Hi- last night I wanted to change my database name (postgres) and make a couple of small changes.. So, I exported the six tables or so to .csv via the admin pages, then dropped my database, made the change in the DAL connection string, created a new database, and hit go.. That didnt work.. so I changed the migrate flag to True in db.py, that was better. But then when I went to import via the .csv's I had just created, the imports failed. Going directly to postgres and using its \copy function *on the unmodified .csv files* worked fine.. hmmm I then made the changes to the model I wanted, set migrate to True, and ran again.. this time, one of the changes was to my postgres-VIEW- as-table, I got a somewhat misleading error msg, btu checking the postgres logs, quickly found the issue (cant do that with a VIEW) and fixed it manually.. All in all, far less straightforward than I had hoped...
Do the pros here have a sequence for backing up a database and restoring it, with web2py ? also, I am curious about how to move from one data store to another.. thanks in advance -Brian
