Re: Open Source tool to deploy/promote PostgreSQL DDL

On 07/11/2018 03:21 PM, Christopher Browne wrote:
> I have built one that I call Mahout
> (https://github.com/cbbrowne/mahout) which has the merit of involving
> just two shell scripts, one of which is an auditing tool (pgcmp).
>
> It implements a "little language" to indicate dependencies between the
> SQL scripts that implement the DDL changes.
>
> The notable thing that I have seen "downthread" that it does not
> attempt to implement is "rollback scripts."  I find that "necessity"
> to be a ruby-on-rails dogma that does not seem to fit what I see
> people doing.

Where I work, the requirement to have rollback scripts is part of the ITIL 
requirement for Changes to have a backout procedure.

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