README for MySQL::Diff

MySQL::Diff

MySQL::Diff is Perl module for comparing the table structure of two MySQL databases.

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Prerequisites

This suite probably requires Perl 5.005 or higher.

Availability

The latest version of MySQL::Diff is available from

http://adamspiers.org/computing/mysqldiff/

and eventually (a possibly slightly older version) from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit <http://www.perl.com/CPAN> to find a CPAN site near you.

Installation

See INSTALL.

Documentation

See: http://adamspiers.org/computing/mysqldiff/

At some stage I'll get round to including proper POD-format documentation and tests. (Patches welcome ;-)

Support

Questions, bug reports, useful code bits, and suggestions for MySQL::Diff should just be sent to me at <mysqldiff@adamspiers.org>.

Known bugs

Reported by users and confirmed:

• Reference to non-existant routine maybe_index_auto_col(). Huh?! [John Violette]

Reported by users but unconfirmed:

• If '-P1 3337' is one of the arguments it doesn't seem to get passed to the arguments for mysqldump (according to the debugging). [Darrell Taylor]
• # mysqldiff --user=root --password=xxxx -B demo tables.sql Duplicate specification "password|p:s" for option "p" Duplicate specification "password1|p1:s" for option "p1" Duplicate specification "password2|p2:s" for option "p2" [John Smith]

All easy to fix but I'm so short on time! Patches welcome ...

Copyright

(c) 2001, Adam Spiers <mysqldiff@adamspiers.org>, all rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.