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

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: Is there a way to dump schema to files on disk and keep them in sync
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Msg-id b5a69b01-abc8-dced-2d82-866f476934a9@aklaver.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  (Benedict Holland <benedict.m.holland@gmail.com>)
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On 12/13/20 10:03 AM, Benedict Holland wrote:
> You want Alembic and an afternoon of python writing. You just described 
> an ORM.

In other words out of the frying pan and into the fire.

> 
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 12:53 PM Tomas Vondra 
> <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com <mailto:tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     On 12/13/20 6:34 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>      > On 12/12/20 6:58 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.
>      >>
>      >> Is there a tool that does this? Is there a tool that will dump the
>      >> schema into separate directories and files like pgadmin does?
>      >
>      > pgAdmin does not create directories, it just organizes the
>     contents of
>      > the system catalogs into GUI elements.
>      >
>      > For schema management I would suggest a tool like the one I use
>      > Sqitch(https://sqitch.org/ <https://sqitch.org/>). It will
>     organize the process of schema
>      > creation and management.
>      >
> 
>     Yeah, that was my thought too. Or maybe look at the other schema
>     versioning tools available - we have a list on the wiki:
> 
>     https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Change_management_tools_and_techniques
>     <https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Change_management_tools_and_techniques>
> 
>     I'm sure it's incomplete, but it's helpful nevertheless.
> 
> 
>     regards
> 
>     -- 
>     Tomas Vondra
>     EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com <http://www.enterprisedb.com>
>     The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
> 
> 


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