[development] versioned schema?

[Peter Wolanin]

Well, these files are pretty small compared to all the .module and
.inc files, so I don't think that's an issue.

One could minimize the code by making changes to the array rather than
re-declaring the whole thing. Something like:

node_schema_6000() {
  $schema = node_schema_5000();

  $schema['node']['fields']['newcolumn'] = array('type' => 'int', 'not
null' => TRUE, 'default' => 1);

  return $schema;
}

node_schema_5000() {
  $schema['node'] = array(  // define schema here
  );

  return $schema;
}

-Peter
On 6/12/07, andrew morton <drewish at katherinehouse.com> wrote:
>
> The problem I see with #2 is that the .install files would quickly
> become huge. I'm imagining hook_schema() would have a big case
> statement with a complete copy of every version. I guess we don't need
> to load the .schema files often but it seems like it'd cause some
> memory issues when several are loaded.
>
> andrew
>