https://softdevstudio.com/tags/forgeschema/ Recent content in ForgeSchema on SoftDevStudio.com Hugo en-us Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://softdevstudio.com/forgeschema-ships-its-first-alpha-a-go-engine-that-refuses-stale-postgresql-migration-plans/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://softdevstudio.com/forgeschema-ships-its-first-alpha-a-go-engine-that-refuses-stale-postgresql-migration-plans/ <p><a href="https://forgeschema.com/introduction/">ForgeSchema</a>, the studio&rsquo;s ninth project, is a schema evolution engine for PostgreSQL, written in Go. Its <a href="https://forgeschema.com/alpha-release/">first alpha</a>, 0.1.0-alpha.1, went out on 15 October as a <a href="https://github.com/ForgeSchema/forgeschema/releases/tag/v0.1.0-alpha.1">prerelease on GitHub</a>, with command-line binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows on x86-64 and ARM64.</p> <h2 id="every-step-written-down">Every Step Written Down</h2> <p><code>forgeschema inspect</code> takes a read-only snapshot of a PostgreSQL 16 or 17 schema as JSON, and the target is written in YAML. <code>plan</code> compares the two offline and writes out both schemas with a SHA-256 fingerprint for each, then the operations in order, each with its SQL and a plain-language explanation. <code>--explain</code> lays the same plan out as plain text.</p>