Recovering from failed/partially applied upgrade

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I attempted to upgrade my Discourse instance, however due to a handful of issues, it seems to have failed in a partially applied state. When running ./launcher rebuild app, I get the following error message, which indicates to me a migration that was already (partially) applied:

I, [2022-03-24T21:13:16.043071 #1]  INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate'
rake aborted!
StandardError: An error has occurred, this and all later migrations canceled:

PG::DuplicateColumn: ERROR:  column "bookmarkable_id" of relation "bookmarks" already exists

Any guidance on if there’s a way to recover from this (or if I need to bite the bullet and do a fresh install) would be appreciated. Thanks!

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You can do a

 ./launcher start app

To start the old container. That’ll get you back up.

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Yep, I’m aware of that (and have done so) - however, I’m wondering what my next move should be as far as upgrading.

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Oh. That wasn’t helpful then :person_shrugging:

I had a similar problem, but it seems unlikely my solution will help you.

You don’t have SKIP_POST_DEPLOYMENT_MIGRATIONS set in your app.yml do you? If so, you need to migrate the database with it set to zero and then rebuild, but I don’t think that’s your issue.

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No, doesn’t look it.

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That’s what I thought. So there might be an actual problem that has to do with being able to migrate from one particular point to the current one. But that’s not supposed to happen.

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Check this out:

I emptied all the tables that were giving me errors (one by one, in the end there were 7), until I could rebuild app without any error.

In your case it seems that the problem is a column:

PG::DuplicateColumn: ERROR: column "bookmarkable_id" of relation "bookmarks" already exists

Maybe you should look for which table it belongs to, to be able to empty it, or you can simply drop that column.

I believe that the problem is in that when migrating partially, those tables are already created, hence it cannot create them again and it returns an error. Perhaps a conditional could be added to this process, so that it does not give errors? (I am not an expert) @pfaffman

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Sounds right, @undasein.

I think that you want to remove the bookmarkable_id column from the bookmarks table. So after you get into the container and into postgres like this:

cd /var/discourse
./launcher enter app
su - postgres
psql

Then you would

ALTER TABLE bookmarks 
DROP COLUMN bookmarkable_id
DROP COLUMN bookmarkable_type;

But taking a database-only backup wouldn’t be a bad idea of the forum is running. If not, you can do a backup with discourse backup after the enter app line above.

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Same issue here! Is this the correct solution to follow?

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That was my guess. You can give it a shot and let us know.

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I’m not discourse savvy.

@sam any ideas how to go forward? Standard install and upgrade turns out to be a nightmare.

Is the above the correct way to fix this issue?

TIA

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didn’t work unfortunately, still getting

PG::DuplicateColumn: ERROR:  column "bookmarkable_id" of relation "bookmarks" already exists

Was there anymore action to take after these commands?

ALTER TABLE bookmarks 
DROP COLUMN bookmarkable_id
DROP COLUMN bookmarkable_type;

Thank you for your assistance

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Hi Nick,
I trying to reproduce this, what is the commit of your instance?
you could try with

version: cd7ce52138bed391d5efc56366e7a6517a6079e7

in your app.yml, that’s 10 days ago, just before the redo of a reverted commit that seems to have had similar issues.

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Morning Ben,

Would it be possible to give me the run through of commands to do this please?

I can update and all that easy but this is the first time something has gone wrong and to be honest I’m totally out of my comfort zone lol

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Could you ./launcher start app and check the installed version in https://your.domain/admin so I can try to retrace your steps. Any plugin ?

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Hi Ben,

Installed Version: 2.9.0.beta2
(5374e587a3)

Installed Plugins:
discourse-reactions
docker_manager
styleguide

Thankyou,
Nick

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./launcher start app
-bash: ./launcher: No such file or directory
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 cd /var/discourse

Before

./launcher start app
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So, i noticed that i had a few ubuntu updates so everything on server is up to date

tried again and still

PG::DuplicateColumn: ERROR:  column "bookmarkable_id" of relation "bookmarks" already exists
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This seems like a likely solution. You should be able to upgrade to this one and maybe then you can get to the current version? Something like that makes sense to me.

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