[typo] Migrate issues
Scott Laird
scott at sigkill.org
Wed Nov 2 09:45:13 EST 2005
On Nov 2, 2005, at 5:46 AM, Ron Green wrote:
> If I try to install 2.5.6, when I log in to admin the first time,
> it presents me with the DB migration page which indicates I am
> eligible to migrage from 0 to 9. If I try installing from trunk, I
> get the same thing only it says I am eligible to migrate from 0 to
> 24. The db migration never works. It starts throwing exceptions
> that columns or table already exist. I tried following through one
> of the 0 to 9 migrations. Every time it threw an exception, I would
> delete whatever it was in the schema. Finally got to the end and
> nothing happened. If I tried hitting migrate again, the process
> started all over again.
Don't try to migrate to set up the initial DB--use the schema files
in db/schema.*.sql instead. The migrator in shouldn't offer to
migrate from schema 0--that's really a bug that we need to fix.
Scott
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