Re: thinking about versioning my database schema

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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