Re: upgrade from 1.2.21 to 1.3.3

["David A. Bandel" <..hidden..>]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 09:40, Alvin Starr <..hidden..> wrote:
>  I have seen this page.
> It is the result  from the pre-upgrade tests failing.

Actually, the latest setup.pl (upgrade script) does bail with a more
descriptive error message if the pre-up tests fail.  It doesn't
actually fix those errors.  I have a _very_ old database that needed
significant repairs (I had orphans and non-unique values in columns
that are, and always should have been, unique, and more).  Fixing an
old database is very problematic, and must be done by hand.
Automating this could cause more problems than it solves.

>
> I think an argument could be made that the failure could be a little
> more descriptive and suggest where to look for how to fix things.

well, in some cases, that's done.

>
>
> On 11/04/2011 09:50 AM, Philippe Schelté wrote:
>> Hello Chris,
>>
>> thanks for your reply !
>>
>>> Use the setup.pl.
>>>
>>> Enter the company and postgresql superuser/password authentication
>>> fields.  The company is your database name.
>>>
>>> It should detect 1.2 and ask if you want to upgrade.  Say yes and
>>> continue.....
>>>
>> I have done the setup.pl as I explain in my first message in this
>> thread :
>>
>> I choose to upgrade my database, but it seems that i can't go
>> further, I 'm blocked on a step where it asks me to "save and retry"
>> showing me a form
>> where I see all the parts with only the partnumber column that I can
>> modify. Even if I put all the partnumber to 1 and click to "Save and
>> retry" the form reload
>> again and so forth... Something I have to mention is that I'm a french
>> user and some of my parts description have accent that are not well
>> encoded.
>> I have strange characters like "@A" at the place of the accents. How
>> can I finish the upgrade process ?
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Philippe
>>
>>
>>
>>
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