Re: [GENERAL] Schema migration tools?

2008-05-23 Thread Scott Ribe
It's not open source; it's expensive; but the products from Embarcadero work pretty well. -- Scott Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.killerbytes.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.pos

Re: [GENERAL] Schema migration tools?

2008-05-20 Thread Sualeh Fatehi
Christophe, I agree with Dr. DeSoi that it may not always be possible to automate schema transformations. However, if you need to compare the metadata between two databases, the free, open-source SchemaCrawler for SQL Server tool will do this for you. You can take human-readable snapshots of the s

Re: [GENERAL] Schema migration tools?

2008-04-22 Thread Erik Jones
On Apr 22, 2008, at 4:33 PM, John DeSoi wrote: On Apr 22, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Erik Jones wrote: It would be nice if PostgreSQL had some kind of unique reference for the column, but I think columns are just numbered sequentially as they are added. It would also be neat to have a built-in way

Re: [GENERAL] Schema migration tools?

2008-04-22 Thread John DeSoi
On Apr 22, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Erik Jones wrote: It would be nice if PostgreSQL had some kind of unique reference for the column, but I think columns are just numbered sequentially as they are added. It would also be neat to have a built-in way to log the schema changes. It does: log_state

Re: [GENERAL] Schema migration tools?

2008-04-22 Thread Erik Jones
On Apr 22, 2008, at 3:09 PM, John DeSoi wrote: It would be nice if PostgreSQL had some kind of unique reference for the column, but I think columns are just numbered sequentially as they are added. It would also be neat to have a built-in way to log the schema changes. It does: log_state

Re: [GENERAL] Schema migration tools?

2008-04-22 Thread Jonathan Bond-Caron
). From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kerri Reno Sent: April 22, 2008 8:44 AM To: Christophe Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Schema migration tools? Christophe - We use LiquiBase: http://www.liquibase.org/home We don't use it quite the

Re: [GENERAL] Schema migration tools?

2008-04-22 Thread John DeSoi
On Apr 21, 2008, at 10:44 PM, Christophe wrote: I'd like a tool that would automatically create these scripts, and I wondered if anything like this existed. The theory would be that it would consider two databases a and b, and produce the appropriate script to change b's schema to match a

Re: [GENERAL] Schema migration tools?

2008-04-22 Thread Kerri Reno
Christophe - We use LiquiBase: http://www.liquibase.org/home We don't use it quite the same as what you're proposing, but I think you could use it that way. When we found it, we did 'Generate Changelog' to start, then made new changes to the ChangeLog, and applied it to each database as needed.

Re: [GENERAL] Schema migration tools?

2008-04-21 Thread Steve Atkins
On Apr 21, 2008, at 7:44 PM, Christophe wrote: Greetings, We have the traditional three servers: dev --> staging --> production each with a PostgreSQL instance and the same schema, at least over time. Right now, we handle schema migration (updating the schema for new releases) by

Re: [GENERAL] Schema migration tools?

2008-04-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Christophe wrote: Greetings, Does anything like this exist? If not, I might have a new project... Typically new projects are found over at www.pgfoundry.org. :P Joshua D. Drake -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://

[GENERAL] Schema migration tools?

2008-04-21 Thread Christophe
Greetings, We have the traditional three servers: dev --> staging --> production each with a PostgreSQL instance and the same schema, at least over time. Right now, we handle schema migration (updating the schema for new releases) by manually-created scripts that apply the changes