Question

I’m trying to use the database-migration plugin for Grails, but I’m running into a funky problem with property types of text.

Generating a baseline log is setting the type as text(255), but this is an error because there is no precision. The same happens when I try to modify datatype to text.

changeSet(author: "jgiotta (generated)", id: "1348767652354-2") {
    modifyDataType(columnName: "old_value", newDataType: "text",
        schemaName: "dbo", tableName: "audit_trail")
}

What can I do to avoid this issue?

Answer 1

I solved it with a little bit of additional mapping.

Originally I was only doing:

static mapping = {
    oldValue type: 'text'
    //...
}

What forced the type to at least nvarchar(max) was the following mapping:

static mapping = {
    oldValue type: 'text', sqlType: 'text'
}