Hi Christain. May I know the url to the standalone migration jar file? I tried to search the h2 website for the standalone download but couldn't find it.
Thanks alot. Regards, Thotheolh. On Jul 3, 4:54 pm, Christian Peter <christian.peter...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Thotheolh, > > Thomas and I work on a solution which soon will be integrated and will > eventually has the following features: > > - Default H2 release can be used > - Standalonge migration .jar is available from the h2 homepage > - If H2 finds the migration classes, it will convert the database via > "script to" and "runscript from" automatically > > This should meet your requirements. > > Regards > > Christian > > On Jul 3, 7:35 am, Thotheolh <twzger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I felt that what we need is just a standalone official "migrate.jar" > > or a compact package of tools downloadable on the H2 website. As long > > as the H2 file storage format doesn't change, then the migrate tool > > would not be updated and allow cross migration between different > > formats of H2 storage if ever there's any more H2 file formats to be > > created. > > > In this way, we would have a highly compact migration tool not stuck > > to any H2 version where you need certain old versions of H2 (1.2.128) > > to open the database and migrate then you jump back to the latest > > (1.2.138). That's not going to be an elegant solution. > > > With a standalone migrate tool, the user could simply just add it to > > the application and run file format migrations quietly so as not to > > alarm the app user and the main H2 distribution could remain as light > > as possible not weighted down by an additional migrate tool. > > > I have a couple of applications I made still running the old format > > and I could not migrate them without running into complex troubles and > > using modified distributions. > > > Sorry, Christian, your modified distribution is a good idea but the > > problem is that for every new H2 release, you need to release a > > modified distribution and this is not elegant solution to the long > > standing issue. > > > For now, if I want to migrate my old H2 format to the page store, I > > need Christian's modified package but I hope an official standalone > > migrate tool would forever solve this unresolved issue. > > > Looking forward to the final elegant solution to put this unresolved > > issue to rest. > > > Regards, > > Thotheolh. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "H2 Database" group. To post to this group, send email to h2-datab...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to h2-database+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/h2-database?hl=en.
