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> I love what you're saying, but running a normal modern development and deployment cycle on code stored in databases is hell. Can you be more specific? What
by taffer 7y ago
> I love what you're saying, but running a normal modern development and deployment cycle on code stored in databases is hell.
Can you be more specific? What exactly are you missing?
As long as you put your code and data into separate schemes and follow good technical practices, it shouldn't be too different from other technologies.
> I mean, in most databases you can't even rename a column without causing an enormous blocking migration.
Changing a column name is just a metadata change, so it shouldn't take too long in Postgres.
> The very basics of developer happiness aren't covered, let alone the harder bits, like versioning stored procedures, switching schema and code when switching to a new git branch, and so on.
Does Tomcat or any other application server version your WAR files for you or does it manage git for you?