Opened 17 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
#3271 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Raise a warning/diff during syncdb if the model changed
| Reported by: | Owned by: | nobody | |
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| Component: | Core (Management commands) | Version: | |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Design decision needed | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
If one changes the model and runs syncdb, the DB tables are not altered and pages raise an error. It would be great if the user was warned about this "error".
One way to do it could be to run inspectdb and diff it with the models and check any differences and print them to the user.
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 17 years ago
comment:2 by , 17 years ago
| Triage Stage: | Unreviewed → Design decision needed |
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This doesn't seem high priority, and I can see problems too. For now, I'll leave open as a decision for someone else.
comment:3 by , 17 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
After nine months with no-one even proposing a patch, I'm going to wontfix this. If somebody has concrete ideas for a safe way to implement it, re-open and attach some code.
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Hm. I can see problems coming out of this;
inspectdbisn't perfect, and on some databases will have particular trouble unearthing foreign-key relations, which means it could end up generating lots of spurious "errors" when nothing has actually changed.