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| author | Yorick Peterse <yorickpeterse@gmail.com> | 2017-05-15 16:45:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Yorick Peterse <yorickpeterse@gmail.com> | 2017-05-17 20:53:23 +0200 |
| commit | f8b37087b98e9550358c5030e9804c1e869878ae (patch) | |
| tree | a41abb11105e4e81d93149f68f90f86c4bd808db | |
| parent | 91c971bf987824df0e066c20ac341bb5e7485e95 (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-f8b37087b98e9550358c5030e9804c1e869878ae.tar.gz | |
Document nested groups not working on MySQL
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diff --git a/doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md b/doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md index ce5da07c61a..7c4c09918d5 100644 --- a/doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md +++ b/doc/user/group/subgroups/index.md @@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ up to 20 levels of nested groups, which among other things can help you to: - **Make it easier to manage people and control visibility.** Give people different [permissions][] depending on their group [membership](#membership). +## Database Requirements + +Nested groups are only supported when you use PostgreSQL. Supporting nested +groups on MySQL in an efficient way is not possible due to MySQL's limitations. +See the following links for more information: + +* <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/30472> +* <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/10885> + ## Overview A group can have many subgroups inside it, and at the same time a group can have |