Migration failure: TypeError: can't quote Array

Description

New Gitlab chart installations using an external RDS database report migration failure:

rake aborted!
TypeError: can't quote Array
/srv/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activerecord-7.0.8.7/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/quoting.rb:25:in `quote'
/srv/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activerecord-7.0.8.7/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql/quoting.rb:69:in `quote'
/srv/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activerecord-7.0.8.7/lib/arel/collectors/substitute_binds.rb:20:in `add_bind'
/srv/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activerecord-7.0.8.7/lib/arel/visitors/to_sql.rb:743:in `visit_ActiveModel_Att

Environment

Impacted environment:

  • GitLab Helm Chart
  • External RDS database

Impacted offerings:

  • GitLab Self-Managed

Impacted versions:

  • 17.10.3

Solution

Disable the quote_all_identifiers parameter in the RDS for PostgreSQL DB.

Cause

There is an open Issue to determine the cause and fix.

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