETE CASCADE.
api_4_conversation_message	Same shape as conversation_message, parented by api_4_conversation.
api_4_conversation_reference	Same shape as conversation_reference, parented by api_4_conversation.
conversation, api_4_conversation	Unchanged by this step: the legacy message and reference payload columns stay in place. The Go schema marks both gorm:"-", so only a probe model can still read them.

Data migration

Table	Change
conversation_message, api_4_conversation_message	Each element of the parent row's message JSON array becomes one row, position being its index in the array.
conversation_reference, api_4_conversation_reference	Each entry of the parent row's reference JSON array becomes one row, position being its index in the array. message_position stays NULL: the payload carries no message binding, and only references written together with a message by the current code path set it.

Execution details:

• Conversations are processed in cursor-ordered batches of 100, each batch in its own transaction, so an interrupted run resumes from the last committed batch.
• A conversation that already has rows in either child table is left untouched: rows written after the split took effect win over the payload, so a rerun neither duplicates nor clobbers them.
• Parent tables without message and reference columns are skipped.

On success the step writes v1.0.0-rc1.dev1 into the version marker.

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Version-less steps

These steps are not gated by the version marker. They are idempotent and run on every startup, either through RunMigrations or through the ingestion helpers in InitDB.

Schema changes

Table	Change
tenant_llm	Composite primary key (tenant_id, llm_factory, llm_name) is replaced by a surrogate auto-increment id; the legacy uniqueness is preserved by a unique index on the old key columns.
task, document	process_duation renamed to process_duration.
user	Unique index on email.
ingestion_task	Unique index on document_id.
knowledgebase	Adds the VIRTUAL generated column name_ci (LOWER(name) for status='1' rows, NULL otherwise) and the unique index idx_kb_tenant_name_ci (tenant_id, name_ci), so soft-deleted rows never block name reuse.
user_canvas	Unique index (user_id, canvas_category, title).
pipeline_operation_log	Adds run_count int NULL and the index idx_pipeline_operation_log_document_run.
ingestion_task	Adds pipeline_log_id varchar(32) NULL.
ingestion_task_log	Adds pipeline_log_id varchar(32) NULL, event_type tinyint NOT NULL DEFAULT 4, and the index idx_ingestion_task_log_pipeline_id.
dialog, tenant_llm, api_token, canvas_template, system_settings, knowledgebase	Column types converged to the Peewee models, for example dialog.top_k int NOT NULL DEFAULT 1024, tenant_llm.api_key text, api_token.dialog_id varchar(32), canvas_template.title / description nullable longtext, system_settings.value text NOT NULL, knowledgebase.raptor_task_finish_at / mindmap_task_finish_at datetime.
conversation, api_4_conversation	Index idx_<table>_dialog_updated (dialog_id, update_time, id) for conversation list queries.

Data changes

Table	Change
knowledgebase, dialog	parser_config entries stored under the legacy key TokenChunker:SixApplesFall are rewritten to GeneralChunker:SixApplesFall. Values already stored under the new key win; TokenChunker-only fields (delimiter_mode, outputs) are dropped, and a legacy delimiter becomes delimiters. delimiter is discarded when delimiters already exists.