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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0005992Talermechant backendpublic2024-01-12 14:06
ReporterFlorian Dold Assigned ToChristian Grothoff  
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityN/A
Status closedResolutionfixed 
Product Versiongit (master) 
Target Version0.7.0Fixed in Version0.7.0 
Summary0005992: merchant and exchange database should have version information for future schema migration support
DescriptionCurrently, there is no way to find out which schema version the exchange/merchant database uses.

There are a variety of approaches to versioning:

a) have a "metadata" table that stores the version number
b) suffix the schema version name to the name of the table
c) use the "CREATE SCHEMA myschema;" mechanism of posgres, which is similar to approach (b) but separates the tables from different schema versions better.
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Christian Grothoff

2019-12-14 23:39

manager   ~0015164

https://gitlab.com/depesz/Versioning seems like a sane way of doing (a).

I also think the suggestion from
https://enterprisecraftsmanship.com/posts/database-versioning-best-practices/
to basically keep all schema changes in immutable ".sql" files makes sense. Doing
this would require modifications to the plugins to load/run ".sql" files instead of
our current SQL-inline-in-C, but at the same time that doesn't seem like a bad idea
anyway.

Christian Grothoff

2019-12-14 23:44

manager   ~0015165

https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SchemaEvolution may also contain a relevant discussion.

Christian Grothoff

2020-01-17 03:22

manager   ~0015284

Documented in 9401b42..5e5c881, implemented in GNUnet 874a69b8f8a31eb5cc608c490478adc57681970b and exchange 4b16198b43ccb63a7efc2c170622a69759f8ed8f. Merchant DB is still pending!

Christian Grothoff

2020-01-24 21:16

manager   ~0015299

Merchant DB versioning has been implemented.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2019-12-12 15:44 Florian Dold New Issue
2019-12-14 23:39 Christian Grothoff Note Added: 0015164
2019-12-14 23:44 Christian Grothoff Note Added: 0015165
2019-12-23 13:41 Christian Grothoff Assigned To => Christian Grothoff
2019-12-23 13:41 Christian Grothoff Status new => assigned
2019-12-23 13:41 Christian Grothoff Target Version => 0.7.1
2020-01-17 03:22 Christian Grothoff Note Added: 0015284
2020-01-17 03:22 Christian Grothoff Category other => merchant Postgres backend (DB)
2020-01-24 21:16 Christian Grothoff Status assigned => resolved
2020-01-24 21:16 Christian Grothoff Resolution open => fixed
2020-01-24 21:16 Christian Grothoff Fixed in Version => 0.7.0
2020-01-24 21:16 Christian Grothoff Note Added: 0015299
2020-01-24 21:16 Christian Grothoff Target Version 0.7.1 => 0.7.0
2020-03-31 16:04 Christian Grothoff Status resolved => closed
2024-01-12 14:06 Christian Grothoff Category merchant Postgres backend (DB) => mechant backend