Issue 2550975
Created on 2018-07-25 19:40 by joseph_myers, last changed 2018-09-16 16:25 by joseph_myers.
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msg6131 | Author: [hidden] (joseph_myers) | Date: 2018-07-25 19:40 | |
We need to make sure that an existing instance, set up with Python 2, including UTF-8 data in the database not just plain ASCII, works correctly when used with Python 3 - that the database content format is properly compatible across Python versions - with every database back end (the reverse, creating with Python 3 and using with Python 2, may be less important, but is still desirable - if someone has problems updating their instance to Python 3, they should be able to move back to Python 2 without the stored data being incompatible). anydbm may have the highest risk of problems here, as it uses the Python marshal module in storing data. |
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msg6208 | Author: [hidden] (rouilj) | Date: 2018-08-19 00:26 | |
Question would doing a export/import to handle the upgrade from a python2 to python3 be acceptable or doable? My thought is upgrading from python2 to python3 could be handled like we do a database change. Export the tracker using the python 2 instance, then import the data into a python3 based tracker. For large trackers this may not be a good mechanism, but for testing purposes I think it should work. -- rouilj |
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msg6209 | Author: [hidden] (joseph_myers) | Date: 2018-08-19 00:31 | |
I'd hope that for the RDBMS backends, the database content is already compatible in fact, but it needs to be tested (with non-ASCII characters). For anydbm problems are likely and it might be necessary to use export/import. For that we need to fix issue 2550976 (make Roundup running under Python 3 read and write CSV files compatible with those used by Roundup running under Python 2, because they aren't compatible for non-ASCII characters in strings at present). |
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msg6231 | Author: [hidden] (joseph_myers) | Date: 2018-09-02 23:55 | |
My fix for CSV import/export compatibility also includes some changes to make the journal representation in RDBMS databases with Python 3 compatible with that used with Python 2. Given that, some limited testing indicates sqlite databases are compatible between Python versions (including with non-ASCII characters in the main data and the journal), *if* you delete db/otks and db/sessions (anydbm files) when changing Python version. anydbm databases are not compatible and probably can't be compatible. It's plausible that, given those changes, mysql and postgresql databases are also compatible (including with non-ASCII characters), but that still needs to be tested. |
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msg6250 | Author: [hidden] (joseph_myers) | Date: 2018-09-16 16:25 | |
For postgresql, existing Python 2 databases work fine with Python 3. For mysql, they don't. I've committed a patch to ensure both database and connection encoding are set to UTF-8 with mysql with Python 3, to allow non-ASCII characters to work properly in that case. But existing Python 2 databases use whatever the default MySQL encoding is, but store UTF-8 bytes incorrectly labelled as being in that encoding (if for any reason the default database encoding at the time of creation differs from the default connection encoding, things would be worse that than). So I've documented in upgrading.txt that for mysql you need an export/import to move to Python 3 (though it would be good to have a more efficient way of changing the recorded encoding of the data in the database without actually carrying out a character set conversion it, so as not to need such an export/import). |
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Date | User | Action | Args |
2018-09-16 16:25:06 | joseph_myers | set | status: new -> fixed resolution: fixed messages: + msg6250 |
2018-09-02 23:55:46 | joseph_myers | set | messages: + msg6231 |
2018-08-19 00:31:55 | joseph_myers | set | messages: + msg6209 |
2018-08-19 00:26:01 | rouilj | set | nosy:
+ rouilj messages: + msg6208 |
2018-07-26 10:42:00 | joseph_myers | set | keywords: + python3 |
2018-07-25 19:40:48 | joseph_myers | create |