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I’m making a simple Phoenix app to manage links to news. The articles relate to data in a Rails app. I’d like for the Phoenix tables to live alongside Rails tables in the same Postgres database and schema. The Phoenix app would get read-only access to the Rails tables, and vice-versa.
I’ve run into a couple of roadbumps:
- Both Rails and Phoenix use a table,
schema_migrations. But the tables’ structures as created by the frameworks are different. - Keeping everything in the same schema seems less problematic: both frameworks don’t work so well with multi-schema queries.
So, I wonder:
- Is it possible to customize the name of
schema_migrationsthat Phoenix maintains? - Or, if Phoenix needs its own Postrgres schema so that it can have its own
schema_migrations, then how does the multi-schema story look currently?
Is there another solution I don’t know about?
EDIT: I found that Rails allows the table name to be changed. This is probably all I need:
3.8.5 config.active_record.schema_migrations_table_name
Lets you set a string to be used as the name of the schema migrations table.
EDIT 2: I found how to configure this in Phoenix:
:migration_source - Version numbers of migrations will be saved in a table named schema_migrations by default. You can configure the name of the table via:
config :app, App.Repo, migration_source: "my_migrations"
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cschmatzler
Not sure about Rails, but what’s the issue you’ve run in with Ecto?
LostKobrakai
Seems like there are already a few paths:
Though I’d also argue that you shouldn’t really have two migration systems run against the same db. Keep things either in rails (or in phoenix I guess) or move to an external to both migration system. Even more as the phoenix one should run with a read only user, which won’t be allowed to migrate anything on that db.
trisolaran
Ecto.Migrator.up accepts a
prefixoption with which you can specify a schema. Theschema_migrationstable will be created in that schema. From the CLI:mix ecto.migrate --prefix prefix_name.In the past 2 years I’ve been working on a Phoenix app that needed to live alongside a legacy application and share its database. In order to improve separation I decided to put my app’s “private” tables in a separate schema, with their own migrations.
I don’t recall what it was like with Rails, but with Ecto I had no issues or roadblocks with the multi-schema setup