From: | Tim Allen <tim(at)proximity(dot)com(dot)au> |
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To: | Mark Dexter <MDEXTER(at)dexterchaney(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Version Control Software for Database Objects |
Date: | 2005-01-14 02:06:58 |
Message-ID: | 41E72942.9060807@proximity.com.au |
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Mark Dexter wrote:
> We maintain multiple versions of our application's database and we are
> looking for version control software to help us automate this.
> Specifically, we would like to have a program that automatically tracks
> all changes to the database (tables, views, functions, etc.) and assists
> with updating customers' databases from one version to the next.
>
> Does anyone know of such a program that works with PostgreSQL? Thanks
> for your help.
Assuming you mean version control of the _schema_, rather than the data
therein, then no, I don't know of any such program available. However,
it's not too hard to do it yourself, which is what we've done. Create a
table which has only one row, containing a schema version number, and
build some constant into your application which has the same number -
the application should check the database schema number on startup and
complain loudly if the two don't match. Every time you release a new
version of the application that has a schema change, then both increment
the schema number and write a script that will perform the schema update
from version n to version n + 1. If you name your scripts in a
consistent way, it's not hard to then write a script that compares the
current schema version at a site with that expected by the new
application version, and incrementally runs each update script.
Tim
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