Obviously I agree it's very hard to design a DB upgrade tool for models you don't know about.
And all those SQL features you don't make use (like me) but hardcore SQL addicts know about. Matthias: What's the input for your tool ? a DB text dump file or the TG SQLObject model ? Tim Lesher wrote: > On 1/10/06, Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>> There is no automated way to do this, because this is a hard thing to >>> do reliably. >>> >> It's just a lot of work (write a parser for SQL's CREATE+ALTER TABLE >> statements, save old and table structure, generate ALTER TABLE >> statements from the difference) >> > > It's not hard to do for your own data model, because you already know > what's there and what needs to be done. > > It's very hard to create a tool that will always do it correctly on > every conceivable data model, on every database that TurboGears > supports. > > -- > Tim Lesher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >
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