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Migrate postgresql database to uuid in Ruby On Rails

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I am using rails 3.1 and ruby 1.9.3,Now i want to use uuid concept in rails 3 for existing data

so I did like :-

create_table :posts, :id => false do |t|
 t.string :uuid, :limit => 36, :primary => true
end

ActiveRecord::Base.class_eval do

# old rails versions
set_primary_key 'uuid'

before_create :generate_uuid
def generate_uuid
self.id = UUIDTools::UUID.random_create.to_s
end
end

This is working for new data,now i want to migrate existing data with relation.for uuid they are using datatype as string,in postgresql the data type used for primary_key and foreign key is integer ,so if i am trying to change foreign key integer to string it is throwing error. Can someone please tell me some example,how to do this.

posted Oct 25, 2013 by Sumit Pokharna

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1 Answer

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By default, a table on PostgreSQL does not register UUID...
It might work only for new tables you create, because to Postgres use UUID you need say it when creating the table... for existing ones, it might not happen because the table on PostgreSQL may not have been created with the option to use Uuids.

answer Oct 25, 2013 by Deepankar Dubey
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I was reading the docs for primary key on postgresql and I saw that there was a way to add a custom stored procedure that returns a UUID. There is a test case as well that uses a custom uuid generator

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