How do you handle DDL changes in general? I would treat stored procedures the same way. For instance Ruby on Rails has "database migrations" where you write one method to apply the DDL change and another to revert it, like this: def up add_column :employees, :manager_id, :integer add_index :employees, :manager_id end def down remove_column :employees, :manager_id end You could create stored procedures like: def up connection.execute <<-EOQ CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ... EOQ end or even: def up connection.execute File.read(Rails.root + 'db' + 'procs' + 'my_function.sql') end That's how I'd do it in Rails. Maybe your development context has something similar? Paul On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/10/2014 05:03 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: >> >> On 11/12/14 13:53, Israel Brewster wrote: >>> >>> Currently, when I need to create/edit a stored procedure in >>> Postgresql, my workflow goes like the following: >>> >>> - Create/edit the desired function in my "DB Commands" text file >>> - Copy and paste function into my development database >>> - Test >>> - repeat above until it works as desired >>> - Copy and paste function into my production DB. >>> >>> To edit an existing function, the workflow is basically the same as >>> above, but I first have to find the function in my file. >>> >>> This whole workflow just feels kludgy to me. Is there a better way? Or >>> is that essentially the recommended procedure? Thanks. >>> ----------------------------------------------- >>> Israel Brewster >>> Systems Analyst II >>> Ravn Alaska >>> 5245 Airport Industrial Rd >>> Fairbanks, AK 99709 >>> (907) 450-7293 >>> ----------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> I create an SQL file using a text editer, and then execute it in psql >> using the '\i' command from the appropriate directory: >> >> gavin=> \i bus.sql >> >> I your case I would test it in one environment and copy it to another. >> >> You could use git to track versions of the file and the nature of changes. >> >> Though, I am sure there are sophisticated ways of doing this! > > > Two that come to mind: > > Sqitch > > http://sqitch.org/ > > Alembic > > https://alembic.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ > >> >> >> Cheers, >> Gavin >> >> >> > > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- _________________________________ Pulchritudo splendor veritatis. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general