Re: Data Management export and import for 1.2.x -> 1.3.x ... do I really have to?

[Emmanuel Venisse <em...@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Wendy Smoak <ws...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Emmanuel Venisse
> <em...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The columns order isn't important. They appears in the middle only for a
> > fresh db, right? If it isn't, I don't understand which sql command can be
> > done to insert a column in the middle.
>
> Yes, I was comparing a fresh db from 1.2.2 to a fresh db from 1.3.1.
> The 'new' columns in 1.3.1 are in the middle when compared to the
> 1.2.2 tables, and I was unsure whether just adding them at the end was
> okay.
>
> Thanks for all the other info on liquibase as well!


No problem.

I'm thinking to use liquibase as a maven plugin to run db migration instead
of our actual tool. Liquibase is really a good tool and it is possible to
run some external program as a changeset so we'll can work on datas between
two changeset if necessary. But this discussion is more for the dev list.

Emmanuel