Thanks. It's good to get a little second opinion. I'm sure I'll make the switch to migration tools eventually as things become a little more involved.
Cheers gav On Feb 24, 11:58 am, Mike Ramirez <gufym...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, February 24, 2011 03:48:18 am ggavy wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > if I have a live app running off a postgres db (containing data) > > and I want to make reasonably simple schema (and possibly data > > content) changes, are there any dangers in just using pgadmin (e.g > > adding a column) as opposed to using some type of migration software, > > e.g. south. I'd keep my models.py up-to-date with any changes I make > > to the database (in case of future uses of the app). I haven't seen > > anything online warning me not to do it, but the separation worries me > > slightly > > > Thanks > > prior to the migration systems (south/evolution) and even after that for > awhile, it was the defualt way, to manage it manually. The migration tools > just make it easier. > > As long as you keep your table and model definitions, and create/insert/update > statements all in line, it's safe. > > Personally,I'm with all the others and suggest you use migration tools, unless > this is a one off and not going to be doing this a lot, Then I do find it just > faster and easier to do it manually. > > Mike. > > -- > Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic. > -- E.F. Benson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
