From: | Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com> |
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To: | Kenneth Downs <ken(at)secdat(dot)com> |
Cc: | Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: best practice in upgrading db structure |
Date: | 2006-05-17 08:53:40 |
Message-ID: | 1147856020.17461.241.camel@coppola.muc.ecircle.de |
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> I will ask, though, why use XML/XSL, why not use a format that lets
> you load the data to tables, then you do a huge number of tricks with
> it prior to generating the DDL, not the least of which is diff'ing
> current structure to see what needs to be changed.
>
Well, XML/XSLT is indeed not the best for this purpose, but I didn't
know that when I first implemented it :-)
Next time I'll use something else.
> Anyway, our system uses a format that looks something like CSS, it is
> documented here:
>
> http://docs.secdat.com/index.php?gppn=Database+Specifications
>
I agree that the CSS-like style is more readable than XML, but the other
DB maintainers here had expressed their desire to have it SQL-like :-)
I have no problems with XML either, but not all are happy with it...
Cheers,
Csaba.
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