I'm inheriting this installation so I'm not entirely sure of it's history. I
believe that it was essentially a checkout of the source code at some point
at least a couple years ago and has never been upgraded.

jon


On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Christian Hammond <chip...@chipx86.com>wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> It really depends on how old the version is. Unfortunately, at that time,
> we didn't really have version numbers that meant anything. Can you tell me
> how you performed database upgrades on the old install? Was it using the old
> load-db.py and dump-db.py scripts, or was it using ./manage.py evolve?
>
> Also, were you using rb-site?
>
>
> Christian
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> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Jon Stevens <latch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> Thanks for the fast response. I haven't tried upgrading things. I guess I
>> could try that, but I got the impression from somewhere that it would be
>> difficult to do so from the early version that we are currently running. If
>> you think it is worth trying, then that is probably the ideal route.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> jon
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Christian Hammond 
>> <chip...@chipx86.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jon,
>>>
>>> Your plan to use ALTER TABLE should work. review_request_id just holds
>>> the current ID. That's what should be auto_increment. I think so long as you
>>> do that, you'll see the review request ID number you expect.
>>>
>>> By the way, what problems did you hit with upgrading?
>>>
>>> Christian
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>>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:47 PM, jon <latch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Apologies if this has been covered before, google didn't seem to have
>>>> an obvious answer. Is it possible to set a starting review # for a
>>>> clean install?
>>>>
>>>> The issue is that we have a pre-1.0 installation that has been in use
>>>> for awhile now. Instead of trying to figure out how to upgrade the
>>>> database, I've just created a fresh new installation (of 1.5rc1) on a
>>>> fresh new server and we are just going to consider the previous
>>>> version effectively read-only.
>>>>
>>>> But, on the new server, I'd like to start the review number +1 higher
>>>> than the old server so that we don't have conflicting numbers in svn
>>>> commit messages.
>>>>
>>>> I see that reviews_review.id is auto_increment. I know that I can do:
>>>> "ALTER TABLE reviews_review AUTO_INCREMENT = 100;", but I also see a
>>>> 'review_request_id' column. What is that used for? Do you see any
>>>> other issues with this approach?
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>>
>>>> jon
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