Re: Is there a way to dump schema to files on disk and keep them in sync - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tim Uckun
Subject Re: Is there a way to dump schema to files on disk and keep them in sync
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Msg-id CAGuHJrPqrSKhYxE+Hw1mOgPuigvF8DKRmgu5wx-itzaXdW_scg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Is there a way to dump schema to files on disk and keep them in sync  (Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>)
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My primary use case for this is for development and experimentation, I
have no intent on using it on production servers :)

I normally use migrations for those.

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 9:04 PM Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/12/20 8:58 PM, Tim Uckun wrote:
> > I want to dump my postgres schema to disk in neat directories like
> > pgadmin presents. Then I want to be able to edit the files and sync
> > changes to the database and ideally if changes were made in the
> > database to sync them back to the disk.
>
> That could get really time- and disk-consuming if one of those "edits" was
> to convert a column in a large 500M row table from numeric to text (or vice
> versa), or add a column to the "middle" of a table.
>
> Tricky to program, too, given all the foreign keys, partitions, etc, etc
> that can be part of a table.
>
> > Is there a tool that does this? Is there a tool that will dump the
> > schema into separate directories and files like pgadmin does?
>
> --
> Angular momentum makes the world go 'round.
>
>



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