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Re:What if database branching was easy? on Monday April 20, 2026 @11:58AM (#47836182)
Xata is open-source now, maybe you can give it a try as an alternative to Neon.
Re:What if database branching was easy? on Monday April 20, 2026 @11:57AM (#47836167)
May I ask your use case, I am curious.
Re:What if database branching was easy? on Monday April 20, 2026 @11:57AM (#47836156)
Came here to say this :) Anyone using Xata here?
We also just released v0.8.1 today. You can read the release blog here, if you're interested: https://xata.io/blog/pgstream-v081-update
Re:EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future on Thursday February 27, 2025 @11:45AM (#43196035)
(xata employee)

I totally agree with schema migrations being painful, have you seen the open-source tool we developed to tackle this problem? It is called pgroll: https://github.com/xataio/pgroll

Any feedback is appreciated!

Re:EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future on Thursday February 27, 2025 @11:40AM (#43195975)
There is something we built for the schema management aspect of Vitess for PostgreSQL.

It is called pgroll, open-source, aiming to minimize potential downtime risks associated with DDL changes, offering multi-schema view, instant rollbacks, and more high-level options like backfilling in batches.

You can check the repo here: https://github.com/xataio/pgroll

Re:GitHub Discussions for Pgroll Project on Monday February 24, 2025 @08:03AM (#43159058)
We've just enabled Github Discussions for the pgroll project. Pgroll is an open-source schema migration tool, designed exclusively for Postgres, aiming to minimize downtime that is associated with DDL changes.

We’re building fast, and your feedback is super important to us. Share your suggestions, we’re listening!