import sqlalchemy as sql from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker def upgrade(migrate_engine): meta = sql.MetaData() meta.bind = migrate_engine user_table = sql.Table('user', meta, autoload=True) user_table.c.name.alter(type=sql.String(255)) def downgrade(migrate_engine): meta = sql.MetaData() meta.bind = migrate_engine user_table = sql.Table('user', meta, autoload=True) if migrate_engine.name != 'mysql': # NOTE(aloga): sqlite does not enforce length on the # VARCHAR types: http://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q9 # postgresql and DB2 do not truncate. maker = sessionmaker(bind=migrate_engine) session = maker() for user in session.query(user_table).all(): values = {'name': user.name[:64]} update = (user_table.update(). where(user_table.c.id == user.id). values(values)) migrate_engine.execute(update) session.commit() session.close() user_table.c.name.alter(type=sql.String(64))