MySQL table patcher

0. Contents

This is the documentation of sqlupdate-1.6.1.
   1. Purpose
   2. Changes
    3. Copying
   4. Requirements
   5. Downloading

1. Purpose

Reads a table creation file (tables.sql) and compares it to what mysqldump gives, and creates SQL clauses to update the database to match the creation file. 



2. Changes


 Since version 1.3.0, supports also the InnoDB FOREIGN KEY constraints.


 Since version 1.4.0, supports TINYINT, DATE, TIME and ENUM types.

 Thanks to Leigh Purdie for this change!


 Version 1.4.1 adds support for CREATE INDEX and field ordering.


 Since version 1.5.0, supports LONGTEXT, MEDIUMTEXT
 and MEDIUMBLOB. Also now longer forces DEFAULT for
 AUTOINCREMENT columns.

 Thanks to Frederic Lamsens for this change!


 In version 1.6.0, a crude support for CHARSET and COLLATE
 was added.


 In version 1.6.1, support for GEOMETRY and SPATIAL
 indexes was added.


3. Copying


sqlupdate has been written by Joel Yliluoma, a.k.a.
Bisqwit,

and is distributed under the terms of the
General Public License (GPL).


4. Requirements


GNU make is probably required.

mysqldump is also required. This program handles only MySQL tables indeed.


5. Downloading

   The official home page of sqlupdate
   is at http://iki.fi/bisqwit/source/sqlupdate.html.

   Check there for new versions.

 
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