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[Siegfried Gevatter <rainct@xxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/10/9 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup@xxxxxxxxx>:
> One thought I did have was to write a general purpose migration tool
> for the DB. This is of course huge over engineering if we only need to
> do this once

I do think this is over-engineering. Database changes are only a few
and easy to do (a few lines like «UPDATE content SET value="x" WHERE
value="y"»), there's no need at all to export the data, create a new
database and import it again.

For backups just doing a copy of the DB is enough, for something more
special-purpose there is the D-Bus API which, oh, surprise, is there
to export data :).

(Hey, if you want to implement it anyways, it's your time, but I
believe we should focus on the really necessary things and not on
developing lots of side stuff which doesn't bring us much further.)

Cheers,

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Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT)
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