#29198: Add a --plan option to the migrate command
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Reporter: Craig de Stigter | Owner: nobody
Type: Uncategorized | Status: new
Component: Migrations | Version: 2.0
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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While migrating a prod database today I found myself feeling
uncomfortable.
In a situation like this:
{{{
[X] 0023_add_fairy_dust
[X] 0021_apply_beers_to_database
[ ] 0022_magik_stuff
[ ] 0024_merge
}}}
... what will happen when I run `django-admin migrate app
0023_add_fairy_dust`? Will `0021_apply_beers_to_database` get unapplied?
Will it try to roll forwards to the merge? Will some dependencies from
another app get pulled in? Will any tables get dropped? Something Else?*
We really need a way to quickly sanity-check what's going to happen,
before actually doing it.
A dry-run option was proposed in #23347 but then everyone missed the
forest for the trees, and it was closed because something about RunPython
not being able to be sqlified.
There are various ways to do this:
* I think a simple `--plan` showing which migrations will be applied (same
as the `showmigrations` option, but for a specific plan, especially for
reverse plans) would probably be enough to ease my mind about unapplying
beers.
* A short summary of the operations involved might be nice.
* Full SQL output might be cool. But it might also be too verbose for a
quick sanity check if there are a lot of changes. And as pointed out in
the other ticket, it doesn't work for RunPython (but that's not really a
good reason to not do it)
I haven't spent much time in newer releases (currently upgrading a large
project from 1.8 to 1.11) but AFAICT this still doesn't exist. Correct me
if I'm wrong.
(*Answer: nothing happens - it says `No migrations to apply.`. I don't
think it's possible to unapply those beers, but that's a separate issue.)
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