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Rename automatically named foreign keys with Alembic
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:date: 2017-01-02T09:41:23Z
:category: blog
:tags: mysql,development,flask,python
:url: 2017/01/02/rename-automatically-named-foreign-keys-with-alembic/
:save_as: 2017/01/02/rename-automatically-named-foreign-keys-with-alembic/index.html
:status: published
:author: Gergely Polonkai
I have recently messed up my Alembic migrations while modifying my SQLAlchemy models. To start
with, I didnt update the auto-generated migration files to name the indexes/foreign keys a name,
so Alembic used its own naming scheme. This is not an actual problem until you have to modify
columns that have such constraints. I have since fixed this problem, but first I had to find
which column references what (I had no indexes other than primary key back then, so I could go
with foreign keys only). Here is a query I put together, mostly using `this article
<http://www.binarytides.com/list-foreign-keys-in-mysql/>`_.
.. code-block:: sql
SELECT constraint_name,
CONCAT(table_name, '.', column_name) AS 'foreign key',
CONCAT(referenced_table_name, '.', referenced_column_name) AS 'references'
FROM information_schema.key_column_usage
WHERE referenced_table_name IS NOT NULL AND
table_schema = 'my_app';
Now I could easily drop such constraints using
.. code-block:: python
alembic.op.drop_constraint('users_ibfk1', 'users', type_='foreignkey')
and recreate them with
.. code-block:: python
alembic.op.create_foreign_key('fk_user_client', 'users', 'clients', ['client_id'], ['id'])