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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:23:26 +0200
From: "Philip Mark Donaghy" <philip.donaghy@gmail.com>
To: ddlutils-user@db.apache.org
Subject: Re: problem writing sql to file
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Done, the title was not intentional. I didn't do that on purpose. My
navigator was hidding the rest of the text as I copied and pasted
several times. Suse 10 Firefox (allows line breaks in input fields,
althought the text is hidden) I've never seen this before. Sorry for
the confusion.

Phil

On 4/13/06, Thomas Dudziak <tomdzk@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/13/06, Philip Mark Donaghy <philip.donaghy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > OK I'm starting to understand. With alterDatabase true it will alter
> > existing schema given that it has a connection. But correct me if I am
> > wrong, when there is no connection and the objective is to obtain a
> > ddl creation script for a given database using writeSchemaSqlToFile,
> > the alterDatabase false is required. You explained this to me at
> > ApacheCon San Diego but it's still unclear.
> >
> > writeSchemaSqlToFile should just test if a connection has been
> > established ignore alterDatabase attribute and write the file. Is this
> > possible? There may be some logic that I am missing but I only use
> > ddlutils for this purpose. I think I will do some more work with it in
> > the future for dumping data.
>
> Well, I could add something that uses the failOnError attribute to
> this purpose (or a similar new one defined): if no connection was
> found and failOnError=3Dtrue, then an error is reported and the task
> stops. If failOnError=3Dfalse, then an empty database would be assumed
> (which is the same effect as alterDatabase=3Dfalse). Could you add an
> issue to JIRA for this ?
>
> Tom
>


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