How can make a change to the database with Prisma.js without having to reset the whole thing?
if I have used this command
npx prisma migrate dev --name role-makeOptional-NormalizedName
I will lose all of the data in my database but I don't lose my data.
In my case I wanted to change String to String? in schema.prisma file
NormalizedName String? #unique #db.VarChar(64)
Is there a proper command to avoid losing the data?
Go into your schema and make the change:
NormalizedName String #unique #db.VarChar(64)
NormalizedName String? #unique #db.VarChar(64)
Then create a draft migration:
$ npx prisma migrate dev --name migration-name --create-only
Then edit the migration in SQL (this allow null values ie optional)
ALTER TABLE myTable ALTER COLUMN myColumn {DataType} NULL;
OR Postgres
ALTER TABLE myTable ALTER COLUMN myColumn DROP NOT NULL;
etc.
Then apply the modified SQL:
$ npx prisma migrate dev
I hope this works for you :)
In a development environment, Prisma Migrate sometimes prompts you to reset the database. Resetting drops and recreates the database, which results in data loss. The database is reset when:
You call prisma migrate reset explicitly
You call prisma migrate dev and Prisma Migrate detects drift in the database or a migration history conflict
I'm not sure why Prisma thinks that your change is breaking, but there is probably no other way to make schema change without data loss.
To recreate your database data consider using seeding script
If you are prototyping, consider using the db push command, although it will still result in data reset if Prisma considers that the change is breaking.
I ran into a similar issue. What happened was that an error occurred during one of my migrations and because of that it puts prisma into an error state. Prisma doesn't want to run any new migrations while in this error state.
To solve it:
Removed the broken migration folder that was auto generated inside /prisma/migrations
Remove the broken row that is created inside the _prisma_migrations table in your database
I have created my first backend server using node, express, sequelize and nodemon. I have also set-up the tables I want and initialise the data I want inputted into set tables when it runs (to save me time inputting it again). There is also separate data that I have entered manually on the pgamdin browser and other data I have entered via the CRUD functions. At the minute I am unable to enter large volumes of data as my tables keep flagging errors and it looks like they are being overwritten.
I am having trouble getting my server to run stable and I wasn't sure if it is related to the below bit of code in my server.js file. Does the 'force true' mean that the existing table data will be overwritten each time the server is run or do I need to add a "if tables exist" type function? if I was to add say a foreign key would the whole table be overwritten?
I assumed the best practice was to have the code for creating my tables and I have previously created my own tables on phpmyadmin when I used PHP. However as it is my first time creating a backend server and using sequelize ORM and don't want to keep losing the data I have entered.
db.sequelize.sync({ force: true})
.then(() => {
console.log(`Drop and resync database with { force: true } `)
initial();
});
You are using {force: true} which is equivalent to DROP TABLE IF EXISTS. So whenever you restart your server it drops your existing table along with data. So, if you don't want to lose your data, I suggest you remove {force: true}
the {force: true } creates a clean state whenever you restart so it is expected to see your data goes away. This sometimes works in development when you are testing out things and you might change your schema as you are developing the application but not ideal for production.
You could disable it from the first place or you can add a checker when you are in production mode to not drop your tables.
here is a good example:
if (process.env.NODE_ENV == "production") {
throw new Error("Forced sync is disabled in production");
// do non force sync in here
}
I'm wondering if there is a way to have Sequelize append the database name to a specific query.
When Sequelize runs a query it looks like this:
SELECT "desired_field" FROM "user_account" AS "user_account" WHERE "user_account"."username" = 'jacstrong' LIMIT 1;
And it returns nothing.
However when I run a manual query from the command line it returns the data I want.
SELECT "desired_field" FROM database_name."user_account" AS "user_account" WHERE "user_account"."username" = 'jacstrong' LIMIT 1;
Is there any way to make Sequelize do this?
