[support] Upgrading from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7

[Earnie Boyd]

Ok, well, it still exists in 7.14. :(  I'll try to dig up the closed issue.

Thanks,
Earnie

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann
<nan_wich at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Earnie, that sounds like what 7.8 was supposed to fix. There was a long
> issue on the core queue about it.
>
> Nancy
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>
> ________________________________
> From: Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net>
> To: support at drupal.org
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 4:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [support] Upgrading from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Earnie Boyd
> <earnie at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> I have noticed on a few occasions that when upgrading from Drupal 6 to
>> Drupal 7 when running update.php things seem to go alright with the
>> first update.php.  However, if you execute update.php again you'll
>> have update items that did not complete and will not complete until
>> you fix the code.  In particular there are some db_insert() queries
>> that will fail due to duplicate entries for the data being inserted.
>> I have found these in both modules/system/system.install and
>> modules/block/block.install.  The simplest resolution to these is to
>> modify those files and wrap the insert with a try {} catch() {} block
>> similar to shown in the api documentation[1] except when you catch the
>> event you need to continue on.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes%21database%21database.inc/group/database/7
>>
>
> Another thing I find on occasion is an error indicating the 'language'
> field in the node table doesn't have a default.  Going to the DB and
> supplying a default resolves the issue but is that the correct thing
> to do?  I do not have the locale module enabled so there is only the
> default or undefined language.  I am at a loss at trying to find an
> issue that might exist already for this at issues/drupal.  Does anyone
> know of one that might be a good fit for this?
>
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