Re: upgrade from 1.6beta1 to 1.6beta2 failed with error applying evolution.

2011-05-09 Thread Christian Hammond
I'll be putting out a hotfix within the hour that I hope fixes this for you. Christian On Monday, May 9, 2011, meadowman keir.robin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I tried upgrading to the beta2 build just now, without success. # rb-site --debug upgrade /var/www/reviews Rebuilding directory

Re: upgrade from 1.6beta1 to 1.6beta2 failed with error applying evolution.

2011-05-09 Thread Christian Hammond
Or not. This is an annoying complication involving PostgreSQL's way of handling certain types of alterations within a single transaction, and there's no clear way of making this work without 1) major changes to django-evolution, the project that handles database migrations, or 2) changing the

Re: upgrade from 1.6beta1 to 1.6beta2 failed with error applying evolution.

2011-05-09 Thread meadowman
Thank you for taking a look at the problem. It is very helpful to know that it is not just a mistake on my part. Is it likely that a beta1 - beta3 upgrade will work? That is to say, might the beta3 schema be such that the postgres issue is circumvented? Alternatively, might I be able to use

Re: upgrade from 1.6beta1 to 1.6beta2 failed with error applying evolution.

2011-05-09 Thread Christian Hammond
A beta 1 to 3 upgrade should be fine. I won't release until it is. Just to provide some detail on the problem. We use Django-Evolution for database migrations. In beta 2, we added a new non-NULL boolean field to a table, which Django-Evolution adds through an ALTER TABLE followed by an UPDATE.