| From: | Roberto Mello <rmello(at)cc(dot)usu(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Janning Vygen <vygen(at)gmx(dot)de> |
| Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: thinking about versioning my database schema |
| Date: | 2002-03-04 13:09:03 |
| Message-ID: | 20020304130903.GA24076@cc.usu.edu |
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On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:10:24AM +0100, Janning Vygen wrote:
>
> So i am saving the schema version inside the databse. Is it a good
> idea? or is it nonsens and there is a much better way how to do it?
Yeah, but then you'd have to change your queries to be able to query the
new tables.
> I dont want to recreate the database every time because i want to
> keep my testdata present.
How about a script that dumps your data, dumps your db, reloads the table
definitions, then reloads your data? You could have a table with rows for
every table that would keep track of the current version you have, that
could be updated when this script ran.
-Roberto
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