diff --git a/db/docs/user_interacted_projects.yml b/db/docs/deleted_tables/user_interacted_projects.yml
similarity index 82%
rename from db/docs/user_interacted_projects.yml
rename to db/docs/deleted_tables/user_interacted_projects.yml
index c93a97bba8f0989f84987878a4f12be5e28c1aaf..7d58cec6e3c736691c2229fd9e960eefa28356e2 100644
--- a/db/docs/user_interacted_projects.yml
+++ b/db/docs/deleted_tables/user_interacted_projects.yml
@@ -16,3 +16,5 @@ allow_cross_foreign_keys:
- gitlab_main_clusterwide
sharding_key:
project_id: projects
+removed_by_url: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/139630
+removed_in_milestone: '16.10'
diff --git a/db/post_migrate/20240212200632_remove_foreign_keys_user_interacted_projects.rb b/db/post_migrate/20240212200632_remove_foreign_keys_user_interacted_projects.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..64df9755116c643b3aafede5595ab70298d11962
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/post_migrate/20240212200632_remove_foreign_keys_user_interacted_projects.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+class RemoveForeignKeysUserInteractedProjects < Gitlab::Database::Migration[2.2]
+ milestone '16.10'
+
+ disable_ddl_transaction!
+
+ FOREIGN_KEY_NAME_USERS = "fk_0894651f08"
+ FOREIGN_KEY_NAME_PROJECTS = "fk_722ceba4f7"
+
+ def up
+ with_lock_retries do
+ remove_foreign_key_if_exists(:user_interacted_projects, :users,
+ name: FOREIGN_KEY_NAME_USERS, reverse_lock_order: true)
+
+ remove_foreign_key_if_exists(:user_interacted_projects, :projects,
+ name: FOREIGN_KEY_NAME_PROJECTS, reverse_lock_order: true)
+ end
+ end
+
+ def down
+ add_concurrent_foreign_key(:user_interacted_projects, :users,
+ name: FOREIGN_KEY_NAME_USERS, column: :user_id,
+ target_column: :id, on_delete: :cascade)
+
+ add_concurrent_foreign_key(:user_interacted_projects, :projects,
+ name: FOREIGN_KEY_NAME_PROJECTS, column: :project_id,
+ target_column: :id, on_delete: :cascade)
+ end
+end
diff --git a/db/post_migrate/20240212200947_drop_user_interacted_projects_table.rb b/db/post_migrate/20240212200947_drop_user_interacted_projects_table.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b9751a28ade8e73d73dfe50bf743f18005481a5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/post_migrate/20240212200947_drop_user_interacted_projects_table.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+class DropUserInteractedProjectsTable < Gitlab::Database::Migration[2.2]
+ milestone '16.10'
+
+ disable_ddl_transaction!
+
+ TABLE_NAME = 'user_interacted_projects'
+ INDEX_NAME = 'index_user_interacted_projects_on_user_id'
+ PRIMARY_KEY_CONSTRAINT = 'user_interacted_projects_pkey'
+
+ def up
+ drop_table :user_interacted_projects
+ end
+
+ def down
+ unless table_exists?(:user_interacted_projects)
+ create_table :user_interacted_projects, id: false do |t|
+ t.integer :user_id, null: false
+ t.integer :project_id, null: false
+ t.index :user_id, name: INDEX_NAME
+ end
+ end
+
+ execute "ALTER TABLE #{TABLE_NAME} ADD CONSTRAINT #{PRIMARY_KEY_CONSTRAINT} PRIMARY KEY (project_id, user_id)"
+ end
+end
diff --git a/db/schema_migrations/20240212200632 b/db/schema_migrations/20240212200632
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..742a218090f81ec22a119ba06a77f4aa3b1d9ff6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/schema_migrations/20240212200632
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+267bb24ca1cf7ff73624ae9b0c7c8b80ee9cdfb2cba77cd21a41304815fda432
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/db/schema_migrations/20240212200947 b/db/schema_migrations/20240212200947
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..70fa043b019ec93934900fbc5bb1cb246ebed36c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/schema_migrations/20240212200947
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+bbff24ff2d7764f20435d68eb72c15bb885eb7a0474e46e4a57179c14c034b5c
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/db/structure.sql b/db/structure.sql
index 53acf8d1e8fcff0aa9d09de4a92f01d09abe6453..a1b9a466c854e8e30d401fd74c8e5fb7da73ce2a 100644
--- a/db/structure.sql
+++ b/db/structure.sql
@@ -16621,11 +16621,6 @@ CREATE TABLE user_highest_roles (
highest_access_level integer
);
-CREATE TABLE user_interacted_projects (
- user_id integer NOT NULL,
- project_id integer NOT NULL
-);
-
CREATE TABLE user_namespace_callouts (
id bigint NOT NULL,
user_id bigint NOT NULL,
@@ -22003,9 +21998,6 @@ ALTER TABLE ONLY user_group_callouts
ALTER TABLE ONLY user_highest_roles
ADD CONSTRAINT user_highest_roles_pkey PRIMARY KEY (user_id);
-ALTER TABLE ONLY user_interacted_projects
- ADD CONSTRAINT user_interacted_projects_pkey PRIMARY KEY (project_id, user_id);
-
ALTER TABLE ONLY user_namespace_callouts
ADD CONSTRAINT user_namespace_callouts_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id);
@@ -26985,8 +26977,6 @@ CREATE INDEX index_user_group_callouts_on_group_id ON user_group_callouts USING
CREATE INDEX index_user_highest_roles_on_user_id_and_highest_access_level ON user_highest_roles USING btree (user_id, highest_access_level);
-CREATE INDEX index_user_interacted_projects_on_user_id ON user_interacted_projects USING btree (user_id);
-
CREATE INDEX index_user_namespace_callouts_on_namespace_id ON user_namespace_callouts USING btree (namespace_id);
CREATE INDEX index_user_permission_export_uploads_on_user_id_and_status ON user_permission_export_uploads USING btree (user_id, status);
@@ -29231,9 +29221,6 @@ ALTER TABLE ONLY sbom_occurrences_vulnerabilities
ALTER TABLE ONLY abuse_report_user_mentions
ADD CONSTRAINT fk_088018ecd8 FOREIGN KEY (abuse_report_id) REFERENCES abuse_reports(id) ON DELETE CASCADE;
-ALTER TABLE ONLY user_interacted_projects
- ADD CONSTRAINT fk_0894651f08 FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES users(id) ON DELETE CASCADE;
-
ALTER TABLE ONLY merge_request_assignment_events
ADD CONSTRAINT fk_08f7602bfd FOREIGN KEY (merge_request_id) REFERENCES merge_requests(id) ON DELETE CASCADE;
@@ -29669,9 +29656,6 @@ ALTER TABLE ONLY protected_branch_push_access_levels
ALTER TABLE ONLY integrations
ADD CONSTRAINT fk_71cce407f9 FOREIGN KEY (project_id) REFERENCES projects(id) ON DELETE CASCADE;
-ALTER TABLE ONLY user_interacted_projects
- ADD CONSTRAINT fk_722ceba4f7 FOREIGN KEY (project_id) REFERENCES projects(id) ON DELETE CASCADE;
-
ALTER TABLE ONLY subscription_user_add_on_assignments
ADD CONSTRAINT fk_724c2df9a8 FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES users(id) ON DELETE CASCADE;