Please upgrade. This should have worked with that version but this is so
old. Hard to day what the problem is.
On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 13:42:52 UTC-6, Ian W. Scott wrote:
>
> 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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