[Rails-core] some (long) thoughts on migrations

[Rick Bradley]

* Michael Koziarski (michael at koziarski.com) [060220 14:09]:
> On 2/20/06, Kyle Maxwell <kyle at kylemaxwell.com> wrote:
> > What if, instead of a simple integer sequence, migrations used timestamps?
> 
> Could we do that in a backwards compatible way? The problem of local,
> uncommited migrations isn't something that's worth breaking backwards
> compatibility

Well, if it were done as an epoch timestamp (i.e., number of seconds
since 1/1/1970) it would probably be pretty simple.

Rick
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