[Koha-devel] IMPORTANT Koha 3.0 updatedatase and kohastructure.sql

[MJ Ray]

"Joshua M. Ferraro" <jmf at liblime.com> wrote: [...]
> I'd also like to point out that updatedatabase should start completely
> blank for 3.0. IMO updatedatabase shouldn't be the upgrade path
> from 1.x or 2.x to 3.0 ... rather, it should be the upgrade path
> for 3.0 to 3.2, etc. Other thoughts?

I thought updatedatabase started as the upgrade path from 2.0 to 2.2
or similar.  How will 2.2 users upgrade to 3.0 if not updatedatabase?

> I'd like to get feedback from everyone on the best way to maintain
> kohastructure.sql and updatedatabase, to make sure we always have a
> known SQL definition and update process. Comments, ideas?

Firstly, the dumps should be made with the same options.  How about:
  LANG=C mysqldump -cnQ koha >kohastructure.sql
?

My second suggestion is more radical: kohastructure.sql should only be
changed in a branch by the release manager.  Ideally, that would only
happen with each release at most.  At all other times, ALTER
statements and other transformations should be added to an upgrade
file, say called kohastructure-3.0.0.sql, then kohastructure-3.0.1.sql
- or should it be .pl and done with DBI commands?

If included in the release, they could also be the basis of the
database upgrade, just running that one change file for each release.

Comments, questions?

Hope that helps,
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