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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