Exactly, yes
ChatGPT and Chat2db are your personal assistants that need to guide you through this.
You had a really broken database
You tried to upgrade using their help
You tried to compare “broken” with “1.6.2” (which is “recent”)
The ip_versions table hasn’t been updated
some of the tables aren’t in the 1.6.2 structure yet (ip_invoices)
Hello ChatGPT, this is my current structure and this is what it should be, give me SQL statements to bring "current" to the correct structure.
At least 1 improvement is missing, which is changing the `payment_method` field in `ip_invoices`
Which other improvements are missing?
The ultimate goal is to just have a 1.6.2 database, so “broken” should have been improved by ChatGPT to be 1.6.2, including the ip_versions table.
Chat gpt replied…
Thanks for sharing the full set of auto-increment modifications and index updates across your tables. Here’s a quick overview of what you’ve done:
Key Changes:
Auto-increment Values: You’ve updated all the relevant tables to make their primary key columns (id-type columns) auto-incrementing. This is essential for ensuring new records get unique identifiers automatically. Examples:
ip_clients.client_id
ip_invoices.invoice_id
ip_quotes.quote_id
And many others.
Indexes:
You’ve added primary keys for the majority of the tables and set up relevant indexes, including composite indexes like the one on ip_user_clients(user_id, client_id).
This is crucial for performance, especially for lookup and join operations across these tables.
Considerations:
Foreign Key Constraints: Similar to before, you may want to review and consider converting your tables to InnoDB if they need foreign key constraints for integrity, as MyISAM doesn’t support them.
Indexes: Ensure that indexing is balanced. For instance, creating indexes on fields like timestamp in ip_sessions can improve query performance for large datasets, but it’s also important to consider the storage overhead of too many indexes.
Backup and Testing: As you’re applying these structural changes, ensure you take regular backups and test queries to verify that these changes enhance your system’s performance without unintended side effects.
Next Steps:
Would you like assistance with:
Optimizing further queries based on this schema?
Converting any tables to InnoDB with foreign key constraints?
Exploring potential migrations or database upgrades?
Feel free to let me know how you’d like to proceed!
I’m sorry, can you ask ChatGPT please?
There are 2 “Change” links on that structure page.
The one at the bottom (the one you clicked) and the one in the same row as the field you want to change.
ChatGPT can read images
i always press Ctrl+F in my beowser if i want to find anything or if i’m overwhelmed
That error message is from clicking the bottom change before selecting the “null” rows then not refreshing. Oh so I think I think you mean select the payment method row 17? I get it now.
Zero changes because I manually changed 0 to null already as seen in the structure screen grab above. Correct? Or perhaps not, as I Just checked a clean new 1.6.2 install and that payment row is also set to 0
I have rolled this back so i don’t mess this up. We never set or used payment methods in our ancient database so (perhaps that is why it matches the clean install).
Just as a check in the meantime I compared the current updated database structure to a clean new blank install of 1.6.2 Invoice plane. With your original chat gpt statement of updating the database
This is what chat gpt said…
Upgrade Process Recap
Here’s your current status in checklist form:
Task
Status
Exported old DB (1.4.6)
Imported latest schema (1.6.2)
Applied all AUTO_INCREMENT
Applied and verified all indexes
Manually compared with Mdl_setup.php
Aligned schema structures
Final Wrap-Up Steps
Here’s a tailored checklist to finish strong:
1. Data Migration Validation
Check each table where columns were added or changed (e.g., quote_discount_amount, client_phone).
Run count comparisons: old vs new.
Spot-check rows with NULL values in new columns.
Want a SQL script to auto-compare row counts and flag missing data?
2. Foreign Key Constraints (Optional)
InvoicePlane doesn’t always enforce foreign keys directly in MySQL, but you can optionally add them now for integrity.
Leave everything as it is right now.
Backup, backup, backup
If you compare broken with clean they should be equal.
Now it’s time to update ip_versions
update ip_versions table
Each of the files in /application/modules/setup/sql should be in ip_versions
Because in all the other instances of InvoicePlane:
the setup/upgrade_tables gets executed
the file in those directories get executed
after execution they end up in ip_versions that they were executed
^^ you’ve done that manually.
manual testing
Since you’re still in your test environment you can test out and click around and see if everything works.
When something doesn’t work, especially the database errors, throw them at ChatGPT.
missing columns
If columns are missing, prepare the screenshot, because we’ll add the column in phpmyadmin.
Take a look at the clean database, look for thd column that’s missing in broken
Key Changes:
Considerations:
Next Steps:
Upgrade Process Recap
Final Wrap-Up Steps
1. Data Migration Validation
Want a SQL script to auto-compare row counts and flag missing data?
2. Foreign Key Constraints (Optional)
3. Functionality Testing
Want to Go Further?