[aerogear-dev] [RFC] UPS DB Migration Strategy

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Douglas Campos <qmx at qmx.me> wrote:

> Howdy!
>
> I've been envisioning a plan for UPS migrations, and would like to get
> some feedback from the community, so here it is:
>
> When there are model changes, it's kinda annoying to generate the sql
> migration files. This is one of the reasons Erik Jan de Wit started
> working to add liquibase to the project, allowing for seamless
> migrations.
>
> I'd like to build upon Erik's initial work and prepare a `ups-migrator`
> distribution:
>
> ups-migrator-VERSION.zip
> `--ups-migrator.jar
> `--ups-migrator-postgresql.properties
> `--ups-migrator-mysql.properties
> `--lib
>    `-- <jdbc drivers>
>          `-- <liquibase & deps>
>
> This migrator tool can be run with plain `java -jar` and deals with all
> the migrations needed up to `VERSION`, which means we would need only
> one migrator tool for both 1.0.x and HEAD.
>


Sounds like a great idea. How do I specify the actual DB that I'd like to
touch during the migration? Do I specify (cmd args?) which of the
properties is picked up ?

-Matthias



>
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>
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