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@@ -469,7 +469,17 @@ generally you want it to notice right away, so that you can test things. Appendix C. Upgrading from previous versions of BugZilla -[This section under construction]. +The developers of BugZilla are constantly adding new tables, columns and fields. +You'll get SQL errors if you just update the code. The strategy to update is +to read the CHANGES file backwards, and apply all of the instructions given, +typically things like: + + ./makeattachmenttable.sh + ./makegroupstable.sh + alter table products add column disallownew tinyint not null; + +Someday someone should write a script that queries the existing database +for all the required columns, and if any are missing, adds them. Appendix D. History |