Wondering why sqlmigrate needs a connection to an existing database.

I understand that for certain commands, it needs the database to generate 
the migration. But for most (basic) commands, no connection is really 
needed.

For example, I created a test project 
<https://github.com/ShmuelTreiger/test-django-project/tree/master/testproject/migrations>and
 
generated migration files. Without ever running the `migrate` command, I 
was able to use `sqlmigrate` perfectly well on all migrations, save the 
last, which drops a `unique_together`.

I'm sure there are other commands which actually need a database connection 
(though I haven't found them yet). Seems to me sqlmigrate could be 
rewritten along the lines of:

   - Try to generate sql from migration file
   - If it hits a command it needs the database, attempt to connect

Or else:

   - If no connection, check if migration file needs connection to database
   
Is there something I'm unaware of?

-- 

This email may contain confidential material; unintended recipients must 
not disseminate, use, or act upon any information in it. If you received 
this email in error, please contact the sender and permanently delete the 
email.

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"Django users" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit 
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/0a3fb366-a95a-46a3-8156-2e2c618f72b4n%40googlegroups.com.

Reply via email to