On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:51:47AM -0400, Steve Singer wrote:
> The idea is that you use a mixture of views and triggers to have 1  
> schema that can be used by both versions of the applications that expect  
> different schemas.  You then upgrade all your applications and then you  

Exactly right.

> This sounds like a lot of extra work

You bet.  On the other hand, if the alternative is "rewrite the
application" and you know SQL better than whatever the application is
written in (or the application is written in such a way that no human
could understand how it got that way grumble five files to set up a
database pool grumble no I know nothing about this), it might be
easier anyway.

A

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