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GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL

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Re: GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL

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Post by viraptor »

I used it and it's really impressive. Works as described. The only issue with this is that you can't easily use it without understanding how it works. It's more of a system you have to own rather than a tool you can use, so you can't just point a new person at it and go "just run this".

Re: GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL

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Post by groodt »

viraptor wrote: post #2

I used it and it's really impressive. Works as described. The only issue with this is that you can't easily use it without understanding how it works. It's more of a system you have to own rather than a tool you can use, so you can't just point a new person at it and go "just run this".

I agree. I've used it a lot too, but only after a few test runs against some snapshots to get familiar with the operational aspects of it.

Re: GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL

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Post by timewarrior »

Scarbutt wrote: post #7
pkulak wrote: post #5

Holy crap, an alternative to Percona? Why does MySQL get two awesome tools and Postgres nothing?

mysql is a bigger target market.

We recently started investing in Postgres because of support of JSON fields and nested indexes in those fields. Should we have chosen MySQL?
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