User Directory not regenerating

[drseussofporn]

Originally, our homeserver was federated and able to connect to the matrix network. I decided to remove federation per another Github issue by just whitelisting the local HS for federation. Following this, the search_all_users was set to true and I performed the psql command UPDATE user_directory_stream_pos SET stream_id = NULL; to regenerate the user directory as I wanted the HS to only search local users and forget about all other users it had encountered during federation. However, after a restart of Synapse the user directory still contains entries for users outside of the local installation. How do I clear these entries and force a regeneration of the user directory?

[neilisfragile]

For support please ask in #synapse:matrix.org

[aaronraimist]

For the record they already asked about 5 times in #matrix:matrix.org and #synapse:matrix.org and @ara4n told them to file an issue. It seems likely that the new user directory in 0.99.3 changed how this works but didn't update the documentation.

[neilisfragile]

Well that's not ideal, right I see, this is from the user_dir docs - fair enough I'll run with it

[hawkowl]

@drseussofporn You will need to manually rerun the migration, via https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/synapse/storage/schema/delta/53/user_dir_populate.sql , and restart Synapse.

[drseussofporn]

@hawkowl Thank you. That was exactly what I needed.

[richvdh]

fixed by #5282, seemingly