Upgrade from 3.2.1_01 (clustered) to 3.5.16 is failing due to SQLException

Question

We are currently preparing our production upgrade from Confluence 3.2.1 to 4.3 (via 3.5.16) in our system integration stage. During the migration process we also want to change from the clustered to an unclustered version.

Our first migration step from 3.2.1 to 3.5.16 is failing due to an

contextInitialized 1 errors were encountered during upgrade:

2012-11-12 15:20:07,964 ERROR  main   atlassian.confluence.upgrade.UpgradeLauncherServletContextListener  contextInitialized 1: StatementCallback; uncategorized SQL state  72000 ; error code  1440 ; ORA-01440: column to be modified must be empty to decrease precision or scale

; nested exception is java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01440: column to be modified must be empty to decrease precision or scale

I found one work around here (https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Confluence+Upgrade+Fails+due+to+ORA-01440) which is not applicabel for us, as we have about 50 GB data in the database (13000 users). Is there any other way to get the data migrated?

Rodrigo Girardi Adami · Answer

Hi Uwe, were you able to upgrade the instance? If so, it would be great if you can share with us the results.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

Paul Tempera · Answer

You could try this. You may have the same issue I had. Bad data in your tables. Here is one link that helped. https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/60408/confluence-upgrade-3-2-1_01-to-3-5-problem-with-database?sort=votes and this one. https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Upgrade+or+XML+Backup+Fails+Due+to+Constraint+Violation For the page above. I didn't use delete from content_label where contentid = XXXX;I needed to run delete from BODYCONTENT where CONTENTID = and delete from CONTENT where PREVVER not in (select CONTENTID from CONTENT); Thanks,

Rodrigo Girardi Adami · Answer

Hi Uwe,

I'm not a DBA for Oracle side, but this issue seems to be only correctable by using the workaround number 2 from that Knowledge base article since you come from the version 3.2.

The only problem is the big size of the DB, which will require some space from your server. Of course there could be another possibility to correct this, but then a DBA from Oracle would be more suited to answer this, so I'll leave this question open.

Regards,

Rodrigo