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| 477 | 134 | |
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pg-osc
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Pgroll: zero-downtime, undoable, schema migrations for Postgres
Great to see more innovation in this space! How does this compare to?
https://github.com/shayonj/pg-osc
- Want to avoid MySQL but find PlanetScale really appealing
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Changing Tires at 100mph: A Guide to Zero Downtime Migrations
Postgres has some less robust tooling, at least both of these carry the "experimental" tag:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29825520
https://github.com/shayonj/pg-osc
But, still, they do it for you.
- Alter PostgreSQL tables without locks and downtime
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pg-osc: Zero downtime non blocking schema changes in PostgreSQL
You can also try it out, Github: https://github.com/shayonj/pg-osc
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Show HN: Zero-downtime PostgreSQL migrations for Ruby on Rails
This is very cool! I no longer work on Rails on daily basis, but would have loved to have this.
I built something similar called `pg-osc` / `pg-online-schema-change` for PostgreSQL workloads. It does zero downtime migrations using triggers and shadow table.
Github: https://github.com/shayonj/pg-osc.
Blog: https://www.shayon.dev/post/2022/47/pg-osc-zero-downtime-sch...
Also love that this is written in Ruby :). Going to check it out on some side projects.
departure
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Changing Tires at 100mph: A Guide to Zero Downtime Migrations
At least for Rails there are several gems available (ie https://github.com/WeTransfer/ghost_adapter or https://github.com/departurerb/departure) that seamlessly hook into the existing migration system and will run all eligible migrations through gh-ost or pt-osc as needed. You're right that it's not free but it isn't all that far off either.
That said, online schema migrations are a specialized tool designed for very big tables that take hours to run an ALTER TABLE on. If all your tables are small enough that alterations take less than a second or so, don't bother and just block the table for a bit. It's fine.
What are some alternatives?
pg-online-schema-change - Easy CLI tool for making zero downtime schema changes and backfills in PostgreSQL [Moved to: https://github.com/shayonj/pg-osc]
reshape - An easy-to-use, zero-downtime schema migration tool for Postgres
safe-pg-migrations - Make your PostgreSQL migrations safe
data-migrate - Migrate and update data alongside your database structure.
ghost_adapter - Run ActiveRecord migrations through gh-ost
tusker - PostgreSQL migration management tool
janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm
django-pg-zero-downtime-migrations - Django postgresql backend that apply migrations with respect to database locks
litestream - Streaming replication for SQLite.
pgroll - PostgreSQL zero-downtime migrations made easy
gh-ost - GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL