| 10 | | Far too often, people make changes to the database schema or to the data with which the database is initially populated. This causes pain and suffering for anyone with a live Eden instance who needs to upgrade their Eden software. We should provide a way of easing the process of migrating a database to a new revision. |
| | 10 | Far too often, people make changes to the database schema or to the data with which the database is initially populated. This causes pain and suffering for anyone with a live Eden instance who needs to upgrade their Eden software. |
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| | 12 | Web2py handles some simple schema changes, but the ones that cause problems are precisely the ones it can't handle, such as renaming a field or table, or adding a required non-null field, or requiring the creation of new records from current ones (e.g. if a single foreign key reference is removed from a table and is placed in a new relationship table), or where the data themselves are modified. |
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| | 14 | We should provide a way of easing the process of migrating a database to a new revision. |
