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+-- Retained for schema compatibility with existing deployments; active issue state uses issue_state.
+CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS open_issue (
+    queue                    VARBINARY(255) NOT NULL,
+    task_id                  VARBINARY(255) NOT NULL,
+    unit_id                  VARBINARY(1024) NOT NULL,
+
+    first_seen_build_id      VARBINARY(1020) NOT NULL, -- Accommodates existing VARCHAR(255) utf8mb4 build IDs.
+
+    PRIMARY KEY (queue, task_id, unit_id)
+) ENGINE=InnoDB;