Note: Everything is running fine in my production environment, but I exported the production db and ran pg_restore on my local machine and the application isn't connecting to it correctly.
i do this all the time.... before you do the backup make sure you tick the Dump Options --> Do Not Save --> Owner to yes.... Sometimes mine still looks like it fails but really it doesn't... i also don't bother dropping the whole database all the time, i just drop the schema i am restoring... so in reality you could just go ahead and create your database locally with whatever credentials your dev environment is using and just drop the desired schema/schemas and restore the db with no owner when you wanna blow your data away
The Situation
I recently started working on a new project using nodejs. I have a background of using Python/Django and C#/.NET (not a huge fan of the latter). Node is awesome, but I must say I miss the ease of building models and automating migrations in Django. I am currently using the AdonisJS framework which leverages Knex. Knex is a powerful library, but the migrations all need to be manually built. Additionally, the AdonisJS ORM that manages the Models is independent of Knex (migration manager). You also do not define field attributes on the Models, which can have benifits for dynamically doing things in the front and back end. All things considered, there is a lot of room for human error, miscommunication and a boat load more typing required. I know the the hot thing these days is to keep it loose and fast, but for this specific project, I am looking for a bit more structure than loosely defined models.
Current State
What I have landed on is building a new Class called tableModel and a field class to define the fields within table model. I have already completed this and I am successfully writing the migration files leveraging mustache. I plan on also automatically writing the Models which I shouldn't have a problem with (fingers crossed).
The Problem
Here is where it gets a little tough and where I need help...I need to track what has been added or removed via migration so I can effectively write ups and downs as the tableModels change over time.
So let's say I add a "tableModel" which creates a migration to create table Foo with fields {id (bigint), user_id(int), name(string255)}
Later I want to add a field called description so I would simply add it to my "tableModel" and then run a build command which would build out the migration.
How do I check what has already been created though so I only do an up() for description?
Then I want to remove the name field so I mark it out in my "tableModel" and run a build migration command. How do I check what has been migrated that now needs to be added in to the down().
Edit: I would add a remove field to the up and the corresponding roll back to the down.
Bonus Round
Let's say I want to change user_id from an int to a bigint, because who makes a foreign key just an int? How do I check not just what needs to be added to the up and down, but also checks if I need to change a property on a field.
Edit: would just write the up. and a corresponding roll back to the down
The Big Question
Basically, how do I define dirty "tableModels" classes
Possible Solution?
I am thinking that maybe I should capture some type of registry or snapshot and then run the comparison when building the migrations and or models, then recapture/snapshot. If this is the route, should I store in a json file, write this to the DB itself, or is there another/better option.
If I create the tableModel instances as constants, could I actually write back to the JS file and capture the snapshot as an attribute? IF this is an option, is Node's file system the way to go and what's the best way to do this? Node keep suprising me so I wouldn't be baffled if any of these are an option.
Help!
If anyone has gone down this path before or knows of any tools I could leverage, I would greatly appreciate it and thank you in advance. Also, if I am headed in a completely wrong direction, then please let me know, I both handle and appreciate all types of feedback.
Example
Something to note, when I define the "tableModel" for a given migration or model, it is an instance of the class, I am not creating an extended class since this is not my orm.
class tableModel {
constructor(tableName, modelName = tableName, fields = []) {
this.tableName = tableName
this.modelName = modelName
this.fields = fields
}
// Bunch of other stuff
}
fooTableModel = new tableModel('fooTable', 'fooModel', fields = [
new tableField.stringField('title'),
new tableField.bigIntField('related_user_id'),
new tableField.textField('description','Testing Default',false,true)
]
)
which equates to:
tableModel {
tableName: 'fooTable',
modelName: 'fooModel',
fields:
[ stringField {
name: 'title',
type: 'string',
_unique: false,
allow_null: null,
fieldAttributes: {},
default_value: null },
bigIntField {
name: 'related_user_id',
type: 'bigInteger',
_unique: false,
allow_null: null,
fieldAttributes: {},
default_value: 0 },
textField {
name: 'description',
type: 'text',
_unique: false,
allow_null: true,
fieldAttributes: {},
default_value: 'Testing Default' } ]
You have the up and down notation mixed up. Those are for migrating the "latest" (runs the up function) and doing rollbacks (runs the down function). Up and down to not relate to dropping or adding table columns.
The migrations up is for any change, and the down is to reverse those changes. So if you wanted to drop a column from some table, you write the command in the up, then write the opposite in the down (you'd add it back in...), such that you can "rollback" and the change is effectively reversed. You have to be careful with such things though, as you can put yourself in a situation where you actually lose data.
Want to add a column? Write it in the up, and drop the column in the down.
One of the major points behind the migrations mechanism is to track the state of changes of your database, as time goes forward. So generally, if you created a table in some migration, then a day or so later you realize you need to drop/add columns, you normally don't go back and edit the existing migration, especially if the migration has already been run. You'd just write a new migration to drop/add your column.
