[GitHub] [airflow] ashb commented on pull request #11596: Allow loading plugins on Airflow start-up

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ashb commented on pull request #11596:
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/11596#issuecomment-710607306


   > >  allow creating more tables when running airflow db upgrade via plugins for which it is needed that the plugin is loaded when Scheduler starts.
   > 
   > I still don't understand the use cases for this option. Why do we want to load plugins always and we can't do it on a specific case? If this is due to database migrations, then we can add loading plugins when the database is initialized.
   
   There is more cases then just db migrations - plugins wanting to do start up initialization, or preloading modules used in all dags as https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/11596#issuecomment-710474026 was hinting it (he mentioned more explicitly in slack).
   
   This is a workaround until we add a richer plugin system to Airflow, but it is not onerous to support.


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