Re: One-time keyword substitution

Hi Thorsten,

thanks for your answer. And as you already have guessed, the file shall
be used to contain al necessary changes to the database.

The current problem we have, is updating the patch file from
bugfix-branches and merging it into the trunk and also update it in the
trunk itself, while having to maintain a valid order to apply the SQL
patches. My approach was to use the revision number as some kind of index.

Using separate files would be another approach, but it still has the
problem of naming them properly to form a timeline without much effort
to recognize the order for the deployer.

Regards,
  Philipp

Am 10.01.2011 16:15, schrieb Thorsten Schöning:
> Guten Tag Philipp Leusmann,
> am Montag, 10. Januar 2011 um 15:52 schrieben Sie:
>
>> On commit, the file would change to
>> Changes for Rev. 123:
>> CREATE TABLE FOO;
>> Changes for Rev. 124 :
>> DROP * FROM FOO;
> Should this become some kind of changelog or is this supposed to be the
> SQL to change your database to reflect the most current version? In
> the latter case, I would suggest another approach: Don't put
> everything in one file but create a directory like "updates" or else
> and store every change needed to the database as one file with a
> version number. Each file can then be documented on it's own. But you
> don't get something like a changelog, in my opinion this should be
> better generated directly from the log, and I wouldn't recommend using
> svn version numbers, but like in applications something more abstract
> that fits your needs.
>
> We for example just number our database scheme like svn does with it's
> content: We have version 1, 2 ... to n of our database, each version
> has it's own update file as the changes needed to get from one version
> to another and is documented using Doxygen/Javadoc-style syntax.
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
>
> Thorsten Schöning
>

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