Since you're using knex, there are a couple "knex" tables that get created. By default the one you're looking for is knex_migrations, unless someone specifically modified the settings to change the name of it. This table holds all the migrations that have run against your DB, per batch. From the CLI, assuming you have knex.js installed globally, you can run knex migrate:latest, and that will push all the migrations that exist in your directory to the target database, if they have not yet been run. It does this by way of examining that knex_migrations table. If you roll a change and don't like it, and assuming you've properly done the down function, you can invoke knex migrate:rollback to reverse the change. If there are 3 migration files that have NOT yet been run, invoking knex migrate:latest will run all 3 of those migration files under a new batch #, which is 1 higher than the most recent batch number. Conversely, if you invoke a knex migrate:rollback, it will find the highest batch number (there could be more than 1 migration in a batch...), and invoke the down function on all those files, effectively rollback those changes.
All that said, knex is a "query builder" tool. It's got a ton of helper functions to help build the sql for you. Personally, I find this to be a major distraction. Why spend hours on hours figuring out all the helper functions when I can just go crank out raw SQL and run that. Thus, that's what we've done in our system. we use knex.raw('') and write our own DDL and DML. It works great and does exactly what we need it to. We don't need to go figure out the magic of the query building.
The short answer is that knex will automatically know what has and has not been run for you (again, via that knex_migrations table it creates for you...).
Things can get weird though when it start involving git and different branches. I recommend that if you're writing migrations on some branch, and you need to go do other work, always remember to first perform a rollback of any migrations you've done in that branch BEFORE switching branches. Otherwise you will be in weird DB states that don't coincide with the application code.
I would personally just deal with updating models independently of writing migrations. For example, if I'm adding a description column to some table, then I probably want to manually update the ORM to reflect the change of the new db schema. Generally, I've found trying to use a tool that automagically does that for you (rather, if I change the orm, stuff happens to write all the underlying sql...) usually winds me up in a heap of trouble and I just spend more time trying to un-fudge stuff. But, that's just my 2 cents :)
Here is where it gets a little tough and where I need help...I need to track what has been added or removed via migration so I can effectively write ups and downs as the tableModels change over time.
You could store changes in a DB/txt file and those can act as snapshots. So when you want to rollback to a particular migration, you would find the changes (up/down) made for that mutation and adjust accordingly.
Later I want to add a field called description so I would simply add it to my "tableModel" and then run a build command which would build out the migration. How do I check what has already been created though so I only do an up() for description?
Here you either call the database itself directly and check what fields have already been created. If a field is already their and the attributes are the same, you can either ignore it or stop the transaction all together.
Bonus Round Let's say I want to change user_id from an int to a bigint, because who makes a foreign key just an int? How do I check not just what needs to be added to the up and down, but also checks if I need to change a property on a field.
Again, call the DB itself on the table in question. I know the SQL call would be:
describe [table_name];
After reading the end, I think you answered this yourself, but I think capturing these changes would work best in a NoSql database since you're using Node or PostGres with it's json field.
I am new to CouchDB / PouchDB and until now I somehow could manage the start of it all. I am using the couchdb-python library to send initial values to my CouchDB before I start the development of the actual application. Here I have one database with templates of the data I want to include and the actual database of all the data I will use in the application.
couch = couchdb.Server()
templates = couch['templates']
couch.delete('data')
data = couch.create('data')
In Python I have a loop in which I send one value after another to CouchDB:
value = templates['Template01']
value.update({ '_id' : 'Some ID' })
value.update({'Other Attribute': 'Some Value'})
...
data.save(value)
It was working fine the whole time, I needed to run this several times as my data had to be adjusted. After I was satisfied with the results I started to create my application in Javascript. Now I synced PouchDB with the data database and it was also working. However, I found out that I needed to change something in the Python code, so I ran the first python script again, but now I get this error:
couchdb.http.ResourceConflict: (u'conflict', u'Document update conflict.')
I tried to destroy() the pouchDB database data and delete the CouchDB database as well. But I still get this error at this part of the code:
data.save(value)
What I also don't understand is, that a few values are actually passed to the database before this error comes. So some values are saved() into the db.
I read it has something to do with the _rev values of the documents, but I cannot get an answer. Hope someone can help here.