aurweb/migrations/README
Frédéric Mangano-Tarumi a8a1f74a92 Set up Alembic for database migrations
Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer@archlinux.org>
2020-02-27 16:44:36 +01:00

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This directory contains Alembic's environment for managing database migrations.
From Alembic's documentation: Alembic is a lightweight database migration tool
for usage with the SQLAlchemy Database Toolkit for Python.
https://alembic.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/index.html
Upgrading to the latest version
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Simply run `alembic upgrade head` from aurweb's root.
Creating new migrations
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When working with Alembic and SQLAlchemy, you should never edit the database
schema manually. Please proceed like this instead:
1. Edit `aurweb/schema.py` to your liking.
2. Run `alembic revision --autogenerate -m "your message"`
3. Proofread the generated migration.
4. Run `alembic upgrade head` to apply the changes to the database.
5. Commit the new migration.
To revert a migration, you may run `alembic downgrade -1` and then manually
delete the migration file. Note that SQLite is limited and that it's sometimes
easier to recreate the database.
For anything more complicated, please read Alembic's documentation.
Troubleshooting
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- `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'aurweb'`
You may either install the aurweb module with pip, or set PYTHONPATH to your
aurweb repository. Since alembic must be run from the aurweb root, you may
simply use: `PYTHONPATH=. alembic [...]`.
- `FAILED: No config file 'alembic.ini' found, or file has no '[alembic]' section`
You need to run Alembic from the project's root, and not from `migrations/`.
- `configparser.NoSectionError: No section: 'database'`
You need to set AUR_CONFIG, as explained in `TESTING`.