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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