[mythtv-users] Upgrade disaster. Thread 1: mythconverg

[Tim Litwiller]

did you run the setup program  mythtvsetup or whatever your distribution 
calls it - it should upgrade the database for you.

If you haven't done it - that should take care of this and the possibly 
the other problem you posted.

Martin Brown wrote:

> I decided to upgrade my OS from 2.4 to 2.6 and MythTV from 0.16 to 
> 0.17. I'm hoping my system will one day work as well as it did back in 
> the Good Ol Days...
>
> Problem 1: 0.17 mythconverg "recorded" table has some new columns.
>
> I want to save my previous recorded shows so had to manually add some 
> data to each row of "recorded" so that I could reload the data. No 
> doco on what to put in the new rows but they don't allow NULLs so I 
> just stuck in 0's.
>
> Surely standard procedure for a database schema change is to either 
> document how to migrate the data or provide a simple utility to do this?
>
> Martin Brown
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