Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

#27417 closed Bug

Change case on field causes invalid rename on Oracle backend migration — at Initial Version

Reported by: Vackar Afzal Owned by: nobody
Component: Migrations Version: 1.9
Severity: Normal Keywords: Migrations, Oracle, DB, Rename
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Given the following class

class MyModel(models.model):
    somefield = models.CharField(max_length=100)

if I rename 'somefield' to 'someField' and run make migrations, it will generate a migrations that will rename 'somefield' to 'someField'

On case insensitive backends like oracle, this will result in the following invalid SQL being generated.

alter table mymodel rename somefield to someField;

In cases like this, it should simply generate no SQL.

The other option is when prompted for 'did you rename field x to y' , you can say no, which will result in a drop column followed by an add column, but this will result in all of the existing data in the column being lost, less than ideal.

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