SQLite and multiple renaming or dropColumn ‘s error in laravel 5.0 aritsan migrate

So #HTH

One of my migration scripts in Laravel 5 has 3 dropColumn requests in and 1 rename column. This all works fine with laravel migrations on MySQL and MariaDB, as you would expect.

However once you try to run those same migrations on a mysqlite / sqlite database you may start seeing errors like so

SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1 no such column: XXX (SQL: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE

Now following up the issue on Github it is related to this, https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/2979 but Taylor doesn’t believe it’s a bug, saying,

I would do them in two separate operations.

 The work around unfortunately is to split EACH drop Column and rename into 1 separate migration file each…

Crazy, but tbh. if that’s the worst bug I come across with Laravel 5, I’ll take it.

Author: Dan Course

Dan Course, E-Learning Development at Warwick University (WMG). Agile Scrum trained and full-stack development. Interested in E-learning, Democracy, Politics and Tech. All thoughts are mine and not of my employer.

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