Agree with general sentiment that creating a DSL/HCL like thing to essentially represent DDL commands seems less than ideal I wouldn’t want to be the author on

Agree with general sentiment that creating a DSL/HCL like thing to essentially represent DDL commands seems less than ideal I wouldn’t want to be the author on the hook for never ending sql functions etc, you’d want a good escape hatch, same pain as hcl. But for a tool like this to add value (just like terraform) it’s got to understand the relationship graph, properties of resources etc. I’m a big believer in manual simple sql migrations via flyway or similar, but if you got this working in theory and built the features it could do a better job on average than non expert humans, it could enforce patterns / naming / conventions / indexes etc. Could do with sql migrations too but would be more difficult as it wouldn’t have the full declared model.