Advanced workflow settings

March 26, 2025

Workflows now supports several new advanced options.

• Defer secondary index creation: Enable this to dramatically decrease the time required to copy data into the new keyspace.
• DDL handling: Define how Vitess responds to schema changes made to the source keyspace while the workflow is running.
• Global keyspace: Choose an unsharded keyspace where sequence tables will be automatically created for workflow tables that contain AUTO_INCREMENT primary indexes.

If you're familiar with Vitess, these options map to the --defer-secondary-keys, --on-ddl, and --global-keyspace parameters to MoveTables.

Learn more in our Workflows documentation and Sharding quickstart.