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Subject: Re: Best Practices for Managing Schema Changes Dynamically with libpq
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 13:10:05 -0500
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On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 12:44 PM Sasmit Utkarsh <[email protected]>
wrote:
[snip]
> How can we efficiently handle table additions/updates while keeping the
> application and database in sync dynamically?
>
Enumerate all relevant column names in SELECT and INSERT statements. That
way, the application still works when you add columns or alter(*) data
types. Dropping columns will still break your app.
*Altering to from a numeric type to a text type might still kill your app,
if it can't convert the string into your app's int or float type..
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