I experience too many unexpected changes during development as it is. :) Having an ORM create more would not be good.
During development I might inadvertently attempt to insert a string into a decimal field. I do dumb stuff like that sometimes, as I think most of us do. Would the schema then change? How would I know? On Feb 1, 9:15 am, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, February 1, 2012 9:02:01 AM UTC-5, Cliff wrote: > > > > insert prompts the creation of the 'name' column in the 'person' table > > > (type is inferred based on the data, and altered if necessary based on > > > subsequent inserts) > > > Wow. I would not be comfortable with this. > > My understanding is that this is only intended for development. Eventually > you figure out what the schema should be and "freeze" it, so no such > alterations happen in production. > > Anthony
