yamltodb - YAML to Database
Name
yamltodb -- generate SQL statements to update a PostgreSQL database to match the schema specified in a YAML file
Synopsys
yamltodb [option...] dbname [spec]
Description
yamltodb is a utility for generating SQL statements to update a PostgreSQL database so that it will match the schema specified in an input YAML formatted specification file.
For example, given the input file shown under dbtoyaml, yamltodb outputs the following SQL statements:
CREATE SCHEMA s1; CREATE TABLE t1 ( c1 integer NOT NULL, c2 smallint, c3 boolean DEFAULT false, c4 text); CREATE TABLE s1.t2 ( c21 integer NOT NULL, c22 character varying(16)); ALTER TABLE s1.t2 ADD CONSTRAINT t2_pkey PRIMARY KEY (c21); ALTER TABLE t1 ADD CONSTRAINT t1_pkey PRIMARY KEY (c1); ALTER TABLE t1 ADD CONSTRAINT t1_c2_fkey FOREIGN KEY (c2) REFERENCES s1.t2 (c21);
Options
yamltodb accepts the following command-line arguments (in addition to the cmdargs):
dbname
Specifies the name of the database whose schema is to analyzed.
spec
Specifies the location of the YAML specification. If this is omitted or specified as a single or double dash, the specification is read from the program's standard input. However, if the --multiple-files option is used, that takes precedence.
Specifies that input should be taken from YAML specification files present in a two-level (metadata) directory tree. See `Multiple File Output` under :doc:`dbtoyaml` for further details.
Compare only a schema matching `schema`. By default, all schemas are compared. Multiple schemas can be compared by using multiple :option:`-n` switches.
Wrap the generated statements in BEGIN/COMMIT. This ensures that either all the statements complete successfully, or no changes are applied.
Execute the generated statements against the database mentioned in **dbname**. This implies the :option:`--single-transaction` option.
When generating SQL, use delimited (quoted) identifiers around reserved words used as identifiers, e.g., a table named "order". Normally, only identifiers with embedded spaces or other disallowed characters are quoted.
Examples
Given a YAML file named moviesdb.yaml, to generate SQL statements to update a database called mymovies:
yamltodb mymovies moviesdb.yaml
To generate the statements as above and immediately update mymovies:
yamltodb mymovies moviesdb.yaml | psql mymovies
or:
yamltodb --update mymovies moviesdb.yaml
To generate the statements directly from the ouput of dbtoyaml (against a different database), with statements enclosed in a single transaction, and save the statements in a file named mymovies.sql:
dbtoyaml devmovies | yamltodb -1 mymovies -o mymovies.sql