No but try this: First do a migration in which you remove the field completely. Then do a migration in which you add the field again with the new attributes.
Massimo On Dec 10, 7:13 am, Maciek Sykulski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > In web2py 1.72.3, > when I change db.py from: > > db.define_table('report_segment' , > Field > ('acgh_sg_id',db.acgh_segment,ondelete='CASCADE'), > Field > ('acgh_report_id',db.acgh_report,ondelete='CASCADE') > ) > to: > > db.define_table('report_segment' , > Field('acgh_sg_id',db.acgh_segment,ondelete='SET > NULL'), > Field > ('acgh_report_id',db.acgh_report,ondelete='CASCADE') > ) > I get an error: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/maciek/workspace/imid2py/gluon/restricted.py", line 184, > in restricted > exec ccode in environment > File "/home/maciek/workspace/imid2py/applications/welcome/models/ > db.py", line 285, in <module> > Field('acgh_report_id',db.acgh_report,ondelete='CASCADE') > File "/home/maciek/workspace/imid2py/gluon/sql.py", line 1205, in > define_table > query = t._create(migrate=migrate, fake_migrate=fake_migrate) > File "/home/maciek/workspace/imid2py/gluon/sql.py", line 1647, in > _create > fake_migrate=fake_migrate) > File "/home/maciek/workspace/imid2py/gluon/sql.py", line 1701, in > _migrate > self._db._execute(sub_query) > File "/home/maciek/workspace/imid2py/gluon/sql.py", line 879, in > <lambda> > self._execute = lambda *a, **b: self._cursor.execute(*a, **b) > File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 166, in > execute > self.errorhandler(self, exc, value) > File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 35, > in defaulterrorhandler > raise errorclass, errorvalue > OperationalError: (1061, "Duplicate key name 'acgh_sg_id__idx'") > > (what's interesting the error is reported in db.py in the line > following the actual change) > > I observed similar errors when adding unique=True to a table > definition. > Any clues? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.

