2.8.2-stable+timestamp.2013.11.28.13.54.07
(Running on Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_wsgi/3.3 Python/2.7.8)
On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 2:22:57 PM UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
> which web2py version/date?
>
> On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 12:49:29 UTC-6, Ian W. Scott wrote:
>>
>> I need to migrate an existing database field from (the implicit default)
>> 'string' to 'text'. Since all of the existing data will satisfy the new
>> field contstraints (no 'string' will be ruled out as 'text') I just changed
>> the field type in the model field definition.
>>
>> Old:
>> Field('response1'),
>> New:
>> Field('response1', 'text'),
>>
>> Everything seemed to go fine until I tried creating a new record with a
>> long string in that field. I got the following error:
>>
>> <class 'psycopg2.DataError'>(value too long for type character
>> varying(512) ).
>>
>> It looks to me like my postgresql database hasn't actually changed the
>> data type for that column. I thought this would be taken care of by the DAL
>> migration. So how can I change the actual postgre column data type? Or did
>> I do something wrong in the migration?
>>
>
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