Hi,
I've checked and web2py trunk works as expected (both directions namely
string to text and viceversa)
@scott, have you enabled migration? ( DAL(db_uri, migrate=True))
Paolo
On Friday, January 9, 2015 at 7:38:08 PM UTC+1, Ian W. Scott wrote:
>
> OK, I'm upgrading. Ran into a snag with my passwords file and finding the
> right port number, but when it's upgraded I'll see whether it does the
> migration correctly.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 11:47:54 PM UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>
>> 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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