I greatly dislike ORMs, but I find myself wanting ORM agnostic SQL migration tools. What do you use to perform RDBMS table migrations outside of an ORM?

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  • dbmate

    :rocket: A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool.

  • migra

    Like diff but for PostgreSQL schemas

  • I really liked the idea proposed in https://github.com/djrobstep/migra but haven’t used it yet.

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  • liquibase

    Main Liquibase Source

  • Also there is https://www.liquibase.org/ with more features than flyway (as far as I remember) but it's much harder to configure and start from scratch then flyway

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