Will do - thanks Anthony

On Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 9:34:48 PM UTC+2, Anthony wrote:
>
> Probably the code for dropping columns was never updated to handle rnames. 
> Please submit an issue in the pydal repo: 
> https://github.com/web2py/pydal/issues.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 11:48:24 AM UTC-4, Doug Taylor wrote:
>>
>> Hi I'm a relative noob to web2py and python - but plenty of dev 
>> experience. Must say it has been a smooth learning curve for me and most 
>> stuff just works out the box... thanks Massimo!
>>
>> Pretty sure I found a bug here though. Running on ubuntu Xenial, 
>> postgresql 9.6 with psycopg2. I have a table defined thus:
>>
>> db.define_table('FileServer',
>>             Field('HostName', rname='host_name', type='string', 
>> length=32, label='Host', comment='The Host Name of the Server on the 
>> network'),
>>             Field('Address', rname='file_server_address', type='string', 
>> length=32, label='Address', comment='The Address of the Server'),
>>             Field('CommissioningDate', rname='file_server_comm_date', 
>> type='date', label='Commissioning Date', comment='The date on which the 
>> Server was commissioned (YYYY-MM-DD)'),
>>             Field('OS', rname='file_server_os', type='string', 
>> length=32, label='OS', comment='The Operating System running on the 
>> Server'),
>>             audit,
>>             rname='file_server',
>>             format='%(HostName)s',
>>             singular='Server',
>>             plural='Servers',
>>             migrate=True)
>>
>> Decided to drop the OS column and create a new relation for it instead. 
>> The migration fails with "relation fileserver does not exist". Went to look 
>> in my sql.log file and found these entries:
>>
>> from run previous when table is created
>>
>> timestamp: 2017-05-30T13:10:09.134114
>> CREATE TABLE file_server(
>>     id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
>>     host_name VARCHAR(32),
>>     file_server_address VARCHAR(32),
>>     file_server_comm_date DATE,
>>     file_server_os VARCHAR(32),
>>     created_on TIMESTAMP,
>>     created_by INTEGER REFERENCES auth_user (id) ON DELETE CASCADE  ,
>>     updated_on TIMESTAMP,
>>     updated_by INTEGER REFERENCES auth_user (id) ON DELETE CASCADE  ,
>>     is_validated CHAR(1),
>>     is_active CHAR(1)
>> );
>> success!
>>
>>
>> when I kick off the migration
>>
>> timestamp: 2017-05-31T15:43:53.289791
>> ALTER TABLE FileServer DROP COLUMN os;
>>
>> notice that rname is specified in define_table (highlighted above)
>>
>> Seems the migration code observes rname for table creation (table and 
>> column name) but not dropping the column where ALTER TABLE uses the Table 
>> and Field names in the SQL?? I find it hard to believe that such a mature 
>> product could suffer such a basic bug. Not sure this is the place to report 
>> it. Somebody direct me to the right forum?
>>
>> Having a whale of a time otherwise \m/
>>
>

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