Mroll migration tool

mroll has been designed to aid MonetDB users with managing database migrations. The functionality covers both roll forward and backward migration functionality. Although you can deploy mroll from any point in time onwards, it is advised to use it from day one, i.e. the creation of the database. mroll has been used internally to manage the continuous integration workflow of MonetDB.

Install

Install mroll from PyPi

$ pip install mroll

Synopsis

The command synopsis summarizes the functionality.

$ mroll --help
Usage: commands.py [OPTIONS] COMMAND1 [ARGS]... [COMMAND2 [ARGS]...]...

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  config    Set up mroll configuration under $HOME/.config/mroll
  history   Shows applied revisions.
  init      Creates mroll_revisions tbl.
  revision  Creates new revision from a template.
  rollback  Downgrades to previous revision by default.
  setup     Set up work directory.
  show      Shows revisions information.
  upgrade   Applies all revisions not yet applied in work dir.
  version   Shows current version

Each command may come with some options, explained by the --help addition. For example, the location of the migration directory can be specified when you install mroll with an option --path option to specify location. For an example, --path "/tmp/migration" location.

To update/set mroll configuration use the config command. For example to update configuration setting for working directory path run.

mroll config -p <workdir_path>

Usage

To illustrate the functionality we walk you through the steps to get a MonetDB database, called demo, created and managed. We assume you have downloaded mroll (see below) and are all set to give it a try.

Setup

mroll needs a working directory for each database you want to manage. There is no restriction on its location, but you could keep the migration scripts in your application folder, e.g. .../app/migrations. From the .../app directory issue the command:

$ mroll setup
ok

A subdirectory migrations is being created to manage migrations versions.

Configuration

mroll needs information on the database whereabouts and credentials to initiate the migration steps. Make sure you have already created and released the demo database using the monetdb tools. Then complete the file migrations/mroll.ini to something like:

[db]
db_name=demo
user=monetdb
password=monetdb
port=50000

[mroll]
rev_history_tbl_name = mroll_revisions

The final step for managing the migrations is

$ mroll init

Define the first revision

The empty database will be populated with a database schema. For this we define a revision. Revision names are generated

$ mroll revision -m "Initialize the database"
ok
$ mroll show all_revisions
<Revision id=fe00de6bfa19 description=Initialize the database>

A new revison file was added under /tmp/migrations/versions. Open it and add the SQL commands under -- migration:upgrade and -- migration:downgrade sections. Be aware that you may have to wrap the commands within transaction brackets.

vi migrations/versions/
-- identifiers used by mroll
-- id=fe00de6bfa19
-- description=create tbl foo
-- ts=2020-05-08T14:19:46.839773
-- migration:upgrade
	create table foo (a string, b string);
	alter table foo add constraint foo_pk primary key (a);
-- migration:downgrade
	drop table foo;

Then run "upgrade" command.

$ mroll upgrade
Done

Inspect what has being applied with "history" command

$ mroll history
<Revision id=fe00de6bfa19 description=create tbl foo>

To revert last applied revision run the rollback command. That will run the sql under migration:downgrade section.

$ mroll rollback 
Rolling back id=fe00de6bfa19 description=create tbl foo ...
Done

Development

Developer notes

mroll is developed using Poetry, for dependency management and packaging.

Installation for development

In order to install mroll do the following:

  pip3 install --user poetry
  PYTHON_BIN_PATH="$(python3 -m site --user-base)/bin"
  export PATH="$PATH:$PYTHON_BIN_PATH"

  git clone git@github.com:MonetDBSolutions/mroll.git
  cd mroll
  poetry install
  poetry run mroll/commands.py --help

Install project dependencies with

poetry install

This will create virtual environment and install dependencies from the poetry.lock file. Any of the above commands then can be run with poetry

poetry run mroll/commands.py <command>

Testing

Run all unit tests

make test