The Interesting Installation Integer Problem

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 18:38 +0000, Paulo Casanova wrote:
> And why would that be a problem? If all datatypes are equal, no change 
> is needed in the underlying database... I don't get it...

	Because we trigger migration changes based on field changes. You have
to sort of read checksetup a lot to fully understand, but basically we
have certain "upgrade code" that needs to run that wouldn't run.

> As a rule of thum, I'd say 
> checksetup should not drop any fields or tables unless we really know 
> what we're doing (checksetup specific code?)

	Yeah, don't worry -- checksetup will never drop fields unless it's
specifically told to by us the Bugzilla developers. It *may* at some
point print out warnings if your schema differs from the intended schema
in any way, though. :-)

	-Max
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